Maze Fan: I opened a buffet in the maze

Chapter 426 The God of Cookery's Gift

"Hahahaha~"

After Gonia had vented her anger, Fan Wei had also laughed enough. Her soft, white fists hitting him were like tickling him, which made him extremely happy.

"Stop scratching me! I give up! I give up!"

Little did they know how much harm those words inflicted on a 'young girl' deity who was thousands of years old!

"Waaaaah!! You just know how to bully me!!" Tears welled up in the blonde girl's large, blue-purple eyes. She vowed that once she regained her divine power, she would use lightning to tie this guy up and whip him!

I smoke in the morning! I smoke at night! I smoke at noon, depending on my mood!

Unaware that he had been severely reprimanded, Fan Wei calmed his smile and gently comforted Gunia, "Just consider it a learning experience. Anyway, you probably wouldn't even look down on the God of Food."

"What they really want to take back is the power of thunder and storm."

When Misr Van exposed her thoughts, Gonia forgot her anger and suddenly fell silent. She pursed her lips and remained silent for a moment before speaking in a complicated tone.

"You know I'm going to get revenge on my sister, aren't you afraid of getting involved?"

Fan Wei gently patted the blonde girl's head again, "You've always held grudges since you were little. I know you're a very determined and resolute person, and you'll definitely do what you set out to do!"

“So…” He crouched down to be at eye level with Gonia.

"How could I stand idly by? I'll definitely help you if you need it. Just ask."

Sometimes it's better to guide than to block. Given Gonia's deep-seated hatred, it's not appropriate to persuade her to let go. Therefore, it's even better to wage war against the gods and her own sister!

Fan Wei will also provide her with support and guidance when appropriate, so as to prevent the ending from going to a bad end.

This is all he could do for a family member, for Gonia.

The blonde girl stared at Misel Van in front of her and suddenly muttered, "Bad guy! You're just trying to make people happy. I won't be fooled by you! Foolish mortal!"

She gave a proud snort, turned and walked away from Fan Wei, heading towards the door.

But on that face turned away, there was a radiant smile, breathtakingly beautiful.

With a wry smile, Fan Wei followed after them. Now that he was back, he wanted to say hello to everyone; the restaurant's teleportation system was indeed quite convenient.

It was as if he had never left home.

Meanwhile, the influence of Fan Wei's modified Culinary Arts has spread throughout the world. Compared to Gonia's limited selection, his gifts are much more comprehensive.

Many people who live in remote, obscure places, whose names are not widely known, are passionate about cooking.

Everyone received this gift.

David Bruce is a relatively unknown chef who runs a small restaurant in Black Plum Lane, Cape Bay, a shop inherited from his grandparents.

The two elders worked hard for half their lives to own a house in the port city of the Kingdom of Fuer.

Unfortunately, David Bruce's father went to sea to do business and failed, squandering the family fortune and leaving only a pitifully small shop in Blackberry Lane.

Its door is as wide as the room, allowing only three people to sit side by side.

It wasn't very deep inside. After putting in the stove, pots and pans, and a food cabinet, there wasn't even a place to sit.

David would stand there cooking every day and sell his "delicious little plates," a term he coined himself, which were foods piled high in thin tin pans and drizzled with blackberry sauce.

It's barely enough to fill you up, but the best part is the cheap price.

The shop offers three or four simple dishes that have been a staple for Blackberry Lane residents and people in the neighborhood for almost ten years. Some customers have complained to David about the repetitiveness of his food.

However, David couldn't do anything about it; he wasn't a real chef.

Learning real culinary skills is very costly, and so is experimenting on your own.

He could only experiment within his financial means, trying to create new dishes using fish, salt, and blackberries. However, lacking the skills, he ended up making a bunch of indescribable things.

Although deeply hurt, David's love for food remained undiminished.

Because his father went bankrupt early, he hadn't eaten much good food. Only once did a ship from a distant land bring him a snack from a foreign country.

David's mother used her spare money from her job to buy a few coins for each of her children.

It was food sold by the pound, and they could only afford a few small pieces, but young David was captivated when the delicious food entered his mouth.

How delicious it is! Just a little bit can bring such immense happiness!

Little David has discovered a treasure! This cheap and delicious food keeps appearing in his dreams, as if enticing him to chase after it.

However, subsequent merchant ships never brought this food again, probably because the long voyages didn't yield much profit.

So David pondered how to make it himself, or at least recreate a similar taste, but this simple wish proved incredibly difficult in reality.

