Chapter 517: Infiltrating the Competition...
At this moment, Kira's heart was already filled with rage.
Is this alchemy?! It must be alchemy?! It’s the alchemy called ‘human body transformation’!! It’s amazing! It’s really amazing!!
Magic and alchemy are the two major subjects of cultivation in the world of Ascalante.
According to the particularity of this world, whether it is magic or alchemy, they can all revolve around a concept and can be infinitely activated by the will of the user. For example, Natsu's fire can burn away magic with time and space attributes, and Gray can create ice with freezing and destruction attributes.
So, how outrageous can alchemy be?
The known "Lock Alchemy" can create "Bound Locks", "Destruction Locks", "Weak Locks" and other outrageous things that have almost nothing to do with the "chains" themselves; then how big is the scope of the human body, the body, soul, memory, personality, emotions, thoughts...
Hiss~ I dare not think about it! Thinking further will go beyond the scope!
As the clock struck ten, Kira and the other two's chat came to an end. Before the game started, Kira and the other two also got the backstage data.
There are a total of 314 chefs who signed up this time, a number that was within Kira's expectations. After all, there are more than 300 restaurants in this city. Even if one chef is picked out from each restaurant, the number would be more than this, not to mention the chefs from other cities.
Fortunately, there are quite a few venues here, as many as 100. Contestants enter according to their numbers, and those who haven't gotten their turn will wait backstage. As long as the host controls the time better, the competition should be completed within one day.
When contestants No. 1 to 100 came out one after another and walked to their corresponding kitchen seats, the host finally revealed the topic of the first round to the audience.
"The topic of the first game is seafood!! The time limit is 20 minutes!!"
When hearing this topic, the contestants' expressions changed in line with probability theory: some were full of confidence, some were frowning, and some were already selecting ingredients.
The time when the contestants were cooking was very boring for Kira because he didn't know how to cook and could only eat vegetables.
When I watched similar variety shows in my previous life, the production team would skip this part. They would either use the judges’ comments on the contestants to fill the show’s length, or use the performance of some of the contestants who made it to the end to provide a buffer for the audience. But when it’s actually on the scene, there’s none of this, and all you can do is wait!
During this time, Kira listened to the host talking about the topic of "seafood" from ancient times to the present, from the east to the west, from the coast to the inland, the cultural customs of various places, famous historical anecdotes, and even in the end he said something like "a king gave up the throne for seafood."
"He's really good at talking..."
Kira himself certainly didn't feel anything, but when the audience in the audience were all convinced, their eyes shining, and completely overwhelmed by the host's eloquence, they couldn't help but marvel at the host's ability.
"Obviously, this guy is more like a manzai storyteller..."
Ten minutes later, seafood dishes began to come out of the pot one after another.
Seafood can be roughly divided into about seven types: fish, shrimp, crab, shellfish, meat, algae and others. There are many ways to cook them, and saying there are dozens of them is not enough.
But in this world, in the Albares Empire, the cooking methods that can be seen are only 10% or 20% of the total. Moreover, they must be completed within 20 minutes without any preparation and with limited ingredients. This actually limits many cooking methods.
The Fairy Tail world is not known for its rich food ingredients. Compared to other worlds such as Gourmet Prisoner, One Piece, Cooking Master Boy, Food Wars!, etc., the level of development of culinary skills in this world is much lower.
Fortunately, magic makes up for this!
The Albares Empire is a magic empire, and magic education is more advanced and popular than in the Kingdom of Fiore, so even those whose main occupation is cooking know a thing or two about magic.
For example, fire magic is used to control the cooking temperature to achieve the most ideal temperature; water magic is used to clean the ingredients to ensure that the fishy smell of seafood is completely removed; plant magic is used to control the growth of algae to achieve the best taste...
In addition, there are some chefs who choose to add their own magic power to the ingredients. Under the influence of the magical properties, the tasters can get special feelings when eating these dishes. Such cases are not uncommon.
