Xia Nan was extremely satisfied with the skill of the Three-Legged Sea Dog's back kitchen.
He had never tasted anything like it before. The seafood-flavored Cream Mushroom Soup perfectly combined mushrooms and aquatic produce, preserving the mushroom soup's original fresh sweetness while adding, without stealing the spotlight, a few wonderful flavors from the depths of the sea.
The side dishes, the Lemon Grilled Oyster and Cold Cut Salted Meat Platter, were also above standard, letting Xia Nan enjoy once more the distinctive delicacies of this world after a long absence.
After a hearty feast, even the Honey Tangerine served as a little after-meal dessert seemed a little sweeter and fresher.
He broke open the peel, casually picked off two segments, and put them into his mouth. With a gentle press of his tongue, the plump flesh turned into refreshing juice with a faint hint of tartness, washing away the last trace of greasiness lingering on the tip of his tongue.
After filling his stomach and resolving the matter of lodging, Xia Nan decided to take advantage of the fact that he had just spent quite a bit here to get to the point and ask the tavern owner about information related to "Algae Scale" Dodd.
His gaze subconsciously swept over the wall diagonally behind the counter.
Like the Quest Board of the Adventurers Association, a huge pale wooden board had been fixed into the wall with rusty iron nails. Layers of bounty notices were pasted over it, some looking as though they had been there for ages, their edges curled and yellowed. Even the portraits in the center of the bounties had grown blurred under the soaking reek of alcohol, yet that only made the long strings of numbers below, representing the bounty amounts, all the more conspicuous.
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