January 1, 363 Hess calendar.

Today is New Year's Day, and it is also the founding day of the Nalan Empire, which is the most lively day of the year. The citizens of the Nalan Empire have put aside their work and held grand celebrations to celebrate the festival and pray for the future of themselves, their families, and their country.

Tiebi Mountain, the border between the Nalan Empire and the Orc Alliance.

An Imperial soldier gave a final check on a giant sky lantern and said, "Captain, I'm all set. ”

"Okay, when the time comes, put the lights on time, so that the people of the county can see the sky lanterns of our Iron Wall Fort."

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the soldiers lit the special wick on time, and the sky lantern slowly rose. At the same time, all the fortresses and cities along the entire imperial border were lit with sky lanterns, and countless sky lanterns rose into the sky, and their connections maintained the shape of the imperial border, declaring the sanctity and inviolability of the imperial territory.

The sky lantern was bright and dazzling, and Rogge and the others at Holke Academy could also see it, and everyone touched their chests with one hand and watched the sky lantern disappear into the sky.

The lights appeared, and the lights were all turned off for watching the sky lanterns, and the city of Holke, which had been dark and dark, was brightly lit again.

"Let's go, let's eat." Orfina pulled Filia back to the villa's dormitory.

Tonight's meal was very hearty, and Rogge specially bought several valuable ingredients that were not common in the northwest of the empire, and cooked them into delicious dishes to celebrate the New Year.

Orfina is learning how to dismantle the pike crab from Philia, which is considered a relatively luxurious ingredient in the northwest of the empire, and Orfina has never even eaten ordinary crabs, let alone delicious pike crabs.

Steaming is the most suitable cooking method to preserve the original taste of the ingredients, and the fresh and sweet crab meat of steamed pike crab and the fragrant crab roe have a completely different taste from the big fish and meat, and Ofina praised it again and again.

"Delicious! The crab is delicious, but it is not enjoyable enough. ”

Ofina finished nibbling a pike crab, licked her lips, and immediately took a piece of fried steak, cut it neatly into large pieces, and put it in her mouth one by one. The girl tastes the crab and eats the meat in a big bite, and then finishes with a sip of fine wine, and enjoys squinting her eyes and slowly aftertaste.

"Knock knock", there was a knock on the door, and Filia got up to open the door.

"Uncle Anderson? How did you get here? Filia said with some surprise.

"Why, I can't come and see you yet?"

"Of course, please come in!"

Felia led Anderson to the table, and Anderson looked at a large table of dishes that were slightly distracted, this sumptuous level was not much worse than that of a nobleman's banquet, and the aroma seemed to be excessive.

Orfina swallowed the food in her mouth and said, "Uncle Dean, let's eat together, my brother's cooking is super delicious, and I will make noodles with him later, which is guaranteed to satisfy you." ”

Dean Anderson is also a glutton, and when he saw so many delicacies, he couldn't move when he wanted to say hello and leave. All the students present were his proud students, and there was nothing to be embarrassed about, so they sat down to taste the food together.

"Yo, and the pike crab, this is not cheap in Holke City, you guys are having a good life." Anderson caught a pike crab and expertly dismantled it, eating it with relish.

"Sister Filia is rich, let's follow suit." Orfina said. That is to say, in fact, what they eat on weekdays are ordinary ingredients, there are many cattle and sheep in the plains around Holke City, and the price of high-quality beef and mutton is very cheap, and everyone can't get tired of eating it with Rogge's cooking level.

"Here comes the noodles." Rogge brought the noodles.

The noodles are crab roe noodles, which are already fragrant and fragrant after being stir-fried, and the noodle soup is dyed golden brown when it is placed in a noodle bowl, and there is a little crab oil floating on the surface. The noodles are made from another part of the crab meat and flour, and the roots are white and even more sparkling when soaked in a golden broth.

The rich aroma and super high appearance of the noodles alone made everyone swallow their saliva and their index fingers moved, and for a while, the sound of "smack" noodles came and went.

As soon as Rogge picked up a pair of chopstick noodles, Orfina soup had already been drunk. The girl put down the bowl and said loudly, "It's so delicious!" Brother, is there anything else? I still want to eat. ”

"No, there's only so much crab meat, and I haven't made much noodles, just one bowl per person."

"Oh..."Orfina thought back to the crab meat she had helped to dismantle the crab together, it was really not much, and Rogge had specially given her some more noodles.

Ofina's small mouth opened slightly, saliva appeared at the corners of her mouth, and she looked at Rogge with her eyes, and her greedy appearance was so cute that people were fascinated.

Rogge shook his head with a smile, put down his chopsticks, picked up his bowl and put it in front of Orfina and said, "I see that everyone likes to eat noodles very much, and I will go and make some beef noodles for everyone, which is no worse than crab roe noodles." The noodles won't taste good if they are left out for a long time, Nana, you can help me eat this bowl of crab roe noodles. ”

Rogge's words were actually for Dean Anderson, in order to maintain a little bit of Orfina's image, and if Anderson was not there, Rogge would not let the bowl of noodles find a reason.

"Brother, you can also try it before you go, it's really delicious."

