Chapter 240: The Celebration Banquet
As the food for the celebration banquet was gradually served, some gods who liked to join in the fun also squeezed into the restaurant.
And the adventurers outside the restaurant, after finding that even the folding stools were too crowded, simply put their folding tables together on the street outside.
Everyone ate standing up. And just like that, all the adventurers were barely able to have a bite of the delicious food.
Inside and outside The Hostess of Fertility, all the members of the Freya Familia were present at this time.
For example, the Ashen-Faced Comforters, these were the logistics personnel led by Heith.
Their usual work was all kinds of logistics, such as medical care and food.
And now, they actually had to supply food for seven or eight hundred people!
It was really exhausting!
But there was no other way. The loser had to be fiercely humiliated by the victor!
The weak had to please the strong in this way!
Heith's hands were about to smoke from all the work. At this time, in The Hostess of Fertility restaurant, Mia and all the waitresses were all free.
Leisurely watching the actions of Heith and the others.
Apart from the professional chefs, the other members of Freya were responsible for various tasks.
Receiving the adventurers, maintaining order on the scene.
Washing ingredients, handling sanitation, supplying wine and water!
Even in Orario, wine and meat were not cheap.
Ottar and the others, after their expedition, had used all the numerous Dungeon spoils they had obtained to hold this banquet.
Hedin, Ottar, Allen, and the others all believed this was a very necessary banquet.
Because now their Familia had been disbanded. To avoid being troubled in the future, it was very necessary to reward these victors of the faction alliance.
"Wine's here, please make way."
Syr's figure appeared behind Liam. Liam slightly turned sideways, and the goddesses who had originally gathered around him had no choice but to make way.
Liam sized up Syr's appearance. Now Syr was still wearing The Hostess of Fertility's staff uniform.
There were only female uniforms in the tavern, so all the male former members of Freya were all wearing the combat clothes they usually used for training.
And the women all changed into cute grass-green uniforms.
"Syr, some more fruit salad!"
"Okay!"
Syr winked at Liam with a smile on her lips, and then left again.
"Liam, come out!"
A trace of electric current appeared by Liam's ear, and then condensed into Hedin's voice.
It seemed there was something he wanted to talk to him about. He said goodbye to these goddesses who were surrounding and flirting with him.
Even if Liam didn't mind, he could have a go with many of these goddesses.
In the end, Liam did not act, purely because he did not know the character of these goddesses.
For the cultivated fields, Liam had little interest.
Liam and Hedin met in the back of the tavern. Under the light of the magic stone lamp, he saw the wound on Hedin's face.
"This is?"
"Mmm, it was done by Hogni and the others. Of course, from the second time they hit my face, I started to fight back."
Liam looked at Hedin's beautiful face, which was like a woman's, "Hedin, if you put on women's clothes, there would definitely be a large group of men pursuing you."
"Enough! Liam!"
Hedin snorted coldly with a huff, "I came to find you this time mainly for two things. One is Haruhime's safety.
Recently, just the attempts on Haruhime's life that I've intercepted number seventy."
I see.
Hedin and the others, besides protecting Syr, were also doing their best to protect Haruhime and the others.
Because of Haruhime's level sublimation magic, this power could allow any adventurer to be promoted by one level.
The stronger one's own strength, the more exaggerated the strength after the promotion would naturally be. Even if this was just a temporary promotion of one level.
For example, Ottar, who was now Lv7, could directly reach Lv8 after level sublimation. Coupled with the comprehensive attributes enhanced after Beastification, his comprehensive strength would be even more terrifying.
Hedin continued to speak, "The previous faction war has already let all of Orario and the whole world see Haruhime's power.
There is no one who does not yearn for this power!
Apart from our protection, the current top priority is to improve Haruhime's level and combat power. At the very least, she has to reach Heith's combat level."
Liam nodded. Even as a logistics medical personnel, Heith herself also had outstanding combat skills.
Based on her own level and ability scores, coupled with combat experience and force application techniques, she also had considerable strength when facing adventurers of the same level.
The coveting of the adventurer forces in Orario was easy to handle. Those who dared to make a move would be directly warned with force. If they were still ungrateful, Liam wouldn't mind hunting down the mastermind himself.
