Chapter 49: Found two maids

People who shout about losing weight every day find it very hard to understand how wonderful the taste of "sweet" is to the people of this world; many of them don't even know what sweet tastes like in their entire lives.

In the main material plane, there are natural sources of sweetness like honey and fruit, but in this world, there is almost none.

Lu Se and Anna were only able to eat sugar beets because they were the children of the city lord, but even then, they couldn't eat their fill; eating three or five in a year was already quite good.

This made it even more miserable; if you haven't tasted sweetness, you won't feel bitterness, but after tasting sweetness, the days without it are all bitter.

Aiske was willing to trade grain for sugar beets, but in reality, even several times more grain would be hard-pressed to trade for them; the yield was just too low.

Lu Se had been out for several months, and let alone sugar beets, even eating a decent meal wasn't easy. Now that he saw sugar beets, how could his eyes not glow green?

After saying thanks, Lu Se took one and bit into it without ceremony. After one bite, both his eyes widened.

The sugar beets Ang took out were not fresh; they were old sugar beets that had been cellar-stored for a thousand years. Logically speaking, sugar beets stored for so long should have dried out, right? They should be hard to eat, right? Yet, that wasn't the case.

The cellar filled with Soil of Breath could inhibit all life activities, preventing even bacteria from breeding, while simultaneously dehydrating the crops.

The sugar content of the beets reached over ten to twenty percent. After dehydration, the volume shrank, but the sugar content rose sharply. The entire process was completed in the environment of the Soil of Breath, causing molasses to form inside the beets, a bit like honey. One bite was forty to fifty percent sugar, with the fresh fragrance of a plant; it was both sweet and fragrant, an explosion for the taste buds.

"Mmm~~~." Lu Se's eyes squinted in bliss.

The only person present who could understand his feelings was Aiske, because he had also eaten Ang's sugar beets. That taste made his saliva accelerate uncontrollably whenever he reminisced about it now.

Ang transferred a bag out. Because of the high density, it was heavier than grain, weighing about thirty jin.

Seeing her brother eating so happily, Anna couldn't help but pick one up too. After taking a bite, her eyes squinted as well.

"Is it really that delicious?" Lan curled her lips in suspicion. Unfortunately, the others were all liches and had no sense of taste to try it.

The little zombie, however, quietly leaned over, grabbed one, and took a bite. Before he could swallow, Ang slapped him on the head.

For a lich, eating food easily leads to esophageal rot. Although some zombies had long since lost their esophagi, rotting other parts wasn't good either. What if it wore through and fell out of his belly?

Lu Se displayed the terrifying strength of a Sword Saint; he actually ate five jin of sugar beets in one go!

After finishing, he was still unsatisfied. With a forceful flex, the glow of battle aura rose from his body.

Seeing him stomp his legs and chop his palms, stretching a few times, he said to Anna in disbelief: "I am full of power now. God, this sugar beet fills the stomach simply too fast."

Could it not be fast? After saccharification, the sugar content was nearly forty percent. Five jin of sugar beets was equivalent to eating two jin of sugar directly; the calories were off the charts.

Using battle aura to refine it, Lu Se's stomach was empty again. He picked one up and continued eating, but with the previous food as a base, Lu Se didn't eat as urgently. He even had the leisure to lift a sugar beet and signal to Ang: "The taste is excellent."

"Brother, where did you run off to? The home was blown up by people." Anna complained.

If Lu Se hadn't snuck away and had been there to hold the fort, even if the gates of Bingcheng had been broken, the enemies wouldn't have dared to enter. The power a Sword Saint could exert in street fighting would make people prefer to flatten the city rather than enter it to engage in battle.

Lu Se swung his arm and threw down the bundle on his back: "I went to Demon Valley. Originally, I was tailing the guy who burned my Bingcheng planting zone. I didn't expect him to escape through the hot springs. In a fit of anger, I just killed my way to Demon Valley to demand the person from them."

"Only two of the three leaders of Demon Valley were there. They said the one who burned the fields was Tulus, and Tulus had been driven away by them. I believe them? If they couldn't hand over the person, I just snuck in and chopped them both."

Lu Se said angrily, opening the bundle to reveal four huge, curved demon horns. To be able to grow such large demon horns, it was definitely a high-rank demon.

After finishing his angry rant, he turned his head and saw the strange expressions on the faces of Anna, Lan, and the others, so he couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong?"

Anna said weakly: "What they said might be true. The one who burned the fields was indeed Tulus, and he was slaughtered by Lord Ang."

Lan guessed: "So you suddenly ran away not to run away from home, but to chase Tulus? Tulus was chased by you, but didn't return to Demon Valley, instead running to Lich City because he was driven out and couldn't go back?"

A cold wind blew by. The three from Bingcheng looked at each other, stunned there....

After a long while, Lu Se said weakly: "You mean they weren't lying, and I chopped the wrong person?"

Anna and Lan nodded.

"Uh, this is too... forget it. Anyway, I didn't like them either. They were too brutal to the human slaves in Demon Valley; one by one, they were starved to skin and bones. After I chopped them, I warned the others to be nicer to humans, or else I'd go back and chop them." Lu Se angrily took another big bite of the sugar beet to vent his frustration at chopping the wrong person.

Then he remembered another thing: "By the way, who is this Lord Ang you mentioned?"

Anna and Lan hurriedly pulled him to the side, quietly describing the situation of Ang and the others, along with a lot of information they had filled in with their own imaginations.

Watcher? Monarch projection? Angel skeleton? Brass dragon? Holy light power? Temple reopening? Saintess Lisha? He had only run away from home for a few months, and so many things had happened?

While listening, Lu Se curiously looked toward Ang's direction, and then discovered in horror that Ang's arm was gone. It was clearly there just a moment ago, right? The shoulder was still shrugging; what was the situation?

Anna and Lan were long since used to it and said: "Lord Ang is planting vegetables. His hand is reaching into another world to plant vegetables." When they said the words "planting vegetables," they couldn't help but curl their lips. Who could have imagined that Lord Watcher would have such a cute hobby?

"Hand of Dimensional Passage, just to plant vegetables?" Lu Se didn't know what to say. He stared blankly at the sugar beet head in his hand and couldn't help but ask: "Does the lord still accept followers..."

Lu Se certainly wouldn't sell himself for a few sugar beet heads, but he often brought all kinds of things to trade for sugar beets. The first things he brought were those four demon horns, which he traded for half a bag of sugar beets.

Seven days later, Lu Se dragged three heavy-armored shield-bearer corpses plus equipment and two living female priests to find Ang: "My lord, I've found two maids for you. By the way, I also found out a piece of good news. If you give me a few more bags of sugar beets, I'll tell you this good news." ===== CHAPTER 50 =====