Green Monster Epic

Above the roaring stove fire, a black iron pot shook back and forth, with colorful ingredients dancing within. Yet, they always seemed to avoid spilling over the edge, demonstrating the exquisite skill of each participating chef.

Occasionally, a chef would execute a flashy and ingenious move, such as chanting spells while tossing the pot. Pure magical energy would surge into the pot, accompanying the ingredients as they were flipped, allowing the chefs to create different temperature variations within the pot through focused manipulation, either freezing or searing the ingredients as needed.

Other chefs would toss the ingredients in the pot three to five meters into the air with a grand flourish, followed by a scattering of spices that would evenly coat the airborne ingredients.

Many of these techniques caught the attention of the Green Field culinary instructors serving as judges, clearly providing them with valuable insights. Perhaps in the future, these techniques would form the basis of new culinary skills and methods introduced in the culinary academy, further developing and promoting them.

The preliminary round concluded relatively quickly, taking about a day to complete the entire selection process. After all, the purpose was simply to eliminate those with insufficient skills. A round of free-form cooking followed by a round of standardized dish preparation, along with the five judges' discussions, made it easy to determine who qualified.

Of the more than five thousand chefs, over half failed to pass the preliminary round, leaving only about two thousand chefs who officially passed the judges' evaluation.

The second round marked the beginning of the truly spectacular competition, because the contestants who could enter the next round after this would be able to receive a gift: a low-level magic cuisine recipe for everyone to choose.

Anyway, as far as the Green Field Tribe is concerned, they have countless recipes in their hands. In addition to those standardized mature recipes, there are also many recipes that cannot be promoted due to scarce materials or the magical special effects being impractical. They can also take this opportunity to spread them out, which can be regarded as adding bricks and tiles to the promotion of the magic chef system.

What the Green Field Tribe needs to pay is probably just hundreds or thousands of animal skins that carry the recipes, and a batch of low-level magic plant materials for drawing magic characters.

At this stage, in order to successfully pass the next round, many people began to bring out their signature dishes, and various techniques and methods that they had developed themselves. At this time, they no longer cared whether they would be learned by others, and most of them openly displayed them in public.

And in secret, whether it was the Green Field Tribe's informants, or spies from other forces, or just chefs who came to learn and communicate, they would quietly record the skills they thought were worthwhile, and then go back to communicate and summarize them afterwards.

Although the Green Field Tribe is the origin of magic cuisine and the place where cooking skills are formally inherited, they cannot possibly master all cooking skills. At least in terms of humbly learning in this regard, Green Field's magic chef professionals have inherited the excellent qualities of Allen, their leader and idol.

"I think that human chef will definitely advance to the next round!!"

Figlas, as a supporter of Allen's culinary skills, although his own cooking skills are rubbish, his ability to taste food is probably the strongest among the nearly two hundred judges in the field. Otherwise, he would have wasted so many years lingering in the Green Field Tribe's territory for eating, drinking and having fun, and enjoying Allen's rich experience of no less than a hundred magic dishes alone.

This cooking competition can also be regarded as a feast for the dragons. Although many of the participating works cooked by chefs are not even magic dishes, that unique dish with superb skills, color, fragrance, and taste can often capture a person's heart simply through the taste buds.

As a veritable glutton, Figlas has a huge stomach sac that other judges do not have. The number of dishes that one person can judge is several times higher, which not only helps Allen and the others improve efficiency, but also gives Figlas a pleasure of taste.

From the third round of cooking, few people can advance purely by relying on the chef's skills. After all, the foundation of the magic chef system lies in the mastery of cooking skills. It is basically impossible to improve the magic chef's rank without superb cooking skills.

Of course, this is not absolute. With the continuous improvement of cooking skills, there are already many different categories. The number of dishes corresponding to more than a dozen techniques such as frying, deep-frying, stir-frying, braising, roasting, grilling, boiling, stewing, and steaming is increasing. Even the magic chefs supported by large forces can often only choose a few of these techniques to specialize in due to their own energy, talent, and material factors.

But in this way, many magic chefs have only learned more comprehensively, but they cannot be considered proficient.

And those ordinary chefs who do not have the support of forces and just want to learn a high-paying skill will mostly painstakingly study one or two of these techniques and learn them thoroughly, which instead gives them a chance in this relatively lenient rematch with limited conditions.

"However, he is probably only able to stop in the third round. After the third round, the cooking dishes will be assessed by randomly selecting ingredients, temporarily cooking new dishes, and other different methods for the chefs who stay behind."

"Looking at his cooking methods in the previous rounds, it is too simple, only stir-frying and boiling. The reason why he can persist until now is mostly because of his deep and precise research in these two techniques, and he has his own ingenuity in it."

"If he has the opportunity to study in the academy for a few years and come into contact with several other techniques, he may be able to go further."

Allen shook his head, not as optimistic about the human chef as Figlas, but also made a pertinent evaluation of his cooking skills.

"That's terrible!! I bet he could pass more than four rounds of the competition!!"

Figlas complained indignantly.

"Who can you blame for this? You yourself are greedy and bet on the object with the highest odds. The high returns are naturally accompanied by high risks!"

The Green Field Tribe spent a lot of money on this competition, so the managers in the tribe tried every means to recover more capital from the foreign merchants and tourists.

Not only were various specialties of the tribe dumped in the city, but also the rich entertainment industry of the Murer Fortress quickly divided a not small area next to the accommodation area in the outer city, and started business before the celebration began.

Gambling houses, taverns, brothels, and arenas are all available, which can not only help foreign guests pass the boring time, but also earn a lot of money for the Green Field Tribe.

You must know that the Green Field Tribe spent more than one million gold coins for this celebration, food festival, and cooking competition, and this does not include Allen's own private collection of a legendary equipment, and the food he personally cooked for dozens of people to share.

"It was I who misjudged, only because the dishes he stir-fried and the soup he cooked were too amazing, but I didn't expect that he couldn't cook intermediate-level or above magic dishes!!"

Figlas was very annoyed. He had bet a whole 1 gold coin on this human chef, and now it seems that it has indeed gone down the drain.