Chapter 1140 Cooking With Family & Friends

Chapter 1140 Cooking With Family & Friends

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Once we gathered back with my family and assessed all the monster carcasses, we decided to set up a camp near the gigantic crystal tree to take a rest. Well, our parents were completely fine, but we needed a rest ourselves, the younglings! We just fought against hundreds of monsters; it was natural to be exhausted.

"You children are truly incredible and brave." Sphynxiette praised us as she sat down in front of the camp with her three friends. "To be capable of slaying such mighty otherworldly beasts so fearlessly, you truly carry within you the might of our tribe, even if we are unrelated, we can tell! We are comrades at arms."

"Indeed, that's true."

"Very strong children..."

"And brave, and honest, and goodhearted."

"Hahaha, you are praising us too much." I giggled a bit, feeling embarrassed.

"You know what? For once I am glad of being praised, yeah. I am awesome I think." Celeste nodded, letting the praises shower over her.

"Thank you Sphynxiette!" Mist said. "But Zack did most of the heavy lifting, hehe."

"Oh, of course I didn't! You helped a lot, Mist." Zack said to her. "Your arrows, your magic, everything. You're really vital to our strategies, and without you I wouldn't even be able to go all-out without worrying about my health."

"Zack... Well, I'm doing my best!" Mist smiled cutely. "I-I'm glad I can finally be of some substantial help. Remembering back then, I was so useless..."

"We all have the potential to become stronger." Said Sphynxiette, her voice seemed full of wisdom. "Even us, were born weak and frail, incapable of surviving without the help of our parents. You were young back then, perhaps, little Mist. But you've grown considerably powerful, you wield the essence of Mother Star after all, that brilliant light, it is of divine power!"

"O-Oh, is that so? Hehe, thank you." Mist smiled, very happy to be praised.

"Ignatius, stop being such a fool and let the little girl grill over your flames." Said Agni. "You get a share of the meat later, so why complain? You're working for a payment."

"I can't believe my powerful ancestor would say such a thing..." Ignatius seemed utterly disappointed on Agni.

"What?! You dare be disappointed on me, you damned brat?!" The gigantic dragon made of flames surged from within Agni's Aura. He quickly grabbed a huge Swamp Drake and devoured it whole. "Kids these days, can't even cooperate for a bit with others, huh?"

"Well you complained a lot at the beginning too." Allan laughed. "Also I didn't knew you could eat even as a sword!"

"Of course I can eat, Allan, as long as my soul remains, I can just digest food with it! Isn't that just common sense?" He wondered.

"Common sense?" I asked.

"Right... Ah, I sometimes forget this is an Ability only Divine Beings acquire. Well, if you ever get that far, your body and soul kind of becomes... blended. You can eat with your soul and so on." He answered.

"I see..." I nodded.

"Sounds weird!" Allan laughed. "I don't think I would ever enjoy that."

As my father laughed, I remembered the Curse allowed me to devour and absorb things using my soul. So I guess I already have an ability only attributed to divine beings. Curse's really amazing, I was really lucky... or maybe unlucky to meet him.

Anyways, once the barbeque was mostly done, and the shellfish were well boiled, we began the feast, wolfing down the myriad of plates we prepared.

As the sun in the horizon slowly set, the beautiful atmosphere of family and friends only continued to grow as we shared with one another and talked about life.

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