Darius could make stuff like fried eggs, boiled eggs, boiled rice, and fry bacon or sausages, but that was truly entry-level stuff. His knowledge regarding cooking pretty much ended there, since he had usually left that task to either his personal chef or had gone out to eat at so fancy restaurant.
Darius scratched his head and moved away from the tree he had rested under. He made sure to pick up so dry wood from the area around its roots and bark, gathering them into a pile.
He found so stones and ford a ring out of them. He then dug out the center of it with his iron dagger and removed the grass, leaving only the bare earth. Fatigued once again, he took another short break before tossing the dry wood in the middle.
Darius then cast an Ember spell onto the wood, which instantly caught fire, saving him from actually getting the wood to light up, arguably the hardest part of creating a cooking fire. Magic certainly made one's life easier.
Once the fire reached a suitable level, Darius created a spit over it with a bunch of longer and thicker branches he had found. Now ca another hard part…
Darius fetched sand from the earth around and concentrated.
[Would you like to change the handful of sand into a handful of kosher salt? This will cost 0.001 Conversion Points.]
Darius made the conversion. The dark brown sand beca a pristine white mineral that every human who ate food worshiped, the almighty salt. Without this divine sedint, most food would taste like garbage.
One could make food without fancy spices by just using salt and still end up with a gourt-level al, whereas making a al only using fancy spices could easily make good food taste like crap.
Darius held up the blessed salt and praised the gods in heaven that this sedint existed in Faust before placing a majority of it into his Inventory, saving only a smattering of it for his current al.
In his left, he had spawned one of the cuts from the Grey Bear's at. It was still as bloody and taut as it had been when Darius had cut it out, making him frown. However, he simply pierced it horizontally with a shaved and washed branch with enough thickness to hold the weight.
The mont the at ca over the fire, the blood dripped down and made a sizzling sound as it was quickly burnt up. Unsurprisingly, fire made by magic was far more potent than fire made from rubbing two sticks together really fast.
Darius carefully spread the salt over the at after a lot more of the blood had drained away, using his hands to sar it over the fire. He should have probably done this before putting it on the spit, but he had dreaded the idea of salt mixed in with bloody at.
After doing this, he carefully stirred the at over the fire slowly, but his eyes weren't actually on the ingredient, instead they were fixed on his notifications, eagerly waiting for the one that would grant him the knowledge of cooking.
It took 5 minutes of continuous rotation of the at for the desired result to appear.
[Congratulations! You have learned the skill, Cooking!]
[Cooking - Level 1 Skill
Cost: 2 Stamina per minute
Description: Prepare many dishes with a seasoned hand. The quality of all cooked als is raised by 5%.]
Imdiately, Darius stopped what he was doing as he felt the knowledge of the fundantals of cooking assimilate with his mind. It was almost as if he had been a basic cook for years and had simply forgotten how to perform the vocation temporarily.
Once this was done, he tossed what he had been making to the side as he stood up. Darius wanted a proper al, not whatever abomination would have co out of his amateurish attempt just now. He was aware that he could not get a al like those he had enjoyed on Earth here unless he used his Conversion Points, but that would be wasteful.
He would have to be smart about his life in Faust and find a compromise between what was acceptable for his palate and what would be filling enough to carry him until he encountered civilization.
Darius smiled when an idea ca to mind.
He took out his iron dagger and cut so sticks of wood into thinner versions with a flat end at the bottom and a pointed end at the top. After that, he cut the at of the Grey Bear into smaller cubical shapes.
Darius walked over to a bush nearby and plucked so leaves.
[Would you like to change a variegated leaf into a fresh onion? This will cost 0.003 Conversion Points.]
Darius made the change. The leaf expanded and beca a ripe, pink onion that looked freshly harvested. He wasted no ti in shaving off its skin and cutting it into quarters as well, then taking the smallest sections of each quarter.
After carefully washing it using his Pure Water and then coating the at with a healthy amount of salt, he was ready to assemble his al: khebabs.
That's right, it was the best option Darius could co up with given his limited ingredients, Conversion Points, and acceptable palate. Luckily, onions existed in this world too, but he would need to add so more stuff before he could describe his work as done.
Darius assembled the khebab traditionally. One cut of at, one onion, another cut of at, another onion, and so on until there were five cubes of at with four onion slices between them.
Darius had carved five small branches into khebab sticks, so he repeated the assembly for the others. Now that he had done this, he placed the sticks at an angle over the fire, sticking their butt end firmly into the earth.
He then poured so of his water into his palm.
[Would you like to change a handful of Pure Water into a handful of cooking oil? This will cost 0.005 Conversion Points.]
Darius sared the oil over the khebabs gently and firmly, making sure to give them a nice coating of it. Sighing with relief, he washed his hand with the rest of his water thoroughly before creating so more of it.
With almost every done, Darius created his last ingredient that would perfect the flavor.
[Would you like to change the handful of sand into a handful of suya spice? This will cost 0.0012 Conversion Points.]
Sprinkling the reddish spice over the glazed khebabs that had been turned over about 3 tis, Darius extracted them from the fire and inspected them.
[Sub-Saharan khebab - Consumable
Durability: 1/1
Description: A unique at skewer that tastes as good as its slls. Can restore up to 2 points of Stamina and Health out of combat.]
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