Chapter 70: A Day Off
A few days later, all the patients on the island of Salk recovered. In order to express his heartfelt thanks to this group of VIPs from Lars, the king of the amphibious tribe personally presided over www.biquge.info the amphibious people in the center of the square of the village to hold a unique and grandest welcome banquet in the local area. At the beginning of the feast, the amphibious drummers who wore the skins of the sea animals took turns beating the big drum in front of them according to the rhythm and their hands. Knock knock...
Dressed in rare furs and tooth ornaments, the amphibious king, who was seated at the main banquet, stood up, raised his wine glass made of coconut shells in his hand, and gave a loud speech with great interest: "Thank you so much for all the guests from Lars! We, the Kingdom of Sark, will work together with our allies, Lars, to resist the aggression of any foreign enemy! I sincerely wish that the friendship between the two countries will last forever and that the friendship between the two peoples will be passed on from generation to generation...."
Tina sat on the VIP seat to the right of the amphibian king, staring at the low wooden table in front of her, the tender white charcoal-grilled coconut crab meat, roasted conch (ammonite pups), large grilled octopus balls, large raw tuna fillets, these best delicacies of the amphibians, but she did not feel any appetite, and whispered to Leonard, who was sitting beside her, "Why is there no condiment in these foods?"
Leonard replied in a low voice: "This place is so backward, even fishing boats and steel forks for fishing need to be imported, how can there be a habit of putting condiments on food?"
The amphibious king noticed that Tina's appearance seemed a little reserved, and he said hospitablely: "Your Royal Highness, please be polite at all, and let us be as casual in our place as if we were in your own home." With that, he grabbed a large piece of sashimi with his right hand, stuffed it into his mouth, and chewed it heavily. Da, da... Seeing this, Tina suddenly felt that she couldn't eat anymore.
Leonard, who knows how to enjoy life very well, has already made a detailed understanding of the local ingredients before the banquet, and one by one he holds the fruits that are served in front of Tina's eyes, and introduces them one by one in a large food bowl:
"The milky white juice in this coconut is mellow and sweet. The snow-white flesh wrapped in the pale yellow banana peel and the orange fruit under the golden mango skin are unusually smooth and smooth, melt-in-your-mouth, and the taste is sweet and greasy. These tropical fruits are some of the best delicacies that Lars can't eat. β
Tina was not at all interested in the half-baked, fishy-smelling seafood without any condiments, so she picked up a coconut with the gap open and took a sip of the coconut water, reached out and took another banana that Leonard had peeled for her, put it in her mouth and tasted it, and couldn't help but admire: "It tastes good." β
At this time, Hanks was munching on a banana that had not even peeled the skin in his mouth, and he was very unhappy to see Leonard's dedication to Tina, and he blamed himself for not doing his homework beforehand, resulting in a disgrace and embarrassment in front of everyone. But compared to him, there are also people here who are not much better.
Bran looked at a mango that he had picked up from the bowl in his hand and swayed left and right, and sat in a daze for a long time for fear of appearing in public, and his forehead was sweating, and he didn't know what to do. The howl didn't care about that much, picked up a coconut and opened his mouth to gnaw it, and swallowed it with the flesh and skin. Only Crotty was very good at observing how the amphibians in the audience were doing, and always maintained an elegant demeanor and tasted all the fresh fruits slowly.
Seeing that Tina didn't move the seafood in the bowl in front of her, the amphibian king couldn't help but ask with concern: "Your Royal Highness Princess." Is the food not to your taste today?"
Tina was unwilling to live up to the kindness of the amphibious king, nor did she want to trouble the other party to reprocess the dishes and give herself special care, so she casually made up a reason and replied, "No." Because I've always been a vegetarian. β
The amphibious king then responded to Tina and gave a loud command to his attendants: "Then you should have told me about it earlier." Quick, replace the seafood plate of Her Royal Highness the princess and bring more fresh fruit up. An amphibious waiter hurriedly removed the seafood plate from Tina's table and replaced it with a large pot of fresh fruit. As a result, throughout the feast, the female mage tasted only a few fresh tropical fruits from the island of Salke.
