Chapter 403: Gluttonous Monster! Working before reaching adulthood?

"Take me to the scene, President Varian."

Ye Zhi volunteered, "Perhaps I can help."

The burly old elf was stroking his pointed head with a frown on his face. He looked back when he heard the voice, with a look of surprise in his eyes.

"Your Excellency the Duke! This is the responsibility of our union. How dare we trouble you?"

Varian said with great fear and trepidation: "It is a great encouragement to us that you can attend the feasting ceremony with His Majesty... I dare not cause you any more trouble!"

Ye Zhi stroked his chin. Forcing himself to conduct an investigation would go against his identity and would only arouse suspicion. He had to think of a way to make Varian ask for my help on his own initiative.

At this time, Mammon's reminder came from the ring: "Let's go to the place where the grain was stolen first, Ye Zhi... According to the traces left at the scene, maybe we can find the whereabouts of [Gluttony]!"

"You haven't told me what that 'living glutton' is." Ye Zhi said.

"All you need to know is that the glutton contains the blood of a legendary monster!" said Mammon.

Ye Zhi was slightly surprised.

Most legendary monsters possess the magical power to destroy the world.

Of course, there are also differences among legendary monsters... Legendary monsters like Drilltooth, whose skills are not good enough in taunting, attracting hatred, fanning the flames, and sowing discord, are relatively inferior in combat ability...

Gluttony, sounds like a very capable type! Mammon said: "Gluttony can not only continue to grow, but also transform into a suitable living weapon based on your habits!"

The so-called "living weapons" usually refer to weapons that are transformed from creatures such as monsters, elementals, ghosts, etc., and have self-awareness and souls. They can usually "resonate" with the user and then exert more powerful power.

Living weapons often come with dangers.

There was once a genius of the Dark Night School who picked up a sickle that sealed a demon. The demon and humans kept fighting for control of the body, and eventually the demon became a being that was neither human nor ghost.

Ye Zhi was not worried about being attacked back by the activated weapon... As long as he provided [Gluttony] with high-energy food, he would be able to serve obediently!

Mammon continued, "This ritual vessel was made by the Gluttonous Demon God himself, and is mixed with the original power of the Gluttonous Demon God."

"Originally, the Gluttonous Demon God intended to use it to fight against the legendary monster Leviathan... However, Leviathan has fallen into a long sleep."

"When the Gluttony Demon God was sending this ritual vessel to the material plane, an accident occurred, causing Gluttony to lose control. Currently, Gluttony survives in the human world by preying on prey!"

There was deep greed in Mammon's tone.

"As long as we control it and raise it carefully, we can obtain this precious power from the Gluttonous Demon God!"

"So, what is Leviathan?" Yeats felt that the name sounded very familiar.

"A monster created by God to destroy the world when the end of the world comes... It looks like a giant whale, cold and ruthless, swallowing everything, swimming freely in the ocean and causing tsunamis to flow backwards." Mammon said coldly, "According to the missionaries, when the end of the world comes, pagans will become food for Leviathan... Humph, it's nothing more than a disaster from the old era, happening again."

Ye Zhi suddenly realized that it looked like a creature that could swallow anything, Kun! The [Gluttony] ritual vessel could actually fight against this legendary monster. Ye Zhi was really curious about its true form.

At Yeats's request, President Varian took Yeats to the stolen warehouse. It was a barn located next to a wheat field. It was spacious and could store a large amount of reserve grain. However, the barn was in a mess, with tattered sacks all over the floor.

"These were originally used to store potatoes, radishes, cabbages and other food. They were just moved in yesterday, and I even sent sentries to guard them." President Varian said helplessly, "I didn't expect that most of the stored food would be swept away overnight. Only a few bags of food were left!"

"Is it possible that the murderer was attracted to the Butte Montmartre because of the food celebrations at the Harvest Festival?" Yeats speculated.

President Varian brought Ye Zhi to the wheat field next to the granary, pointed at the strange pattern in the middle of the wheat field, and said worriedly:

"I am now worried that this crop circle is the footprints left by a giant..."

