Chapter 191
After playing with Grulf for a while, I stood up .
“Groof?”
Grulf looked like he wanted to play more .
“It’s almost time for dinner . I have to prepare . ”
“Groof!”
Grulf was very excited . His tail was wagging wildly .
He was reacting to the word ‘food . ’
“After all, Milka is busy helping Philly now . ”
“Groof . ”
And so we would go out and buy some random groceries and come back and cook them .
Just simple stuff, like cooking meat and making soup .
As I was cooking, Grulf would run in a circle around me .
“Groof . ”
“Don’t worry, I’m making some for you too . ”
When I was almost finished, Serulis came to the kitchen after finishing her bath .
Lord Gerberga was on her shoulder and Nia was also with her .
“I’ll help you!”
“Thank you . But I’m mostly finished here . ”
Nia bowed apologetically .
“It’s something that I should have done, and I’m sorry to have forgotten . ”
“Don’t worry about it . Anyone who is free should do it . ”
Perhaps they had smelled the food because now Milka and Luchila also arrived .
“Thank you for preparing dinner for me!”
“Thank you, Mister Locke . ”
“Were you able to help Philly?”
“Yes . Though, she was teaching us while we did it!”
“It was very different from magic and quite interesting . ”
Luchila and Milka were now interested in alchemy, it seemed .
They should learn everything that they could .
“Alright . Help me carry the food to the dining room now . ”
“Leave it to me . ”
And so we all worked together to carry the food to the dining room . Shia, Philly, and Tama were waiting there .
“I made some for you too, Tama . ”
“Woof . ”
Tama’s tail wagged happily .
And so we all sat down to eat dinner .
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“By the way, Shia . What did you all receive yesterday?”
“Medals and reward money . ”
The chiefs of the beastkin wolves had gathered together at the palace yesterday so Eric could reward them .
I did not attend . I didn’t want to draw any attention .
“He didn’t grant you any new titles?”
“It would affect the other nobles if he did . It is a very complicated matter . ”
Philly said with a serious expression . Perhaps she was right .
When we were about halfway through with dinner:
“Ah, I see you are all eating! Excuse me! I seem to have visited during dinner time again!”
Kathe said as she burst in energetically . She always seemed to visit when it was dinner .
“Do you want to eat too, Kathe?”
“Do-do you mean it?”
She always pretended to be modest . And as always, I answered,
“Of course . ”
“Thank you!”
I put some food in front of her and she thanked me as she started to eat .
“Good! It’s so good!”
As the person who made it, I knew it wasn’t that great at all .
“It’s alright . ”
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“No, it’s delicious!”
Still, it made me smile .
Besides, Kathe ate a lot . Which was always nice to see .
“By the way, Kathe . What were you doing today?”
“I was patrolling the area around the water dragon settlement . To see if the dark ones have been up to anything . ”
The barrier around the settlement had been broken on the day we crushed their main base .
The broken barrier was repaired with the power of all the water dragons and my own help, and now it was stronger than ever .
I had even added resistance to physical damage, so it would survive a meteor strike .
That being said, caution was still good .
So Kathe’s efforts were much appreciated .
“Did you notice anything?”
“There were lesser vampires and goblins . That’s all . ”
“…Are you sure about that?”
“About what?”
“You wouldn’t be getting humans and goblins mixed up again, would you?”
“Oh, I am passed that . ”
Kathe said proudly .
“I am now able to tell humans and goblins apart . ”
“Oh, that is quite an achievement . ”
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“Hehe . It is because I now meet you humans every day . It is only normal that I can tell the difference now . ”
That is a very good thing .
Serulis said as she at her meat .
“But why was the barrier broken in the first place?”
“The obvious reason . They brought in magic machines that hadn’t been activated yet . ”
But there were magic circles that detected any enemy intruders .
And so the water dragons were aware of it and tried to stop them .
But the gate was suddenly attacked at the same time, and the main fighting force was lured away from the center of the barrier .
That gave the enemy an opportunity to destroy the core .
“They were probably attacking the settlement every day so they could find the location of the core . ”
The barrier that protected the base of the dark ones was very powerful, but the concealment magic was insufficient .
Perhaps it was the strength of the barrier that led them to believe that they didn’t need to hide their core as much .
So we were able to find it quickly and drop down meteors .
However, the core of the settlement was hidden well .
And so it required many attacks to find it .
“But we strengthened the concealment magic and changed the location as well . They won’t be able to get in so easily next time . ”
“Would it be hard for you too, Mister Locke?”
“It would be hard if I didn’t know anything about it . It would take me a lot of time . ”
“Then it must be quite safe . ”
Shia sounded relieved .