The sky above Hearthfire Keep was covered with dark clouds, and even though it was almost noon, the weather was still gloomy.

A drizzle began to drip from the sky.

As the rain got heavier, the number of pedestrians on the street gradually became less and less.

Some small stalls placed on both sides of the street were hurriedly put away when the drizzle came.

The drizzle made a tinkling sound on the frosted glass window. Looking through the window was a log table. Kane was sitting at the log table, reading the book in his hand carefully.

The sound of raindrops hitting the glass did not disturb him, but instead helped him stay calm and focused.

At this time, I heard the sound of horse's hooves, and there was a crisp sound as the hoofs stepped on the floor.

Hearing this crisp sound, Kane of course knew who it was and turned his head.

Claire's body flashed with white light, and she changed from casual clothes at home to clothes for going out.

Looking at her appearance, Kane couldn't help but asked with concern: "It's raining so heavily outside, Claire, do you still want to go out?"

"Yes." Claire nodded, and then put a few specially customized rain boots into her original arsenal.

It's not easy to hold an umbrella with a figure like Claire's. The only way to hold up a protective cover to block the rain is to rely on magic power, which is more troublesome and energy-consuming.

After Kane thought for a while, he put down the book and walked over, saying, "Well, I'll accompany you. By the way, my original skills can also protect you from the rain."

"Yes." Claire nodded calmly, but the upward corners of her mouth betrayed her mood.

After the two went out, Kane used his original skills to make a semicircular transparent protective shield on their heads. The surrounding raindrops dripped on the protective shield and slid around.

However, this city of the dwarves was built by digging a deep depression from the top of a mountain.

Therefore, their roads are always uneven, which means that except for the central avenue, other small roads will become very muddy once it rains heavily.

Due to Claire's size, the muddy water splashed heavily from her feet.

So Kane put the master of weaving into his original skill enhancement box, and then made soft cotton foot pads to fit Claire's legs.

It has helped her alleviate this problem.

Kane and Claire were walking on the street, and even the raindrops falling on their heads could not get into their surroundings, as if they were separated from the outside world.

"Speaking of which, I still don't know where your destination is this time."

After hearing Kane's words, Claire said: "It's the post office not far ahead."

After saying that, Claire pointed to a building in front of her.

Kane looked in the direction Claire pointed and nodded.

But he still asked with some confusion: "Who should I send the letter to? Or receive the letter."

"Send a letter to my parents and see if they have any letters mailed to me."

After listening to Claire's words, Kane nodded. He had just sent a safe letter to Uncle Grim and his family not long ago, so he didn't need it recently.

The two strolled into the post office. Inside the post office, there were many people hiding from the rain.

Claire took a number plate and went directly to a window for processing.

Maybe it's because of the rain, and we usually have to queue up. Although there were many people at the post office today, there were very few people doing business.

After a while, Claire handed over her letter and received two more letters handed to her.

Speaking of which, the post office mechanism in this world is very interesting.

Due to the popularity of teleportation arrays, an extremely small teleportation array is commonly used within post offices, which can only be used to deliver letters. This kind of item consumes very little, is convenient and fast, and has a very wide transmission distance.

So when you want to send something to someone, but you don’t know where he is in a fixed place, especially for people like Explorers, it is difficult to stay in one place for a long time.

What should you do at this time? You only need to write down the name and specific racial characteristics of the person you are sending the letter to, and then you can mail the letter directly.

These letters delivered to individuals will be kept and recorded at the headquarters. When you want to mail a letter to that person, when that person comes to the post office, they will be able to receive your letter directly.

Any post office is available, no matter how far away it is.

Almost all larger cities have post offices, which are organizations under the Mist Parliament.

After watching Claire finish the work, Kane waited for a while and then walked out of the post office with her.

Although the sky was a little dark outside, it was still just noon, but the sunlight was blocked by dark clouds.

"Does Claire want to go to the Food Association?" Kane suddenly remembered that when he went to the Mechanical Association yesterday, he saw the Food Association not far away being built, and then asked Claire.

Hearing Kane's words, Claire turned around and asked doubtfully: "Is there a gourmet association here?"

