Chapter 119: Vortex

Although she was curious, Yun Mu asked nothing.

She followed quietly behind Brenna, and only after the other woman gestured for her to sit did she take her seat at the dining table with elegance.

She had to be elegant!

Elena was standing behind her, watching!

Without turning her head, she could feel the other woman's gaze, which was so scorching it felt as if it would pierce right through her.

But, heh heh, she wouldn't have guessed it.

Back in the day, in order to draw a scene of a noble young lady dining in a manga, she had specifically sought out videos to learn the etiquette and points of attention required for French noble dining.

Although, because she was too poor to ever afford French cuisine, she had never practiced it in person.

But!

She believed there was no problem.

Calm and composed, Yun Mu picked up the knife and fork, and with smooth, flowing movements, sliced open the middle of the croissant, revealing a large gap.

Afterward, she stuffed the lettuce salad and the black pepper sausage into the gap of the croissant one by one, then spread a thin layer of jam over it.

Ta-da!

Yun Mu's homemade croissant hot dog was complete! "What kind of way to eat is this?"

Brenna, who was to the side, had first been drawn in by Yun Mu's practiced movements, and then, upon seeing her actions, asked her.

"It's a way of eating I just thought of, of course."

After the bread, sausage, salad, and jam combination was finished, Yun Mu had wanted to use her hands directly.

But thinking of Elena watching from behind her, she decisively changed to the method of using a table knife to cut off a small piece, then using a fork to deliver it into her mouth.

Although it felt a bit unnecessary, it didn't matter.

As long as the taste hadn't changed, it was fine.

"Ah-woo."

The crispy shell of the croissant made a crisp sound in her mouth, and the soft interior combined with her saliva to release a sweet fragrance.

The crisp lettuce was bitten through easily, followed by the sweet and sour jam, mixed together with the fresh, tender, and juicy black pepper sausage.

The overflowing oils combined with the jam, making one unable to help but produce more saliva.

Delicious!

"I, can I try it too?"

Watching Yun Mu's expression, Brenna couldn't help but ask, feeling a bit curious.

She imitated Yun Mu's movements, quickly finished assembling it, and gently cut off a small piece, delivering it into her mouth. "It's actually really delicious," Brenna said, her expression very surprised.

Come to think of it, does this world not have things like fast food? Looking at Brenna's expression, a bold idea suddenly sprouted in Yun Mu's heart.

If she opened a fast-food restaurant in this world, specializing in selling things like the burgers, fried chicken, and fries from her past life, could it explode in popularity? If she could expand the brand, open chain stores throughout the Frost Kingdom, and become the old grandfather of another world, from then on reaching the peak of life—cough, cough.

Some might think she was dreaming, but that was not the case.

Yun Mu remembered that not long after she had transmigrated, she had seen a report in a newspaper about canned food. (Chapter 18) Actually, canned food is something similar to fast food.

Because it takes little time to cook, it only needs simple heating to be edible.

It can even be eaten without heating, and the taste isn't too bad, so it is loved by the vast number of workers in this world.

Isn't fast food just like that?

As long as she finds a way to control costs, plus overwhelming publicity and operational brainwashing.

She could even take action herself and give the natives of this other world a little bit of two-dimensional anime-girl shock... Uh, never mind.

The workers are already pitiful enough; she was thinking of draining their wallets—she really deserves to die.

"How is it, do you feel anything?"

After enjoying breakfast, while Elena was clearing the plates from the table, Brenna suddenly looked at her and said.

"W-what feeling?" Hearing her words, Yun Mu asked, somewhat confused. "Oh my, you silly girl."

Brenna rubbed her forehead and said, "Elena is a Third-tier Expert Transcendental like me, but her strength is much greater than mine."

"Did you just feel that craving for blood from her?"

"It seems... no?"

Smelling the fragrance emanating from Brenna, Yun Mu couldn't help but lean a step closer to her.

She could indeed feel the blood rich in nutrients within Elena's body, but it lacked the feeling of craving that the blood within Brenna's body emitted.

"Really none?"

Calmly stepping back two paces, Brenna asked again.

"Really none." Yun Mu still shook her head.

"Alright." Seeing this, Brenna did not continue to ask, but just lowered her head, not knowing what she was thinking about.

"Could it be the bloodline?" Lucy's voice suddenly appeared beside Yun Mu's ear.

"What bloodline?" Yun Mu was slightly stunned, then wrote with her finger under the dining table.

"The Blood Clan's, of course," Lucy explained to her: "At this point, it doesn't matter if I tell you."

"I don't know if you've heard of it."

"In the war of the ancient gods, Elsa the Bright Moon and the Lady of the Dark Night Dailianna were defeated by the God of War and Thunder Helington, in alliance with the Beastkin God Robert and the Forge and Flame God Liedisi."

"If it hadn't been for the Elven Ancient Tree Batuoer and the Elves and Elemental Dragons created by Him intervening at the end of the war to end that conflict, the final outcome would have been hard to say."

"In the end, although the war was over, the followers of Elsa the Bright Moon were exiled to the islands outside the continent, while the followers of the Lady of the Dark Night were exiled to the sunless Dixia Shijie."

"And the Blood Clan are the kin created by the Lady of the Dark Night."

"The Blood Clan were created by the Lady of the Dark Night?" Yun Mu was shocked in her heart, but she immediately asked again: "Then what does this have to do with Brenna?"

"Of course it has to do with it," Lucy said.

"The Scarlet Court was established by the radical faction within the Blood Clan," she said, dropping a bombshell.

"The radical faction?" Yun Mu raised an eyebrow.

"Yes."

Lucy continued to explain to her: "No one likes living in the sunless Dixia Shijie; as time passes, those exiled to the Dixia Shijie naturally want to go to the surface to take a look."

"It is precisely because of this that we violated the Taboo."

Lucy's tone suddenly turned low, and she said, appearing deeply regretful: "We betrayed our own deity and sought power from an unknown existence."

"In truth, the Blood Clan itself is not powerful; like the Dark Elves, we are a race created by the Lady of the Dark Night."

"But compared to the Dark Elves, our constitutions are frail, and we even fear the light; if exposed to direct sunlight for even a few minutes, we suffer severe burns."

"At the same time, we are unable to cast spells; our only ability is the manipulation of blood, yet we cannot possess great lethality."

"And after that unknown existence known as 【Scarlet】 truly brought power to all the Blood Clan,"

"we fell completely into a vortex of madness."

PS: The Lady of the Dark Night once imitated the structure of the Elf, attempting to create kin of her own.

She ultimately succeeded in creating the Dark Elves, who have an affinity for the dark night.

And the byproduct of the Dark Elves is the Blood Clan. —The Elemental Dragon, a race created by the Elven Ancient Tree Batuoer, was initially called the Elf Dragon.

It was not until later that the world's first Elf Dragon King, Roderick, was enticed by the God of Pleasure and Chaos, Vikala, to devour the roots of the Elven Ancient Tree and ascend to godhood by relying on the Authority of the Dragon Ancestor.

From this, the relationship between the Elf Dragon and the Elf deteriorated, and they eventually separated, with their name also changing to Elemental Dragon.

And that Dragon God Roderick, who was sealed beneath the tree roots, is therefore also known as the Chaos Dragon God.

Or, the God of Conspiracy and Betrayal.

(End of chapter)