24 Combat Tournament

Now, today is the day of the combat tournament.

I wake up up in the morning, I log in and head to receive the pig intestines and to buy other ingredients. After that I log out to make breakfast.

I log in a little before 10, when the event area is unlocked.

Oh, hey Princess!

Good morning.

Oh? Good morning.

When I log in, Alf-san and Ske-san were already there. Aside from the two there were also other players on the central plaza, everyone has gathered near Stellura-samas statue. It was in Belstead, so the number of people was on the low side. I feel that the Starting Town must be hell.

Since you are already here, Ill pass the money from the boss materials to you.

I received a little over 30k from Ske-san. It seemed to have sold for about 60k in total. Pretty sweet. My total assets are a little above 110k now.

I hear youre putting up a stall today, Princess? What are you selling?

The usual soup and steaks, as well as my new merchandise - hot dogs.

Hot dogs, huh. Did you buy sausages?

I bought all types of salted intestines, and made some.

Self-made, huh.

While I was talking with Alf-san, Ske-san started to do a mysterious dance. No, I can somewhat tell what he is doing, but...

"...Warm-up exercises?

HAHAHAHA, but of course!

"...But you have no muscles, right?

Oh, right!

First of all, this is VR, isnt it? Moreover, while the area is opened at 10, it starts at 1pm.

Is it a skeleton joke? Those warm-up exercises is what I thought, but this joke can work with plenty of races, cant it? Immortals and plant-types, also Machinery.

Its about time for the countdown to end, hm?

Management's countdown is being as self-assertive as always.

It really is.

In front of players waiting for the event in other words, above Stellura-samas statue ,there was a countdown jumping and flying around like the one from the service start. It was currently night in game, so it stood out really hard.

And when the time came, it burst. Since the time has come, everyone moved closer to the statue and teleported into the event field. We should go as well.

The area we teleported to was a plain. A simple plain with a large, square-shaped stage for the combat tournament.

Its so simple its almost confusing, isnt it?

How was it in the beta?

It felt like a coliseum.

In other words it degraded?

It sure has is there some kind of reason?

According to Alf-san, it seems to be a degraded version of the betas stage, but as long as there is a stage, a combat tournament can be held. It could be said that this way, the preparations are really easy.

But I dont think that management wouldnt use the colosseum just because its troublesome, would they? Feels like there would be a reason behind it.

Well, they could always use the one they used for the beta, after all? It felt really well-made.

Hnn can it be that its located in a place that players havent reached yet?

An arena huh, makes sense. Can it be the Empire?

Apparently there is an Empire in the South. It is highly possible.

So there is an Empire in the South. Is it beyond the sea?

...Lets go to the library after the combat tournament is over. Im really lacking information, so lets gather some. Its alright to read the BBS, but recently I have been playing the game all the time and havent had time to read any books, so it might be good to spend some time in the library?

With that said, first...

Now, where should I put out my stall Oh, good morning Primula-san.

Oh, yahoo~.

Soon after Primula-san came, the crafting group started gathering. It seems like they came from the Starting Town, so there were quite a few of them.

While I looked together with Ertz-san and the others where to put out a stall, there was a change in the sky.

HAA-HA-HHA! Welcome, players, and hello! GM Yatsuzuka here.

The energy he started with has disappeared in the middle and he introduced himself normally.

If you are making up a character, then how about you maintain it? Im Mitake, also a GM.

Game masters in other words, the managements characters in-game. They must have come for the event.

Yatsuzuka-san was a well-built man considering his initial energy he must be aiming for a hot image? Mitake-san was a cool-type woman.

Based on their appearance, the two were angels? They had small cartoonized wings and halos above their heads.

We will explain once again later, but lets have a liiiight explanation for now! First, the combat tournament participants who are in the area will receive a notification they need to respond to with YES within the limited time and they will be automatically teleported!

The viewers who will gather around the stalls hop. Please gather in front of the monitor that just appeared. Also, there is a tower-type random display over here. As for the merchants, please set your stalls in a way not to get in the way of the viewers.

