Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 257: The Legend of the Fountain of Youth
The changes that happened to Britton in the cabin were obviously not noticed by the witches on the upper deck. After throwing away the body of the Obnis sea monster, Adele ordered the "Honeysuckle Queen" to correct its course.

"The current speed of the Honeysuckle Queen is 24 knots. It is expected to arrive at the location you marked in a day and a half."

Adele glanced at the nautical chart and made a simple estimate based on the method Wendy taught her.

"Before that, you two can move freely on the ship. After you disembark, I will modify the sailors' cognition to ensure that they will not leak secrets."

Adele assured Tracy and Catalina, and then seemed to remember something: "My chef will try to cook the sea monster meat that was just cut. If you are interested, you can come to the restaurant. The sailors are separated from us, don't worry about that."

During this time, Adele asked Wendy to install a metal frame in the originally transparent hall, and covered it with heavy velvet curtains to provide a relatively private dining space for the ladies on the ship.

"That would be best. Thank you for your help."

Katarina showed her signature gentle smile, making it hard to believe that the one who had just repeatedly tested her and told Tracy not long ago that it was okay even if Adele was killed was the demigod-level witch in front of them.

……

Inside the restaurant, in a space surrounded by black velvet.

When Adele told Wendy to go ahead and do it, Wendy simply cordoned off a small private room with a long table fixed to the ground with angle irons.

In addition to the four corners of the long table, there is also a trapezoidal groove in the middle, which contains red-hot charcoal. Originally, the chef should have processed it and sent it in, but considering that the things to be discussed next are not suitable for others to hear, and outsiders are not allowed to enter after the spiritual wall is set up, Adele decided to do it herself.

Anyway, it is probably the first time for those chefs to cook the meat of the Obonis sea monster, which has reached the Sequence 5 level. So it seems that it doesn’t matter who cooks it?
As Adele thought about this, she brushed a sauce made of cumin, nutmeg, sea salt and pepper onto the sizzling pieces of Obonis sea monster's tentacles leaning against the flames.

The end of the tentacle that the sailors of the "Honeysuckle Queen" cut off was five or six meters long, nearly two meters in diameter, and the suction cup was almost the size of a washbasin, so Adele asked the chef to divide the tentacle into small pieces in advance. When it was roasted, the entire tentacle could no longer be seen.

This banquet was equivalent to a welcoming party for "Lieutenant General of Disease" Tracy and "White Saint" Catalina Pellet. As the host, Adele attached great importance to it.

To this end, she not only prepared the meat of the Obnis sea monster's tentacles, but also blanched conch slices, boiled lobsters, deep-fried bone-in steaks that were rarely seen at sea, and...

"Ahahaha, here comes the chicken soup~"

Wendy hurriedly came in with a casserole of milky white chicken soup and placed the casserole on the table.

This is a common cooking method in Fesac, stuffing glutinous rice and ginseng into the stomach of a whole chicken and simmering it over low heat. Unlike other foods in Fesac, this dish is very light, but the chicken is stewed so well that it can fall off the bones with a fork.

Tracy made room for her and then added a spiritual wall to the small room.

"All the dishes are here, why don't you eat them?"

Wendy saw that the witches did not take action, so she urged them in a somewhat strange way. It was then that she realized that the seven ladies who were eating at the same table with her were all witches.

This is the first time I’ve seen so many Beyonders of the same sequence. This time I’ve really stumbled into a witch’s den…

Wendy couldn't help but grumble in her heart, but fortunately, the witches soon responded to her call and started to take the food.

At the same time, Adele breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

Although Miss Wendy sometimes doesn't know how to consider the occasion, her speech this time was really timely... If it were up to me, I really don't know what to say.

Perhaps this is what it feels like to be in a situation where one is in a dark place? Adele thought so and shared the roasted Obonis sea monster meat with the people around her.

Unlike the appearance of sea monsters, its meat does not taste like cuttlefish, and has different tastes depending on the location of the meat. Adele left herself a piece of roasted meat from the base of the tentacle, which was chewy, tender and juicy, somewhere between beef shank and lamb.

"I can't believe you're quite good at it."

Tracy took a conch and sucked the juice and meat from it gracefully. Although she did not actively use her ability to seduce, in Adele's eyes, her simple eating movements contained rich sexual implications.

As expected of a mid-level witch, seduction has almost become her instinct...

Adele swallowed, tried her best to maintain her composure, and nodded modestly.

"I practiced for a while before in order to get closer to my goal." Adele casually avoided the question, and both of them rationally did not continue the topic of each other's past.

"What exactly is this 'Fountain of Youth'? Can you tell me in detail now?"

Adele took the cup from the table, took a sip of Sonia blood wine, and asked Tracy.

Tracy did not answer in a hurry. Instead, she frowned and thought for a while, as if she was hesitating about where to start.

"Before this, how much did you know about the 'Fountain of Youth'?"

Are you testing me?

Adele did not dare to delay and began to search her memory.

"All I know is that it is one of the most famous treasure legends on the sea. It is said that the 'Immortal King' Agaritu drank the water from its spring. However, I tend to think that this is a rumor made up by Agaritu."

"Why do you say that?"

Tracy and Katharina looked at each other and asked curiously. There was a lot of meaning in this curiosity, but Adele didn't know it.

"I've heard of Agaritu's description and seen his bounty." Adele said as a matter of course, "He looks like a middle-aged man who has been dead for a long time. He is just temporarily 'immortal' due to some kind of power. It is different from 'immortality'."

"Moreover, if the Fountain of Youth can really make people reach the level of Agaritu, then the Church's attitude towards him would definitely not be the same as it is now. They would definitely send a saint or even the Pope to get rid of him and the Fountain of Youth together."

Adele paused and concluded, "In short, the Fountain of Youth was either drunk up by Agaritu as a magic potion, or it doesn't exist at all, instead of similar news popping up every once in a while like now."

(I'm a little busy at the beginning of the school term, so I'll move the second chapter to a later time, at 12 noon)
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