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Chapter 38 Family Banquet

The dinner place is in the banquet hall behind the temple. The banquet hall of the temple is not used frequently. It will only be put into use when large-scale events are held every year and representatives from all parties in the underwater world gather in the Storm Temple. However, since it is located at the bottom of the sea, there is no dusty soil in the environment, and even if it is not used for a year, there will be no dusty appearance on the tables and chairs. Therefore, when the door is opened, as long as it is simple to clean, new guests can be welcomed.

"Mother is very happy today." Because it was a family dinner, Doris did not instruct the temple guards and low-level priests to carry out reception work, but everyone took it themselves. This simple behavior that seemed unruly brought the distance between the girls in the adventure group and Lanna and Lamia, who represented the sea tribe. Subconsciously, they told everyone that we are not outsiders, not the relationship between the employer and the employer, but very close friends. The girls also like Doris' attitude, and happily cleaned up the spacious banquet hall with Lanna. During the work, Lanna said with some emotion: "I haven't seen my mother show such a happy expression for many years. Especially in the past decade, my mother has always been troubled by some things, and today I can be happy for a day."

"Is the priest's work very heavy?" Lina asked strangely: "In theory, there is no need to compete for the temple of faith, and there is no tedious work to do."

"But as the Xinyang center at the bottom of the sea, the Storm Temple needs to coordinate disputes and conflicts between various races and individuals in the deep sea, especially those powerful individuals." Lan Na said in a tangled manner: "It's all trivial matters. For example, who stole the hunting ground, who disturbed the sleeping ground, and who ate whose pets as food. If these things are left alone, those reckless guys can fight for these things. When they fight, they are often alarmed in half of the sea area, and then the rest are idle.

The old guys followed him up and joined in the fun, and then developed into a battle of various races that affected half of the sea. After they were satisfied and went back to sleep, the temple would come forward to clean up the end of the game. So, this kind of thing must be ignored. But the problem is that if they were to care about these things, there was no right or wrong in the conflict between them. There was no other way to deal with it except to try their best to coordinate. So what the higher priests in the temple are most afraid of is that the guys who seek coordination come to the door, and there is definitely no good thing for them to come to the door."

"It sounds scary." Catherine said with a wry smile: "It seems to be the arbitral tribunal in the city court. It is also a specialist in handling these trivial disputes. I know several arbitral officials in the arbitral tribunal. They all have their hair almost lost at a young age. It turns out that the same is true in the underwater world. But does Aunt Doris need to do this too?"

"No need, my mother is worried about another thing over the years." Lanna sighed and said, "It's what I told you before about the area that makes the sea clan crazy. I suspect that my mother has been with several strong men at the bottom of the sea for more than ten years. She has been watching the area through the undercurrents of the sea, because every once in a while, her mother will lock herself in the prayer room. When she comes out, she will always be very weak and tired, as if she is exhausted too much mental power. When I ask her, she always doesn't say anything, so I can only guess randomly."

"Don't worry." Katherine pressed Lanna's shoulder and said seriously: "Since we have come, we will definitely try our best to solve this problem and try not to let your mother continue to worry."

"Thank you." Lanna nodded vigorously: "I apologize for threatening you with rewards when I first met."

"Ha. Nothing is wrong, you have to. We can understand, and we won't mind." Catherine clapped her hands and said loudly, "Okay, the cleaning is done, what else can I do? Do you want to go to the kitchen to help Aunt Doris?"

"Don't." Lanna quickly stopped Catherine and said, "Our kitchen is outside the temple. When you go to the kitchen, you must enter the sea. You have just washed it and you have to wash it again after you come back. Moreover, the cooking method of the sea clan is different from other races. We all use magic and racial talents to cook, and you can't help if you go."

"I have heard of this, too?" Lina said, holding her glasses, "But I have always been curious about what to do with races without magical abilities? Do you need to find the sea clan with magical abilities to help?"

"Eat raw." Lanna replied naturally: "A semi-human sea races like us all have certain magical abilities and have no magical abilities. The ocean forms are basically beast types. They all swallow them directly. Only when they become land forms can they eat cooked food."

