“Hello everyone! Thank you once again for watching Twitch Live! First up in gaming news is the potential recall of the Accessor gear. Then next we’ll be featuring footage of the first town to be reclaimed! Lastly we have a very special treat! We’ve finally managed to find and convince the mysterious vampire who played such an important role in the battle for Morata to do an on set interview! Look forward to all of this on Twitch Live!”

*CRUCNH*

Kuromi absentmindedly ate potato sticks as she watched the internationally popular gaming news site. Twitch Live was 

the offshoot of a popular streaming service that had originated in the early 21stcentury that had since grown to be synonymous with all things related to gaming online. The company had multiple sites devoted to anything from amateur gamer streaming to cheat code forums for old computer games, it even had a site devoted to teaching people how to develop their own games!

Because of its diversity, it was no surprise Kuromi would be watching its new service. It had been a few weeks since the opening events of New Roads and she relied on it to stay updated. Because school in Japan didn’t let out until July, she had been unable to constantly play. Even now she was getting ready for the last round of exams before summer break.

Her eyebrow arched in surprise as she heard the last bit of the overview on what the news site was going to cover that day. She had remembered seeing the vampire user in action. He had indeed been formidable; what’s more, her little sister had been fighting beside him for most of the event. While their older sister had teased Kaoru about the boy, Kuromi had been indifferent for the most part after an initial tease.

Her eyes lit up with a little curiosity though. Something had been bothering her ever since she met him, he had seemed familiar……....

She shook off the thoughts and sent her wheeled chair rolling across the room until she reached the other side. Then she knocked on the wall two times. It was part of a system her and her sisters had come up with so they could communicate without alerting their parents. The two knocks meant the recipient was supposed to come to the sender’s room. In a few moments a puzzled Kaoru walked in.

“What is it Anee?”

“Look! Isn’t that going to be your friend?”

Kaoru looked at the screen for a few moments before her face blossomed in surprise and excitement. It was like a little sun had risen when her normally emotionless face bloomed into a smile. It caused Kuromi to show a small smile herself.

“Should be a good show right?”

“Mmm!”

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Weiss sat atop the Training Hall and observed his surroundings. There was a tired and annoyed expression on his face. In the weeks after the beginning event, he had progressed his master plan quite far. With the Training Hall as the center point his newly designed city could be seen spreading out in all directions, but he had finally reached his bottle neck. He had come across a particularly destroyed part of Serabourg. Because of that he hadn’t been able to gather enough materials. What’s more, since originally there had been wooden portions in the buildings before and his now were made 

entirely of stone, his consumption was too high. He had thus ran out of stone, many of the recent houses he had already 

built didn’t even have roofs since he had long ran out of the slate that he had made them from.

He grimaced as he looked at what he had already done and what he still had to do.

“I was going to have to go to the quarry anyways. Though, I’m not sure if they are still there….”

His shoulders slumped at the thought that the quarry that had previously supplied Serabourg with stone was gone.

With a shake of his body, he hopped up and began walking in the direction of the walls. He already knew where the quarry was. His extensive research, almost obsession with Weed had given him that particular information when he had analyzed Weed’s building of the pyramid for the then king of Rosenheim. Thankfully, it was on the side that was under the influence of the ghosts. With any luck, their barrier extended out to the quarry or at least very close. Originally the barrier had already been touching part of the wall, and through his efforts it had expanded dramatically.

Eventually he reached the edge of the boundary; a mining pick that he had equipped was balanced across his shoulders as he looked into the distance. The land moved in a slight rise among the trees but he though he saw a glimmer of light at the very edge of his sight. He squinted his eyes and his mouth twisted to the side as he continued to look. Eventually he seemed to reason out what he was going to do as he impaled the ground with the pickaxe and began to move about the forest in the safety zone and began looking for certain materials to obtain.

After half an hour had passed he was back beside his pickaxe and starting a fire. Once it had been stoked to a strong flame Weiss pulled out a pot that had also been found among the things in the Training hall. He placed it on the fire and added water from his canteen. He had managed to secure a safe source of water by purifying the area around the closest fountain from the Training Hall, it had been the one Weed used during his four weeks in Serabourg.

Once it had begun to boil various items were placed in front of the fire. They were nature’s bounty! Multiple grasses, herbs, fungi, and even sap and raw honey had been obtained. Weiss scratched at the nasty welts that lacerated his left arm, the last ingredient had been hardly won. Various screens began sifting in front of his vision. Their depth and explanation of what could be done with the few ingredients he had, was enormous! Such was the power of the advanced level cooking skill!

“Let’s optimize defense and health. Speed if at all possible…..or maybe strength…..better to go with strength!”

With the plethora of options he could determine what special effects he desired the meal to have. After selecting his idealized recipe he began to combine the required ingredients in the pot and let it cook! In the end he had a very goopy sludge like substance.

Created: Flora gruel

An unbelievably healthy dish created using the natural flora of the region it is in.

Special Effects:

+100% vitality

                                                                                       +80% endurance

+60% strength

All effects last for 1 hour