Receiving the Spoils (1)
[Stigmata Level: 50 (0.00%) (Stigmata Points: 2)]
[Unique Ability: Absolute Space (絶對空間) <EX> (Level 10)]
[Level Perks]
Lv. 1 → (Upon entering Absolute Space, you acquire the ability “Hyper Regeneration.” However, once you leave Absolute Space, the Hyper Regeneration ability disappears immediately.)
Lv. 10 → (You may use ‘Powerful Strike’ within Absolute Space. The cooldown for Powerful Strike is 5 minutes.)
Lv. 20 → (Upon entering Absolute Space, you acquire ‘Wire Master.’ However, once you leave Absolute Space, the Master effect disappears immediately.)
Lv. 30 → (You may utilize Absolute Space as a ‘Subspace.’ All objects that exist within Absolute Space can be controlled from outside Absolute Space. However, more than half of your body must not be inside, and it can only be used as a Subspace when you are outside of Absolute Space, not inside it.)
Lv. 40 → (You may use ‘Absolute Space [Tattoo]’, which can be opened on your body. The Absolute Space tattoo can only be engraved on your own body, and the tattoo itself becomes an entrance leading to Absolute Space. Regardless of the existing number of Absolute Space entrances, only one Absolute Space [Tattoo] can be created. From the moment the tattoo is engraved until the entrance disappears, intermediate-grade mana stones are consumed in real time at 0.5g per second. However, the tattoo’s size is limited to 30cm or less in width and height, and it has a cooldown, making consecutive use impossible. [Cooldown: 10 minutes])
Lv. 50 → (Upon entering Absolute Space, you acquire the ability ‘Heavenly Cuisine.’ By discovering various types of Heavenly recipes and cooking food, you can create dishes that grant very powerful ‘buffs.’ Heavenly Cuisine can only be performed inside Absolute Space, and the buff effects applied to the dishes can only be obtained inside Absolute Space. However, buffs gained by consuming the food inside Absolute Space will remain even after leaving Absolute Space.)
[Acquired Abilities] None.
“Heavenly Cuisine?”
After checking the level perk, Seon Yul tilted his head.
Of course, among awakened abilities, there were non-combat types as well.
Cases like Cha Seong Hyeon of the Management Bureau or Hephaestus of BS Company were examples of individuals who had succeeded thanks to non-combat abilities.
However, this was the first time Seon Yul had ever heard of an ability called Heavenly Cuisine.
Curious, he immediately entered the community and searched using keywords such as cooking/awakened ability/buff.
To his surprise, quite some posts had been left by people who had awakened cooking abilities.
[I possess the A+++ grade awakened ability ‘Master-Class Cooking.’ If you place an order, I will send the dish via mail.]
→ The recipes currently registered are:
Special T-bone Steak (Strength Enhancement) / Special Sandwich (Increased HP Recovery Speed) / Special Salmon Steak (Resistance Enhancement) / Special Vongole Pasta (Intelligence Enhancement) / Special Caesar Salad (Movement Speed Increase) / Special Grilled Chicken Breast (Defense Enhancement).
If you choose the dish you want and contact me, I will cook it immediately and send it to you. Prices vary slightly depending on the quality of the dish. Please use my services frequently.]
This post has received the highest number of likes among users.
It had even been posted just the day before.
‘Wow, they were selling buff food… And it’s expensive.’
The Special T-bone Steak that granted a Strength Enhancement buff was being sold for a whopping 40g of intermediate-grade mana stone.
That meant 4 million won for a single plate of T-bone steak…
And it seemed to be selling quite well.
“Unfortunately, I won’t be able to sell cooking.”
That part was somewhat regrettable. If there were no restrictions, it looked like it would be possible to earn a huge amount of money. But as it stood, it was nothing more than a pie in the sky.
On top of that, the ability he had obtained was called ‘Heavenly Cuisine.’
If Master-Class Cooking was an A+++ grade…
Then this… by any reasonable guess, had to be at least SS-grade, perhaps even SSS-grade.
Seon Yul read further posts about cooking-related abilities.
What he learned was that only one cooking buff could be applied at a time, and most cooking buffs lasted anywhere from a minimum of 1 hour to a maximum of 6 hours.
Naturally, the quality of the food created differed according to the grade of the awakened ability. However, it wasn’t possible to produce the same grade every single time; depending on effort and conditions, the quality could improve or worsen, and the grade of the dish would vary accordingly.
In the case of the A+++ grade awakened ability ‘Master-Class Cooking,’ if every condition was perfectly met and the best possible result was achieved, it was said that dishes up to S+ grade could be created.
‘But it looks like you have to discover the recipes yourself.’
Simply cooking ordinary food did not produce buff-granting dishes.
If various hidden conditions were satisfied, a recipe within the awakened ability would activate, and only then could one create special buff dishes tied to that recipe.
