Chapter: Fire Control Magic
A plate of delicious and spicy stir-fried blood was placed on the table, exuding a strong smell of blood.
Just like flies couldn't resist the temptation of fresh feces, no vampire could resist the temptation of stir-fried blood.
"Delicious! Delicious!"
Aphra picked up the stir-fried blood with a fork and put it in her mouth.
[Aphra's Favorability to the Host +5]
The system notification sounded.
Aphra's favorability was difficult to increase.
Cheng Yu and Aphra's favorability had reached 15 points—still far from 100 points.
"Xiao Fu, can I try it?"
Seeing Aphra's enjoyment, Mina was curious. Is the stir-fried blood really that delicious?
"You can only eat one piece."
Aphra and Mina weren't very familiar with each other. She was unwilling to share more stir-fried blood with Mina.
Mina picked up a piece of blood with a fork and put it in her mouth. After chewing it twice, it tasted good, but the bloody smell made her frown.
How can this thing be delicious if it's so fishy?
If it weren't for Aphra eating so deliciously, even dogs wouldn't eat such fishy stir-fried blood.
Mina didn't eat Aphra's stir-fried blood anymore. She ate delicious egg fried rice—more suitable for her.
Fire control magic was very convenient for chefs. Cheng Yu nudged Aphra's waist with his elbow. "Xiao Fu, can you teach me your fire control magic?"
"Sure! Make me ten more stir-fried blood, and I'll teach you."
Fire control magic was very low-level magic—summoned flames then controlled the flame size. It wasn't even first-tier magic.
Aphra felt it was worth exchanging for ten stir-fried blood.
Cheng Yu was unhappy. "No! Sister Fu, you eat, drink, and live for free here, and I have to make conditions for you to teach me fire control magic? Don't you feel guilty?"
Aphra was the queen of the Blood Clan. She'd been pampered since childhood and was superior to others.
Living and eating for free at Cheng Yu's place didn't hurt her conscience.
"She doesn't work. Why can she live and eat for free at your place?" Aphra pointed at Ivennie.
Mina helped Cheng Yu with all kinds of chores every day. Aphra had nothing to say.
But Ivennie read books in the garden every day and did nothing. Like her, she was also an idle person.
"My Ivennie warms my bed every day. Can you warm my bed?" Cheng Yu said.
This elf girl actually sold her body to eat and drink for free at Cheng Yu's place.
Aphra and Cheng Yu weren't that familiar with each other, so it was impossible for her to warm Cheng Yu's bed.
She slightly lowered her posture. "I owe you a favor. Just tell me next time you need help."
"That's better."
Ten portions of stir-fried blood weren't worth much. Letting Aphra owe a favor would help in winning her over.
After breakfast, Mina went to help the masons dig soil. Ivennie went to the farmland to practice plant magic.
Cheng Yu and Aphra went to the kitchen to make stir-fried blood soup. He learned fire control magic from her.
"Cheng Yu, do you know fire magic?" Aphra asked.
"I know first-tier Fireball spell."
"If you know fire magic, it'll be easy for you to learn fire control magic."
"The basis of all fire magic is common. The first step is to use magic to create flames."
"Fire control magic is to control the flames slightly after creating flames. It's much simpler than other fire magic."
Aphra drew the magic array structure of fire control magic and told Cheng Yu a short spell so he could easily control the flames.
Cheng Yu used magic power to build a fire control magic array under the iron pot, then recited the magic incantation. A blazing flame rose on the magic array.
"Oh my god! I've become a walking gas stove!"
Cheng Yu was surprised and delighted.
In the future, there'll be no need to burn wood for cooking—not easy to control the flame size.
Fire control magic is just like a gas stove. You can control the intensity of the flame at will. It's safe, environmentally friendly, and efficient.
"What's a gas stove?"
"Nothing."
In the evening, the afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on the manor.
Next to the stable, a large baking oven over two meters high and covering over thirty square meters was formed.
This large baking oven was semi-ellipsoidal—a bit like a brick kiln, a bit like a round bunker. There was a small iron door in front and a chimney in the back for exhausting smoke.
Next to it was the stove that connected the entire baking oven. When burning in the stove, the heat spread with the air through channels in the baking oven wall. Some channels were narrow, some were wide, so the entire baking oven was evenly heated.
"The baking oven isn't dry yet. Burn it with fire at night," the mason suggested.
Cheng Yu paid the balance to Locke and the other masons. "Where's my Mina?"
"She's still digging over there."
Locke pointed to a large pit beside the farmland. The pit was five or six meters in diameter. There was a circle of high new soil around the pit. Soil was constantly thrown out.
Locke and the others left. Cheng Yu walked to the edge of the pit and looked at the bottom.
At the bottom of the seven- or eight-meter-deep pit, Mina, dressed in black, was waving a shovel and digging soil happily.
This pit is estimated to be seven or eight meters deep.
"Mina!"
Cheng Yu shouted.
Mina looked up. "Cheng Yu, why are you here? Do you want more soil? I can continue digging!"
"No. Come up quickly."
"But I still want to dig!"
Mina's profession was a warrior. Digging soil could exercise her physical strength.
"You come up and fill this pit. Continue digging here tomorrow."
Since Mina liked to dig pits, let her dig and fill it back.
Mina jumped out of the pit with force and used a shovel to fill the new soil around the pit back into it.
Cheng Yu walked to the stove next to the baking oven and used the fire control magic he'd just learned from Aphra.
Magic power gathered inside the stove. A magic array with a diameter of over a meter appeared inside the stove. A giant fireball with a diameter of over two meters ignited on the magic array.
The raging flames produced scorching heat, which heated the air.
The hot air circulated in the wall channel, making the entire oven hot.
Finally, the exhaust gas was discharged from the chimney.
The high temperature made the oven dry and solid.
"Mina, we'll bake sesame bread tomorrow," Cheng Yu said to Mina next to him.
"Sesame bread! Sweet!"
Thinking of the sweet taste of sesame bread, Mina was full of energy. The movement of filling soil in her hands also accelerated a bit.
Snow City originally had ten relatively large families.
Last time, the head of the Harold family slapped the supreme commander of the Northern Fortress.
Overnight, the entire Harold family—the men were sent to the front line as cannon fodder, the women became slaves.
Now there were only nine relatively large families.
In a room of the Wilt family, the family leaders gathered.
A purple-clad girl was telling the family leaders about the Golden Tree they'd seen.
"What? A Golden Tree?"
"Yes! That tree shines like gold—extremely beautiful!"
"I've lived for decades. I've never seen a Golden Tree!"
"Legend has it that before the ancient war of gods, the elves had a Golden Forest. Many Golden Trees grew in the Golden Forest. I wonder if that tree is the legendary Golden Tree?"
"No way! The Golden Forest of the elves was destroyed in the ancient war of gods!"
"No matter what, that tree must be a treasure. We must get it!"