Chapter 50: Talent Will Always Be Scouted (2)
『Deep Mana Infused Soft Bread』 and 『Deep Mana Infused Sweet Honey Castella』.
These two breads, made by Kyung-joon and sold at the Player Auction House, were carefully displayed as if they were relics, each enclosed in a glass case.
Next to the display case, an event staff member shouted loudly.
“We’re currently holding an event! Find the owner of this bread! If you think you’re the one who made this, or if you think you can make bread this good, don’t hesitate to participate!”
Passersby marveled at the displayed bread, each letting out a word of admiration.
“Holy crap. Are those bread effects for real?”
“Permanent mana increase and mana percentage recovery for 1 hour? Isn’t that the bread we saw on Inven before?”
“Wow, I was wondering why it suddenly disappeared from the auction house. So World’s Best was buying them all up. Even looking at it again, the stats are insane.”
“0.5% per second isn’t that great, is it?”
“0.5% per second for 1 hour is a total of 1,800%. You can’t use Mana Elixir consecutively because of the cooldown, but with that, you can cover all the mana exhaustion in between.”
“The castella next to it is crazy too. Increasing Intelligence is much rarer than other stats. Plus, a 10% Intelligence buff means a huge damage buff…… Oh my.”
“This is the first time I’ve ever seen bread with a Unique grade.”
The reason why the World’s Best guild was holding an event with Kyung-joon’s bread on display inside their store.
It was to find the owner of this Unique bread.
They had no idea that the person who made this bread was currently at the event hall.
Kyung-joon watched the event hall with an amused expression.
There was a makeshift stage about thigh-high, and on it were all sorts of cooking tools and baking ingredients.
Next to it stood an event staff member and a female player with her hair in buns.
“Participant number 137, can you please introduce yourself?”
“My name is BreadLover! I love sweet desserts, but I’m terrible at cooking in real life, so I practiced in the World and ended up changing my job to Dreamlight Patissier! It’s a Unique job, by the way!”
“Ooh, a Unique job!”
“Maybe she can replicate it this time?”
“That bread is a Unique grade too! Perfect match for her job!”
The surroundings became noisy at the appearance of a Unique job.
The event staff member rode the atmosphere and continued.
“Oh~! Dreamlight Patissier, it reminds me of a cartoon I used to watch on TV when I was little.”
“Ah~ I remember that cartoon. I enjoyed it when I was in elementary school.”
“Wow, you know that cartoon! Then you must remember Strawberry Girl too?”
The event staff member briefly engaged in impromptu banter to ease the participant’s nervousness.
Then he asked BreadLover,
“So, BreadLover, what exactly is a Dreamlight Patissier?”
“Ah! That’s a bit embarrassing to say…… Hehe……”
Dreamlight Patissier.
Unlike the Basic Baking job, this job was truly a hidden job overflowing with dreams and love.
The reason she got into baking was solely because of one man she liked!
It was a very different reason from other people who made bread just for satiety and buffs.
As she diligently baked bread and pastries with a girl’s dreams and love, BreadLover ended up changing her job to Dreamlight Patissier.
“Then……! I’ll make it!”
“Participant number 137! Unique job Dreamlight Patissier, BreadLover! Let the baking begin!”
She stood in front of the prepared makeshift kitchen and started kneading.
There were no special ingredients.
The highest grade was High-grade.
There were no Rare or Unique grade ingredients that added special abilities to cooking.
“You have to make Unique bread using only basic ingredients. No Griffin’s Tear, no mandrake. The highest grade ingredient is the Plovdiv organic flour, exclusively distributed by our World’s Best guild.”
“There have been 136 challengers so far, and all 136 have failed! Will BreadLover, our 137th challenger, be able to create Unique bread?”
BreadLover finished kneading in no time.
“Now I just have to let it rise and bake it…… But what should I do? It’ll take 8 hours to rise……”
Even a Unique job like Dreamlight Patissier couldn’t shorten the rising time.
Rather, it sometimes took even longer because she had to imbue the dough with dreams and love while it was rising.
“Of course, we’ve prepared everything!”
The event staff member pulled out something like a perfume bottle from his inventory, saying there was no problem.
“『Smoke of Aging』, obtainable only from Changnyeongdeok in the East Sea! Just a tiny sprinkle of this, and 8 hours will pass in an instant!”
