The Cook of a Perished World - Chapter 331

Episode 331: Command authority.

[Ingredients Management]

[Ingredients managed by the chef are maintained in the best condition considered by the chef.]

[Ingredients under management are not adversely affected by the passage of time, and their condition is not damaged even when external factors intervene. It becomes slower.]

Food ingredient management.

Of all the cooking skills Howard possessed, this was the skill I coveted the most.

‘Just by ‘going through’ management, you will be free from the negative effects caused by the passage of time, and even if external factors intervene, the damage caused by them will be drastically reduced….’

If we interpret this in terms of humans.

It goes roughly like this.

‘Best condition….’

That is.

Buffs are provided to all abilities, and any loss of stamina or wounds is also recovered.

‘Adverse effects due to the passage of time….’

In other words.

You will not experience aging.

‘Intervention of external factors….’

In other words.

Acquires resistance close to immunity to damage caused by attacks.

‘You can even just go through it… there’s no time limit.’

Just by applying the buff once.

This means that all of the effects remain permanently.

If only I could have accepted it as is.

It was a crazy morale trait that would increase the power of our corps by 10x, 100x, 1000x.

[This is a deteriorated feature!]

Unfortunately,

it wasn’t to that extent when I borrowed it.

[Currently, the ingredients under the chef’s control are maintained in a state of high quality that the chef considers.]

[However, adverse effects due to the passage of time cannot be ruled out, and there is some resistance to damage to the condition due to the intervention of external factors. ]

The status of [Best] changed to [Advanced].

It goes without saying that I am on the battlefield and that it must be under my management.

This means that those who will receive my buffs must be under my command.

Compared to what Howard had, the performance was miserable.

Aging cannot be prevented at all.

Even in terms of ability level increase and resistance, it was not perfect.

But…

‘This alone is enough.’

No matter how much it is inferior to the original.

The effect…

was overwhelming.

“…uh? what. “Your abilities have increased?”

“Is your body’s vitality coming back?”

Awakened people who were fighting an unfavorable battle.

They were taken aback by the sudden change in their bodies.

“…It’s a buff!”

“A wide area buff has arrived!”

Within.

They were able to determine the cause of the changes that occurred in their bodies.

“The buff is in!”

Not only was all the buffs removed, but even the debuffs were consumed.

The awakened people were crowded at a terrible disadvantage.

Their exhausted stamina and wounds suddenly recovered.

Of course, even the abilities have increased.

It even has additional resistance to enemy attacks.

“…I think it’s possible at this level.”

“Push!”

The tide has turned.

Even if it’s not that big for each person.

A buff applied to all awakened people here.

The momentum of the group itself increased significantly.

They began to push back the monsters that were pushing them.

That wasn’t all.

“Big…huh.”

“…!”

“Captain Aim!?”

“Captain Aim’s breathing has cleared up a bit!”

The moment it came under my control.

All ingredients are maintained as ‘high quality’.

[Aim]

[Freshness: Lowest]

→

[Freshness: High (temporary)]

Captain Aim was almost like a dead corpse.

The condition improved slightly.

“What are you doing? “Treat quickly.”

“uh? Oh yes!”

Of course, this is only a slight improvement.

I still don’t know if it can be saved.

“…Has your healing ability become stronger?”

Healing light coming from the hands of therapists.

The intensity of that light also became more powerful as they became what I consider to be an ‘advanced’ state.

Even so, they were the only ones in this place who were receiving Jo Beom-seok’s ‘command’ buff.

Let’s add my management to them.

“If it’s like this….”

“Okay. “I might be able to save you!”

In the eyes of the healers who were keeping their aim.

There is a little glimmer of hope.

I looked down at Jojun’s body and thought.

‘Maybe it was the wrong choice to place this person under my management.’

He had an idea of the identity I had to hide.

There is one fortunate thing.

I wonder why I was hiding my identity.

Because he wasn’t confident in his guess because of that question.

It seems like the penalty hasn’t been activated yet.

‘I don’t know what will happen if I open my eyes.’

If you think about that.

Letting him die here might be the best way for me to survive.

but.

Well, it’s not a great reason.

‘I don’t like that.’

I definitely don’t want to die, though.

Surviving by sacrificing others like that.

I really don’t want to fall behind.

‘What can I do?’

If you don’t like the easy way.

There is only one way left.

‘I guess I have no choice but to choose the difficult path.’

still.

It was not like there was no benefit to be gained from trying to save this man.

My ‘food ingredient management’.

He is clearly contributing to the actions to save the aim.

“Ah Jun…!”

This means.

[Commander Order – ‘Save Captain Aim’]

[The commander’s order is being carried out!]

Only as long as this buff that originated from me lasts.

I also said that it was no different from carrying out Captain Cho Beom-seok’s orders to save his grandson.

