Even though Fang Tang was very dizzy, he tried to overcome it and opened his eyes. The experience he just had was like being sucked up into a roller washing machine, then thrown out after a long-time violent rolling.
Being thrown out in darkness, Fang Tang blinked his eyes trying to see where he was.
[Activate the auxiliary power of true sight—Darkvision.] the sound of godhood system appeared in his head.
Then he could see things even though they were colorless. From what he saw, he knew that he was in a cave.
"Where is this place?" Fang Tang asked the godhood system.
[It's a new plane. Location positioning failed because there is not enough information about this plane. Do you want to turn on the positioning system to make a location map?] Fang Tang realized that godhood system was not as omniscient as he thought. Its data base also needed to keep receiving new knowledge and information so as to be better completed.
"A new plane? So, did I really travel by plane? Ok, turn it on." After making this order, Fang Tang looked around again. He was not sure whether he really left Earth, but he definitely knew this was not South Hill city, where he lived in.
So far, he was safe except he still felt light headed. Fang Tang managed to stand up and found a corner to sit and rest.
Staying in a corner could prevent him from being attacked from all directions when encountered danger, the disadvantage was that he might be surrounded easily. But in this dark environment, he should firstly make sure that he wouldn't be attacked from his back.
He checked his current status:
Name: Fang Tang
Age: 20
Race: Mankind
Career: Chef (Lv.5)
Alignment: Lawful and Neutral
Godhood: 0
Domain: Electricity, Space
Faith in Food: 0
Attribute: STR:13, CON:12, DEX:14, INT:13, PER:12, CHA:12 (all the attributes gained onescore after merging the godhood.)
Identity: The owner of Six Flavors Restaurant, the chosen people of the Mother of Cat and Goddess of Travel (perception and charm gained one score)
Skill: Talent—Food Charisma
Skill: Spell's effect permanent—True Sight
Spell's effect permanent—data perception
9th-level wizard spell: Gate
It was beyond his expectation that cooking a big meal for Shariel would get his career one level higher. With the help of this system, he could gain scores in a really fast way. Thinking that he had just cooked 64 dishes alone over 5 hours, he was so proud of himself. Being able to cook smoothly and skillfully like that was really cool.
Chef (Lv.5), you can be responsible for the complete operation of a kitchen, make menus and write recipes. You have mastered excellent cooking skills and knowledge of food nutrition. Therefore, you are a qualified chief cook.
In addition to the improvement of chef level, there are two more contents in his current status. One is Space in domain, the other is 9th-level wizard spell in skill.
[Domain is a special force field environment created by professionals above Sanctuary through a concise and deepened understanding of their own power. In their domain, all their related skills would have a special bonus effect.]
[Travel through Gate, activate Space Domain, analyze the magic structure of 9th-level wizard spell Gate, analysis completed and copied]
[Gate: it can open a channel between two positioned spatial markers to help you travel through planes. Positioned space marker 1: Earth and Six Flavors Restaurant.]
This system is fucking cool! It could copy all the wizard spells it has seen. Fang Tang feels better now because he sees the hope of coming back. He never wanted to be a vagrant in this alien world.
After a brief rest, he held the rock wall of the cave and stood up. He felt some fine rock particles stuck on his hand, so he lifted his hand and looked at it.
Seeing this composition analysis, Fang Tang was amazed. This place turned out to be a natural salt mine cave. Nowadays, the salt most urban people eat is made of sea salt, but there is also natural mineral salt from the underground.
Most of these mineral salts are formed in ancient times. It's because geological changes made some seas deposited underground for thousands of years. Because there was no modern man-made pollution in ancient times, the deeper the mineral salt is, the purer it will be. Besides, the underground mineral elements made the salt healthier and more natural. Due to the different mineral components, the mineral salts of different regions will have different colors and flavors. For example, rose salt is produced from the area close to the world's highest peak Himalayas. Because in that place, the iron content is higher than other mineral ingredients. That gave the salt a rosy color, and made its price twenty times as much ordinary salt.
However, in ordinary salt mines, because of the different content of sodium chloride, the amount of minerals that can be directly made into salt is generally less than 1%. Other ore with low content of sodium chloride will be made into highway chemical salt or industrial salt.
He was amazed that there was such a high-purity mineral salt. Fang Tang took out a knife from his pocket, chiseled down a piece of salt ore and put it into his pocket.
After he set a new space channel marker, Fang Tang tried to open the new Gate and go back.
[Magic power deficient, failed to activate the spell…looking for back up energy source, back up energy source option: Faith in Food… back up energy source deficient, failed to activate skills.] these system prompts killed Fang Tang's hope.
But he could understand this. Even to go to a place in the same city, it will take gasoline if we drive and physical strength if we walk, let alone travel on planes. This is not Doraemon's Anywhere Door, so we can't just open the door and then get to another place like he does.
When Fang Tang was in despair about not being able to go home, there were new changes in his current status. His Faith in Food score rose up from 0 to 3,000, and then to 5,000.
[New energy source: Selune.] Fang Tang remembered Shariel told him that she would pack these foods and share with the Moon Goddess, Selune.
"This is really a timely assistance. This alien cat is so nice and knows how to share good things with friends. That's a good cat!" Fang Tang thought.
While he was happily watching this increasing score of Faith in Food, suddenly fear came to his mind. He looked around and saw a dark shadow in the cave moving toward him.
