My Servant System - Chapter 1506 - 1505: Harvest Time

Chapter 1506: Chapter 1505: Harvest Time

All in all there were a few dozen monsters for us to harvest anything and everything from, and the work got divvied up rather quickly since we were operating beneath the moonlight and a few torches, none of us wanting to be out here for longer than we needed.

There were still a few hours left until dawn, and while I definitely wouldn’t be against pushing the task of butchering all of these monsters later into the day so that we could go sleep most of us knew that the corpses should be prepared now rather than later.

Even if all we did was get to bleeding them now it would still be a time draining task, but at least we were able to work knowing that we had made ourselves quite a lot of coin and that we were going to be eating good for a little while now.

The many farmers who had watched us battle from the safety of the impromptu wall cheered when we began to drag the corpses back, and a handful of our citizens came out to provide a fresh pair of hands waiting to be used in whatever way possible.

More torches were lit, the corpses were moved into better positions, and we began to construct a butchery in the field as we started working on these monsters whenever we could, though for now many of us were content with just bleeding them.

Even still we needed to capture the blood and see if it had any use for anything at all, ranging from something additional to eat – for those that were willing to stomach those sorts of dishes – or for further coin as we turned it into another product like dried blood meal.

Using it to feed livestock something very high in protein was something we could do with it, but I had a feeling that we weren’t hurting that badly for coin and that most of these stone cauldrons that were catching the life essence of these monsters would just be put into a furnace and turned into a paste that we would bury somewhere and forget about.

Either way that took a little while for us to set up and get into a spot that we felt comfortable with, which left us with not that long until dawn arrived; personally I just decided that I wanted the few hours of sleep more than anything else since I was very likely to stab Satanya if she got close to me, so I departed from the impromptu butchery and made my way back into our home.

Taking a quick bath and diving into the sheets of my wonderfully large bed, I idly noted that I was alone before just shrugging and hugging a pillow to my chest, resting my head against another and promptly falling asleep.

The warm embrace of this bed was addicting, and honestly I wasn’t in the mood to do much else besides just enjoy its comfort thanks to the lifestyle we now lived, but I knew that I needed to get back to work in a few hours… but that was a few hours and not now, so for now I slept.

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Jahi PoV

“Lady Asmodia, are you sure you don’t wish to retire for now? We can handle this while you go rest.”

I knew that it was coming from a place of respect and obvious insinuation that I should go bang my wife instead of be here getting my hands dirty, but I couldn’t help but scoff as I glanced over at Kavya, who was elbow deep inside of the bull that Kat had been fighting.

Helping her remove its large organs, I replied “I’m sure, Kavya. Everyone else is awake working, so I too shall be awake and get to work. Besides, I am waiting for the merchants to find their way on down here to discuss who wants what…”, which made Kavya shrug, the older Demoness pulling out something slimy without even reacting.

“It’s admirable to do so, but I feel obligated to inform you that these sorts of theatrics rarely get remembered long term… however, the merchants are definitely far more important than theatrics, so I shan’t complain. Now… are we going to attempt to maintain the rest of these ribs, or do you wish to crack them off and just harvest the bones?”

“Please, you think I want to waste a fatty rib like this? No, we’re going to take our sweet time with this…”

That got a chuckle from Kavya as she began to carefully work around the ribs, leaving the meat attached and instead doing the much harder harvesting without touching them just yet, all the while speaking to me like this was something she did regularly.

“The few times I had Bakari prepare something like this for me he cursed me out for hours and hours… Apparently cooking ribs the ’right way’ takes a long time and a lot of care..?”

“I wouldn’t know, but I also don’t really care since I ’pay’ Kat rather handsomely for her efforts~! That and I think she enjoys the challenge of preparing such a meal…”

“Mm… Bakari used to enjoy it immensely, but getting older does all sorts of things to people… A few injuries to his hands have made that a bit harder for him, though he still tries. I just think he can’t wrap his head around that I don’t need perfection each time… I just want whatever he makes for me.”

The wistfulness in her voice and eyes as she said that made me pause, though the older Demoness just shrugged and added “’Tis the problem with getting older with someone though. Things change quickly or slowly, and you just gotta adapt. Ah, it would seem a few of our uppity guests are capable of stomaching this… that or their greed is overwriting their disgust.”, taking my mind away from her.

Turning around I found Mister DuMont and Mister Vanyiik walking towards me, the pink skinned man wearing the same smile as always while the more ’Noble’ Mister Vanyiik held a handkerchief to his nose to block the smells.