Chapter 672: The Wise King Explores the Underworld Again

It was as if everything had returned to the starting point. The uninvited guest who broke into the underworld was expelled by Chi Lei.

If you think about it this way, you still feel a little nostalgic?

After beheading the enemy general in the midst of thousands of troops, beating Amakusa, investigating Uruk, saving the people in distress, fighting with Kingu, trying to wake up Tima but failed, avoiding the investigation of the Magic King, and planting trees at the border of the Persian Gulf, and picking some wild vegetables by the way...

Suddenly realizing that the day he sneaked out of the underworld was actually full, so that when he was treated the same way as more than ten hours ago, Shuoyue was actually a little moved.

Then, facing the real Chi Lei, whose every strike could penetrate the Servant's spirit core, Shuoyue raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

Snap.

The Moon Spirit Kingship in his hand flashed a glimmer, and it seemed as if some words had taken effect, subduing Chi Lei in the air, and then scattered like birds and beasts.

No more power.

As if he was the master of the underworld.

Long before leaving the Hades, the authority left by the Sumerian gods here was analyzed by the Third Law, the Destiny Atlas, and Mooncell. Except for the core part that could not be read, the rest of the functions, even if Ai Lei did not nod, Shuo Yue could bypass her and activate them.

However, in order to avoid the little angel's anger, Shuo Yue never did so.

Speaking of which, this goddess of the underworld did not respond except for the "polite greeting" when Shuo Yue entered the door.

Is she hiding in a corner again?

Mobilizing the authority of the Hades, Shuo Yue raised his eyebrows, then landed at the door of the temple and walked in.

Just in the corner next to the door, Shuo Yue saw the goddess with golden hair falling like a waterfall and wrapped in a red robe, with her back to him, saying nothing.

At Ai Lei's feet, there was a flower.

The petals have withered, and even the stems and leaves are gradually disappearing... the flowers that once bloomed.

"…It's over."

Shuoyue guessed it at a glance. The fixation of the third method has its limits after all. It seems that the wear and tear brought by the breath of the underworld is much stronger than expected.

The flowers that were expected to wither after his return had already withered before that.

Ailei must have looked for him anxiously - but she finally found that the young man had left the underworld.

Not everyone is like her, who can only stay underground forever. No one likes the underworld more than the human world, let alone a magician who comes and goes as freely as the wind?

When Shuoyue laughed, the goddess of the underworld sat in the temple, silently watching the flowers fall little by little. Even with the supreme authority and the control of the souls of this world, she still couldn't reverse the withering and flourishing of a flower.

What a painful feeling that would be.

"Sorry... This is my negligence." Facing the silent Ai Lei, Shuo Yue did not find excuses, but sat down beside Ai Lei and apologized earnestly, "I'm sorry for making you go through a painful time."

The goddess next to him did not respond immediately. She buried her face in her knees, almost rolled herself into a golden fluffy ball, and then tried to respond calmly:

"It's okay, you don't have anything to apologize for. It's better to say that I should thank you... It's just that the underworld cannot bloom. I should have known this a long time ago."

The courtyard filled with the breath of death cannot attract flowers that symbolize life. Even the Lycoris radiata blooming on the banks of the Yellow Spring River has no soil for its survival in the underworld of Sumerian mythology.

"Ah, this... I obviously wanted to make you happy, but I did something wrong with my good intentions." Shuo Yue scratched his cheek in distress, "It's outrageous, this is really outrageous. The third magician actually hurt the people he cares about... It's a big failure."

What did you say?

For a moment, Ai Lei couldn't help but want to turn around and ask about the fallacy in the young man's words. However, after witnessing the withering of the flower, the gloomy character had completely taken away her vitality, causing the girl to close her eyes listlessly and not care.

Anyway, it was just an illusion.

Yes, it was just like a dream... After waking up, there was nothing.

Including flowers and people.

The goddess, who had not closed her eyes since the departure of the new moon, fell asleep in this negative thought.

Then, she was awakened by a strange fragrance that seemed to be able to seduce people's souls.

No, this feeling was mentioned in the information in the memory.

It was a taste that the goddess of the underworld had never tasted, but it seemed that the girl as a carrier had to encounter it every day and had long been accustomed to it.

It seemed to be called... vegetable fragrance?

When recalling this term, foods that did not belong to the goddess of the underworld but were engraved in the memory emerged one after another.

Rapeseed oil, mutton, beets, cucumbers, crucian carp, figs...

"Gulp." I couldn't help swallowing my saliva. When I reacted, Ailei held her cheeks and covered the rising steam with her hands.

Cold, calm myself.

All this is fake, yes, it's all fake!

This is the underworld, where any creature on the ground will quickly rot. How could the things in this girl's memory appear here?

It must be the bait thrown by the young man with bad taste to trick me out.

