Yes, I became a god just by exercising.

Chapter 14 Oh no, am I being treated as a physical being?

"The soreness is back..."

Xia Fa sighed softly. He had originally planned to do a hundred push-ups, then continue with a hundred pull-ups, and ideally, a kilometer jog.

But now he realizes that with his frail body, completing this entire plan is a long and arduous task.

I had just been lying down to rest for a while when the feeling of hunger in my stomach started to rise little by little.

Fortunately, the hunger wasn't intense, and Xia Fa had anticipated this, so he planned to go to sleep with the hunger pangs still lingering.

After all, it was late at night, and he couldn't go looking for extraordinary substances, nor could he afford to buy them.

Xia Fa glanced at the somewhat messy mahogany table, then forced himself to get up and tidy it up.

Perhaps because his body was too sore, he couldn't stand up, so he simply sat down.

Anyway, since I'm tidying up sitting down, why bother standing up?

But the moment his buttocks touched the surface of the paulownia wood chair, a strange sight occurred.

The fireplace had gone out, the bookshelf held only a few books, the broken sofa... all the furniture quickly moved away from him, as if it had been forcibly dragged away.

Immediately afterwards, the ceiling began to change.

The original wooden ceiling was quickly transformed into a marble ceiling covered with exquisite murals.

A gleaming bronze chandelier hangs down, each base adorned with sparkling crystals.

The surrounding wooden walls have been replaced with exquisitely decorated and luxurious marble tiles, and the floor is inlaid with ceramic tiles, making it exceptionally clean and tidy, even slightly reflective.

The biggest change came from the table in front of him.

Originally a round peach wood table, it had become black and greasy due to years of use.

But now, this peachwood table has suddenly stretched out and transformed into a heavy and imposing ebony dining table that is more than ten meters long.

Xia Fa felt a sudden weakness in her back and realized that her shaky chair had been replaced with a gondola chair with a semi-circular back and a fragrant velvet cushion.

He stood there stunned for several seconds before finally realizing, or rather, guessing, what had happened.

"Have I... been teleported to the dining room of a nobleman's house?"

He thought for a moment and tried to stand up.

The moment Xia Fa stood up, the surrounding scenery changed again.

To his surprise, he found himself back in the attic.

"Hiss..."

He took a deep breath, a thoughtful look in his eyes, and tried to sit down again.

The moment he sat down, sure enough, he was instantly transported to the luxurious and grand restaurant of this unknown nobleman.

But this time, Xia Fa didn't want to stand up again.

Because... that oval table, which was more than ten meters long, was filled with steaming delicious dishes!
With just a quick glance, Xia Fa spotted aristocratic delicacies such as truffle omelet, oyster stew with peas, and fig jam foie gras terrine.

In addition, there are also fine dishes such as beef stew in Burgundy red wine, Rossini steak, stuffed grouse, escargot with foie gras, and pheasant stewed with champagne!

More importantly, all the dishes subtly exuded an extraordinary aura that was extremely similar to the extraordinary essence!

This aura is far gentler than the extraordinary essence, and seems to be more easily absorbed by the human body, making it less likely to cause harm.

Xia Fa suddenly remembered something.

As Chestnut once said, the nobles of this world love to use supernatural creatures to cook elaborate meals to entertain their distinguished guests.

Of course, they are all supernatural creatures that resemble domestic fowl and wild animals.

Without a doubt, all the food on this table must have been cooked using supernatural creatures!
His inner yearning for the extraordinary essence, and the hunger that tempted him like a devil's whisper, quickly made Shafa no longer hesitate.

He grabbed a grouse with his left hand and a steak with his right, and began to eat with gusto.

As the juicy steak entered his mouth, he forgot everything else, with only one thought in his mind.

eat!
Anyway, he could easily return to his little attic as soon as he stood up, and there was no one in the banquet hall.

Therefore, Xia Fa understood that as long as he got up the moment he heard footsteps, he could teleport home safely without even giving anyone a chance to see his face.

Then what are you afraid of?
eat!
That damn rich bastard!
……

At this moment, on the second floor of the banquet hall.

Baldr, with his white curly hair and wearing a magnificent court robe, stood with his hands behind his back, looking solemnly at the blurry figure on the first floor.

Beside him stood a middle-aged man dressed as a general in knight's attire.