There were a fair number of stages. And in a place away from them, there were four monitors, displaying them. The reason why they have appeared in a location a little away from the stages, is to make space for people who will want to watch directly.

And in the event areas middle, there were multiple displays piling up in a tower shape.

Well then, lets put out stalls in a place a little away from the tower.

There is no reason to protest, so we agree with Ertz-san and start moving together.

We find a good-looking space and started preparing to put down stalls with everyone.

With me were Ertz-san, Dantel-san, Primula-san and Salute-san - the usual members. I opened a stall in the corner and also placed my Cooking Kit. With the cooking oven and all, it ended up taking quite some space.

Now, lets use the oven andReproductionto make the merchandise. Also, its about time I used seasonings other than salt seems like I dont have enough for bouillon yet. How about chicken broth?

And so, I put fire under a large pot set for 12, which I found during shopping.

Now, since Im making chicken broth, I need chicken bones so I take out the Tokkei meat and split bones from meat. Lets use the meat for grilled chicken. It doesnt seem like I need to bother with things getting dirty in this game.

I put the remaining bones into the pot. Then I put inside the upper part of the welsh onions. As for the remaining white part, lets make a grilled chicken negima with it.

I dont have ginger, but it can't be helped. Lets put in garlic and welsh onions. Also, a little of cooking wine.

In real, one chickens bones are used for one liter of soup, but I wonder how is it in game. Well, its the first time Im making one so lets use the real life proportions.

I put in ingredients inside the pot and started seething them on strong fire. Then after diligently removing scum, I changed the pot to a weaker fire and watch it. Being careful not to boil it, I took out scum while avoiding not to take out fat. When the amount of water decreases, I replenish it. Cooking is guts.

Now, while it stews slowly I take out the skewers I previously received from Primula-san and skewer chicken meat and welsh onions interchangeably on them. Salt should be enough to season it, its not like I have any sauce anyway.

Furthermore, I put fuel into the oven after usingBurnon firewood I place it inside.

I take out the base for bread, ketchup and mustard.

You look busy, Princess...

I need to make the merchandise now, after all.

My Satiety bar is getting dangerously low, though...

Ohh, I havent placed the stall yet. I will do it now.

Told so by Salute-san I noticed. I cant sell things unless I open a stall.

For merchandise, I put out the usual steaks, rump steaks I made yesterday, and bear soup. The prices being at 600, 1200 and 800.

This time, I put a limit of one type per person and a total of three food items per person.

"............

Salute-san quietly bought the rump steak. Then seeing what Salute-san took out, the other crafters also bought one. Thank you very much.

While I still have MP, I make intermediate ingredients withReproduction. Lets make things that need to be done for crafting there. Once my MP recovers, I will useReproductionagain. Meanwhile, I will do manual work while waiting for MP to recover.

This is SUPER good! This rump is TOO TASTY! What about rib roast?!

That rump steak is one that I made to raise my cooking skill to secondary tier. I still havent tried using the rib roast.

A shame...

I guess its not something you can eat often. A 4cm rump steak that is.

Actually I do want to make smoked roast beef, but can I do it with this oven? Temperature-wise it should work, but I have materials, might as well try it.

Leaving Primula-san to herself as she gets all excited over meat, I check on the chicken broth. ...Looks like scum stopped appearing? Then, lets move the clock a little. After confirming the amount of water and firepower, as well as scum, I fast-forwarded several hours. And done.

I register the complete chicken broth recipe. It used a lot of intermediate ingredients, so its really valuable.

And using this chicken broth, pork ribs and nappa cabbage lets make a mille-feuille hot pot.

First, I separate nappa cabbage and slice pork ribs. I put down nappa cabbage, then pork ribs, then cabbage again and so I interchanged them repeatedly.

And then, I cut it evenly before putting inside the pot with chicken broth and leave it to stew. Its a really easy dish. I let it stew slowly.

Is this steak a new merchandise?