[Debuffs due to failure to follow orders are lifted!]

[Attribute – Stat bonuses are granted due to intermediate command.]

[Skill – Stat bonuses are provided due to command shouts.]

“Hmm.”

Beomseok Jo’s buff applied only to the healers who were treating Captain Joon.

I felt it seeping into my body again.

I thought to myself as I watched Jojo panting with a hole in his body almost the size of a large dog.

‘I don’t know if I can survive or not… but I did everything I could.’

The rest are healers here.

And it’s up to Captain Aim himself.

Leave this to the therapists.

I needed to go do my thing.

“Son-na-eun. Son Na-hoon.”

I said, looking down into the shadows.

“You go find a man named Kim Jong-du.”

-yes?

“Try not to show yourself as much as possible, but if the man is in a situation where he could die, do your best to save him. “He is a person who will be of great help to the survival of humanity in the future.”

Among the people I met in Gyeonggi-do.

There were two people who were so important that I felt they had to be saved somehow.

[Tactician] Take aim.

And [architect] Kim Jong-du.

Another character, Jo Joon, is in a situation where he doesn’t know whether he can survive or not.

[Architect]

Kim Jong-du needed to be saved.

-Ha but!

-Our mission is to protect our master’s master…

They didn’t listen to my orders last time either for this reason.

This time the story was a little different.

“You know that you are not the only ones protecting me now.”

-….

“Having that much of a guard attached to just me is an excess of power. “You guys understand, right?”

-Okay…

I could feel the hesitant vampires nodding their heads in the shadows.

-Then your master is your master.

“I… have so much to do. “What’s the point of saying what to do?”

-….

“Anyway, what are you doing? Don’t leave quickly.

-yes…!

like that.

After confirming that the vampires in my shadow were moving through the shadows between the barrier buildings.

“Keuhum adventure.”

I turn and face the battlefield.

I poured all of my body’s magic into my vocal cords.

I shouted as loudly as I could.

“The entire expeditionary force!!! Listen!!!”

I am confident in one stat.

A shout containing all that overwhelming magical power spread throughout the entire wall.

* * *

{All expedition forces, listen!!!}

“…!?”

A sudden, huge sound.

Even the awakened people who were concentrating on the battle could hear the sound.

{Captain Jo Joon, General Cho Beom-seok, etc.! The expeditionary command is currently in a situation where it is unable to fight!}

“…The command has been wiped out?”

About that story.

All the awakened people who were part of the expeditionary force began to mutter in confusion.

“For some reason, the orders were late and the orders that were given at first seemed strange…!”

“Was the command center attacked first?”

and.

Someone among them muttered in a weak voice.

“I can’t believe the command has collapsed….”

It seems like he has lost hope.

An awakened person speaking with a gloomy expression.

It will take a considerable amount of time to repair the broken command system.

Now, the leaders of each branch have no time to spare as they are busy fighting the monster right in front of them.

It will take an enormous amount of time to restore a proper command system and launch a counterattack.

There was no room for that on this battlefield right now.

“Then what should we do?”

and.

The answer to that question…

{therefore!}

was given sooner than expected.

{As of the current time, the command of the entire expeditionary force has been transferred to General Cho Beom-seok and Captain Jo Jun. Coming under the management of Sergeant Shin Youngjun!}

“…Huh!?”

In the content contained in the shouts that followed.

People were shocked.

* * *

“What?”

“Sergeant Shin Youngjun? “Who is that again?”

“Are you a sergeant from the southern branch?”

Declaration of sudden transfer of command.

They don’t even know whether the owner of that voice is qualified to lead them or not.

It was just embarrassing for them.

“No, no. It’s him. He’s so strong that he goes around slaughtering hordes of monsters all by himself…”

“…Then he’s not even the leader of the group. “Why is such a gentleman leading us?”

At least I knew that the voice was not an enemy.

If it goes on like this.

No one truly followed the voice’s commands.

A fierce battle could have continued.

“Northern Warriors!”

A warrior whose entire body was painted with monster blood.

He stepped on the corpse of a huge monster and shouted from a place where everyone could see.

“Follow the commands of that voice! practice!”

“yes!!!”

A declaration that I will follow the commands of that voice.

The situation changed a little with that loud cry.

“…Mr. Jung-gu!?”

“What are you talking about, Jung-gu?”

As an elite warrior and acting leader of the central branch, Ha Yun-seong led the troops and hastily joined the fight.

Yun Chang, a spearman from the eastern branch who was struggling to defend the castle gate, responded as if he was embarrassed by the shout.

‘Did you say Shin Young-jun? I have a general idea that he is a strong man, but…!’

Heo Yun-chang thought as he looked at Jung-gu in the distance.

‘Whether or not you have the authority to command us is another matter!’

