A complete logistics chain could ensure that the Ancient Tree Fire Wyvern group would have no more worries. What monsters feared most was often not the battle itself, but the days of injury after the fight. It could be said that now the Ancient Tree Fire Wyverns had already formed the habit of eating a cat meal before setting out in the morning, and deciding afterward what to do upon returning.
Use medicine when it was needed, rest when it was needed.
Since returning to the Ancient Tree, the cats had been unable to farm, so the raw ingredients for cat meals all had to be transported from the Ancient Tree to the food processing area at the Pavilion of Fire Wyverns and Cats.
After the Fire Wyverns developed the habit of eating cat meals, the daily workload of the cat chefs became immensely heavy, and all sorts of ingredients began to fall short.
Relying solely on the occasional meat the Fire Wyverns brought back for the cats to process was far from enough to fill the gap in supplies.
And even though the cats had hunting squads, because of issues of size and efficiency, their efforts were only a drop in the bucket.
Thus, when the leader of the Grimalkyne Fire Wyverns came to Logan to raise this issue, Logan also began to think.
"Perhaps it's time for the group's development to move a step further!"
Carefully calculating the current way the Ancient Tree Fire Wyvern group and the Grimalkynes interacted, and the increasingly "rule-like" behavior of the Fire Wyverns, perhaps it was time to begin formulating "rules"!
Thinking back to the disputes the Fire Wyvern group had had over cat meals some time ago, and the way they had ultimately chosen to handle it.
Now the thinking of the Ancient Tree Fire Wyvern group was no longer fixed on "individual"—"family." Distinct classes, self-submission, self-restraint, and other civilizational prototypes were beginning to emerge.
Although the Fire Wyverns did not have very high intelligence, and because of their wildness and other reasons, lacked creativity and pioneering ability, it just so happened that with those very two deficiencies, the deep symbiotic relationship with the cats filled the gap.
At this stage, the Fire Wyvern group's way of life was still too loose.
It was completely the lifestyle of social beasts, with neither goals nor rules, living purely for the sake of survival.
Of course, for any kind of creature, survival was the primary purpose, and also the most important one.
But once survival had a certain degree of guarantee, the next step was to establish order!
Trying to eat one bite and become fat was unrealistic, but as time went on, through phased development, step by step until the end, surely that would not be a problem.
Logan's gaze shifted to the cats at his side, and finally rested beyond the nest, on the figures of those Fire Wyverns that from time to time flew past the entrance of his nest, vaguely forming a posture of guarding it.
Ever since returning from the Wildspire Waste, when the Ancient Tree Fire Wyvern group patrolled their territory, they would occasionally, out of instinct, fly past Logan's nest.
They themselves very likely did not even know why they did this, but from the deepest part of their hearts, subconsciously aware of who was the most important existence to the Ancient Tree Fire Wyvern group at present, they had almost instinctively developed the thought of "guarding."
It was precisely because of the current behavior of the Fire Wyvern group that Logan had the idea of moving to the next step.
And all of this would begin from the problem raised by the leader of the Grimalkyne Fire Wyverns.
At present, the Fire Wyvern group already had the concept of exchange. From the beginning, it had been solely to reward the cats, but it turned into providing those things that the cats regarded as "precious," in exchange for cat meals, medicines, and other supplies.
What needed to be done now was to deepen this habit in the Ancient Tree Fire Wyvern group and make them develop the concept of "equivalence."
The Fire Wyverns had not yet perfected their own language, mostly relying on roars and behavioral actions to satisfy daily needs.
Therefore, wanting to achieve this goal through teaching, like humans or other creatures with written language, was unrealistic.
The simplest and most direct way—educating by means of deeds—was instead what best suited the current stage of the Fire Wyvern group.
Therefore, Logan quickly issued an order.
At the Pavilion of Fire Wyverns and Cats, cat meals would no longer accept anything other than "equivalent" meat as payment.
That is to say, whether it was materials from other monsters the Fire Wyverns brought back, or their own scales and the like, from the moment this order was issued, these would no longer be allowed as payment for cat meals.
After this order was issued, the Fire Wyvern group did not show much reaction yet; instead, it was on the Grimalkyne side that some tremors first appeared.
The reason was very simple. For the cats of the Ancient Tree Fire Wyvern tribe at present, the scales, claws, and the like bestowed by the Fire Wyvern lords were not only honors that could be shown off among one another.
They were also hard currency for bartering among cats.
And as for those monster materials, because they could be used to trade for supplies with the Research Commission, for cats who did not have their own economic system, these monster materials likewise counted as a semi-circulating currency.
And now, with the Pavilion of Fire Wyverns and Cats—the main source of these materials—no longer accepting them as payment for cat meals, for the cats at present, it was undoubtedly a major blow.
"Uu-meow~~ why, meow~ why would the Fire Wyvern boss issue such an order, meow~"
A chef cat bit his own little chef's hat, meowing with reddened eyes.
Yesterday, he had used all the Fire Wyvern lord's materials he had collected over this period to exchange, with a Grimalkyne Fire Wyvern, for the silver-red scales the Fire Wyvern boss had recently shed. He had originally planned to start stockpiling for the next batch of materials, then trade for one scale from the Fire Wyvern boss's mate, to put together a pair as an heirloom.
He had not expected this order to be like a bolt from the blue, directly shattering his plan.
"The Fire Wyvern boss must have his reasons for issuing such an order, meow!"
A muscular chef cat similar to Head Chef Sita said this with a serious face; as for Logan's orders, he was often in favor with four paws plus one tail!
He would never forget that scene when Logan suddenly appeared and effortlessly wiped out those Jagras who, eroded by the miasma, had turned to attack them. From that moment on, his life already belonged to the Fire Wyvern boss, meow!
Under the new order, the cats each had their own thoughts, but not a single cat voiced opposition. Even if there was a bit of grumbling, after explanations by the specially dispatched Grimalkyne Fire Wyverns, they all expressed understanding and began to fully support it.
However, these materials were only barred from being used to exchange for cat meals; items such as medicinal herbs, Nitroshrooms used to fill the flammable substances inside Flame Sacs, special ores, and the like could still be exchanged. It was just that Logan required the cats to mark the corresponding values in accordance with the Research Commission's valuation of each material.
Henceforth, the materials provided by the Fire Wyverns would also all use the calculation method from the Research Commission, in order to standardize the use of these supplies.
Of course, Logan also gave a special reminder: special cases should be treated specially.
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After Logan's order was issued, several days passed, yet whether it was the Fire Wyverns or the cats, they were still not quite used to it.
This order completely broke with past habits. Many Fire Wyverns, upon waking up each morning and planning to head out hunting, would, half-drowsy, instinctively go to the Fire Wyvern and Cat Pavilion. There they would pluck a scale from their own bodies, then start waiting for the cats to deliver a meal.
But they would wait and wait, until they had even fallen asleep again and woken up once more, only then realizing that the anticipated cat meal still hadn't arrived.
Just as they were about to lash out in anger at those submissive cats, they suddenly remembered the new order their leader had given.
There was nothing to be done. In the end, that Rathalos could only go hungry and set out to hunt like that.
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