"Only giants have such a big appetite that they can devour the food rations of thousands of people in one night, but we can't find the whereabouts of the giants!"

"However, please rest assured, Your Majesty." President Varian said in a loud voice, "Just give me three days, and I will find the real culprit and give Your Majesty an explanation!"

Ye Zhi shook his head and deliberately said, "Three days? I'm afraid King Roland can't wait that long. Something went wrong with the feast celebration, and His Majesty is already very unhappy. He has already returned to the palace first. If the real culprit cannot be found within one day, I think His Majesty may be furious."

Guild President Varian immediately frowned: "To be honest... this crop circle has appeared before, but we couldn't find its origin, so we had to give up... It might be difficult to close the case within one day!"

"Let me help you," Ye Zhi said calmly. "I am also a famous food chef. Since we share the same interests, I will investigate the crop circles and food theft cases. The truth will be revealed within a day!"

Varian's heart had already fallen to the bottom, and he was ready to be punished by King Roland. Yeats' words were like a bright light that made Varian's eyes glow with hope.

"Really? Your Excellency the Duke, are you serious?" Varian looked hopeful and unbelieving, and confirmed again.

Seeing Ye Zhi nod, Varian's expression became excited and he said loudly: "Great! Your Excellency the Duke's kindness, I and the entire Food Association will remember it in our hearts!"

"So...what are you going to do? If there is anything I can help with, just tell me. I'm always at your disposal!" Varian patted his strong chest and said firmly.

Ye Zhi pondered for a moment and said, "First, send people to continue moving grain into the empty granary. If there is no surplus grain, go to the surrounding villages and towns to buy it or find grain merchants in the city. In short, continue to fill up this granary."

"Since they succeeded so easily once, there is a high possibility that they will come back a second time."

Yeats could not help but think of the experience that "the perpetrator always returns to the scene" and continued:

"This is equivalent to bait. I will set traps around this granary and wait for the murderer to show up again, and then capture him in one fell swoop!"

"Okay, as you command!" Guild Master Varian said repeatedly, "I, I'll do it right away!"

He walked away in a hurry, calling the rest of the food chefs over and distributing tasks to his subordinates.

Yeats stayed in the middle of the wheat field, observing the crop circles that looked like giant footprints. He measured the size of the owner of the footprints and said in a strange tone:

"So, Gluttony is so huge? And he has the ability to become invisible, so he won't be noticed?"

Mammon said in a serious tone, "According to the Gluttonous Demon, the Gluttonous Ritual Vessel is comparable in size to the legendary monster Leviathan!"

"But it doesn't have the ability to hide its body. Besides, it has been hungry for so long in the material plane, so its size and strength must have been greatly reduced!"

Mammon jumped out of the ring and landed in the wheat field. He glanced at the huge crop circle and said calmly, "I guess it just wants to use this huge footprint to scare others... But this also exposes the truth of its declining power!"

Yeats thought for a while and decided to use the old method, using "food temptation" to make gluttony appear.

"Do you know, Mammon, what gluttony likes to taste?" Yeats asked.

"I eat everything when I'm gluttonous, but my favorite is probably sweets... because sugar can often provide more energy." Mammon replied.

"That makes sense! Then we will make desserts in this wheat field and wait for Gluttony to fall into the trap!"

"So, what kind of dessert are you going to make?" Mammon's golden eyes sparkled slightly, "Do you have any jelly?"

It's obviously you who wants to eat it!

Ye Zhi coughed lightly and said, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do. I plan to make a dessert called 'Parfait', which means ice cream jelly!"

Parfait originated in France and was not created until the 19th century. Nowadays, it is undoubtedly a cross-century delicacy.

This kind of dessert usually consists of ice cream, fruit, cream, vanilla or chocolate sauce, and jelly placed in a long glass. The sweets are stacked layer by layer with distinct textures and a rich taste.

As for ingredients, there is no need to worry about it at all. The Food Guild is right next to you, and the inventory has all kinds of Warcraft ingredients... Ingredients above the fourth ring are rare, but they are enough.

