The Cook of a Perished World - Chapter 251

Episode 252: Forced feeding (1)

After entrusting the production of cannons and shells to engineers.

I headed to the restaurant.

And…

-tick tick tick tick….

After lighting the fire bowl.

I started cooking.

‘Uhm. After all, I don’t think a normal amount will work.’

The dish to make this time.

The most important thing about the dish was not actually the effect of the dish.

‘sheep.’

Just an overwhelming amount.

After taking out all the ingredients stored in the warehouse.

Start cooking with all your might.

“I don’t need effects…just taste and quantity.”

Because the situation is different from when you feed the soldiers the dishes you put your best effort into.

I don’t care what effect the dish will have.

Focusing only on the best taste.

[Happy stir-fried fish cake for a specific person who did his best as a war chef]

After completing one dish.

He puts his hand on it and mutters.

“Five loaves.”

[Activates skill – ‘Five Loaves and Two Fish’.]

Then.

Food copied to the maximum amount my magical power allows.

“Huh….”

Thanks to the various skills and characteristics, the fatigue from cooking was significantly reduced.

Nevertheless, as the saying goes, ‘I did my best.’

Even now, creating the best dish is not an easy task.

Even for dishes like that.

The amount of horsepower required to copy also increases exponentially.

“I’m dying.”

A dish and one copy of that dish.

That alone was enough to drain the entire body’s magical power.

but.

Should I say that I am fortunate?

[Mixed magic beef jerky containing the deep magic power of a war chef]

“There are a lot of dishes prepared to boost magic power.”

The reason was simple.

Originally, I was going to fill that [magic power reservoir] with these dishes.

‘Actually, all the wizards who had to eat these dishes fainted, making it difficult to find a place to use them.’

As far as my stats are concerned, I am a gangster.

The limit of buffs that could be endured was also overwhelmingly higher than that of the unit members.

Let’s chew on the beef jerky.

I can feel the magical power in my body recovering little by little.

“The next menu is….”

I immediately start the next dish.

What had to be done was simple.

With the utmost sincerity that I can.

Cooking to the fullest.

like that.

I’ve been concentrating on cooking for a while.

“Sergeant Shin!”

“The items you mentioned have been completed.”

The sappers are coming.

I was notified that the item I requested had been completed.

‘Has so much time already passed?’

Because I was too absorbed in cooking.

I didn’t even know how much time had passed.

Looking at the condition inside the body.

Even though I cooked while inflating my magic power to the maximum, there was almost no magic power left.

“No matter what, I think it will be difficult to cook any more than this…”

I stood up.

I went out of the restaurant.

okay.

Then slowly.

“Let’s start the operation.”

* * *

[Underground mine dug too deep – Morzan]

After leaving the restaurant.

Let’s go straight inside the gate in the basement of the inner castle.

An excessively large cavity.

I saw a huge cannon standing in the middle of it.

[Ingredients Identification (Enhancement)]

[Group Festival Special Purpose Direct Fire Artillery]

“Is this this guy?”

“yes. “This is a modified direct-fire gun previously captured from another unit.”

[This is an item that engineers of the Steel Legion remodeled from the ancient weapons of the extinct human race.]

[During the modification process, technology from another world was used, and its performance was greatly increased.]

It is technology from another world.

I guess they just applied the technology they got from those Dwarven people.

“First of all, it is a direct fire gun… but the range would have been much longer than you requested.”

“what? “Do you really need it?”

“Haha, making it turned out to be more fun than I thought.”

Engineers proudly stroking their creations.

This is because it is their main specialty that they created for the first time after receiving the technology from that other world.

It must have taken more force than I ordered.

‘I guess that’s why.’

The shape of the cannon they completed.

It was more than I expected.

A huge-looking battery.

There was a fixed platform built around it to withstand recoil.

A long, massive gun barrel was at the center of the platform.

Is there anything unusual?

‘The direction the gun barrel is facing is down, not up.’

Not on the ground or in the air.

An object designed to fire underground.

I confirmed the performance of the cannon.

A cavity at the beginning of the gate.

I headed to the center.

‘Then… this seal was useless in the end.’

This seal we are treading upon.

It was originally created by the Dwarven to prevent the ‘Wrath of God’ that might come from underground.

This item was installed by a group of priests who thought that the mountain range itself was a gift from God, out of fear of God’s wrath.

but.

‘Even the seal created by such a powerful civilization with all its might could not stop the fury of that dregs of flesh.’

God saw the children he created treating other children as slaves.

I guess that angry thought couldn’t be blocked with a seal like this.

Even though that god was in a state of infinite decline.

