The Cook of a Perished World - Chapter 349

Episode 349: Memorial Service Table (1)

[A joint course meal filled with the brilliant courage of an intermediate chef and a war chef]

[War]

If it’s natural, then it’s natural.

It was the role of Howard, a chef in Gyeonggi Province, to convince them that they should eat the food.

I came here only as a helper.

In order to survive, the people here must do it on their own.

Only then will this experience serve as a driving force to save them even after I leave here.

but.

‘There’s no problem with helping with the cooking, right?’

At least we cook the food together at that time.

As a chef from another area, there was nothing hesitation about me doing.

‘…by the way.’

And

this is something I didn’t know about.

‘This is my first time cooking with another [chef].’

It was even like that when I was teaching with Howard.

We just exchanged advice while watching each other cook.

We have never cooked together before.

like that.

There was something I learned for the first time this time.

[This is a joint dish created by two or more chefs working together!]

[The skills of two chefs are applied simultaneously.]

The collaboration between chefs…

was more amazing than I thought.

[Main Chef – Shin Young-Jun]

The base itself was no different from the dishes I always made.

The only difference is that the kitchen equipment was completed in a hurry and carefully selected monster meat was used.

‘It’s shabby compared to the dishes made in Gangwon-do.’

It has become impossible to stack abilities through [Absolute Taste].

The base dish was not up to the level of the dish I used to make in Gangwon-do.

but.

[Assistant Chef – Jin Yang-sik]

What if Howard’s cooking was added here?

The story is a little different.

Unlike me.

This guy is a pure non-combat blue-collar chef.

[The leading chef increases the abilities of the assistant chef.]

[All abilities of the assistant chef receive additional correction due to the influence of the leading chef.]

[List of effects applied to cooking]

[Skill – Perfect Baking]

[Skill – Ingredient Management]

[Characteristic – Enhanced Taste]

[Characteristic – Western Cuisine Specialization]

[Characteristic – Nutrient Enhancement]

[Characteristic…]

[….]

That pure cooking skill that

has become stronger due to my influence ….

“crazy.”

The effect goes beyond what I imagined.

It was being served in dishes.

“Kruk….”

The humans finished their meal.

Their muscles swell rapidly.

Those eyes changed like those of a ferocious beast.

“Ghost hunting would be perfect for post-meal exercise!

That momentum.

Dozens and hundreds.

It was so explosive that even if thousands of enemies appeared, it seemed like he could cut them down with just one body.

‘It’s not a joke, it really looks like it’s going to explode at any moment…’

I shouted when I saw that.

“General Cho Beom-seok!”

“Uh huh!?”

“Give orders!”

A word I had never heard of a while ago.

Is it because of that experience?

General Cho Beom-seok gave an order reflexively to my words, even though he had an expression on his face that he did not understand the current situation.

“everyone…! “March forward!!!”

and.

Those words were enough.

“KIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!”

“Kneel before the united power!!!”

Pababababang!

The momentum of the expedition team rushing through the ground.

The vast land of Gyeonggi-do shook and the frost that had settled on the ground began to crumble.

* * *

‘If you think about it, other production workers were like that too.’

When making or working on some equipment.

[A painstaking collaboration between an intermediate tailor, an intermediate blacksmith, and an intermediate engineer]

Despite the fact that they have the ability to create something great on their own.

The items they made were always made through collaboration in this way.

The reason.

It was only after seeing that scene that I realized it.

“KIYOOOT!!!”

grasp!

An awakened person screamed and kicked the ground.

Holding a huge sword, it jumps high into the sky and spins at incredible speeds in the air like a top.

Kwasik!!!

The incredible kinetic energy generated by that rotation.

It was placed on the great sword and lodged in the forehead of the huge monster.

-Kruk…!

The gigantic monster left behind only a brief death.

I fell to the floor.

“Kahaha!!! Where is the next guy?”

Even after defeating the enemy, he still seems full of strength.

