Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1374 1346. Small Banquet
"Don't get so close."

Contrary to her usual behavior, Margarita actually stepped back from Lan En.

But before the witcher could be surprised at how the dean had improved and finally no longer looked so indulgent, he saw Margarita's eyes again.

There was fire in those eyes.

The burning fire of desire.

Emotions and desires are a mess between healthy men and women and cannot be separated.

"You look like you want to eat me." Lan En did not avoid the burning desire in his eyes, but just smiled and teased in a low voice. "But it seems that you have learned to be patient?"

"Patience was not included in the original plan."

Margarita raised her beautiful eyebrows slightly and spoke with a hint of provocation.

She tilted her neck back, her slender, white neck was like a white swan, and her bright red lips came close to Lan En's ear, emitting ambiguous heat and whispers.

"I received the news about your magic ring at the same time as Qilin, and I did prepare a banquet, and Tishaya is also here."

"But I was thinking that we could use half an hour, so I could have a quick meal to satisfy my craving."

"Half an hour?" Lan En said in a low voice with a look of surprise in this ambiguous and entangled atmosphere, "It's enough for you to have a 'fast food meal', but you left me hanging there?"

"if not?"

The charming and enchanting blonde beauty smiled seductively.

But after laughing, she still got closer to the witcher with a dazed look in her eyes, muttering something.

"But why did you come back this time? Even more attractive?"

Lan En smacked his lips and took a step back, creating some distance between them, causing Margarita to tsk in dissatisfaction, but at least she came back to her senses.

The curse of the ancient god was forced into his body by him, so the harm could not come out, but the profound attraction of that higher-dimensional life form to mortals permeated his body from the inside out.

Researchers from the Healing Church and Byronvis were all bewitched by the long-dead corpses of the ancient gods and went mad or died.

The strangeness of this attraction needs no elaboration.

"Remember to stay away." Lan En pretended to be reserved and cold as he glanced down at Margarita and said jokingly, "If we really have physical contact later, I'm afraid you won't be able to hold on."

The dean of Aretuza glared at him viciously, but eventually accepted his suggestion and kept some distance from him.

At least she had to endure it until the meal was finished.
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Margarita took a while to arrange a simple banquet.

Because although she knew that Lan En had returned at the same time as Qilin because of the magic ring, she just habitually asked the kitchen in the academy to prepare food that was only enough for a few people to eat and chat.

Suddenly, with the arrival of two more people, the small table that was originally planned to be placed in the dean's bedroom could no longer accommodate them, so they had to temporarily open up a living room and have someone clean it up to use as a dining room.

"There seem to be a lot of people here, but why don't they go out?"

She waited until Maria put her cocked hat on the edge of the dining table before she asked.

Just now, as she walked through the corridors and stairwells of Aretuza, she had just been observing quietly.

As one of the most suitable locations for horror movies, a deserted school at night is certainly on the list.

This huge, empty and luxurious castle seemed to bring back some bad memories for Maria.

Aretuza is an academy for training sorceresses, but it is still a school.

The management is even quite strict in order to curb the playful nature of the sorceress apprentices during their student days.

Otherwise, Margarita would not have been so frightened and went to Villen to look for a student who was deceived by a wild man and disappeared. In the end, the great wizard was captured by a sneak attack with a sling.

Because Aretusa is a closed residential school.

Although the sorceress apprentices could not resist their strong desires from time to time and went to the city of Gos Velen to have fun, they still had to abide by the school's time regulations.

It was only a short while since it had gotten dark, but the sorceress apprentices' activities had already been restricted and they were not allowed to run around.

"Welcome to Aretuza, friends from outside the land."

After taking a seat, Tishaya raised the wine glass and spoke a welcome speech gracefully.

The hostess demeanor that Margarita had just displayed in front of Maria and Adeline was completely suppressed in front of Tishaya, who had actually been managing the academy for hundreds of years.

She even gave up the main seat on her own initiative, without Tishaya having to say a word.

Lan En laughed at her for a long time with a smile that was full of meaning.

But on the other side, Maria and Adeline were a little embarrassed, but they still followed etiquette and raised their glasses following Tishaya's welcome speech.

The real locals of Yharnam were now being called "foreign friends", which was really a bit difficult for them to adapt to.

Of course, this was a slightly teasing remark, as Lan En whispered this to Tishaya in her ear just as she entered the room.

