"A glass of vodka." Sidlifa said.

Leki is a small village in the Rhodope Valley, where more than 200 people live.

The liveliest part of the village is the tavern built by the river, known locally as "Papa's Tavern", which is basically in the evening, when the villagers who are farming or hunting like to come for a drink.

There are a lot of visitors here today, and they look like mercenaries. The villagers sat around the round table in twos and threes, glancing at the seven or eight outsiders sitting at the bar, and whispered about it.

Except for the head of the group, who is a man, the others are all beautiful women.

Well, it must be where the nobles came from, and some aristocrats do like this tone of being surrounded by beauty. As for why they are all dressed as mercenaries, it can only be said that it is a special hobby of nobles.

"Your Balkan vodka." The owner of the tavern, nicknamed "Daddy", poured Hidlifa a glass of vodka and pushed it over.

"Enough!" Sidlifa poured it down, and Crimson suddenly climbed up to her neck, and hiccuped in admiration, "One more drink." ”

"You girl, you're a good drinker." Daddy said with a smile and poured her another glass.

"I want gin." Eleanor said.

"Then I'll order a glass of fruit brandy." Nora said, looking at the menu.

"Bloody Mary." Medea snapped her fingers.

"I want a flying Dutchman cocktail." Mia raised her hand and shouted.

"Children can't drink!" Nora forcibly pressed her hand and asked Daddy, "Is there any juice?" ”

"There's raspberry liqueur, non-alcoholic." Daddy laughed.

"Damn, why do you all have to drink when I have to drink juice?" Mia bared her teeth and claws in dissatisfaction, only to have Nora slap her on the back of the neck, quickly subduing her like a cat.

Under Nola's clutches, Mia could only let out an unwilling snoring sound.

"Let's have a draught beer." Asker finally said, "What does Peggy want?" ”

"Soda on the rocks will do, thank you." Peggy said.

Soon Daddy mixed all the wine and brought the cup to everyone.

"I didn't expect that in such a small village, there would be bartenders." Medea put her cheek on one hand and said with a smile.

"Well, what a bartender, I'm just a bartender." "When I was younger, I worked in Constantinople and learned a little bit of bartending. You've been to Constantinople, haven't you? ”

"I've been." Aske said, "I heard that the Seljuks are about to push to the city of Nicaea, and Constantinople is now in danger." ”

"O Seljuk, barbaric and backward country." Daddy shook his head, "I heard that each family must have 4 children, how can they be so able to have children?" My wife gave birth to two, and I was half tired to death just by taking care of them. If there were 2 more, I couldn't think of it. ”

"I'm afraid that when the time comes, everyone will be involuntarily." Asker said.

"No, Constantinople can't be fine, it has three huge walls." Dad smiled disappreciatively and said, "What's more, there are two Majesties here, and God will bless Constantinople." ”

Aske didn't refute, just slowly drank the beer and put down the glass: "Is there anything to eat?" ”

"For wine, there are grilled squirrel skewers, grilled lamb chops, and apple pie pie."

"Let's have some." Asker took out a few silver coins and placed them on the table.

"This raspberry liqueur is delicious." Mia said to Mia.

"Hmph, I don't drink!" Mia puffed up, "What's the point of not having alcohol?" I think when I was in the guild...... Woooooooo ”

She couldn't go on anymore because Nora stuffed a piece of pie into her mouth.

"The lamb chops here are very tender." Eleanor pulled out the bones of the lamb chops and said to Sidlifa, "Our lamb over there is older, but chewy. ”

"Northland people basically don't eat mutton." Sidlifa said this and began to bite the lamb chops fiercely.

"And what do you eat?" Eleanor asked curiously.

"Mostly smoked salmon." Sidlifa said vaguely, "And whale meat, seal meat, and walrus meat." ”

"Whales?" Eleanor put down her fork, "What does it smell like?" ”

"It's about the same as a fish steak, but the fat layer is thick." "We usually smoke it and let it sit for half a year. I don't think you're used to the smoky taste. ”

"I'm used to eating." Eleanor said thoughtfully, "We also eat smoked bacon, sausages and elbows over there, but it's made of pork. Sometimes we go bear hunting and eat bear meat. ”

"Oh oh, the bear meat is delicious!" "We occasionally go white bear hunting, and there is an island called Svalbard in the North Sea, and there are many wild animals on it. ”

"Do you hunt bears with guns?" Eleanor asked.

"No, we shoot with arrows." "Shoot with a long arrow. ”

The crowd ate and drank until late at night, and then returned to the island of the furnace drunk.

On the island of the Hearth, the girls had set up a simple log cabin with four double beds in it.

The climate of the semiplane is similar to that of a temperate ocean, and the day and night are synchronized with the outside 24 hours a day, so there is still room for accommodation when you go back to the Furnace Fire Island.

Alone, Asker came to the shallows by the river and found a large rock to sit down.

The moonlight poured down overhead, plading the river with a faint layer of silver scales. He stared at the river without saying a word, and his mind went back to his mind about his next plan.

According to the main storyline, Constantinople will soon be betrayed by the Venians and thrown into chaos under the attack of the Franks.

The attack will end in failure, followed by a coup d'état in the upper echelons of the royal family.

Theodora will be imprisoned in the monastery by Zoe.

