Eighth Crown

"It is worthy of being the strongest in the empire, and its strength is really not built."

After Esdes fell from mid-air, Lucia stepped forward, clapped her hands lightly, and looked astonished.

"This level is nothing. Although these two dangerous species are very large, their speed is very slow. They are simply targets, at most the level of super dangerous species."

Esdes gently smoothed the long blue hair that had been ruffled by the sea breeze, not even a trace of complacency on his face.

"Okay, let's start roasting. Although there is no seasoning, my level is enough to fill the gap."

Esdes rolled up his sleeves, skillfully disemboweled the prey he had killed before, and set up a fire.

Liu Xia went up to help, picked up two pieces of wood and put them into the fire, trying to make the flame burn more vigorously.

But after more than ten seconds, the flame in the fire became smaller and smaller for some reason, and finally went out.

Lucia fell into silence.

"...you just leave it alone."

Esdes gave him a slightly subtle look, "Liangyi, are you really from the countryside, not the young master of some big family?"

He looks polite, likes to read books, and treats people politely, but he doesn't even understand the common sense of making fire and cooking. This kind of performance makes Liu Xia not believe that he is from the countryside.

"Sorry."

After Liu Xia apologized, he left the cooking process and left it to Esdes to do the work alone.

"However, it's surprising. I didn't expect the captain to be so good at cooking."

In order not to continue entangled in the matter of his own origin, Liu Xia calmly changed the subject.

"It's okay, I'm not an imperial general since I was born."

While flipping the pieces of meat, Esdes replied casually: "When I was young, I used to cook by myself. Cooking dangerous meat or something is already a commonplace."

"When the captain was young... it's a bit unimaginable."

Liuxia thought about it for a while, but she couldn't really construct the image of Esdes as a child in her mind.

It's probably because Esdes' current character is too impressive. In Liu Xia's eyes, she must have been born with a trembling character. She ran out of her mother's womb with a face full of laughter, and then stood in front of everyone. In the head, it is bossy to all the family members.

"What kind of demon king image are you?"

Estes spit out Liuxia's imagination with a speechless expression, "Is it so unimaginable? Even me, I was a very ordinary girl when I was young..."

Aren't you the Demon King yourself?

Liu Xia said silently in his heart, just like Esdes has no impression of him, his impression of Esdes is also very shallow, he thinks Esdes is probably the kind of demon king who does whatever he wants.

According to Esdes, she was born from a minority called Baluts on the northern border of the empire. This ethnic group is located in the icy world, with few people and no fertile land for growing crops, so basically hunting Dangerous species are a means of making a living, and most of the clan members have extraordinary skills.

Esdes' now ingrained concept was developed at that time. For a clan that hunted dangerous species for a living, whether it was the patriarch or anyone else, they could only choose to die in the dangerous species without knowing when. There is an unsurprising way of living under the claws of the clan, and the wild concept of the jungle is stationed in the hearts of every clan.

When Esdes went out hunting, the entire nation was destroyed by the hands of the northern aliens.

"That captain killed 400,000 aliens on the northern border before, is it actually revenge in disguise?"

Liu Xia remembered the previous rumors about Esdes, and in a blink of an eye, he suppressed the northern alien army that the empire believed would take at least a year to defeat, and then buried all the 400,000 aliens alive.

"No, there is no idea of ​​revenge. After all, the Baluts family is very weak, and even if it is destroyed by a foreign nation, there is no way to do it."

Esdes held up the meat, breathed lightly, tasted the taste, and continued to answer Liuxia's question, "The reason why I chose to bury them all is mainly because so many prisoners of war are very troublesome to deal with. , I have to spend a lot of manpower and financial resources to settle them, I don't have that kind of patience with the enemy, so I just killed them all."

I see.

During the long-distance march, the existence of prisoners of war itself is a problem, not to mention that the resources consumed by the 400,000 prisoners of war every day are basically astronomical levels, and there is no need to keep them alive.

If Liuxia was standing in that position, then he would most likely choose the same approach as Estes.

"What? You have no idea at all?"

Esdes handed the roasted meat to Liu Xia, "I thought someone like you would definitely deny what I did and accuse me of not valuing life."

"That's not so."

Liu Xia shook his head and took a bite of the barbecued meat. Although it had no taste, the meat was extremely tender, and the roasting temperature was obviously excellent, "I'm not stubborn, as long as I can effectively attack the enemy, I don't care about the means. Noble or despicable, in the same way, from a long-term perspective, the demise of the foreign nations in the north is also conducive to the long-term prosperity of the empire."

"So that's the case, you may be quite unprecedented."

Estes glanced at Liu Xia approvingly, not many people have seriously agreed with her on this matter.

"what about the taste?"

"Very good, although it is a pity that there is no seasoning, but the meat is very tender, and I have never eaten meat that is so well-cooked."

In fact, he had never eaten barbecued meat before, and this was the first time, but it did not prevent him from saying two compliments.

"Hmph, if you think it's delicious, eat more. After returning to the imperial capital, you won't have such a good taste."

Estes snorted lightly, a satisfied smile appeared on his face, obviously he didn't hate Lucia's words of praise.

"must."

Liu Xia nodded in response, and glanced up and down at Estes.

She sat on a wooden stake that had been slashed with Yueling marrow liquid, her slender legs were drawn together in front of her, and the act of nibbling at the flesh seemed quite ladylike. becomes full of madness.

"What? Is there anything strange on me?"

Estes noticed Lucia's gaze, and looked at his body left and right, but didn't find anything strange.

"No, nothing."

Liu Xia shook his head, "I was just thinking, when I'm not fighting, the captain is really a gentle person."

Although once fighting, it is not like a person.