As night fell, a bonfire was lit in the open space at the center of Stone Creek Village.
The orange-red flames danced, driving away the autumn chill and illuminating the tired but relaxed faces of the villagers and adventurers gathered around them.
Cleaning up the battlefield and sorting through the spoils had taken a great deal of time. By the time they finished, it was already afternoon.
Today, they clearly wouldn't make it back to Rose Town.
After discussing it, everyone decided to rest for the night in Stone Creek Village and set off for home first thing tomorrow morning.
When the village elder, Oliver, heard about it, he warmly arranged a clean, spacious village house for them.
It was a communal sleeping room with simple accommodations, but it was still far better than spending the night outdoors.
The village couldn't spare any decent wine, but adventurers were never short on loot.
A few unsellable young boars were skewered over the fire, their fat dripping with a sizzling sound.
Drawn by the aroma, a few bold children from the village gathered around to watch, gazing longingly at the sizzling, glistening chunks of meat on the grill.
There was no way they could eat it all, so naturally no one minded sharing. Belt cheerfully tore off a few pieces of meat and handed them to the children.
However, although the wild boar legs over the fire had roasted to a golden, glistening brown and looked incredibly appetizing, they were quite another matter once you actually ate them.
To be honest, He Xi had always had a rosy picture of "roast suckling pig."
But the stuff in front of him and the delicacy in his memories might as well have belonged to different species.
The Spined Boar meat was as tough as