Leonard, who is a very strong surviving in the wild and has never been a picky eater, tasted every fruit and seafood. In order to compete with the Great Swordsman in secret, Hanks also took turns to eat every fruit and seafood. Except for the hard-to-swallow raw tuna fillet that was left untouched, Bran also ate a little bit of each of them.
The nervous howl, who barely cared about the eyes of others, swept away all the flesh and swallowed a lot of fresh fruit. Croti tasted a lot of fruit, plus a few roasted conch shells with delicate shells and beautiful patterns.
With the sound of drums. Knock knock... A group of amphibians, dressed in traditional costumes made of sea animal skins, held up various fishing nets, harpoons and other performance equipment, danced and sang nonsense in their mouths, and performed their national song and dance in front of the guests: "The warriors of my people are the bravest, and the warriors of our people are the wisest..."
Seeing this, Hanks exalted himself in his heart and belittled Leonard: "Hmph. Sure enough, he is still a gangster, and he will never be noble. How could I be as knowledgeable as such a person?" he now regretted why he had just made so much effort to compare himself with the Great Swordsman, and was stunned to eat so much half-raw and fishy seafood.
After the banquet is over. Leonard was woken up by Tina, stretched his waist, covered his mouth with his right hand and asked, "Ah~~~~ Is the show finally over?"
Tina asked rhetorically, "It's over." Have you slept enough?"
Leonard told the truth: "I just don't really want to sleep because I'm so bored." β
After the amphibious king returned to his house. Rosie walked up to everyone and asked, "Your Highness the Princess." Shall we go to the Gathering Spirit Temple now?"
Tina replied, "No, it's been so busy. Let's take the holiday today. β
Rosie said and left, "Okay. If you want to go to the Gathering Spirit Temple, please feel free to come to me. β
Tina turned to her friends and said, "Let's have a good time today." Tomorrow morning, we'll set off for the Gathering Spirit Temple. β
Leonard asked, "What do you want to play?"
Tina's face was full of smiles and she replied, "Crotty and I have decided to go diving." The rest of you decide for yourself. β
Leonard then turned to the other companions, "Then Bran, Howl, and Hanks, would you like to come with me?"
Bran asked rhetorically, "Do you need to ask?"
Howl replied crisply: "I'll go with you." β
Hanks stammered twice, then said to Tina, "Male... Theo... Her Royal Highness the Princess. I'm not going with them. Please let your majesty go diving with you. β
Tina replied in a light tone, "It will be inconvenient for you to go with us." Then we won't be able to swim. And don't be inhibited, just call me Her Royal Highness for the time being. β
Hanks insisted on not mixing with Leonard and the others replied, "Your Royal Highness, Princess." Then, your majesty will return to the Royal Oak to go fishing, and wait for your return. As a result, the middle-aged uncle returned to the Royal Oak alone, facing the leisurely sea breeze and the clear sun, sitting on the side of the boat and fishing. Leonard led Bran and Howl to a picturesque bay full of fish and clear blue water. Tina and Crotty use levitation, an energy-assisted spell, to free their bodies from gravity and float upwards, climbing over a massive cliff like a small mountain to reach an uninhabited and secluded coastal beach.
As soon as Leonard reached the beach, he shouted to the many amphibians who were fishing in the sea with sampans: "Heyβplease lend us a dinghy and three harpoons." Soon a well-meaning local lent them a raft made of logs and three harpoons, saying that this was a due thank you for the rescue of the amphibious people, and that it was okay not to return it.
So Leonard, Bran, and Howl paddled the raft made of logs, and began to hunt down all kinds of fish at sea, rushing forward in the face of the wind and waves. During this time, the raft was overturned by huge waves, and the howl, who could not swim, was filled with several large mouths of seawater and almost drowned.
The Great Swordsman imitated some of the amphibians who stepped on the planks under their feet and rode the wind and waves on the sea, and with his saber he sent out a sword blade, and with the help of recoil, he stood on a large piece of loose raft fragments, and soon learned the skill of "surfing".
At the same time, Tina and Crotty, who arrived on the shore of the beach, took off their shoes and stepped barefoot on the warm, soft sand, chanting the incantation: "Spirit of holy water, source of all things." Please wrap my body in the fountain of life..."--Water Avoidance!
