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The little girl was obviously very greedy, but she still asked politely.
Elizabeth glanced at Wang in a complaining manner: "People who pursue wildness are more polite than you. Come, Xiaobai, take it and drink it. Anyway, you can keep making trouble with this spoon."
After getting permission, Xiaobai grabbed the cup and gulped down the whole bottle. Then she put the cup down and let out a long sigh: "Ah~ This is great. It's just water, but it feels like eating meat. Oh no, I suddenly want to eat meat."
Wang: "Although drinking soup before meals will dilute stomach acid, reduce appetite and interfere with digestion in most cases, sometimes drinking a small bowl of thick soup before meals can really whet your appetite. The premise is that the soup must be good. I give this soup 98 points."
Xiaobai: "I want to eat meat!"
At this time, Marika scooped clean water from another cup and poured it into the cup with the spoon, and the next moment the fragrant soup appeared again.
Wang picked it up and took a sip.
Elizabeth: "I haven't had it yet!"
The wizard handed her the cup and said, "We have to choose one person now to drink only the soup formed by the spoon. The others will eat. By tomorrow, we should be able to confirm whether this soup has really become a nutritious and energetic soup, or whether it is just an illusion added to the water."
Everyone looked at each other.
Seeing this, Elizabeth raised her hand and said, "Let me do it. I contributed the least today, but at least I can help with the experiment."
Marika: “Your Highness!”
Wang: “Okay, come on.”
Drow Elf: "Don't you know how to be gentle with women?"
Wang: "Ah? Why? She is willing to sacrifice herself to find out the truth. This is a very noble act. I have no reason to stop her, right?"
After saying this, the wizard and the drow looked at each other for a full five seconds.
Marika held her forehead with her hand and said, "Forget it, forget it. Since His Highness is willing, let's do it this way. Shorty, keep an eye on His Highness's health."
Dwarf: "Is that your attitude of asking for help?"
Wang: "I'm counting on you, too."
"Okay, okay!" Flint gave a thumbs up.
Wang: "Then let's get started. Please help me and give Elizabeth some soup!"
Chapter 101: The Ranger Officially Joins the Team
Although the king said so, no one took action.
Elizabeth said expectantly, "Looks like you'll have to come by yourself."
Wang: "I was wrong. You can drink it yourself."
"I won't!" Elizabeth said firmly, "If you want to do the experiment, you have to feed it."
The wizard looked at everyone and shrugged, "Okay. Give me the cup, Marika, you'll be in charge of adding water."
Soon a cup of thick soup appeared in the king's hand. He took out the spoon, held the cup close to Elizabeth, gently lifted her chin with his hand, and brought the cup close to her mouth.
When feeding her, the king was a little too anxious, and as a result, some soup flowed down the corners of Elizabeth's mouth and dripped onto her.
Xiaobai: "Don't waste food. Can I lick it off?"
The king made a casual gesture, and the soup in the cup had been finished by the princess, so he moved the cup to Marika again. The drow looked helpless, but still scooped new water into the cup.
Xiaobai held Elizabeth's thighs with his hands and licked the soup off her body.
"Hmm? It's not venison soup this time. Will the type of soup change? It seems to be beef soup this time!"
Wang: "Is this soup spoon so awesome? Can it change the flavor? I have to try it too."
At this time, the water that Marika had just poured in had turned into a new soup. Wang took a big sip and said, "This time it has turned into fish soup. It's so delicious!"
Xiaobai ran away in a flash. It seemed that she really hated starch and fish.
The wizard held the soup he had tasted in front of Elizabeth and said, "Come on, continue. Drink until your stomach is full."
The second time, both of them had experience and the soup did not spill.
Over the next few minutes, Wang fed Elizabeth eight cups of soup, causing her stomach to bulge visibly.
Wang pressed it with his hand and said, "Well, very good, it is indeed full. You can't eat anything else before nightfall. If you are hungry, drink the soup. This soup spoon is here for you. In the evening, you have to report to me how many times you drink the soup, and whether you have symptoms such as dizziness."
Marika asked doubtfully, "Is this test really necessary? We will definitely bring dry food with us, so we don't have to survive on soup."
Xiaobai: "I can also go hunting. Long-ears can hunt, too. I won't be short of food during the journey."
Wang: "It's better to be prepared. Well, actually I just want to study this spoon. I like to explore the unknown, whether it's a cave left by a lich and a dwarf, or a simple spoon."
Elizabeth: "I'm willing to help you with your research, too."
Wang: “You are so kind!”
Elizabeth couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth and her face flushed slightly.
The mage noticed this and asked in confusion, "Why is your face red?"
Elizabeth: "I...I'm glowing!"
Wang frowned slightly: "Don't get too excited, take the time to rest."
The drow put down the cup and said, "I will be on guard, you all go to sleep. I will sleep after you wake up."
Nini: "I can also be on alert. In fact, my alert efficiency is higher during the day when there is normal light."
Wang: "Then you will each be on guard for four hours. Nini will watch the first half, and Marika will watch the second half."
After making the arrangements, Wang climbed onto his bed and soon fell into a deep sleep after lying down.
Elizabeth said enviously, "He always falls asleep quickly and deeply, as if he has no worries at all and never suffers from insomnia."
