After Annie had been chasing that Red Mirror Dragon for a full hour without coming back, Frieren had no idea whether she'd failed to catch up, run off to play somewhere else, or had some other reason for being gone. So Frieren had no choice but to first find Fern, who was still badly shaken and had even suffered a few minor injuries. Fern was hiding beneath a large tree, hugging her knees and muttering resentfully to herself.
Next, Frieren ignored Fern's grumbling and that terrifying, murderous glare of hers. She simply returned to the Red Mirror Dragon's lair once again and happily began sorting through their spoils.
That's right—their spoils!
Since they'd driven off the Red Mirror Dragon, everything in its lair—all the treasures it had stored away over who knew how many years—naturally belonged to them.
However, there was far too much treasure to carry away by simply packing it normally. So Frieren took out two small suitcases she'd prepared earlier and began casting the Extension Charm on them.
As expected, a mere Extension Charm was no great challenge for an elven mage who'd lived for a thousand years. She quickly finished enchanting the two cases, expanding them nearly perfectly.
The enchantments weren't permanent, but they'd hold up for a few decades without any problem.
"Expansion complete."
Then she began assigning Fern a task:
"Okay, Fern. Let's start sorting."
"Put everything into these two different-colored cases."
The task was simple: sort through all their spoils.
For instance, gold bars, silver bars, gold and silver objects, coins, gems, and anything else they could exchange directly for money or use as money all went into one of the expanded cases, to serve as their travel funds.
Meanwhile, swords, scepters, and other weapons they could sell, the armor of the fallen,