MTLNOVEL chapter 1135 - Difficult Advice (6)
Hwaruk!
I felt Yeom Jun-yeol’s supernatural power through the partition wall and raised my head.
Yeom Jun-yeol finished preparing the ingredients and started cooking in earnest, but it seemed like he was trying to utilize Hongryong’s power.
I got up from the sofa while checking the situation in the cooking studio through the broadcast screen.
‘I have to see this for myself.’
I stared at Yeom Jun-yeol through the partition wall.
Yeom Jun-yeol, wearing a red half-cross-neck chef’s uniform, held a wok in one hand.
Then Hongryong, who looked very excited, lit the specially-made cooktop and heated up the wok.
Hongryong had the power to turn cooking utensils into ash in an instant, so it was a dangerous trick where you could burn your hand if you made a mistake with the amount of heat, but Yeom Jun-yeol must have practiced it perfectly and was not hesitant.
When Yeom Jun-yeol skillfully threw the ingredients after pouring oil with a ‘Shoot!’ sound, the chat window responded with an incredible response.
Yeom Jun-yeol and Hong-ryong in red chef's uniforms are cool, but the way they cook while handling fire is even cooler.
[It's been a while since I saw Hong-ryong in the live broadcast that Jun-yeol summoned (*˙˘˙)♡]
[Hong-ryong is cute but cool (੭ ˃̣̣̥᷄⌓˂̣̣̥᷅ )੭⁾⁾]
[If you enter the red lion, Jun-yeol can eat the food... … ?]
[Wow, it looks delicious]
[ ｡ ⁺₊* ★ ｡Please give me a photocard of the Gonggood producers who are watching the broadcast today⁺⋆ﾟ｡·*･｡ ﾟ*⁺₊⋆]
[I ordered fried rice after seeing this]
Yeom Jun-yeol was so focused on cooking that he couldn't communicate as much as when he was playing a game, but his reaction was better.
Anyone who sees Yeom Jun-yeol cooking so diligently would want to praise and cheer him on.
There was only one menu, but the cooking time took a long time, which was not a problem with Yeom Jun-yeol's skill but a problem with quantity.
Yeom Jun-yeol was preparing not only my portion but also the portions for the staff in the studio and the dragons and tigers watching.
Several of the staff who realized Yeom Jun-yeol's intentions covered their mouths and were moved.
"Eui-shin, it's done. Come over here and sit down."
A marble table was set up in the middle of the studio.
The table was decorated like something you would see on the introduction page of a high-end Chinese restaurant.
Looking at the dragon-themed centerpiece, the plating using monochromatic ceramic tableware and table mats, I could feel Yeom Jun-yeol's outstanding sense.
In addition, the luxurious seafood fried rice with squid, clams, shrimp, and mussels seasoned with XO sauce looked very delicious.
"Eui-shin, won't you taste it?"
Was he asking me to eat first, even though he was the oldest of the Yongjok and Hojok in the audience, including Yeom Jun-yeol?
Considering the average age of the audience and their dining etiquette, I wanted to decline, but it was difficult to refuse because the cameras were rolling.
In addition, the Jinjok, including Heukho, who shouted, “Eat quickly! I want to eat too!”, showed signs that he wanted me to eat first, so there was no way to avoid it.
“I’ll eat well. Thank you.”
I said as politely as I could and tasted the food.
Not only Yeom Jun-yeol, who was sitting across from me, but also Hongryong, who was carrying food to the staff with a heat-resistant bowl on his head, glanced in my direction to check their reactions.
Although I was treated to poison in the game, the delicacy served here was different.
I was overwhelmed with gratitude for being treated to such a wonderful meal and checking their reactions so humbly.
“It’s really delicious. Thank you for treating me to such delicious food. More than anything, I’m happy to be able to eat with senior Yeom Jun-yeol.”
“Thank goodness!”
When Yeom Jun-yeol was happy, sighs and exclamations erupted from the staff and audience.
It seemed like I wasn’t the only one who was overwhelmed.
“Jun-yeol… That’s great…!”
“I trusted Jun-yeol. I knew he could do it!”
