"Haiz. No matter how I explain it, I'm afraid it's hard for you to understand."
Satrito shook his head and said, he also didn't want to explain much because this involved many other organizations and kingdoms.
If this was revealed, he was afraid that chaos would engulf this world and that blood would dye the whole world red.
Seraphen pouted, she felt that Satrito was a bit like Hikaru, as he was always looking down on her.
"Alright! I won't ask… but…" said Seraphen as he took out the cake that Hikaru gave her, placed it on a plate, and gave it to Satrito.
Satrito was originally going to say that he didn't want to eat the cake, but when he saw the shape of the cake, he immediately frowned.
"This…" Satrito suddenly remembered that more than 12,000 years ago, he once saw a cake just like this.
"Seraphen, where did you get this cake?"
Seraphen smiled and said, "I got it from Hi… no, from the Void Lord."
"Void Lord? The one rumored by many to have destroyed the Dark-Elf Kingdom?"
Seraphen shook his head: "It was him, but he was not the one who destroyed the Dark-Elf kingdom."
Satrito suddenly laughed and said, "Hahaha… Looks like… My Holy Maiden is already in love with the Void Lord."
"Heh?! What are you talking about, Pope. I don't love him."
"Alright! I understood!"
"What do you understand?!"
"Whatever I understand."
Seraphen: "..."
She felt as if Satrito was misunderstanding something but he didn't give her a chance to explain.
Also, she couldn't explain herself either.
However, at this time, Satrito did not care too much about Seraphen, he held the plate of cake in his hand, and felt that this one was extremely familiar.
"Seraphen, are you sure it was the Void Lord who gave you this cake and not Sarinba?"
Hearing Satrito's question, Seraphen nodded very firmly: "Of course, I ate one, and I felt that it was countless times better than Sarinba's cake, so I asked for a few more to give you."
Satrito frowned, and fell into contemplation. Seraphen, seeing Satrito's expression, did not dare to disturb him.
Satrito was indeed a very gentle Pope, and his face always had a warm smile.
However, he couldn't be too friendly sometimes, especially at times like this. When the smile on his face disappeared, that's when Satrito became extremely dangerous.
"This cake…is so familiar. I saw it about 12,000 years ago."
"12,000 years ago?" Seraphen was startled: "Pope, how long have you lived?"
Hearing that, Satrito shook his head and said, "For you, maybe 12,000 years is a huge number. However, for some people, 12,000 years seems like a pipe dream."
"Heh?!" Seraphen seemed unable to believe Satrito's words, her face was filled with confusion and disbelief.
Satrito continued: "Seraphen, your knowledge is limited, you can't see many things, so you think it's unbelievable."
"If you see much of what I am seeing, you will realize that 12,000 years is a small number."
"In the era before the fog came, many people lived for more than 100,000 thousand years. Many races with tremendous power like the Dragons or the Fairy Dragons lived for millions of years."
Seraphen had a bit of a headache, she knew that there were races with very long lifespans, but she didn't expect their lifespans to be that long.
So that means… Satrito had been alive since before the mists invaded this world. Is that an era where the concept of 'sky' still exists?
How wonderful!
She really wanted to see the sky in that era…
"So… how is this cake different from Sarinba's cake?" Seraphen asked.
Satrito did not rush to answer, he took a closer look at the cake and said: "This cake… it is made with extremely delicate hands. Every detail on the cake is placed with extreme precision…"
Hearing Satrito's words, Seraphen also looked at the cake, but she didn't see what Satrito said, she just felt that the cake was very beautiful.
"The ratio is absolutely perfect. If…"
Satrito recalled the past, as he opened his mouth to take a bite of the cake.
That piece of cake then entered Satrito's mouth, and in an instant, the taste of the cake exploded inside his mouth.
Satrito rememberd the past…
At that time, he was very young, only about 10 years old. His father, the current Pope at the time, called him and told him that this was a cake made by a famous chef.
After eating that cake, he fell in love with the cake that the chef made.
Suddenly, two tears rolled down his cheeks and fell to the ground.
When Seraphen saw this scene, she was startled and shouted: "Pope! Are you okay?"
