Ch 31
‘But this is really ambiguous.’
Cooking was not a very popular production skill.
There were restaurants in each village already, and it was not a skill that users were interested in as food was only needed to satisfy hunger. Above all, there were rumors that there was a limit to learning production skills as it was impossible for one person to learn more than three.
‘I’m hesitant.’
Leeha pondered for a moment. If he must learn a production skill, he wanted to learn something that would help him make money or or it should at least be practical.
‘The skill to make muskets or bullets myself! How cool would it be? I can save money as well.
It would mean that I have to save one production skill slot. What should I do?’
After thinking deeply, Leeha said.
“I would like to learn.”
‘There was no reason to refuse good fortune. Besides, he already experienced the power of a well-cooked meal.
‘I don’t know when I could learn other skills anyway and it will be useful once you learn something. What would happen if I could make something like Madame Lou’s lunchbox?’
The special lunch box was a quest reward, so it was impossible to trade. However, if Leeha could make it, won’t the lunch box be tradeable?
What if he made a lunch box that permanently increases stats?
He wasn’t sure, but wasn’t it just a matter of time to earn 20,000 gold?
This was the reason Leeha made the decision.
What was the reason that I started Middle Earth? Money!
“Good. Compressed daily cooking class! I’ll definitely inject it to your head!”
“What? Inject?”
“Cooking is about creativity! However, in order to be creative, you must have the basic knowledge. Haha! You’re going to get busy the whole day!”
[Chef Kiyo-Mifgar’s One-day cooking lesson.]
Description: Giants, a race that excel in taste more than anyone else. Chef Kiyo-Mifgar likes to teach various dishes that are not only delicious but also make your body healthy. You will know its true value through daily practice. Of course, you can’t become a chef in one day.
Content: Chef Kiyo-Mifgar’s lesson
Reward:
Skill: Cooking
-Would you like to accept it?
‘Ara? Is that all?’
Leeha read the quest window carefully.
Take a lesson? Besides, the title is one day. In other words, if I took a class today, I could learn the skill.
‘Hmm, ah! This is a game.’
Leeha realized that he had mistaken reality and Middle Earth.
After all, this was a game. In other words, the game system naturally intervened in this type of situation.
‘Not only with magic, but also swordsmanship.’
A person who was really good at cooking would be able to learn much faster, but the system also allowed people who are not skilled to learn as well. Now he was getting a little sense of the intentions of Middle Earth.
“I’ll do it.”
“Good! Stand by my side and assist well!”
“Assist?”
“Isn’t it the fastest way to learn how to cook is through practice? I will teach you thoroughly in practice.”
“Immediately, I see. I will learn diligently.”
Although newly promoted, he was still a sergeant.
He also lived as an official on the premises. In other words, it meant that he lived on his own for quite a while.
If it was cooking, it was something that he had quite a bit of experience in.
He was relieved to think that there was nothing he could not do with simple dishes. Most of all, he only needed to invest one day.
However, he did not have a clue on what was about to happen.
He couldn’t have imagined how infamous Chef Kiyo-Mifgar was in the culinary world.
“What are you looking at? You need to clean up first! When peeling the skin, make it thin like this. Look carefully at the texture of the meat! If you cut it like that, the texture of the meat will be damaged! Huh? Should I cut off four of your fingers to show as an example?”
“Rabbit meat shouldn’t be grilled like that! Don’t you know something as basic as this? It smells bad when it’s not cooked, and if it’s overcooked, it’s tough and you can’t eat it! Especially the meat that goes into this salad should be grilled thoroughly! Don’t you know that?”
“You’re doing your best? Best!? Can you show me what the real best is? Even dogs won’t eat this!”
“Damn it! Do you think this is grilled? Huh? Go out and bring a priest! Healing this roasted rabbit will bring it back to life!”
“This b*stard! You didn’t turn down the fire? You think you are better than me? Would you like to put it in the brazier?”
“Kaak ptew! Don’t you feel sorry for the salad with this kind of dressing? It would be better to just eat raw grass!”
“Are you calling this a boiled dish? The life of boiled dishes is fire! You can’t eat this because it’s tough! You should just make jerky with it!”
“This looks unappetizing! Did you make poop from the start, thinking that it will turn into poop when you eat it?”
“Oh, God! Did I say I’m going to teach this idiot to cook! If I can go back to the past, I’ll cut off my tongue and stop myself, damn kid.”
Kiyo-Mifgar closed his eyes and licked his thick, filthy lips. Leeha suddenly thought that he wanted to shoot a gun in his mouth.
“I can barely swallow it now. Not bad..”
Gulp, the Giant swallowed the meat and chewed.
This was a tremendous development compared to his previous appearance, where Leeha squirmed on the floor in front of him.
“Haa, haa, did I pass?”
Phew.
He nodded his head. Suddenly, his whole body seems to have been relieved of tension. Even when I killed the king of the golden eagle right through the head, I wasn’t relieved like this.
“Haaaa…
“You had a lot of hardship. Learning to cook like this in one day, must be because you like the teacher. There is no end to the path of cooking, so make sure to devote yourself to it wherever you go.”
A teacher for a day was still a teacher.
Whatever Leeha’s thoughts were, Kiyo-Mifgar treated Leeha as his disciple, a chef from the Holy Grill.
“Thank you I learned well.”
[Skill: Cooking] learned.
[You can make food using ingredients.]
Leeha gave a polite response while holding himself back from shouting. He didn’t need to be rude, just because he worked hard and endured for a whole day.
As soon as the tension was relieved, another notification window popped up.
