Most of them believe that they only need great ingredients to make delicious food. Temor was considered a great chef even when he was still with the Kleinford Family. He knew how to maintain a constant temperature while cooking and was skilled at handling monster meat, easily separating it from the bones.
But when he glanced at the table, nothing came to mind.
"Are we going to experiment with this? Create a new dish?" Temor was quick to pick up.
"Yes," Filly nodded. She stood up and started walking towards the door. "Let's go."
Gail took the ingredients and followed her boss, while Temor stood there for a moment before following them.
Once they were inside the kitchen, Gail laid out the ingredients and Filly glanced at Temor. "Whatever happens here and everything I say stays here, got it?" She looked at Temor menacingly.
"Y-yes," Temor answered with a nod while glancing at Gail. To be honest, he was more afraid of her than his boss. "But if I may say something."
"What is it?" Filly asked.
"All we need is better monster meat. The more we have, the more dishes we can serve," Temor suggested. He knew about the situation at their restaurant due to the Skyline Savory branch that had just opened in front of them. If they had better quality monster meat than that restaurant, the quality of their food would also improve.
There was no need to experiment with ingredients that most chefs didn't even recognize.
Monster meat is very different from normal animals as it has a more flavorful taste, an out-of-this-world experience for those who try it for the first time. And if one wants to eat more delicious meat, they need to find a stronger monster than the previous one. This is one of the reasons why Skyline Savory is so famous: they have a source that provides them with strong monsters.
They also have great chefs who have cultivated the fire technique, allowing them to cook the monster meat without changing temperature. Just like Temor. However, Filly only had him.
"I have thought of that," Filly said. "But we don't have a steady supply of high-quality monster meat. We have to manually hire Hunters who can't even guarantee they'll bring back what we need. That also takes time, and by the time they come back, we already have our customers."
Hearing this, Temor sighed, knowing his boss was right. Just the name Skyline Savory was enough to drive any restaurant owner mad, let alone having a branch open in front of them.
"So, Miss, this is the method you came up with?" Temor asked, glancing at the ingredients on the table.
"Yes, well technically…" Filly recalled the beggar beside her restaurant. She didn't want to rely on him yet unless she had to. She also needed to confirm if what the kid wrote was true. "Let's get started. I'll tell you what to do."
"Alright," Temor nodded, and Gail went to stand in front of the door.
"Let's start with this coconut," Filly pointed at the coconut on the table.
"Okay, what about these other ingredients?" Temor asked.
"Set them aside for now. What we need to do is make 'oil' out of it," Filly answered.
"Oil? What is that?" Temor was confused. Isn't this a fruit that you can drink?
"It's something essential for cooking," Filly explained while recalling the contents of the journal. Even she was confused about its use. "Cut the coconut in half—"
Soon, they started the process of making oil. Filly instructed her chef according to the method in the journal.
Meanwhile, Apollo was cultivating beside Filly's restaurant with his hands raised above his forehead. There were already five bronze coins on it, increasing his Alm points by five.
But his eyes kept twitching, and a frown appeared on his face. In the end, he sighed and opened his eyes. "They are too noisy."
The number of people lining up in front of the Skyline Savory branch increased as time passed, causing the noise they created to disturb his cultivation. At first, he could handle it, but it didn't take long before he got frustrated.
Apollo squinted and noticed that the restaurant was packed to the brim with people. "This f*cking restaurant! Bring me back my peace!"
He started to wonder if Filly would succeed in copying the recipes and methods in the journal that he wrote for them. If they succeeded, he would talk to them about maintaining quietness.
The beggar clenched his fist and noticed the five bronze coins in his hand. "Oh? Some people are really generous," Apollo muttered while glancing back at the restaurant. Well, if they could provide me with some Alm points, then it's good.
Suddenly, an idea came to mind. He glanced at the number of people and saw that there were also Martial Students lining up. Those people were probably rich, as they could afford to eat in this kind of place. With this in mind, Apollo smiled and decided to buy the Wish Me Luck items that could increase his luck by a random percentage.
He opened up his System store and bought the item. A light blue translucent interface materialized in front of him, asking if he would like to use the item.
"Use it," Apollo muttered. The translucent screen disappeared, then another screen materialized, displaying the countdown for the Wish Me Luck item.
"Wish Me Luck has been activated!
The heavens will bless the host while hell will pull the curses away from you. The host's luck will increase, but the percentage is random.
Luck Increase Percentage: 9%
Time duration: 1 hour."
A 9 percent increase in luck? I wonder what will happen, Apollo thought with a smile on his face. With this item activated, he disregarded the noise in the surrounding area and went back to cultivating. There was still the mission that he had to take care of, and he didn't want to slack off, especially when he had to kill a person who was clearly stronger than him.