Chapter 82

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Chapter 82: Listening to Old Harper Tell Stories From the Past

The characteristic of convenience food is that it is easy to prepare and easy to eat.

Soon, everyone enjoyed a meal of hot cheese instant noodles with various types of canned meat and congee.

Of course, Lolth realized that she had underestimated Isabella’s appetite.

The plan was to eat canned food along the way, but Isabella had already eaten one-third of it tonight.

This young knight is becoming more open-minded!

It looks like if they want to eat meat while camping tomorrow night, they will have to hunt for wild game.

Of course, the advantage of a vast and sparsely populated area is that there are many magical creatures and wild animals, so hunting should not be difficult.

Dealing with wild animals is one thing, but preparing magical beast meat is quite complicated.

Most magical beast meat is used as material for "Magic Potions" and is harmful if consumed directly!

Consuming it could cause the person to transform into a warrior or even explode into thin air.

Only Abyssal Demons have powerful enough digestion to safely consume this magical beast meat.

However… for Lolth, she has also experimented with using magical creatures as ingredients for special dishes!

Next, they can try to see how humans perceive their magical beast dishes — after all, at the Demon King Castle, many demon colleagues have criticized their eating habits, causing Lolth to feel sad for a long time.

Of course, that’s a story for another time.

Tonight everyone is full and satisfied.

Because instant food is quick to eat, now it’s also time to sleep early.

After the bonfire was lit, everyone sat around it on the ground, enjoying this leisurely moment.

Lolth continued to look at the recipe, while Kanor relied on her strong taste buds and learning ability, trying to recreate the process of making instant noodles in her mind; Ann, who is good at daydreaming, hugged his box and continued to be absorbed in her own thoughts; Isabella touched her round belly, secretly loosened the waist of the knight armor by two notches.

Old Harper looked at the four young people in different poses, semi-paralyzed, and the roaring bonfire in front of him. Feeling a sense of duty as an adventurer, he cleared his throat and began to speak.

"Ahem, youth is truly wonderful… It reminds me of my own adventures with friends when I was young! It was during the summer when I was thirty…"

Upon hearing Old Harper speak, Lolth’s gaze shifted from the recipe, revealing an eager expression.

"Oh – this atmosphere, is it time for campfire stories?"

Although Lolth had never been a human adventurer, she knew that the time spent camping around a campfire after dinner during adventures was the second best opportunity for mercenaries and adventurers to boast, right after drinking in a tavern.

Lolth was quite interested in listening to stories and chatting.

Despite Ann and Isabella maintaining calm expressions, it was clear that these two individuals, while strong, had never been active as "adventurers."

Especially Isabella, who found Old Harper’s stories quite fascinating.

The youngest Kanor also looked excited.

"Ah, Uncle Harper, I haven’t heard your story of slaying the Earth Dragon for days!"

"No way, you really killed an Earth Dragon!"

Lolth exclaimed, glancing at Uncle Harper’s hammer, once again doubting if this old man was hiding his true strength.

Harper heard Kanor’s words, and in front of the knowledgeable lord and Isabella, he blushed and cleared his throat.

"It was just luck… Today, instead of talking about how I killed the Earth Dragon, let’s focus on the story of the mysterious dungeon I encountered!"

Old Harper sat up a bit, crossed his hands, and said seriously.

"Dungeon," Isabella muttered, "isn’t that a legend for adventurers? My father spent a long time searching for those places."

"I’ve heard similar rumors in the east, but… no one has actually been there," Ann, who had some interaction with Harper as the mayor, couldn’t help but ask, "Uncle Harper, are you sure you didn’t make a mistake?"

Kanor was a bit puzzled by this new story.

"What is a dungeon?"

"Ah, legend has it that it’s a refuge built by an ancient civilization from the last era to escape a great disaster," book-loving Lolth explained casually, "Many believe that it holds treasures of the ancient civilization, Divine Artifacts, advanced technology beyond our time, as well as extinct magical creatures and beings… However, there hasn’t been any reliable evidence of those places for over a thousand years – records from over a thousand years ago are full of legends, and many think it’s just exaggerated stories about underground dwelling monsters."

"Master Lolth… do you believe that it actually exists?"

Kanor looked at Lolth curiously.

"I think it should exist," Lolth shrugged, "After all, the Demon King Castle is located on the Quicksilver Ruins, at least the ancient civilization is real, so the dungeon must be real, isn’t it strange."

"Yes, it is indeed real," Old Harper nodded solemnly, emphasizing again, "I’m not bragging, our adventure team really entered a dungeon… it was in the western desert of the United Kingdom of South Sotua, we took an exploration mission after a huge sandstorm caused by a soil element eruption, the new terrain changes in the border desert…"

"Originally thought it would be an easy task, after all, after the elemental eruption, monsters would enter a dormant period, and because the reward given by the client was unexpectedly generous, the team leader took on this task."

"After all, the team leader decided to hand over the adventure team to the deputy leader after this mission to return to his hometown and marry his childhood sweetheart, so he was short of money, and the deputy leader also said he wanted to go back to his hometown to see his long-lost wife and son, to earn some gift money…"

Lolth couldn’t help but complain when she heard this, "Well, with you as the main and deputy leaders of the adventure team, it’s hard for this mission to go smoothly…"

"Lord Lolth really has a foresight," Old Harper raised his thumb and said, "This time our mission did indeed go wrong, shortly after entering the depths of the border desert, a small-scale elemental eruption occurred, like an aftermath… But for us, it was terrifying enough!"

"To escape this elemental eruption, our adventure team was forced to split up, and I, the team leader, the deputy leader, and some other team members, found a cave hidden under a sand dune in the small sandstorm!"

"Although it was strange to have a cave in the desert, we had no choice at that time, we could only hide inside."

"And the cave that we initially thought was a monster’s nest, surprisingly had a staircase leading downwards!"