Ran Qi went to the cooking skill area first. Unsurprisingly, he met many players who wanted to learn cooking skills. After all, the food obtained from cooking could satisfy the taste buds while increasing attributes. It could be sold to others for money. It was simply one of the most cost-effective life skills.
However, before the players could learn the skills, they had to pass the test, and the test given by the Cooking Master was Bread Baking, where players needed to first go outside the city and fight a kind of toucan monster, collecting the eggs they drop, and then use the eggs, flour and other ingredients to create bread.
The game might be designed to give players a more realistic experience of how to make food, so the bread required here had to be made by the players themselves, rather than simply standing around the stove and waiting for it to generate itself once the ingredients were prepared.
Players could only learn the cooking skill if they successfully baked the bread and after the NPC gave a passing rating.
The preparation method given by the NPC was very detailed, down to every step and detail, even the grams of flour and grams of sugar were indicated. Any random Chinese from the 21st century would probably be able to do it by following every step.
However, these interstellar people grew up drinking nutrient solutions. They didn’t even know what cooking was, and everything was very foreign to them.
After happily returning from hunting for toucan eggs, the group began to fall into agony. Either the eggshells were beaten into the bowl together, or they were messy when stirring. It was a disaster.
Because <Magic Realm> was a Western fantasy background, the food in the game was basically Western-style food. Bread was the most common kind of Western food. For NPCs, this should be the most basic thing, anyone could do almost the same, but this group of people was like mentally retarded people who made mistakes again and again.
The NPC’s face was already as black as the bottom of a pot. He was afraid that if it wasn’t for the program restrictions; the NPC wanted to take a shortcut and kick this group out.
Ran Qi’s life skills were already activated, so he didn’t need to take the NPC’s test again. In terms of skill level alone, he was much higher than this Junior skill. However, because of his level limitations, his current skill level was suppressed at level 10. As a result, he could only make simple foods like honey pies and red bean bread.
Since he could manually make his food, Ran Qi was eager to try whether he could make food outside of the system program, such as Chinese cuisine.
His parents died early before he crossed over. He had been living on his own since he became an adult, often working part-time around during his school years. He worked in a restaurant for several years and subconsciously learned a few crafts as well. His cooking skills were not very good, but he could basically cook all the common home-cooked dishes. He still felt that Chinese food was more tempting than Western food.
If it succeeded… Ran Qi unconsciously showed a somewhat sly smile on his face. It was time for the interstellar people to see the charm of the once world-famous Chinese cuisine in advance!
Near the cooking area was a merchant NPC who sold auxiliary ingredients and seasonings. Rang Qi bought flour, scallions, oils, and seasonings from him. On the right side of the cooking area, there were rows of public stoves that players could use. Ran Qi randomly chose an empty seat and started making scallion pancakes.
The players initially believed he was there to make bread. However, they soon discovered that his approach was entirely different from theirs.
“Stupid, right? The steps are all wrong. What that green thing ah? It smells funny.” A red-haired player who was standing on the stove to the right of Ran Qi couldn’t help but complain to his companion.
“That green thing is called scallion. I just saw it from the ingredients merchant. It should be an ingredient, and I think he is very skilled. Maybe he’s making other food.” Another blond-haired player spoke.
“How can it be…?”
Whether the person believed it or not, Ran Qi’s scallion pancakes had already been cooked. The boiling oil suddenly stimulated the aroma of the dough and scallions, instantly drawing the attention of the people around.
“Oh my God, it smells so good ah. What the hell is he making?”
Ran QI made scallion pancakes according to his own preferences. It was about the size of two palms, and the dough was relatively thick. The scallion pancakes made in this way would taste crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. Unfortunately, there were no eggs or it would have tasted better.
After frying the scallion pancakes until golden brown on both sides, he took them out, and the system’s prompt sound rang in his ears.
[System] Congratulations to the player for independently developing a new type of food. Please name it.