“The wok turned into dust several times at first… Our Jun-yeol is different!”
Yeom Jun-yeol’s fans who received the food that Hong-ryong handed them ate the seafood fried rice sparingly, making you wonder when they’ll ever finish it.
Meanwhile, the tigers, who aren’t particularly fans of Yeom Jun-yeol, also received seafood fried rice in takeout plates.
Hwang Ji-ho grumbled that the dragons were so well-prepared, asking how much they had prepared for the trick, but they ate it well because it was delicious.
“The fire control is perfect. The ingredients are cooked well and the seasoning is well-balanced. Personally, I wish the seasoning was a bit more seasoned, but I think it will get better once I gain some experience.”
“Hwangho, are you bragging about getting older?”
“This is not something you should brag about as your descendants.”
“It’s not something you should say when you’re preparing a descendant’s 100th day celebration.”
Cheongryong and Hwang Jiho moved the utensils elegantly and restrainedly, as befitting a leader who is thousands of years old, but their words were childish.
But wouldn’t it take thousands of years to gain the experience of Hwang Jiho?
Anyway, it doesn’t seem like Yeom Junyeol will be ⊛ Nоvеlιght ⊛ (Read the full story) treating Hwang Jiho for thousands of years, so it doesn’t matter.
On the other hand, unlike Hwang Jiho, the other tigers ate well.
“It’s delicious!”
“It’s delicious. I like it a little sweeter, but it tastes delicious.”
I was relieved to see Heukho and Cheongho eating well.
In particular, Black Tiger expressed his regret and tension by moving his whole body whenever his character died or was in danger during the game, and he wanted to eat well and relieve his fatigue a little.
Yeom Jun-yeol also prepared dessert, and although he was thinking of giving up my portion to Black Tiger if necessary, he prepared his own portion for each guest, as expected of a senior who is good at preparing.
The dessert was orangette, made by coating dark chocolate on orange slices soaked in sugar water for about a week.
‘Wait, don’t let them eat that yet.’
Before Black Tiger and Cheong-ho ate the orangette with anticipation, I decided to send a device message to Hwang Ji-ho while the camera was out.
My hands stopped for a moment when I saw that the messenger profile picture was a photoshoot, but I didn’t care and wrote the message.
Hwang Ji-ho must have received a lot of messages today because he kept his hologram window open the whole time, so he checked my message right away.
[Me] Take the elixir before eating dessert.
[Me] Black Tiger and Blue Tiger too.
[Me] As myself.
I saw Hwang Ji Ho touch his temple after seeing the message.
If I hadn't told him, he must have pretended to forget and not taken the elixir.
Since there was no Baekho or Eunho here to feed the elixir, if I had let my guard down, I would have lost the health of the three tigers.
[Hwang Ji Ho] Jo Ui Shin… …
[Hwang Ji Ho] Okay, just pay attention to the broadcast.
After that, when Hwang Ji Ho said something to the two tigers, Blue Tiger and Black Tiger looked at me with shocked faces.
He must have said my name while feeding them the elixir.
When Black Tiger sniffled and took out the elixir pouch, Blue Dragon asked in confusion.
"Hwang Ho, why is Black Tiger crying all of a sudden?"
"If you're curious, you should find out for yourself. I'll introduce you to Hyang Rok."
“I know, but what is the relationship with Hyangrok… Is the leader of the Nokjok trustworthy in the first place?”
“Of course. Hyangrok’s work is trustworthy. Also, as the leader of the Hojok, he guarantees the taste and efficacy of the elixir.”
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After that, Hwang Ji-ho and Cheongryong continued to talk about Hyangrok and the elixir.
Cheongryong nodded and looked back at the Yongjok family, including Yeom Jun-yeol, with a meaningful expression.
It seems that Hwang Ji-ho still hasn’t let go of his water ghost nature.
Considering Cheongryong’s attitude and the Yongjok’s insular lifestyle, it seems that he has never asked Hyangrok for help before, but won’t the Yongjok get a taste of the elixir soon?
‘No matter how busy Hyangrok is, if he gets the chance to feed the Yongjok elixir for the first time, he will be happy to receive the request.’