Oh, no. Its my first time putting them out on the stall so they might be a kind of new merchandise, but the main is this.

A hot dog!

Its a festival, or rather, a sports event, so hot dogs fit best.

UsingReproductionI mass-produced the dough that took the most time, then while my MP recovered I made shapes and put it inside the brick oven.

I was able to let the hot pot stew itself slowly, so I worked on the rest in parallel.

Currently I was making bread, negimas and mille-feuille hot pot all at once. I want to fry some steaks, but there is no space over the fire with the hot pot and negimas.

The roast beefs temperature is too high for the bread, so I cant make those two at once either.

ONEE-CHAN, MEAAAT!

Here.

Eeeh negimaaa?

Shaddup, Ill make your dinner into pot noodle.

N-no wayy...

Its the instant noodles that are said to be the worst ever. Dad manages to eat it. As for me, well, somehow. Mom and my little sister throws it out. If you asked me if Id buy it out of the various other available instant noodles - the answer is NO...

Pot noodle and ~root beer~.

Makes your hunger disappear at once.

Root beer... oh, that one. I can drink it.

So Ertz-san drinks it. I can drink it as well, but I wont if I have the choice not to.

So, what is this root beer?

A drinkable poultice.

Huh?

A drinkable poultice. No, seriously.

It is a drinkable poultice.

Whats that, Im curious. If its beer, then its alcohol?

Naw, a juice. If it was beer, neither me nor Onee-chan could drink it.

Ah, right.

You can buy it on Ama.

Primula-san seemed interested, but I dont recommend it That drink chooses the drinker. It sends a scent of poultice up your nose when you drink it.

Is it different from Doc. Peppa?

Completely different. That one also feels like medicine, but it has also fruits in it, right?

Yup.

Root beer only has the poultice part.

The first mouthful is really harsh.

Lets have Mom buy some, and do a toast with Dad.

Farewell, dad...

Ertz-san added a helpful(?) There is a possibility you will spit it, so make sure not to stand in front of him. warning?

While we talked, everyone continued with their own crafting.

As the time passed, the number of players has increased and the event site was filled with a fair amount of people.

There were also stalls other than ours, so players were going around checking them. There was still about two hours until the combat tournament starts, after all

By the way, I would like to ask something.

Hnn?

What is it?

Did you make A quality before?

I did quite a bit of cooking so far, but I still havent seen anything better than B+. In which case, I think there must be some kind of special rule behind it.

Ahhh I get it. Theres a discussion about it on the crafting board and its not certain yet, but everyone is thinking that the material quality is influencing the quality of the final product. Its said that with materials of C quality, the limit is at B+. Its impossible to get As without B quality materials? Is what is said.

If you want to make something good, you need to have good materials, I guess. Otherwise, there would be no point in materials having quality, is there?

Which means, noo one had made one?

There is no report of anyone making A-class.

Then maybe the hot dogs made with frankfurters might get an A?

You have B-class materials?

Actually the salted intestines I got sold are of A quality. They cost a fair amount for an intermediate cooking ingredient, but...

Eh, seriouslyy? How nicee.

I guess intestines for sausages arent something a player can make for themselves, so they prepared them with A quality? Manual disassembly is something only few can do, and whether you can disassemble properly and process it to make it usable is...

I made a fair amount of bread dough, so maybe I should start making sausages while taking notes? The ones I made last time were B class. Also, sausages fried on charcoal, smoked and boiled were all of the same quality, so the biggest influence should be in the meat seasoning itself.

Oh, the bread has baked nicely. Lets take it out.

Freshly-made bread!!

Heee bread made in a brick oven sure looks tasty...

Im not giving it to you? Its not a complete product yet. I cut it, put mustard and ketchup on it, then placed a frankfurter before usingSet Menu...and. OHH?!

[Cuisine] Handmade Hot DogRarity: NoQuality: B

An easy cuisine made by sandwiching a sausage in bread.

Its a food item that's the result of pursuit for ease of eating, its popular with young people.

