Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?
Chapter 309: Original text - Two Hundred Thirty-Eight Chef Federation, Gourmet Competition Modified - 238 Chef Federation, Gourmet Competition

Chapter 309: Original text: Chapter Two Hundred Thirty-Eight Chef Federation, Gourmet Competition Modified: Chapter 238 Chef Federation, Gourmet Competition

"Mr. Curipa, I am an editor of Bed Weekly. May I ask you a question?"

"Chomp chomp chomp... Gollum, sure, go ahead."

Sain Dungeon, Gourmet Area.

In the gourmet area, which was like a fairyland wafting with sweet aromas, a spirited, but not more than 1.6-meter-tall, elderly elf was devouring a roasted meat with bones.

If he found it a bit too greasy, he would break off a clove of garlic from the blooming garlic flowers beside him or grab a soy sauce locust for an extra taste.

A rather content expression appeared on his slightly wrinkled face, in short, he was thoroughly enjoying his food.

In front of him, a professionally dressed pretty female editor prepared her notepad, looking intently at him, and asked:

"Excuse me, elves have always been regarded as avatars of nature who uphold vegetarianism, why do you..." She glanced at the half-eaten roasted meat in Curipa’s hand, the implication clear.

"This? This is a plant," Curipa said earnestly.

"A plant?" The editor was taken aback.

"It grows on trees, how does that not make it a plant?" He looked serious, as if proving the truth of the universe.

The editor tried to argue, "But it looks like meat, smells like meat, and tastes like meat..."

"So, does that definitely make it meat?"

Curipa righteously patted the editor’s shoulder and lectured, "Don’t be deceived by appearances, understand the essence of things. If it grows on a tree, it’s a plant! How could it be meat?"

A sense of authority emanated from him, the editor swallowed and nodded, saying, "I’ve learned that the roasted meat with bones is a plant."

"That’s right, that’s exactly it, it’s a plant, we elves love eating vegetarian, so there’s no problem with roasted meat with bones being vegetarian."

As he spoke, Curipa took out a packet of coffee powder and brewed it using the juice of hot milk fruits growing on the trees.

"Ah, is that coffee ground from coco fruits growing on the back of Coco Koala?" The editor recognized the source of the coffee powder and tried to make a comeback.

She smiled and said, "Mr. Curipa, since you claim the roasted meat growing on trees is a plant, would the coco fruits growing on Coco Koala be considered meat?"

Curipa stared at her with dead fish eyes until cold sweat broke out on her back, then said:

"If it looks like coffee, smells like coffee, and tastes like coffee, then it’s coffee, purely vegetarian."

"But you just said to understand the essence of things..."

"Are you the chef or am I the chef? If you talk so well, should I give you my one-star chef certificate and shareholder status of Bed Weekly?"

"No no, I didn’t mean that."

The editor waved her hands repeatedly, thinking to herself why she even bothered arguing with an elf over this issue, and only managed to calm down the little old man after a lot of conciliatory gestures.

What was that about, why did she suddenly feel a surge of competitive spirit?

Only then did she remember her original interview purpose, quickly adjusting her mindset, she asked:

"What are your thoughts on the duel with the two-star chef Mr. Bashi from the Chef Federation in three days?"

The editor recalled the events from a couple of days ago.

That day, Luluwo from Skyrim Strategy Group wandered around Bed City, luring away most of the elite adventurers in the city.

Just as they left, a group of uninvited guests arrived.

The people from the Chef Federation arrived.

The Chef Federation, said to be the most authoritative gourmet institution on the entire continent.

Unlike the Magic Association, which controls the qualifications for becoming a magician, the Chef Federation couldn’t prevent someone from becoming a chef if they didn’t join the federation. However, owning a chef’s certificate from the federation would significantly boost a chef’s status to the pinnacle of life.

Chefs are graded from one to nine levels, each level requiring rigorous testing, and many would spend their entire lives at the lower levels.

Above the nine levels are the star-level chefs, a realm one can only reach with extraordinary talent, beyond effort and sweat.

One-star as the starting point, five-star as the ultimate, these star chefs are the absolute overlords of the culinary world, reigning supreme at the pinnacle!

People don’t quite understand how a chef’s certification could be this exciting, but this precisely appropriate sense of a mysteriously impressive aura has its own charm!

And so, the two-star chef Bashi from the Chef Federation, known for his "exquisite" dishes, recently came to Bed City to taste the gourmet area’s ingredients and proclaimed an explosive statement—

"The existence of food that can be eaten without cooking is an insult to chefs!"

Roasted whole pig, horned lion, bone meat tree, ox tongue flower... The gourmet area was full of ingredients that could be picked and eaten directly, providing a great taste experience without cooking.

Bashi’s motive was simple: if all the ingredients in the world were like this, the significance of chefs would be greatly diminished.

Someone suggested he could perform secondary processing on these ingredients to showcase his culinary skills, but...

"Cooking without starting from raw ingredients has no soul!"

Bashi’s second explosive statement!

He felt that processing already edible ingredients was like sleeping with someone else’s bride, a true chef with integrity would refuse.

He hated this place from the bottom of his heart, believing it ruined the delicacy and ceremony that cuisine should have, and thus declared a boycott of the gourmet area.

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