Then the captain of the guard, Michael and the royal ink officer, Valomina, will start a rebellion among the citizens of the imperial capital, snatch Theodora from the convent, and force Zoe to take a vow not to fight in the same room again.

Immediately afterward, the Seljuks would officially land on the Thracian plain, and Constantinople would be locked in a two-month siege.

Eventually, the city of Constantinople fell, and the two empresses fled to the province of Cirith.

This ups and downs of the main plot has been complained about many times among players, such as the two sisters are still fighting in the face of the national disaster, and the captain of the guard can actually mobilize citizens to rebel, which is really unreasonable and unrigorous.

The game design team also posted a long explanation of the reasonableness, which can be summed up in nine words:

Dear players, I'm your dad.

There's really nothing to discuss. After the release of the famous "Titanic" movie, there was a reasonable party audience that scientifically argued that a wooden board can completely carry two people in the seawater, and Jack does not have to give the wooden board to Roth and die by himself.

Then the director Cameron said, I'm art, art do you understand? Art doesn't need to think about physics.

My script was clearly written on page 147, the male protagonist must die, and if he doesn't die, the movie won't end.

Even if he doesn't drown in the sea, the screenwriter will arrange for him to die.

In the same way, since the game design team has been arranged, then according to the main plot, the Venians will definitely be motivated by the desire for profit and instigate the Frankish knights to attack Constantinople, and Zoe will definitely attack his sister in order to seize power, and finally Constantinople will definitely be captured by the Seljuks.

The game is called "Iron and Fire", and it is designed to allow players to experience the grandeur and brutality of war, and the open beta phase sacrifices an empire before it is worthy of the opening prologue of the next decade-long all-out war epic.

Version 1 Bloody Battle in the Balkans, Version 2 HRE Civil War, Version 3 Fighting the Holy See...... Each version has at least one national war, and the casualties of NPCs are calculated in the tens of millions, and the number of deaths of players is even more than 100 million.

It is precisely because of this that since Aske crossed into this world, he has been so eager to recruit people, do tasks, place dungeons, engage in equipment, refine potions, and advance wildly according to the strategy every day, so busy that he doesn't even have time to rest.

Medea said that he was mentally exhausted, and it was not unfounded speculation.

He was indeed tired, but he couldn't stop and rest just yet.

From the open beta stage to version 1, the upper limit of the level is level 5. At the end of version 1, his team must reach level 5 and level 10 in version 2.

The No. 3 version of the Unrighteous Expedition is the HRE Emperor Otto fighting the Holy See, almost half of the continent has been pulled down to fight, if you can't get to level 10 in time, there is a high probability that the low-level transcendent will die in the No. 3 version.

Of course, you can hide, you can hide in the Iberian Peninsula or Britannia, but you can hide in version 3, what about the later version?

There will always be times when you can't hide from it.

"Do you drink?" A voice sounded from behind. Aske turned around, and it turned out to be Nola.

Nora looked at him with a grin, her pretty face with a slightly drunken red, and she looked extremely pure and delicate under the moonlight.

Sometimes I really envy you, and I don't have to worry about anything...... Asker sighed in his heart, took the bottle and took a sip.

"Seeing you sighing here alone, is there something on your mind?" Nora sat down on the big rock beside him.

"I'm having a headache on how to improve your strength as soon as possible." Aske said frankly.

"Since it's about the whole team, why don't you just discuss it with everyone?" Nora looked at him earnestly.

"Because it doesn't make sense." Aske said, "Do you know your next potion recipe and where to find the ingredients?" ”

"My next potion recipe is Astral I." Nora nodded, and took out her Spirit I recipe from her pocket, which read:

-Ingredient-

Purified Spiritual Essence (Purified_Ectoplasm)

-Subsidiary-

Hector Blood 3 ml (Blood_of_Hector)

Three Ephemera Fruits (Seeds_of_Ephemera)

Benzamine 1 mg (Benzyl_Amine)

-Processing-

Put 1 mg of anitamine into 3 ml of Hector blood to dissolve, and add the mayfly fruit after 1 minute, 3 minutes, and 7 minutes respectively, with an error of no more than 15 seconds. Finally, let it stand until the liquid is clear and transparent, put in the purified spiritual matter, and then use it after the smoke-like sol appears in the liquid.

"How? Even if you know what the material is, can you do it yourself? Asker asked.

"Well, I know that spirits are the remnants of ghosts after they die." Nora thought about it seriously, "After purification, I understand, it is to wash it with holy water......

"Spirits dissolve in water." Aske said, "You wash it with holy water and it's gone." ”

"Ugh. Hector Blood......" Nora tapped her head, "I seem to have a bit of an impression of the name, is Hector some kind of octopus?" ”

"Hector refers to a special kind of psychic black dog that will run into the cemetery in the middle of the night to dig up the carrion and bones of the dead." Asker said.

"That spirit mayfly must be a mayfly." Nora is quite sure of the authenticity.

"It's said it's a spirit mayfly fruit, of course it's a plant." Aske said, "Ephemera grows abundantly along the Nile, resembling reed grass. ”

"Animine is a benzene ring, followed by a methylene group, followed by an amino group?" Nora said uncertainly, seemingly losing confidence.

"In the end, I got it right, you're pretty good at science-related things." Asker commented.

"Asker." Nora said quietly, "Am I stupid?" ”