The hidden conditions were extremely diverse. One user claimed that after killing 10 orcs, a recipe suddenly unlocked. Another said that after boiling 20 packs of ramen at once by coincidence, a recipe was activated.
‘Hmm… It won’t be easy to use this right away.’
For now, it was difficult to properly evaluate the ability.
Still, it didn’t seem bad.
Having finished checking the level perks he had been most curious about, Seon Yul next opened the community mailbox to check his spoils.
As expected, countless emails had arrived from all kinds of people, but he deleted every email from unknown IDs without even reading their contents.
After clearing out the useless messages, he selected ‘Receive All’ for the remaining spam mail.
A large pile of loot appeared before him.
He sorted them by category, and without question, the item that stood out the most was the “Wish Box (SS).”
One of the rewards most desired by all users: the Wish Box.
If you earnestly think about the type of reward you want and open the box, a reward of that type will appear.
And beside the Wish Box shimmered the letters SS.
This meant that items of SS-grade (Legendary) or higher would come out of the box.
The slightly disappointing part was that it didn’t grant exactly what you wanted; you could only choose the general form and broad category of the reward you desired.
‘This has to be Enchant Soul.’
He had already roughly decided what to receive from the Wish Box.
‘And for the type, definitely something with an attack-enhancement buff ability….’
That was about as specific as he could get.
He could select an item instead, but rather than that, drawing an Enchant Soul and applying it to modern weapons would be far more effective.
‘If I get something like increased attack speed or increased damage, that would be jackpot.’
Even looking at the GAU-19 enchanted with a Unique (S) grade Enchant Soul, its power was incomparable to ordinary items.
First, Seon Yul quietly steadied his breathing and pictured the form and type he desired in his mind.
“Huoo….”
‘Enchant Soul. An Enchant Soul containing an attack-enhancement buff!’
With that earnest wish in his heart, he slowly opened the Wish Box.
Click!
[You have obtained the Legendary+ grade Enchant Soul ‘Extreme Efficiency.’]
‘Legendary+? Ah, that’s a bit disappointing.’
It might have been greedy to expect more, but since Myth-grade could appear at an extremely low probability, he had hoped for it. It wasn’t Myth-grade.
Instead, it was slightly better than Legendary (SS): Legendary+ (SS+).
What made him slightly uneasy was the name of the Enchant Soul…
It didn’t seem very related to offensive power.
Still, since he couldn’t be certain, he opened his item window and checked the detailed information.
[Extreme Efficiency (Enchant Soul) <Legendary+>]
[Even stronger with extreme efficiency!!]
[Base Effect] None.
[Owned Skill A] Extreme Efficiency (Passive): Reduces the ‘Cost’ value of the enchant target by 90%.
[Owned Skill B] Reinforcement After Efficiency (Passive): Increases the attack power of the enchant target by 10% while its cost value is reduced.
[Owned Penalty] None.
It was an incredible Enchant Soul with two attached skills!!!… or at least, he wanted to shout that.
But he couldn’t.
“Ahh….”
Up until the moment he saw that there were two skills attached, he thought it was a jackpot. But the instant he read the first skill description, he doubted his eyes.
A 90% reduction in cost…
For firearms, which he usually intended to apply Enchant Souls to, the cost value was ammunition.
In other words, applying this would reduce ammunition consumption to 90%.
Firearms needed to consume ammunition to unleash their proper power… reducing that by 90% meant nothing other than ruining the gun.
“Ha….”
In short, for Seon Yul at least, a Legendary-grade Enchant Soul that was practically trash had appeared.
‘This is driving me crazy.’
After staring at the Enchant Soul in his hand for a while, he eventually set it aside.
‘For now, leave it… Maybe use it later for exchange or sale.’
It was truly regrettable, but there was nothing to be done.
After all, it was impossible to hit the jackpot every single time. Days like this were bound to happen.
Instead, Seon Yul began checking the remaining spoils to soothe his bitter feelings.
Most of the remaining loot consisted of mana stones.
This time, he had hardly obtained any item-type drops, but instead had acquired a considerable amount of mana stones.
Starting with one superior-grade mana stone received from clearing the hidden mission, he had obtained seven high-grade mana stones.
And a staggering 242.7kg of intermediate-grade mana stones.
He had thought he was ruined since he hadn’t obtained any Enchant Soul or finished items, but after gathering all the mana stones, it was far from a failure.
Additionally, he had obtained 416 Drake hides, classified as top-tier material items, and significant quantities of other material items such as Drake teeth, claws, and bone fragments.
Since a single Drake hide typically traded between 20 and 25 million won, that alone amounted to nearly 10 billion won.
There was also 2 billion won worth of unsold Mountain Turtle fragments remaining…
At this rate, he felt like he might become wealthy purely from material items.
In summary, the total mana stones currently in Seon Yul’s possession were:
3 superior-grade.
9 high-grade.
