Most of the food is gone. I woke up in the morning and noticed that a slime had been helping itself through the supplies bag all night. I attacked it with a fire spell out of panic, and ended up burning more of what the slime could have digested.

The results? The dry bread is gone, turned into ashes. The remaining meat jerkies and the salted fish got a burnt aftertaste on it. Only the nuts weren't affected by the fire because it was put in its own pouch. With this accident, my plan of one month rationing turned into a seven days plan.

I once heard that people in the north consume dried slime remains because they lack fertile soil to keep ranch animals. I never properly learned how they prepare it over there, but I’d assume drying the remains is the bigger part of it. And that’s why, after putting out the fire of my own making, I propped the slime remains on top of a big flat stone nearby. The temperature of this cavern fluctuates between the day and the night, similar to the outside world, so I hope the slime remains can be dried in this situation, and most importantly, edible too.

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Afterwards, I spent the rest of the day mapping out this place using the radar spell. While there seems to be nothing aside from the sporadic big stones in my bare eyes, I need to be meticulous in my approach. I learned this the hard way from the master scout of Blue Canary that everything is not always as it seems in an enclosed space like this. That’s how we were always able to escape from any trap rooms in the past.

However, I couldn’t find anything through the radar spell. There’s no hidden trap door, no hidden trigger, no cracks in the stones that will reveal hidden stuff or the like. In this room, there’s only the soil, stones, and that big ass mana heart in the ceiling worth noting.

Should I try increasing the spell radius beyond the scope of this room? Nah, no way. It’d be a pain if a bunch of strong monsters got baited by the sudden mana wave, and came at once through those holes. Which reminds me of the slime this morning… I should probably prepare for another one incoming.