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Join the ServerAs for me, before regression, I was a rank 1 user who had used spirit magic for ten years in my own way.
Toward the end, I had even been able to contract with the Spirit King.
Yet even I had never heard of a user raising a spirit’s grade and giving it a unique name.
‘How is this possible?’
When a user’s spirit magic becomes more advanced, they make a new contract with a higher-grade spirit.
That was the principle of spirit magic as I knew it.
Moreover, each grade of spirit has its own inherent name.
For example, the Fire Spirit King Ignis.
For a user to formally give a name to such a spirit…
“Oh, master! Looks like the spirit evolved? Wow, it’s been a while.”
“What do you mean, a while?”
“Didn’t I mention it? My previous master was like this too. If I remember correctly, it eventually grew to the Spirit King level, I think?”
“Your previous master, the Great Hero Gatros?”
“Yeah!”
I didn’t know the details, but even just rereading the system window, I could roughly understand the situation.
It was probably thanks to the [Cooking Mastery Manual].
– Kkyukkyu!
“Has it grown? It’s gotten bigger!”
Jackson, who didn’t know much about spirits, was simply amazed.
Only I was left with my mouth agape in astonishment.
“By the way, master, you haven’t given it a name yet, right?”
“Yeah. I need to name it now.”
The system window told me to name it, so I had no choice.
It was just that my naming sense was terrible, so I was worried about what name to give it.
“Oh! Then can I name it?”
“Do you have a good name in mind?”
“Hoho, you’re going to give it a name? Then let me think too!”
“I’d appreciate that.”
If my naming sense was lacking, getting help from others was a wise choice.
The manual and Jackson.
After thinking for a moment, they both looked at me and shouted simultaneously.
“Fire-y! Spark-y! Red-y!”
“What about Jean Émérance? Jean Émérance was a fire mage who displayed great prowess a hundred years ago…”
“Rejected. No.”
“Whyy! Master!”
“Hmm, what a shame. Then what about Asphiro Guinness? With this name…”
“No. No.”
In that moment, I could feel it.
That their naming sense was utterly terrible.
In the end, I had to name it myself.
All the while, Salamander kept tilting its head, quietly watching me.
“Hmm… Chorong. How about that?”
– Kkyu! Kkyuu!
“Ehh? Master, isn’t that a bit childish?”
“It’s better than Fire-y or Spark-y.”
“Hmm, it’s a cute name, but wouldn’t a more meaningful name be better? For example, something like Franquis Oublier…”
“I couldn’t even pronounce that name.”
There was much opposition from around me, but the concerned party, Salamander—no, Chorong—seemed to like it.
It was a name that came to mind when I saw the creature’s eyes looking at me.
It was easy to call and felt affectionate, so I was satisfied too.
[The name of the lesser fire spirit Salamander is determined as ‘Chorong’.]
By giving a unique name, the mana consumption required to summon and maintain the spirit is reduced.
“Ooh.”
For a low-level user like me, maintaining Chorong had been quite a precarious endeavor.
Thinking back to the Path of Fire, maintaining Chorong until I ran to the end at maximum speed had been my limit.
In that context, the option of reduced consumption was a fairly good effect.
“Phew! Anyway, that was a truly wonderful meal. I feel like my stomach will burst. Hoho!”
“This is all thanks to this body!”
“I was the one who cooked, you know.”
It was a truly satisfying meal.
On the table, only an empty pot with no ingredients left and two bowls without a single grain of rice remained.
“Ah, I’ll do the dishes too.”
“No, it’s alright. You must be tired, so rest.”
“It’s fine. Doing the dishes is simple enough. Chorong, could you take care of this?”
– Kkyu!
The leftover mackerel bones and fins after we had eaten everything.
I gathered them and presented them to Chorong, and the trash problem was quickly resolved.
Whoosh!
It instantly incinerated the bones and fins with its hot flames.
Next was washing the dishes.
This too was no problem.
“The flowing water of the valley. The flowing water that purifies impurities. Wash.”
Fwoosh—!
I completely used up my remaining mana, which was already low from summoning Chorong.
Water filled the area around the rice bowls and pot, swirling in small spirals and cleaning them.
“Th-that’s magic, isn’t it?”
“Yes. It’s just a first-circle daily life magic.”
“To think you can even use magic! Truly unbelievable! Hoho!”
Before regression, I had reached the eighth circle.
For first-circle magic, as long as I recited the incantation, I could use it sufficiently even without it being formed as a skill.
It was just that its power was pitiful.
Still, for something as simple as washing dishes, it was no problem at all.
[Skill ‘First-Circle Magic Lv 1’ has been created.]
“Ah, so what will you do now, Mr. Jackson?”
“Hoho, since my purpose here is fulfilled, I plan to return to the training ground for now. First, I need to meet Dustin.”
