Chapter 493 Golden Flying Fish <TOC> Chapter 495 The Purification Sea
Next page password is bold portion: bebOW$Po1lq
Translator: SumTLMan
Despite his heightened focus, Angel still finds no use.
Sunisha has no cover in the process of making gourmet food. Angel, however, still gains nothing and only sees some tricks in the Gourmet Mirage.
The Gourmet Mirage is a food illusion that appears when a Gourmet Wizard is making food. Angel once experienced a Gourmet Mirage on the Bohemia, almost biting into an oil lamp, mistaking it for a chicken leg.
The Gourmet Mirage is quite deadly for ordinary people, but for apprentices with a mental structure, it has no effect. Instead, everyone judges the source of the food materials and the possible taste through the images of the Gourmet Mirage.
For example, the mirage surrounding Sunisha’s food now—
A steamy Ink Touch King, dancing with a smile on its face in the rising mist, its tentacles full of suckers performing various moves, receiving various oddly-shaped food ingredients, such as Wind Funnels, Ink Touch King egg liquid, rich **, and Fragrant Recovery Leaves… The Ink Touch King stuffs these ingredients into its big mouth, and then a raging flame appears in the mirage.
After the flames burn, a plate of steaming lava-red egg soup with a shimmering red glow is presented to everyone.
From this mirage, the main ingredients and auxiliary materials of this dish can be seen. Generally, the effect of the mirage is as such. But as an illusion magic apprentice, Angel finds some tricks in the mirage, such as the fact that the mirage does not actually come from the hands of a Gourmet Wizard, but is a contest of art between taste and flame.
It has no real illusion node, purely an illusion created by the collision of extraordinary taste and extraordinary flames.
However, Angel only sees this point. As for the secrets of Sunisha’s gourmet food-making, he doesn’t understand at all. He wants to use this to improve his Magic Bread-making level, but it’s basically a no-go.
“The lava-red egg soup can enhance the affinity for fire attributes and can also increase the casting strength of the elemental fire side for a short time.” Sunisha introduced while placing the soup in front of everyone.
The fiery red soup has a faint white egg and green leaves. The aroma of the soup can still see some small, delicate mirages.
“Smelling it feels like there’s an explosion of fire in the heart.” Hermes took a deep breath.
Loki was already drooling and rubbing his palms, eager to try.
Sunisha took out a dinner plate, broke the mirage, scooped the soup into it, and placed it in front of Angel first: “I was able to get the Ink Touch King eggs thanks to your help, and I have no way to repay you. This bowl of soup is a token of my gratitude.”
Angel’s hunger was already crawling around in his heart, but he couldn’t show any eagerness on his face.
With a restrained smile, his appreciation for Sunisha rose: “Thank you.”
Sunisha’s eyes curved in a smile, looking very happy. However, only Carvelyn noticed that in Sunisha’s eyes, there was a hint of cunning. Whenever Sunisha showed this expression, she was usually calculating something… or someone.
Angel took the soup bowl, deeply inhaling its aroma, her inner satisfaction already growing. The quality of the food prepared by the Gourmet Wizard was evident.
As Angel’s lips gently touched the edge of the porcelain bowl, Sunisha’s smile grew wider.
However, just as Angel was about to drink the soup, a short, chubby, white hand like a lotus root reached out and snatched the soup bowl from Angel’s mouth.
Angel was stunned, and the others were also startled, while Sunisha’s smile froze.
“Tana, why didn’t you remind Angel that she shouldn’t eat the Gourmet Wizard’s food carelessly?” A childish voice entered everyone’s ears.
At some point, Alan, dressed in a white chef’s uniform, had woken up. He snatched the soup bowl from Angel’s hand and spoke to Tana with a serious face.
Tana was also taken aback: “I’ve been watching, her technique has no problems, and there are no issues with the ingredients.”
“Even if the ingredients are fine, the person may have a problem.” Alan glanced at Sunisha. He had been calling her “pretty little sister” until he saw the old man with the staff, which raised some doubts in his mind.
He remembered a type of Dark Gourmet that his Mentor once mentioned.
“A problem with the person?” Tana frowned and carefully scrutinized Sunisha.
Sunisha stood next to Carvelyn, smiling sweetly at Alan: “Little chubby, you can’t talk nonsense. If Carvelyn doesn’t eat my cooking in the future, I’ll spank your little bottom.”
Carvelyn smiled faintly but didn’t speak.
“Is there a problem with this soup?” Angel understood the implication in Alan’s words and asked.
“Leave it to me; I’ll take a look.” Alan patted his chest, putting on an “I’ve got this” demeanor.
Angel found it a bit amusing, as if she was seeing Alan from the Purplevine again. She didn’t expect that meeting Alan again, his personality hadn’t changed much; it seemed that life at the Butterfly Tavern was indeed more leisurely.
Alan carefully examined the soup for quite some time. He placed the soup bowl back on the small wooden table of the gondola, frowning deeply.
“What’s the result?” Tana asked.
“Uh, I didn’t find any problems. It can indeed enhance some fire-element values,” Alan mumbled. “But, my intuition tells me that there’s something wrong with this soup.”
