Chapter 384: CH.377 HomeBase Grand Reveal, part 3

Lunch

 

Soon enough, it was time for lunch. … I guess I’ll mention a thing or two here before that. This party would last into the evening/night, but the guests could leave whenever they wanted to. I’d just have to have someone take them home, which was likely going to be Ria and Wilma. I did also have rooms prepared for everyone, but I know not everyone wants to spend the night, so the offer to take them home was there.

 

But back to lunch. For lunch, we were going to have a multi-course meal, not an open buffet, that is saved for dinner. My maids and butlers set out some tables for us. Originally I wanted to just have one super long table, but that would have been difficult, so I had to go with multiple tables. Not difficult because I couldn’t make space for a long table, but because it would just be awkward to move around, and the table would split into separate conversations anyway, so might as well have multiple tables to make it easier for my staff to serve our lunch.

The main reason I wanted to serve a course-style lunch was so I could show off a bunch of interesting foods. I was hoping my guests would have an open mind, as some of the foods were a bit … uncommon, but I did test them all out myself, and they were all delicious.

 

In my table, I had the King, the Prime Minister, Duke Burch, Lady Wendy, Lady Shisu, Mariina and Lady Janina. I was sitting at one end, with Lady Janina at the other. The three males were to my right, while the ladies were on my left.

Most of us were quite happy with how this table turned out, I mean, almost all of us are high ranking people in our own ways. Myself being a System Support holder, two dukes and the King, Lady Wendy is almost as powerful as a King, someone might argue more powerful, Lady Shisu was a Sage, and while it might not equal a duke, it is pretty close. And Lady Janina is Lady Janina. She is literally the most powerful and high ranked among us. The only one that felt a bit out of place was Mariina, as she was still just a sage candidate, but she was holding her own.

 

After everyone was seated, I gave the sign to serve the appetizers. It consisted of a few one-biter foods. You could eat them with your hands, but since etiquette and all of that, utensils were naturally offered. 

The appetizer consisted of a boiled egg-half topped with some sort of mayo like sauce and some green herbs to look nice, a small piece of blood sausage, which was mostly there to test if the guests were willing to eat foods made with blood, some cold smoked Terrorking Salmon, a few pieces of cut fruits and because we had some from the Terrorking Salmon, some Terrorking Salmon roe.