Before the gladiatorial fight began in the afternoon, the people who had eaten could not wait to return to their places, and the auditorium quickly filled up in the dense clouds.

"Borrowed."

Rupert led the two behind him to squeeze through a pair of knees.

Seeing that it was the two knights, the civilian audience saluted one after another, and sat back to make way for the passage.

When they returned, the three of them staggered a lot, all holding a huge box and a drink in the other. The box was filled with popcorn, which they had eaten at the "Creeping Pony" at noon. This novel food immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Long Ge had been away from the tavern for a morning, and "Creeping Pony" was unfortunate that there were still no customers, and at the urging of the manager, a waiter finally returned.

Xia Zuo, who was not hungry, recommended Rupert and Jenny to come here for lunch. After the meal, Xia Zuo always felt that something was missing from watching the game, and occasionally saw the audience drinking beer or mead in the field, but he had no drinking habits.

Summing it up, I was impressed with some simple recipes to achieve - caramel popcorn.

Although this can give the humble item of HP+1 a very modern look, it exists in the background and setting of the era of "Dragons and Swords and Sorcery".

Xia Zuo borrowed the kitchen of the "Creeping Pony" and bought dried corn that was useless in the store's soup, as well as some cane sugar, and put them all in his bag.

When you go to the cooktop where the pan is placed, you wink at the icon "Cooking" that appears, and the cooking interface pops up. This icon will appear even in front of a campfire with a pot.

Similar to the Forge screen, the Cooking screen consists of a material bar and a "Confirm" button, but unlike Forge or Crafting items, cooking does not require a regular arrangement of materials.

Cooking only requires steps, such as caramel popcorn, first drag the dried corn kernels from the backpack interface with your left eye closed into the cooking interface, and after clicking confirm, you can get the original popcorn - popcorn with its own carton appears in your hand. Put it in your bag again.

Similarly, drag the cane sugar into the interface and click Cook to get the caramel - it also comes with a glass bottle container.

Finally, drag both items into the cooking interface and click OK to get caramel popcorn.

Although it is possible to manually pour caramel over the original popcorn yourself, the result is that the cooking interface is very uniform, and every bump of a popcorn reflects the sheen of sugar.

After tasting one, Xia Zuo was full of praise for it, and Rupert, Jenny, the tavern owner, and the only shop guy all had the same idea after tasting it.

When a strong wind blew, Xia Zuo and Rupert's box that was about to overflow was blown off a few popcorns, one of which was caught by Jenny with her mouth open, and the rest fell to the crotch of the audience next to her.

Some viewers picked it up and sniffed it, and tried to eat it, showing a satisfied expression.

"Hmm~ It's really delicious, Xia Zuo." Jenny said as she chewed.

Jenny's box was fuller than the two, but not a single grain was blown off by the wind.

Xia Zuo turned his head and squinted, and sure enough, the effect of "strong luck" was still there.

"It's called popcorn, right, teach me the magic that conjures this thing~" Jenny then pleaded.

"Caramel popcorn, please pay attention to the caramel on the surface." Xia Zuo emphasized, "Even if you don't use magic, you can make it in a conventional way." ”

"How?"

"Brush the oil, put the dried corn kernels in the pot, cover it, and it will explode on its own, and then boil the sugar in an empty pot, stir constantly, and then pour it on the popcorn."

Xia Zuo has also done it in real life, although it is easy to say, but what he makes is often not as delicious as it is now, and the caramel is boiled to the point that it often has a mushy taste, which is difficult to control.

The tavern owner asked him for the recipe, and even offered 2 gold coins, although it was too simple to be worth mentioning, but Xia Zuo still didn't agree - the estimate was more than 2 gold coins.

"Well, it's really easy to remember." Jenny sighed, "I've never eaten corn like this." ”

Popcorn already exists, but not in every region, like the Kingdom of Andoo.

The drink was juice brought from the store, and only Rupert took the beer.

Xia Zuo has tasted that the beer here does not contain carbon dioxide, or it is far from the level of carbonated drinks, only fermented malt and alcohol, which is quite unpleasant, and some restaurants will add honey to taste.

