576 The Emperor Mental Stress (2/2)

The Emperor looked at all the dished before speaking.

”Of course! They are all made by the cooks of the palace, the best of the best of this universe. There is no way they serve poisoned food to my guests and me.”

The Emperor really didn't have the guts to order his cooks to poison the food because he was sure that Yale would notice, and it would be useless. Moreover, he didn't believe that any poison of his universe would be able to kill a Great God.

”That would be great if it were true, but there is a poisoned dish here. Your eyes are really bad, or are you trying to poison us?”

Yale pointed a certain dish while speaking.

When the Emperor focused on that dish, he laughed.

”Well, the ingredients of that dish are indeed poisonous, but when cooked by our expert cooks, the poison is neutralized and turns into the best delicacy of our universe. Anyway, the poison of the ingredients can only harm fourth level immortals or weaker.”

Only the palace had cooks that could prepare that dish, so the Emperor felt that Yale just recognized the ingredients and was suspicious of his intentions.

Of course, the poison would be unable to harm Yale or Tofesh, but the same wouldn't apply for the Emperor's young brother, so the Emperor didn't feel strange that Yale mentioned it.

”I know that. However, that isn't cooked properly, it just seems to be properly cooked. That is still poisonous enough to kill your brother, can you explain this?”

Although the poison weakened, it was still more than enough to kill a mere immortal.

The Emperor started to examine the dish closely because he wasn't good discerning that kind of thing since he had never cooked before.

However, after a careful examination, he noticed that Yale told the truth. There was a problem with that dish, although he believed that it was just that as a difficult dish, the cook got nervous and messed it. Usually, if that happened, the Emperor wouldn't notice and wouldn't harm him anyway.

”Call the cook.”

It didn't matter if it was just the cook's failure or not, he needed to at least scold the cook for it.

When the cook appeared, the Emperor spoke before the other party greeted him.

”Have you something to say about this dish?”

Hearing those words, the cook smiled.

”Of course! This is the best dish I made. It is specially prepared to suit the tastes of your guests. I invite you all to start for this dish before it gets cold.”

The cook winked at the Emperor and put part of the poisoned dish in front of each one of Yale's group.

A second later, the head of the cook fell to the ground.

He was dead, but he wasn't killed by Yale or Tofesh, he was killed by the Emperor himself.

He understood that the cook did the poisoned food on purpose to get rid of the Emperor's young brother.

The cook believed that everything was just a facade to kill stealthy the Emperor's young brother, so he specially prepared that poisoned food. He believed that the Emperor would kill the other two afterward.

”I am sorry, I never expected to have such a petty person on the palace's staff. Servants, clean the mess.”

The corpse and the poisoned food were taken out immediately by the servants, and a minute later, it was like if nothing happened.

The Emperor knew that the cook was just misled by his lies, but he needed to kill him first, or when Yale acted, the whole palace would have been destroyed, and probably the whole universe would have followed it.

”Next time... No, there won't be a next time, everything would have ceased to exist if that happens, understood?”

The Emperor nodded quickly when he heard Yale's ultimatum.

He knew very well that the person in front of him was someone that shouldn't be offended, but it seemed that his foolish servants did it, so he was already glad that Yale forgave him that time.

”While eating, why don't you tell us about your invasion plan? It seems very well planned for what I heard.”

The Emperor smiled while thinking that he would win Yale's favor by speaking about it.