It make sense considering his main power is based on eating.
RIP Empress, she committed seaweedcide to pass on the joys of cooking.
She's just like the dragon empress, she can respawn.
And if aporou wasn't the apostle of the greater gods he would have been the saint or hero of the god of harvests and feasts. If I recall they're the second or third ranked green god.
My memory past this point is shakey at best, most of this info comes from chapters 900+ of the webnovel. (We're around... 400? Someone else check.)