Ye Zhi called over President Varian, handed him the list of ingredients he had prepared, and told him to prepare them as soon as possible.

Varian held the parchment scroll in his hand, examined it carefully, and murmured:

"Unicorn milk, moon berries, dryad heart preserves, fairy jam, northern honey wine syrup, gem worm gold foil... Lord Yeats, all these ingredients you want are used to make desserts!"

"That's right." Ye Zhi nodded, "I plan to use desserts as bait to lure the culprit out!"

Varian was stunned and hesitated: "Is this...really possible?"

"If it doesn't work, I have a backup plan. I can use the seduction song to attract the monsters... Of course, this will easily cause a beast tide, so I'd better try this method first." Ye Zhi said.

Varian looked respectful, thinking that the bard's bewitching song could only confuse one monster at most, but the music chosen by the God of Art could trigger a tide of beasts!

Although the materials on the list were few, it was not difficult for the president of the Feast Guild to gather them all. Before the sun set, Varian handed a storage bag to Ye Zhi.

"The materials are all inside, Your Excellency the Duke."

Ye Zhi nodded and smiled, "I will make a few more copies... President, you can come and taste it when the time comes. This dessert will be delicious."

President Varian laughed dryly... He didn't have the leisure time for that. He just hoped that the Duke's "sweet trap" plan would work, so that the murderer could be caught and His Majesty would not blame him!

Not far from the granary, there is an open-air stove for making desserts in the open-air market.

Yeats borrowed a gourmet chef's stove and started making the "Giant Fairy Parfait".

The large glass goblet weighed about ten pounds and needed to be held with both hands. Ye Zhi poured unicorn milk into the bottom of the goblet. Unicorn milk was as smooth as silk and rich in nutrition. The elves all said it was good after drinking it! Immediately, Ye Zhi scooped up the fruit ice cream made with moon berries and put it in the goblet one ball at a time.

The method of making the dryad's heart candied fruit seems inhumane, as it requires taking out the core of the dryad while it's still alive, and then making it into candied fruit...similar to the method of extracting bear bile.

However, some scholars claim that tree spirits have no sense of pain! Taking a part of the tree core can also help speed up the growth of tree spirits!

The candied tree spirit heart has a refreshing and sweet taste, and Yeats decorates the ice cream balls with it.

Pour in strawberry-colored jam, which has a floral scent, then drizzle with golden honey wine syrup from the North and sprinkle with colorful jewelworm gold foil.

Please...collect 6...9...books...!

The gem worms on the Central Court are elemental creatures that can absorb elements of various attributes and form gold foil or gem particles of corresponding attributes on their backs. The gourmet chef will use tweezers to remove these edible element crystals from the backs of the gem worms and use them to decorate food.

Before he knew it, the area around Yeats's stove was already filled with spectators, who were watching intently and marveling at the process of Yeats making desserts.

"Lord Honeysuckle Duke...is actually a gourmet?"

"This dessert is so unique, I've never seen it before!"

"Shh... looks delicious!"

Guild President Varian observed Yeats and was surprised to see how skillfully he handled the gem bugs.

Your Excellency the Duke, are you also a gourmet chef?

This gentleman is truly talented. Not only does he shine in the duel tournament, but I didn't expect that he also has certain accomplishments in his career and life!

The giant strawberry parfait was ready, and there was a sound of people swallowing their saliva. Someone bravely asked:

"Sir! What kind of dessert is this? Why have I never seen it before?"

Ye Zhi smiled and said, "This is a dessert I invented. It's called Parfait. As for the production method, I will make it public in a while."

"I remember that whiskey and sandwiches were also delicacies invented by you?" the man said.

Ye Zhi nodded in acknowledgment, which immediately caused a cheer at the scene.

President Varian suddenly realized that it was no wonder that he felt familiar with the name of Duke Yeats!

His territory was famous for its food culture. Even in Roland, the country of gourmet food, his territory, Morningfrost Ridge, was well-known for its various original delicacies! Varian's admiration for Yeats increased even more, thinking to himself: "The God of Art has the leisure to study food... This just proves that food is also an art..."

