The dining area lay at the easternmost end of the banquet hall, separated from the outside by a transparent force field. Standing there, one could look through it and admire the entire Spirit Sea, along with the red sea-flowers that occasionally surged across its surface.
Good food always made people smile. Jiang Han sampled several kinds of steak.
Just as she and Ruiqiu were enjoying the food, Lilian approached with a petite witch and greeted her.
"Jiang Han, I didn't see you earlier. Ah Lin and the Sea Shepherds went out to deal with another sea dragon."
Sea dragons, Sea Shepherds... Was Lin Zhaojun one of the Sea Shepherds too? Jiang Han speculated as she smiled and nodded.
"I was listening to Miss Lin introduce the ingredients to me. She's incredibly knowledgeable and experienced, and she explained all those ingredients I'd never seen before perfectly clearly."
She gave Lin Ruiqiu a round of praise, making the woman nod faintly in pleasure as she replied with a smile.
"That's only because I was born into a family of chefs."
Then her gaze shifted toward the petite woman beside Lilian, and she greeted her with a smile. "Hello, Lilith. This is Miss Jiang Han, Lin Zhaojun's companion for this invitation. She possesses an astonishing humility, as well as a spirit of adventurous experimentation rarely seen in this era."
Looking at Jiang Han, whose face was full of confusion, she continued smiling.
"Not every witch eagerly tries angel steak the moment I finish introducing it."
So that was the adventurous spirit she meant... Jiang Han nodded to Lilith, who was theoretically her boss's boss, then wondered whether she ought to bow to an Archwitch.
She stood again, lifted her skirt slightly with both hands, bent her knees in a shallow curtsy, and dipped