David couldn't afford to learn the techniques, which created a chasm between him and true gastronomy.

Being a chef is a very 'respectable' profession, but for poor people, becoming a chef is an unattainable dream. He was just an unknown food vendor.

However, today, as David was preparing food day after day, he suddenly heard a voice.

The sound was as loud as thunder! As sacred as the sun!

The voice said, "Do you crave delicious food? Do you crave the power of cooking?"

Need I say more? David, astonished, was like an innocent teenager seeing a small advertisement online for the first time, and couldn't wait to click 'Let me access'!

And then, a miracle occurred!

A delicious and warm power flowed into David's body, a sudden enlightenment for this chef who had spent his life working at the bottom of society.

The dusty soul is baptized by the amber flame and reborn!

Various kinds of knowledge about the magic of food appeared in my mind.

"A god of food?!" Incredulous, David could never have imagined that an ordinary person like him would receive such a gift from God!

Even when Mingming goes to the Sea Wave Church for worship, she can only pray in the corridor.

The gods are so high above, untouched by the mortal world, and divine magic is the ability of noble priests. David felt the divine magic he had been given and realized how different they were.

There are no legendary ranks or levels; he can unleash all divine spells at will, especially several divine spells unrelated to power.

The miracle called 'Food Sense' is what excites David the most. It's the ability he most desires. As someone without much ambition, he simply wants to make delicious food.

However, limited by his own circumstances, he could only dream of it, but could not reach it.

But today, the gates of the culinary realm have opened to him! They have been opened to him personally by the mysterious and great god of food!

"What's wrong, Boss David?"

Customers who came to eat noticed that the cafeteria owner was trembling as if he had suddenly fallen ill, and they asked him with concern.

"No, it's nothing..."

David suppressed the trembling in his body, took a deep breath, and felt a fire burning within him. He used 'Food Sense' to share the power from the God of Food!

An unprecedented realization flooded my mind along with a wealth of knowledge!

The ingredients at hand seemed to be revitalized, imbued with a vibrant, almost alive color, calling out to David. Their flavors, harmony, nutrition, and composition were so dazzling and radiant.

The chef-owner, who had been engrossed in his work, was stunned again, as if he had seen a vast sky.

So diverse and colorful, this is truly the world of food!

As ideas and inspirations began to emerge, David became completely absorbed, picking up the ingredients he had used countless times and burying himself in the process of making them.

No matter how the diners next to him called out, there was no response.

Finally, half an hour later, a dish unlike any other was freshly cooked. It didn't look particularly appealing, with its purplish-black color from the blackberry sauce, but its aroma was incredibly enticing.

David picked up his utensils, gently put the food into his mouth, and then closed his eyes.

"Boss David, what have you made? Let us have a taste." Some eager customers had been waiting, and everyone knew that David wanted to make 'delicious food'.

But nobody believed he could do it.

Fine food is something for the upper class, not something ordinary people like them can enjoy, but it's not bad to have some fun with it.

"Come on, have a taste!"

David, beaming with a bright smile, ladled all the food onto plates and declared in a cheerful tone, "This one's on me!"

Huh? The customers were all surprised, but why not take advantage of something that's free!

Filled with curiosity, they immediately tasted the food David had just made, and then their expressions froze, followed by smiles.

This was a completely instinctive reaction.

That wonderful taste is like spring rain nourishing the heart, bringing spontaneous joy!

The taste was unlike anything I'd ever experienced before, whetting my appetite and filling me with immense satisfaction and exhilaration. It felt so good!

Is this what delicious food is all about?!

Mr. David actually made delicious food! The customers were astonished and exclaimed in surprise, "This is the first time I've ever eaten such delicious food!"

"Boss David, your hard work has finally paid off."

Prayers poured in from customers and acquaintances abounded, and David was so excited he couldn't speak. The miracle was real! The magic of the food was real too!

At that moment, he immediately became a devout follower of the god of food.

But what exactly is God's will?

Amidst the glory and ecstasy, doubts arise. According to the general understanding of believers in deities, each deity has representative codes of conduct.

For example, the god of commerce encouraged trade, and the goddess of the sea demanded reverence for the ocean.

What is the purpose of the Gourmet God?

The gods remained silent, so David could only guess. He pondered deeply, and suddenly he saw the customers enjoying their meal, their purest joy evident in the delicious food.

A sudden realization dawned on me.

Bringing the beauty of food to people—that is God's profound meaning!