But the game does have items like carbonated water, but I haven't seen it since the novice village, and it may be in other areas.

I remember in the second week, I learned the magic of "extinguishing" in a city - releasing ice crystalline carbon dioxide from the palm circle, which can effectively extinguish some of the flames, but not the magic flames.

Mastering this spell will allow you to find a second use, which is to synthesize ordinary fresh water into carbonated water in your inventory.

Zebel's beer is unsparkling, and if he learns this magic, he may be able to seize a business opportunity.

Citrus fruits and baking soda can also be used to create a fruity carbonated drink in the inventory, but that requires fruit and baking soda from the alchemy table, which is more expensive, and magic that only requires water.

Thinking about carbonic acid, Xia Zuo has to think of his favorite - Coke.

The main ingredients of Coke are caramel and carbonated water, but there is no item like Coke in the game, if you manually mix caramel and carbonated water, you can make a prop that does not exist in the first place? Maybe this one can be a big sell...

While walking, Xia Zuo thought very devotedly, and became more and more anxious, where to get this magic. Auto-Evasion helps him not to look at the road and not trip over other people's knees.

Soon the three of them sat down, and Xia Zuo was still sitting between the two.

"Jenny, don't you have a security job? Why have you been watching gladiatorial fights with us since the morning? You didn't have this love before, right? Rupert asked unpleasantly. Seeing Jenny sitting down, she was very leisurely munching on popcorn.

"Aren't you following us?"

"You guys? When did it become yours? Rupert was angry, "I am on the orders of Lord Rodney to take care of and guide Xia Zuo's gladiatorial fight. ”

"What exactly is the purpose of your caregiving? Long Ge is invincible, and this is the place where I am safe, there are a lot of people, if something happens, it must be very chaotic, I have to keep an eye on Your Majesty at all times. ”

Xia Zuo turned a deaf ear to what the two were talking about, worried, as a low-level magic, it is very likely that the Ministry of Magic will record "extinguished", if there is, wouldn't it be a loss for him to only ask for a non-existent cross-cutting magic? If you can't go back, you won't have any happy water to drink for a while.

The white line in the center of the arena has been erased, and the high ridge in front of the first row of the spectator seats is the boundary of the gladiatorial arena.

"The first play-in tournament is about to begin, and the first contestant, Long Ge—" the referee shouted as he stood on the first row of the high platform in the audience and shouted with amplification magic.

The fence gate opened, and Long Ge entered the gladiatorial arena. The audience reacted unexpectedly as in the morning.

Long Ge waved his hand in the direction of Xia Zuo, although he was more than a hundred steps away, but his eyes as sharp as an eagle made her clearly see Xia Zuo's demeanor and movements, he was holding his face, thinking about something, and he didn't notice that he was beckoning, was he worried about the battle situation? What's so bothered about that? Then he had to show his real strength to crush his opponent and revive Xia Zuo's confidence.

The seats in the Chancellor's Stand were full, and in the morning there were only half of them, and now the Archon Qiu Yi and his son Knight Eddie also appeared in the seats, and the seats were next to each other.

"Women dress like unclothed savages? I don't know the shame..."Qiu Yi snorted lightly, and then found that his son looked directly at the female gladiator who was currently on the stage, and knocked him on the shoulder with the back of his hand, "Hey! Pay attention to your knightly image, His Majesty the King is also present, and your demeanor will give His Majesty an impression bit by bit. ”

"Eh, that's not the case," Eddie glanced at his father with disgust, "You haven't seen it yet, it's Xia Zuo's beast slave." ”

"Huh? Is that her? Qiu Yi looked carefully, but he didn't expect that women with the appearance of the human race at first glance could also reach the play-in competition?

"You really don't pay attention to it at all, I've heard about the results of the group stage," Eddie smiled proudly, "Father, I was accommodating with the referee and adjusted the order of appearance, which is interesting later." ”

As soon as Eddie's words ended, the referee began to read out, spreading his finger to the entrance of the arena at the other end.

"And Dragon Song's opponent, Maggie Nighthunt!"

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