This dinner, which cost three thousand gold pounds and was prepared specifically for Baldr himself, Governor Ellis, and Baldr's son, Baldr Jr., was now ruined by this blurry figure.

However, Baldr dared not make any move. In fact, although his face appeared serious, he was trying his best to suppress the fear deep in his eyes.

If Governor Ellis hadn't been there and hadn't not chosen to leave immediately, Baldr would have already fled in a panic.

As for his son, Baldr, who had been playing with a mithril emblem borrowed from the Silver Church, he has now stopped.

Little Baldr wasn't good at pretending, so he widened his eyes, trembled like a leaf, and stared intently at the blurry figure on the first floor who was devouring food.

"This...this is a physical entity, isn't it? Lord!"

Little Baldr lowered his voice, which trembled noticeably.

Baldr lowered his voice even further, almost squeezing it out between his teeth, and said:

"Don't speak or make any movement, just wait for him to finish eating!"

Governor Ellis nodded in agreement, but out of caution, or perhaps out of concern for his own life, he did not dare to speak like the Bald father and son.

In fact, he was already cursing the Balde father and son for being stupid in his heart.

How dare you make a sound when faced with an unknown entity that you have never seen before? Aren't you afraid of disturbing it?

This behavior is practically suicidal!

Just now, the most powerful and influential governor of Rum City, Ellis, was having a long talk with the patriarch of the renowned Bald family of the Kingdom of Augu, the current Bald.

Meanwhile, he awaited the servants to bring out the final dish of tonight's extraordinary dinner, which was also his favorite: escargot baked with foie gras.

This dish, or rather every dish at this banquet, was cooked using incredibly valuable supernatural creatures.

Take, for example, the foie gras escargot. The foie gras comes from sun geese, a supernatural creature that requires years of sun exposure to undergo a mutation with a very low probability. Each geese costs one hundred gold pounds, and even then, they are often hard to find. As for the escargot, it is an ice-shelled snail that can only be found deep underground, living near the Fairy Spring.

One snail costs thirty gold pounds, and a dish of ten snails in ice shells, plus foie gras, costs about three hundred and fifty gold pounds!

That's equivalent to nearly ten years' income for an ordinary family!

Governor Ellis was looking forward to enjoying himself, even somewhat impatiently, but all of that was ruined by the sudden appearance of that blurry figure.

Yes, even though Governor Ellis, as a major general of the Kingdom of Augu, an elephant-level superhuman, and the governor specially dispatched by the royal family to Rum City,

However, when looking at the figure that suddenly appeared, and which briefly disappeared for a moment after getting up from the gondola chair, and then reappeared after sitting down, it was impossible to see its appearance clearly.

Not only could you not make out the figure's appearance, you couldn't even make out his clothes!
The figure looked like a piece of film that had been overexposed, extremely blurry!
Even with all his might and the power of the secret alliance, Governor Ellis could not see a single detail.

Furthermore, the sudden appearance and disappearance of this figure, its reappearance, and its behavior of frantically devouring the large meal on the oval ebony table—unlike other eerie creatures that directly attack people—all contributed to the strange and unsettling atmosphere.
This led both Governor Ellis and the Bald father and son to immediately guess an extremely terrifying fact.

That figure... is a real person!

Moreover, none of the three had ever heard of such a being before.

In other words, this is even a completely new and unknown entity!
At that moment, the three of them unanimously thought of when the physical "Gourmet" first appeared.

That was decades ago, in that era, among the extraordinary beings who died at his hands were even beings of demigod or higher.

Once you eat meat dishes prepared by a gourmet, the corresponding organs in your body will disappear, and they cannot be restored by any means except by praying to the gods and hoping for a divine response.

Even a demigod-level superhuman, if he accidentally orders heart and lung soup or braised sheep's head, will not have time to pray to the gods and will often die immediately after taking only a few steps.

As for those who dared to order a whole roasted chicken, they would disappear on the spot after finishing it, leaving only the organs to fall to the ground with a thud.

The reason why those powerful superhumans perished back then was undoubtedly because they did not understand the rules of the Gourmet entity and did not know how to interact with the Gourmet.

I don't understand how one can escape unscathed after encountering a gourmet!

Because of this lesson, neither Governor Ellis nor the Bald father and son dared to act rashly at this time.

