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< Mana Nutrition >
Arriving at the market, we went into the nearest butcher shop.
“Welcome~”
After the First Gate, the monster’s corpse was utilized for various purposes.
The first area of use was food.
At first, I felt aversion to eating the meat of a monster from another world, but that only lasted a moment.
People who had no choice but to obtain food themselves in a situation where most production facilities were destroyed and transportation was paralyzed due to a national disaster.
They began to willingly carve out flesh from dead monsters to satisfy their hunger.
And by this time, most monster meat was being distributed in the market. Later, even parts that were hard to obtain even with money were being sold indiscriminately.
Because I didn’t know its value at the time.
“Sir, do you have any monster ostrich eggs or raptor anisok?”
The butcher answered, pulling out a black egg the size of a person’s head.
“I have some monster ostrich eggs, but no raptor tenderloin, sir. How about mad cow tenderloin instead? It’s much softer and tastier.”
Raptor tenderloin is said to be too tough and has a strong fishy taste, so there is little demand for it.
I really needed that meat.
This is to create a special mana nutrition diet for landlords.
“Then just give me the monster ostrich eggs. I’ll buy the raptor eggs somewhere else.”
“You probably won’t find it anywhere else. It’s a part that doesn’t sell well.”
It was just as the butcher said. The situation was similar in other butcher shops.
“Raptor safety? I’ve never seen a customer looking for that before.”
“No matter how poor I am, I won’t eat that.”
“Come one day early. I threw it away yesterday…”
I had to visit every butcher shop in the market to get two pounds of raptor sirloin.
Raptor tenderloin is a meat that is not sold now because there is no demand, but in a few years, it will become a cut that cannot be obtained because it is not available.
An essential diet for future superhumans.
Because it is the base material for making mana nutrition.
I said this to every butcher shop I visited.
“If you ever get a Raptor Ansimsal, please contact me. I’ll buy them all.”
The butchers were delighted.
“Then it’s good for us!”
After pre-ordering meat at the butcher shop, I headed to the vegetable store this time.
“Ma’am, how much is this?”
What I picked up was a spinach-like plant with a blood-red tint.
Of course, it is not real spinach. It is a plant from another world, and its official name is red spinach, but in the market it is called poison spinach.
The market lady said as she filled a black plastic bag with anchovies.
“Bachelor. Do you know that the root of this is poisonous? You have to cut off the root and boil it thoroughly before eating it. If you eat it by mistake, you’ll be in big trouble!”
I live to eat that poison.
Instead of telling him what was on my mind, I smiled kindly and answered.
“I know that. But it’s cheap. I can feed my little brother too.”
As I patted Lily’s head as she stood blankly next to me – the clueless brat was clearly showing her displeasure – sympathy quickly appeared in the mother’s eyes.
“Oh my. Young man… I’ll give you a lot!”
Perhaps because she felt sorry for the poor people who had to eat a lot of dried pollack, the woman packed the dried pollack tightly into a black bag.
“You don’t have to give me that much···.”
“Okay, just take it!”
I was surprised to see the bright red poison ivy packed in the bag.
Everything was top notch.
Later, materials that could not be obtained even if one had money were just rolling around on the market floor.
Monster ostrich eggs. Raptor eggs. Poison ivy.
I went around the market and bought all the essential ingredients needed to make Mana Nutrition.
And only in the highest level.
I looked back at Lily with a happy expression on my face, holding a handful of groceries in both hands.
“Well, shall we go home now?”
Lily grumbled with a disgruntled expression.
“What about my clothes and textbooks?
“Oh, that’s right.”
I was so excited that I forgot about it for a moment. I stopped by a used bookstore and a clothing store and bought some things for Lily.
Of course, I planned to repay the favor I gave you today hundreds of times over.
That was when.
“Hey, young man! Take a chicken! I’ll give it to you as a gift!”
I was trying to ignore it and just pass by, but then I saw Lily sniffing and flaring her nose next to me.
“Do you want to eat it? Should I buy it for you?”
The little boy turned his head away rudely, saying it was his pride.
“Who, who wants to eat something like that?”
Unlike the words, the sound of swallowing saliva, “gulp,” sounds like thunder.
“Wipe the drool from your mouth and lie.”
At my words, Lily hurriedly wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. Of course, there was no drool.
“Sir, please give me one fried chicken… no, two.”
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After a while, Lily, holding the paper bag of chicken in her arms, sniffed happily at the chicken box. She looked like she had won the world.
···Is this really the fire witch?