David's eyes trembled. He wanted to pray but didn't know the words. In the end, he just gripped the spatula and let out a soft sigh.

"Food Gate!"

The birth of every deity is a tremendous transformation, but the changes of the times are often not as drastic as people imagine. The changes come quietly and imperceptibly.

Inside the restaurant, Fan Wei spotted the female dragon warrior taking a nap in the lobby.

Dinol Kowa, a pure-blooded dragon, spends his days either slacking off and taking naps or holed up in his room counting money with a chuckle.

According to Gonia, Ms. Minnie piled up all the coins she was given—gold, silver, and bronze—in her bedroom, where they churned, thrashed, and rolled all night long...

He would sometimes giggle like an idiot behind the cashier.

She suggested that Fan Wei stop raising this lazy dragon, as it was a waste of money and did nothing, and that he should just kill it and eat it!

Fan Wei was shocked. He thought that since Gonia and Minnie were so similar, they would be very compatible. He never expected that they would say such a thing!

"Tch, who told her to covet my things!"

Fan Wei was puzzled by the blonde girl's anger. He hadn't seen Gonia particularly greedy. Could it be that Minnie's act of turning the restaurant into a den of iniquity had upset Gonia?

This is a really difficult conflict to resolve.

"Hmm? Sniff sniff~"

Ms. Long, who was dozing off, suddenly sniffed after Fan Wei arrived, opened her blue-green eyes and saw the silver vertical pupils, and exclaimed, "It's Misser's scent! You finally saved up enough money for the wedding and came back!"

Minnie turned her head, darted to Fan Wei's side in a flash, and pressed her face against him with sparkling eyes.

"I'm ready! 110,000 gold coins! Laying eggs is no problem!"

Because of the vast difference in values ​​between humans and dragons, Fan Wei wanted to speak, but didn't know where to begin, so he could only selectively ignore it. "Um... Ms. Minnie, don't you have anything else to do?"

"Other things?" Minnie seemed to remember something when asked.

"Oh right, the old folks in the clan sent me out on a mission!" Lady Long suddenly realized. "They asked me to contact the people of the Boundary Dragon and Divine Dragon lineages."

"Oh, is this important or not?"

Fan Wei didn't expect that Minnie really had a mission. How could she sleep so soundly every day?

"The old folks say it concerns the survival of the race, but I don't know the details..."

Seeing Ms. Long's lazy reply, Fan Wei suddenly felt like he was having a heart attack. "Your race is facing a life-or-death crisis?! Why aren't you worried at all, Ms. Minnie?"

These words made Minnie fall into deep thought, though she looked more like she was daydreaming.

Then she clapped her hands and happily replied, "Who cares? We can deal with the future later, right? This is fine, isn't it?"

“…” Misel Van once again felt that the future of the dragon race was bleak.

“I told you, it would be better to kill it and eat it.” Gunia whispered in Fan Wei’s ear as he was in a daze. The sharp-eared Ms. Long heard this.

"Don't even think about it," Minnie protested. "We can't just eat for free! As the saying goes, a dragon's scale is worth a gold coin!"

"If you want to eat my flesh, you'll have to pay with gold coins! One pound, no, one gram costs one gold coin! Buy a pound and you'll get a discount of one copper coin."

"..." Silence, silence is a silent cry.

Fan Wei covered his face with trembling hands, "Thank you, but I have no interest in your meat."

Watching the dragon lady still 'selling' herself, he felt utterly exhausted. This was truly 'selling her body'! Had the dragon race's obsession with money reached the point of mental derangement?

But what could possibly affect the very survival of the entire dragon race?

Although Ms. Minnie doesn't seem to feel any urgency in doing this... perhaps she's the most reliable person in the Dragon Clan?

Fan Wei really didn't know how to make a sarcastic remark, but he remembered that Yun Xin seemed to have mentioned the Divine Dragon a few times. It was an ancient guardian deity on the Eastern Continent.

Could it be that Ms. Long has gone in the wrong direction?

Filled with concern for the fate of the dragons, he considered whether he should help Minnie.

Just then, the restaurant door suddenly opened, and a figure flew in, jumping off her wand. It was Irene in her usual fairy form.

"I finally caught you."

The fairy lady leaped up, grabbed Fan Wei by the collar, and demanded an answer aggressively.

"When are you finally going to come home with me for Chinese New Year?!"

Oh no! Fan Wei was stunned; he had forgotten about this!