An awakened person flying towards another monster.

and.

“Are you saying this is all you bugs are?”

“Weak, so weak…!”

Such a sight.

It was appearing all over the city at the same time.

‘The effect… is too much.’

This is it.

The reason why other awakened production workers bothered to collaborate and produce equipment.

‘Because… it’s overwhelmingly efficient!’

It is the same as a combat awakened person.

As more awakened people gather, the synergy from various occupations increases overwhelming combat power.

When production workers with diverse characteristics gather together.

One’s own shortcomings are minimized by having someone who is good at that part take charge.

Each other’s strengths overlap and are maximized.

Even though my cooking ability is weaker than when I was in Gangwon-do.

This is how the dish was born.

It was more powerful than any dish I’ve ever made.

* * *

“What on earth is that!”

Even though it was an order he had given, he seemed unable to believe what he was seeing in front of him.

General Cho Beom-seok began to hastily run after the soldiers who had jumped out.

“General, please eat quickly too!”

“Can I eat it? “That… that appearance… doesn’t look normal…!”

“It’s normal even if it looks like that!”

I said, handing him the dish.

“The battle started because there was a little too much momentum… but since it was just before departure to begin with, I don’t think there will be any problems.”

“That’s right.”

“From here on, the general’s role is important.”

Last time, I wasn’t able to demonstrate my abilities.

Originally, Jo Beom-seok was the key to the large-scale battle of this expeditionary force.

“My advice would be to proceed with the operation itself as you previously planned… but calculate that our troops’ strength has doubled.”

“I can’t believe it’s doubled.”

“That was also kept to a minimum. “It could be more than that.”

okay.

I just assumed it was a boat.

‘Even I cannot properly guess the effect of cooking on this expeditionary force.’

It’s simply that the quality of the joint cuisine is high.

It wasn’t just because of that reason.

‘It’s been a very long time since humans here have had proper cooking.’

It was an environment where food was harder to obtain than in Gangwon-do.

All they ate was oat porridge, dried fruit, and pork fat.

in other words.

‘My appetite is at its lowest…!’

Just as the Pope of Dasmur had too much of an appetite for the effects of my cooking to work.

Just as the great god Morzan had never eaten proper food before, so my cooking was effective despite his high status.

Cooking is, of course, the cooking itself.

The effect also changes depending on the taste of the person eating it.

The effect of cooking has already become stronger.

This means that they would have been able to enter with overwhelming efficiency.

‘…When Jo Beom-seok mentioned the existence of a traitor to me and I had not yet found out about his identity.’

I wasn’t confident in finding the traitor.

That’s why I came up with a way to make it okay even if there was a traitor.

‘That’s it.’

For those who have lost their appetite.

It was a dish that put all its effort into cooking.

“…I don’t know what happened.”

Let’s eat all the dishes.

General Cho Beom-seok’s eyes also change like those of a starving beast.

“It is a commander’s honor to lead troops this strong…!”

“…Haha, that’s right.”

“Slaughter all the enemies!!!”

[Battle Order – Slaughter]

[Cut, tear, crush and slaughter the enemies.]

A buff that spreads widely across the battlefield.

I thought about that.

The reason why I wanted to use Lieutenant Kim in my unit instead of killing him.

‘The cooking buff increases the fixed value of the ability… and the commander’s buff gives additional ability as a percentage of the increased ability.’

Fixed buff and percent buff.

The effectiveness of these two buffs is maximized when used together.

‘Each of them is one hundred per day.’

Even this one was so ordinary that it wasn’t even noticeable.

Exuding a force that overwhelms those who were once called elite.

Literally.

Started slaughtering the enemies.

* * *

Jo Beom-seok’s command begins in earnest.

As the expeditionary force began slaughtering their enemies.

“It’s amazing. “How can such strength…”

Han Yi-seo muttered in astonishment as she watched the scene.

surely.

