Chapter 139 - 139. Too Much Pressure On A Battered Body And Soul

It's already 4 pm when I sat down and checked that the 150k wooden daggers had been processed and ready to be traded with NoOne.

The notepad I had with me was written the following of new products for Beauty World.

35 shades of nail polish without glitter

35 shades of nail polish with glitter

9 eye shadows with glitter

1 acetone for nail polish remover

20 perfume based on using ethyl acetate as the base.

"But why stop at 20 when we have so many lists of fruits, plants, herbs, spices and even those resins? It would be spoilt for choices and I'm sure people would be clamouring for it. The only to improve is pay a visit to the library again."

"Guess I head there now and complete the trade and then I'd be back here before dinner." I figured for myself and informed the interns to prepare dinner according to their creativity. I soon head out of the Castle grounds to meet NoOne in the northern forest.

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"Thank you for the trade, buddy. Take care of yourself and don't look too glum..." as I thanked NoOne after I made a trade of 150k wooden daggers. "Weird, NoOne seems to be a bit troubled these past few days as its not his usual self to stay quiet even he finds that I'm trading useless wooden training daggers at an enormous amount of quantity."

"Maybe he got indigestion after eating too much rat meat I think? Fuyoo...rat meat is nice, it tasted like a rabbit. Those rats that feed on wheat and rice is the ones that are consumable. The rest, like the sewer rat, is full of viruses so better keep away from that." I reckoned because I had consumed those large rats before that looked like an adult overgrown cat.

With a jingle in my pockets, I asked Ceres for assistance again and duplicate the wooden daggers to the same amount again and the system complied." Not only I've gotten 150k credits, but I've also earned a considerable amount of experience points too. This levels up pretty well... Hah hah hah..." I laughed as I entered the library and heads to gather about scents and sensibility.

*Ding* You have discovered 369 Fragrant Flowers, Fruits, Leaves, Stems, Resins and Barks Perennials for making perfumes and incense. Congratulations. You had unlocked Perfumer as a Profession.

*Ding* For your achievement today, you have a total of 1503.69x2.6=3909.6 increase for your base levels and 3909.6x0.25÷5=195.5 across all your professions. Your duplications would be ready by midnight tonight at 1225am.

*Ding* Here are your new statistics.

Experience point 141000

Level 26871/1,000,000,

Herbalist 600.75/1,000,000,

Crafter 14,920.5/1,000,000,

Blacksmith 1450.5/1,000,000,

Culinary 634.5/1,000,000

Perfumery 195.5/1,000,000

"Wahseh... Not bad leh... I've earned a new Profession and it starts at a cap of 1 million. Just for the start, I've earned 195 points but in actual fact, I've earned only 0.0195% progress. WTF...we can have so many high digits but in the end, it amounts to this much only.

I walked back unhurriedly to the Castle as I checked on the progress of the interns and showed them how to fold the burritos. It's was shredded cabbage, cucumber, tomatoes, carrots, salad leaves, scrambled eggs, shredded chicken meat, mayo and tomato ketchup with a bit of pickle in them and folded within a tortilla.

This tortilla wrap was made with only plain flour, fat and water, kneaded and rolled flat with a pin and baked over a flat piece of an iron pan on the rocket stove.

It was wrapped and a wooden skewer was being pinned to hold everything in place and then kept warm inside the earthen oven. It was simple to make but the preparation was simply laborious.

Luckily, many hands make light work.

It was quite fun as the interns had learnt a new recipe and looking at the way I prepare it with all the ingredients lined up in front of me, it only takes less than a minute to wrap everything up. Since the ingredients were cooked except for the cabbage that was blanched in hot water after being shredded, all ingredients were good to go.

After I finished preparing the banditos, it would be for the Thai Chicken Lettuce Cups which literally means the lettuce leaves were blanched and then used to hold all the ingredients inside it like a cup...! Egg omelette was used to make egg rolls. And the main thing is the tangy sauce that Thailand loved and I quickly whipped it up using the sweet and spicy chilli instead and with a squeeze of lemon.