It was impossible to even alleviate the damage caused by that anger.

How powerful are these guys called Shingeuk?

It was something I could feel a little bit.

After I walked on that thick seal.

I stood exactly in the middle of the cavity.

“That cannon. Install it exactly here.”

“yes!”

This underground mine was shaped like a very thin and long drill.

The place where I am standing is the highest part of the drill.

and.

‘[Morzan] was… at the end of that drill.’

Now standing in the center.

It’s so far away that you can’t feel it or see it.

‘Right below…’

There must be a god who has not fully died.

“Kamang!”

-Kki-ing!

Blackfish dug a huge hole where I was standing.

“Installation complete!”

So that we can fire through that hole.

Engineers set up cannons.

Lastly…

“Here are the shells that Sergeant Shin asked me to make.”

“Oh, that must have been a difficult request, but it was well made.”

A shell that was requested to be specially produced.

The number alone was in the hundreds.

“Anyway…”

“Why on earth did you ask me to make it this way?”

The purpose of this shell was very different from that of ordinary shells.

The reason why I wanted to produce this type of shell.

Actually it was simple.

“Hmm. “Actually, my cooking skills had one fatal flaw.”

“yes…? “Do you mean Sergeant Shin’s cooking?”

chef.

Fundamentally, I think it is a fraudulent job because it is not satisfactory.

but.

There were several fatal shortcomings that could not be done about.

‘It’s the same as the maintenance time I felt a while ago…’

The biggest drawback is.

also.

“The effect only takes effect once you eat it.”

“Ah…”

Fortunately, this is an advantage that wasn’t highlighted as much when making dishes for buffs.

the problem is.

‘It was time to use it as a debuff dish.’

On the other hand, there are beast-level monsters that eat my dish right away.

In the case of monsters that are otherwise quite intelligent.

It was almost impossible to attack them by feeding them food.

Considering that the key to conquering boss monsters in the game is buffing allies and debuffing enemies.

My cooking is half of them.

It was only able to perform its role as a buff.

but.

“Not anymore.”

lately.

After converting the demon contractors into hunters.

A trait received as a result of that achievement.

[characteristic ? [Force feeding]

Reading the effects.

The shells I received from the soldiers.

[Identification of food ingredients (enhancement)]

[Custom-made shells for special purposes for the Legion]

I opened the lid.

[Unlike regular artillery shells, this shell is made to hold something inside.]

[When it touches the target, it does not explode, but rather opens and spills the contents inside….] “

You made it well. ”

A shell with its lid open.

That’s not a cannonball…

yeah.

‘It looks like a rather unusual and huge side dish container.’

and.

What could possibly fit in a container like this?

“Ah ah?”

“What are you doing!?”

“huh? Of course…”

A shell with its lid open.

What I started putting into it.

“It’s cooking.”

I made it with all my might.

It was a huge amount of dishes.

* * *

-You can’t believe I’m cooking this dish…

-It’s hard for me to prepare it myself. Please add the rest yourself.

-yes? That’s not difficult, but… What about Sergeant Shin?

Put the dish into the cannonball and fire it.

The soldiers were perplexed when they first heard the concept.

Soon I thought that it must have some meaning since I was doing it and moved on.

A huge amount of dishes were hidden in the shadows.

Put them in a bowl… not.

After leaving it to the soldiers to put it into the shells.

-I…I think I should go see it in person.

I am again.

We headed towards an underground mine filled with miasma.

‘I’m sick of this place now.’

please.

I hope this is the last strategy.

-master.

“huh?”

While I was going down to the basement like that.

A member of the family in the shadows spoke to me.

I walked out of the shadows.

“…I think the master probably noticed it too.”

“Ah… um well. yes.”

I’m not stupid either.

How could I not notice what was happening to my body?

‘Because it was pickled in that miasma.’

A situation that would have meant death.

In that state, he came back alive.

There must be a reason why that was possible.

The reason is…

I realized it the moment I left the hospital room.

“When you came up from the underground, my master was in the worst condition…”

“Yes. “It would probably have been difficult to get back to the surface alive.”

“So I had no choice….”

The moment I left the hospital room. I remember the feeling

I felt when I was exposed to warm sunlight

.

‘It stung incredibly.’

It wasn’t a day with particularly strong sunlight.

Even though it was just ordinary sunlight during an ordinary daytime.

A hot and stinging sensation, as if you had received a mild burn.

“I guess they used your blood to provide first aid.”

“yes.”

Fortunately, it wasn’t a serious level of pain.

To be honest, I was embarrassed.

