Chapter 26- A change of Appearance

I was amazed by the rewards given by Rachel especially the additional success rate while cooking since to increase the success rate of something you need a piece of equipment that raises your success rate, a title, or an Achievement like this but there were very few people who managed to get it since the rarity of getting them were too rare. Due to these Achievements, my success rate has increased by 60% which was a massive difference for those who have worked with difficult materials.

[I am sorry to burst your bubble but with my "Heaven-Defying luck" function your success rate is 100% for everything. If you did not have me the success rate of your successfully cooking the meat was less than 1% due to its rarity.]

I was shocked by the power of Kronos's functions. I thought 'the function deserves the name "Heaven-Defying luck" since in The GATE there was nothing with a 100% success rate and this function made that possible. I am really lucky to get Kronos and its amazing functions and features but I might also face problems due to its power since it might attract powerful enemies, especially after this notification. They will pay more attention to a player called "The Legendary Ark" from today onwards but for now, it is time to dig into this meat.'

I took a knife and fork from the cutlery set. I started cutting the meat into pieces and used the fork to put them in my mouth. After tasting the meat, I could proudly say that it was the most delicious cuisine I have ever tasted. The meat sizzled in my mouth letting out oil and the spices' tasted in my mouth. The food tasted like divine food which had been brought from heaven and cooked by angels. I even felt that my soul would leave me if I did not concentrate.

[That has a high probability to happen if I was not preventing your soul from escaping.]

'You once again save me, I do not know how to thank you now.'

[You do not need to thank me since you will start cursing me after some time.]

After I was wondering what would be the reason for me to start cursing him, I suddenly felt my body burning, my bones turning, a weird and smelly smell leaving out of the pores of my body, and the most intense pain in my body. Curse you *** ** * ***** for not warning me of this intense pain.

[I told you that you would start cursing me.]

Why did not you warn me about ... this p.. a…in.

[I did not warn you because you might not have eaten the meat but do not worry you would not feel this much pain the next time. You might not even feel any pain the 2nd time.]

Le..t's h..ope th…at I s..urv..ive to e…at it t…he 2nd t..im..e.

[Do not worry, I know you would not die but you might faint. It would be best if you faint since you would not feel the pain anymore]

I feel e.v..ery thing is sp…innin..g.

Once again Richard/Gerald fell unconscious on his path towards Strength that others would call later "his Journey to the Peak."

*The Next Day*

I woke up feeling that I had a hangover and my body felt very dirty and sore for some reason. After I got up, I noticed that I was lying on the floor on top of some black goo. What in Tartarus (hell) happened yesterday?

[The black goo on the floor is the impurities in your body. You better call the cleaning service and telling that after you were cultivating you made a breakthrough which resulted in your impurities leaving your body and that you want them to clean the impurities till you finished bathing.]

'What happened yesterday…. Parts of my memory are returning to me. After I ate that meat, I felt intense pain and fainted. I better do as you say but does cultivation exist here too?'

[The Magic here is more advanced than from your planet, so there are much better cultivation manuals here. The manual you received from the Dean is one such cultivation manual.]

'I never thought about that since before I knew the truth of The GATE, I had thought that the magic in the game was the ideas the creator had on the future of magic. Let me contact the cleaning staff before going to the bath.'

*After the call*

'The cleaning staff did not sound weird after I told them the story and that there were impurities in my room that needed cleaning.'

[They would be surprised by seeing the sheer scale of impurities, so it's best that you unlock the dorm room door and run to the bath before they come.]

I followed the instructions of Kronos and took a towel and a school dress that I would be wearing today and ran inside the bathing area locking the door just in time to hear the footsteps of the cleaning staff entering the room and their shocked voices. I even heard one cleaning staff member saying "The student must have broken to a high realm to result in so many impurities leaving his body."

I turned on the shower after removing my dress and keeping them on a stand for the towel and other stuff. I was thinking about 'how I would hide the impurities that would leave my body the next time since I cannot say I broke through the next level, the next time.'

[See down and you would find the solution to your problem.]

I looked down and noticed the same black goo/impurities going through the drain but thought 'how is it that possible did not the impurities leave my body already? The only other impurities should be in my body.'

[Indeed, impurities are no longer leaving your body but the impurities that were still on your body before bathing are getting washed away due to the water.]

I nodded and continued bathing after I could no longer see the black goo being washed away by the water. After I wiped the water on my body using the towel, I put on my trouser and took the shirt, the dirty dress I was wearing before, and the towel with me. While I was going through the room I noticed myself in the mirror near the sink.

I was shocked by the scene I was seeing in the mirror. I did not see my previous appearance at all. I saw a person that looked almost like a perfect Male god with 8 Abs in his stomach. How could I change so much with a lump of single meat?