Approximately 470kg of intermediate-grade.
Combined, their value was enormous. Just the 470kg of intermediate-grade mana stones alone amounted to 47 billion won.
“There’s finally a sense of financial breathing room.”
Smiling contentedly at the piled mana stones, Seon Yul suddenly thought that with this much, he could purchase a ‘large bathroom with a whirlpool.’
The large whirlpool bathroom costs 20kg of intermediate-grade mana stones.
But for quality of life, it was easily worth the expense.
Additionally, for the sake of his Heavenly Cuisine ability, he purchased from the furnishing shop the ‘Perfect Heavenly Kitchen containing all cooking utensils.’
It cost a whopping 50kg of intermediate-grade mana stones, but he flexed without hesitation.
In an instant, he had spent 60kg… roughly 7 billion won.
Yet he still had 400kg of intermediate-grade mana stones remaining.
‘You earn money to spend it. If you have the margin, there’s no need to scrimp.’
Seon Yul did not consider this overspending.
His growing confidence made him believe he could always earn more intermediate-grade mana stones.
But the moment he purchased the Heavenly Kitchen, something entirely unexpected occurred.
[By satisfying the hidden condition <Ownership of the Heavenly Kitchen Dreamed of by All Chefs>, 2 “Heavenly Cuisine” recipes have been activated.]
‘Huh?’
This was completely unexpected, and even Seon Yul was startled.
[Rice Cooked with Mana Stones (Heavenly Cuisine) <S+>]
[When cooking rice, add 5g of intermediate-grade mana stones. The mana will infuse the rice and produce a special effect.]
[Cooking Effect] +30% movement speed outside of combat.
[Duration] 6 hours.
[Boiled Pork Wrapped in Drake Hide (Heavenly Cuisine) <SS>]
[When boiling pork, wrap it in Drake hide before cooking to taste an exceptionally special boiled pork dish.]
[Cooking Effect] +10% attack accuracy.
[Duration] 6 hours.
“Wow….”
After checking the Heavenly Cuisine recipes, admiration escaped him naturally.
The cooking buffs… were incredible.
They looked incomparable to the cooking buffs he had seen in the community.
From the start, other cooking buffs hadn’t increased stats by percentage.
At best, they provided small fixed numerical boosts.
But Heavenly Cuisine provided percentage-based buffs.
For a full 6 hours.
“This is insane….”
Having confirmed the tremendous potential of Heavenly Cuisine in a way he hadn’t anticipated, Seon Yul stared at the recipes for quite some time.
‘Should I try it now?’
Being the type who tests things immediately when curious, Seon Yul proceeded to try making the second recipe: Boiled Pork Wrapped in Drake Hide.
He had an abundance of Drake hides, and all necessary ingredients for boiled pork were available in the General Store.
And naturally, all tools were available in the Heavenly Kitchen.
With ingredients, tools, and time all sufficient, Seon Yul began cooking immediately.
‘No need to use an entire Drake hide.’
On the market, one Drake hide was standardized as a 1m by 1m square piece of leather.
Since the hides dropped in that exact size, they were treated as one unit each.
Seon Yul cut off a portion of the Drake hide, wrapped the pork with it, and placed it into a pot with green onions, onions, garlic, and other ingredients.
He filled it with water, added an appropriate mixture of soybean paste and coffee grounds, and boiled it thoroughly.
Boiled pork itself wasn’t a difficult dish, so he quickly completed it.
At the moment the cooking finished, a system message sounded.
[You have adequately completed the Heavenly Cuisine ‘Boiled Pork’.]
[Cooking Quality: ‘S++.’]
Since he had made it roughly just for testing, the final result had dropped one grade from the original SS.
What was astonishing was that the Drake hide that had wrapped the pork had completely disappeared.
Presumably, as it vanished, some special power infused into the dish.
“So that’s how it works.”
After confirming how Heavenly Cuisine was activated, Seon Yul nodded and cut off a slice of the pork to eat.
The pork melted softly in his mouth.
Naturally, it tasted good. And then…
[The Heavenly Cuisine food buff ‘Attack Accuracy Increase’ has been granted.]
The buff effect was:
‘Attack Accuracy +8%. Duration: 5 hours 30 minutes.’
‘So this is how it functions.’
Confirming that quality affected grade and that grade altered the buff effect, Seon Yul nodded repeatedly.
“If I obtain a truly proper Heavenly Cuisine recipe… I’ll become even safer.”
He muttered with a small laugh.
Since he had always enjoyed cooking, this ability brought him a new kind of enjoyment.
He even took the kimchi out of the refrigerator and began properly eating the boiled pork.
Now that he had received all spoils obtainable from the System, he realized it was time to consider the rewards he was to receive not from the System, but from the Management Bureau.
The Bureau had clearly told him…
They would grant him anything.
So Seon Yul began seriously considering what he should demand from them.
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