It didn't take up to fifteen minutes for Alex to finish cooking the Shimark soup he was asked to prepare. It was a green coloured liquid with corn, peas and a few other items added to it. When perceived, the aroma comes with a sweet smell, urging one to dig in and consume the whole dish.
"Alright I'm done." Alex said as he stepped to the side. While Linda just moved forward to taste the dish he just prepared.
She placed a few servings into a bowl after which the rest of the ladies did the same.
Despite that they haven't tasted the soup, they could already imagine how delicious it would be. The aroma of the soup alone had filled the entire restaurant.
Sure, the soup was known for its tasty smell, yet the one Alex just prepared was nose and stomach churning. They couldn't perceive any other smell apart from the soup, and the more they did, the more their stomachs kept on churning with hunger. Even if you weren't hungry before, at the perception of the smell, you will.
It was as if the ingredients added to the soup were too much or maybe Alex added an aroma booster to it. What the ladies didn't know was that this was one of Alex's cooking skills. He was a great cook, and somehow from the memories of the body he possessed, he found out that the boy could also cook.
Perhaps both of their cooking skills had added up together to form a single unit, 'cause from the set of skills he received from the system, it had stated so.
[ Goal: 3/3 ]
[ Become a Superstar Chef ]
[ ~ Skills ~ ]
[ Hands of a Chef: 98% (All dishes prepared by the user will looked professional and as if he had done so in a million times. Also, the user will be able to prepare whatever dish he wishes to prepare. It doesn't matter what tribe or country it came from, neither did it matter if the user had seen anyone prepare it before. The original recipe of the first person to prepare the meal will appear in the user's mind. Do note that this skill is a combination of cooking skills possessed by the user and the previous owner of the body, plus the enhancement of the cheat system to make the skill unique ]
If Alex understood the description well, it means that the cooking skills of both him and the former Alex had been combined and enhanced by the cheat system in a way where he could cook anything cookable, with or without learning how it is done.
[ Aromatic hand: 20% (All dishes prepared by the user will receive an aromatic buff of 20%, inviting everyone around twenty metres away from the user to perceive the aromatic smell of the dish you prepared) ]
In a way, the second skill was already taking effect as Alex could also perceive the strong aroma coming from the shimarck soup. Unbeknownst to him that the effect of the skill had already spread outside the restaurant, affecting everyone passing by.
After taking a sip out of the shimarck soup, Linda turned to look at her fellow girls who had a surprised expression written on their faces. From the aroma alone, they knew the soup would be great. But now that they tasted it, they weren't so sure if great was the right word to use to describe the tastiness of the soup. It was just different from any other shimarck they've ever tasted before.
Linda also felt like the soup was different but it was rather in a negative way. She thought Alex must have added something to make the soup tasty.
"How did you do this? Did you add something extra to make it sweet?" Linda wanted to chastise Alex for using an extra ingredient apart from the one she told him to use, but no matter what she did, she couldn't just get her eyes off the bowl in her hands. Something was just telling her to consume the rest of the soup.
Unable to resist the urge, she placed a few spoonful into her mouth, savouring the deliciousness of the meal as she closed her eyes for a few minutes.
She fluttered her eyes opened but she still wasn't satisfied, so she proceeded in pouring the entire bowl of soup into her mouth till it was empty.
While she was busy taking in the contents of the bowl into her mouth, the door of restaurant had opened and a classy looking lady had appeared out of the double doors.
She was sniffing through the air with her nose, and she kept on doing this till she got to the kitchen area of the restaurant. She then realised that the smell she was perceiving was coming from a pot of soup.
"Is that Shimarck soup?" She blurted out, scaring Alex and the ladies who had their backs facing the entrance.
They instantly turned around and could see a classy young lady in a red coloured suit staring at the pot of shimarck that Alex just prepared.
"Yeah…" Linda replied, though she was wondering what a rich woman like this was doing in their restaurant. 'Is she here to buy our restaurant? Did the boss finally decided to sell it off?? No, that's impossible. She can't even do that if I tell her to. Besides, we only just started business today.'
"Is this restaurant opened?" The lady asked again which everyone nodded positively to. "Great, I'll like to order a meal of shimarck, I'm so hungry."
The lady went towards one of the seats and while she did so, another person had entered the restaurant. However, it wasn't just one person but instead a dozen of them.
"Please we would like a bowl of shimarck soup." They all requested while getting themselves seated by a table.
Quick, Linda snapped out of her daze as she started giving orders to the ladies to attend to the customers that had just arrived. While Alex just stood and watched as everything folded.
One of the ladies placed a few servings of the soup into a dish but soon realised that the soup wasn't going to be enough to serve all of the customers, so she reported to Linda.
"We need more Shimarck soup, the one in the pot won't be enough." She said and Linda saw that she was right.
The available Shimarck soup was only enough to serve two customers, and right now, more customers were coming in; all ordering for the same type of soup.
"Should I go prepare the soup?"
"No, someone already applied to do that." Linda said, looking at Alex with an unreadable expression on her face. "Normally, I should have waited till the boss is around, but due to the situation we found ourselves in, I'll consider your application acceptable. You're a great cook, I can see that. So I'll be letting you work as an assistant chef in this restaurant."
Suddenly, a smile appeared above Alex's face. Not entirely because of Linda's words but because of the new message he received from the system.
[ Congratulations! You have completed a side quest ]