“Do you remember the last time you asked me if I turned you into a vampire?”

“iced coffee. I remember. “At that time, I was very surprised when I saw its regenerative power.”

“At that time, I wondered if my master had turned into a half-vampire…”

Is Ariella watching me?

I opened my mouth cautiously.

“If I think about it now, it wasn’t that bad back then.”

“At that time… of course.”

“Now it’s more like halfway…”

Looks embarrassed.

She continued speaking while scratching her cheek.

“Exactly 49% of you would have become a vampire.”

“….”

A dark underground mine.

Even though I was going down there, I didn’t have my lights on.

Even without turning on the light.

Because I could see the surroundings as clearly as during the day.

‘Dark vision.’

This too.

It must be an effect of the vampire’s characteristics.

I sighed and opened the [Status Window].

[Awakened – Shin Yeong-Jun]

[Job: War Chef Lv.33]

[Primate – Human Species?]

Traits such as [Dark Vision] were not visible in the trait window.

It seems that the race value is still classified as human.

‘[Human species?]. ‘What’s the question mark again?’

I guess.

It seemed like he could barely be considered human.

Even this system window is confusing.

“sorry. Without the master’s permission…”

Ariella seemed prepared to get scolded by me.

He lowered his head and said.

but.

“no. good job.”

“…yes?”

Not really.

The boss wasn’t so bad that he got angry over something like this.

“I was overly greedy. “Thanks to you, I survived.”

“….”

I’m glad I survived.

He did his best to save me.

I don’t know if there was another way, but if not, there’s no need to get angry.

“Master… you are now officially not half-human.”

“Tsk tsk. “That’s right.”

It’s so absurd that I laugh out loud.

How long has it been since the world looked like this? I can’t believe it’s already happened like this.

to my answer.

What was Ariela thinking?

“…Do you regret it?”

I’ve been asking that question.

“Regret.”

Well, I don’t know.

I can’t believe I’ve become half a vampire.

If it had been before, I would have wondered what was going on.

I must have regretted it immensely.

“Not particularly now?”

“That’s puzzling. “Isn’t the master proud of his identity as a human?”

“huh? That’s still true. “If anything has changed, that’s fine.”

If you think about it, it’s a bit surprising.

How much time has passed in the past?

I can’t believe I can just get over the half-monster I am.

“Even if your pride in humanity remains the same.”

Difference between past and present.

There was only one reason I could guess.

“I guess the hostility towards other races has decreased a little.”

“yes?”

“Why are you surprised? How many people of this race are in our unit now? “It’s worth it, right?”

Initially.

Thinking that it was an enemy that was attacking humans who were living well, they treated it only as an enemy.

Meanwhile.

When I met the brood mother of [Subway].

I realized that these guys are also creatures with emotions and maternal love.

Nevertheless, the hostility still remained.

After that, I met various monsters.

‘They are still enemies, but they have their own circumstances.’

Dasmurian or something.

Whether it’s the Green Mane tribe.

Either a vampire or something.

Whether it’s a beast race or a Mac.

It’s not something to be completely hostile towards.

If you need it…

I learned that it is also something you can keep in your arms.

There may be cases where each party has their own reasons and have no choice but to be hostile.

The perception has changed considerably from the past, when people only hated the fact that they were monsters that preyed on humans.

“Still, I don’t want to become a monster~ Well. “You’re still barely human, right?”

“….”

“Then it’s okay.”

The important thing is.

That I am still alive.

“To regret it… I like what I did.”

Even though it was done at the risk of death.

Somehow I was able to survive.

You could say that this price is rather cheap.

“…From here on out, master, you will have to go alone.”

After going down like that for a while, I finally got there.

I was able to reach the exact same section where I broke up with Ariela last time.

“The good news is that vampires have a higher poison resistance than humans.”

“huh?”

“If last time you took the baronet’s blood, what you took this time is the viscount’s blood. The purity is also on a different level… Your regenerative power must have become much stronger than before. “You will probably be able to go underground much more comfortably than last time.”

“Hey, isn’t it bad to be bitten until you die?”

I laugh lightly.

deepest place.

I headed to the place where the most dense thoughts were accumulated.

-It hurts, it hurts, it hurts.

That thought.

When it tried to get under my skin.

Couuuuuuuuuck!

From the side.

I felt something falling at great speed.

Let’s look to the side.

Kuu Woong ….

Kwahaha Ah ….

On that distant sky.

I saw a huge number of shells raining down.

“Is this the beginning?”

Even though he fell to the point where he was about to die.

A lump of flesh that was once a god.

That strategy.

It has finally begun.