Chapter 709: Settling Down

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Listening to the report of the returning 'knights', Noelle sighed. "It really doesn't look like there are any intelligent species living nearby."

Of course, they'd only managed to explore a few square kilometers of the forest, so it wasn't really much of a surprise.

Thankfully, the bounty of nature around them was more than abundant to sustain a few hundred people off of hunting and gathering alone, so the gray-haired girl was more or less able to relax.

Most of them were already trained in combat, and since they'd brought along quite a few compound bows, they would only have to learn how to make good arrows from the available trees for their hunting to be sustainable.

Of course, anything they killed and harvested for the first time would have to be tested for poison first. Emilia had made it more than clear that she had no idea about any of that the moment they arrived, after all.