Changnyeongdeok in the East Sea, a place where players couldn’t even set foot yet due to their low levels.
The World’s Best guild hired high-level NPC mercenaries to obtain this.
It cost quite a bit of money, but it was a worthwhile investment to find the owner of this Unique bread!
BreadLover’s bread, both risen and baked, came out of the oven.
Golden brown.
[Soft Bread Filled with Love and Dreams]
▶Soft bread carefully kneaded. Filled with love and dreams.
▶Recovers 15% satiety. Slowly recovers 1,000 HP.
▶+10 HP for 3 hours
▶Item Grade: High-grade
“Hmm, it came out as High-grade, unlike what I expected. The HP buff isn’t bad, but it’s still High-grade level.”
The event staff member looked a little disappointed as he looked at the finished bread.
“Well~ Unfortunately, it’s another failure! You can go over there to receive your participation prize. That was our 137th challenger, Dreamlight Patissier BreadLover! Thank you!”
“Waaah! Let me try again! It’s because you used that weird item to finish the rising instantly! If I let it rise properly for 8 hours and fill it with dreams and love, I can definitely achieve at least Rare grade……!”
BreadLover kept whining.
However, the event staff member did not allow her to try again.
Rare grade.
The fact that she could make Rare grade bread without any special ingredients was amazing in itself.
But the bread on display was Unique grade.
Moreover, the guild’s analysis team said it was made using only ordinary ingredients.
Unique and Rare.
The difference was enormous.
Furthermore, BreadLover’s bread had a common HP buff, not a mana or Intelligence buff.
It was absurd to call her the owner of that Unique bread, and it was too much of a stretch to even say she was in a similar realm.
“Now! Is there no next challenger, number 138?”
The event staff member, having sent BreadLover away, resumed the event.
And he thought,
‘Whew… It’s been weeks of doing this. Will the owner of this bread ever show up?’
It had been over a month since he received the order from the Guild Master.
But not only had the owner of the bread not appeared, but no one with even remotely similar abilities had shown up.
Very occasionally, there would be Rare grade bread.
It seemed that there was no one, at least among the players, who could make Unique bread using only ordinary or High-grade ingredients.
“Can I try?”
It was at that moment.
A man stepped forward.
“If I make something similar to that bread, you’ll give me 10 million liyan right away, right?”
“Ah, yes! Of course! We guarantee it on the name of our World’s Best guild. Please come up here.”
The event staff member guided Kyung-joon onto the stage and said,
“Our 138th challenger has finally arrived! Kyung-joon-nim, please give us a quick self-introduction!”
“Well, I’m just a student studying.”
“Haha! You’re connected to the World while you’re studying? Is this the new The World study method?”
The event staff member joked with a laugh.
The people around him also laughed at his words.
They obviously didn’t believe he was studying inside the game.
It was only natural.
Why would anyone study inside a game when they could be playing the game?
There was no benefit to it.
Of course, Kyung-joon was different.
Only Kyung-joon had the buff that increased his study efficiency, and he also had the Time Dilation increasing skill called Dimensional Study Room.
“Then I’ll start right away.”
Kyung-joon went to the makeshift kitchen and examined the ingredients first.
[Plovdiv Organic Flour]
▶Ordinary flour, but grown organically without any mana pesticides, making it healthy and fresh. Very suitable for bread making.
▶Item Grade: High-grade
‘If it’s flour that’s very suitable for bread making, then it must be strong flour.’
Strong flour has a high gluten content, making it chewy.
The bread tears apart like chicken breast.
There was a bread that was most suitable for this.
One of the breads that people often eat while studying at cafes, croissants.
Kyung-joon decided to make that.
[Unique skill 『Mana Baking』 ]
[Proceeds with the dough at super high speed.]
[Imbues the dough with deep mana energy.]
Shuuuuung!
A powerful mana vortex began to swirl in the kitchen.
“Ugh!”
“Aaaah! W, What’s going on all of a sudden!”
“Ugh!”
Swoooosh!
The clothes and hair of the people nearby fluttered incessantly.
Kyung-joon increased the intensity of the mana rotation to finish the dough even faster.
Swooooooosh!
“What is this!”
“Wind magic, Wind Cyclone?!”
“No, it’s too small for that!”
“But how can there be such strong wind…!”