The lemon squeeze would be used in the last minute before serving and everyone took note and make a few squeezes of lemon and set it aside. The prep was only like 20 minutes.

"Sir, can we ask you a question?" asked an intern as we sat around in the kitchen as we had done preparing dinner and supper. "Go right ahead." I simply replied.

"How come a man like you know so much about culinary despite being a founder of this House that is meant for Warriors and other classes as well?" the intern inquired as she looked at me, hoping to receive an answer that would be an inspiration to all.

"Well, like my mother used to say, 'IF YOU KNOW HOW TO EAT, YOU SHOULD KNOW HOW TO TASTE AND COOK'.Hah hah hah..."

"Cooking is a way of using one's imagination and creativity. Another is using the spices and salt sparingly. Not too strong and not too mild. The cuisine is just another term to make it sounds so wonderful. So to prepare a menu, it depends on the ingredients at hand and how many hands you've got. The rest is all up to you already. Cheers... "

I ended my answers to their queries and I excused myself and went to the cosy corner where I take a look at the list of new products and wondered how it's going to affect the production lines later on.

"Haiya... Come what may then. We would see when the ingredients that I sought from Pointus and Joan would be ready by next week. Furthermore, I haven't received their prices so I won't know how much I owe them."

I stood up and went to the courtyard and greeted the return of the members. "What's for dinner, Daddy? Could it be taken away like lunch earlier?"

Ingles enquired and I told her that we have chicken banditos dressed as burritos. The children were dumbfounded because its the first time they heard about it.

When the food was brought out, everyone was excited to see a brand new range of dinner. Each of the member and seniors took 2 each and then left for the Northern Forest to grind and level up.

"We can eat while we shoot from our crossbow in one hand," exclaimed Kayla as she skipped merrily along with the members after they had taken 2 burritos each and headed north.

"Just like that? Grab and go and then comes back for supper and rest? It's like a picnic to them right now? Uurrgghh... I wonder how long would this keep up." I lamented to Prius and Rebecca who had been busy getting everything inventoried as the start of the sales would begin in the next few days and it would be a very busy and hectic day.

"Don't worry, they know what's the best for them because the members would be hitting level 5 tonight and then it would be the last time you would be giving them the 100 points each to allocate into their attributes," Prius mentioned it to me but then something else troubled me.

The Battle Quests from the southern district. Everybody would be aiming for it which means they would end up in the Southern Plains, Terraces as well as The Wasteland. I've been to these 3 places and it's a harsh place where there's basically no food to be gathered there at all.

There are so many vile creatures and they only drop like a horn, some fangs and poison sacs and some komodo dragon hides that can be sold for 450 credits each. Other than its plain boring out there. Maybe because I didn't get involved with the Quests so it's quite a dull thing for me to just hang around and kill things. Hah hah hah.

"Haish...in the next day or two those members would have completed all their Quests and then they would head down to the Southern District already and began their new batch of Quests. It would be better to give them a pep talk in preparing the necessary supplies because there's no food there.

Wouldn't it be a good idea if an NPC were to have a pushcart or something, to sell soft drinks and snacks in case the adventurers get hungry out there? Saves the trouble of carrying so many foodstuffs in the storage.

I ate a chicken bandito in the courtyard and had a Thai chicken in lettuce cup a while later. After some time, I got myself thinking that I've become stumped at this moment because I'm running out of ideas on what to write in this novel so far... Hah hah hah.

I'm still waiting for Pointus and Joan to come up with the ingredients that I needed before I could embark on the next product lists for Beauty World.

On top of that, the highway robbers issues had not been settled yet as they are still robbing the caravans that ply the roads throughout all the three districts.

"Well... Let us see what would the outcome in the next few days be then." I yawned and stretched on the courtyard benches after my meal and I had a nap put there under the stars. Maybe staying up late in the nights had taken its toll on my battered body and soon I had my eyes closed and dozed off.