bookpub Chapter 1077: Taking A Small Break
Chapter 1077: Taking A Small Break
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Once we took over the fortress of Evergreen, Elizabeth conjured a strong holy barrier around it, and we were able to finally relax. The fortress was rather big, and after my Familiars cleansed it off the corpses and blood, we were able to clean it a bit using some Cleaning Magic and Wind Magic, courtesy of Elizabeth, Erika, and Eric's help.
After that we moved to the fortress kitchen, mostly filled with a lot of fruit and monster meat the lizardmen hunted. Most of it was rotten though, they had no methods to preserve food, and it wasn't as if they cared if it was a bit rotten anyways.
At the end, I feed all the food to Ruby and Blood, who happily devoured everything within minutes, and then we cleansed and started cooking something for ourselves, using ingredients we brought along.
Everyone at this point had a storage accessory of some sort, they were quite expensive, but were being sold in the elven cities we had visited before, and they gave us good discounts for them after everything we did to help them.
We brought a lot of food, fish, fruits, meat, eggs, noodles, rice, and more. I was pretty much forced to cook for everyone because they seriously loved my cooking. I had to oblige, and it wasn't as if I was tired. If anything, I was left slightly bored, I would have wished there was a more challenging foe, but I can't ask for miracles.
It would be better if just Fafnir was my challenge and nothing else, to be honest.
"Fried Rice with shrimp and fried fish ready!"
I quickly told my Vampire Spirits to bring the food I plates to the table, my friends gasping in disbelief as they saw the enormous quantity of food arrive.
I kept cooking, making roasted wyvern and sea snake meat, also hamburgers, Bolognese noodles, lasagna, and so on. It was easy to make because I created clones of myself using Umbral Crimson.
Well, they didn't look anything like me though, made of black and crimson energies, but they could easily imitate my movements at 100% accuracy, and use some of mt skills too.
They were quite frail though, a mere punch and they were gone, but they could be used as good distraction, or to attack at the same time many times.
"Woah, so much delicious food!" Erika said happily, beginning to feast on the fried rice. "Hmm, I love the shrimp in the rice! So fresh and tastyyy! Nom, nom, crunch! The fried fish is so crunchy! And this white colored sauce is really nice, it tastes kind of like yogurt, and is so creamy, it goes well with the seafood~!"
"Can I ask you a few questions later, Eleanora?" wondered Alberta. "We've been rather interested in how vampires work, how they think, and also their culture!"
"Eh? Are you serious? Our culture is a bit weird..." said Eleanora.
"Still! It's really interesting you've stayed mostly intact from your previous life, Eleanora!" said Eric. "We would like to learn more about your race that comes from beyond our world. Also we wouldn't mind if you also talked about that universe out there, the planets and so on!"
"Hahh... you sure love asking a lot of things," Eleanora sighed. "Fine... only because I like you guys! But don't think I'll just do anything you ask me, alright?"
"Thank you Eleanora!" Alberta giggled happily, taking several bites off her wyvern hamburger.
"Yeah, a hundred thanks," Eric nodded, readjusting his glasses as he slurped his noodles.
As everyone ate, I noticed Elizabeth barely eating anything.
"Are you alright?" I asked her. "You seem to not have touched your meals yet... Can I make you something you prefer?"
"Ah..." she muttered, looking rather absent-minded. "N-No, I'm fine. I just... after seeing everything, I really don't have much appetite."
"Hmm, understandable, but still, you should try to eat least drink the chicken soup I made, potatoes and carrots with some chicken meat, it shouldn't be that bad for the stomach," I said. "You should fill yourself a bit with food to restore energies, Elizabeth."
"I know... sorry for worrying you," she smiled faintly, trying to eat some more. "Ugh... Guhh...!" she covered her mouth, feeling nauseas again, and running away to the bathroom.
"Elizabeth!"
I ran right behind her.
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