Satrito heard Seraphen call him, and he immediately regained consciousness. He looked at Seraphen with a smile and shook his head: "I'm fine, just recalling some childhood memories."
"Seraphen, do you know that when I was little, I used to eat a cake like this. No, the taste of this cake is a little better than the cake back then."
"Many years have passed, even if this world is in a fog, and even if this world doesn't have the ingredients to make cake, I still hoped that I would be able to eat the same cake as before once again."
"Thank you, Seraphen…"
"Heh?!" Seraphen found it extremely difficult to understand. Could just a cake move someone like that?
However… that cake was really delicious, so delicious that she didn't dare eat it. In the past few days, whenever she was sad, she would take out that cake to look and smell a little.
Fortunately, she asked Hikaru for two cakes, one for Satrito, and one for her.
Seraphen asked, "Didn't you find that cook?"
Satrito shook his head: "The first time I ate that cake, that cook died."
"What?!" Seraphen was a little surprised.
Satrito continued: "In fact, that cook died 30,000 years ago. My father kept the cake in the storage space, so it didn't get damaged."
"I also heard from my father that the person who made that cake was a legendary royal chef. She is a mixed-blood, a hybrid between a human and a Beast."
"After the third pope ordered the extermination of all mixed-bloods, she also disappeared. Whether she is alive or dead remains a mystery."
"However, people who loved the food she made tried to track her down. But all their efforts were met with disappointment, as she seemed to have disappeared from this world, without any information or traces to prove that she existed."
"When I ate the remaining cake that my father kept, that was also the time when the world's food was in crisis."
"Too many people starved to death, and there were even people who turned to cannibals. That period was like hell on earth, fortunately the Sanctuary had food reserves so there was no need to worry about food shortages."
"Other races or kingdoms are not as fortunate. War broke out over food for 2,000 years."
"After that, the fog came like a bucket of water and poured over the fire of war. The war immediately stopped, and the races began to worry more about defending themselves than conquering other lands."
"Haizzz, the world becoming like this is probably part of the Sanctuary's responsibility…"
Satrito said while sighing, he felt his emotions were extremely heavy like he was shouldering the guilt of the whole world.
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. We should talk about this cake…" Satrito suddenly looked at the cake while smiling.
It seemed that the cake in his hand could dispel all sorrow and suffering.
"I feel… this cake can't possibly be a cake kept from ancient times until now."
"This cake… must have been made not too long ago."
"Heh?! How can you be so sure?" Seraphen asked, confused.
"If you reach King rank or higher, then you have the ability to discern the energy within things." Satrito explained.
"Even if you put something inside the storage space, when you take it out, it's no different from when you put it inside the storage space, but there's one thing that helps me determine how long it has already been inside the space. Do you know what that is?"
"It's space energy."
"Spatial energy exists inside storage space or any other pocket of space. This kind of energy has no effect on the amount of things placed inside the storage space."
"However, the longer the item is placed in the storage space, the more space energy it has around it."
"This cake doesn't have any space energy around it. I guess it was created not long ago, maybe 20-30 days."
Seraphen was startled hearing that, she didn't think that based on the little energy surrounding the cake, Satrito could predict the exact time this cake was created.
Satrito rubbed his chin and said, "That means the Void Lord is indeed capable of making this cake. No, to be more precise that ancient cook is currently at the Void Lord's place."
"What's more horrifying is that… the ingredients for this cake also have very little spatial energy around it. That means… The Void Lord has the ability to develop agriculture."
Seraphen didn't know what to say right now, no, rather she couldn't speak.
The Pope was really intuitive. Thanks to just one cake, he was able to deduce a lot of information.
She felt a little embarrassed, it seemed that all she cared about was how to get more cakes from Hikaru's place.
Satrito frowned, he seemed to be thinking about something, and his face was very serious.
"Seraphen, do you know the location of the Void Lord?"
Seraphen shook her head at that, but then nodded. She explained: "Pope, I… shall I attack the Void Lord's kingdom?"
Satrito nodded: "I already know that. Seraphen, like I said, you can't hide anything from me."
"So..." Seraphen was about to say something when Satrito immediately interrupted.
"Temporarily postpone the attack on the Void Lord's territory. Maybe… I should meet him once."
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