"That's right!"
Aladdin took a deep breath of the pipe, and spit out a fist-shaped smoke ring, with an extremely expressive expression, and said in a deep voice: "At that time, I was surrounded by twenty terrifying ogres, all of whose arms were around my waist. It’s so thick, with such a big mace in my hand, the sharp wind noise when I swing it is very scary, if I accidentally hit my head, the melon will be smashed by them.”
Holding the pipe, he stretched out his hand to stroke the mace, and pretending to sweat, his voice suddenly lowered: "The situation at that time was really dangerous. I dodged desperately under their attacks, and I failed several times." They brushed against the corner of my clothes. But thanks to the goddess of luck, these blunt big guys still didn't hit me at all. On the contrary, I scratched their thighs with a dagger.... I found a Wooden barrel... so I ran over desperately... "
"This difficult battle lasted for a long time!... Finally, these bulky guys were exhausted, and I knocked them down one by one.... Well. Then I left the ogre's lair calmly.... "
It has to be said that his level of storytelling is very high.
Although he knew he was bragging, Sauron couldn't help but find it very interesting. Even Gloria leaned over and listened to his bragging with great interest.
Given the thickness of the fat on the ogre's body, it would be good if the two small daggers in his hand could cut through the fat layer.
The number of twenty ogres minus the water content is four or five at most. It may be because of their small size, halflings like to use exaggerated metaphors to describe them. Vivienne on the side listened very carefully. The little girl liked to hear stories told by people, especially the halfling who was about the same height as her, and it sounded very engaging. Halfling stories are popular among human children because they can imagine themselves as halflings in battle.
Time passed so quickly.
It may be because of the addition of a very lively halfling, and he seemed much happier along the way. From time to time, he would tell Vivienne some of his own adventure stories. Traveled to many places and encountered many difficult characters. Sauron couldn't judge the opponent's professional level, but it seemed that Aladdin should be a wanderer above the third level, and seemed to be good at mechanism making and alchemy, because he also gave Vivian several exquisite gadgets.
They are all the kind of things made with alchemy and mechanism skills.
The little girl received more and more gifts. The caravan guards gave her a lot, and Goliath also bought her a lot. Her mother gave her little presents. Now the little girl has a special dimension bag, which is full of gifts she received.
at dusk.
Sauron untied the horses and let them graze, while he began to prepare the supper.
Aladdin volunteered to stand up and said that he would let them have a taste of the craft of gourmets traveling around the world. Sauron did miss the delicacies made by the halflings a little bit, looked at Vivienne's eager expression next to him, and Dang even nodded in agreement. There was a river next to the foothold. The halfling quickly took out a few sticks from the bag, and assembled a fishing rod in the blink of an eye. He first set up a bonfire, took out a small pot, put water in it, and took out Some mushrooms and spices.
"I picked this by the way in the woods today. I tasted it and it was delicious."
Aladdin poured the small bag of fine salt into it, and then walked towards the river with the fishing rod, and said as he walked, "Just wait for me for a while, and I will catch fish when the soup boils. I am a fisherman from my hometown." Master."
Vivian followed him curiously, and Gloria also came to the side with great interest.
Aladdin looked at the little girl beside him, smiled and said, "Do you want to try? I still have a fishing rod here!"
"Hmm." Vivienne quickly nodded her head.
So the halfling took out a few other sticks, reassembled a fishing rod and handed it to the little girl. Vivienne held the fishing rod with her small white hands, and imitated Aladdin, hanging up the fishing rod and throwing it. into Hanoi.
The halfling looked back at the bonfire, sat by the river and continued bragging: "In my hometown Shire, there is a fishing competition every autumn, and the first place can get a very good prize. Basically, as long as I am in my hometown , The champion of the fishing competition must be me. So when those guys heard that I was going to go on a trip, they were immediately overjoyed, gearing up to win this year's fishing competition championship."
Sauron had heard countless halflings bragging that he was the champion of the fishing competition.
He is probably the champion of the fishing competition, but it is hard to say whether he is the champion every year, besides, the fishing competition is a part of the Halfling Autumn Festival, and every halfling village will hold such a competition.
Aladdin, the halfling, was still talking about his most brilliant achievements, how many fish he had caught, and Vivienne's float had already moved a bit, and the excited little girl immediately gripped the fishing rod tightly, and whispered: "Goria Sister! Come here quickly! The fish is hooked!"
Gloria didn't seem to have caught fish much before, so she walked behind her with great interest and said softly: "Don't worry, wait a while, I haven't taken the bait yet."
The noble Northland witch naturally seldom prepares food by herself. If she needs fish, someone will definitely bring it to her immediately.
"Don't rush."
Aladdin glanced at this side, and immediately said in surprise: "Little lucky girl, take your time, it looks like a big fish."
Sauron was setting up a fire to prepare fish for grilling.
Vivienne's yelling suddenly came from the river. Her small body was dragged forward by the fishing rod and she took two steps forward. Gloria next to her immediately reached out to hug her, and then both of them started to grow louder. He yelled, and the halfling on the side was also yelling, saying something to slow down and then pull it over a little bit. Sauron smiled and glanced over there, and then slowly walked over. Vivienne's cute little face was flushed red, and her breathing was a little messy. The river fish raised it in front of Sauron with an expression of offering treasure, and said excitedly: "Look, brother! Vivienne caught a big fish!"
This fish probably weighed close to 12 pounds.
The strength of such a big river fish in the water is not small, it is not so easy to catch it, and the fishing line will break even if it is not handled well. He just realized that she had used the mage's hand, otherwise she wouldn't be able to catch it without any skill. (Generally, it is not easy to catch fish weighing more than 5 catties.)
Sauron reached out and touched her little head, took the river fish and said, "Vivienne is doing great! I'll see you today!"
The little girl nodded happily, her little face was full of joy.
She is always easy to please, and just a few fun little things can keep her happy for a long time.
Sauron pulled out his dagger and cut open the belly of the fish. Vivian over there was still continuing to fish seriously, muttering softly in her mouth that the fish should take the bait quickly. I don't know if she was very lucky, but she came to the second fish right away. fish. On the contrary, Aladdin, who was bragging about the record for a long time, didn't catch a single fish. When the little girl caught the third fish, he finally couldn't hold back his face.
He put down his fishing rod, jumped into the river with a plop, and disappeared for a while, then a head popped out, grabbed a big fish in his hand, and raised it high towards Vivienne, Haha laughed and said, "I got it! Got it!"
The two people present were suddenly speechless.
In fact, they didn't have much to eat, so the halfling put away the fishing rod, and seeing the little girl's unfinished look, he simply gave her another fishing rod.
Then he started preparing dinner, taking out packets of seasonings from his pocket.
One part was used to boil fish soup, and the other part was used to grill fish. Sauron even smelled a cumin-like aroma. Halflings are the race that is best at cooking, and many rare seasonings are only available in their hands. I have to say that his craftsmanship is really good. This meal should be the most delicious meal that Sauron has eaten since he came to this world. Vivienne ate until her belly bulged, and Gloria also tasted a lot. It seems that his title of gourmet is not bragging, and his cooking skills are definitely at the level of a master.
This is the third day of the trip.
Sauron met a halfling gourmet, his destination was the mountain fortress, and he was going to taste the iron dwarf's fire wine.
They will travel together to Fallen Leaf City before parting ways.