The Splendor of Netheril
Chapter 1229

First Signs of a Conspiracy

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The Eternal Forest's fruit pies were delicious treats made from a variety of fresh fruit flesh. Sweet-and-sour fruit jam mingled with crisp, fragrant flour, while diced yellow-crisp fruit was stuffed into the pie's candied filling. Since these pastries had been sent by Aikar, their surfaces had even been drizzled with copious amounts of golden, fragrant honey that reeked of luxury. Thus, every palm-sized delicacy possessed a perfect appearance and a sweet aroma.

What tempting food, wasn't it? Not only would elf children who rarely got to eat honey be captivated by them, even Mimibes, who had sampled all sorts of delicacies, found herself drooling at the sight of those fruit pies. Although it was rather strange to covet a few enemy-made pies like a little girl while standing on enemy territory, but...

Those fruit pies smelled far too delicious! The fruit honey flowing like golden threads beneath the light was simply too tempting as well!

Staring at the neatly stacked little pastries in the baskets, and thinking, There's no reason for a Bright Moon powerhouse to use something as simple as fruit pies to trap ordinary Legends. There are enough baskets of fruit pies to distribute throughout the entire Elven Royal Court anyway. Eating one or two won't matter... the Candy Merchant was inexplicably compelled to take the most exquisite fruit pie from a basket and put it into her mouth.

"Awoo!"

She swallowed the entire exquisite dessert, which was even smaller than her little fist, in one bite. As she contentedly chewed her food, Mimibes was thoroughly satisfied.

Though she remained under the surveillance of a Bright Moon powerhouse, though she was being swept into an unknown vortex of conspiracy, wasn't there a saying?

Only good food and beautiful scenery should never be wasted.

Even though she knew perfectly

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