The place for dinner is in the banquet hall at the back of the temple. The temple's banquet hall is not used very often, and is only used every year when large-scale events are held, when representatives of the underwater world gather at the Tempest Temple. However, since it is located on the bottom of the sea, there is no dust in the environment, and even if you don't use it for a year, the tables and chairs will not be covered with dust, so when the door is opened, you can welcome new guests with a simple cleaning.

"Mother is very happy today. Since it was a family feast, Doris did not instruct the temple guards and low-level priests to do the reception, but did it herself. This seemingly unruly simple act has brought the girls of the adventure party closer to Lanna and Lamia, who represent the Sea Clan, and subconsciously tells everyone that we are not outsiders, not between employers and employees, but very close friends. The girls also liked Doris's attitude, and together with Lanna, they happily cleaned up the spacious banquet hall. During her work, Lan Na said with some emotion: "I haven't seen my mother show such a happy expression for many years. Especially in the past ten years, my mother has always been troubled by some things, and today is a rare day to be happy. ”

"Is the priest's work heavy?" asked Lina curiously, "It stands to reason that there is no need to fight for the temple of faith, and there is no too much work to do." ”

"But the Storm Temple, as the Xinyang center of the seabed, needs to coordinate the disputes and contradictions between the various races and individuals in the deep sea, especially those who are powerful. Lan Na said in a tangled way: " It's all trivial things, such as who robbed who's prey ground, who disturbed who to sleep, who ate whose pet as food, etc., if these things are left alone, those reckless guys can fight for these things, and they often have a small half of the sea area are alarmed, and then the rest of the idle old guys will go up to join in the fun, and then develop into a war of various races that affects half of the sea, and when they are satisfied with the fight and go back to sleep, the endgame will be cleaned up by the temple. Therefore, this kind of thing cannot be left alone. But the problem is that if you want to take care of these things, there is no right or wrong conflict between them, and there is no other way to deal with it except to try their best to coordinate, so what the high-ranking priests of the temple are most afraid of is this kind of guy who seeks to coordinate to come to the door, and it will definitely not be good for them to come to the door. ”

"It sounds scary. Catherine said with a wry smile: "It seems to be an arbitration tribunal in a city court, and it is also specialized in dealing with these trivial disputes, I know several arbitrators in the arbitration tribunal, all of whom are young and their hair is about to fall out, and it turns out that the underwater world is also like this." Does Aunt Doris need to do that too, though?"

"That's not true, my mother has been worried about another thing all these years. Lanna sighed and said, "That's what I told you about the area that drove the Sea Clan crazy. I suspect that in the past ten years, my mother has been watching the area through the undercurrent of the sea with several strong people under the sea, because every once in a while, my mother will lock herself in the prayer room, and when she comes out, she will always be very weak and tired, as if her mental energy is too exhausted. When I asked her, she always didn't say, so I had to guess. ”

"Don't worry. Catherine pressed Lanna's shoulder and said seriously, "Since we are here, we will definitely try our best to solve this matter and try not to let your mother continue to worry." ”

"Thank you. Lan Na nodded vigorously, "I apologize for threatening you with a reward when I first met." ”

"Ha, it's nothing, you have no choice but to do it, we can understand, we won't mind. Catherine clapped her hands and said loudly, "Okay, the cleaning is done, what else is there to do? Do you want to go to the kitchen and help Aunt Doris?"

"Don't. Lanna hurriedly stopped Catherine and said, "Our kitchen is outside the temple, and to go to the kitchen you have to go into the sea. And the way the Sea Clan cooks is different from other races, we all use magic and racial talent to cook, and you can't help if you go. ”

"I've heard of this too?" Lina said, holding her glasses, "But I've always been curious, what about races that don't have magical abilities, do I need to go to the sea tribes with magical abilities for help?"

"Eat it raw. Lan Na replied as a matter of course: "Half-human sea tribes like us are all races with certain magical abilities, and they have no magical abilities at all, and the sea forms are basically beast types, they are all directly devoured, and only when they become terrestrial forms will they eat cooked food." ”

"Well, it sounds vicious, but maybe that's the characteristics of the race, and other races are not qualified to comment. Catherine said, "Speaking of which, this is the first time I've eaten Sea Clan food, and I've never eaten it before." Pannis, you stole so much from your former friends that you didn't learn how to cook a sea tribe?"