Marika: "When even he is worried to the point of being unable to sleep, then the world is doomed."
After saying that, she looked at her elf cousin and said, "Since the captain has ordered me to do so, I will rest first. No need to call me, four hours of rest a day is enough for me, and I will wake up by myself."
Drow and elves only need to rest for about four hours a day, which, like their lifespan, is a racial advantage. Moreover, they can even rest while riding a horse. If there are elves in the team, the night watch will usually be taken care of by the elves.
Wood elves do not have the darkvision of the drow, but on moonlit and starlit nights, their vision is just as good as that of the drow.
Nini: “Okay.”
After saying that, she picked up the bow and arrow, pulled over a chair and sat beside the wizard's bed, looking around vigilantly.
Elizabeth hesitated to speak, and finally chose to lie down - but she jumped up not long after lying down.
"I'll pick them!" she said.
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The king was awakened by a loud gurgling sound.
He got up and looked towards the source of the sound, and found it was Elizabeth. The princess was sleeping soundly, but her stomach was making hungry sounds.
Just as Wang was about to ask Marika on duty, he heard Elizabeth talking in her sleep: "No, we can't cook Xiaobai and eat him. Why don't you take the meat from me? I'm fatter."
Wang: “It sounds like a dream about famine.”
Marika: "Although your experiment is not over yet, I think there is no need to continue. The soup is probably just water with hallucinations added."
Wang: "It seems so. Let's wait for her to get up and see if she gets dizzy. If she does, then it's basically confirmed."
As he said this, he looked out the window, calculated the current time based on the angle of the sunlight, and then sat up: "It's almost time to sleep. I can do the rest tonight."
As he said this, he took out the magic book left by the lich from his dimensional bag, licked his fingers, and opened the first page.
Wang: "It starts with the Nine Rings. No wonder this lich said the wizards in the team would be so excited. Could this spell book contain only Nine Rings magic?"
Marika: "If that's the case, this book is valuable. You used a seven-ring dragon shape to exchange for the Duke's treasured resurrection scroll."
The resurrection scroll itself may not be that valuable, but the purpose of this scroll makes it basically in a state of being priceless.
If the scroll could be used to revive people who died of natural causes, the value of this scroll would be multiplied several times over.
Wang quickly flipped through the contents of the magic book, then threw it aside in disappointment: "Sure enough, there are no spells I haven't seen before. This lich is obviously not obsessed with creating new spells, or it is not of high enough level to create new spells."
At this time, Nini also turned over and was surprised to hear Wang's words: "You actually said that a nine-ring lich is not high enough?"
Marika: “Do you know who his teacher is?”
After saying this, Zhuo Er immediately answered his own question and reported the name of Wang's teacher.
Nini was so shocked that she couldn't close her mouth. "You are actually that person's favorite disciple? He is the current Elf King's publicly acknowledged best friend!"
Wang muttered, "Damn it, the old guy has done it again!"
Nini: “Pretend?”
Wang: "I mean, uh, proudly show off our past glory."
He paused and changed his tone: "By the way, we agreed before that we would only travel together when we solved the trouble with the cavemen this time. Now that the trouble has been solved, you can continue your journey. You also know what the gains of this trip are, and you can pick one thing you want."
Nini thought for a few seconds and shook her head: "No, I don't have anywhere I want to go. Staying here to solve the apocalyptic crisis together seems to be a good way to hone my skills."
King: "Of course you can hone your skills. You performed very well this time. Whether it was dodging the arrows fired by the trap or saving the dwarf in the final escape phase, you showed your amazing ability. I believe you also fully exercised yourself during the adventure."
Nini: "These are all very common things. My master would perform better. My master has superb dual-blade skills, but I am very bad at using a sword. I have a headache facing low-level spells such as protective arrows. I can only use repeated attacks to exceed the spell's protection limit.
"If it was my master, he would have already drawn his two swords and started killing everyone."
Wang: "Why don't you practice dual swords?"
"Because after teaching me once, my master thought that I didn't have the talent for using dual weapons, and it was futile to continue learning. In fact, my dual-knife skills are really poor." Nini sighed.
King: "I see. If you are not good at this, you really can't force it. For example, I can't use enchantment spells well, even the very simple hold person spell is not good enough for me. By the way, have you ever tried using arcane magic?"
Elves have extraordinary talents in both art and magic, but they are so famous for their archery skills that their magical skills are overshadowed.
In fact, more elves become wizards than rangers, but perhaps because their lifespan is too long, elven wizards often seem a little lacking in passion compared to human wizards.
Elf wizards are often obsessed with details. They are keen to maximize the effects of a few of their favorite spells and are willing to use a lot of metamagic techniques.
Human mages are more adventurous and ambitious, and are keen on exploring unknown knowledge and creating new spells.
Human mages will also try every possible means to extend their lifespan, a motivation that long-lived elves lack.
Elf wizards rarely turn themselves into liches because their original lifespans are already too long. Compared to the benefits of becoming a lich, they care more about the various emotions they need to give up after becoming a lich.
In any case, as an elf, it is impossible to be completely uninterested in the art of magic.
It is not uncommon for elven rangers to also be wizards.