January 1, 363 in the Hessian calendar.
Today is New Year's Day, and it is also the founding day of the Nalan Empire. It is the most lively day of the year. The citizens of the Nalan Empire put down their work and held a grand celebration. While celebrating the festival, they also prayed 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 made a final inspection of a huge sky lantern and said, "Captain, I'm ready."
"Okay, let's put out the lanterns on time when the time comes, so that everyone in the earldom can see the sky lanterns of our Iron Wall Castle."
At 8 o'clock in the evening, the soldiers lit the special wicks on time, and the sky lanterns slowly rose. At the same time, all the fortresses and cities along the entire empire's border lit up sky lanterns, and countless sky lanterns rose into the sky. Their connections maintained the shape of the empire's border, declaring the sacredness and inviolability of the empire's territory.
The sky lantern was bright and dazzling, and Rogge and others at Holk College could also see it. Everyone put their hands on their chests and watched the sky lantern disappear in the sky.
Dots of light appeared, and the city of Holk, which had been completely darkened in order to view the sky lanterns, was once again brightly lit.
"Let's go, let's go eat." Ofina took Filia back to the villa dormitory.
Tonight's meal was very sumptuous. Rogge specially bought several rare and valuable ingredients in the northwest of the empire and cooked them into delicious dishes to celebrate the New Year.
Ofina is learning from Filia to open swimming crabs. Swimming crabs are relatively luxurious ingredients in the northwest of the empire. Ofina has never even eaten ordinary crabs, let alone delicious swimming crabs.
Steaming is the most suitable cooking method to preserve the original taste of ingredients. The sweet crab meat and fragrant crab roe of the steamed swimming crab have a completely different taste from the big fish and big meat. Ofina praised her repeatedly.
"It's delicious! The crab is delicious, but it's just not satisfying enough to eat."
Ofina finished chewing a swimming crab, licked her lips, and immediately picked up a piece of fried steak, neatly cut it into large pieces, and put them into her mouth one by one. The girl carefully tasted the crab and took a big bite of the meat, and then finished with a sip of fine wine, enjoying it until she squinted her eyes and savored it slowly.
"Dong dong dong", there was a knock on the door, and Filia stood up and opened the door.
"Uncle Anderson? Why are you here?" Filia said in surprise.
"Why, I can't come and see you?"
"Of course, please come in!"
Filia led Anderson to the dining table. Anderson was slightly distracted looking at the large table of dishes. The sumptuousness was not much worse than that of a noble banquet, and the aroma seemed to be even better.
Ophina swallowed the food in her mouth and said, "Uncle Dean, let's eat together. The food my brother makes is super delicious. Later, he and I will make noodles together. I guarantee you will be satisfied."
Dean Anderson is also a gourmet. Seeing so many delicious foods, he wanted to just say hello and leave, but he couldn't move anymore. The people present were all his proud students, and there was nothing to be embarrassed about, so they just sat down and tasted the delicious food together.
"Hey, there are also swimming crabs. These are not cheap in Holk City. You guys are living a good life." Anderson caught a swimming crab and tore it apart skillfully and ate it with relish.
"Sister Filia has money, let's take advantage of it." Ofina said. Having said that, in fact, what they eat on weekdays are ordinary ingredients. There are many cattle and sheep in the plains around Hork City. High-quality beef and mutton are very cheap. With Rogge's cooking skills, no one will get tired of it.
"Here comes the noodles." Rogge brought the noodles.
The noodles are crab roe noodles. The fragrant crab roe and part of the crab meat are fried and fragrant. They are placed in the noodle bowl to dye the noodle soup golden yellow, and there is still a little crab oil floating on the surface. The noodles are made from another part of crab meat and flour. The roots are white and even more translucent when soaked in the golden noodle soup.
Just the rich aroma and good looks of the noodles made everyone salivate and move their index fingers, and for a while the sounds of "squeaking" the noodles could be heard one after another.
Just as Rogge picked up a piece of noodles with chopsticks, Orfina had already finished the soup. The girl put down the bowl and said loudly: "It's so delicious! Brother, do you have any more? I still want to eat."
"No, there's only so much crab meat, and I can't make many noodles. It's just enough for one bowl per person."
"Oh..." Ofina thought about the crab meat that she helped to remove from the crabs. It was indeed not much, and Rogge even gave her some more noodles.
Ofina's little mouth was slightly open, with saliva appearing at the corner of her mouth. She looked at Rogge eagerly, her greedy look was so cute that people were fascinated by it.
Rogge smiled and shook his head, put down his chopsticks, picked up his bowl and put it in front of Ofina and said, "I think everyone likes noodles. I'll make some beef noodles for everyone. I'm sure they will be no worse than crab roe noodles. Put the noodles in It won’t taste good after a while, Nana, help me eat this bowl of crab roe noodles.”
Rogge actually said all his words to Dean Anderson, in order to maintain Ophina's image. If Anderson was not around, Rogge would not let the bowl of noodles come up with an excuse.
"Brother, why don't you try it before you go? It's really delicious."
