Green Monster Epic

Negotiations with Da Vinci weren't particularly difficult; Da Vinci was frank and direct, while Allen was rational and calm.

With just one meeting, the two reached a consensus on the overall situation of their respective camps and even the alliance.

However, besides this, Allen had several more meetings awaiting him, requiring him to take the initiative to visit. Each of these meetings would inevitably develop in the same direction as the discussion between Allen and Da Vinci.

Meetings with the gnoll demigod Blicken and the centaur Three Kings Court, as well as the centaur church special envoy, were necessary. Even the troll demigod Allen and the goblin demigod Marvin, two pillars who hadn't directly expressed their attitudes at the celebration, needed Allen to personally meet with them to maintain superficial friendliness.

The support of Blicken and the centaur Three Kings Court also needed to be repaid. There's no such thing as a free lunch, even if Allen didn't actively ask for this lunch himself.

Fortunately, these forces didn't make excessive demands. The centaur Kings Court was acting on the request of their protector, the centaur god Chiron, who only wanted a possibility. Anyway, expressing support, as Da Vinci analyzed to Allen, wouldn't harm the interests of the centaur race but would gain the friendship of Allen, this newly advanced Saint.

Blicken, on the other hand, had always wanted to win Allen over. After personally visiting Green Field Plains this time and witnessing the changes in the Northern Territory's layout, he was even more impressed by Allen's methods and could take the opportunity to learn from him.

Among the five pillars of the alliance, when it came to ambition and fighting spirit, besides the youngest Allen, perhaps the gnoll demigod Blicken was the strongest.

The others had advanced long ago, and their ambition and fighting spirit had been worn down to some extent, such as Da Vinci, the old kobold; or they possessed talent only in combat but lacked the ability to manage a tribe, such as Marvin.

Only Blicken, who advanced to demigod before Allen, hadn't completely lost his ambition and fighting spirit. Furthermore, his own camp's power wasn't as strong as the other demigods, so under the influence of a sense of crisis, Blicken had been constantly fighting fiercely and taking proactive action in recent years.

This was also the reason why Blicken was the first to express goodwill towards Allen after he advanced to demigod. Anyway, their two tribes were tens of thousands of miles apart, and their spheres of influence didn't overlap, so there was naturally no relationship of competitive interests.

With their previous friendship and this time's initiative support, the subsequent exchanges became even deeper and closer. Anyway, after Allen talked with the gnoll demigod for two days, the expression on his face when he walked out of the other party's residence was much more relaxed than when he finished talking with Da Vinci.

By the time the meetings with various important figures ended, the cooking competition that the Green Field Tribe and the visiting merchants and tourists had long been looking forward to finally kicked off amidst a dazzling fireworks display.

For this competition, the Green Field Tribe mobilized all the power at their disposal. The various ingredients they prepared alone numbered over ten thousand.

To maintain the freshness of the ingredients, the tribe even mobilized all ice-type mages, warlocks, and druid friends through the Adventurers Guild and their own conscription, just to preserve the ingredients using the ice-sealing power of ice magic and ensure that the ingredients wouldn't deteriorate when thawed using the divine术 power of the druids.

And those well-known or unknown spices, just piled up in room after room of storage, emitted a rich and exotic fragrance that lingered and drifted in Green Lake City for a long time.

During the Gourmet Festival, Green Lake City began to open the registration points for the competition. Chefs from all walks of life who had been eager to try their skills flocked to these registration points. After paying the registration fee of 30 silver coins, they only waited for the preliminary round of the competition to begin.

Although everyone didn't expect that registering for the competition would also require a fee, it was somewhat unexpected. However, the fee wasn't too high. Those with some ability and a few signature dishes felt it was worth a gamble, while those who were just there for fun felt it wasn't worth it and were afraid of being screened out in the first round.

Even so, the number of chefs who signed up reached more than five thousand. Among these five thousand people, less than 1/3 were chefs from the Green Field Tribe, only a little over a thousand. The remaining nearly four thousand were chefs from all over the world, which surprised those who were paying attention to the event.

However, Allen, Albad, and other members of the Food God Society felt a bit gratified. The more foreign chefs who participated in this competition, the better it proved that their Magic Chef system was developing outside. And the Food God Society, which was closely related to the Magic Chef, naturally had a broader world, laying a solid foundation for the promotion of the church's faith in the future.

The more chefs participating, the more problems it would naturally bring. Fortunately, the Green Field Tribe's scholar team had already prepared for this during the Gourmet Festival.

During the Gourmet Festival, more than one hundred outstanding gourmets selected through voting on the city's cuisine, together with the teachers of the Green Lake Culinary Academy, formed a jury of nearly two hundred people, divided into teams of five, which could basically guarantee the manpower for the preliminary selection and also roughly ensure the fairness of the selection.

"...I announce!!"

"The first Green Lake Cooking Competition now begins!!!"

The vast outer city was divided into three connected areas to barely accommodate these more than five thousand participating chefs, as well as the cooking stoves specially prepared for them.

Allen, without a doubt, became the host of this competition, and he also rarely put on a tailored snow-white chef's uniform over his black dragon scale armor, and wore a cylindrical chef's hat on his head, his image directly matching the statue specially prayed to by the Food God Society.

Allen, flying into the sky, burst out with a thunderous voice that resounded throughout the wilderness. At the same time, the Food God Domain also unfolded on its own. Under Allen's powerful will control, it actually evolved into clusters of raging flames in the air, falling like raindrops towards the three adjacent districts.

Whoosh!!

In the thousands of stoves filled with fuel, without exception, a flame of orange-red fell, instantly igniting the pieces of dry wood in the stove. The rising flames immediately soared into the sky, making the temperature of these three districts scorching in an instant.

"Roar!!!!"

The earth-shattering cheers lingered for a long time until dozens of jury teams began to issue timing orders, and the first batch of cooking chefs quickly took action, rushing towards the area where various ingredients and spices were piled up.

On the high walls surrounding the three districts, more than one hundred legendary powerhouses and envoys from all walks of life enthusiastically overlooked the busy chefs. Perhaps Green Lake City wouldn't have such a grand occasion for a long time to come.