With so many contestants, Kira and the other two certainly couldn't try each one one by one. Otherwise, even if they took a bite of each, they would be so stuffed to death after trying them all, or at least they would be fed to death.
So according to the rules, the three of them each chose one dish, tasted each other's food and gave scores, and the rest were sent to the group of a hundred people on the opposite side who were already waiting for the food.
"It smells so good!! I want to eat it!"
"Give it to me now! I came here without even having breakfast, and my stomach is already thirsty!"
"Come on, which young person eats breakfast nowadays?"
"This knife skill is simply art!!"
"That kid's cooking skills are not inferior to mine..."
"A plain fish dish actually has seven or eight different flavors. This chef will definitely become the enemy of my gourmet guild 'Lost Salmon' in the future! We must not let him stay!!"
“This dish glows?! It’s so scary!!”
"Are you kidding me?! Algae is also considered seafood?! Why do others eat shrimp, crabs, and shellfish, but we have to eat this?! I protest!"
"Don't eat if you don't like it!!"
Based on the same reason as Kira and the other two, and because the portion of a dish is indeed limited, it is impossible for the 100-person group of passers-by judges to taste all the contestants' dishes, so they decide the final score of a dish by having several people taste a dish, then removing the more outrageous scores and calculating the average.
An hour later, the first round ended, the number of people who advanced reached 267, and 47 people were eliminated. After that, without much rest, the host directly started the second round.
"birds!"
For birds, that is, animals with wings, and their eggs, it is not actually very important whether they can fly.
When Kira saw this question, he fell into deep thought for a moment: "I wonder if dragons are considered birds? I think they are..."
Unfortunately, even if dragons are flying birds, there is no such food as dragon meat here. After all, Irene did not come, and she might be the only dragon in the entire Araquitasia .
Another hour passed, and the topic of the third level was "meat", followed by "fried rice", and finally "fruit". It must be said that the order of the competition was very carefully arranged, taking full consideration of the stomachs of the tasters.
The following levels also took twenty minutes each. When the last level was over, there were still 77 chefs left, and it was almost three o'clock in the afternoon.
And it was at this moment that Kira, who had been bored and distracted, finally found a person among the many chefs who should not be here.
The familiar bright red long hair, the cold and serious face, she still exudes an aura that is seven parts serious and three parts nonsensical. The woman standing on the field and waving the ladle at this moment, isn't she Erza, who manages discipline in the guild every day but is of no use at all?
Kira's eyes widened immediately, and he almost spit out a mouthful of water: "F*ck! Why is Erza here?!"
…
The story begins a few days ago.
On the night that Laxus, Erza and the others met up with Mavis, the two found Preshito and asked for the directions of the other two teams (Kira, Ultear , Selene; Disper, Kurnuki, Silver), and then decided to act separately, with one person leading a support team, and both sides set off at the same time the next day.
As for Makarov and Jellal in the royal capital, their safety is naturally guaranteed by Auguste.
In the next few days, Erza led Natsu and others in the direction where Kira's team left. Finally, three days ago, they met Selene, who was revered as the "big eater goddess", and learned about Kira's situation from her.
Then... just yesterday, they came to this city and learned about the 'food contest'.
"Although I didn't make it to the final in the last 'Dessert Competition', I have worked hard on my cooking skills during this period, and I will definitely win the championship this time!!"
"Natsu, did you see that? There's a two-meter-long fish in the prize! Two meters long!!"
"Yeah! I saw it! You must win the championship, Erza!!"
"Of course!"
"The new mayor's assistant they're talking about... should it be Kira?"
"Same name, same image and personality, it's definitely him!! This guy... can really get along anywhere..."
"How on earth did they do that..."
"Kira-ge is awesome!!"
"If Kira is here, maybe Erza can win this time?"
"I'm going to win the championship fairly! It doesn't matter if Kira is there or not!!"
“Is… is that so…”