"I know, I'm a cook, so of course I've tasted it. Eat quickly, I'm going to make beef noodles." Rogge patted Ophina's head lovingly, got up and went to the kitchen.
Ofina ate much slower this time, savoring the delicious noodles. Lunt, on the other hand, licked the bottom of the bowl imagelessly, which aroused Madeleine's disgust.
Anderson also finished eating and said to Ophina: "Rogge is really nice to you. I will give you such delicious food directly." The glutton attaches great importance to food, Rogge's behavior Very much to his liking.
"Yes, my brother used to give me all the delicious food. Uncle dean, how about it, is the food my brother cooks delicious? I didn't lie to you, did I?"
"It's delicious. This crab roe noodles is the best thing I've eaten in these years." Anderson smacked his lips, still savoring the delicious flavor of the noodles.
"Uncle Dean, please come here more often. The food my brother makes is so delicious."
"Definitely, hahaha."
After a feast, there were 6 more satisfied faces and several round bellies. The beef noodles that Rogge later made were also excellent, and everyone ate every noodle.
Anderson stroked his belly and said slowly: "Roger, your skills are really good. I heard that some spirit beasts are very greedy. You can research some food that suits the taste of spirit beasts, and maybe you can abduct a spirit beast. "
"Dean, Nana told me this before. I have made a lot of food for spiritual animals, including herbivorous, carnivorous, and omnivorous types."
"Haha, this girl Ophina is still smart. How is the effect? Have you tried it with the horse in the inn?"
Ofina rushed to say: "I've tried it, I've tried it, and the effect is very good. Now the dragons and horses in the stable know us. As soon as we pass by, they bark and dig at the ground. They are so excited."
"Yes, now you have more hope of becoming a spiritual summoner when you go to the Secret Garden of Spiritual Beasts."
Anderson took out 6 earth-yellow gems from the space ring and continued: "I am here today to give you something. These gems are defensive equipment made by injecting my magic power. Each of you should carry them with you at critical moments." If you inject energy or magic power at all times, it will release an earth shield barrier, which can withstand a full blow from 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 entertained me is worth these few stones. You will set off in five days. Rogge, lead your team well and be smart when encountering problems. You must handle all these things correctly. Bring everyone in the room back.”
"Yes, Dean." Rogge said seriously.
"Well, be careful with Duruko. He has been quiet for nearly half a year. There must be some action during this trip, so don't be careless."
"Understood, Uncle Anderson." Filia said.
…
When Anderson stepped out of the Rogge team villa dormitory, on a remote and quiet road two kilometers away from Holk City, Durco and Viscount Porter were having a secret conversation face to face.
"Your distinguished Master Durco, you are well." Viscount Porter bowed and saluted with a very humble attitude.
"Viscount Potter, why did you ask me to meet here? Tell me quickly, there is a beautiful noble lady waiting for me at the banquet." Duruko said slightly impatiently.
"I'm sorry to disturb your enjoyment. I came here from Iron Wall City specifically to give you a gift."
"Gifts? Is there any gift that you would like to deliver personally?"
Porter handed Durco a space ring and said: "The red-black crystal inside is my latest development. It can turn monsters into Warcraft, or convert spiritual beasts into Warcraft. You just need to You need to spread the crystals where the spirit beasts are active and wait for the spirit beasts to come and devour them.”
Truco asked, "What do you mean by giving me this?"
Potter bowed again and said: "Dear Master Durco, I heard that you are about to leave for the Soul-Calling Holy Kingdom to enter the Secret Garden of Spirit Beasts. Your enemy Rogge and your prey Filia will also go together. The Secret Garden of Spirit Beasts After many years of running the Holy Spirit Summoning Kingdom, you must not be able to rashly take action there if some chaotic situation doesn't happen, right?"
"You want me to place these crystals in the Secret Garden of Spiritual Beasts and transform the monsters to cause chaos? Potter, have you ever thought that if my actions are discovered, I will face the raging beasts of the Spirit-Calling Holy Kingdom? anger."
Potter smiled gloomily and said: "With Master Durco's methods, it would be a trivial matter to put a few small crystals in the Secret Garden of Spiritual Beasts without attracting attention. Even if they were discovered, Master Lanster would With your status as a duke, what can the Holy Spirit-Calling Kingdom do to you? You must know that you are the only son of the Grand Duke of Lanster."
"Of course, if you are afraid, you can choose not to use it and let Rogge and the eldest lady of the Yanyang family have sex with each other. I heard that Rogge also has a little angel-like sister. It's a pity that such two beauties would have sex with each other. In the hands of a lowly commoner."
Hearing this, Truco grabbed Porter's collar angrily and shouted in a low voice: "How could I be afraid?! Of course I don't take it seriously. Rogge, hum! Just wait and see." Well, the Spirit Summoning Holy Kingdom will be his burial place, and both Filia and Ofina will be my slaves!"
After Durco finished speaking, he pushed Potter hard, took the ring and turned away without looking back.
Porter didn't care whether Durco could see it or not, and bowed in an exaggerated salute to his back, with a sarcastic smile appearing on his face.
"You arrogant and stupid person, just be my puppet for once."
