Reincarnated With A Glitched System: Why Is My MP Not Running Out?

Chapter 1140 Cooking With Family & Friends

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Once we gathered back with my family and assessed all the monster carcasses, we decided to set up a camp near the gigantic crystal tree to take a rest. Well, our parents were completely fine, but we needed a rest ourselves, the younglings! We just fought against hundreds of monsters; it was natural to be exhausted.

”You children are truly incredible and brave.” Sphynxiette praised us as she sat down in front of the camp with her three friends. ”To be capable of slaying such mighty otherworldly beasts so fearlessly, you truly carry within you the might of our tribe, even if we are unrelated, we can tell! We are comrades at arms.”

”Indeed, thatʼs true.”

”Very strong children…”

”And brave, and honest, and goodhearted.”

”Hahaha, you are praising us too much.” I giggled a bit, feeling embarrassed.

”You know what? For once I am glad of being praised, yeah. I am awesome I think.” Celeste nodded, letting the praises shower over her.

”Thank you Sphynxiette!” Mist said. ”But Zack did most of the heavy lifting, hehe.”

”Oh, of course I didnʼt! You helped a lot, Mist.” Zack said to her. ”Your arrows, your magic, everything. Youʼre really vital to our strategies, and without you I wouldnʼt even be able to go all-out without worrying about my health.”

”Zack… Well, Iʼm doing my best!” Mist smiled cutely. ”I-Iʼm glad I can finally be of some substantial help. Remembering back then, I was so useless…”

”We all have the potential to become stronger.” Said Sphynxiette, her voice seemed full of wisdom. ”Even us, were born weak and frail, incapable of surviving without the help of our parents. You were young back then, perhaps, little Mist. But youʼve grown considerably powerful, you wield the essence of Mother Star after all, that brilliant light, it is of divine power!”

”O-Oh, is that so? Hehe, thank you.” Mist smiled, very happy to be praised.

”I thought you guys were going to join the fight.” Said Luck. ”What happened?”

”Well, your parents told us to not disturb your hunt. And we can understand.” Sphynxiette smiled. ”Nonetheless, we still took care of a few dozen of those creatures. They were… quite frail in comparison to the Beasts we used to hunt back in our world.”

”Indeed, very frail…”

”Touching them made them bleed very quickly…”

”We have to be careful, not to do that accidentally… with people.”

The race Sphynxiette and her friends belonged to were naturally incredibly tough, hard, and powerful. Mostly due to their incredible composition made of minerals and hardened metals, instead of the meaty structure of our bodies. They were truly aliens in the most basic of meanings. Their very biology was much more different than perhaps any creature in this world.

”Keep doing your best, you can practice with the monsters here I suppose.” I said.

The smell of grilled meat was already filling the atmosphere. The moment we set the camp, the first thing we started doing with my father was making a huge barbeque with everything we hunted! I really wanted to try out everything. The monsters looked a bit terrifying and nasty, but I bet they taste good. The stronger they are the tastier they are.

”Hmm, it smells good already!” My father was grilling a dozen Salamander Monsters with his flames, using Cooking Magic Spells he had learned to season them with some spices and add some stronger benefits to the barbeque.

”I like the smell of these shellfish boiling.” Shade commented, there was a huge pot made of stone that Nepheline created to boil all the crabs, shrimp, and other shelled monsters we hunted.

”Ah, nothing like ending this day with a huge feast.” Nepheline smiled, as she finished butchering the fourth Swamp Drake, and then handling all the meat to my dad and me.

We quickly used our flames of different qualities and forms to grill them, depending in the fire used, the flavors of the meat would vary greatly. Holy Flames gave them a more marveled flavor, Dark Flames gave it a spicier flavor, Spirit Flames made the meat slightly sweet. And if I used Ignatius Dragon Spirit Flames, the meat would become slightly sweet AND spicy!

”Oi, are you using me as your personal griller now?!” He complained. ”Let me rest, having to merge with your body was already tiring!” I was grilling a lot of meat over his large dragon body.

”Come on Ignatius, you eat a lot of meat yourself!” I said. ”Canʼt you cooperate? Look, your uncleʼs happily doing so.” I pointed at my father grilling meat over the giant divine legendary sword, Agni.

”Ignatius, stop being such a fool and let the little girl grill over your flames.” Said Agni. ”You get a share of the meat later, so why complain? Youʼre working for a payment.”

”I canʼt believe my powerful ancestor would say such a thing…” Ignatius seemed utterly disappointed on Agni.

”What?! You dare be disappointed on me, you damned brat?!” The gigantic dragon made of flames surged from within Agniʼs Aura. He quickly grabbed a huge Swamp Drake and devoured it whole. ”Kids these days, canʼt even cooperate for a bit with others, huh?”

”Well you complained a lot at the beginning too.” Allan laughed. ”Also I didnʼt knew you could eat even as a sword!”

”Of course I can eat, Allan, as long as my soul remains, I can just digest food with it! Isnʼt that just common sense?” He wondered.

”Common sense?” I asked.

”Right… Ah, I sometimes forget this is an Ability only Divine Beings acquire. Well, if you ever get that far, your body and soul kind of becomes… blended. You can eat with your soul and so on.” He answered.

”I see…” I nodded.

”Sounds weird!” Allan laughed. ”I donʼt think I would ever enjoy that.”

As my father laughed, I remembered the Curse allowed me to devour and absorb things using my soul. So I guess I already have an ability only attributed to divine beings. Curseʼs really amazing, I was really lucky… or maybe unlucky to meet him.

Anyways, once the barbeque was mostly done, and the shellfish were well boiled, we began the feast, wolfing down the myriad of plates we prepared.

As the sun in the horizon slowly set, the beautiful atmosphere of family and friends only continued to grow as we shared with one another and talked about life.

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