“Then let’s tidy this up and go together.”
“Hoho, that suits me fine!”
Drip!
A transparent droplet fell from the pot, now clean without a single scrap left.
***
“No way! How is that possible?”
“Swordsmanship, spirit magic, alchemy. What on earth is his identity?”
Unreal World’s Management Department.
In that place, once filled with leisure, two men were shouting in shock.
Despite the sudden noise drawing curious glances from others, the two men’s reactions did not stop.
“To clear that quest… The Great Hero Gatros’s manual…”
“He’s receiving it…”
Reactions of disbelief.
On the monitor they were watching, Lee Chang was holding the [Cooking Mastery Manual].
Nearby employees who had approached also buzzed with confusion at the sight.
That a legendary manual had been unlocked.
That alone was enough to greatly change Unreal World’s situation.
A sudden change in situation meant that the workload for the Unreal World Management Department employees would increase.
As everyone was flustered, a man who came to his senses a bit earlier than the others spoke to Assistant Manager Lee, who was standing beside him in a daze.
“Ah, speaking of which, Assistant Manager. You remember, right?”
“What, what are you talking about. Hah, this is insane. How did he clear that?”
“You said that if that user passed the quest, you’d buy beef tonight, Assistant Manager.”
“…”
Wince!
Whether he recalled it, Assistant Manager Lee also flinched.
He had agreed to the bet because he thought there was no way he could lose, but thanks to that ridiculously strong user, he had lost.
“Is that really the issue right now? A legendary manual has been unlocked!”
“That’s one thing. But this is also a thing. You are going to buy beef, right?”
“…”
Assistant Manager Lee tried to change the subject, but it didn’t work at all.
He wanted to avoid the situation, but he couldn’t, curious about the movements of the user who had obtained the legendary manual.
In the midst of that, the user on the monitor began to cook.
“Huh? What’s he doing now?”
“Assistant Manager, don’t change the subject. Beef!”
“No, really. Look at that.”
“Huh? For real. Looks like he’s cooking again.”
The user on the monitor, Lee Chang, was preparing mackerel.
Then he prepared various vegetables, made a seasoning paste, put it in a pot, and let it bubble away.
Even though it was just on the monitor, it felt like the spicy aroma was wafting over.
“Gulp!”
Not only the two sitting in front of the monitor, but the other employees watching also swallowed hard.
The food on the monitor looked that delicious.
“Sigh! Assistant Manager. Never mind the beef, shall we go eat some braised mackerel?”
“S-sure. I know a good place that serves home-style meals.”
“They have braised mackerel, right?”
“Of course.”
That evening, the home-style restaurant near Unreal World’s headquarters was packed with employees from the Quest Management Department.
Only the restaurant owner was bewildered by this sudden situation.
***
“Hoho, is that also the manual’s ability?”
“I suppose so.”
Before leaving Jackson’s hut,
Jackson and I were harvesting all the fresh vegetables from the garden.
Jackson had said since he couldn’t tend this place anymore anyway, I should take them all.
The vegetables we harvested were all going into my subspace.
An inventory window?
That wasn’t it.
It was a skill called ‘Food Storage’ that had been created when I changed class to Executive Chef.
‘Truly, for a chef, there couldn’t be a better skill than this.’
< Food Storage Lv MAX >
For ingredients only, items can be stored in a subspace measuring 50 meters by 50 meters.
Stored ingredients maintain their freshness, temperature, and all other conditions exactly as at the moment of storage.
50 meters by 50 meters.
The inventory window given to users as standard was roughly 2 meters by 2 meters.
Although limited to ingredients, this was a whopping 25 times that size.
Moreover, the condition preservation option was truly remarkable.
For example, if I put ice cream in, it would still be frozen if I took it out a year later.
It also meant that kimchi could be stored without spoiling.
“If we’ve gathered everything, let’s go. Haha, I don’t know how long it’s been.”
As we left Jackson’s hut,
I checked another newly created skill from my class change.
‘The skill name was definitely Cooking Swordplay, wasn’t it?’
< Cooking Swordplay Lv 1 >
A swordsmanship style personally devised by the Great Hero Gatros using insights gained through cooking.
As the skill level increases, various forms of attack become possible.
Currently usable techniques: Chapter 1…
‘Ooh.’
The skill name was a bit peculiar, but it was a swordsmanship style personally devised by the Great Hero Gatros.
A skill like that couldn’t be weak.
I wanted to try out the skill immediately.
‘As expected, Gatros’s main profession must have been a chef.’
In fact, just looking at the [Cooking Mastery Manual] made that clear.
How he came to be called a ‘Great Hero’ through cooking was still unknown, though.
As I left the hut and walked along the cliff for a while,
a familiar voice I seemed to have heard somewhere reached my ears.
“Aaaagh, someone help! Please save me! No, my potential hidden item!”
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