Leveling Up through Eating

Chapter 106: Hungry Monsters

Translator: ChubbyCheeks

PR: MattForgenti

“……”

The Phoenix looked at Minhyuk in puzzlement. Meanwhile, Minhyuk despaired as he finally realized an unfortunate fact.

‘Why can’t I see any black light?!’

The Phoenix did not shine any color at all. And he wouldn’t be able to eat it if it did not shine a black color.

What was worse was that the Phoenix’s condition was almost as bad as the monsters lying around. It was so thin that it looked like only its bones were left. It looked like it was about to collapse any time soon.

“Are you the descendant of Allen, the Food God?”

The name of the Food God that existed in the past! It seems like he was named Allen.

Minhyuk nodded his head.

“I see.”

The Phoenix stared at him quietly. It saw the frying pan on his back and the chocopie on his hand. Even if he was in front of it, he was still nibbling on something.

“I’m the Phoenix Lord, the protector of this monster’s paradise. Chronicle.”

A monster’s paradise.

However, looking at the state it was in right now, it did not seem like it was a paradise at all. Perhaps it was a paradise for the hungry.

“By any chance, is Chronicle-nim the subordinate of the Food God-nim?”

Chronicle shook her head when she heard Minhyuk’s question.

“Don’t compare me with him. He is my king. Also, he has now entered his eternal rest.”

“Yes?”

Minhyuk couldn’t understand what he meant by eternal rest. He was quite sure that the presence standing above Chronicle would have known the whereabouts of God’s dishes.

But now he had been told that he was dead.

“However, there’s still a way to wake him up. My king is still waiting for the day that his close friend’s, the Food God’s, descendant came. My king left me with the power to wake him up.”

Chronicle said this as she looked at Minhyuk’s eager eyes.

“This land was once the paradise for monsters. Monsters originally couldn’t socialize and live with the rest of their race. However, there’s a law here that prevented us from eating and attacking each other. In addition, we could get food from the seeds so we could easily get along with each other and even socialize with the weak outside this land. The Food God and his apostle were the ones who managed this place. The apostle planted the seeds and nurtured them to bear fruits. And through the nutrients from the cliffs, they once again bore seeds. The Food God would then cook us a dish. The dish was named ‘Wouldn’t Get Hungry for 50 years’ and gave us the power to not get hungry for 50 years. But not long ago, that power had run out. And just like that, four months have passed. And just before we die of hunger, you came right on time.”

Minhyuk nodded his head.

A dish that won’t let you get hungry for 50 years! What a great dish.

However, the Food God and his apostle had long left this world. And he had now appeared as the new Food God.

A notification rang.

[Class Quest: You have completed the quest Go to the land of Salov.]

[You have acquired 300,000 EXP.]

Ring!

Along with the completion of the previous quest, his quest window refreshed and popped out once more.

[Class Quest: Feed the Hungry Field Monsters until they are Full.]

Rank: ?

Restrictions: Lv150

Rewards: Monster egg. Meeting with the Food God’s subordinate that knows the location of the God’s dish.

Penalty for Failure: Unable to progress further for the Food Fighter’s Legacy.

Description: The monsters are trapped in the field! They were left with nothing but bones from their terrible hunger. Feed the monsters in the place of the previous Food God!

Minhyuk was completely shocked when what he expected really came true.

There was only one reason for his shock.

“I’m already so busy eating to the point of dying……”

And as if Chronicle expected this answer, she said…

“The Food God said… ‘I’m sure he’ll tell you that he’s so busy eating to the point of dying’.”

“As expected, he’s the only one who understands me.”

Minhyuk was extremely excited to find that someone understood and sympathized with him.

“But the Food God not only loves to be full and satiated, he also loves the feeling of cooking delicious food for others. And now, you have the chance to feel that joy. Right? And if you feed us, you will also get something that will extremely satisfy you.”

“Satisfy me?”

Chronicle just replied to him with silence.

At this time, Minhyuk noticed…

‘It seems like cooking ingredients will come out!’

Then, Chronicle spoke again.

“My king told me that he had one big fight with the Food God in his lifetime. And not long after that, he learnt of the sad news about the Food God. He was extremely sad and despondent.”

“The two of them must have been extremely close, huh? So why did the two of them fight?”

Suddenly, Chronicle’s face was filled with undisputed anger. Her body that was too weak to move was suddenly covered with blazing flames!

