Legendary Shelter Survival Guide

Chapter 54 Catching up and future plans

It took a while for Lucas to get a hold of his emotions. In his whole life, he hadn't felt pain as extreme as this one.

He had the feeling that keeping it untreated was less painful than this treatment.

"Sorry for all this, Sigh... I am embarrassed now." Lucas said while he kept using his hand. His face had an awkward chuckle.

"Embarrassed? Boy, you are the bravest man I have ever seen. The way you took that pain, even I would scream to the top of my lungs if this happened to me." John said in appreciation. Lucas could tell that John was saying all this with honesty.

"Well... even I didn't know I had a high pain tolerance."

Lucas finally looked at Aunt Ella, he was going to thank her but saw that she was already in a half-asleep condition.

"Uhh... Aunt Ella?" Lucas kept a hand on her shoulder that made her eyes open again in surprise. Without saying anything, she looked at his hand which was all fixed, and had a relieved expression.

"Thanks, Aunt Ella, imagine fixing this without her, guys," Lucas said with a smile. He finally got up and let John take care of Ella who was very weak from excess mana use.

"It's a relief that the wound got fixed quickly, when I saw your hand, I thought it would take about two to three days on average for it to be fixed."

"I got a lesson today to not lose focus on a battlefield. It still gives me shivers when I think how that Coyate bit my hand... that jaw was really strong."

After Ella forced herself to heal Sean when everyone including him was reluctant. She fell unconscious and John had to take her inside the shelter for some rest.

Lucas promised everyone to tell them everything about their trip later but he had to sleep for a while. All that movement and killing the firebird before had made him very tired and so did John.

The three of them slept inside the shelter, Lucas in a corner while John and Ella were together. The other three were given a task to bring all the bodies of the coyates inside the shelter's defense and wake them up when the work was done.

"We might have to trade it with others, keeping all this will do us no good. We have no storage."

That was true, they had no storage to keep all the corpses preserved.

"Trade huh... I think I might have an idea..." John muttered while thinking.

"What is it, honey?"

"Oh, remember when we use to smoke the meat? It made the meat last for four days in the forest."

John stopped and spoke again when Ella got the idea of what he was thinking.

"It will become a better trade and we can ask for much better things from others for pieces of smoked meat we prepare. This way, we also get better stuff and the others will have food security for a few days."

Lucas's eyes widened in surprise, it was a good idea. This way, he had the opportunity to trade with his father and mother on the same level and not make them take care of him only one-sidedly.

Excited by the idea, Lucas chimed in, "That's brilliant, Uncle John! If we start smoking meat and offering it as a trade, we can have a valuable resource to exchange with others. It's a win-win situation for everyone who is going to get involved with us... But how do we smoke the meat?"

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