The visual range of Darkvision is about 20 meters, which is not a safe distance. Because when your enemy is 20 meters away, you won't be able to escape. Besides, if your enemy carries ranged weapons, within this distance, his target precision would be very high.
Fang Tang clenched the knife. As the footstep was getting closer, that unknown person's figure was getting clearer, too. It turned out to be a huge…mushroom.
Yes, it's a mushroom. Unlike the mushrooms we usually see, this one is bigger, about 120 cm.
There are a lot of hyphae hanging under the mushroom cap. And these hyphae are waving even when there is no wind, like the jellyfish's tentacles perceiving the surrounding.
In this dark cave, Fang Tang was looking at the huge mushroom he had never seen before. Based on his judgement, this mushroom should be a scavenger because he saw some blots on it. And the result of system analysis proved those blots are the blood of some kind of creature.
Fang Tang tried not to let his fear defeat him even though all he had was just a small knife. However, he didn't take this knife as his weapon, but his godhood system that he hadn't fully understood.
"System, come on! What should I do if I want to defeat this monster mushroom?" asked Fang Tang.
["No attack skill available, you can choose to take a Class. Available professions: 1st-level warrior, 5th-level priest, 0-level wizard trainee.] Isn't the answer obvious? Even an idiot knows to choose the highest level, 5th-level priest.
[Class has been taken, Class: Priest (Mother of Cat and the Goddess of Travel), the Chosen People Mode. Your class level was directly improved to level 5, divine spell lots and divine effect were doubled. Please select divine spells.]
The 5th-level priest can learn the fourth level divine spells at most, and have 5 first-level divine spell slots, 3 second-level divine spell slots and 1 third-level divine spell slots. Besides, each priest can have a specialized divine position for each two-level progress, and this position won't interfere with ordinary divine position. So, a 5th-level priest has 11divine positions in total.
As the chosen people of Shariel, Fang Tang's divine spell slots should be doubled. So, he can have 22 divined positions, which excites him a little bit. Fang Tang found that this mushroom was moving at a slow speed, so he took the time to learn divine spells.
1st-level divine equipment: 3 Shield of Faith, 1 Summon Monster I, 1Detect Toxicity, 3 Holy Light, 2 Primary Healing.
2nd-level divine equipment: 2 Junior Healing, 2 Holy Shock, 1 Summon Monster II, 1 Delay Poison.
3rd-level divine equipment: 1 Glyph of Warding and 1 Summon Monster III.
Specialized divine spells can't be changed once its selected, so Fang Tang left that part blank.
After filling out all the priest divine spell slots, Fang Tang was confused. He didn't know whether these spells could really work for him, because he was merely a cook before he was brought here.
"Glyph of Warding, go!"
"Summon Monster III—Magical Cat!"
Without knowing the real power of that huge mushroom, Fang Tang cast a 3rd-level protection spell and a summon spell as his first try.
Actually, an ordinary 3rd-level Summon Monster III can only get a Hellhound to help him attacking his enemy. Perhaps it's because that Fang Tang's priest power is from the Mother of Cat and Goddess of Travel, what he has summoned is a Magic Cat. This cat is a magical creature, which can cast Haste and Keen Edge. An advanced magic cat can even cast Bloodlust and Enlarge.
The swift magical cat effectively restrained the huge and slow-paced mushroom monster. While they were in fight, Fang Tang cast a1st-level divine spell, Shield of Faith, and run toward the opposite direction trying to stay away from them.
Summon Monster III, which was cast by a 5th-level priest, can only work for 3 minutes. In this fight, the magic cat has an advantage, because it used Keen Edge to cut off many hyphae of this huge mushroom. What's more, there are many cuts on its body with white juice running out. But this plant has a tenacious vitality, so the Magic Cat can't kill it within three minutes.
Time is limited, there must be a quick decision. Because Fang Tang didn't know what is the weakness of this mushroom, he tried this spell, "Sanction the evils in the name of God—Holy Shock!". It's really embarrassing to read this spelling.
After reading this spell, Fang Tang felt the divine energy was coming out of his body and his right hand was glowing with white light. Then he clenched his right fist and threw a punch toward this mushroom.
With his movement, a wave of white light was heading toward that huge mushroom monster and hit its cap. 'Boom', the mushroom cap was exploded, a bare mushroom stem was left and fell on the ground.
Fang Tang slowly stepped toward that mushroom monster and saw a large number of feet formed by mycelium still creeping. Therefore, he cast Holy Light twice afterwards.
Till the godhood system confirmed the death of the enemy, Fang Tang walked closer and studied this mushroom carefully.
"Is this mushroom edible?" he had never seen such kind of mushroom. As a chef, Fang Tang has already started thinking about how to cook it. He used the Detect Toxicity spell and made sure this mushroom is not toxic. Fang Tang looked at his hands, they cast divine spells just now, then he looked at that mushroom monster, which was lying on the ground, he could really feel that he had travelled into a magic world.
At this time, a prompt tone alarmed in his head: [Faith in Food score is 50,000 now. Because of the space domain bonus, the consumption of space series magic is halved, energy score is qualified to open Gate, do you want to open it?]
This Selune, Goddess of the Moon, must be another foodie, otherwise, he couldn't get50,000 points in such a short time. Fang Tang answered: "open it."
A bright ray of light appeared in this dark cave, then turned into an arc-shaped Light Gate.
Fang Tang struggled a little, but still chose to take that mushroom stem with him and stepped into the Gate.