Chapter 459: Then, Is It Enough Now?

Even someone as simple as Ailuke had, through countless similar scenes, come to taste the disparities of the world.

The distance between her and Beichangtan, this little companion, and ordinary human children was not something a few train rides could bridge—it was more like the distance between two parallel worlds that never touched…

“Hahaha… don’t worry, our little cuties~”

Smiling warmly, Hermes pulled out a tissue and wiped the corners of their mouths, “In this vast universe, there are plenty of little beings worthy of being called divine infants—friends just like Itachi!”

Divine infants?

Hehe, Hermes was being too conservative. Not only divine infants, but even juvenile deities were not uncommon.

Put more plainly, although Nadisita now stands at the pinnacle of Sumeru, both in appearance and age, she is undeniably a juvenile deity.

There’s no help for it.

As a half of Bue Er , Nadisita is likewise an immortal being—five hundred years of age?

That age is nothing—even legendary dragon species like the Time Dragon or the Force Dragon are likely still gestating within their eggs!

“Alright, little cuties, go find some new friends. Don’t forget to bring along the snack cabinets Floze gave Itachi?”

“Mm, Ailuke’s snack cabinet still holds that mountain of ice cream we brought back from the Ice Cream Snow Mountain last time~”

“Oh dear, Beichangtan’s also stored all the candies we collected during the last Christmas candy rain! This time, I’ll let my new friends taste my and Ailuke’s collection!”

Watching her head maid depart with the two giggling little ones, Hermes finally began to enjoy his meal, finishing the remaining dishes with Floze.

“Cultivating through a hundred classics, absorbing the essence of myriad Dao paths to nourish oneself… truly not everyone can manage that!”

After finishing the last dumpling, Hermes shook his head. Though he had never deliberately studied culinary arts, as Pure Beauty, he remained the most powerful gourmand in the entire multiverse.

A regular great deity—even one as powerful as Morax—might not even notice.

But Hermes was different; he keenly sensed that these dishes were of an extraordinarily high level. Almost no chef-god in the Star Crown Court could produce such cuisine.

Yet, because the forces of Dan Dao, the Way of Cuisine, and Votive Power had not been perfectly integrated, there remained a subtle but profound sense of fragmentation.

To Hermes and Floze, these dishes were less satisfying than simpler, lower-grade meals that were flawless, natural, and harmonious.

“It’s already excellent.”

At this moment, Floze explained for Xiangling: “If I hadn’t been lucky enough to join the chat group and easily draw inspiration from countless culinary systems across the infinite multiverse, I might not even surpass her.”

“This chef-god has reached a peak beyond the imagination of ordinary cooks—there is no path ahead, only endless exploration.”

“A few flaws now are perfectly normal.”

“Then… Floze, have Itachi truly made your decision?”

After tasting the meal, Hermes gazed directly at the elegant, graceful, and deeply approachable beauty before him, asking softly:

“With your chat group as a vast platform, Itachi need not be limited by resources or Dao techniques; combined with your unique homeland—the World of Food Captives—Itachi certainly have a brilliant future ahead…”

But before Hermes could finish, Floze firmly interrupted him.

“Yet if I remain isolated, even with my talent, I may never reach the end.”

The woman, whose exterior was as gentle as moonlight but whose spirit burned like a blazing sun, her eyes gleamed with dazzling light: “What I can never let go of is my homeland—the Earth of Cuisine—where, despite possessing a planet overflowing with food, people still starved to death in times of war… and… my beloved path of cuisine!”

“Now, the people of my homeland have entered a stable path. This is the time to pursue my culinary journey.”

“On the Earth of Cuisine, my culinary Dao already leads by an unbridgeable gap. No chef there possesses the ability to discuss or research the future path with me. And in the universe…”

“Perhaps there exist powerful beings called God Chefs, but… they are not kindred spirits. They cannot discuss with me where the future of my path truly lies.”

“I… need enough like-minded companions!”

“I understand.”

With a tone of clarity.

Star seas rose before Floze.

Transcending single-universe structures, crossing worldviews, spanning spacetimes of different worlds, it appeared as a hand formed by circling star rivers—natural as flowing mountains and rivers, causing not the slightest ripple—as it reached into the World of Food Captives and plucked the Earth of Cuisine like a tiny glass bead.

In Floze’s eyes, star rivers, spacetimes, universes—all vanished, bound entirely within that single palm.

The Cuisine Universe remained undisturbed, as if nothing had happened. That hand of star rivers seized the star system containing the Earth of Cuisine, then…

Something seemed to collapse inward toward that hand.

“Is this… the sovereignty of an entire star system’s cuisine?”

Floze furrowed her delicate brows in confusion: “Don’t the God Chefs, who dwell somewhere unknown, have any objections?”

At her level, she could faintly sense the existence of those God Chefs who viewed the entire multiverse as their dining table.

This was, in fact, one of the main reasons Floze made her decision—

No one wants their homeworld to be suddenly turned into a planetary dish and swallowed whole by some unknown entity.

She was strong, but for a long time, she could never become strong enough to ignore the wills of these God Chefs.

Moreover, to advance further, she could not remain forever in her own world—she needed to travel to other worlds, witness firsthand how their culinary paths evolved…

“What objections could they have?”

“If it weren’t against my principles, I could simply seize the entire multiverse and instantly refine it—it would be simpler. Besides, I’ve already made sufficient compensation to that great universe…”

The opinions of God Chefs?

He had been communicating with that great universe—what right did these creatures have to interfere in his dealings with it?

Did they think his iron fist, nearly as vast as the multiverse itself, was just for show?

With effortless ease, infinite dimensions spontaneously generated within his palm, cosmic order taking shape. Hermes exhaled gently…

Instantly, a dimension as grand as a great universe formed rapidly beneath his gentle exhalation!

Floze: “…”

I only asked Itachi to bring my homeland, the Earth of Cuisine, here… yet…

Itachi’ve used the sovereignty of this tiny star system as a template and opened an entire dimension as vast as a great universe in one breath?

Facing this woman as gentle as moonlight, now wide-eyed in astonishment, Hermes smiled warmly:

“Didn’t Itachi say my Star Crown Court’s soil lacked sufficient nourishment?”

“Then… is it enough now?”