254 The Little Chef
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My mother requested me to peel potatoes, onions, garlic, and carrots quickly to add to the stew she was about to prepare using a whole Carnage Bird, so I had to quickly obey my ma’am.
“Okaaay…” I sighed, as I began to peel the potatoes first, I noticed that my knife was sharper- no, the potatoes were just very fragile compared to peeling the skin and cutting the bones of this Tier 4 monster after all. Actually, it was pretty easy to peel vegetables! I peeled the potatoes swiftly, moving to the carrots and then, I began cutting onions while resisting the urge to cry.
“Hahaha! You don’t have to treat your daughter like a slave, you know?” Laughed Nepheline, teasing my mother who had given me a request.
“I am not, this is just part of cooking food, it is essential!” Said my mother while crossing her arms. I guess she was tired due to my sibling, so I wasn’t going to turn her request down. I love her more than anything I think, aside from my father, so I would really just do anything for my mother.
“I would do anything for my mommy!” I said. “There is no problem in peeling. If she ask me to bring her a mountain I’ll work hard to do so!”
“Oooh? Sylphy-chan, you’re in love with your mother or something? Fufu, so cute!” Giggled Nepheline, petting my head.
“Aww, my little girl! You’re so dedicated to me?” Asked my mother while blushing.
“T-There is nothing wrong with that…” I said.
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“Of course there is nothing wrong with that but I’m surprised still… I sometimes think I wasn’t a good mother in our earlier days…” She sighed.
“Eh? You’re the best mother ever!” I said. Well, my mother of my previous life was gentler than her, but the two still give me a very similar vibe, and unlike the mother of my previous life, Faylen here has the power to protect me as well…
“Hahaha, you flatter me so much, I want to squeeze these puffy cheeks~!” Said my mother, squeezing my cheeks and kissing my forehead. “Mooch, so cute! My little Sylphy is so cute! She loves her mama, don’t she?”
“Uwaahh…! Mama, I am cutting onions!” I cried. “Don’t be so clingy now…”
She’s so strict sometimes, but when she gets clingy she completely changes personality and becomes way too corny… But not like I mind, I love when she hugs and kisses me, it gives me so much warmth and happiness inside of my heart…
…But I am cutting onions now!
Chop, chop, chop!
“Done! Now put the veggies there!” I said, giving my mother the vegetables.
“Ooh, you cut the onions into small pieces, good! Allan hates onions so he only eats when they’re cut into tiny pieces…” Said my mother. “You’re already good at cutting vegetables, isn’t this your first time?”
“Well it is not so hard; it is just vegetables… I have cut down monsters before, and plant monsters too, same logic, right?” I asked.
“Hahaha! She’s hilarious sometimes.” Laughed Nepheline, petting my head. I sighed in relief as I was done with the onions, and washed my face by using the Tier 1 Water Attribute Spell “Water Ball” which generates a small ball of water, covering my face with it until the onion juicy was gone.
In the meanwhile, my mother set up the fire and the stew began to boil quickly, she added some spices as well as other things, such as the bones of other monsters and dried broth made into small cubes.
“It should get done in a few minutes now.” Said my mother, waving her hands leisurely as she used Cooking Magic without me barely noticing it, her usage of it was so masterful she was able to apply it into the food without problems.
“A-Amazing, you’re applying all of that Cooking Magic so easily into it, mother…” I said.
“Oh, this? Oh yeah, I guess so.” She said. “This Spell is named Flavor Enhancement, this other is called Food Trait Awaken, and this other one is… Texture Enrichment. These three are good enough to make any food you eat bring out the power of the ingredients you use to make it, and they’ll permanently stick into your body, their essence and everything on them.”
“Ooohh… You use them so easily but isn’t it a High magic?” I asked.
“Yeah, it took me around 50 years to reach this point using Cooking Magic. Don’t worry, you’ll reach this point on your own eventually. All magic is quite easy when you reach Tier 10 in magic circle… It is as if it was all just some dough you can shape however you want. I don’t even need to make magic circles, the very essence of magic pours from my fingers, and I call the phenomena of magic to the world without any need to chant.”
“A-Amazing…” I said.
“Well, you can do the same, right? Your Fire Magic and your Nature Magic, although they’re somehow specific spells you can use without conjuration, thanks to the ridiculous mana quantity you have, which I have yet to find out how much you actually have, you can just conjure them like me, don’t you?” She wondered.
“W-Well, yeah, kind of…” I said. I cannot really tell her the truth about the System or the Skills Ember and Agriculture, she wouldn’t be able to believe them anyways, and it would just make her realize I am a reincarnated soul or something, which wouldn’t be good either!
“You have to develop these powers as your own, your Fire Magic is already amazing but you lack the ability to shape it into more precise forms than just blasting it into enemies or using it to protect yourself, ask Ignatius, your spirit, to help you learn spells better, the same for Naturia, those two have been slacking too much lately, don’t let them slack too much or they’ll grow rusty.” Said my mother, reprimanding my own spirits.
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