“You’re not a woman; why are you talking about intuition?” Sunisha laughed, “If you think there’s no problem, let everyone judge. Let them drink if they want, and if they don’t, give it to me to drink.”
Because of Alan’s words, Tana also took over the soup bowl to check it. After inspecting it, she nodded to everyone: “There should be no problem.”
Although Alan’s gourmet talent is higher than Tana’s, he is still a first-level apprentice after all. Tana advanced to a second-level apprentice ten years ago, so compared to Alan, everyone trusts Tana’s judgment more.
In the end, Hermes took the lead in drinking the Explosive Lava Crimson Egg Soup.
With Hermes taking the lead, everyone drank it one after another.
Seeing this, Alan pouted, looking unhappy.
However, Angel and Cherie did not drink. Cherie has a very independent personality, even if she herself is a fire element and the Explosive Lava Crimson Egg Soup has a significant effect on her, she will not accept or trust any external gifts. Angel, on the other hand, trusts Alan’s intuition. He occasionally has strong intuitions himself, and experience tells him that his intuitions are generally correct. If Alan’s intuition says there’s a problem, there’s no harm in trusting him once.
As for the Explosive Lava Crimson Egg Soup enhancing the affinity of the fire element, Angel doesn’t care. Many potions have similar functions, and as an alchemist, if he really wants to buy a similar potion, he doesn’t lack the money for it.
Angel not drinking made Sunisha narrow her eyes, but she had already said “it’s fine if you don’t drink” earlier. So, she could only smile and say nothing.
After everyone drank the soup, the atmosphere warmed up a bit.
Angel and Alan began to talk about their recent experiences since entering the world of wizards.
Alan’s experience is actually quite similar to Angel’s. Although Alan has been to many places with the Butterfly Tavern in the past year or so, he has never actually left the Butterfly Tavern voluntarily, always staying in and studying the way of cooking. This time, going to the Mechanical City is his first time out.
Angel is actually also on his first trip out, but with the prefix of having experienced the fairy tale world.
The two wizard apprentices who haven’t seen much of the world ended up talking about the Old Land Continent.
Angel mentioned that he might return to the Old Land Continent within the year, which made Alan envious. He also missed his father, General Mon, but with his current ability, he couldn’t even think about crossing the Devil Sea to return to the Old Land Continent.
He knew that Angel was doing this for his enlightenment Mentor, and he had seen the sickly patient named Jon. Based on his knowledge over the past year or so, he proposed several healing plans for wrapping food therapy to Angel.
Angel thanked him with a smile, but he knew very well that Jon’s problem was not a disease, but the main cause was the rejection of the World Will. Alan’s proposed solutions were all still in the “pathological” realm, and basically useless for Jon.
They also talked about “Alana” and “Morrow”. Alan hadn’t seen Alana and Morrow since he went to the Candy House alone, so the conversation was mainly about reminiscing about the past and guessing the possible future.
When they really had nothing to talk about, Angel asked Alan about the “intuition” he mentioned earlier, but Sunisha was nearby, so Angel used the sound transmission technique.
“From what you said earlier, do you suspect that Sunisha has tampered with the soup?”
Alan nodded and replied using the sound transmission technique: “I suspect that Sunisha may be a Dark Gourmet.”
Dark Gourmet? Angel heard this term for the first time and didn’t know what it meant.
“Dark Gourmet, unlike our Candy House’s Gourmet Wizard, you can understand it as someone who uses gourmet as a means rather than a pursuit.” Alan pondered for a moment: “I don’t know if Sunisha is a Dark Gourmet, but her methods are somewhat like a legacy wizard that the tutor once mentioned.”
“Cuisine of Spirits, Sin Lady.”
“According to records, Sin Lady was a Dark Gourmet tens of thousands of years ago. She could attract otherworldly spirits to fight for her through gourmet cuisine. It is somewhat similar to summoning spells, but summoning spells have obvious power level distributions. If one summons beyond their level, not only will the consumption increase, but they may not even be able to withstand the backlash from the summoned creature. But Sin Lady’s Cuisine of Spirits is different. It is more like an exchange than a summoning, making deals with spirits through food to have them fight for her. If the food made is extremely suitable for a certain spirit’s taste, even a wizard apprentice could summon a wizard-level spirit.”
Angel listened with a surprised look: “There’s such a thing?!”
“Sin Lady’s Cuisine of Spirits is both a transaction and a contract. Once a spirit has eaten Sin Lady’s food, it must fulfill her conditions.” At this point, Alan glanced at Sunisha, who was floating in the air, showering petals: “When the old man with the staff that Sunisha had summoned earlier handed her the Ink Touch King Egg, he said, ‘This is the reward for dinner, thank you for your hospitality,’ and then he disappeared. This reminded me of Sin Lady’s Cuisine of Spirits.”
“If Sunisha really has a similar method, we must not eat her food. Otherwise, unknowingly, you might have already signed a contract with her.”
Chapter 493 Golden Flying Fish <TOC> Chapter 495 The Purification Sea