[Vitality has been reduced to less than 30%. Penalties will be applied.]
[HP, MP, and stamina will not recover..]
How hard could it have been? Of course, even though Leeha was exhausted, Kiyo-Mifgar’s mouth did not rest. His passion for cooking is very high.
“The roasting was okay, but the one that was boiled before was better. It’s embarrassing to call it a boiled dish, but it can be preserved for a long time if it is dried after removing its moisture.”
“Yes, I will study hard.”
Leeha poked out his lips. It was hard but he learned something. But now, he was so exhausted that he would curse if he was told to eat something, let alone cook.
“Are you going now?”
“I have to go.” Since he came in in the morning, the time is already…
It was the closing time of the Holy Grill. In an empty restaurant without customers, Leeha paced back and forth.
“Omomomo, why do you look so weak? You won’t be able to carry the lunchbox if you’re like that.”
“Oops, I forgot about the lunch box.”
Right, the quest reward, he forgot.
He came to get the quest reward, but he suffered so much from the giant chef he forgot it!
“I already have it ready.”
When Leeha reached out with a lunch box on the counter, Madame Lou took it away.
“Is there something wrong?”
“I have a request for Ha Leeha-ssi.”
“Request?”
Madame Lou approached Leeha in the hall where no one was present.
“W-w-why?”
“Hnnng, Will you do me a favor?”
“Haha, It is not good to ask, without even telling the content first.” Now, Leeha did not allow himself to suffer from NPCs. Madame Lou’s steps stopped at Leeha’s words. A smile hung from her lips.
“You were taught the best cooking skills from Kiyomi, why are you talking like that? What can I do… in order for Ha Leeha-ssi to be willing to help me~?” Madame Lou spoke in a polite and friendly, nasal tone, and took out another lunch box.
[Holy Grill Capital Branch Opening Lobby]
Description: The food is ready. The best meat aroma in the continent comes from Candle
Castle. This is Madame Lou’s last request in order to open the second branch of Holy Grill in the capital, Aelstock. “You just need to give it to my sister who lives in the capital along with the letter inside. But it won’t be easy. But I trust Ha Leeha-ssi.”
Content: A lunchbox and a letter to be delivered to Madame Joo in Aelstock, the capital of Fibiel Kingdom within a month.
Reward: Invitation to the opening ceremony of Sacred Grill Second Brand.
Failure conditions: Exceeding the deadline, the
disappearance of a lunch box.
Failure: -50% intimacy with Madame Lou, -20% with all NPCs in Candle Castle, -15% with all NPCs in the capital Ael Stock
– Would you like to accept it?
Leeha carefully read the quest message on the window.
‘Isn’t it strange?’
Isn’t this quest too easy for Madame Lou to come and say something so serious? Even the Black Angus Quest she gave without caring much.
And this was just a lunchbox delivery.
The recipient was Madame Lou’s younger sister, Madame Joo.
It was also not hard to find the location. Because it said that it was in Aelstock.
‘But what’s not easy?
Looking at the request, it was the end of the chain quest that started with Black Angus.
Even the reward was weird.’ Opening Ceremony Invitation? What’s good about attending an opening ceremony? Compared to the ridiculous rewards, the penalty was severe in case of failure.
It was a decline in familiarity with NPCs in the capital when I haven’t even arrived yet.
“Hmm… Are there any difficulties? Just deliver it and it’s over?”
“Yes.”
“Is your younger sister, Madame Joo, a monster? Or is she hiding in the depths of the dungeon?”
“Omomo. What’s wrong with a kid who lives well in the capital?”
“Then, why is it difficult?”
“People.”
“People?”
“The world is not easy.”
“What are you talking about?”
However, Madame Lou only laughed at Leeha’s question. The NPC told him to be careful with people.
“Um, are there any assassins chasing this lunchbox?”
“Of course not! But, I think that would be okay too? The murder that took place aiming at our sacred grill’s lunch box. It would be a very good story.”
Madame Lou’s eyes sparkled.
“Oheungheung, that would be a good topic. So, will our Leeha-ssi not accept my request?”
The road from Candle Castle to the capital, Aelstock, is about 500km in a straight line.
‘It is 9 nights and 10 days even if you travel nonstop. The road won’t be good, and it won’t be straight. It might take a month, it would at least take forty-five days if I was unlucky and had to climb a mountain.’
It is said that it would take more than 4 days in real-time to climb a mountain.
Leeha agonized over it for a while.
‘How many minutes does it take before the quest disappears?’
Was it 3 minutes? 5 Minutes? It seems that 3 minutes have already passed, so it appears to be 5 minutes. Leeha spoke after thinking a little more.
“I will do it.”
Brown Beth Musket Academy is also in the capital.
He had to go anyway. However, he was worried because he didn’t know what kind of quests he would encounter on the way.
“Of course, I thought you would. Thank you!
Now, here is the lunch box made of golden eagles and the lunch box to be delivered to
Joo.”
“But will that lunch box not go bad in a month?”
“Ah, it will be okay. It usually does, but we put preservation magic on it. It will be preserved for as short as 3 months and as long as half a year. What do you see me as… Oheungheung?”
So, wouldn’t that mean that it wasn’t necessary to set the deadline to one month?
“I know what you’re thinking. However, preservation is literally preservation. The taste can only be maintained for at least one month.
So, definitely! Can you deliver it in a month?”
Madame Lou laughed and went back to the
counter.
Two lunch boxes were in Leeha’s hands.
Upon accepting the quest, the clock began to tick.
He had to go to Aelstock within a month.
(To be continued…)