The Cook of a Perished World - Chapter 179

Episode 179: Elemental cuisine.

“Heo… heo….”

Let’s come to our senses.

I was lying on the restaurant floor in a cold sweat.

My time as a ‘Dasmur Chef’ was not long at all.

Is it because the second half of that memory was so strong?

Tremble…

My whole body is shaking.

I felt a strong sense of discomfort.

‘Is this me?’

It’s so small and dwarfed.

This body doesn’t feel any strength at all.

Is it really my body?

A terrible sense of disconnect.

I felt like my whole body was being twisted.

“…Let’s calm down.”

I gritted my teeth and moved my trembling body.

After barely arriving at the lounge in the corner of the restaurant.

I kept repeating this to myself as I felt all over my body.

‘This is my real body.’

I just experienced that…

the 10m tall water giant.

‘It’s not me.’

likewise.

The death that happened there.

‘It’s not my death…’

Crackling.

okay.

I am.

No matter what happens.

“You won’t die like that.”

* * *

“…Whew.”

Let’s curl up like that for a while.

I felt my body calming down to some extent.

And only after that.

I was able to recall step by step the memories I had just experienced.

“…fall.”

I’ve already heard the story several times.

Seohwan and Miho.

The story goes that their world was also destroyed by the flocking enemies.

but.

What you hear only as stories.

To see and experience it with your own eyes.

There was a big difference between the two.

‘The Pope… said he was a [refugee], not an invader.’

indeed.

After seeing that memory just now.

I could roughly understand what he meant.

[Dasmur] As expected.

That they were invaded by another world like us.

Fortunately, the place where the chef stayed was the sea where God protected him.

It seems like there was peace for a while.

“I guess it couldn’t last forever.”

I look back on the scenery in my memory.

At first, it was a sea where many creatures roamed freely.

As time passed, the number of visible lives decreased.

Monsters that appear in the outside world.

To fight them.

Everyone except the minimum number of people was taken to the battlefield.

Fortunately, ‘I’ am the Pope’s personal chef.

Since they are not combat personnel, they do not seem to have ever deployed to other seas.

Even in the sea where God protects, enemies invade.

When it became a situation where the god had to descend in person.

He too had to go to battle.

“…They said that all the [Dasmurians] in the dungeon were no different from children.”

The Pope was also a Eucharist.

He was an old man at the end of his life who would have died long ago if it had not been for the cook’s help.

At the end of the last war.

Everyone who can fight dies.

‘Only the children and the old man who led them escaped to another world.’

That’s that dungeon.

The identity of [Erosion World – Dasmur].

This is the Pope who tried to drown our world in the sea.

I have no regrets about killing that guy and liberating the dungeon.

‘It’s understandable… that you wanted to raise the children of the last remaining members of your race properly.’

That guy too.

me too.

I had no choice but to fight.

The stronger one survived.

That’s it.

It was true that I felt strangely uneasy.

“Let’s forget about the dead guys.”

An important thing is.

Because this is how I will live from now on.

Just in that memory.

The most notable thing is.

The god from beyond descended at the end.

[Dasmur, Lord of the Endless Sea].

It wasn’t even the giant monsters that fought the god.

“zombie.”

A living corpse.

The word itself is a contradiction in terms.

Literally.

It refers to the dead walking around.

‘Monsters that didn’t even appear in our unit.’

but.

The monsters that destroyed Dasmur.

Among them, the one that accounted for the largest number was none other than the zombies.

especially.

The ‘Shinsu’ is advancing as it turns into a zombie.

‘The chef’s despair when he saw that…’

It seemed like something I wouldn’t forget for a while.

“I didn’t even think of it as a threat until now.”

It has to be that way.

Not long after awakening, zombies were a difficult enough enemy.

The level went up and I got more rewards than my level.

The average strength of unit members has risen to a level that cannot be compared to the past.

‘If you’re a high-level warrior awakened person, you can put your arm against a zombie’s teeth and not even get hurt.’

I guess so.

Zombies were considered a fairly light opponent by the unit members.

but.

“Not anymore.”

The zombies that just appeared in that memory.

I had a strong feeling that those guys were something we shouldn’t deal with as complacently as we did now.

“We need to come up with a solution as soon as possible.”

* * *

But before that.

There was still work to be done.

smart.

“Youngjun? “How can I even try it…”

The one who opened the kitchen door and came in.

None other than Sergeant Lee Min-jae.

I feel like I somehow forgot about something more important.

The reason I cooked and ate [Dasmur Chef’s Essence] was not because of zombies.

It was to solve the problem at hand.

‘Dealing with the monster occupying the power plant.’

Increase your strength by consuming electricity from the power plant.

A monster that blocks our access through its power.

[Salmoneus eating lightning]

And.

The problem has already been…

“It’s almost like it’s been solved.”

“what?”

Of course.

In my status window now.

[Attribute]

[Elemental Cooking] (New!)

A chef with overwhelming skills seen in memories.

Because the technology he was using was established.

by the way.

Hmm, if you want to use this.

“I’ll have to work hard for you this time too.”

“…?”

* * *

[Elemental Cooking]

Recipes from another world.

Elemental cuisine.

Although it is a new trait I acquired this time.

The use of that characteristic had already been naturally learned.

The power that ‘I’ in my memories was using without any hesitation.

Through the experience of a chef who has reached the ultimate level in this field.

Because I still had some sense of handling this power.

and.

In light of that memory, this recipe is.

‘…is this really cooking?’

It’s different from the cuisine I used to know.

