After dancing a round with the stiff and old-fashioned Lilith, Jiang Han felt a little hungry again.
Playing with Lilith's hand, she returned to the long dining table with the poised restraint of a proper lady. While Lilith and Lin Zhaojun were having one of their rare exchanges, she kept a smile on her face and secretly stuffed food into her mouth.
Even a Great Witch and an Archwitch close to becoming Great could not notice how many pieces of roast meat she had eaten.
"...Witch Lin, you'll be facing the Lake People. Are you confident about fighting Dorothy Jordan?"
"...Not very. I narrowly beat her 16–15 in last year's finals. She had Scarlet Sickness back then, and her Transmutation school also had an obvious weakness at the time. You couldn't tell in a best-of-seven final, but it showed when it came to a race-to-sixteen final. I don't know whether she's made up for that flaw."
Jiang Han smiled as she listened to them discuss how the match should be fought, then secretly slipped another thin slice of pepper-salt roasted beef tongue into her mouth.
...Mmm, mmm. The saltiness and pepper-salt flavor were just right, and it was lightly charred while still tender—melting in her mouth, with layers upon layers of flavor... As expected of the premium fare at a witch banquet. Having nothing but food like this was truly extravagant... She chewed faster and swallowed it.
Then her eyes lit up as she spotted a serving of Jedi Dragon steak on the long dining table behind Lin Zhaojun.
This type of dragon was one of the earlier "dragon-class" dragons to appear on the dining table. Their average wingspan exceeded thirty meters, while their average body length, tail included, reached forty meters. Each wing bore six pairs of thrusters that