Crackle, crackle, fwoosh!

“The Food God stole my eggs.”

Minhyuk tilted his head in thought.

Huh?

“And when my king asked him in a fit of rage he said… ‘Oh, I made it into jangjorim and ate it. It was delicious!’. If I ever meet the Food God in hell, I will not let him go!”

Minhyuk felt cold sweat dripping from his forehead.

“Ha, hahaha. H, how can he do that? How can he make your eggs into jangjorim…… Th, that…… Bad person!”

“Boy, I’m glad that you understand us too. Oh my god. Boy, you(?) look much better than that crazy bastard, Food God, that took my eggs and made them into jangjorim.”

“He, hehe.”

Minhyuk had no choice but to laugh at her words. If he said the wrong words then he would be forced to log out by Chronicle! After all, the Phoenix Lord Chronicle was estimated to be at Lv450.

That wasn’t even the main point. The Phoenix Lord was a legendary monster. It was a monster that had never been discovered by any other user in the country.

“As you can see, there are a lot of monsters that are starving to death. I can only give you two weeks. Keep in mind that if you’re not able to fill their fullness stat to 50% then you will fail this quest. And you can only obtain the food supplies and the seeds to feed the monsters from the land of Salov that is connected to this place.”

Chronicle told him this as he nodded his head along. Then she continued to say…

“You should tell your apostle where we are and save the monsters from this hunger.”

“I don’t have an apostle.”

Minhyuk shook his head as he told her the same thing he told to Boroto.

Chronicle looked shocked and in disbelief from his words.

“Y, you don’t have an apostle? What are you saying……”

She had no choice but to be shocked. In the past, the Food God and his apostle were always together when they came to this paradise. The apostle would gather the ingredients while the Food God would cook for them. There wasn’t enough time even if the two of them moved together.

But he’s saying that he has no apostle? The apostle was a man of great abilities and he was able to easily obtain ingredients, though? Does this mean that the Food God would collect the ingredients himself?

Even if the apostle was with him right now, it would already be a hard feat to feed all of these monsters. In fact, Chronicle would already be grateful if he was able to fill 50% of their fullness stat.

The apostle and the Food God are not mature enough. Especially the apostle.

But then, Minhyuk said…

“I have the abilities and power of the apostle so you don’t have to worry.”

“Th, the apostle’s power? How did you……?”

The apostle was clearly a brilliant and talented man.

He’s saying that he has the power of the apostle?

“Boy, don’t tell me……?”

“That’s right. I can do it all……”

“Did you eat your apostle?”

“I won’t eat a person!”

Minhyuk shouted at her in a fit of rage but Chronicle still looked at him with disbelief.

“You’ll be doing the work that’s supposed to be done by two people…… No matter how capable you are, this is still……”

Chronicle thought that they would starve to death.

She soon curled up her huge body to preserve her powers.

“I’m hungry. Please don’t talk to me at the moment.”

“Yes. I understand.”

Minhyuk nodded his head at her as he moved along. As Chronicle watched his back as he walked forward, her stomach grumbled.

Grooooowl!

Legendary monsters were also weak in front of their boundless hunger.

Chronicle soon fell asleep. This was also a way to forget her hunger.

***

Jihye, Seoktae and Jisoo were sitting together in a cafe.

Seoktae sighed.

“We can’t find him like this. Almost every single person in Athenae is wearing a horned helmet and a frying pan on their backs.”

Jihye and Jisoo both nodded their heads in agreement. Meanwhile, Jihye was quite expectant since Yoon Chan said that he would arrive here soon.

‘Rovan-nim was the only person who had been in contact with Minhyuk until recently……’

Perhaps they would be able to know why Minhyuk disappeared and did not contact them for so long through Rovan?

Just as they were thinking of these things, the door to the cafe opened.

Clack━

Yoon Chan came inside of the cafe.

“Hello.”

“Welcome. Rovan-nim.”

The three of them warmly welcomed Yoon Chan. They had often seen each other in real life and were quite familiar with each other.

Yoon Chan ordered a drink before sitting down with them. Jisoo picked his mobile phone up as if he was not interested in whatever conversation that they were going to have. Seoktae looked at him fiercely but soon sighed in defeat. It wasn’t worth it. If it weren’t for Jihye’s sake he also would have cut off anything related to Minhyuk after what he had done to them.