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That evening.
After finishing our shopping, we returned to the tent.
While Lily was unpacking, I showed off my skills for the first time in a while and made some Mana Nutrition.
It’s been almost 10 years since I’ve made anything myself. I ended up buying them all.
“Then shall we open it?”
When I opened the lid of the pot on the burner, the contents inside were bubbling.
At that moment, Lily, who was reading a Korean book on one side, covered her nose and said.
“It smells weird.”
“That’s what’s good for your health. And if you don’t eat this, I won’t give you chicken.”
“eww···.”
Lily sat at the table with an expression on her face like an ox being led to the slaughterhouse.
I turned off the burner and placed the pot on the table.
On the table, a pot dish boasting a visual that was beyond imagination was showing off its appearance.
…Why did it turn out like this?
“I don’t want to eat···.”
I scratched my head at this natural reaction.
“It’s strange. Maybe it’s because it’s been a while since I made it myself.”
Inside the large pot was a stew that looked like a corpse submerged in blood.
Well, it’s a little different from what I expected…
“As long as it is effective when eaten, that’s fine.”
Phew!
I boldly dipped my ladle into the pot, scooping up a ladleful of soup and putting it in my bowl. I also put some in Lily’s small bowl.
And he said to Lily, whose face was pale.
“It’ll be good if you eat it with chicken.”
After eating a whole chicken as soon as she got back, Lily declared that she could no longer live without chicken.
“···Can’t I just eat chicken?”
“If you whine about side dishes, you won’t grow taller.”
“It doesn’t matter. It’s okay if you’re short.”
“If you don’t listen, I’ll throw all the chicken in the pot?”
“That, that is absolutely not possible!”
For a moment, Lily glared at me as if I were her parents’ enemy.
And then he said, closing his eyes tightly.
“Rather… I’d rather go into the pot.”
What the hell are you talking about? You sound like a crazy kid.
After a bit of a struggle, I managed to get Lily to pick up a spoon. This was achieved through a combination of threats, coaxing, and bargaining for chicken.
“Then let’s eat.”
I took a bite of the edible part, put it in my mouth, and chewed it.
“What···. It’s not to the point where I can’t eat at all.”
It was spicy, salty, disgusting, and had an unknown fishy smell, but if I held my nose, I could somehow eat it.
It’s a taste that makes you want to cry with sadness.
“···f*ck.”
If I hadn’t gone through regression, I would have retired and been enjoying delicacies from all over the world at a fancy restaurant every day.
I couldn’t help but curse when I thought about it.
Lily, who was fiddling with her plate, tilted her head and asked.
“But what does ‘shit’ mean? It was the same earlier, and a lot of other people used it at the market.”
“What the f*ck···.”
How can we explain this magical Korean language that can express all of human emotions?
“It has many different meanings. Here, it’s used when food is delicious. Do you know what an exclamation is?”
Lily nodded and said, “Ah,” and then suddenly started exclaiming in admiration.
“Then f*ck chicken! f*ck! F**k! Chicken is delicious!”
“Hey. That’s not it…. F*ck. I don’t know. Yeah, f*ck!”
A couple of hours after finishing that grueling meal, I started sweating and the nutritional benefits began to show.
“It’s faster than I thought?”
I was quite surprised by this burning sensation in my danjeon – some people call it mana hole.
I told Lily to look at the Korean language study book I bought while shopping, and I sat cross-legged quietly in a corner.
“······.”
I closed my eyes and focused my senses on my danjeon.
Ssssssssut.
Around the dantian, which was slightly larger than a booger, I could feel the newly entered mana moving without mixing yet.
already?
This works so well, doesn’t it?
Mana Nutrition is not something like a potion. It is literally just a nutritional food.
It’s easy to think of it as a protein supplement that you take while exercising. Although food contains a small amount of mana, its main effect is as a supplement that helps the growth of mana in superhumans.
That’s normal,
What is this abnormal amount?
The amount of mana that had seeped into my body was at least five times more than what I knew.
Is it because it was not long after the first gate opened?
I remember hearing that in the past, the mana contained in the atmosphere was much purer and denser.
···Well, whatever, what do you think?
I decided not to think too deeply about it.
If I can get stronger faster, that’s fine.
“Swoop- hoo-.”
I sat cross-legged and started breathing.
At this point, it seemed like I could start practicing the mind method right away.
For reference, the Simbeop was a technique that was spread to Earth five years later after the martial arts world was connected to Earth.
< Mana Nutrition > End
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