If you don't move, it's not easy to trigger the rules of this blurry human figure.

Maybe he'll teleport away after he finishes eating?
Compared to his own life, the loss of the extraordinary banquet worth three thousand gold pounds was painful, but it was still better to live.

The blurry figure was seen eating heartily, and thankfully, the servants did not step into the banquet hall again after serving the dishes.

Because Baldr knew that Governor Ellis, due to his early military career, was not used to being served meals and had long ago instructed the servants not to come over after serving the food.

Otherwise, Governor Ellis and his two companions would likely choose to flee for their lives rather than remain inactive.

After all, even if a servant comes in, it is very likely to trigger the unknown but deadly rules of this entity!

Fortunately, the food was eaten very quickly, almost in a flash, and the stuffed grouse and Rossini steak were gone in just a few moments.

Then, he used a silver fork to pick up the truffle omelet.

Little Bald felt a pang of pain in his heart. Those were the Shadowy Century Eggs, a rare treat that could only be found in one out of a thousand century eggs, and they were his favorite snack!

He had just been entangled by a snow demon and only managed to break free today with the mithril emblem of the Silver Church. He was just about to eat this truffle omelet to replenish his strength, but now, it has all been eaten by this unknown entity!

But Baldr dared not speak out, for he understood that his life was more important.

He's a nobleman; if he survives, he'll have plenty of truffle omelets to eat.

Seeing that the blurry figure finished the truffle omelet in two bites, the devil's claws reached out again, finally... reaching for the foie gras baked snails.

He even picked up the foie gras-baked snails with a fork while simultaneously grabbing a champagne-braised pheasant, alternating between the two.

Governor Ellis remained silent, while Baldr's face twitched. Fortunately, both of them were extraordinary beings and had signed the Great Strength Pact, so they were not afraid of getting tired no matter how long they stood.

Finally, after a long wait, the mysterious, unknown, and vague entity stood up, seemingly having eaten and drunk its fill.

On the oval ebony dining table, only scraps of food remained, with only the candlesticks in the four corners still intact, and even the Barbara rum cake was gone.

No, there's still one dish left. It's a snack, smoked dried silver cod, made with golden-lined silver cod, which is also a supernatural creature!
Just as the blurry figure stood up and disappeared abruptly, the three of them hadn't even had a chance to breathe a sigh of relief when the blurry figure reappeared, sat down, and then reached out without hesitation to pick up the plate of smoked silver cod!

Immediately, the blurry figure stood up again, disappearing along with the smoked dried cod.

Silence, an absolute silence, permeated the opulent banquet hall of the Balder family.

Both Governor Ellis and the Bald father and son remained silent.

Until the time on the bronze clock hanging on the wall pointed to 10:05.

The blurry figure disappeared at 9:50.

"Father, fifteen minutes have passed..."

Young Baldr spoke with lingering fear.

Upon hearing this, Balder breathed a long sigh of relief:

"We... should be safe now."

Governor Ellis remained silent. From the moment that mysterious entity appeared until now, he had not uttered a single word.

He glanced at the portly father and son, then turned and flew out through the carved window sill.

The Bald father and son exchanged a glance and immediately followed, flying with Governor Ellis all the way to the garden.

At this point, Governor Ellis seemed to finally relax completely, and unconsciously wiped the sweat from his brow.

"We should be safe now. Although there have been precedents of entities chasing down superhumans across half a kingdom, the entity we encountered today doesn't seem to be that kind of thing."

Balder nodded in agreement:

"Thanks to the Lord's protection, we are very lucky."

Governor Ellis sighed:
"Yes, when many superhumans first encounter an unknown entity, even if they do nothing like us, they are likely to die suddenly because they violate the entity's rules."

Balder suddenly revealed a perfectly timed hint of guilt:

"Your Excellency, I am truly sorry, this banquet..."

Governor Ellis waved his hand:
"It's alright, it's not your fault. Alright, time is of the essence. I must inform the other races, our human military, and major newspapers about this new entity."

After a slight pause, as if summarizing, with a hint of relief at surviving a disaster and a touch of pride, he solemnly said:

"At the very least, when this entity appears, remaining still and letting it finish eating and drinking before leaving is safe. This is extremely important intelligence, and it's the first rule we need to follow when facing this entity!"

(End of this chapter)