When Claire first came to Hearthfire Keep, she looked at the map and found that there was no gourmet society in this place.

Later, after hearing that many organizations and associations had settled in Hearthfire Keep, he also searched for a new map, but found that there was still no one, so he gave up the idea.

"Yes, it was just built yesterday."

"We just built it yesterday!" After hearing Kane's words, Claire's voice was a little excited.

"What's wrong?" Hearing Claire's excited voice, Kane was a little confused.

Logically speaking, although Claire likes food, she wouldn't be so excited when she heard the news.

Seeing Kane's confused expression, Claire quickly explained, unable to hide the excitement in her voice.

"When each local food association branch is established, there are usually many rare ingredients, or ingredients that are difficult to capture and transport."

"These ingredients are very precious, and there are many kinds of magic ingredients."

Kane watched Claire getting more and more excited as she spoke, her eyes twinkling with stars, which was a little funny.

Then he took her hand: "Then what are you waiting for? Let's go!"

"Yeah!" Claire nodded vigorously.

Holding Claire's hand all the way, he quickly walked around the street to the location where he saw the Food Association yesterday.

Not far away, I saw a restaurant with a dwarf architectural style. The sign above and the small flag next to it were the logo of the Food Association.

This time it was Claire who was pulling Kane. They did not leisurely order one of the day's chef's specialty dishes on the first floor like they usually did when going to the Food Association. After tasting it, they slowly and leisurely went to the second floor.

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Instead, he went directly to the 2nd floor.

When passing by the restaurant, you can see that all the equipment, tables and chairs in the entire building are brand new, and there are only a few dwarves and foreign races eating in the restaurant.

When they arrived on the second floor, several people were already shopping for these materials.

The shelves were filled with all kinds of ingredients, and although none of them were empty, most of the areas were missing.

It shows that the Food Association has just been opened in the morning, and many people have been squatting here.

Claire looked around and found that everything was still there, so she breathed a sigh of relief.

When Kane opened his eagle eyes and looked around, he discovered that many of the ingredients here had a magical aura.

The magical reactions of some ingredients are even unusually noticeable.

It means that there are many magic ingredients that can only be found in dungeons.

Claire was already dragging Kane around the various shelves.

Claire took different amounts of ingredients from almost every shelf.

Kane's eyelids jumped when he saw the quantity and method of Claire's purchases. Now Claire has fallen into some inexplicable shopping frenzy.

Many ingredients are marked with quantity limits per person, but Claire is a member of the Gourmet Association.

Therefore, the amount that could be purchased was several percent more than others, but she still felt that it was not enough, so she had to ask Kane to increase the number of people and buy some for her.

In this way, the two of them filled up the quota of each ingredient they could buy before arriving at the payment area.

After purchasing, the two returned from the second floor to the restaurant area on the first floor.

Claire softly hummed a tune that Kane had never heard before, but the cheerfulness in the tune was so obvious.

The crisp sound of the horse's hooves on the floor matched the rhythm of her tune.

In this way, Claire and I finished this delicious meal in a relaxed and comfortable manner.

When the two returned to the house, it was already afternoon time.

When he opened the door, he saw Lombe and his brother sitting on the table and chairs, playing the chess game that Kane had taught them.

However, Longbei's face was a little bruised. It seemed that he wanted to regret the move, but was stopped by his brother.

Seeing and hearing the sound of someone pushing the door open, Burton raised his head and found that it was Kane and the others, and asked a simple question.

"It's raining so hard outside, are you still going out?"

Kane smiled without saying anything, and Claire took out an ingredient from her space equipment that was only available in areas near the sea.

He held the biological ingredient that resembled the blue shell of a lobster in his hand and waved it towards Burton.

Burton looked at the ingredients in Claire's hands, immediately put down the chess pieces in his hands and ran over.

"It's actually Giant Sea Shrimp, and it's very fresh. Where did you buy it in Hearthfire Keep? Do they sell this kind of thing? Why didn't I know?"

After listening to his words, Claire said with a smile: "Hearthfire Castle has a food association, and it only opened today."
To be continued...