As for the forces outside Orario, Liam had also thought of a countermeasure.
"The forces outside Orario, any existence that dares to make a move will be directly and bloodily suppressed. Their corpses will be thrown outside the city of Orario.
I will set up a property near The Hearthfire Manor and arrange the dormitories for those Xenos there."
Hedin pushed up his glasses, "That's good too. Now the residents of Orario have basically accepted these Xenos.
Afterward, our members will be responsible for taking the corpses of the offenders and stringing them up into human poles outside the city as a warning.
If they still don't stop, I will leave Orario and directly kill their mastermind."
Through his chat with Hedin, Liam found that the old subordinates of the Freya Familia, actually none of them had changed their allegiance.
Usually they would contact each other regularly, and no old subordinates had joined other Familias.
Only the Ashen-Faced Comforters, that is, those logistics personnel of Freya, were forcibly taken in by Mia.
In fact, The Hostess of Fertility was also preparing to expand these few days, merging the surrounding few buildings to increase the indoor area of the tavern again.
The taste of The Hostess of Fertility was originally very good. This time, the store upgrade was naturally a very reasonable thing.
"The second matter is about that lord. Syr's true identity has been completely exposed among the gods.
Of course, the gods all maintain a tacit understanding and have not exposed Syr's true identity.
And the town residents have completely forgotten that they were mind-controlled. Only the adventurers still remember these things.
Now the lord is still being laughed at and teased. Especially when Lady Syr had just returned to the tavern, she was even slapped in the face by a goddess."
Liam clenched his fist, and then loosened it again.
"I am undoubtedly very grateful for what Syr has done for me. And the status of my relationship with her.
I will try my best to handle it well. What I need now is strength, as well as the help of all of you."
"Mmm, I've already shared the intelligence with Ottar and the others. Now we will do our best to help you.
This is also for the sake of the lady's future."
Hedin's words made Liam very relieved. The more allies, the better.
At least for now, he had to try his best to deal with the pressure and crises on the bright side.
After saying goodbye to Hedin, Liam happened to run into Ryuu.
"Liam! The lady goddess has changed my Falna to a state of waiting for a conversion."
Liam's eyes lit up, "That's great. This way, you will truly become one of us in the future.
So what about Goddess Astraea?" The previous time Ryuu had joined the Hestia Familia, Liam had given her an Attribute Stealer item.
The effect of this item was: to allow a god to bestow a Falna on another Familia's dependant.
Of course, the divine blood of Goddess Astraea from before still remained on Ryuu's back.
After the conversion, all the Falna obtained before would not disappear.
"Goddess Astraea, she was originally preparing to return to the Sword Forging City (Solingen).
And now, because of you, she is preparing to stay here for a while longer.
The members of the new Astraea Familia, the matter of updating their ability scores is not in such a hurry."
No way, has Astraea also taken a fancy to him?
It should be just that she finds him very interesting, or for other reasons?
Liam knew he was handsome, but probably not to the extent of being a heartthrob.
And to be liked by the opposite sex, a handsome exterior was only a part. Unless it was a one-night stand, where a good exterior was enough.
He had a white demonic hand. Not all women could accept this thing.
It was like some women hated men who smoked. They would feel physically uncomfortable just by smelling the smoke.
Now under normal circumstances, Liam would completely cover his demonic hand with gloves and the Dragon Spine light armor, and would also trim his nails with a special rune nail clipper.
On this special nail clipper, there were runes that inhibited nail growth.
His demonic hand's nails would normally be maintained at a length of two centimeters beyond his fingers.
Their sharpness was even sharper than a refined steel blade.
And they had to be trimmed once every day, otherwise they would quickly grow to a length of two centimeters.
The current Liam had multiple titles:
Captain of the Freya Familia's adventurer team, the fastest adventurer to advance to Lv2-Lv6 in history, a swordsmanship genius who independently created a new school.
Leader of Golden City Paradise, leader of the Xenos, a forging genius, a card duel king, the one who defeated the mighty Ottar...
Seeing Liam's frowning and contemplating expression, Ryuu decided not to disturb him and quietly left.
Ottar then arrived, "Liam, so you're here. You're the protagonist of the celebration banquet."
