The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 1029

Tian had enough seating for everyone made in a matter of seconds, along with a large fire pit with a rotating spit for the giant boars that Hawk wanted to get rid of.

"Your people are generous in victory." The Chieftain noted, and Karl chuckled.

"Nobody wants to celebrate a defeat, and we've got good reason to celebrate lately. One of the ladies just made it to the Overlord Rank recently, and soon the others are likely to join her.

If they can keep up that pace, we will be celebrating for a year."

The Chief nodded in agreement. Overlord was an important advancement, as it was so uncommon for most species to make it to Totem Rank. If they could just advance to Totem without any issues, the Orcish Tribes would dominate the region, and not be relegated to Nomads.

"To the North of here, the Trolls are doing the same. They just got a new village chief's successor at Totem Rank a month ago." He explained.

"Are they easy to get along with?" Karl asked.

"As much as Trolls ever are. They are currently led by an aging shaman who remembers the old ways, so we don't have any issues. But the younger generation is different. They have ideas about isolating the tribes from other species.

Even the Orcs don't do that.

Just because we don't trade for things that we can make ourselves doesn't mean that we don't wish to interact with others." The Chief explained.

"If you didn't interact with others, how would you know how strong your kids were? Comparing them only to each other doesn't give you a good measure of their progress." Karl agreed.

"See, you understand. If you don't watch how others are doing, you can fall behind without ever knowing it."

The Orcs and the ladies started to gather as they returned from the battlefield, and Lotus began to show off her advanced food creation skills.

When she got the Nature's Friend Class, she had gotten even better food creation skills, and now she could make wine directly, without waiting for the process. That skill was very popular among the Orcs, who also brewed berry wines of their own.

As she explained it, fermentation was a natural process, and making the ingredients was simple. So, it was only natural that her skills would advance to making wine, mead and other alcohol.

That could become a disaster for many Nature Clerics, with their notorious lack of self-control, but Lotus was never a heavy drinker, and actually preferred the fruit juice to the wine.

But the wine was a big hit among the Orcs, as it went well with roast pork, which was on the spit now, and being helped in the cooking process by a healthy dose of fire magic that increased the temperature of the whole carcass without burning the outside.

They didn't have all night for the food to cook, but the Orcish chefs were good at the trick. They had practiced it all their lives, as the Clan hated to wait for food, and they rarely set up camp long enough before a battle to begin the celebratory feast.

Plus, if they spent all that time cooking, they wouldn't be able to join the fight.

You couldn't leave all the cooking to whoever happened to be injured or pregnant enough that they had to be excluded from the battle.