Those who were fighting near the northern branch as leaders of each group.

I frowned and looked at Jung-gu.

The leaders of each group here as well.

They thought they did not have the authority to lead other groups, so they were only leading their own groups.

“From belated orders to orders that cause damage to our allies. “There is only one thing that is certain in this situation!”

But suddenly a voice came in and commanded all the troops.

I just didn’t understand why he would follow such an order.

“There is a problem with the command, and if things continue like this… the only thing that is true is that we will all be buried in one place without getting along!”

Jung-gu shouted at the top of his lungs so that all the warriors could hear.

“Someone has to take command to turn the situation around!”

“Why does it have to be that man and not another leader! “That man doesn’t even belong to our guild!”

“It would be better if Jung-gu or Yoon-chang were in charge…!”

To the rebuttal of such people.

Jung-gu responded by throwing a throwing ax and piercing the monster’s skull.

“Because that’s the best!”

“…!?”

Crushing a monster’s head in one blow with a relatively light throwing axe.

This was impossible for Jung-gu just a moment ago.

“When a strange order was given earlier. Everyone must have felt the buffs on their bodies disappearing and the debuffs coming in!”

“….”

People nodded silently.

Everyone had already guessed that this was a phenomenon caused by disobeying Jo Beom-seok’s orders.

“on the other way! “The moment we heard that voice, we received a significant amount of buff!”

It wasn’t even an ordinary buff.

The lost stamina has been replenished and the wounds have recovered to some extent.

The increase in abilities was also significant.

The only difference is the area where the buff is applied.

When viewed comprehensively, the buff is not significantly inferior to General Cho Beom-seok’s skills.

‘…Wait, that can’t be right.’

Only then.

Even the awakened people who did not have enough time due to the battle were able to reach one conclusion.

“I don’t even understand how that guy can do something like this…!”

Huh!

Jung-gu swings a huge ax and cuts off the head of another monster.

He said with a smile on his face.

“There is a high probability that this buff is a command-level skill!”

“…!”

There is no one who knows much about a man named Shin Young-jun.

There was only one thing everyone knew.

‘A man who did not intervene during group fights… but whenever another group approached, he headed towards them alone and slaughtered the monster.’

While working alone without getting involved in fights with groups.

A person who showed tremendous force.

Everyone just thought of him as an absurdly powerful warrior.

But he has that kind of power.

In fact, he was a command-line awakened person and even had wide-area buff abilities?

‘Nonsense.’

‘No matter what, there is a thing called balance.’

Although it was a completely unbelievable fact.

This force revolving around their bodies was making the hypothesis impossible to deny.

“and! “You know the characteristics of command skills, right?”

“If you follow orders, you become strong… and if you disobey them, you become weak.”

“okay!”

Also, Jo Beom-seok’s buff immediately turned into a debuff.

It was because of the characteristics of the command skill.

“I don’t know what orders that friend will give us. However, I think it would be more reasonable than ordering the entire expeditionary force to stick together to save Captain Cho….” “

….”

“What do you think? “Am I wrong?”

In those words.

I thought people thought for a moment.

“…Hoo shit.”

“There’s nothing we can do when it’s like this.”

With a sigh.

They started standing next to Jung-gu.

“The entire expeditionary force follows Sergeant Shin Young-jun’s orders!”

“Everyone takes action the moment an order is given!”

“Everyone follow Shin Young-jun’s orders!”

like that.

All the powerful awakened members of the Association.

A stranger who did not even belong to the association.

I accepted the command of Sergeant Youngjun Shin.

{Enemy monsters are rushing towards the castle gate!}

{Northern branch, support the eastern branch defending the castle gate!}

“Did you hear? Children! Everyone breaks through!”

Until then.

Rather than being one huge organization, it was just a collection of small groups.

These people were scattered all over the place and continuing to fight indiscriminately.

“Mr. Yoon Chang! long time no see!”

“…I asked you when you would come, Mr. Jung-gu.”

They finally.

We started gathering as a proper [expeditionary force].

{The troops of the central and southern branches lead non-combatants to the central building!}

{There are defensive facilities near the central building to serve as a fortress! Use this to enter a defensive battle stance!}

{The main force in subduing monsters is the North and East! The central and southern troops protect the central building and throw firepower to the rear of the monsters trying to attack the castle gate!}

“Follow orders!”

“Everyone run to the center!”

“We must take as much time as possible to annoy those who are trying to attack the castle gate!”

They are of one mind.

Full-scale operational activities began.

“let’s go!”

“…The Awakened Association fights as one!”

A huge expeditionary force formed by the awakened people of Gyeonggi-do gathered together in one place.

The enormous power that could be born by uniting all the awakened people in one region….

“Kneel before the united power!!!”

for the first time.

It started to work in earnest.