“Scallion Pancake.”
[System] Naming is successful. [Scallion Pancake] recipe has been added. The Player owns the recipe, and the recipe can be sold. The system will release the announcement later. Do you want to be anonymous?
Ran Qi couldn’t help but smile. The degree of freedom in this game was really high. He thought about it a little and chose to remain anonymous. He didn’t want to be harassed by all sorts of private messages. It was better to make a fortune quietly.
[System Announcement] Congratulations to [Anonymous] player for developing a new food, [Scallion Pancake], gaining 100 World Fame and [Physical Exchange Ticket*1]
As soon as the system announcement came out, the world channel exploded.
[World] Cain: Crap, who’s so awesome? Can you develop your own food ah?
[World] Love to Eat Eat Eat: The name of the food sounds delicious! I’m going to buy it!!!
[World] Smoke: The attributes look super good, too! It also increases the HP upper limit and adds strength. It’s simply a must-have weapon for physical attack professions to kill monsters and clear the dungeon ah!
[World] Lack Happiness: Big Brother, is it for sale ah? I’ll take it at a high price ah!
[World] Raphael: Begging for selling!! I want to taste the B-grade food!
The corners of Ran Qi’s mouth rose wildly. This [Scallion Pancake] had brought him too many surprises.
The system rated [Scallion Pancake] as B-grade. After eating, the HP upper limit increased by 50 points, strength increased by 10 points, and the duration lasted for 15 minutes. The attributes were quite good. It possessed an absolute attraction for physical attack professions and could be sold at a high price.
He also had ownership of the [Scallion Pancake] recipe. He could not only sell the food, but he could also sell the recipe together.
In addition, he also received rewards from the system. Not to mention the physical exchange coupon, the World Fame could be used to purchase many precious items and materials. All of which were very useful things.
Scallion Pancake was just the simplest kind of food. There were so many Chinese Cuisine, dozens of these kinds of pancakes, piers, baked cakes, millefeuille cakes, and so on. There was no need to worry about the problem of insufficient food variety. So, he could get more rewards by ‘independently developing’ more food in the future.
He could obtain the World Fame and Physical Exchange ticket that other people could hardly obtain even if they tried in a steady stream by cooking.
After learning the cooking skills, players would be able to turn on the simple production function. In other words, just like traditional online games, they could directly open the skill panel and select the recipes they had learned to automatically generate, saving time and effort.
The Scallion Pancake recipe, created by Ran Qi, was included in both the database and recipe catalog of the skill panel. Therefore, Ran Qi took advantage of the fact that people around him had not yet reacted to use the simple production function to quickly and automatically generate 20 [Scallion Pancake], and then quickly packed them and turned away.
Players in the Cooking Skill area were also discussing this new food variety that had suddenly appeared.
How many years had no one in the interstellar been able to cook? Someone could actually develop new food right off the bat? When they thought about it, it would taste good just by looking at the attributes.
A group of people who also wanted to learn cooking skills couldn’t help but be envious.
If only they could do the same for themselves…
“Wait a minute… The scallion pancake mentioned in the system announcement just now shouldn’t have been made by that person, right?” The previous blond-haired player was the first to react. After all, that person just made food that he had never seen before in front of everyone. As soon as he made it here, the system issued an announcement, which was too much of a coincidence.
“Not necessarily… Huh? Where is he?!” The red-haired player turned his head suspiciously, only to realize that Ran Qi was gone.
When Ran Qi walked out, he heard many people discussing Scallion Pancake. More and more players rushed towards the life skills area. Ran Qi couldn’t help but secretly rejoice. Fortunately, he slipped away first, otherwise, it would have been troublesome to be blocked by people.
He went directly to the Trading Market and put up 20 freshly baked Scallion Pancakes anonymously, pricing them at 20 silver coins a piece. He only kept one in his backpack, ready to be given to Feng Tian later.