Even in my opinion, it’s an effect that makes no sense.

“You can’t win with that alone. “You know.”

After I turned my gaze away from the battlefield.

He looked at Han Yi-seo and said.

“…yes. “I know.”

She nods her head with a nervous expression.

Among the humans here.

Although only I and Han Yi-seo have the ability to see.

“Just killing those monsters isn’t the end.”

“yes.”

It was visible to me and Han Yi-seo.

A battlefield where a one-sided massacre is taking place.

The monsters dying on that battlefield.

At first glance, it looked like he had really lost his life.

[Belsnickel Junior Watchman]

-It hurts, it hurts…

When a monster loses its life.

There was energy escaping from the body.

[Junior Belsnickel Knight]

-Everyone, scatter around. There will be temporary bodies hidden around, so bring them back to the battlefield!

okay.

Although the immediate advantage was clearly good news.

However, if we were to say that victory was on our side, it was not the case.

‘In the end, their true bodies are their spirit bodies, not the bodies of monsters.’

The cause of the abnormal weather that hit Gyeonggi-do is also.

This is because those spirits had the ability to lower the temperature around them just by existing.

Simply wiping out the monsters in front of you is not enough.

They will somehow find another body and threaten Gyeonggi-do again.

‘I have to get rid of that spirit somehow.’

I and Han Yi-seo have the ability to attack spiritual bodies.

In other words, there are only two people who can do such a thing at the moment.

Of course, it was impossible for two non-combatants to dispose of all the souls of those numerous monsters.

so.

“I have prepared everything just like you said.”

It’s about preparing a response to that.

Isn’t it natural?

Han Yi-seo looks nervous.

As she moved away, what was revealed behind her.

“I have never held a ancestral rite of this size before…”

It was an enormous ancestral rite table.

I looked at the ancestral rite table and thought.

‘When I first met Han Yi-seo… there was a ancestral rite table behind it.’

Although she hid herself in the dark, as if trying to hide her appearance.

That was the moment she used her skill on me.

Parsi style….

The fruits placed on the ancestral rite table lose their vitality.

I witnessed it clearly at the time.

After that.

I had separately asked Han Yi-seo a question.

The answer I heard then was simple.

‘Great spirits are certainly great… but at the same time, there are limits to being a spirit. In the spiritual world, it is not easy to get involved in the affairs of the living, except for souls with special abilities.’

‘so?’

‘In order to borrow their power, I have to make that memorial table. There are two meanings there.’

The one is.

‘It is a ritual to show respect to the dead by giving them food from the living.’

It’s a kind of price.

The spirits only grant her favor if the reward is satisfactory.

The second is….

‘It’s like a sacrifice to enable them to interfere in this world.’

Just as a person must eat to be able to work.

By offering food from the living.

You can exert as much power as it contains.

The number of spirits that can be handled increases depending on the price contained in the ritual table.

The power that the spirits can exert varies depending on the offering on the table.

‘What’s different about the ancestral rites of old holidays is that all the items offered as sacrifices disappear? Since we had nothing to eat, the amount we could offer was small.’

I asked if it would be better to sacrifice monster meat or something.

What is important about that ancestral rite is how important the offering is to the person offering it.

To Han Yi-seo at the time, monster meat, which had no value, could not be put on the ancestral rite table.

“The power that can be exerted varies depending on the sacrifice offered.”

but.

It’s different now.

What is on the ancestral rite table is….

[Full course of the holiday ancestral rite table filled with the care of a mid-level chef and a war chef]

[Borgon Bandit]

[Ice Worm Meat Pancake]

[Panteron Meat Soup]

[….]

[…. ]

“Even our ancestors have never served a table like this before.”

Literally.

Dishes so sumptuous that your upper legs will break.

“How is it.”

“…!”

“Are you satisfied with this?”

And…

around that ancestral rite table.

“…I had no idea so many people would come.”

Countless and huge.

Blurry figures were coming.