Chapter Seventy-Seven: An Unexpected Enemy
The three of them sat down, and the maid began to prepare the dishes, because it was not a main meal, and the main reason why Western food ate different dishes with different wines was that they lacked condiments at the beginning, so they had to use wine to play the role of seasoning. After the spread of oriental spices, drinking became a convention and culture.
The first was caviar and foie gras, and Lear chose foie gras β because Lear never ate caviar in the morning or noon. He has always followed many of Lear's habits, especially when it comes to eating. Because other things may change due to sudden changes in family circumstances, but eating habits are difficult to change.
After eating, oxtail soup and seafood soup were served, and he chose oxtail soup and Catherine chose seafood soup. He found that in fact, in addition to the details, his taste and Lear's taste are very similar, and he also likes to eat fragrant oxtail.
Then there's the seafood category, with grilled shrimp, grilled eel, pan-fried herring and magically cleaned raw oysters from Port Lear. The nobles of Port Lear enjoyed and were more hygienic than most of the Homan nobles, so wealthy nobles hired magical apprentices to magically clean the dishes they ate raw.
Hundreds of years ago, the habit of the Star Continent was to eat raw vegetables and half-cooked meat, and in that era of extremely poor hygiene, the most prevalent disease was diarrhea.
The style of this up-and-coming city of Port Lear is that there is no style, what is there to eat. Meat and vegetarian dishes are served in a variety of styles, including Corrusian-style beef stew with potatoes and pickled cucumbers, Mintelou-style lamb chops and chicken salad, putus-style sausages and pan-fried pork chops, Holman-style veal loin, steak, roast beef tongue and goose, a total of 16 dishes, each prepared by the celebrity chef in small quantities to avoid being too wasteful.
Whatever he wanted to eat, he pointed it, and the maid would automatically bring over the plate with the dishes.
Catherine chooses a different dish from Lear from start to finish, while Ness follows Lear's choice.
Seeing Catherine's appearance of knowing how to eat but not knowing the taste, Lear smiled and said, "My captain, you have eaten too much, be careful to eat Susan." β
Catherine glared at him and said, "So what?"
Ness looked at the two of them curiously, chewing the steak vigorously - she was going to eat more meat and grow taller.
When he was full, Lear threw down his napkin and said, "Let's go, let's go to the general." β
In fact, he was still a little dissatisfied with the dishes of Earl's Court, because the dishes here were roasted, fried and boiled in a crude way, and the only thing worthy of praise was the variety of delicious secret sauces, but his favorite was still stir-frying. In order to avoid revealing his identity, he could only endure it, thinking that when he was in power in the future, he would set an eight-level standard for stir-frying, and all the chefs with a stir-fry level of less than four-level would roll up and leave.
It was a good time to take a walk after dinner, and Lear wanted to take Ness, but KΓΆniss fell asleep again, making him cry and laugh - he hadn't been cured at noon today.
Without Ness, he simply used the golden mask to change his face slightly so that others could not see that it was him, and then walked side by side with Catherine towards the General's Mansion, enjoying the quiet afternoon moment - the people who protected him were all ten meters away.
The two of them talked softly, chatting about topics of interest, and finally talked about the Firelight Mercenary Group.
"Alas, I've been looking for so many days, and none of the members of the Flare who fled with us have been able to reach Dieter City or Port Lear. Shouldn't we, shouldn't we just come back safely along the way?" Catherine felt that those people did not deserve to die, even if they all betrayed.
"Since you can't find it, don't look for it, after all, you will give their due reward to their families, and you will do your best. If I were you, I would never care about these traitors. "Baron Humphrey has told Lear that the traitorous mercenaries have all been killed by his men in order to prevent them from leaking the news to the cannibals.
"Their families are innocent, alas......"
The two of them walked silently for a while, and suddenly a huge fire burst in front of them, the violent explosion was deafening, the earth shook, a large number of houses collapsed in response, and I don't know how many people died in it.
"Protect Lord Count!" Hal shouted, snatching up in front of Lear. A magician casts a spell to release the Magic Eagle Contract Beast and flies high into the air to observe.
"What's going on?" asked Lear. And the phantom butterfly on Lear's body suddenly made a humming sound that Lear could hear, and flew to his head and spun in circles, looking very anxious
Hal whispered, "My lord, please leave immediately, the magic just now is extremely powerful, at least caused by a high-level mage." β
The mage who had released the contract beast hurriedly walked over and said, "My lord, it is five mages and twelve swordsmen who are besieging Miss Audrena and the others. On Audreyna's side there is a powerful Great Swordsman, but there is only one Intermediate Mage and two Junior Mages. Just now, the enemy's high-level mage cast a powerful illusion, and now I don't know what the situation is, so please leave immediately. β
Lear hurriedly asked, "You mean, Audreyna will definitely die?"
The magician nodded and said, "As long as that high-level mage who is proficient in illusion does not die, Miss Audrena and them are likely to be wiped out." β
Lear asked, "If you kill that magician, will it end the other way around?"
The magician was stunned for a moment and said, "Of course, if you lose the magician who can do illusions, those people are just lambs in front of the great sword master. β
Lear said confidently, "Let's go over and see what happens." β
Hal hurriedly stopped and said, "My lord, please don't put yourself in danger!"
Lear smiled and said, "Have you forgotten what magic guide I have on me?"
Everyone was silent, once he turned on the protective magic guide, it would really take a little effort for the high-level mage to kill him.
So, they quickly approached along the collapsed houses, but because of the collapse of a large number of houses in front of them, they could not jump on the ruins and walk on high places, so they could only walk along the road, and finally went around behind each other.
Everyone saw that there was a lava-strewn crater in front of them, and the lava was slowly flowing, and there were seven or eight lava giants walking back and forth on top of the lava, and they were all illusions, but no one dared to rush in and die.
But in Lear's eyes, there is no lava or lava giant, and this is the ability that Phantom Butterfly has given him to break illusions. He saw a high-ranking mage standing thirty meters away, with other mages and swordsmen protecting him, while Audrena and the others were forming a circle.
There were four corpses lying on the ground, three of which were of Audreyna's men, one of which was of the swordswoman Avril, and none of the attackers died.
The high-level mage who unleashed the illusion was so powerful that he not only used a wide range of illusions, but even blessed himself with three layers of shields, as well as the obscurity and soundproof enchantment that caused ghosting, making it impossible for enemies to tell where he was by sound.
The phantom butterfly flew anxiously around his head in circles, like a greedy little girl, and Lear sensed that she wanted to eat the illusion, but she didn't dare to eat it without her master's permission. Lear fears that Phantom Butterfly will be injured and forbids her to leave.