I felt complicated watching Yeom Jun-yeol explain the recipe while showing the viewers photos of the process of making orangette.
Considering the love of the descendants of the dragon tribe, the first batter was very likely to be Yeom Jun-yeol and his mother.
Yeom Jun-yeol's mother rarely shows up, and if it's a physical health issue, I hope it gets better with the elixir.
After a short break, Yeom Jun-yeol and I headed back to the dragon tribe's temple full of death.
Yeom Jun-yeol must have thought about his future plan while cooking, because he gathered evidence as soon as he started and called the blind priest away from the center of the dragon temple.
'Good idea. The place where the blind priest called us to the traitor was the center of the dragon temple. The farther from the center, the more sane the blind priest is.'
If the blind priest had been completely controlled by something, Yeom Jun-yeol and I would not have been invited.
The fact that the effects of debuffs and buffs change as you get closer to a certain point was a basic game principle, but it was also common sense as a player.
In the other world, you always had to be on guard in the boss room or the area ruled by the floor master, and if you could lead your target to another place, you had to do so.
Although Yeom Jun-yeol didn’t know much about games, he was an excellent player who had learned this fact and naturally applied it.
‘Conversely, I guess I can apply what I learned in the game to reality.’
Just like Yeom Jun-yeol was now able to guess what the Dragon Tribe had gone through through PlayerZ.
That’s why Yeom Jun-yeol tried hard to save the blind priest who reminded him of the yellow dragon who followed him like a brother.
Yeom Jun-yeol called the blind priest to a place far from the Dragon Temple and told him that there was a crisis here and convinced him that he was also in danger.
The blind priest was half-believing, but when Yeom Jun-yeol showed him the evidence he had collected in advance, he was shocked and lowered his head and said.
“Has the god we serve abandoned us?”
The evidence that Yeom Jun-yeol had gathered indicated that something in the Dragon Temple was targeting the Dragon Clan.
The cavalry that spread among the Dragon Clan staying in the Dragon Temple.
An unidentified enemy that periodically raided the Dragon Clan’s secret area.
The deaths that Yeom Jun-yeol and I experienced here.
He also learned that all of this was the result of someone’s plot, and that the blind priest was also being consumed by that power.
The blind priest was silent for a long time before opening his mouth.
“……Thank you for letting me know. I can’t let you all be in such a dangerous place anymore.”
“Wait a minute, what you’re trying to do right now is…….”
The blind priest, smiling with a pale face, waved his hand at us and recited a spell.
It was a forced repatriation spell that some NPCs in Zeta could use.
The blind priest unconsciously sensed the Dragon Clan’s crisis and summoned me and Yeom Jun-yeol.
However, when he felt that a threat too great for our power to handle had come, he tried to save us.
Outside the Dragon Temple, the blind priest tried to send us to the farthest place his power would allow.
In the end, Yeom Jun-yeol chose to ‘do it again.’
“Yisin, can’t you purify the blind priest with Gwanglim like you did with the ‘corrupt spirit that calls for tidal waves’ last time? The blind priest’s will is being controlled by something like that spirit.”
Yeom Jun-yeol asked in a heavy voice.
It was a question that kept coming up in the chat window, but it was difficult.
Haetak was contaminated by the water pillar that was trying to swallow the island of the sunken kingdom.
What was targeting the blind priest now was something more persistent and terrible than the water pillar.
To use an analogy, it was like this.
‘Calming down Kim Yu-ri who went berserk because she couldn’t handle the heavy Gwanglim. Purifying the yellow dragon that had consumed the scales of the Imugi that the black curtain and the shamans had worked hard to raise for a long time. If you compare the two, the latter is overwhelmingly more difficult.’
If there was a fraudulent item on the level of the Dragon King’s scales that healed the yellow dragon, then I was just one of the common bards in PlayerZ.
But that fact could be another weapon.
I said to Yeom Jun-yeol.
“I have a suggestion.”
“Yisin-ah!”
Yeom Jun-yeol looked at me with a happy face, as if he really wanted to save the dragon’s secret realm.
“Next time there’s a battle, give me the party leader position.”