Two large columns of crystal clear water with perfect arcs gushed out of the sea and extended to the eyes of the female mage and the elven female swordsman, forming two large spherical azure transparent water bubbles, enveloping their bodies. Immediately afterwards, the two of them jumped and dived into the sea with the big bubble.
Tina, who had dived below sea level, told Crotty, "Crotty. Spell energy can only sustain this blister for a maximum of half an hour. Let's get out into the sea and take a swim. So saying, they stripped themselves of their clothes.
I saw that the female mage untied the bow that bound the ponytail at the back of her head, held the royal ceremonial staff inlaid with two brilliant red and blue gems on the sandalwood staff in her right hand, and was naked with the elven female swordsman, took a sharp breath of air, and burrowed into the deep and vast ocean from the blue bubble. Like her companions, Crotty held her sword in her hand, with a dark glow and a ghostly spirit sword.
Due to the conservative atmosphere of the Farusion continent, no one has yet invented a swimsuit that is light and easy to carry. Ladies are either confined to the sea in extremely cumbersome underwear that makes them unable to move in the water, or they have to swim as if they were bathing.
I saw that Tina's white skin was translucent and red, and the delicate ketones of Crotty's bronzed skin were surrounded by colorful and diverse fish, and at the bottom of the ocean were magnificent, colorful, diverse, and peculiar, some like inky black mushrooms, some like snow-white brain marrow, some like orange antlers, some like golden trumpets, Some of them are as delicate as blooming flowers, and against the backdrop of coral bushes, they are like two charming mermaids swimming in the currents of the sea, shuttling and dancing freely.
With her long brown and black hair floating in the water, Tina, who was graceful and curvy, held the royal ceremonial staff with her white jade-like arms, activated her magic energy in the sea water, and wrote a string of pearl-like sparkling words, asking Crotty: "Just now, I didn't eat enough at the banquet of the amphibious king. What about you?"
The long white and lubricated silver hair like silk rippled in the sea, and the bumpy and athletic Crotty also gracefully danced the ghost sword. β
Then, with their weapons, they began to release magical energy in the water, shocking the sea creatures they wanted to eat at will, and it didn't take long to harvest a large number of seafood such as sea bream, crabs, and lobsters, and put them into large blue transparent blisters.
In this way, every few minutes, Tina and Crotty swam back to the big blue bubble, stuck their heads back in the blister, took a big breath of air, and then dived into the water again. At the same time, they will also use their magic energy to drive the large bubbles to move closer to the area they want to reach. Whenever the big blue blister is about to run out. Tina and Crotty will then surface and re-use the water avoidance technique, allowing the blisters to stay in the sea for another half an hour.
Then, Tina and Crotty swam to an area full of pearl scallops, dived to the bottom of the sea more than ten meters deep, and released magic energy with their weapons, one after another electrocuted those small pearl scallops as small as the caps of cans and large ones as big as washbasins, and found many rare milky white pearls with smooth and smooth surfaces from the open shells.
In this way, Tina and Crotty dived until sunset, when they surfaced with their harvest, dressed in their clothes, and wrapped in large blue blisters. I saw that patches of crimson sunset hung above the sky. Under the light of the setting sun, the originally clear blue sea is now glittering with golden light.
Facing the cool sea breeze blowing in her face, Tina stepped barefoot on the delicate silky silver sand, raised the staff in her hand, and sighed with joy: "It's really comfortable! I haven't swam so happily for a long time!"
Crotty, who was walking on the beach with Tina, also felt extremely refreshed at this time, but due to excessive physical exertion, she felt even more hungry, and replied: "My stomach is already growling." Let's go back and cook this seafood with everyone. β
So the two of them put on their shoes, carried seafood and pearls, and once again used the energy-assisted spell of levitation, allowing their bodies to leap forward, and climbed over the huge cliffs of the sea rocks like a small hill, and returned to the harbor where the Royal Oak was located.
By this time, Hanks had caught a large number of fresh fish on the Royal Oak. Leonard, Bran, and Howl had already returned to the harbor with their catches. When Tina and Crotty reunited with their friends with their gains.
They set up grills and lit bonfires on the beach near the port. Then they grilled all the seafood on the campfire one by one, smeared with a special sesame oil and seasoning brought from Lars, and feasted on the delicious seafood. After the campfire dinner, the tired group returned to the Royal Oak and slept on the ship again.