The price of the Scallion Pancake was a bit high. After all, the food provided by the restaurant was only 5 silver coins per serving. However, the Scallion Pancake made by Ran Qi was B-grade food, with additional attributes that differed from those low-grade foods that could only restore a small amount of HP.
Ran Qi’s idea was not wrong at all. He just put up the Scallion Pancake, and before he stepped out of the Trading Market, he received a series of sales notices.
Ran Qi’s eyes suddenly lit up. He knew that he should have bought some more ingredients just now and made more Scallion Pancakes.
[System] Congratulations to the player for entering the top ten of the wealth rankings. You can use the title [Little Tyrant] during the list. Do you need to be anonymous?
Ran Qi chose to be anonymous without saying a word.
Just kidding, he sold 20 Scallion Pancakes before and turned up on the wealth ranking after. Any fool knows who the Scallion Pancake’s seller is…
There was no need to make a full server announcement to enter the ranking. Ran Qi opened the ranking and took a look. He found that besides the level ranking, most of the players on the equipment ranking and wealth ranking chose to be anonymous.
The ranking was a representation of strength, and with the rank displayed right next to the player’s ID, there was no need to be anonymous. The player who was the first to reach level 10 [Night Owl], had now risen to level 17. He was firmly occupying the first place on the ranking, with an advantage of 2 levels above the second place.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk. What a leveling maniac ah.” Ran Qi felt this Night Owl should be a player who had participated in the beta test. He should have a plan to build a guild if he was leveling so hard.
Basically, players preferred to join guilds where masters were. The three major rankings were the best advertising platforms for recruitment.
However, if they wanted to establish a guild, they needed to get a rare item [Guild Summoning Order] first. The Boss of the abyss-level dungeon would only drop this thing. The drop rate was simply outrageously low, and it was estimated that everyone on the level ranking was now working tirelessly with the dungeon.
At this time, a message from Feng Tian on the team channel popped up. “Bai Ran, where are you?”
“I’m in the Trading Market.”
“I’m in the Trading Market too! Did you see me?”
There were too many people in the Trading Market. Ran Qi looked up and saw a familiar little priest holding the staff in his hand and waving it desperately.
“I see you,” Ran Qi replied amusedly before closing the chat interface and walking quickly towards him.
“Bai Ran! Did you also come to buy Scallion Pancake after seeing the system announcement?” Feng Tian said bitterly to him with a wrinkled face, “I rushed over as soon as I saw the announcement. This Scallion Pancake was sold out too quickly. It was sold out before I could press the payment…”
Ran Qi was speechless and said, “You are a priest, why do you want to buy Scallion Pancake ah?”
Scallion Pancake was obviously more useful for physical attack professions. It could only add a little bit of HP for priests.
“Because it’s delicious ah!” After Feng Tian finished speaking, his expression fell again. “That’s B-grade food. It must taste very good! It’s a pity I couldn’t grab it…”
For foodies, missing out on delicious food was probably the saddest thing to do.
Ran Qi was speechless and amused. He threw a trade request over and gave Feng Tian the Scallion Pancake that he had purposely kept in his backpack.
“Ahhhhh! It’s Scallion Pancake! Oh my God, you got it!” Feng Tian’s mouth couldn’t help but open wide. After reacting, he was so excited that he pounced up and gave Ran Qi a bear hug. “Good brother! I’ll take you to the next dungeon in a moment!”
“Us two priests going to the dungeon together?” The corners of Ran Qi’s mouth twitched slightly.
“What’s the matter? I have a strong attack and I’m at level 12! I am aware of this in the beta test. The skill is very reliable!” Feng Tian patted his chest and assured him.
Since he said so, Ran Qi agreed. “Okay.”
After level 10, it was out of the Novice category. The experience given by doing quests was very limited, so players needed to rely on farming dungeons and wild monsters to level up. With a reliable and powerful attack, it was still very fast to level up in the dungeon, and it was safer to have two priests.