“That……! It’s like a Rasengan!”
No one thought the magic Kyung-joon was using was a baking skill.
They just thought a crazy player was running wild in the store.
“Security! Call security!”
“If that Rasengan thing explodes, it’ll be chaos! I’m going to subdue him!”
“Customer! Please evacuate immediately! Our World’s Best guild will handle this directly!”
The hall instantly turned into chaos.
Just as the nearby guards sensed the situation and were about to run in.
Swoosh.
The mana wind subsided as if it had been a lie.
“Ah.”
“Huh?”
“It stopped……?”
Silence fell after the sudden change in situation.
And once again, it was Kyung-joon who broke the silence first.
“Dough’s done. I’ll bake it now.”
There was no reply.
Regardless, Kyung-joon put the finished dough in the oven and started baking.
And he thought,
‘It’ll take about 40 minutes. I’ll go over some English words while I wait.’
There was nothing more efficient than studying English words during these short breaks.
“Overwhelm. Supremacy. Carnage…”
Thus, in the chaotic event hall.
Only the fragrant smell of bread and the sound of Kyung-joon memorizing English words echoed peacefully.
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[You have successfully finished cooking.]
[A new Unique dish has been created.]
[Dexterity increased by 20.]
[『The effect of Infinite Reading (Lv.2)』 is applied to the dish.]
[Organic Croissant Imbued with Deep Mana]
▶Organic croissant made with high-level mana control. You can feel the flavor of deep mana.
▶Restores 10% satiety, increases stamina/mana by 10% for 1 hour, and recovers 0.5% per second.
▶Permanently increases stamina and mana by 1 (48-hour cooldown) (limited to 10 times total)
▶When consumed by Infinite Knowledge Seeker, tenacity instantly increases by 50%, then slowly decreases to 0% over 2 hours.
▶Item Grade: Unique
“Oh.”
The created Unique Croissant was a perfect upgrade from the previous Soft Bread.
In addition to the mana buff, stamina was added, and the duration of tenacity related to studying was increased from 1 hour to 2 hours.
“As expected, the better the ingredients, the better the outcome.”
Previously, he had been so focused on studying ability that he hadn’t paid much attention to the grade of the ingredients.
But now he saw that good ingredients also increased his studying ability.
There was no reason not to get good ingredients.
“Gasp!”
The status window of the croissant caught the eye of the event staff.
He was startled.
“This is much better than the bread on display over there?!”
The staff’s surprise drew the attention of the surrounding people.
“What?”
“No way, you’re saying it’s better than that Unique Bread?”
“Where, where? ……Gasp! C, Crazy!”
“Wow, it’s a complete upgrade from that Soft Bread over there! It increases both stamina and mana!”
“Huh…… Is this bread or a potion?!”
“To create a Unique item with ordinary ingredients…… Is this for real?”
The surrounding area quickly became noisy as people flocked to see.
Everyone’s minds were blown by the insane stats of the croissant Kyung-joon had made!
“It was you all along! You are the true owner of this bread! It’s truly, truly an honor! Our World’s Best guild would like to have the pleasure of serving you!”
The event staff grabbed Kyung-joon’s hands with both of his and shouted loudly.
At that moment, countless applause and cheers erupted from the surroundings.
Kyung-joon thought as he fiddled with his bracelet…….
‘What’s the right word for this situation? Fuss means to make a fuss or a commotion. Uproar means a great tumult or disturbance. Commotion means a disturbance or tumult. And also…… Oh, that’s right, ruckus also means a disturbance or commotion.’
Kyung-joon was recalling various English words that best fit the current situation.
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Some time later.
The business hours of World’s Best headquarters were over, and only the staff remained.
The 5th floor, the highest floor of the building.
The door to the executive meeting room swung open urgently.
“Guild Master!”
“We found him! The owner of the Unique Bread has appeared!”
The man who entered, drenched in sweat, was none other than TheWorld’sGreatestMerchant, the guild master of World’s Best.
He looked for the staff member in charge of today’s event and asked,
“Recri! Tell me everything that happened in detail!”
“Yes, sir.”
Recri reported everything that had happened at the event venue.
“W, What……?”
TheWorld’sGreatestMerchant was dumbfounded after hearing the explanation…….
“Player Auction House Kyung-joon again?!”
He had heard that name countless times today alone.
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