The Ogre's Food Box Chapter 2

Although he was shadowed by his sibling’s talent, his days weren’t so bad. After all the simple character of ogres wouldn’t let them bully or opress the weak. As Golon was a member of their own tribe the other ogres will not look at him with contempt or treat him poorly. In fact , he didn’t feel any pressure as all the tribe members treated him just like they treated Hakulily. No one was so bored to compare them , and from this point of view Golon was truly lucky.
The ogre’s tribal system is not as complicated as other races. It especially looks too simple in front of the social system of the humans, but still it has more perfect labor division . The physically strong ogres act as soldiers responsible for hunting , looting and looking for food while also protecting the entire tribe from other races. By the way, by the age of eight, Hakulily began to join the ogre looters and of course every time they had the most loots.
The tribe is led by the wisdom of the prophet Lara Babu as he is the only inheritor of the black hand tribe and he the oldest of all its members. Well even if there is so;eone challenging him for the position he will just use his thunder and teach that stupid ogre a lesson.
Although his level is not as high as the shaman but with his double cast it’s enough to scare any enemy who stand in front of him.
And they also got the old troll witch doctor Harman. Although he isn’t an ogre himself, every ogre warrior still needs him to heal his wound and speed up his recovery, especially when facing the centaur’s poison darts and poisonous arrows, as the only way to counter it is the ointment from Harman. Ogres are not a race that like exclusion , they have some intelligence and can lead a peaceful life , if they are not hungry that is.
As for the small Golon, he can’t even lift a hundred pound bat and he got two eyes and only one head so he can’t become neither a warrior nor a mage . However he also has his duties and that is being….. a chef!!
And when we talk about a chef we have to mention the ingredients . In fact in the mainland everybody knows that as long as it’s a living creature the ogre will look at it as food but what they don’t know is that although the ogre like to eat highly intelligent creatures ( most likely because they are stupid ), they are in fact basically omnivorous. Wether its flying in the sky , running on the ground or swiming in the water , fruits, veggies, heck even soil: it’s all part of the menu! Ogres in the main land can devour anything.
But the black hands do not have to take that kind of misery, as they have a good source of food.
The village is built on an endless fertile land by the sea side named sea stone bay which is a rainforest . They can hunt beasts, they can fish , and they also do business with other species . They have both land and sea so making some trades is easy. Those businessmen will trade with the black hand and the other races over there , they will trade some glittering things that those ogres and the other races don’t really use, for food and materials .
In addition to food those businessmen carried some goods that don’t interest the ogres , but often there will be vooks who risk being eaten by the black hand and make food , exchange some shoddy weapons and cheap fabrics for the “Garbage” that the ogres don’t need.
But since Golon was picked to be the black hand tribe chef and the one responsible for the trades , the transactions began to change, the exhange rate got tens of times better then usual … Ogres do not need spices nor cosmetic products, even though the ogres are more powerful than goblins they still do business with them especially after Golon ensured that they will not be hungry . So many goblin marchents started to come periodically.
In other words , the black hand tribe have got plenty of resources and even had the luxury to build a storage . And even before Golon began working as a cook , he was already managing the food … Well in the eyes of other races his position is more like that of a butcher , a prison guard and a breeder. Because Golon doesn’t just manage fruits or other traditional food , there are large numbers of Human , Centaurs , Orcs and other living creatures detained in cages and caves. They all treated as food.
Here in sea stone bay , the sun slowly emerging was so beautiful. As golden threads of suns.h.i.+ne start to slowly spread though the sea , the warm light would disperse the cold dark night …
Golon couldn’t understand why others couldn’t see how beautiful this view was, why couldn’t they apperciate this magnificent sight. They seem to be interrested in nothing other than eating and sleeping. n.o.body except for his mother and sister talks about this topic. Other ogres see Golon as a strange guy.
In fact even Golon felt that he wasn’t like them. Of course not his looks , but more essential things . However, he couldn’t point out what that is. He shook his head and went down to the cave at the b.u.t.tom of the cliff , his workplace: that is the kitchen and the food storage room . It’s normale for the other ogres to just sleep and eat but other things are hard for them , still Golon a.s.signed them to their tasks.
This cave was carved to be like a nest or a dungeon, a group of strong and brute ogres digged this place and made hundreds of stone chambers with different sizes coupled with a simple but strong solid fence and a heavy chain it could be a very good stone prison. A few days ago the black hand tribe looted a large human slaves caravan. So now more then half of the prison is full.
He opened the big stone door, suddenly he heard a burst of misreble cries. It is not someone is injured , its just the “food” that issued the sound. After all there are a lot of people caught here and now some of them are energetic. They will have to wait until meal time . Golon of course will choose the loudest first , the energetic ones are troublesome: they need more attention because if you don’t keep attention on them they will escape. And even though they can’t go out of the village, they can cause some trouble.
The sound of all those races , the different languages made the cave noisy. Naturally someone hearing all those noises will get irritated but since Golon is a smart guy he learned how to plug his ears with dried seaweeds. Its a simple and effective way to reduce the noise at work.
Golon inspected the food carefully everyday. Those who are about to die are praticularly fierce and are prioritized to deal with. Day by day Golon gained the experience.
Ogres originally were not concerned about food conditions nor it’s storage. before the monarch of the ogres Lafana gave Golon a cute cookbook, the ogres used to eat but they never payed attention to what they ate. Before Golon becme the chef, the cave was filthy and full of stensh . A lot of the food died and rot before they eat it. Also food tried to escape and even killed guards before.
But because Golon served as the chef the situation suddenly improved. As few can endure the smell of ogres , Golon wrapped a thick cloth on his nose and mouth and started cleaning . And with the help of his siblings and a few other ogres the food was restored. those energetic were thrown in the solid stone chambers. The other ogre couldn’t understand why he was doing this but still felt that the food is getting better everyday. Althought they can eat anything, they still had a sense of taste . Golon used some of the loot to exchange with spices from the goblin marchent. With the access to the spices the tribe standards shot straight up, and the most satisfied with all this is Golon’s mother Lafana and his sister. Before, the giant fairy just eat some fruit. But with Golon here, they could eat and Golon found value in his existence.