Until now, he had been making considerably tasty food with low grade materials; but this meal was made from Advanced materials that took many difficulties to obtained.
Intermediate level 6 cooking skill!
In this Land of Vampires, having to take care of the Geomchis, the bustling of cooking finally gave him Intermediate level 6.
The secret of having higher skill level was simply work on it like doing chores.
While traversing the road, he looked for herbs amongst the wild grass.
As he kept on doing that, his Herbal skill also suddenly climb its way to Intermediate level 9.
With having the skill at this level, he could even find and unearthed sweet potatoes hidden deep with the crust.
And also, his Handicraft skill reached Advanced level 4 in this place.
Weed poured all of this into his cooking!
With the combinations of various Advanced materials collected, nothing made could be better than that of porridge.
Body have eaten very good food.
Stamina increases by 40%.
HP increases by 25%.
Mana increases by 13%.
Strength rises by 36 points.
Agility rises by 22 points.
Poison resistance increases by 36%.
Stamina will not decline.
The materials contained in each bowl were at whopping 53 Gold!
Needless to say, this was the most expensive food Weed had ever cooked.
In the cities, the collective ingredients would cost around 200 Gold to start making the meal.
But here, the materials were collected through hunting.
The effects given were a clear indicator of the precious resources that went into the food.
The aromatic meal melted as it entered one’s mouth and spread its taste thoroughly.
At this point Weed took out a bottle.
“Here’s a bottle to drink.”
A drink made from mountain fruits and herbs!
Although it had not been a while for it to be fermented well since it was made here in Todeum.
Nevertheless, the Geomchis each took a shot.
Pale, Zephyr and other party members did not drink since they were filled with tension.
This was the first time they’ve encountered a grade A difficulty quest.
Whether it was the Pegasus or the Unicorn, individually they were still too powerful of a monster.
They were imagining themselves going head to head against such monsters.
But they didn’t realize that the added tension along with these thoughts would stiffen them further mid battle.
They could not drink the drink, because they were already tension filled.
In combat, just as stats and skills, having morale was just as important.
With so many people gathered together to fight, they could not ignore the psychological factors of the group.
‘Everybody seems to be nervous.’
Maylon shot a question towards Weed to try to boost their morale.
“Weed nim, I’ve been curious about something. Do you mind if I ask?”
“No.”
“It’s about back then in CoM, the Ibanpolten Island’s labyrinth.”
Weed somewhat vaguely remembered.
‘It was the sealing place of an Archdemon.’
It was a very famous place in Continent of Magic.
It was the nastiest of labyrinths that remained undefeated until Weed!
It was an incomprehensible maze that wouldn’t allow Weed another attempt at it after he had finished exploring it.
“So, how did you break into it?”
Maylon was expecting a great answer.
She figured if they listened to Weed’s adventure for a bit, it’d calm the mood of the party.
Weed had a simple answer.
“Did you know that that labyrinth had many sewer rats in the basement?”
“Yes. It was infested with large ra…no way?”
“I entered it through those sewers.”
“……”
The answer was too simple!
That was too much of a simple solution to come to.
Maylon had to throw in another question.
“Do you remember the Inferno Skeleton King?”
Skeleton King!
A monster with a body of bones and smoldering flames encompassed him.
“That was another monster that Weed nim killed. Great physical attacks, as well as magic defense so great that it was expected to be at the level of dragons, it was considered as the worse of monsters; how would you handle him?”
“I would immerse him in water to kill him.”
“…………”
Maylon drooped tremendously after her useless attempts.
However, if she had known of the situations behind them, she wouldn’t think it could be so negligible.
He had to make detailed mapping of everywhere, all to predict where the Archdemon was sealed.
Just to locate the nearest entrance to that location, and it was a sewer entrance no less!
The Skeleton King too, after a dozen deaths or so to figured out his weakness, and was finally able to drag him to the lake.
The reasons for Weed’s successes were through thorough investigation and preparation.
Although it was easy to give an immediate answer while leaving out plenty of the intermediate steps; in actuality, he suffered a lot throughout the process.
‘Regardless, it was much easier than trying to earn a living in real life.’
To Weed, any quests given weren’t that hard.
They were much easier comparing to him being a high school dropout trying to take care of his sickly grandmother and younger sister.
With no education degree, his payroll wasn’t much.
The workload, the risks, and being dirty; his pay would get cut immediately from any one of these simple reasons!
He even had to compete with foreign workers.
Quests are just simple comparing to that of the job market!
Maybe if it was a grade Special S difficulty quest! (dunno if SS is a real grade or not in this game, no1 achieved it yet.)
Comparing to real life, doing quests was a relatively simple shift.
Breakfast was over.
Weed stood up from his spot.
“Are you all ready?”
“Yeah.”