The Demon Emperor was Saint Emperor

Chapter 291 - 261: Life Divine Envoy

This elf restaurant also only serves vegan dishes, so the cooking and serving speed is quite fast.

While talking, Xiya’s "usual" combo was already delivered.

Natasha sneaked a peek, finding it was all fruits and vegetables, and instantly lost interest in tasting the Elf Race’s traditional cuisine, obediently drinking her dew, occasionally shoving a piece of jerky or dried fish into her mouth.

The Elf Kingdom might be suitable for tourism, but the food is truly troublesome. Traveling and still needing to eat carried provisions is quite a feat.

"Lynn, you should try it, actually if the leaves and fruits are handled well, they are very delicious."

Under Xiya’s eager urging, Lynn picked up a red fruit, which seemed a specialty of the Elf Race not seen outside.

Just looking at this plump and rounded fruit, is this simply washed and served, can it be counted as cooking? Saying it’s a specialty seems more appropriate.

However, whether something is delicious still needs a taste test to find out. Under the gaze of Xiya’s shining eyes, Lynn gently took a bite of the fruit, and instantly his whole mouth was filled with a fresh and sweet flavor.

It was a taste fresher than mushroom soup, sweeter than sugar, and only after biting into the fruit did he realize its ordinary shape was crafted, actually consisting of an unknown mixture of red fruit pulp and green tender leaves.

"This dish is called ’Fresh Fruit,’ isn’t it delicious?"

Seeing the surprised expression on Lynn’s face, Xiya joyfully leaned over and fed him a leaf that was tinged with yellow in its tender green hue from his plate.

One must say, the Elf Race certainly deserves being an ancient, historically profound race. Even here it is definitely not a culinary desert for meat lovers, unless transformed into a pure carnivore.

Xiya’s favorite dish indeed was tasty, Lynn felt very glad not staying in the royal palace to accept the Elf Queen’s hospitality after eating.

After all, Xiya already mentioned this restaurant’s quality surpasses the royal palace’s chefs. Moreover, dining with the relatively unfamiliar Elf Queen doesn’t compare to enjoying food and drink with his wife.

After breakfast, Xiya cheerfully bid farewell to the owner couple, then took Lynn walking on the street without any intent to pay.

Lynn knew Xiya definitely wasn’t the kind to use status to eat for free in her own territory, was it a monthly pass?

"Sister Aman doesn’t charge for doing business with the Elf Race, their ingredients are provided for free by the kingdom’s Internal Affairs Department, opening a restaurant is just their hobby, like some elves enjoy making artwork, some elves enjoy painting, some elves enjoy floristry."

It seemed Xiya noticed Lynn’s confusion, explained to him on the road, as for why Sister Aman didn’t charge him either, it’s needless to say, if any elf within the Elf Kingdom charged Lynn, that indeed would be strange.

After this, Xiya led Lynn and Natasha wandering around the Elf Royal City, specifically visiting places managed or run by the Elf Race. After all, items from other races are also found elsewhere, no reason to visit the Elf Kingdom to see dwarves smithing or goblins manufacturing.

Even the tree hollow rooms widely used by the Elf Race for living, Xiya took them to tour, offering a unique style.

Through this tour, time gradually pointed to noon, Xiya initially planned to let Lynn and Natasha taste various elven specialty spirit dew fruit and vegetable beverages, but their one dragon, one elf date was interrupted by a message from the Elf Queen.

Exactly at noon, the Saintess selection results were announced, Xiya, as one of the candidates, must attend.

Although this time’s Saintess selection was more hurried than before, its significance was heavier than previous selections.

Because the Saintess selected this time would also serve as Life Divine Envoy, a legitimate goddess’ proxy. Once elected, her status and position in the Elf Kingdom can immediately match that of the Elf Queen who serves as Nature’s Messenger, becoming the second-ranked elf, even co-equal as the top elf.

Xiya hurried back ten minutes before the selection results were announced, by then, the other candidate saintesses were already waiting on the platform beneath the goddess statue in the royal palace.

Such significant matters, only important figures from the Elf Kingdom and the Divine Hall of the Goddess of Nature and Life could attend and watch, any irrelevant persons were strictly forbidden to approach the goddess statue during this time.

However, Lynn evidently was not categorized as an irrelevant person. Natasha, benefitting from Lynn, was also specially allowed to attend and observe.

This was Lynn’s first sighting of the goddess statue of the Goddess of Nature and Life, not stonecarved nor woodcarved, rather seemingly naturally grown, resembling a deity infused with life force.

For the Goddess of Nature and Life to be the faith of the Elf Race, naturally, she was supremely beautiful, yet in Lynn’s view, the goddess’ beauty seemed somewhat illusory, like a level ten beauty filter effect, using a stunning beauty like the Elf Queen as the base, with a further ten-level beauty filter applied.

Her beauty seemed excessively artificial, appearing extremely unreal.

And this, was still just the statue’s showcased beauty. If seeing the god herself... uh, the deity herself, it would either be a great disappointment or drop jaws in amazement, astonished that is.

"In the Dragon Race’s inherited memories, the Goddess of Nature and Life was titled by the Ancient Dragon Race as the world’s ultimate beauty, an extreme embodiment of the word ’beautiful.’ Rumor has it that even the Dragon God was enamored by her, but the Goddess of Nature and Life had no interest in romantic feelings, moreover, she is an immensely powerful deity, such that even the Dragon God cannot provoke her, only lamenting that the most beautiful goddess of the Divine Realm is a rootless flower."