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23.2% Doomsday Chef System: I Become Stronger by Cooking Rare Ingredients! / Chapter 29: Cooking Test (2)- Earth Bull Beef Broth

Chapter 29: Cooking Test (2)- Earth Bull Beef Broth

The meat broth was far more complicated simply because of one part. Meat. He had to be extremely careful to not end up completely ruining the dish.

"Elyn, did you get all I asked for?" he asked.

She nodded and gestured to the full table of items ranging from pots, strainers, and chopsticks, amongst a bunch of other things.

None of the waste from the last broth was there, indicating that Citro had also done his own part of the cooking process. Now that everything was all set, he needed to pick out the best protein for this broth.

Preferably something semi-hard that would simmer and soften after long on the flames. That would be best.

He looked into his pantry and assessed the beast's flesh he had there. Hemp wanted high-quality stuff, so he automatically disqualified Class Ten beasts. He had a few Class Nine but had sold a lot more to Chris.

But he didn't always sell a lot of them, just because he wanted to use them to cook in the future.

'I'm not an adventurer or a mercenary. I'm a chef, first and foremost.'

That thought set into his mind after a while, but he didn't stop looking for the suitable beast flesh all this time. Finally, it looked like he found it after a while.

Emery pulled out the large body of a cattle-like beast. It had tough yellow skin and a fatty exterior.

[Ding!]

[Name: Yellow-Skinned Earth Bull]

[Race: Beast]

[Threat rank: Class Nine Threat]

[Attributes:

STR- Class Eight

AGI- Class Ten

INT- Class Nine

DEF- Class Eight

DEX- Class Nine]

[Status: Dead]

[Remark: Tough but tasty flesh that requires quite a bit of softening. Simmering over low heat is recommended]

Beef. That would do nicely.

Over to the side, outside the kitchen, the viewers looked curiously. One of the two people that had followed Chris pointed at the yellow bull. It was the lady.

"I recognize that. It had been giving some of our forces trouble recently despite being only Class Nine. I told you and you gave me the instruction to let it go. Remember?" she asked.

Chris nodded.

The silence that had settled in all this while was broken. Even Hemp was a little curious about this.

"How come he didn't sell it, though? He should have known that it would fetch a decent prize," the leader asked, stroking the stubble of hair under his chin slowly.

Oddly enough, Konnor was the one to answer that.

"Food."

No one knew what to take of the large hunter's involvement. They kept quiet and continued to watch from a short distance away from the doorway.

Emery, on the other hand, only caught small pieces of the conversation from what he was doing. He was trying his best to stay focused while cutting out the pieces of the beef.

He replaced the knife in his hands with a larger one and chopped off the head of the bull swiftly. It fell to the ground, blood splattering all over the ground. At that, he grimaced.

'Perhaps I should have thought that through some more.'

There was no time to regret that fatally dangerous mistake.

"Citro, try your best to clean it up. Get a rag or something,"

"Eep!"

He ignored the mongoose's protests and switched knives once more. His hands blurred as he separated all the different parts of the bull. First, the hide came off, then several other things that didn't belong in his dish.

After removing all the unpalatable parts, he moved on to cutting and categorizing the parts that would be in his broth.

A part of his heart bled at the thought of wasting such a high-quality beef on a hotpot instead of a nice, juicy steak. And that almost caused a mistake in what he was doing. Almost. He cast the thought away and continued with what he was doing.

Soon enough, he was done with that.

And for the last part of this beast: the bones.

You heard right. The bones and tendons would be important parts of this broth.

'Before that, I really need to prepare some rice or something along those lines,'

So before he moved on to complete the meat broth, he grabbed another pot from the pile and put some water for rice on. Cooking was a magical art. With his new abilities, he couldn't help but believe that even more.

Emery grabbed some relatively small bones from the pile and put everything in place. It was similar to the vegetable broth but not quite.

This would have a lot of pepper. A lot.

For some reason, there were some deadly peppers in their pantry, so Emery would just use those to give the kick it needed.

'I hope his European taste buds don't suddenly die from spice.'

Well past European tastebuds. There weren't any named continents anymore. Just displaced people for the most part.

He returned his mind to a state of complete calmness and focused on the task at hand.

It was time to begin.

This time around, he activated Energy Circuitry before starting.

As soon as the flames of the burner came on, his energy did at the same time. His hands flew around in a rage as he regulated everything in that pot alone. It almost seemed as if he had grown four more arms from behind his back.

"HA!"

Bubbling emerged from the Dutch oven that he cooked in, and another scent intermixed with that of the vegetable broth that had been over the flames for the past few minutes as well.

Water. Peppers. Mushrooms. Anything and everything that would taste good, he added.

Pop! Boom!

The little sparks of lightning emerged from his hands and leapt straight into the meal. The red colour of the broth gained a sort of glistening sheen that gave the dish an even more magical feel.

Emery kept regulating everything until finally this particular one was done.

'I did it.' he breathed a sigh of relief.

Drops of sweat fell off his head. That was a while since that happened.

Well, they were almost done now, with his Eastern-inspired Western hotpot! Everything after would be easy, bordering on boring.


Chapter 30: Three-Part Energy-Gathering Hotpot!