“It’s quite shocking to me. Minhyuk-nim is friends with our guild’s executives……”

These people were Versal’s legends! And they were gathered here right now and he still did not know what kind of legend they would be going to write in Athenae.

“What about Minhyuk? Is he doing well?”

Yoon Chan folded his arms and Jisoo who looked like he wasn’t interested silently placed his phone down as he looked at him.

“I don’t want to say this but……”

The three people stared at him seriously.

“I don’t think he’s like a human at all……”

“Hmm?”

“Huh?”

“Yes?”

The three of them were taken aback with his words.

“You see, we were hunting together in a party. Suddenly, he said that he was thirsty so he quickly pulled out 4 gatorade. Then he one shotted the drinks and said ‘Ah, my throat is finally moistened.’.”

“4 cans?”

“No. It’s the 1.5L bottles.”

“……?”

When they finally registered what he said, they all stared blankly at Rovan.

“No, isn’t that something impossible?”

Yoon chan nodded his head at Seoktae’s words.

“He even said that he wanted to go to the Shrieking Hills because he wanted to eat ducks……”

“……?”

“You know the magic duck right? We killed 40 of those ducks and he cooked them into spicy stir-fried bulgogi and even made fried rice. Then he told me this when I wanted to get another spoonful… ‘You’re supposed to let go of your spoon once you’re full. It’s not good to overeat.’.”

“Keok……?”

The three of them were shocked and in disbelief. Minhyuk had been quite gluttonous even when they were young but it was not to this point.

‘What happened to him?’

Jihye wanted to know the answer to this question.

“Minhyuk-nim was very polite and has a good personality. So I wanted to invite him to our guild but……”

His words made Jihye’s heart thump faster. However, Yoon Chan shook his head in disappointment.

“He said that it was good for him to be alone right now since there’s still a lot of food in the world that he wanted to eat.”

“His whisper is still off?”

“Yes.”

Yoon chan nodded his head as the three of them sighed together in unison.

Jisoo looked like he was interested now. Even though he pretended that he did not care he still wanted to see him again.

“What in the world happened to that punk……”

Seoktae mumbled to himself as the four of them fell into silence.

Then…

“Huh? Jihye-ah, look at the guild chat.”

“The GC? Why?”

When Jisoo told her to look through their guild chat, she quickly opened her phone and checked her guild chat window.

[Guild Chatting Abel: GM-nim, I found a way to successfully break the dungeon that you’re attacking right now ^_^ Is there no one else here?]

“Huh?”

Everyone suddenly became interested.

The Legend Guild wanted to send their first signal to the world by successfully clearing and breaking that dungeon and uploading their videos on Ztube. And right now, Abel, their guild member with the legendary class ‘Informant’ told them that he found a way for them to clear the dungeon.

[Guild Master Genie: Is that true?]

[Guild Chatting Abel: Yep. Please pat me on the back~]

[Guild Master Genie: (Patting on the back) How do we do it?]

[Guild Chatting Abel: You need an excellent buffed dish right? And only three people are allowed to go inside?]

The reason why they needed to have an excellent buffed dish was because the dungeon would only allow a three-people-party to go in at a time. And if one person from the three-people-party were to fall because they did not have enough buffed dishes then the dungeon would be extremely hard to attack.

[Guild Master Genie: Of course. We have to upload a video of the three of us clearing it so that the people who watch it can cheer even more.]

The less people to clear the dungeon, the more amazement the people would feel. Doing it this way meant that they would not be able to push ahead and clear it with numbers.

[Guild Chatting Abel: Do you know about the town of Raven?]

[Guild Master Genie: Isn’t it called Chef’s town?]

[Guild Chatting Abel: That’s right. And there’s a hidden quest there. The reward for clearing that hidden quest is a cooking buff that will last for quite a long time. They also said that the buff effect reward is much better than the dish made by the Twilight Chef with A-ranked ingredients.]

Much better than the buffed dish made by the Twilight Chef with A-ranked ingredients?

Of course this was just a reward from a hidden quest but it was something that was perfect for them.

[Guild Master Genie: Who is giving the quest?]

She looked at the guild chat window with great expectations.

[Guild Chatting Abel: Boroto, the former tower master of the Chef’s Tower.]

***

TL’s corner!!!

I bet one chapter that they would probably meet each other through Boroto or she would get some news from Boroto about Minhyuk. Kek.