Satiety +35

Additional Effect: Increases Strength by 5%

Effect Duration: 4 hours 30 minutes

Cook: Anastasia

Lets take a screenshot.

And lets give the first buff cooking to my little sister.

WOOHOOO! HEY, GM!

HA HA HA! What is it, mm?

Do food buffs work for the tournament? ON? OFF?

Of course they are OFF! So buff cooking was finally made?

Onee-chan made some!

Oh, Princess has?! Thats great! The buff effect is semi-random depending on the ingredients and cooking methodology, the buff effect and duration is up to Quality! All thats left is for you to do your best and verify!

I see, this is very useful information.

If I say too much theyll get angry at me! Farewell!

Well, management talking too much is spoilers, after all.

Rather, Onee-chan, even GMs call you princess...

Well they must be checking the BBS so...

Whats left is to adjust the taste, and...

[Cuisine] Handmade Mille-feuille Soup with Pork and Nappa CabbageRarity: NoQuality: B+

Pork and Nappa Cabbage stewed in Chicken Broth.

The taste of both chicken, pork and vegetables permeates the body well.

Satiety +25

Additional Effect: Increases Agility by 5%

Effect Duration: 5 Hours

Contents: Bowl, Spoon

Cook: Anastasia

Utensils: Primula

WOOHOO! This time its AGI? Also, it seems like buffs appear on cooking that needs a little more steps?

Alright, lets line it up on the stall.

Jerkies for 400, negimas for 400, mille-feuille soup for 800. Also, I change the limit for jerkies. Maximum of six for one person.

However, I increase the price for ones that have a buff. This mille-feuille soup will go for 2000? Price 2.5.

If I make too many different foods my inventory will get full, so I throw everything I have onto the stall.

Ohh, and lets also put out the boar meat that I have no intention of using. It might be bought by my fellow cooks. Pricing should be fine at 1000. If they make a soup, they will profit from it.

I lost a lot of money due to costly crafting facilities and materials, but today is a profit day!

The nice smell coming from next door is evil.

The food terror is harsh.

I dont mind if you buy some, you know? All these tools cost me a lot.

Naww, and so have ours...

Everyone bought the facilities when other towns were unlocked~.

Well, there is no way crafter mains wont buy them. With that said, they are crafting pretty much every day, so they must have more money than me.

By the way, could you try my jerkies again?

I passed one high-quality jerky each to the four, to have them try.

Oh, its tasty this time.

The taste is denser compared to before.

Yup, makes me wanna have a drink.

It was well-received from the three adults. And Primula-san also liked it, same as before. It seems like she likes to chew on them during crafting, so she wants to order a large amount of them. Lets make them for her after the event. Fast-forwarding time for smoking blows my MP, you know...

400 for one, huh. The price is the same as field rations, maybe I should switch to jerkies?

But if you are to buy it from Princess, then wont you buy other, normal cooking?

Ahh well, I guess. Its not like we need to hurry with eating.

Im sure it will be resolved once the number of cooks increases. ...Princess, you can sell more, too, yknow? I wanna avoid field rations...

I can make a lot of jerkies at once, so it should be easy to mass-produce them. Im thinking of putting them on consignment, but I guess I will put normal cooking out as well.

Everyone heroically fights over the food once you put it on consignment.

According to Ertz-san and Dantel-san, the number of people who want to buy cuisine has increased, but there are few who want to make it. Well, its because all crafting takes time, including cooking. However, now that the buffs are confirmed, the number of cooks should increase.

Maybe I should put a limit on purchases for consignment sales as well?

The hot dog sale will start after noon, so in the meanwhile lets mass-produce the ingredients. While increasing the number of bread withReproductionI note down the proportions for the meat seasoning and tweak it. Goal: A Quality frankfurters.

Lets add not only the pork like for hamburgers, but also some beef. ...It might be nice to make hamburgers too. Well, I can make things after I finish making hot dogs.

