Chapter 393 A Celebratory Feast
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After meeting with everybody, we had a big feast celebrating our return, where we decided to use some of the dismantled meat I got from the various monsters we hunted in our dungeon raid. The meat of the grotesque final boss which had become something like the Dungeon Core’s Avatar was also dismantled and cut into pieces, it was quite delicious when roasted alongside some salt and pepper.
“Oh, this meat is a bit… It’s so good! It goes so well with the beer!”
“Yeah, what’s up with the flavor? It really brings me back home when our mother used to make us roasted wyvern fillet for lunch!”
“You’re right brother! Can’t believe you found dragon-type monster meat, lad!”
The trio of dwarves, Darfu and the twins Baldur and Balladur noticed that the meat was similar to wyvern or lesser drake meat, which seem to be dragon-type monsters that are rather common in the Gray Ash Mountains where the Dwarf Kingdom where they come from originated.
“Hahaha! I am glad you guys are enjoying it. It came from a giant dragon-type monster we fought in that one dungeon infected with miasma that the Vampires provoked. It was near immortal because it was being controlled by the Dungeon Core.” I laughed.
“Oh, I see! Must have been a pain to kill, Dungeon Cores are a real problem for us.” Said Darfu.
“In the mountains where we live, there are dozens of enormous mountains that cover thousands of kilometers, it is not uncommon for dungeons to suddenly pop up when we are mining them. Usually flooding us with their monsters, which is annoying as hell!” Said Baldur.
“Well, you end up leveling up a fair bit when mining due to the annoying dungeon monsters getting in the way, sometimes we only got our pickaxes to fight! Hahaha, recalling our younger years really bring me a bit of happiness. We really were getting ourselves into trouble all the time!” Balladur recalled.
“You did?” I wondered curiously.
“Yeah, you see, these two old men are well known for being big troublemakers in their younger years.” Laughed Darfu. “I remember always hearing tales about what they did. There was one time they stole an egg from a Red Wyvern and the wyvern ended coming to the city and stormed the entire place looking for her egg…”
“HAHAHAHA! Yeah, that one was funny!”
“We still didn’t gave the egg back, we needed its hard and metallic shell to make a special accessory for mother. The old lady used to love her ornaments back then, you see… We couldn’t fail our old lady.”
The twins recalled their parents, which probably were already dead by judging their age.
“I wonder if they’re still kicking.”
“Last time I heard about them, they were alright…”
“Eh?! How long do your parents have lived?” I asked.
“Hm? Well they’re pretty old, almost 280 years.” Said Baldur.
“Yeah, we ain’t that old!” Laughed Balladur.
“Seriously… You all look old to me.” Partner said while raising an eyebrow.
Regarding the Greenhouse, we had already discussed about this before the feast began. Apparently they had made four enormous Greenhouses while I was out, using all the materials I sent to them and a few others they went to buy themselves, apparently using the money I left behind.
The four greenhouses were almost 200 meters each, enough to plant as many veggies as we wanted, and in fact some of the talented people that were found to be able to conjure Earth, Life, and Nature Magic helped at nourishing the soil. Emeraldine had already left a big sack with nourished soil using her spirits, but they all worked hard to get something done when I came back. In the next days we’ll begin our farming schedule, I hope I can learn some interesting skills by trying to connect with nature, fufufu~
“Ugh…”
Lucifer was rather doubtful about eating the flesh of this creature was it was made out of the leftover bones he had in the dungeon. He seemed to be looking at it constantly.
“What’s wrong big guy?” I asked.
“I-I don’t want to eat this! Wasn’t this made with my bones though?!” He asked.
“Yeah, but it’s not you. Are you telling me that Partner is me because she has my bones?” I sighed.
“Hm… W-Well, certainly there’s no way I would ever find her atractive… You’re right, it must be different…” Sighed Lucifer, deciding to give it a try.
“You decided to eat it just with that comparison?!” Partner complained angrily. “A-And I am super pretty and desirable!”
“Yeah, yeah.” Sighed Lucifer, ignoring her.
“Uuggh! I am going to smack you!” Partner roared angrily, getting all red.
“Calm down, Partner. Lucifer has a point…” Emeraldine said. I thought she was trying to make things better, but that wasn’t the case.
“Eh?! You too, Emeraldine?!” Partner cried, heartbroken. “Buaaah! Master, they’re so mean with me out of nowhere!” Partner ran to my side and hugged me while rubbing her face over my breasts. I caressed her head motherly and calmed her down.
“There, there. They’re just drunk. Don’t worry, you can also badmouth them.” I said while giving her my thumbs up. I was actually against them treating each other like this, but we were all family here so joking and teasing one another wasn’t something bad if done with moderation.
“Ahh… I feel more calm in this cushion though…” Partner sighed in relief, rubbing my breasts greedily.
“Hahah…” I giggled a bit nervously, as I could notice Lucifer and Emeraldine’s jealous stares. It seems that Partner knew other ways to provoke them and tease them…
Anyways, Lucifer ended trying out the meat, and began tasting it more and more, less timidly. With the mashed potatoes, the gravy, and the other veggies at the sides adding more flavor, he quickly began to enjoy it thoroughly.
“Oh! This meat is not bad at all for coming from a monster made out of my bones…” He said in surprise.
“Yeah, your meat rod is also quite tasty.” I added.
“PFFFF…!”
Lucifer ended falling unconscious over my out of place comment.
“Sir Lucifer! Are you okay?!”
“He passed out?”
“Just what happened?!”
Well, I might be a bit drunk as well.
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