It was something completely different.

‘A sub-sect of Mana cuisine.’

This is what I have felt while cooking so far.

Magic power affects the taste of food.

Ordinary meat used in military bases and meat from monsters.

The two can’t even be compared in taste.

‘Overwhelmingly, monster meat is more delicious.’

That magic affects taste.

in other words.

To put this in reverse:

‘Magic power… means having taste.’

Manani, magical power.

It just felt like a mysterious being.

If you say there is taste there.

To me, it is just one of the ingredients.

What is [Mana Cooking]?

Cooking with this magic power.

It enhances the taste of magical power….

“If you look at it from a human perspective. “It’s an act closer to magic than cooking.”

A trait I learned this time.

[Elemental Cooking] was a method derived from this Mana Cooking.

A dungeon I conquered a while ago.

It reminded me of [Erosion Another World – Dasmur].

The dungeon itself was quite difficult, though.

thinking back.

There was one puzzling part during the strategy.

‘All the buildings in the central area where the monsters were located were gone.’

The building was destroyed.

Only fragments were left floating around.

At that level, I can understand it.

the problem is.

The buildings in that location literally ‘disappeared’.

‘I wondered for a moment where the fragments of the building had gone.’

No matter how much monsters did the demolition work.

Because it makes no sense to disappear without a trace like that.

and.

The answer was simpler than I thought.

[Elemental Cooking]

[You can process food ingredients and convert

them into specific elements.] [You can process specific elements to cook them more deliciously.]

“Did you cook them?”

Fish people called Dasmurian.

In their world, a culture called ‘elemental cuisine’ was naturally established.

Why is it that even people who say they can’t cook can at least fry an egg?

It seems like elemental cooking feels that way to them.

And use that elemental dish.

‘They liquefied the buildings and ate them.’

If you think about it.

There wouldn’t have been anything for the [Dasmurians] to eat in that dungeon.

Because humans were hiding in buildings and there weren’t many fish.

“I never thought they were eating those buildings by liquefying them.”

I couldn’t even imagine it.

If you think about it, there were similar beings on Earth.

‘Like a fly larva. ‘You say you melt the meat of a dead animal, liquefy it, and then consume it?’

That’s a slightly larger version.

What I witnessed firsthand.

A dish that turned the divine parasites into liquid.

It was an overwhelming technique that raised your level just by looking at it.

but.

‘The name of this talent… is [Elemental Cooking], not [Liquid Cooking].’

Cooking methods and ingredients.

It is not limited to liquids.

* * *

“…Is it really going to happen this way?”

“ah. “Just trust me.”

A few hours later.

I was on a boat heading to the island.

A solution has been found.

Is there really a need to take time?

Me and the soldiers.

And Minjae decided to immediately approach the island where the power plant was located.

“No matter what.”

and.

Minjae had been repeating the same thing over and over even before getting on the boat.

“You really mean it, right?”

“that word. “It’s almost the 30th time.”

“Okay.”

Minjae is the most rational and cool-headed guy in the unit.

It didn’t seem like him.

‘Well, I understand.’

It was worth it.

The order I gave to Minjae.

If it goes wrong…

‘It’s something that could kill all of us on this ship.’

No matter how good of a person he is.

It’s an order that you can’t help but be scared of.

“We’re almost there!”

yet.

The engineer who was piloting the ship looked back and shouted.

As the island approached.

-It’s so bad!!!

Just like last time.

A curtain of lightning appeared that covered the entire island.

“Looking at it again, it’s a huge amount….”

“How much energy did you absorb in there?”

The soldiers who saw this shed cold sweat and muttered.

If I cook.

It might be possible to gain lightning attribute resistance.

But even if that were the case, wouldn’t it be impossible to eliminate all damage?

It was such a powerful curtain of lightning.

‘Even if we somehow manage to break through and kill the monster… the damage to us would be severe.’

of course.

That is a method to be mobilized only when there is no other way.

“Minjae hyung.”

“Uh uhh.”

I turned my attention to Minjae.

“…then. do.”

“okay.”

“…really. “Is it really okay to do this?”

“Ah! Did you really just get deceived?”

“…Whew!”

Minjae sighs.

But we have come this far.

There is no option to go back without doing anything.

He raises his hands in the air.

The strongest wizard in our unit.

The magic that Sergeant Lee Min-jae is proud of is revealed in his hands.

Rumbling…

above our heads.

A small dark cloud has settled down.

The person who created that dark cloud.

Sergeant Lee Min-jae spoke in a voice filled with tension.

“To create a dark cloud in such a close place…”

An ability that Minjae gained after reaching level 20.

By accumulating lightning in that dark cloud, you can deliver a powerful blow, etc.

It is a versatile technology in many ways.

but.

Dark clouds filled with lightning are a very dangerous natural disaster in themselves.

When dealing with enemies, it was kept high in the air.

‘Now it’s the opposite.’

A dark cloud that appeared so close to the ground that I could reach it with my hand.

there.

Pajijijik….

Crumbling….

Minjae hyung.

He started throwing his lightning.

‘For this occasion, I also fed him dishes that increase his magic power.’

and.

The moment when the size of the lightning cloud grew to the point where it seemed truly dangerous.

“This is enough.”

Did you say it’s a monster that eats lightning?

When I first found out about its existence.

Anyway, I didn’t think lightning could be cooked.

Not anymore.

wait a moment.

‘It makes you not even think about electricity from a power plant.’

A threatening dark cloud crackling with electricity.

I’m in it.

I put both my hands in.