[NOAH'S POV]
I had already prepared a sumptuous feast as all of us sat at the dining table including little Franklin.
When he had appeared, the Goddesses had looked at me as if they were eternally wronged.
And after that, I was barraged with countless questions about the kid's identity.
You could imagine the tension caused by me being gone for a day and then returning with an unknown young child!
Luckily, Sue came to my rescue and alleviated the situation.
Now then...
Well, even though cultivators and higher dimensional existences in general normally don't require food, the ladies' nagging led me to cook up something delicious as always.
They had shamelessly branded me as their cooking maid.
How dare they treat a Cooking God like a maid!
Haha, it was just hilarious.
I was pathetically soft sometimes when it came to them and I could do virtually anything just to spoil them.
Just like how a wise man once said, "A man gotta do what he gotta do."
Honestly, was there a saying like that in my previous life? Or was the great me just coming up with some random bullshit?
Heck, why was I even thinking about it?
On the huge rectangular table, there were plates of goat-sized honeyed fried chicken, fried rice, roasted oily pork coated in Ambrosia, Dao Wine, Immortal bean stew, Chapati, meat stew made from the thighs of Thor's goats, Tropical soul juices, and lastly, tortoise soup.
It was a pretty weird combination that I came up with but... it seems the convergence of the soul-stirring heavenly smell all over the room made the brains of those present only concentrate on the food.
What a bunch of hopeless gluttons!
If you were more attentive you might have noticed something funny among the ingredients and that was Thor's Goats, Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder.
Haha, that's right, I was heavily referring to those screaming sirens that looked like Mystic Goats.
The very same goats that always pulled Thor's chariot in the Norse Mythology and I stole them before butchering them to serve as my meal.
I was bored and did that to give the little Asgardian, Thor, a difficult time when he was fighting with Gorr, the God Butcher, in the ShadowVerse.
Many events were happening all over the Infinite universes in Marvel with every second that lapses and I wasn't in the least monitoring or bothered with them.
Any universe was in a constant state of self-continuation that was linked to the aspect of Time, simply Multi-Eternity that encompassed the larger multiverse of Marvel.
And I was effortlessly above Multi-Eternity, Superflow, and simply beyond everything that there was in Marvel.
Yes, I had come to realize I was practically Omniscient in Marvel just like I had been in the Primal Chaos Universe which had an inferior cosmology.
Although I didn't know which level of Strength I had, I came up with a likely hypothesis that I had attained something akin to Extreme Transcendence but not yet on the level of True Absoluteness.
It seems a truly invincible barrier separated me from what seemed to be the final state of existence- Absolute Transcendence.
Sigh, now why was I meandering off to nerdy notions?
Yeah, I was talking about Thor, the unlucky Asgardian.
He was a character with quite a tragic fate.
He lost his father, Odin, watched Asgard being completely annihilated, witnessed Loki's death twice, and finally, lost Mjolnir.
He was a poor dude and I just had to steal his lovely goats.
Was I being unfair, evil, or maybe even sadistic?
Goats were domestic animals meant to be eaten.
It didn't matter if they were goats boosted by the Speedforce, magic, or cosmic forces... to me, they were just food.
I was honestly going by the logic of my previous life.
"What are you thinking about, Noah?"
It was Alaya's sultry mature voice and came from my left side.
She was seated pretty close to me.
I immediately cut off my thought process and looked at her while lightly shaking my head.
I had a warm smile on my face.
"It's nothing important. I was just thinking about some silly things."
"Silly things like what?" Alaya seemed interested in what I had been thinking about.
"Do you remember that guy that wields a hammer, that I told you about?" I asked while taking a sip from the glass of Dao Wine.
My words caught the attention of the whole table.
Wanda arched a brow at me. "You mean Thor, that cocky Asgardian?"
"Who else?" I deadpanned.
"After the members of Avengers went on their own separate ways, I didn't hear from any of them," Sue said absentmindedly.
"What did he do then?" Sue asked and everyone's eyes were at me with looks that demanded answers.
I talk a gulp of the sweet wine and emptied my glass before releasing a short breath.
"Well, I stole his magic goats and made the meat stew that you are currently eating."
"I was just imagining how he would react when he finds out that his dear goats are no more."
The ladies immediately descended into giggles and the atmosphere became more lively.
"Oh Noah, you are slowly becoming eviler. I was not wrong that you are a devil," Sue, who was seated across me, chuckled to herself while taking a subtle bite off a chicken drumstick.
"Oh, you are very wrong Sue," Chi Wuyao interjected with a seductive smile on her face.
The Devil Queen then added with an as a-matter-of-fact expression on her face. "Noah was inherently evil since the day I met him and I can ascertain this as the Devil Queen."
Then another round of laughter ensued.
Shen Xi chuckled with a light nod. "True."
Jasmine pouted while nodding, "Very true."
Xia Qingyue faked a cough, "Very true indeed."
This made the rest say the same thing to add to the rhyme.
It was a pretty much amusing scene.
I then noticed Mu Bingyun stealing surreptitious glances at me from the corner of my eyes.
When she noticed I had caught her, she immediately stuffed a huge chunk of meat in her little mouth and pretended that she was busy eating.
'Oh, was Xuanyin's sister this funny?' I thought amusedly.
I knew that Mu Bingyun liked me but I still hadn't made a move on her.
I could already feel the want and impatience gnawing at her.
'Hmmm, tonight is a good night indeed,' I mused with a mysterious glint in my eyes.
Mu Xuanyin noticed her sister's cute reaction but instead directed her gaze at me.
That passive frosty look of hers... I couldn't get enough of it.
"By the way Noah, where is my lil' sister?" Jasmine asked me with a contemplative look on her face.
Caizhi, huh?
"Oh, it seems our little Jasmine is worried about her dear sister," I teased her deliberately but I was only met with a pissed-off glance.
I coughed lightly, of course, it was a fake.
"Your sister is safe and causing trouble like usual."
"Where is she then?" Jasmine insisted
I dipped a piece of chapati in the meat stew before gobbling it all up.
"Mmmm," I groaned in pure bliss with my eyes closed in exaggeration as different flavors clashed in my mouth.
"Delish!"
I then finally looked at Jasmine. "Jasmine, it seems your lil' troublemaker of a sister is having a chat with Death."
Jasmine nearly fell from her seat.
Her reaction caught the attention of all the ladies.
"Death, what did you mean by having a chat with Death?"
I laughed heartily while replying, "Yeah, Death."
"So she's about to die?"
What the...
It seems Jasmine and the others still don't know about the Abstracts.
I raised my hand and proceeded to rectify the situation.
I didn't want them to misunderstand me.
"Ladies, Caizhi isn't about to die or anything."
"Death is just a typical Oneesan."
'And a very fuckable existence to boot, ' I grinned inwardly but didn't disclose whatever I was thinking.
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