"Are you going to keep running your restaurant? I think the boss of that real estate company will keep sending those gangsters to interfere in your business. I don't see anything promising. People in this neighborhood are getting fewer and fewer now, and you have halved the materials you used to buy." fatso Liu asked after his stomach got satisfied.
"I'll run it, even if there is only one customer each day. I will never abandon the Six Flavors Restaurant! You need to help me order some new tables and chairs online later, my laptop is broken. This afternoon I need to help Luo Feng, his chef had something urgent and asked for leave." answered Fang Tang.
Anyway, he has some super power now. If those gangsters come again, he don't mind calling up all the cats and beating the shit out of them.
"Alas, Luo Feng is also in difficulties because of the fierce market competition. Bro Jiang is the only one that runs a smooth business. How about grabbing a drink in Taipai Bar tonight? We bros haven't gotten together for a long time, and you can't receive customers today anyway." the fatso suggested.
"Fine, Luo Feng and I will meet you there after we finished." Fang Tang agreed. Fatso Liu drove back home to sleep a bit more after setting up the meeting time. And Fang Tang started to wash dishes. He was very happy and proud when he saw his friend fatso and this alien cat loved his food so much. The only thing he is extremely confident about is his cooking skills. As a chef, the utmost honor for him is the compliment from those that ate his food.
In Fang Tang's opinion, delicious food needs to be shared with others. There are many people, as is described in the book Lonely Gourmets, who prefer to enjoy delicious food alone because that can help them feel the life philosophy and the joy this food brings to them. But that's what gourmets do, not what a chef should do. As a chef, he should serve more healthy and delicious food for people.
Then Fang Tang could't help turning on the perception function of this newly named 'Godhood System' and tried to check his current status.
Name: Fang Tang
Age:20
Race: Mankind
Class: Chef (Lv.4)
Alignment: Lawful and Neutral
Godhood:0
Domain: Electricity
???: 1001.
Attribute: STR:13, CON:12, DEX:14, INT:13, PER:12, CHA:12 (all the attributes gained one score after merging the godhood.)
Identity: The owner of Six Flavors Restaurant, the people of the Mother of Cat and the Goddess of Travel (perception and charm gained one score)
Skill: Spell's effect permanent—True Sight
Spell's effect permanent—Data Perception
To his surprise, his overall attributes have something new. But his focus was on those three newly added question marks.
[Life entity gained Blessing Power, such as emotion, gratitude, yearning and reverence, generated by Food Charisma. New energies are not named.]
He never expected that his breakfast can activate a talent. As long as diners love his food, he could obtain this Willingness Power. Now that this power was obtained due to the food, he named it as Faith in Food. The 1001 scores of power were gained from fatso and the alien cat who ate his meat bun and wonton. And the cat provided1000 scores, 1 score from fatso. That might be the difference between mankind and god.
Shariel sensed the new power Fang Tang has, right after he named it.
"Why would you have a power that is similar to Faith Power, but not exactly? The power you have is much weaker, but purer" asked Shariel.
"Well, it's because I just got a new talent, Food Charisma. Because you like my meat bun, I gained 1000energy scores from you. And I named this energy Faith in Food." Fang Tang answered.
"Faith in Food? Interesting, the Faith Power of believers is also a kind of Blessing Power.
Perhaps there are no big essential differences between Faith in God and Faith in Food." Shariel didn't know that her appreciation of food could create such a big influence in this world.
"No idea whether this energy is useful or not." Fang Tang gave her a forced smile.
"Of course, it's useful, very useful! In this Faith Power free world, you can turn this energy into divine power." Shariel was so excited that she knocked off Fang Tang.
"Now, transfer this power to me! You're my chosen people. We can transfer this Blessing Power to each other. When I get this power, I might be able to go home!" Shariel jumped on Fang Tang's belly with excitement.
"Well…could you jump off my belly first? If you keep jumping on it, I might 'leave my world' before you get the power."
Shariel was a little embarrassed and walked off Fang Tang's body. Fang Tang beat the dust off his shirt and sat on the floor with his legs crossed. He concentrated his mind with the meditation of 'Energy Transfer'.
"Will this work?" asked Fang Tang. So far as he was concerned, this was just like changing the direct current into an alternating current. He was like a dry cell, and if he can transfer alternating current to this cat, the machine that used alternating current could be started.
"Just try it and you will know."Under the guidance of Shariel, Fang Tang was trying to transfer his Faith Power in Food to her. "Select: Faith in Food, Select: Energy Transfer, Transfer Object: Shariel." When he took these procedures, like operating a computer, it was a little easy for him.
He could feel these colorful energies were being transferred to that alien cat through an unknown channel. At the same time, this alien cat could also feel that its body was forming a new golden energy.
This new energy is very powerful. Fang Tang seemed to see a strange star. In that star, there are infinite mysteries. Once he gets closer to this star, he seems to be omniscient and ominipotent.
"Hey, don't get lost in that divine power. As a mankind, your mental can easily be assimilated by this power. Even though your spirit can be protected by the godhood, you still need to be cautious." warned the cat.
Her interruption brought Fang Tang back to his consciousness from that explosive illusion. He checked his overall attributes, and his Faith in Food score was down to 0.
"How is that? Does it work?" asked Fang Tang."Yes, but there is a great loss in the transferring process. Alas, it would be much better if you had divine fire. In that case, the loss of divine power transferring could be reduced." Shariel answered.
"Then is the power enough for you to go home?" Fang Tang asked again.
"Not even close, I can only refine one score divine power from the energy you just transferred." Shariel responded.
"You only get one score divine force from 1,000 scores Faith in Food? That's insane!" Fang Tang was so speechless about this conversion rate.
"Yes, but this is also normal. Because the Faith in Power is a low-level energy and the divine power is in high level energy, the conversion rate was supposed to be like this. Even though you are my people, there are still losses in the Willingness Power Transfer. We should feel fortunate that we are not having a long distance, otherwise the loss will be larger." Shariel explained.
"How much divine power do you need for going home then?" Fang Tang asked the key question.
"About 100 scores, I guess." Shariel made a rough calculation.
'What the hell, 100 scores of divine power! That sums up to 100,000 scores Faith in Food, and a mankind can only contribute 1 score in each meal. So, I need to find 100,000 people to eat my food…or you can eat my food for a month. Fine, it's more realistic to serve you for a month and then send you home." Fang Tang cleared his thought.
"No, one month is too long for me! I don't know the time velocity ratio between your world and my world.What if one month in your world equals 10,000 years in my world?" Shariel started worrying about this after she figured out this new way of coming home.
"I was transmitted here by my entity, so my Faith Power was completely blocked. My cult is relatively free and relaxing, but the priest won't be able to acquire the Divine Spell normally without me. And if the believers can't get any responses from praying for a long time, they might change their belief. My enemies would take this chance to attack my priests and believers. If I come back after my believers are all wiped out, I might be dragged into the Astral Plane and forever sleep there because of the faith collapse." Shariel explained.
"Then, I'll really be a living dead." A horror expression showed on Shariel's face when she mentioned Astral Plane.
"Then there is only one way that will work! It depends on how much food you can your holy stomach hold!"Fang Tang said.