Everything after was nothing more than a blur. He got a few more beast corpses and cut them out, then put them in the fridge while they waited for the broth and the rice to finish cooking.

Now, came the most problematic issue. Hotpot was meant to be eaten while still over the fire. How was he supposed to achieve that? Neither he, Elyn nor Citro had a skill that would allow them to do that.

He looked around the kitchen once more and made sure everything was in order before heading out once more. A series of curious stares met him as he stepped outside.

"Where did you learn to cook like that?" Hemp asked before Emery could ask what he wanted to do.

"What do you mean?"

"You used Energy to cook back there. How did you learn to do that?"

Oh, that? Truthfully, he didn't know. 

"I didn't learn it from anywhere," he answered. "I just applied that technique that I used in the test against Konnor. I didn't expect it to really work."

Hemp narrowed his eyes slightly and nodded afterwards. "You're more talented than I initially thought,"

"Thank you, sir. But that wasn't what I came out here for."

He explained his dilemma to the group in hopes that they would help him figure something out.

It seemed like he was in luck here.

Chris lifted a palm, and a jet of flames shot out. "Oh, I can do that. Just tell me when you're ready and I'll create the flames for you."

That was surprising, to say the least. He thought Chris' powers would have something to do with mind control or mind-altering. But he was wrong? So, who was it that had tried to alter their mind in that conversation?

Emery pushed those thoughts out of his mind and quickly went back to the kitchen to bring out the dishes.

He couldn't let them off the flames for too long or they would definitely lose potency. Something like that would never happen with a normal dish, and he didn't think any of his previous dishes called for such delicate care. But this one was completely different.

So, to take care of it, he tapped into the energy as he picked up one of the pots from the stove. Sparks of green energy flew out of his palm and covered the entire pot.

This would prevent any energy loss from the contents. He carried the pot over to the dining table at another end of the large penthouse floor. Chris followed after with a bit of the flames above his palm.

"Okay, just hold it above my palm. I'll do the rest."

Emery did as he was told, and unexpectedly, the pot floated out of his palms and down to the flames.

"But how are you going to?"

Chris lifted a second finger to his lips and finally moved his palm away from under the floating pot. Contrary to what he would have thought, the flame didn't disappear. Instead, it just stayed there, floating above the table and under the pot.

And the table didn't burn either.

"That's…"

"Useful, huh?"

"Yeah,"

He didn't waste any more time thinking of it and rushed back to the kitchen. He repeated the process several more times until there were several Dutch ovens and pots over the long table.

The ingredients themselves were also there. Sitting next to the floating flames. It was a very, very full table.

Hemp shuffled over next to Emery.

"So… uh, is the food ready yet?"

"No, not yet. There's still something that I need to do here."

He remembered the leaves that Chris had given him two days ago. He still had no idea what the name was, but the last time he used it, it utterly levelled his cooking up. So, it was time to use it once more.

Emery reached into his pantry and pulled out a few leaves. Everything would all come down to how much it improved the hotpot from this.

Carefully and slowly, he dropped the first leave atop the first broth. An incredible scent exploded out from that, and the herbal nature of the vegetable broth was only improved. Next, he dropped it into the meat broth.

This reaction was even more terrifying.

SWISH~!

A tornado of aroma came into existence, shaking up everyone in the entire room. Sparks of green lightning danced around the pot, spreading out to the rest of the table. Emery's hands trembled despite him being the chef, but he didn't stop. He reached above the table once more and dropped the leaves there.

SWISH~!

BOOM~! BOOM! BOOM!

It was more akin to a battlefield than a dining table, but finally, it was done.

[Ding!]

[New Dish Created: Three-Part Energy-Gathering Hotpot!]

[Detail-First Part: Spirit-Restoring Vegetable Hot Pot Broth

Effect: Cool and mild vegetable broth. It can restore Spirit 40% faster than usual

Second Part: Energy Gathering Earth Bull Beef Broth

Effect: Hot and spicy beef broth. It riles up the energy within the body, and doubles it, hence increasing the energy-gathering capabilities by up to 70% more than usual.

Third Part: Soft Crystal Starch

Effect: Serves as a buffer for the two broths. It offsets any negative effects that may come about from over-eating both broths.]

It was perhaps the most comprehensive detail list he had ever seen from a dish. What about the exp gain?

[Ding!]

[Unique Dish created!]

[Calculating Exp gain!]

[Job action performed! You have gained 500 exp!]

It was a lot more than he'd ever gotten from his other dishes but it wasn't nearly enough to fill up his experience bar. All that mattered now would be the exp from the mission and the other reward.

As soon as he thought that…

[Ding!]

[Mission Completed!]

'Huh??'

He looked toward Hemp who still frowned and had both arms crossed.

'He hasn't even eaten out of it yet! What a tsundere,'

But for all it was worth, it only meant he had gotten a decent amount of experience and a new social status. For the most part, he didn't care, he just wanted to know what people felt about the dish.

"Okay, you can all dig in now." 


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I know I keep promising two chapters but today I wrote late for several reasons. I can force out a second chapter, but the quality will be far lower than what I want for this book. Even this chapter is clunky and awkward in multiple parts if you noticed. No second chap today for that reason.

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