Hot Pot Negotiations

Frost Axe returned to the Hearthstone tavern late at night.

Thinking about it carefully, he had been coming to this tavern for nearly two years.

The Hearthstone tavern had now opened several branches across Nolan, and he had visited nearly all of them, but this was still the one he knew best.

So well that the moment Frost Axe entered, he headed straight for the tavern kitchen.

"Is there any dried meat left tonight? Hurry and get me some... Joshua?"

Frost Axe pushed open the kitchen door and found that there were rather more people inside than usual.

"We've already demolished that Long Ears house. Dealing with the debris took some time."

Frost Axe rubbed the dust from his bulbous nose and walked over to Joshua's side, looking up at the food laid out on the table.

"What have you made this time? Bread with meat in it?"

"More precisely, it's a Fried Chicken Burger. Really, it's not much different from bread with meat in it."

Joshua and the Hearthstone tavern's chef had spent less than half an hour figuring out how to make it.

The chef Madam Ma Linna had hired was highly skilled. At the very least, he was proficient in the cuisines of many countries and had even studied Great Xia cuisine extensively.

"How much is this?"

Frost Axe looked starving. Otherwise, he would have started another ranked climb in the tavern hall the moment he arrived.

"It's free for now. Frost Axe, you can be our taste tester."

Joshua had originally intended to try the first Fried Chicken Burger in the world himself.

But this old Dwarf had just returned from the construction site in the Forgotten Land, and Joshua did not mind handing this less-than-glorious honor over to him.

Frost Axe did not stand on