Hamburgers with mixed meat are really tasty. Frankfurters should also be tasty. Its a game, there is no problem going luxurious, right?

I mix meat in the same proportions as when making hamburgers beef and pork at about 7:3 ratio. However, its frankfurters so it needs to be minced finely unlike hamburgers. I add seasonings and garlic to it, then mix before putting the meat inside the intestine.

Raw sausages are very delicate. If they break, the taste escapes, so its necessary to incinerate them with lots of love. Im not looking away from you. I want to see as you get incinerated and your body heats up...

Well, Im just frying sausages on charcoal. I lower the flame and by the end I use stronger flame to burn the surface a little

Princess is frying something super tasty-looking.

Im not selling these separately at the moment.

What a shame...

I only have as many salted intestines as I could buy...

I ignore Salute-sans hungry-sounding voice. After frying them evenly, I move the sausages to over strong fire to make them smell tasty. How about this?

B+ huh, I see. ...What a shame. For now, lets register this recipe. Now, lets increase the number of attempts.

As I diligently cooked, lunch time has come.

In the end, I was unable to make A quality. Most likely a single material being A is not enough. There is also a possibility of facilities being insufficient, so it looks like it will take time.

Farming and livestock, huh. Is there anyone doing them, mm? It might be late to say this, but the range of my actions is pretty small. I only went to about half of the right side of the Starting Town. Furthermore, I only covered about 120 of the surroundings from the South to the East. ...Lets do some searching once we enter summer break.

I leave the stall to Salute-san and log out for lunch. Salute-san will want to go for lunch as well, so I finish it as fast as possible. My little sister is participating in the tournament, so she wants to finish it fast as well

And when I log in, this time I take care of Salute-sans stall.

After coming back, I start making dogbread withReproductionand frankfurters manually.

Its almost time for everything to start, so lets put out information on the board. The hot dog information I kept silent about and the buff-included foods screenshot, livestock owners information and details onReaction Acceleration.

Considering the numbers required, I continued to cook them one after another. Meanwhile, Salute-san came back so I return the stall to her.

And soon after, apparently the time has come.

LADIEEEEEEEES ANDDD GENTLEMEENNN? Dear players! Its TIMEEE! HAA HA HA! THE TIME HAS COME! Were starting the combat tournament!

Just now, we opened the Combat Tournament. And so, we shall now explain the details. First, there will be two main competitions, a solo and party one. Both of them will be held in the form of a tournament and placements will be completely random.

The AI will split players randomly and display the ladder all at once! At the same time there will be notifications reaching the participants! If you are late to answer, you get disqualified, so be careful!

When the time comes you will be warped to the stage, so there is no need to be nearby, but please stay in this event area.

Either stay near the stage, or go watch the monitors that are surrounding the stages! If you have no one to root for and you only want to watch, then you should watch the towers!

The individual tournament will start and continue until the best 8 are decided, then following that there will be the party tournament that will reveal the top 8 parties. After that, there will be a break before the best 4 are decided for both individual and party competitions.

After that, we will tweak the event area and make a single stage! From there we will do semi-finals and the third place matches! The finals for individuals will be after the semi-finals and third place for party competition!

It appears that buff cuisine was finally made, but naturally it will not apply to the competition. During the match, there is a limit on recovery items, with a limit of 10 for each party. However, there is no limit on recovery magic.

Friendly fire will work during the tournament, so be careful! Dont stand in the line of fire! Misfires arent permitted! But I will sacrifice myself, take us both out! is alright! It sounds COOL!

Yes yes. ...These are the important points. Participants, please check the rules once again. Now, we will create the tournament ladder. First, lets start with the individuals.

On all displays, an empty tournament ladder was displayed without any names in it. From there on, along with a roulette text has flowed and the names started filling the empty places from top to bottom.

Its the instant that decides the participants destiny, isnt it. Its the first tournament so there are no seeds, and it doesnt matter how famous a player is.

Next is a party competition! Here, BAM!

In the same manner, a ladder was displayed.

