Lord Montilfali summarized Free City's current predicament as quickly as possible.
Only then did Dark and the others finally understand why the eastern gate had been sealed off.
As everyone pondered this, Lord Montilfali lightly clapped her hands. The attendants waiting outside pushed carts into the room and placed the food from them onto the table, dish by dish.
There were not many varieties of food, mostly meat, accompanied by bread, vegetable soup, and Free City's specialty lemon tea. This was the lunch served at the lord's manor.
Lord Montilfali composed herself and said with a smile, "Give it a try. These are all edible cuts of meat carefully selected from magical beasts. To handle this magical beast meat, we specially hired some priests skilled in purification magic from the Holy Church, ensuring that all residual demonic energy is thoroughly removed. Come to think of it, Aurora was the one who invented this method of cooking that tenderizes and refines magical beast meat. It has now been widely adopted throughout Free City."
"Magical beast meat?"
Turning magical beasts into ingredients, reversing their identities and making the hunters into prey, was indeed a good approach.
The only question was how this magical beast meat actually tasted.
It was already past noon. Though the people at the table could not be said to be starving, most of them were hungry. They stopped standing on ceremony and picked up their knives and forks to cut into the meat.
"Since Aurora invented this cooking method, it shouldn't taste bad, right?"
Thinking that, Dark picked up his knife and fork as well. He speared a large piece of meat from the plate in front of him, cut off a small slice, coated it in sauce, carefully placed it into his mouth, and chewed slowly.
"Mm...