Alicia came back to her senses and looked at Xia Ya, "Did you really make him live forever?"
"Otherwise?" Xia Ya said, "If he doesn't live longer, how can this bet go ahead?"
Xia Ya said it very naturally, as if what he gave was not something that all the emperors in the world had spent countless manpower and material resources on, sacrificed countless lives, and even sacrificed their country and the country to seize it.
But a leftover piece of cheese.
"Does your Holy Grail have other abilities besides making wine?" Char asked Semele.
"Are you so confident that you will win this bet?" Semler teased.
"Then tell me after I win." Xia Ya said.
Semele raised his eyebrows and silently drank the cocktail in his hand.
According to the location of the tavern in the world, the humans who can come in are themselves lucky. Xia will occasionally weave some low-cost destinies for some people with good luck, depending on his mood.
However, Xia will not assign a destiny to everyone who comes in, it also depends on his own mood.
Just like when he recovered the power of destiny from Heilang.
After the power of destiny in him is recovered by Char, he will also gain this immortality.
However, after Char became Merlin, he had the blood of nightmares and was originally an immortal species. Therefore, in addition to gaining more power of destiny, the abilities brought by this power of destiny were useless to Char. .
But this fate can be given to Alicia, she needs a piece of immortality.
Although he could give it to her directly, Xia Ya didn't want her to bear any karma, so it would be better for others to bear the karma.
Of course, Alicia is still young now and is not at the point where she needs to be immortal. Char is actually more interested in this bet.
After finishing the work in the tavern, all that was left was his own time. Occasionally, he would go out for an outing with Alicia.
Not all of the Alps are covered with snow. In places where the altitude is not that high, there are still some evergreen coniferous forests, occasionally mixed with some broad-leaved trees.
Calcifer found a place like this, where the verdant wilderness was covered by large tracts of natural and pure coniferous forest, with dense woods between the hills.
The tops of each tree stand like green arrowheads, blown in the same direction by the wind. Their individual shapes are uniform and extremely evenly distributed, like infinitely copied green patterns.
There is verdant green grass under the tree, but it should not be ordinary grass, but some cold-resistant alpine plants such as edelweiss.
The glacial landscape of the Alps borders this coniferous forest, with white and green touching, as if spring and winter exist at the same time.
A stream originating from the melted water of the snow-capped mountains trickles down, and the castle stops beside this stream.
They chose to have a picnic in this forest, and the fire lit by Calcifer provided warmth for them in the cold winter.
Surrounded by some walking herds of wild goats, they looked at the burning fire with curiosity, but were also a little scared and did not dare to get close.
However, the marmots here are relatively bold, surrounding Alicia and eating the cheese she dropped.
This place should be used as an alpine pasture in autumn and summer, but it should not be in season yet, otherwise there will be more cattle and sheep, and some people will also be seen.
Xia put the clay pot she made not long ago in the fire pit, placed some burned charcoal in the stove, and finally covered it with a wire mesh to turn it into a baking pan.
The earthenware teapot was placed on the wire mesh, and the steaming steam from the earthenware pot heated the teapot.
Char used a spoon to scoop up some water from the stream on one side and poured it into the tea stove, and finally added the tea leaves that Sebastian had given before.
Then, he added some oranges, sweet potatoes, peanuts, corn and other snacks on the baking sheet.
In the cold forest, the ancient teapot was full of steam, and the fragrance of tea was permeated, refreshing. They sat around the stove, leaning against the fire, listening to the sound of water flowing on one side, and quietly watching the sunset, the intersection of day and night, The sky showed an unusually beautiful blue color.
Just like Van Gogh's painting titled "Starry Night on the Rhone", it reveals the depth and mystery of the night.
They were chatting comfortably around the fire, everything was so comfortable.
Soon, the water in the teapot boiled. Xia picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea for himself, Alicia and Isabel.
Isabel is now a materialized soul, but she is now materialized to the point where she can perceive the world like a physical body and can also taste it.
The tea cup is a Chinese tea cup. The European tea cup is too big and is not suitable for savoring the aroma of tea. Moreover, the tea cup is also easier to dissipate the heat of the freshly boiled tea.
Xia Ya gently blew the hot air on it, and the fragrance of tea slowly spread from the nose to the throat, and her limbs felt indescribably relaxed and happy.
He lowered his head and took a sip.
It is clear and mellow, refreshing and soothing their mood.
"The soda water from the peninsula is not suitable for making tea." Xia Ya commented, "This kind of clean snow mountain melt water is suitable."
Alicia also nodded, "It does taste better than ordinary water, but this tea is also good."
"The big red robe of the Wuyi Mountain mother tree." Xia Ya said, "In Beichen, it is usually considered a royal family. I don't know where it came from."
