Reincarnated With A Glitched System: Why Is My MP Not Running Out?-Chapter 706 The Young Chef’s Tasks
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The Young elf that greeted us was quite the handsome young man. Tall, slightly well-toned, with a pretty face and short blue hair. He acted rather expressive with his tone of voice and way of talking, which invited to be more friendly with him, despite being naturally rude at the same time, kind of like his father must have been, probably.
"You're the Young Chef of the Delightful Plate's Restaurant, Joseph Elcheffen?" I asked politely.
"Why yes, it is me young lady Sylph. I am surprised you've come through the kitchen to order food. Would it be too much of a pain to sit in the living room? We'll bring your food right away, of course." He said rather surprised.
"Ah… Well yeah we're hungry but that's not why we're here exactly. I've got a task from my mother, Faylen, she said I had to help you out on your restaurant." I said. "From getting ingredients to any other trouble that is halting you from producing the food everyone loves in Agartha… She also said it is prioritized to get this done as soon as possible because the queen, my grandma, is coming in two days."
"Oh my, and she would give such a monumental task to her little daughter?!" Joseph was rather shaken, but sighed and nodded. "Well, it is not like I have not heard about you or your friends before, you seem to be very capable, and you even have explored dungeons before, isn't it? Well, I suppose I can entrust you these tasks. As a reward, how about eating anything you want for free later?"
"Yes!" Aquarina was happy, a bit too happy.
"That's one good reward." Zack said. "Just don't regret it later, hehe."
"Not bad at all." Celeste nodded.
"Oway!" Mist said, raising her arms.
"Oohh, would it be okay?" Wondered Celica.
"Big sis I am hungry, the apple you gave me is not enough, so hurry…" Zephy said while half-bored.
"Okay, okay~ Joseph just go on, explain us what's happening and we'll try to find a solution right away. Just recently we solved three tasks by now."
"Interesting!" Joseph said. "Very well, come sit at my side. I'll bring you some snacks as well as something to drink, it'll be a long story."
Like that, we sat down around a table outside of the restaurant, on its backyard where the owner had a lot of plants and spices he was growing by himself.
"Primarily, as you can see, most of the spices had been drying out and none of them are giving as many herbs as before. That is why our usual mix of eleven spices are off and our food is not tasting as good as before. Merchants bring some of the ones we use but there are some very exotic spices my father brought from all around the world, which cannot be gotten very easily. As the first task out of the three I need, would it be possible for you kids to… somehow help the plants grow and revitalize themselves as soon as possible?" He wondered.
"Hmm, I see. That can be done." I nodded.
"The second task I need is to actually help me figure out… what exactly is this spice." He said, showing us a small bag with a red-colored mixture of many spices together. "I have been trying to find the exact combination but my father never told me the true recipe! Once this is over, we'll no longer serve our food with the same taste everyone loves…"
"Ooh, I see. That can be done too." I nodded once more.
"And lastly… We need seafood, tons, and tons of seafood. We used to get a steady supply from the adventures some weeks ago, but recently the Dungeon where we got them had begun to be swarming with much stronger monsters… So nobody is getting there aside from someone else, a party I heard about…" He sighed, giving us a massive list of ingredients. "Would it be possible for you to get them?"
"Sure! Also the party that went there were us." I laughed.
"EH?!"
Ding!
[A New [Special Quest] Has Been Generated: [Complete the Three Tasks of the Young Chef Joseph!]
[After hearing what has happened to the young Joseph, it seems you need not to do just one Task, but three! To save the prestige of the most famous restaurant in the city and also to greet your grandmother with the most premium food you can, you must complete these quests in less than two days.]
[Completion Rewards: [700000 EXP] [400000 Shared EXP] [Greater Strengthening Elixir (C Grade)] x3 [Greater Skill Proficiency Potion (C Grade)] x3 [Greater Rune Potion (C Grade)] x3 [???] x1 [???] x1]
[Time Limit: 2 Days.]
Aaaand there it is! The quest is here.
"Y-You completed the dungeon there? I heard there was even a dragon!" Said Joseph.
"We are noy lying…" Aquarina said. "We've stored a lot of what we reaped from inside of our inventory."
"Sylphy, tell Glutton to open his mouth." Said Zack.
"Alright! Glutton!"
"BAARF!"
Suddenly, Joseph jumped in horror as he saw the bag Sylphy was carrying turn into some sort of bag mimic monster and open its gigantic jaws, vomiting a gigantic pile of all sorts of seafood. Despite the slight saliva left behind, it was nothing than just some water to clean the ingredients wouldn't clean
"T-These are! W-Woah, you even got the Coral Tree Fruits, the nonpoisonous ones as well! And the Sharp Horned Fish! A-And the Walking Squids?! Ah, are those Scissor Crabs?! Oh my, a Giant Warrior Crab as well! W-With this we've got enough ingredients for more than a month, maybe two months!" Joseph freaked out. "I'll bring your payment right away! I'm buying everything!"
"W-Wait, this is free, it's part of the task and-" Everyone then looked at me with rather angered eyes.
"Hey Sylphy, we also hunted these…" Zack said.
"Yeah, shouldn't we get paid if you're selling them?" Celeste said.
?andasnovel.com "Yeah!" Mist said angrily.
"Hahaha, for once I agree that… it is not good to be always so generous." Aquarina said.
"And I agree as well! Counting everything… Hmm, it'll probably be two hundred thousand gold… or a bit more. I'm bringing everything right away!"
I guess we were going to make a rather huge capital…
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