Chapter 1528 Divine Cooking Arts
With an atmosphere filled with laughter and joy, thanks to our victory and the precious bonds we've forged together, we began to feast on the various dishes I had decided to prepare. Mostly all the favorite meals that I knew from my friends. Emerald was a bit hard to figure out, he had only eaten fruits and raw prey before, so he had no favorite food, but once he tasted the fruit pies he quickly changed his mind.
"Wooah! What are these?! They're so good! So sweet and spongy! There's such a sweet fruit there, mixed with all the dough, it's nice!" He was really enjoying a variety of fruit pies I baked for everyone with a sweet tooth.
"Eat was many as you want." I told him, while two of my doppelgangers were cooking a variety of hot dishes, from roasting meat to making fried rice, crispy fried chicken, freshly baked bread, and even pizza.
After having not eaten for three days we all wanted to eat like pigs, and everyone was enjoying the meals happily. Benladann and Miranda were devouring giant sandwiches I made for them, wolfing them down in just a couple of bites.
These sandwiches were full of roasted meat nicely seasoned with soy sauce and spicy sauce, it had fresh lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, and a variety of other sauces, including mayonnaise and garlic sauce. They were really good, even the lizardmen that were not used to such dishes enjoyed them.
"Gulp, gulp, gulp…!" Benladann quickly drank a whole jug of beer in a single sip. "Phew! This really hits the spot! I was missing a cold beer with something nice made by my hubby! His cooking's so good! I'm so lucky to have him, heheh."
"You sure are lucky!" Sighed Nadia. "Surtr has yet to get as good with cooking as Drake has, it's a pity, really. I want him to cook me better dishes."
"H-Hey, I'm doing my best!" Surtr complained. "Drake's cheating because he has a Divinity of Cooking and even a Cooking Divine Ability and all!"
"I suppose you're not wrong there." Miranda nodded. Unlike Benladann she liked drinking from a cup of wine she refilled every few minutes. "Our husband has been refining the technique for years now. I can admit he conquered my heart through the stomach. I couldn't resist all the delicious dishes."
"I can always teach you how to use some basic cooking divine spells, Surtr." I said, reassuring him while I enjoyed a meal I made only for myself.
It was a plate full of fried rice with eggs, veggies, and so on, but the side of it was the surprising thing. They were dozens of piled crimson red steaks, releasing powerful auras of demonic energy.
Yeah, this was a meal nobody else but me could eat at the moment, made using demonic beast meat. I picked the strongest demonic beast I saw inside of my Inventory after the massacre, and butchered it however I could, taking out and purifying several pieces of meat.
The blood was acidic and could melt skin on contact, so I had to extract it almost completely and purify it, thankfully, I was able to stabilize the meat enough I could cook it.
It took some time, but there was nothing in this world I cannot cook with my abilities. I ended not only roasting this meat using the strongest flames available with Surtr's aid, but I also made burgers, meatballs, empanadas, and meatloaf using the demonic beast's flesh.
I ended cooking three whole Demonic Beasts like this, and I was already on my thirtieth meal I had eaten. At first it was a bit painful, really spicy, to the point it burned my own throat by just swallowing them.
But my regeneration and resistance activated in that moment, and I was able to at least get the meat into my stomach so it could get consumed with the power of the Sin of Gluttony. It was a painful method, but it was one of the ways I could temper my body I had discovered, so it can get more used to Demonic Energy.
And it wasn't without its rewards, cooking so many extravagant dishes using the Cooking Arts I had acquired helped it grow as well!
Ding!
[You have cooked [Fried Rice with Demonic Chimera Giant Roasted Steak Seasoned with Spices (??? Rank)] x10!]
[You have cooked [Demonic Tyrannosaur Meatloaf (??? Rank)] x22!]
[You have cooked [Infernal Spicy Demonic Beast Meat Skewer (??? Rank)] x37!]
[You have cooked [Blazing Wrathful Demonic Baboon's Cheeseburgers (??? Rank)] x31!]
[…]
[You have cooked a variety of incredibly high quality and extravagant dishes using your Cooking Skills and Cooking Divinity that nobody had ever dared to eat before.]
[Your [Divine Cooking Arts (B)] have Ranked Up to A Rank!]
[You have unlocked new Abilities and Cooking Utensil Summons.]
[Divine Cooking Arts (A)]
A Divine Ability tied with the user's experience and learning about the subject of Cooking, which has surpassed normal mortal and magical levels and has ascended to an incredible level of divinity, the first to have ever existed in the world of Yggdrasil. It comes with several Abilities which are unlocked over time with each Rank, aiding at the act of cooking all types of dishes with all sorts of fascinating ingredients. The more the user cooks, makes new dishes, and makes people happy with them, the stronger their power over their Divinity of Cooking becomes, and so all derived techniques. Additionally, passive enhances the quality of created dishes through Divine Cooking Arts by +200%, alongside their added bonus effects by +25% with each Rank. Current Bonus: +125%.
Available Techniques: D Rank: [Divine Seasoning: Spicy Flavors] [Divine Spoon of The God of Cooking] C Rank: [Divine Seasoning: Sweet Flavors] [Divine Chopping Knife of The God of Cooking] B Rank: [Divine Seasoning: Savory Flavors] [Divine Golden Pot of the God of Cooking]
A Rank: [Divine Seasoning: Umami Flavors] [Divine Piercing Fork of the God of Cooking]
S Rank: ???
----- Unlike other Divine Abilities, Divine Cooking Arts took its time to grow, but each Rank it increased would grant incredible new abilities. And now, I can further enchant the flavor of Umami and even summon a giant, golden fork! Next time I should try to cook some Demons alive.
