He had more than enough food, but having salt as his only option for seasoning was getting dull, so he planned to make sauce using the walnuts.

He had a vase full of walnuts that had been picked yesterday afternoon. They were still unripe and the fruit was still intact, so eating them as they were was out of the question. He spread them over the ground.

「They’ll need about a month or so, huh.【Decomposition.】」

And then he used death-attribute magic to speed up the decomposition process by a month. The unripe fruit turned black and muddy.

Washing away this decomposed fruit with spring water that he had used Golems to collect caused the seeds to come out. Peeling their shells finally yielded the walnuts, but he had to be careful not to be impatient and crush them by accident. If that happened, the broken fragments of the shell would become mixed with the walnuts and less of the walnut would be usable.

And so he used Earth Golems to cook them lightly, using a fire that he created by making Golems from firewood and having them rub against each other. Doing this made it easier to break the shells.

『Now all you need to do is split the shells with a knife once they’ve cooled down.』

So Darcia advised. As a member of a race that lived in the forest, she was knowledgeable about how to use things that the forest provided.

Vandalieu used【Heat Leech】to cool the walnuts down and then used his nails to split the walnuts. Darcia had told him to use a knife, but lately he had become able to grow his nails to a certain length at will, so he decided to put this ability to practical use.