Mage? Spell Engineer!

The forest is filled with fragrance at noon.

The apprentices of the Tower of Forest were responsible for the food. One of the apprentices, who was honest and had a relatively large area, took off the cast iron pot on the pack horse, washed it with the water-making technique, and then took out the materials he carried.

When the bottom of the pot is slightly hot (but not overheated), pour in two pieces of butter and make two squeaking sounds. The butter pieces will slide and melt on the bottom of the pot, and finally bubble up.

At this time, the diced onions are put into the pot, and the caramelization reaction occurs under the stir-frying. At the same time, the spiciness fades away, leaving only the sweet aroma.

Pour in the sliced ​​mushrooms and stir-fry carefully and restrainedly. There is no need to add water. The mushrooms will emerge by themselves into a soup full of flavor.

A handful of salt, precious black pepper and a handful of flour are put into the pot. The apprentice in charge pays special attention to heating the flour until it is cooked.

The osmotic pressure changed by the salt grains intensifies the dehydration of the mushrooms, and browning can already be seen on the edges.

"Give me the milk." A jug of milk will come in about two minutes - this is the stock left by the hotel, so there is no need to worry about spoilage in winter.

Apprentice, no, Mr. Chef took the milk jug and poured it into the cast iron pot. The rest is the process of heating and collecting the juice. He has to stir constantly to fully mix the oil, emulsion and starch into a suspension, and mix the aldehydes, ketones, Flavor substances such as esters and amino acids are wrapped in it.

However, the heating inevitably caused some of them to overflow, filling the forest with the aroma of warm food.

The other two apprentices were heating bread and frying bacon. No additional oil is needed, the bacon will sizzle out on its own.

Rorschach took the wooden bowl, which was filled with milk mushroom soup, two slices of crispy bacon and a few slices of bread.

"Oh my, it's so good! It's a pity that I can't eat it..." The most anxious one was Colbert's clone. Everyone who was eating around the pot was jumping up and down, scratching their ears and cheeks.

"The bacon should also be diced and added when frying the onions, so that the flavor will be the best... It's a pity that some people don't eat meat." The old man still muttered a few words when he couldn't eat it.

Rorschach noticed that there was no bacon in Humboldt's bowl. No, Master, your transformation is as big as a wolf, how come you are usually a vegetarian?

"Is Master Colbert eating?"

Peterson shrugged: "Don't worry about the old man, he can survive just by basking in the sun."

Is the old man a plant spirit capable of photosynthesis? Did you, the Forest Tower, go crazy in practicing the nature system?

Rorschach always felt that the style of the Tower of Forest was not quite right.

The apprentice came over with a black coal briquette in one hand and a knife in the other.

"Master Rorschach, are you used to this?" The apprentice held a truffle with a clean surface in his hand. The unique smell was not acceptable to everyone.

Luo Xia is a wild boar who doesn't eat fine chaff, so he shook his head and refused.

Cavendish's attitude changed drastically. He was very excited: "This is sold at a sky-high price in the Holy Kingdom! Your craftsmanship is really good. You can also make a lot of money by opening a restaurant in Valouana."

The apprentice of the Forest Tower cut three slices for him and put them in the soup bowl: "The ingredients are the freshest in the forest. It's fresh and delicious no matter how you cook it."

When he passed by Rorschach again, Rorschach seemed to hear a whisper: "Everything the Istanis eat in the mainland is delicious..."

After lunch there is a long break.

This arrangement was decided after discussion by the mages, because the forest is currently relatively calm during the day, and you can rest and sleep as long as there is guardian magic.

At night, everyone is a spell caster. The blessing of [Dark Vision] or other lighting magic will not affect the journey. The most important thing is that judging from the beast tide, the black forest is more dangerous at night, and you need to stay awake to deal with changes.

Before taking a nap, Rorschach continued to write to the Archmage of Kano. Spreading out the communication scroll, he thought for a moment, collected the surrounding leaves and put them into the teleportation array.

After activating the magic circuit, a flash of light flashed, and the letters and leaves disappeared.

Then he got into his sleeping bag.

But couldn't sleep. Even if there is cover from the tree canopy, daytime is daytime, and the biological clock is not easy to reverse.

Rorschach squinted his eyes and looked around. Master Humboldt was sitting next to the campfire like an old monk in meditation. The "guardian" of the temporary resting place at this time is still him, but now there is Cobber.

Some of the others fell into a nap state, and some pupated from time to time in their sleeping bags, obviously not asleep either.

Old Copper jumped out and flicked the head of the guy who couldn't sleep, and the head of the person who was hit immediately drooped down.

"Little friend Rorschach, sleep well and don't feel sleepy at night!" These were the last words Rorschach heard before going to bed.

Snapped

Rorschach's mind became more active, and he found that everyone around him was gone, the forest fell into darkness, and the bonfire was still burning.

But Rorschach did not panic, because there was an "old acquaintance" sitting beside the campfire:

The cast iron pot didn't know when it was full. The deer-headed god scooped up a bowl of mushroom soup from it, and then sandwiched a strip of bacon.

"tasty."

"You still eat meat?" Luo Xia asked, shouldn't he eat grass with a deer's head on his head?

"I will eat whatever the creatures in the forest eat."

"There are so many scavengers in the forest, wouldn't you eat them too..." Rorschach found that he was speechless in his dream.

unacceptable!

In the dream, Dryats looked sad and stroked the tree trunk: "Thank you for coming here."

"We made an agreement. By the way, you are always in my head?" It's better not to be an old grandfather...an old doe or something like that.

"I can gather myself together only after I reach the forest, and when I reach the core, it's time for you and me to part ways."

"so far so good."

The deer-headed god stared at the direction Luo Xia and his party were heading: "Not far away, we will reach the residence of my friend's family."

"You mean the elf village?" Rorschach shook his head: "Unfortunately, the elf settlement was destroyed by a force of the empire decades ago."

"...Such misfortunes have happened frequently on the mainland and islands. I thought the elves here could avoid disasters...

But I can still feel their aura, which is not a good sign, especially when the forest changes seriously at this time. "Lushou actually showed a frown.

Rorschach found that Dryac's expression was more lively than in the secondary plane. He quickly asked: "What's going on in the forest?"

"After the defeat of the God War, my power and corpse were divided into 'Desolation' and 'Reproduction'. The former was exiled to the star flow crystal, while the latter stayed here.

Maybe it was the source of the mutation, or maybe there was another possibility, a worse possibility. "

"Can you stop the Riddler?" This should have been Rorschach's inner complaint, but he was really anxious and needed to get important information quickly.

"This is not what I want. The more you know, the more it will lead to an unbearable outcome.

I can only reveal to you that creation and destruction cycle back and forth, two sides of the same coin. Just like desolation and reproduction. "

When Rorschach woke up, it was already dusk, and the orange-red sunset penetrated the treetops.

The embers in the bonfire were red-hot, and a big owl on the branch tilted its head and stared at Rorschach with its big bright eyes, and then suddenly fluttered towards Rorschach.

The young man was startled by the raptor, but he did not jump out of his sleeping bag and forced himself to calm down and prepare the spell. You owl, don't you sleep in broad daylight?

When Puleng landed on the ground, the big bird kept deforming, and it turned out to be Mr. Cobber.

"Little friend Rorschach, now that you're awake, let's wake these guys up and get on the road."

Tonight's update will probably be released at 8 o'clock. I hope book friends can support the first order of chapters tonight (kowtow: bang bang bang bang bang bang), and I will put it on the shelf.