Group Competition
Unknowingly, a week passed since the first food judgment for the first year class E happened.
The two judges Mr. Tofee and Mr. Bacon give out some praises and pointers to improve the foundation of the students. From which the students took the note seriously. No one can get free pointers from other professors except for their adviser so it was a good thing for the class to have occasional cooking sessions.
Miss Laura as the adviser of the class left the pointers to the other two professors for she has the whole high school life of these students to give out pointers every day.
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It was yet another clear morning for the whole city of Hot Pot.
At the River Fork University.
Nil manages to befriend some students in his class which he labeled as a friendly rival. Excluding Mirone, he manages to be close with the adorable Lily and the stoic guy Miko.
The four of them were the group of the top students in their classroom, they became instantly popular among the first year the moment they were spotted together having their stroll at the cafeteria. Even though they were labeled to be the weirdos' among the first year.
Mirone a fat and loud nerdy guy, Miko who was a very stoic person who rarely shows emotions both surprisingly excel when it comes to cooking. The other two were Lily despite being in stature of a little doll-like young lass, her prowess was not to be trifled with both in hunting and cooking. And the last was Nil who was labeled as a shameless pervert on the very first day of school but was a monster among his peers when it comes to gourmet and battling skill.
The past week Nil managed to reach another two levels from the previous boost.
User's Status:
Level: 14 (Apprentice)
STR 50 | INT 48 | DEX 50 | PREP SKILL RANK: Apprentice | COOKING SKILL: Apprentice | GASTRO POINT: 50
The system confirms that each breakthrough on his level would be completely hidden and will reveal a fake rank the resembles that of an average first-year unless the person before him was on the level of a food saint.
That relieves Nil from his fear that the three judges from before felt his monstrous breakthrough in just one go.
His prowess would be completely discreet unless he reveals hints for other people to suspect.
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The class started like any other class. Miss Laura was discussing some backgrounds about the Gourmetopia and the unwritten rules among the person working in the gourmet industry.
From her words, Nil was using the system to completely record each word Miss Laura said.
According to Laura Gourmetopia was a vast planet, Nil estimated it to be around 3 times larger than his previous life's world. Having that said the whole Gourmetopia was still left unknown. Only 23% of this world was fully discovered.
The government holds posts that designate borders for battle chefs. It requires a certain level before one can pass thru depending on the dangers lurking around that area.
And only the Rank S battle chefs or all-rounders' can pass on the unknown areas of the Gourmetopia. Only at the level of a Grandmaster to Legendary can fully explore this world.
And lastly, the continent they were currently residing in was a supercontinent akin to a massive pizza with an empty slice on the western side only having an archipelago of islands. This continent contains four great countries naming the Stew Republic at the East where the Hot Pot City and the three great Stew Mountains were located. In the North was FNC or the Federation of the Northern Cuisines. In the West was an archipelago of states with a huge low rise yet a wide volcano that holds natural oil which was a tourist spot, people can deep fry anything they want in this low rise volcano called the Pancano this country was called the USP or the United States of Pancano and lastly on the south was where the world government of the whole Gourmetopia resides. The country was called the GGS or the Gourmet Government Sect.
This massive pizza-like continent was located on the northern side of the Gourmetopia. That being said the GGS holds all the passes around the continent especially the south where the excavation of the world starts. The dream of all battle chefs to explore.
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"...and those are the basic things you should learn about our world." Miss Laura ended the discussion and went to announce another matter to the class.
"As you can see the winter selection was drawing near and this is the time I choose our class representative for that selection. That being said, we will start a different individual and grouped task each week." Miss Laura continued.
Everyone was listening intently, being chosen as a representative gives an opportunity to have an instant license for the chosen track of the student. Those were the identification cards saying the track, the rank of the holder, and from which country they're from. It was an official license symbolizing the start of the journey as an official Mainline Chef, Battle Chef, Infrastructure Major, or an All Rounder!
All of the students went to their serious mode their eyes showing fiery strength saying they want to be chosen to compete for the winter selection.
"The first task needs a group of four members with two battle chefs and another two mainline chefs. The first part would be the gathering of ingredients and the second part would be the cooking. Choose your group for the task and we will discuss everything tomorrow. Class dismissed." Miss Laura said clearly among the class.
"Perfect!" Mirone was the one who broke the silence right after Miss Laura left the classroom.
"Brother Nil we should be with Lily and Miko!" Mirone quickly dashed beside Nil.
The latter looked at Lily and Miko. Lily bowed "It would be my pleasure to work with you Nil!" The smile on his face can make any man melt her cuteness was just overwhelming. On the other hand, Miko only nodded in response that alone was enough to express his acceptance for the group.
"The four of us then!" Nil clenched his fist. That license would be mine! He declared to his mind.
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"This time that bastard will fall!" A certain muscular man was discussing things with other two young lads and a decently beautiful young lass.
"They will! Especially that bitch!" The young girl added.
"We will hold the spot for our classroom on the selection!" The muscular guy said again.
"Yes!" The other 3 answered in chorus.
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"Time to see how my students will handle my way of teaching."
Miss Laura arrived at her table and started to make a phone call to someone.
'Hello? Oh, Laura what do you want?'
'I want the field G to be ready for tomorrow.'
'You're really pumped up with the deal huh?'
'Just get the field ready lazy ass that's your job here!'
'It was because the principal thinks I'm not suited to be a professor.'
'Because you're really not suited, muscle head! I need to go now!'
'Don't forget the deal with the principal, okay? You bet—'
Laura did not bother to finish what the other line was going to say as she started to make her own preparations for the group activity for tomorrow.