I, I won't take the bait!

The goddess of the underworld clenched her fists to cheer herself up, while on the other side, Shuoyue was using freshly squeezed rapeseed oil to experiment with new dishes with great interest.

"The ingredients of the Age of Gods are different. The mutton is tender and juicy, and the cucumber is sweet and sour... Ah."

He even had time to pick up a few slices of cucumber cut by Gan Jiang Moye and put them into his mouth to chew with relish: "Salt and oil are roughly prepared, and the light and dark soy sauces are also supplemented with mutton and mushroom soup. Hmm, in this way, delicious dishes can be made in the Age of Gods."

Only when he is in a good mood will the young man unconsciously use the catchphrases of the two emperors. Coming to a completely unfamiliar era, all kinds of fresh ingredients make Shuoyue eager to try, and he can't wait to show his full level. However, before any step, there is a white and golden light dripping from the young man's fingertips, wrapping the pots and pans, making the ordinary kitchen utensils have the brilliance of a treasure.

It's the third method, I added the third method!

Only the third method can compete with the breath of the underworld. With the previous experience of the withered flowers, Shuoyue did not take it lightly. With the idea of ​​​​better to be excessive than to be lacking, he applied the blessing of the third method every moment.

The aroma was wafting in the air, and even the Garula spirits, who were supposed to have no sense of smell, were moved by the news, and rushed towards the temple like hungry dogs hearing the sound of dinner. As a result, they were all blocked outside the invisible barrier by Shuoyue's wave of his hand, and could only turn around aggrievedly and make whimpering sounds.

"A bunch of little ghosts, these dishes are for your Lady King of Hell." Shuoyue knocked on the pot and said with a smile, "What's more, even if it is served to you, how are you going to eat it? Can the spirit open its mouth and swallow the entity?"

As soon as the voice fell, the Garula spirits that were running around suddenly froze in place, and then they wilted one by one, falling to the ground like plastic bags, piling up in a pile, and stopped moving.

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Sakutsuki looked at the antics of the Garula spirits, chuckled, and sprinkled a handful of light dust from the third law, then walked to Ailei with a mouth-watering delicacy, showing a confident smile on his face:

"Consider it my apology, goddess, please enjoy the food I carefully prepared."

This is one of the three traditional arts of the Emiya family (the other two are I want to be a partner of justice and I kill myself). Sakutsuki believes that in front of the EX's cooking skills, even the goddess who is ignorant of the world will not be able to help but make a sound of "oh".

There is nothing that can't be solved with one meal. If there is, then two meals will do!

This confident young man saw the cute goddess like a plush ball trembling slightly, as if her heart was shaken, but in the end she didn't move, just turned her back to him, and said in a resentful tone:

"Don't worry about me, Shuoyue, anyway, I am a stupid goddess who likes to hide in the corner and autistic, no one will like me at all... ah!"

Until someone pinched her cheek unreasonably and stuffed a spoonful of risotto into her mouth, and chewed it subconsciously for a while, Ai Lei stared at Shuoyue who attacked her with her beautiful eyes wide in surprise: "Um, um, um, um!"

Dare to blaspheme the goddess! Audacious! Disrespectful!

However, these rebukes were drowned in the huge waves of delicious food. When the delicious crucian carp soup mixed with the fragrance of rice grains passed through the taste buds, Ai Lei's brain suddenly fell into a blank, wrapped in unprecedented happiness.

——Then, she choked and coughed violently.

"Bite the food into small pieces and then swallow it." Shuoyue brought the side dishes and cut fruits up like an old mother, "As for whether to praise me or criticize me later... let's wait until the goddess recovers her vitality."

It turns out that you still know what you did!

Ai Lei glanced at Shuoyue with a reproachful look, but she really didn't want to be distracted by things that had nothing to do with food, so she puffed up her cheeks, sat up angrily, and raised her chopsticks as if to vent her anger, and picked up the stir-fried cucumber slices.

Then...

Ya Bai, this is also delicious!

The goddess barely maintained her reserve, her cheeks puffed up like a hamster, and the young man held the tray and smiled and admired it.

And these two people who controlled the underworld didn't notice that with a flash of golden light, someone maintained the posture of sitting on the throne and opened his red snake eyes.

"Hoo... This divine breath floating in the air, has the god of the underworld returned?"

However, when those eyes turned to the temple behind the seven doors, there was a subtle doubt in his eyes.

Why, he faintly smelled a strange smell, it felt like...

"Fish soup? How strange, how can there be such a smell in the underworld? Did the goddess come up with something interesting?"

Muttering, the mysterious man took a step, and then shrank back the next moment.

"No, I still have to hide my breath. Even if I am the king, I must restrain my power here..."

Whispering to himself, the mysterious man had no awareness of falling into the underworld, and just like that, he took action.