"Well, it sounds very fierce, but this may be a racial characteristic, and other races are not qualified to comment." Catherine said: "It's the first time I've eaten sea food this time, and I've never eaten it before. Panis, you have learned so much knowledge from your former friends, and haven't learned the sea cooking methods?"

"I can't learn it," said Panis. "That's useful only at the bottom of the sea, and requires special magical control methods, which cannot be imitated by land races."

"Oh, I understand." Catherine suddenly raised her eyebrows: "Hey, what are you doing?"

"Lucky." Panis was sitting on the chair beside him in a daze. When he heard Catherine's question answer, he immediately reacted and jumped up and said, "No, no, no, I'm actually thinking about the problem, yes, thinking about the problem."

"I'm too lazy to say anything about you." Catherine knocked her forehead helplessly and said, "Ask you a question, what's your relationship with Priest Doris? It seems that you are very familiar with it."

"How to say it, it's a good friend." Panis said: "A few of our friends came to the deep sea for a while, for a few months. She used to... Oh, this is nothing, anyway, the relationship is very close."

"Strange, why don't I know?" Lan Na asked in confusion: "I should know this kind of thing."

"You happened to be out of here," said Panis. "Don't you run out to play often, and you'll be more than half a year after you leave?"

"I always think it's an excuse." Lan Na said dissatisfiedly: "You must have something hidden from me, so is your mother. You two colluded to hide it from me. Well, it is definitely not easy to make you collude. I understand that you may be my father."

"Oh my God, I gave up." Panis groaned on the table with his head in his arms, "Whatever you think, Caletto bless you, how could Doris have such a stubborn daughter?"

"Have you packed it up?" Doris's voice floated in from outside the banquet hall at the right time: "Lanna and Lamiya, come and help, I can't get it by myself. You guys and I go to the kitchen with me."

Most of the foods of the sea people use cooking methods, and they also have fried and baked. Their cooking methods are very unique. Take water boiling as an example. Use magic to form a water ball in front of you. After putting the food into the water balloon, it slowly heats up. When it reaches the boiling point, because the water pressure in the outside world is too high, the water in the water balloon cannot boil and vaporize, and it seems to be kept in a calm state. However, in fact, the internal temperature is already quite high. Use this high-temperature water to cook the food inside. This method first requires the absolute isolation of the water inside and outside, and secondly, the rising temperature is limited to the range of the water balloon and the temperature will not spread outward. If these two points are not done well, the food cooked will be greatly faded. Baking and frying methods are similar, except that one is to turn the water inside the water balloon into air, and the other is to use the high temperature on the outside of the water balloon to directly heat the food. As Pannis said, it is impossible to use unless it is in the deep sea.

With the busyness of the three sea tribes, more than ten foods were soon filled with banquet tables. This food cooked by the supreme priests would probably make countless sea tribes envious. On the banquet table, fish, shellfish and crustaceans are mainly supplemented by various edible algae, which looks very rich. What is particularly special is a food called bread algae. This algae grows on the bottom of the deep sea and has a fluffy striped body. After a section is cut and heated in the water, the striped leaves will expand and the texture will become soft. Although it does not melt when exposed to water like real bread, it tastes very similar to bread and is considered one of the staple foods of the sea tribe.

Eight people sat around one end of the banquet table, led by Doris, and expressed their gratitude to the sea god's gifts together, and then began this strange family dinner. The girls were the first time they tasted the deep-sea cooking skills. This taste that was obviously different from the land made the ladies feel very novel. However, no matter how novel the food was, it could not stop the doubts in their hearts. When the food came to an end, Catherine put down the tableware and asked seriously: "Sir Doris, since the meeting, I have a question to ask you."

"About the God-loving One?" Doris' gentle and amiable eyes suddenly became deep, as if she had completely changed her personal life. She turned from the eldest sister next door to the wise elder, and said with a faint smile: "I think you should have asked."

"Yes." Catherine nodded and said, "On the road of faith, the two high-level priests who welcomed us once mentioned the God's favor. We thought it was Panis, but they said it was me, but even I didn't know that I was God's favor, and I didn't know which god I was favored by."
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