"Can that be eaten?"
Isabel looked at the oranges on the baking sheet with some curiosity. To be honest, she had never tasted the taste of grilled oranges.
Xia Ya nodded, "Take it, you can eat it anytime."
She picked up the orange. The peel underneath was a little burnt, and the fragrance of the orange had a smoky smell.
Isabel broke open the orange and threw the orange peel into Calcifer's mouth. She tore off a piece of orange and put it in her mouth, and nodded.
"It seems a little sweeter than when it's not roasted, and it has a smoky flavor."
Isabel leaned comfortably on the big rock behind her and looked at the snow-capped mountains illuminated by the moonlight in the distance.
"It's so comfortable. I wish this life could continue like this."
Alicia looked around and said, "I have always heard of this mountain range, but I never thought that I would be able to come here in person one day."
"Most people in this world, even kings and emperors, actually don't have much opportunity to go out of their own cities and countries." Isabel said.
"Since my father became the emperor, he has not even been out of the palace a few times.
So now we are actually freer than the emperor. "
She picked up the peanuts on the baking sheet and ate them.
"Honestly, I would probably be happier living the life I have now without Brittania."
After a pause, she whispered softly.
“But responsibility is something you can never escape.
The royal family is burdened with the fate of tens of millions of people, and these things cannot be let go easily. "
Xia picked up the roasted sweet potato on the baking sheet, blew on the hot air, broke the sweet potato into two halves, kept one for herself, and handed the other half to Alicia.
Although it was blown by Char, it was still a little hot. Alicia switched the sweet potato back and forth between her left and right hands and blew it gently at the same time, quickly adapting to the temperature above.
Then, she used her slender fingers to peel off the browned skin, revealing the red flesh of the potato. When she took a bite, it was a kind of sweet glutinous rice, soft, sweet, hot and fragrant, with steaming white smoke. .
Her eyes lit up, "This thing is delicious when baked."
The staple food of Europeans and Brittanians is potatoes, because potatoes are more cold-resistant than sweet potatoes.
At the same time, farmers are relatively conservative in planting staple crops because trial and error is very expensive. It takes several months to try other crops. If they don't grow them, they may go hungry for half the year.
Therefore, it is rare to see sweet potatoes in Britannia, let alone know how to cook them.
"It's delicious." Xia Ya said with a smile, "It's most comfortable to eat hot food like this in this temperature."
Seeing this, Isabel teased, "What about me?"
"You bake another one." Xia Ya pointed to the bag on one side, "Isn't there one in there?"
Isabel smiled and sighed, teasing, "It's good to have a man."
"Char, give me some food too."
Calcifer spoke from under the stove.
Char threw him some peanuts from the oven, and he swallowed them in one gulp and chewed them, making a satisfied sound.
A breeze blew by, blowing some sparks and bringing with it a slight chill. One of the benefits of camping under the snow-capped mountains is that you don’t have to worry about mosquitoes even by the stream.
The fire burned the wood and made a crackling sound, quickly dispelling the cold for them. Everything was so beautiful and comfortable.
However, just when they were enjoying the quiet time.
An animal roar came from deep in the taiga.
"Roar!!!"
The mountains and forests shook, and all the wild animals around them fled in panic.
This is definitely not the roar that an ordinary animal can make, it is a bear's roar.
The earth was trembling faintly, and deep in the coniferous forest, they could clearly feel a huge creature running towards them.
Judging from its cadence and roar, the bear looked very angry.
Soon, from the bushes, a hunter wearing a thick animal skin coat ran out in terror. His hair was white and he looked very old.
He seemed to also see Xia Ya and others sitting by the stream, anxiously waving his hands at them, and then yelled in the local language.
"Run!"
As he finished speaking, the bear followed. It was a brown bear. Its scarlet eyes were particularly conspicuous in the dark night. Through the light of Calcifer's fire, you could clearly see the horns exposed in the corners of its grinning mouth. The teeth can easily tear open the chest of any creature.
The hunter stepped on the stream and fell to the ground. The brown bear also arrived in the blink of an eye.
But it seemed that because Alicia was closer, it roared towards Alicia and stood upright.
As one of the largest carnivorous mammals on land, this brown bear is astonishingly large.
The average floor height of a building is about 2.8 meters, and the height of this brown bear is enough to reach this height.
The raised claws were long and thick, and combined with the terrifying power, they were almost enough to destroy everything.
But just when the hunter thought that she was about to be slapped on the head by the brown bear.
An even more terrifying roar followed.
"Roar!!!!"
The roar was earth-shattering, like thousands of troops galloping, and the trees in the forest were swaying because of it.
An even more terrifying figure flew over Alicia, pounced directly on the brown bear, and instantly pounced it several meters away!
(End of chapter)