"I know, I'm a cook, of course I've tasted it. Eat it, I'm going to make beef noodles. Rog petted Orfina's head and got up to head to the kitchen.

Ofina ate much slower this time, savoring the fragrant noodles. Lent licked the bottom of the bowl without any image, which attracted Madeleine's disgust.

Anderson also finished eating, and said to Orfina: "Rogge is really good to you, such a delicious thing is directly for you to eat." The gluttony attaches great importance to food, and Rogge's actions are very much to his taste.

"Yes, my brother used to give me all the delicious food. Uncle Dean, how is it, my brother's cooking is delicious, right? I didn't lie to you, did I? ”

"It's delicious, this crab roe noodle is the best thing I've eaten in years." Anderson smacked his lips, still savoring the aroma of the noodles.

"Then Uncle Dean, you have to come a few more times, my brother makes a lot of delicious things."

"It must be, hahaha."

After a feast, there were 6 more satisfied faces and several round bellies. The beef noodles made by Rogge in the follow-up are also a must, and everyone eats nothing left.

Anderson stroked his stomach and said slowly: "Rogge, your skills are really good, I heard that some spirit beasts are very greedy, you can study some food that meets the taste of spirit beasts, maybe you can kidnap a spirit beast." ”

"Dean, Nana told me this before, I have made a lot of spirit animal food, herbivore, carnivorous, and omnivorous."

"Haha, or Orfina is a clever girl, how is the effect? Did you try looking for a horse in the inn? ”

Orfina hurriedly said: "I have tried it, I have tried it, and the effect is very good, and now those dragon horses in the stable know us, and as soon as we pass, they will bark and plow the ground, but we are excited." ”

"That's right, now you go to the Spirit Beast Secret Garden, and you have more hope of becoming a spirit summoner."

Anderson took out 6 earthy yellow gems from the space ring, and continued: "I also came to give you some things today, these gems are defensive equipment made by me by injecting magic power, you each carry it on your body, inject strength or magic power at a critical moment, it will release the earth shield barrier, which can withstand the full force of a high-level professional, it can be regarded as a life-saving thing." ”

Everyone put away the gems and said in unison, "Thank you, Dean." ”

"Haha, you're welcome, the meal you served me is worth these stones. You're going to leave in 5 days, Rogge, you take the team, be smart, and bring back all the people in this room in the right way. ”

"Yes, Dean." Rogge said solemnly.

"Well, be careful of Durucco, he has been quiet for nearly half a year, there must be actions on this trip, don't be careless."

"Understood, Uncle Anderson." Filia said.

……

As Anderson stepped out of the dormitory of the Rogue team villa, on a secluded and quiet path two kilometers from Holker City, Durucco and Viscount Potter were secretly talking face-to-face.

"Honorable Prince Truruko, don't come unharmed." Viscount Potter bowed with a very humble attitude.

"Viscount Potter, what did you ask me to meet here? Hurry up, there is a beautiful noble lady waiting for me at the banquet. Duruco said with a little impatience.

"I'm sorry to disturb your Yaxing, I came from Iron Wall City this time to give you a gift."

"Gifts? Do you have any gifts that you would like to bring in person? ”

Potter handed Duruc a spatial ring and said, "The red and black crystals contained in this are my latest development, it can spawn monsters into demonic beasts, or transform spirit beasts into demonic beasts, you only need to scatter the crystals in the place where the spirit beast is active, and wait for the spirit beast to come and devour it." ”

Durucco asked, "What do you mean by giving me this thing?" ”

Potter bowed again and said, "Dear Prince Duruco, I heard that you are about to leave for the Spirit Summoning Saint Kingdom to enter the Spirit Beast Secret Garden, and your opponent Rog and your prey Filia will also go with you. The Spirit Beast Secret Garden has been in operation for many years in the Spirit Summoning Holy Kingdom, so if there is no chaos happening, even you can't rashly make a move in it, right? ”

"Do you want me to place these crystals in the Spirit Beast Secret Garden and transform the Demon Beasts to cause chaos? Potter, have you ever thought that if my actions were discovered, I would face the wrath of the Spirit Calling Nation. ”

Potter smiled gloomily and said: "With the means of Prince Duruc, it must be a trivial matter to put a few small crystals in the Spirit Beast Secret Garden unobtrusively, even if it is discovered, with the status of Grand Duke of Ranster, what can the Spirit Calling Holy Kingdom do with you?" You know, you're the only son of the Grand Duke of Leanster. ”

"Of course, if you are afraid, you can also choose not to use it, and let Narogge and the eldest lady of the Yanyang family go to me. I heard that Rogge also has a sister like a little angel, but it's a pity that such two beauties would fall into the hands of a lowly commoner. ”

Hearing this, Durucco angrily grabbed Potter's collar and shouted in a low voice, "How could I be afraid?!" Of course, I don't care about the Holy Kingdom of Spirits. Rogge, huh! Just wait and see, the Holy Kingdom of Spirits will be his burial place, and both Felia and Orfina will be my slaves! ”

With that, Duruko shoved a handful of Potter and turned away without looking back.

Potter didn't care if Durucco could see it or not, and bowed exaggeratedly at his back, a mocking smile on his face.

"Proud and stupid people, you can be my puppet for a while."