"I can't learn. "That's only useful at the bottom of the sea, and it requires special methods of magic manipulation that land races can't imitate." ”

"Oh, I see. Catherine suddenly raised her eyebrows: "Hey, what are you doing?"

"I'm lazy. Pannis was sitting in a chair next to him in a daze, and when he heard Catherine answer a question in passing, he immediately reacted, jumped up and said, "No, no, no, I'm actually thinking about the problem, yes, thinking about the problem." ”

"I'm too lazy to say anything about you. Catherine knocked her forehead helplessly and said, "Let me ask you, what is your relationship with Priest Doris? ”

"Well, it's a good friend. "A few of our friends have been living in the deep sea for a while, and for a few months, she has also ...... Oh, it's nothing, it's close anyway. ”

"Strange, why don't I know?" Lan Na asked suspiciously, "I should know about this kind of thing." ”

"You weren't there. Pannis said, "Don't you often run out to play, and you walk for more than half a year?"

"I always feel like an excuse. Lan Na said dissatisfiedly: "You must have something to hide from me, and so is my mother, you two colluded to hide it from me." Well, it's certainly not easy for the two of you to collude, I see, and sure enough, you could still be my father. ”

"Oh my God, I gave up. Pannis leaned on the table with his head in his hands and groaned, "Whatever you think, Khaleto bless, how can Doris have such a stubborn daughter." ”

"Have you cleaned up?" Doris's voice floated in from outside the banquet hall at the right time: "Lanna and Lamia, you two come and help, there are too many things for me to take alone, you go to the kitchen with me." ”

Most of the food of the sea tribe is boiled as a means of cooking, and there are also fried and baked. Their cooking methods are very unique, taking boiling as an example, using magic to form a water ball in front of them, and slowly heating up the food after putting it into the water balloon, when it reaches the boiling point, because the water pressure outside is too large, the water in the water ball cannot boil and vaporize, and it seems to have been kept in a calm state, but in fact, the internal temperature is already quite high, and the food inside is cooked with this high-temperature water. This method first needs to control the absolute isolation of the inside and outside of the water, and secondly, the raised temperature must be limited to the range of the water ball without the temperature spreading outward, if you do not do these two things well, the cooked food will be greatly discolored. Roasting and frying are similar, except that one uses the water inside the balloon to turn it into air, and the other uses the high temperature on the outside of the balloon to heat the food directly, which, as Pannis says, is impossible to use unless in the deep sea.

Under the busyness of the three sea tribes, soon, more than a dozen dishes of food were placed on the banquet table, and this kind of food cooked by the high priest himself was estimated to make countless sea tribes envious. The banquet table is dominated by fish, shellfish, and crustaceans, supplemented by a variety of edible algae, which looks very abundant. Especially special is a food known as breadsea. This algae grows on the bottom of the deep sea, has a fluffy ribbon-like body, and when a section is cut and heated in water, the ribbon-shaped algae leaves will swell and the texture will become soft, although it does not melt in water like real bread, but it tastes very similar to bread, and is considered one of the staple foods of the sea tribe.

Eight people, seated around one end of the banquet table, led by Doris as usual, expressed their gratitude to the god of the sea for his gifts, and then began this strange family feast. It was the first time for the girls to taste the cooking of the deep sea, and this taste, which was obviously different from the land, was very new to the ladies. But no matter how novel the food is, it can't stop the doubts in my heart, and when the eating is temporarily over, Catherine puts down the dishes and asks with a straight face: "Lord Doris, I have a question I want to ask you since we met. ”

"About the Divine Favorer?" Doris's gentle and amiable eyes suddenly became deep, as if she had completely changed from a big sister next door to a wise elder, and said with a faint smile: "I think you should have asked." ”

"Yes. Catherine nodded, "On the path of faith, the two high priests who greeted us once mentioned the Divine Favor, and we thought it was Pennis, but the two of them said that it was actually me, but even I didn't know that I was the Divine Favorite, let alone which god I was favored by. ”

"It's not Pannis, it's another identity, it's you. Doris said solemnly: "But, why this is so, I don't know, this is an oracle sent down by Lord Caleto himself. You should know that Lord Khaleto has a close relationship with the God of Wisdom, and the God of Wisdom's observation and prophecy skills are the strongest among the gods, so it is not clear that Lord Khaleto will get any special news from the God of Wisdom. But regardless of the source, you are a god and this is from the gods, and I think they can't be wrong. (To be continued.) )