"I do have something I’d like to ask you."
"But first, come in and sit down, let me have you taste my unique special skill."
"Unique special skill?"
On the restaurant’s marble tabletop.
Lin Suo arranged a series of grilled fruits, a bowl of vegetable salad, a fruit mix, and a seaweed cold dish.
He also made tiramisu, jelly, yogurt, and other little snacks on the fly.
With his culinary skills, after being tailored through Valia’s taste training, Elves should generally flavor.
"Try this, it’s a unique secret skill, something you can’t even buy if you wanted to."
Curiously looking at the creatively shaped foods.
Elves only eat vegetarian; their food is either juiced or eaten as fruits. They make good dried fruits, and elf cuisine pays more attention to the natural original flavors.
After tasting a few bites, Theresa began to eat faster and faster.
The corners of her eyes narrowed, relishing the joy.
She has tasted food made by human masters before but none fit the elf taste buds as Lin Suo’s.
They like the flavors a bit sourer and more astringent, including her.
Theresa let out a relaxed breath, crossed her long legs, and lay on Lin Suo’s lounge chair.
She gently rubbed her stomach, her intelligent and attractive face brimming with satisfaction, and then she remarked with a sense of reflection.
"Now I think I understand why that girl Valia fell for you."
"This culinary skill, you must have made food for female Elves quite a few times, haven’t you?"
Lin Suo was tidying up the dishes and utensils, responding.
"The only one who has tasted it is Lea, and the improvement in my skills is thanks to her."
"I developed it based on her taste; it suits Elves, doesn’t it?"
"Yes, Elf girls under a hundred years old would probably all be charmed by your skills."
Lin Suo’s action paused for a moment.
Girls under a hundred years old? That’s equivalent to Elf females around their twenties, quite the pain indeed.
"Thank you for today; it’s been a long time since I’ve had a decent meal."
"That’s an exaggeration, the chefs in the cafeteria aren’t bad."
"Now that you’ve eaten my food, feel free to ask your question, I’ll withhold nothing."
Lin Suo put down the cloth in his hand and directed the Magic Hand to go about its tasks; this thing was almost instinctively trained to do household chores...
"This is the situation."
Because he got to know Theresa, this High Elf of the Royal Family who also specializes in history, it was helpful for him.
Lin Suo’s question was about the Elf Mother Tree.
The Elf Mother Tree has a very unique characteristic: nurturing life.
Legend has it that in the Ancient Times, Divine beings were born from the World Tree.
They formed their own clan, known as the Divine Race.
The currently publicized data shows that the power of the Divine Race is divided into three parts.
Divine Body, Divine Power, and Divine Status.
The Divine Body and Divine Power are innate, with a natural lifespan extending up to a hundred thousand years.
While the Divine Status is their weapon, as well as the method of utilizing Divine Power.
It allows them to command the wind and rain, control lightning and fire, create out of nothing, and achieve omnipotence.
The Divine Status is unique.
And it is very similar to the Magic Rune Study that Lin Suo researched from the Crow-man system. Ten thousand years ago was the Ancient Era; the Ancient Times can be traced back to a million years ago.
With the logic of time as evidence, the possibility that Magic Rune Study had degenerated from the methods of forging Divine Status is not out of the question.
Additionally, as intelligent beings, the Divine Race also evolved, hence over the subsequent millions of years, They gave birth to the fourth source of power—"Divine Office."
According to legend, the Human Race came from beyond the heavens.
Frail at birth, their strength not even one ten-thousandth of a Divine.
But with a unique spirituality, surpassing all beings in the world, their prayers and worship could generate an extraordinarily magical power.
The reason why Divines are considered shepherds of humanity is that "Divine Office" was born of humanity.
They revered nature, and the Power of Faith would converge into clusters, which, once refined by the Divines, formed authority in the shape of Divine Thrones.
The Original Divines, by refining the corresponding Divine Thrones, gained control over nature’s authority.
Divine Office is like opening the permissions on the world’s program.
Nature is the Power They control.
Thus, the Original Divine Race, indifferent to rank and order, initiated the first God War for the Power of Faith and Divine Office!
After this war, the world saw the emergence of the God of Light, God of Darkness, Thunder God, and so on...
There came the division of the main gods and the Divine Race.
Humans established city-states and claimed kingship.
The Era of Kings began, led by the Divines in the struggle for faith, waging interminable wars, with countless dead and wounded.
Then the Dragon Clan, Elf Clan, Dwarfs, Giants, and Giant Trolls of the Longevity Race joined in, either as allies or foes of humans, attempting to probe the fundamental strength of the Divines.
Countless years of evolution eventually led to the situation of the Ancient Times.
Buckling under the pressure, the Fire Transmitter Wizard appeared out of nowhere, leading humans through the long, dark "Sheep Era."
The specifics of the overthrow are not recorded in historical texts.
Only the grand deeds of the Fire Transmitter are mentioned in broad strokes.
One can feel the immense pressure and responsibility just by thinking about it, and that legendary figure indeed deserves the praise of all humanity.
And the Elf Mother Tree possesses the same characteristics as the World Tree.
It’s like... the World Tree’s juvenile form.
Initially, the Elf Clan, like the Original Divine Race, had no such division into distinct tribes; both were altered by belief.
Due to the uniqueness of Magic Power, various tribes such as Moon Elf, Forest Elf, Dark Night Elf, High Elf, and Blood Elf... emerged too many to count.
Like the gods, there are countless Divine Offices.
Looking at so many similarities.
And recently, Lin Suo has been researching the Element Pool in the Wizard Tower, considering it for his own way to complete the Wind Element.
Now meeting Theresa, naturally, he wanted to understand the Elves’ knowledge of the Mother Tree.
After all, creating a World Tree under his control would be challenging.
Maybe a Magic Ring could simulate this possibility.
After listening to Lin Suo’s questions.
Theresa thought for a moment, then answered.
"The possibility that the Elf Mother Tree is a juvenile form of the World Tree is nearly zero, I’m sorry I can’t help you."
Lin Suo was taken aback.
"Actually, this hypothesis has been proposed by Wizards long before you."
"The earliest Mother Tree was destroyed, and the current ones are cultivated by the Elf clans themselves, mostly originating from the branches of the original Mother Tree."
"Perhaps the Mother Tree during the Ancient Times had this potential, but now... it’s completely impossible."
"This..." Lin Suo fell silent.
Theresa continued to speak.
"Earth, water, fire, wind, are called the four Basic Elements because they are the fundamentals that constitute matter, but the world is not only made up of them!"
"There are many Rare Elements, and it is even possible to artificially create new Elements."
"The existing Mother Trees basically only possess one to three Element characteristics."
"For instance, the High Elf’s Mother Tree has the nature, life, sun characteristics, completely different from the truly all-encompassing World Tree."
Lin Suo was filled with disappointment.