"It looks like Ainen is cooking."

"Uncle Hammer, do you want to fight me?!"

"Spar, you dummy! If you fight for real, Uncle Hammer will turn you into a paste on the floor."

"…why are you saying like that?"

"Hahaha, alright. This uncle Hammer will spar with you. Come on."

"May I request a spar with you?" Diana cautiously asked Fraisea, who was sitting in a tree peacefully.

'No. You can ask the other two. They will spar with you.'

"Understood." Diana got Fraisea's voice in her hand and quietly left.

Diana had Ice Manipulation, and these foxes also had Ice Manipulation, but what they had was superior to hers.

S-rank Ice Manipulation!

She had seen them before and really wanted to spar with them to observe S-rank Ice Manipulation closely and improve herself, but this time, she finally decided to approach one.

Diana went to Saffa, and both of them soon started sparring far away from the kids at the edge of the barrier.

Naresh sat in between in meditation to train as well as prevent any shockwaves or other effects that could affect the kids from Diana and Saffa's duel.

…

While the outside was lively, inside the Limitless Kitchen was absolute silence.

Ainen had gathered a bunch of resources so far.

He even got a Resource Crate, which gave him two Tier-3 Legendary resources and three Tier-3 Epic-rank resources.

Aside from all that stuff, Ainen also had some Tier-3 Epic and Legendary ore materials he had collected alongside plant-life resources on this island, thanks to his Elemental Resonance.

He had also put some equipment on the table, mainly the weapons, since he didn't use them, and he had two Tier-3 Legendary weapons.

Doomcrust Greatsword of Darkness and Earth attribute.

Thunderbolt Tezzar Spear of Lightning attribute.

He had Tier-3 Legendary rank resources of Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Lightning, and Wood.

And lastly, the corpse of the Twin-Headed Nethradal Floor Boss with its Magic Core intact. Fortunately, the kitchen's size increased by double. He had plenty of space for crazy ingredients now.

'Alright, I got everything covered. I am considering all of my Legendary-rank stuff and all these things to make a catalyst recipe based on them. Surely, I'll get a Legendary-quality Magic Core.'

'…' Lord Black. 'I don't know. Maybe your Magic Core will explode.'

Ainen laughed. 'Let's find out.'

A second later, Ainen's expression turned somber, yet calm, and then transitioned to utter serenity as he closed his eyes.

Having absorbed all the data of these ingredients with his Mystic Chef's Eyes, it was time to put his brain into overdrive and focus on cooking a recipe.

A recipe surpassing the Pentatronix Dynamo Club Cocktail.

And that was entirely up to him.

It didn't matter if he used Legendary resources or Mythical.

If he couldn't cook a proper recipe with a solid design to it and failed to break through in his Focus level, the result would be trash.

But Ainen was confident.

He was confident because his stats were far higher than the stats he had when he cooked Pentatronix Dynamo Club Cocktail.

And he was more determined than ever before.

'Go beyond, you fucking sandwich!' Ainen slapped his cheeks and then stood in utter silence.

And just like that, twenty minutes passed by.

[ Congratulations, you have successfully cooked an S-rank Recipe—Super Delux Spectorend Burger ]

Ainen opened his eyes.

It wasn't done yet. The difficult part was now, and this required even more focus because this recipe was damn difficult to cook.

The sensitivity and control required to handle each ingredient, extract their essences, mix them, transforming them into different substances, and cooking again to ultimately end up with a Super Delux Spectorend Burger was no joke.

'First, tools.'

Ainen conjured exotic tools to handle each ingredient.

He even got a furnace to smelt the gears, but this furnace was different.

This furnace was custom-made by his imagination and ran with his Palatebloom Flame.

The main thing in this entire recipe was his Palatebloom Flame. His fire could absorb characteristics of things it burned.

The entire recipe revolved around it for the efficiency of essence combination and refinement into the idea he birthed.

'Make sure you get the Cooked to Perfection rating. That's going to be important,' Lord Black said with a chuckle.

'That's given.'

…

"It looks like only one is alive from your top Adept-rank Adventurers." The bald man looked at Lilian with pity. "Don't worry, that girl called Viena will like it better at Cradle."

Lilian didn't say anything. Her expression was cold and ashen.

Out of ten Adventureres from her Sacred Aurelian, only Viena was alive.

"Some people are coming here." The skin-changing girl suddenly stood up on her flower. "My flowers sensed people coming into this forest, and they are heading here."

Lilian and Yelvina's eyes quivered.

'It should be my people.' Yelvina relayed as her jaw clenched tighter.

Mistbound Magic Tower was closer to this place than Sacred Aurelian, so Mistbound Magic Tower's people were bound to arrive.

"Looks like it belongs to them." The bald man chuckled.

'Why does he seem to know everything?!' Lilian cursed. 'Fuck! To think we would be reduced to this…'

'Why does he seem to know everything…' Yelvina glanced at the strange wooden vines that had bound them completely.

The bald man was the one who conjured it.

'He is monitoring us on a deeper level with his constraints.'

"You seem to have figured it out. Well, I can't read your thoughts, but experience and this little beat of pulse reading and fluctuational emotion reading helps me guess the picture." The bald man smiled.

"What do we do about the group that's coming here? They got one Lord-rank old chap."

"Kill them once they enter the Isolation Barrier."

"Gotcha."

'Whoever you are, make sure you try to contact me before entering the Isolation Barrier.' Yelvina was frustrated. 'I hope this person tried to contact me before entering the forest. If I didn't pick it up, it means something is wrong, and he or she should realize that!'

Lilian also hoped.

'The people I called will surely contact me beforehand. It's a protocol to establish long-range contact first because things could get bad just like this.'

'And when are your people arriving?'

'They said they would be here in the evening.'

'And it's not even noon yet!'

'Let's just hope we can prevent the worst-case scenario.

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