Liam smiled, "Ottar, what brings you here this time?"
"I hope that in the next battle, you can defeat me. The current you, in front of me, can only maintain a state of being undefeated.
In this world, only strength is the most important thing."
Liam nodded, "This is the key to the artificial labyrinth of Orario. You can keep one of them."
"Okay! This can save us a lot of time and energy."
Liam had a total of five eyeball keys in his hand. He had lent them out for a short time before, but had subsequently collected them all back.
Ottar looked at Liam, "The previous battle, I felt a kind of divine power like forced repatriation on the card you summoned.
You held back in that battle, didn't you? Just how strong is that power? Why didn't you use it?"
At that time when Obelisk descended, Ottar had felt the divine power of a god.
However, this power did not trigger a forced repatriation, so it was a powerful force similar to divine power, but also slightly different.
"If I had gone all out, you would be dead."
Of course, there was another reason.
And that was that using a God Card would consume his soul power. Sacrificing two monsters to increase his attack power to infinity.
This was one of Obelisk's effects. He felt that if he released an infinite power, his soul might dissipate because of it.
"There's another reason. The power of the God Cards is purely to weaken you.
There is no life-and-death hatred between us."
Ottar's face became very complicated, "Liam, there are a great many true powerhouses in this world.
My title as the number one in Orario is very watered down.
I have seen the peak of the Hera and Zeus Familias. They were powerful existences starting at Lv8.
And there was more than one adventurer of this level.
However, they were still killed by the black dragon. You have to be stronger! I will wait for the day you surpass me!"
Ottar, who was usually silent, said a lot at this time.
Liam watched Ottar's back. It seemed that only now did Ottar completely recognize him.
The Black Dragon?
This kind of creature, he could only deal with it after his third awakening.
But now what was more important was the Corrupted Spirit's avatar. In two days, he was going on an expedition with the Loki Familia.
Liam looked at Ottar, "Ottar, do you want to follow us and logic to subjugate the Corrupted Spirit avatar?"
"What is that?"
Ottar looked at Liam seriously, "Is it the reason for the new anomaly in the Dungeon?"
Liam nodded, "Yes, the Corrupted Spirit avatar. This is the power of the Spirit race.
But it has been contaminated by some kind of dark power. These guys just want to counter-attack Orario and destroy the whole world..."
Liam shared the intelligence they had obtained during this period with Ottar.
"Sorry, since that's the case, then I have to stay on the surface even more. If they really break through to the surface, I will attack at the first moment!
And, our members and Loki's group have a lot of friction. It's not very suitable to team up together."
"I see. Then the surface of Orario is up to you."
The enemy was very strong, but with Ottar and his group around, at least Liam no longer had any worries.
Saying goodbye to Ottar, Liam arrived outside the tavern. He met with the numerous members of the faction alliance.
"Everyone, let's have a drink together?"
Liam's right hand held a glass of beer and gestured to the crowd.
The other adventurers, seeing this, naturally began to heckle.
"Oh, our great hero, Sword Saint Liam is here!"
"Sword Saint Liam! I thought you were so immersed in the gentle embrace of the goddesses that you couldn't get out!"
"Get the wine, get the wine quickly! Let's get Liam drunk together!"
Liam looked at everyone with a smile and drank all the wine in his glass.
The expedition was imminent. This was the last moment of relaxation for their Hestia Familia and the Loki Familia.
Liam picked up a jug of wine, preparing to refill his own wine again.
However, Tsubaki came over and snatched Liam's wine jug with one hand, "Sword Saint Liam, leave the pouring of wine to me."
"Eh?"
"What eh? To let you pour your own wine, it will make us look very shameless, okay?"
Liam nodded, and then he thought of something.
This place was very similar to the island country of his previous life, for example, the problem of wine. Under normal circumstances, after the wine was finished, one had to let others pour for oneself.
Pouring your own wine was a very rude thing. Because in their country, wine and food were very expensive.
When drinking with friends, one should pour wine for each other.
Liam drank a toast with Tsubaki. Just as he was about to pour wine for Tsubaki, he was again refused by Tsubaki.
"You are the protagonist, our great hero! Just enjoy the convenience we bring you!"
(End of this chapter)
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