After disarming the Sky Eye, Xia Duo reopened his spell notes and continued to study the petrification spell.

Combined with some of the [Mud-Stone Transformation] data that the Tower of Time already had, he had determined what the full picture of that petrification spell was powerful enough to petrify metal.

Not long ago, the bloodline awakening brought Xia Duo into contact with the sixth layer of the magic web, although this was not in his expectation or even plan, but he had to admit-

Touching the sixth layer of the magic web has a considerable effect on deducing the full picture of the petrification spell.

Does this confirm from the side that it is almost impossible for a low-level mage to study a high-level spell for the expression of low-level elements!

……

Near noon, Norman, the guard downstairs, suddenly came to report, "My lord, Cook asks to see you!" ”

Xia Duo didn't look up, still focused on his notes, and even the Mithril pen in his hand did not pause in the slightest, only raised his eyelids in the interval between line breaks and glanced at the door:

"What is Cook doing here, isn't he supposed to be busy in the cafeteria at this time?"

"My lord, Cook is here to bring you lunch!"

"Oh?"

Xia Duo put down the pen, and suddenly remembered that he had given Cook a lot of opportunities before, and although he had agreed to end the year, it was almost the same now, so he said, "Let him in!" Let's see how much he's grown during this time! ”

Norman quickly took the order, while Xia Duo unhurriedly put away the notes on his desk and went downstairs to the dining room, where Cook was already waiting.

"Cook, don't be like last time! It's almost the end of the year now, you know! ”

"My lord, this time is different, during this time, I have handed over the affairs of the canteen to the apprentices, and I have worked hard to practice my cooking skills, this time I promise to satisfy the adults!"

Cook said proudly, at present, everyone who has eaten the dishes he cooked, except for the lord, there is no one who does not say good!

And the lord's evaluation is actually in the past tense, and now he is sure that the lord will say yes!

"Oh? Then I'm going to have a good taste! ”

Xia Duo turned his gaze to the table, and the dish was unchanged from before, it was still a braised pork, a stir-fried vegetables, and a mushroom egg soup.

If you practice for a long time, you may be able to make a breakthrough.

Casually holding a piece of braised pork and putting it in his mouth, Xia Duo glanced at Cook in surprise, it was really different from before.

He is not a professional gourmet, just tastes it with the taste of an ordinary person, and Cook has not had enough heat and too many spices before, but this time there is basically none.

Eating this sweet and soft braised pork, if you close your eyes, Xia Duo almost thinks that it was made by some chef on the earth.

This familiar taste made him start one after another.

"Not bad indeed! As far as this braised pork dish is concerned, your cooking skills have completely surpassed mine! ”

I have to admit that the braised pork that Cook made this time is really good! Xia Duo naturally did not hesitate to praise, and at the same time, he did not forget to stretch out his chopsticks towards the lettuce plate.

"Well, lettuce is not bad, just a little raw, it's better to ripen it next time!"

"Yes, sir!"

Cook hurriedly agreed, his heart was already happy at this time, and the two dishes had already been affirmed by the lord, and it seemed that he was not worried that his place would be replaced by someone else!

……

The mushroom egg soup is also quite good, and when he ate the staple steamed buns, Xia Duo finally couldn't help frowning, "Who told you to put sugar in the steamed buns!" ”

"My lord—"

Cook was suddenly stunned, the front had passed normally, did he have to fall to the last staple?

Xia Duo barely ate a sweet steamed bun, looking at Cook who was a little nervous and dazed in front of him, he knew that his words and deeds would have a huge impact on the people below, so he said:

"It's not that sweet steamed buns are bad, but I don't like to eat sweet steamed buns, I don't need to make sweet ones in the future, you can put some vegetables, minced meat and other fillings, make them salty, and I want to see the results at the end of the year!"

Ending with an order can be regarded as a ruling trick that Xia Duo has figured out, and being kind to the people will make them feel uneasy, which is just right.

Sure enough, Cook, who got the new task, was no longer nervous and dazed, but full of confidence and fighting spirit, and he replied loudly with a stroke of his chest:

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

……

After lunch, Xia Duo came to the barracks, where Gibb, Qiao Qi and others were already waiting, but Xia Duo did not come to listen to their report this time, but on something else.

"What about Jabas? Haven't arrived yet? ”

"My lord, Jabas is coming back from the ruins, and it is estimated that it will be late."

"Then I'll go see the statue first, Jabas will come back and ask him to go to the statue to find me, you guys go and get busy first, you don't have to accompany me!"

With that, Xia Duo walked straight to the place where the statue was.

Although he had not been involved in the excavation or transportation of the scale statue, when he was observing the territory through the [Sky Eye] in the morning, the site of the excavation of the ruins was also the target of his observation.

The most important thing is that such a large statue is placed in the barracks in the open air, and it is simply clear from the sky.

……

Slowly approaching the statue, Xia Duo was still a little apprehensive in his heart, not only the hideous scale armored creature shape was terrifying, but also the petrochemical field that could be stimulated at any time, which also brought him a great sense of oppression.

However, relatively speaking, there have been no petrification events in the excavation and transportation, and perhaps the only remaining petrification of this statue after a long period of time has been triggered by Jabbas.

"This is the legendary Creator Race, the Saluk Witch?"

Circling around the tall scaly creature statue with a snake's tail, Xia Duo had a few guesses in his heart.

The statue is about three meters tall, but this is clearly not the true length of the scaly creature depicted by the statue, with almost half of its tail coiled around the pillar that serves as the statue's pedestal.

The statue as a whole is quite complete, except for a small section of the tail that is broken off is a large damage, and the rest is some detail damage, which does not affect Xia Duo's overall impression of it.

However, judging by the shape of the statue with one hand raised and the hollow in which the fingers hold it, it seems that the statue is missing an important component.

It was an object that the owner of the statue was holding, perhaps a weapon, perhaps an ornament.

Xia Duo speculated that it should be some kind of weapon, at least with the attributes of a weapon, as for what it was, he had to wait for Jabas to come and ask again.

He circled around, and there was nothing else associated with the statue except for the truncated tail that was placed next to the statue's base.

Finally, Chado took out his note, imprinted the image of the statue on the note, from all angles, and wrote the sentence under the front view, "Suspected of being a Saruk witch".