Well then! I declare the first official event, the Combat Tournament, to have started!

Along with Mitake-sans declaration, fireworks rose up to the sky.

In real its just past noon, so in game its also middle of the day, but it was visible so I guess its all right? Everyone did get fired up thanks to that.

Now, lets start selling hot dogs. Setting price at 1000, limiting to one each. For hot dogs with a buff, I set the price at 2300, raising the price by 2.3.

I prepared ones with ketchup only, ketchup and mustard, and buff-included ketchup only.

As the competition begins, I continued to craft while glancing at the displays sometime.

Are you making money?

So-so, I guess~.

Hee, thats nice! And, serious answer?

HA HA HA HA! I CANT STOP LAUGHING~!

Youre good at playing along, arent you, Princess.

Well, we are in a game, after all.

I certainly made big money. Considering the initial investment and the time taken by the process, being able to sell like this feels pretty nice.

Considering the amount of money I had to invest, there is a limit to the amount this time. Well, there would be a limit to how much bread I can make due toReproductionanyway.

Is the MP necessary forReaction Accelerationthe reason you dont make it at once withReproduction?

Yes. It is used for the yeast, base and dough, so the amount of MP it takes is no joke.

So that is why you are doing it manually while usingReproductionin the meanwhile.

And its possible to lure in customers with the scent, too!

Thats tough of you...

A single pig intestine costs 1000 so I cant stop laughing! The meat inside is one that I hunt by myself, so it doesnt cost me anything. ...Well, it takes time to gather it, but I can level while gathering so there is no problem.

Hey you, dont cut in line and go into the back.

AHN?! The hell are ya, Im from the vanguard yknow?

Hooh so?

I hear theres buff cooking here. Aint it natural progression players get favorable treatment, HUH?

Seems like some person looking for my food started to cut in line and started bickering with a person who warned him, but lets leave it be.

No, I mean, the person who warned him is Ruzebarm-san The one who acted as an officer during the world quest and who unlocked the Northern town.

That might be the case in your head. But its not how things work here, so go into the back.

YOURE SAYIN THAT KNOWING WHO I AM?! HUHH?!

Ive got no clue, get lost. Bark when you get as famous as Cecil, Princess or Ertz.

Bastard!

I think youre plenty famous yourself, though? Ruzebarm-san.

Well, it might be kind of hard to tell because of how furry he adjusted himself. I mean, hes a bear But on the other hand, it would seem like the kemoners know that and would put some kind of sign on themselves to allow people tell them apart...

F*ck off and die!

Hah, BEAR PUNCH SPECIAL!

BWHUEH?!

He easily dodged the sword and punched the guy in the face. Well, its only natural.

Looks like he did not know Ruzebarm-san who is among the very top of the vanguard players. Meaning, even if the guy was among the top players, it would be only barely?

First of all being a top player is something others call you, and not something you announce yourself to be.

A vanguard not knowing Mr. Bear whos among the top of the vanguard, is more like vanguard(lol)...

Agreed.

Princess, you know him?

No, not at all. If you dont know him, Ruzebarm-san, there is no way I would, HA HA HA.

Riiight. Your circle of interactions is pretty small rather, the Im not worthy of speaking to the Princess! joke is kind of being taken seriously by a lot of folks.

"...Certainly, it is hard to tell if its a joke or not.

RP-wise, character-wise Im royalty, so I can somewhat understand it. However, there is a possibility that people are simply wussing out...

In any case, its that.

Well, I would be troubled if a lot of people came to me, so lets retain the current state of things.

Ahhh well, yeah. Oh, theres STR-buffing food, great!

Thank you very much, thatd be 2300.

Ruzebarm-san, are you participating?

I am, but my turn is a little later. Which is why Im shopping while I can.

There are a lot of stages, but it seems like the participants have to wait quite a while for their turn. Speaking of which, just how many participants are there?