The dessert was ready. Ye Zhi looked at its specific properties and a line of small words appeared in front of him.

[Giant Fairy Parfait: 6 stars. Made with unicorn milk, fairy jam, moonlight berries and other ingredients, this parfait dessert can fully restore physical and mental injuries, temporarily increase the power of moonlight spells, and slightly increase charm and affinity after consumption, and temporarily enhance insight.]

In the game, insight is a very metaphysical attribute, which is always related to the probability of discovering treasures.

In reality, Yeats guessed that this had something to do with intuition.

Gray's insight is excellent...it may also be because Dragonborn have a natural bond with treasures!

Sunset.

Yeats told Varian to pick up the tall glass and place it in the center of the crop circle, then invoke the power of the mist to set up an illusion barrier around it.

Once a living creature enters, the magic circle will be triggered and the target will be knocked unconscious using illusion.

"Your Excellency the Duke, this trap is too strange... You can see through it at a glance, right?"

Varian looked at the oddly shaped parfait goblet with a complicated expression.

In the ring, Mammon said: "Gluttony has poor eyesight and relies mainly on its sense of smell. With its greedy personality... even if it knows it is a trap, it will rush forward without hesitation!"

Ye Zhi smiled slightly and said, "Let's wait and see what happens."

The sun is setting.

Ye Zhi asked Varian to continue to stay around the magic circle and watch, while he returned to the celebration site and made a few normal-sized fairy parfaits for his magical pets to taste.

While pecking at the parfait, the snowy owl glanced at the automatically floating spell scroll, exuding the academic temperament of a great magic mentor.

The little squirrel held his forehead and said, "Do I have to learn magic while eating? This is too much!"

The black cat leaned in to lick the parfait. Its eyes suddenly lit up, and then it buried its entire head in the glass. When it raised its head, its face was covered with ice cream and it licked the corner of its mouth with its tongue.

Little greedy cat·JPG.

Ye Zhi rubbed Mammon's hair, feeling satisfied.

As night fell, the magic circle showed no response, and Ye Zhi began to get worried.

Mammon comforted Yeats instead.

"With your food skills, once Gluttony smells the food, it will rush over regardless of everything and will definitely fall into the trap!"

At this time, Varian's nervous communication sounded:

"Master Yezhi! The barrier has been triggered!"

Yeats immediately rushed to the wheat field.

The tall glass in the center of the crop circle had been knocked over, and the ice cream was all over the floor. The bright moonlight illuminated a small monster rolling and grunting in the wheat field.

This monster was shaped like a badger, with fur as smooth and shiny as oil, glowing a lustrous purple in the moonlight, and a pair of blunt horns on its head.

It seemed as if it had fallen into an illusion, as if it had seen a beautiful dream. It rolled around in the wheat field for joy, emitting a huffing and puffing laughter.

Ye Zhi was shocked and asked, "What kind of monster is this? A bastard?"

Mammon was facing a formidable enemy and said, "This is the gluttonous monster, Behemoth!"

In the Genesis legend, God created Behemoth and Leviathan with clay on the sixth day. Behemoth was named "Earth Monster". Later generations named another rhino-like monster "Behemoth" based on the legend of Behemoth! It can be said that the legend of Behemoth is the origin of Behemoth!

Legend has it that Behemoth can tear apart the earth's plates and shake the entire continent. He is also a glutton and has to swallow a thousand mountains every day to fill his stomach...

Ye Zhi looked at the little purple pig and felt that the gap was too big, and was stunned.

"You call this a Behemoth?"

"No mistake." Mammon said seriously, "Gluttony is just weakened. He does have the blood of a legendary beast in his body and is worthy of the name 'Behemoth'!"

Ye Zhi was silent and picked up "Behemoth" with one hand. The purple pig woke up and screamed like a pig being slaughtered.

Gluttony: “Hehehe!”

Help, help me!!

Yeats had mixed feelings.

Isn't this right? You're working before you reach adulthood?

(End of this chapter)