As Kazmir spoke, the tavern maid squeezed up to the table with a wooden tray in her hands.
With a clatter, several plates of fish roasted golden-brown and crusted with coarse salt, along with a large pot of offal stew still bubbling away, were set on the table.
Though rough in appearance, the steaming scent of grease mingled with spices was indeed enough to soothe an adventurer's weary stomach.
Ulag immediately let out a cheer, grabbed a piece of glistening fish with one hand, and stuffed it into his mouth. He mumbled incoherently as he continued to gulp down the rum in his other hand.
He Xi picked up his knife and fork, cut away the charred portions of the fish, then passed the relatively tender piece of flesh, along with the plate before him, to Zoya.
Piecing together the information Kazmir and Grot had revealed earlier, he pondered what to do next.
After drawing the [Ecological Command] trait that day, He Xi had already formed a preliminary idea.
Among undead creatures, skeletons possessed many advantages compared to zombies clad in thick armor of rotten flesh, but their defensive capabilities were far inferior.
However, if a dense layer of magical mycelium could cover and coexist with a skeleton's frame, perhaps that weakness could be made up for.
That was why he had specifically asked Bruno for those stalked coral mushrooms.
But the jar of fungal biomass he had brought back from Bruno was currently only the initial model, one that had not been watered with the special culture solution.
As it was now, it could not form an effective symbiotic bond with living creatures like the mutant strain Vite had cultivated.
He Xi had already handed that jar of fungal biomass to Tata, asking her to keep it in a