...Apparently there are about 6000 people participating, considering that the first batch had 20000 people, I guess thats about right this is PvP after all. Pretty much everyone has participated in the world quest, though. Well, there are other people like me who are not interested in PvP and only want to fight monsters. I mean, why do I have to fight other people in a fantasy game. Watching other people fight is, well, alright.

With that said, Im cooking. I want to secure money to buy the next facilities, the Cooking Kit, so Lets earn!

Its decided! Individual competition winner is! Cecil!

UOOOAHH!

NWAAAAGH! I LOST AGAINNN!

Youre doing wonders with that halberd as always phew, that was close...

Oh, Rina was in the finals? Sorry, Onee-chan didnt look, HA HA HA.

With this, this will be the last hot dog there. Aww, I did well if I say so myself.

Now, next lets do a beef stew! I have ingredients. No, Im missing just a little of them, but they arent found yet so it cant be helped.

On top of a baking tray that came with the oven set, I put about 2kg of shank meat and threw it inside the oven that has finished its role of baking bread. I set the temperature at about 180C. Its a game, so it should fry right away.

Meanwhile I put sliced welsh onion and garlic, as well as carrots on an iron frying pan and stir-fry them. Roughly until the welsh onion gets yellowish.

"...Onee-chan, did you see the match?

Eh, what?

Your little sisters efforts...

Ill try doing some cooking I cant be bothered doing at home, so do your best for the party competition, okay?

WOOHOO! Im off!!

Hah, she sure is simple...

...Imouto-chan

I turn the meat I put inside the oven, frying until it looks nice.

I throw the shank meat and stir-fried vegetables, along with the burnt parts there is no burnt smell, is there into a pot.

Roughly sliced a large amount of tomatoes, poured some of red wine and water.

Then finally, I put everything on the fire. The temperature is set at 90C, almost boiling, and I take out the scum and fat while I fast-forward. In real its 10 hours long work, but in-game I can fast-forward it withReaction Acceleration, so I can enjoy making this.

While fast-forwarding I take out the scum, I stir-fry a fresh welsh onion, two carrots and garlic.

After that, I filter it once and put the remaining meat and vegetables into a new pot. Then I insert fresh stir-fried vegetables. About the same amount of red wine, too! Also, water.

Then again I stew it on middle firepower and lower the temperature right before it starts boiling, retaining about 95C I take out scum, then fast-forward Another 10 hours.

And then I mix the soups. Of course I filter the inside. Then again 10 hours. Yes, I stew it on fast-forward. And so, I make fond de veau. However, my goal is a beef stew. Lets first make a demi-glace sauce.

Which is why, I fast-forward to about week later. If it gets burnt, it will all go to naught, so I do it while watching the fire and the pot, and the thermometer. I mean, I dont have enough MP to do it all at once.

It was boiled out and concentrated to about half of its size, and I have overcome the worst, so lets do the finishing touches. I add salt and red wine, as well as sugar to adjust the taste. Its already very rich and tasty at this point.

Nnn lets put in some beef rib cubes. But first, I need to fry their surface on the frying pan and remove the needless fat since its ribs, then throw it inside the pot. While taking out scum and fat, I stew it for about three hours.

Then finally lets go simple. I slice potatoes and carrots, put them inside the pot and stew for about 30 minutes all complete!

That was a hellish amount of work.

[Cuisine] Simmery-Stewed Handmade Beef StewRarity: NoQuality: B+

A top-class stew made by a skilled cook, capable of making royalty groan from deliciousness.

A dense stew with multiple tastes dissolved into it.

Satiety +35

Additional Effect: Increases Spirit by 5%

Effect Duration: 5 Hours

Contents: Bowl, Spoon

Cook: Anastasia

Utensils: Primula

...I have accomplished it.

Lets register the process before the recipe goes away.

And its DECIDED! The party competition winner is! The party THE PRIZE IS ONEE-CHANS COOKING! led by Akirina whats with this name well, whatever!

U...UOOOAAHH!

My little sister has wordlessly struck a colombia pose1. Congratulations.

...Onee-chan was so busy she did not see the match, however.