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The duchy of Snowfall was a rather chill place, it wasn’t what we have expected, people wasn’t stiff at all, and everyone was just minding their own business, this Kingdom was way more relaxed, and it actually had less delinquency than places like the Albraun Kingdom. The people was just interested in surviving the frozen lands and eat something, they sold naturally frozen goods everywhere, which were convenient to buy as they wouldn’t get bad so easily. But well, it wasn’t as if people had it all, they seemed to be mostly poor people and they were having a hard time hanging out, but perhaps due to this reason, people wasn’t concerned about fighting one another and mostly just cooperated so they could get through the day.
Naturally, there were adventurers that we saw everywhere, even in this tavern there are a few of them, they do the same thing they do everywhere, they hunt down monsters for their meat, pelt, bones, and all they can extract from them alongside the magic crystal inside and make a penny out of it to keep on living like all the folk, sometimes they level up and grow stronger, but that applies to all folks, it just that Adventurers constantly fight so they constantly gain EXP.
Although some people in this world might have a bad misconception of adventurers, thinking they’re lazy bastards that only think of themselves and never help the duchy with military affair and protecting it as soldiers, it is pretty false. Adventurers help at thinning out monster populations. Although their intention is money, and they don’t hunt thinking about that, they’re doing it anyways, which in the long run helps the people have better lives without worrying about monster breaks attempting to attack the town or something.
But for now we came here mostly for supplies, not to hunt monsters that will give us almost no EXP at all, it would be a waste of time when we got so many things, we need to do first. So after we were given our alcohol, we began chugging it down! Yeah, that was the important thing we had to do, drink liquor!
As I had mentioned earlier, there was a wine made out of grapes, another made out of strawberries with mint, another made out of just mint, which was green and quite strong-flavored, another that seemed to be made of some sort of fermented pine tree fruit, I think, it was incredibly aromatic and sweet, and lastly another that was like white wine. Lastly, the beers were the yellow-gold one and there was a darker, more toasty-colored one, so we had a lot to taste! Of course, we cannot bring those dwarves some “piss” as they call anything that is not good, so we have to taste all of this first and see what’s so good about it… Hehehe.
As a Ghost, I don’t get drunk, which is pretty boring, but the taste of liquor is still interesting to me and I have begun to like it more than when I was alive in my previous life, perhaps because I am now dead, I like the taste of liquor because it is literally like rooting water made out of fruits and grains? And because of this, it is closer to death itself? Yeah, maybe that’s why… But nonetheless, that won’t stop me from enjoying it!
“Time to try out the wine made of simple grapes first.” I said, everyone nodded to my words, as we served one another a cup of this dark, purple-colored concoction, and we drank it off in a single go.
“Phew…”
The flavor of this wine was pretty mild despite being black wine. It had a pretty strong aroma but the flavor by itself seemed slightly diluted, as if they added water into it. I don’t know what to say but it was pretty okay considering it is the cheapest wine and most of the people here can only afford it with their meals. Although I wish they didn’t added water but maybe they wanted to make more like that.
“It was pretty mild.” I said. “It is the cheapest I guess.”
“Yeah, I cannot say I dislike it, but I wouldn’t recommend it.” Said Lucifer.
“Bleh, tastes like diluted with water…” Said Partner.
“Indeed… It is very bad, let’s not drink this one again.” Said Emeraldine.
The ladies had a more refined taste I suppose, but Lucifer and I were more forgiving of the wine, perhaps because wine is our favorite liquor and even the worst of them can make us happy. I suppose we are in the position where we cannot bring ourselves to hate wine even if it’s terrible.
“Now the next one is the wine made out of strawberries with mint, this one… I don’t know if you could call it wine to be honest, but it is made in the same way.” I said. “It has a nice red color.”
The “wine” that we were drinking now was the specialty of this duchy, they name it “Breeze” or something, and it is made of strawberries with mint, very interesting drink, so we decided to fill our cups with it and chug it down.
“Phew…”
The flavor was… pretty okay, the strong citric flavor of strawberries was there, it was mostly the citric part, there was barely any sweetness though, and if it was there any, it was diluted by the incredibly spicy flavor of the mint left on, which combined with the liquor left your mouth as if you washed it down with bleach, good lord this feels really like a breeze in my mouth now.
“It is pretty interesting; it left my mouth pretty fresh.” I said. “I suppose this is why they call it breeze?”
“Wow, my mouth is… Hmm…” Said Lucifer. “I can’t say I like this.”
“Well at the very least you won’t have stinky zombie breath with this!” Laughed Partner. “And well, it is ok.”
“Hmm… I like this one.” Said Emeraldine. “The citric flavor and the mint… Ah, it goes well together with the fragrance of strawberries.”
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