After the welcome speech, Tishaya took a sip of Toussaint East Red Wine in her glass, as if to calm down her anger. She would not be so rude normally.

On the other hand, Maria and Adeline lost interest in the wine produced by this national treasure-class winery in the "Land of Knights and Wine" after just taking a sip.

Margarita and Tishaya thought that the other world Lan En went to this time had a much higher quality red wine than Toussaint, and their arrangements were a bit unpresentable.

"It's not the wine." Lan En took a bite of a donut stuffed with plum jam and explained to the unprepared Tishaya and Margarita. "It's just that the Yharnam people prefer blood to wine."

"Blood?" Now even Tishaya became interested.

Without even lowering her head, she rearranged the tableware that was asymmetrically placed due to the toast, while looking at the two guests with a little surprise and speaking.

"Do the people in that world all suck blood? You drink animal blood? You can't suck each other's blood, right?"

"No." Maria's cold and calm voice was a little stuck, but she finally let out a long breath and said, "It's just an addictive habit. Adeline and I were invited by Lan En because we want to eradicate possible hidden dangers."

"It seems that we have to rely on the power of magic. We have to trouble you."

As she spoke, Maria raised her glass to Margarita and Tishaya.

Born into a blood aristocracy, socializing in high society is a matter of whether you want to do it or not, not whether you should do it or not.

Although there are differences in etiquette between Yharnam and the magical Middle Ages, this rigorous and complicated temperament is always correct.

Just like when Lan En arrives in a new world, even if he doesn't know much about the local area at first, others will subconsciously not regard him as an ignorant and uncultured person.

"Don't be shy." Relying on his tall stature and long arms, Lan brought a plate of salt-baked anchovies to Adeline across the table and squeezed the juice of half a lemon on it.

After taking care of the guests he brought, Lan En turned to Tishaya and Margarita and told them about his experiences in the previous world.

"A world whose deep structure is completely occupied by a group of superior beings who look like that?"

As if listening to a horror story, Margarita blinked her eyes and took a sip of red wine.

"And this time, you killed an ancient god?"

Even after Lan En came back, it became a routine for the sorceresses to share their strange experiences in other worlds with him at the dinner table.

But his actions this time still shocked people.

"It's just based on my previous accumulation and the advance arrangements after discussing with Lady of the Lake."

Lan En was not complacent. When he talked about the battle with the Moon Goddess, the relaxation and happiness after the trip faded from his face.

That was not a fight to the death that could be talked about optimistically.

"I have asked the Lady of the Lake to look at it, and my own eyes have confirmed that the blood in their bodies no longer carries the deep power of those ancient gods."

The witcher took a sip of the refreshing white wine and turned the topic to the present.

"But to be on the safe side, I think we still have to replace the blood in their bodies at least three times. That blood is related to the power of the two ancient gods."

"Although the power of the ancient gods has gone away, the traces of influence left by that power will not disappear."

"Change the blood three times?"

When discussing treatment plans and academic issues, only Tishaya at the table could keep up with Lan's ideas and progress.

Margarita's genius lies in the field of spells, and has nothing to do with biology and alchemy.

Tishaya still had the wine glass in her hand, but her mind was already calculating and her eyes were empty.

“How long do you expect it to take?”

"No hurry." Lan En gave a straightforward answer and smiled comfortingly at Maria and Adeline.

The two of them didn't understand magic or alchemy, so they could only listen attentively because of their trust in Lan En.

"The power of the ancient gods has been eliminated, and they don't have the ability to cross the world. It's good to take it slow. It's very safe."

"Then there's no problem." Tishaya made a decisive conclusion, "It just so happens that during the time you were away, the three plants you brought back from the New World have grown several times."

"Their efficacy is as we expected, greatly weakened. But it is still much better than the stuff on the market. You may want to try alchemy with the locally cultivated varieties."

"Really?" Lan En raised his eyebrows in surprise. "The recovery herbs, blue mushrooms and mandrake mushrooms have all grown?"

But then he frowned again.

"They are all cultivated according to the standards for introducing foreign plants, right? It would be troublesome if they caused biological invasion."

"They can survive because they have strong vitality." Tishaya first responded to Lan En's first question, and then for some reason, responded to the second question with a sigh.

"As for biological invasions? They have always been supervised and nurtured by me personally, so there's no problem."

"You supervised and nurtured them personally?" Lan En frowned when he heard this. "Did something happen while I was away?"

(End of this chapter)