Primordial Draconic Incubus With A Gourmet Chef System

Instantly, James felt like laughing out loud.

'It truly was a wise decision to give her the Ethereal Mask Of Anonymity.' James mused.

The members of Lion's Liver and Fenwick, who had been watching from a distance, were gleefully staring at the golden popcorn.

It was unknown whether it was a mere illusion, but they could see the golden popcorn glowing as bright as the sun.

Meanwhile, Lily's eyes were narrowed into slits as she shoved a few popcorn into her salivating mouth.

*Crunch*

*Crunch*

*Crunch*

[It's so good!] Lily said after swallowing the pieces of popcorn. [The garlic butter and slight fiery kick is perfect!]

[I'm glad you like it.]

Despite not being able to see her appearance, the crowd was becoming impatient from the fragrant aroma alone.

Their senses were being teased repeatedly, and even the people who had previously been too far could now smell the aroma that caused those nearer to the popcorn to lose their rationality.

Sometime later, one of them, could no longer take it and spoke, "Are you selling the popcorn? I'm willing to buy three buckets of popcorn for my wife, son, and me!"

Spurred on by his shout, one after the other more people began asking to buy the Garlic Butter and Herb Popcorn.

"I'll have one bucket."

"Two!"

"Give me three."

Despite their hungry expressions, none stepped out of line.

"Everyone calm down. How do you expect me to take your orders if you all shout, at the same time? Furthermore, my restaurant is special. The Garlic Butter and Herb Popcorn can only be eaten by Mana Condensation Realm Mages and above. Each customer can only order each dish once. Orders are served in the order they are taken.

Anyone who violates these rules will be eternally blacklisted from Transcendence." Lucian said, stunning the hungry crowd, who had previously come to mourn the death of Wang Chen but had turned into ravenous wolves.

[Senior, I would like one serving.] James said.

[We want six Garlic Butter and Herb Popcorns.] Garrett said laughingly then explained when he realized Lucian might misunderstand his intentions, [Of course, one for each of us.]

[Alright, please wait.] Lucian nodded. [Oh… that's right. Don't you all want to know the price of my new dish?]

[Hahaha, Senior, I, for one, don't care about Senior's prices. But I'm confident since the Mage Rank requirement for the Garlic Butter and Herb Popcorn is to be at least a Mana Condensation Realm Mage, it is priced in Gold Coins.]

[That's right. It's 75 Gold Coins.] Lucian simply said and returned to popping more popcorn.

The pot was small and could only fit one serving of Garlic Butter and Herb Popcorn at a time. To finish the Quest, he had to prepare and serve a hundred servings of the dish within an hour. Explore new worlds at empire

The serving of the popcorn could be left to others, such as Lily and the Lion's Liver members.

However, the cooking part troubled Lucian. Not because the dish was hard to make. In fact, the steps were easy.

The problem lies with the time it took to cook the popcorn. From start to finish, it had taken him ten minutes.

Ten minutes for one serving of Garlic Butter and Herb Popcorn was ridiculous.

Using that logic, it would take him slightly under seventeen hours to finish cooking all one hundred servings.

'I was doomed to fail from the start.' Lucian felt a bitter taste in the back of his throat. However, it did not last long because he knew the harder the Quest was the better the reward was. The Celestium Shard should be worth the difficulty. Furthermore, it was not as though he did not have a plan to succeed.

Even before he received the Garlic Butter and Herb Popcorn recipe he had already formulated a plan. In fact, the plan was quite simple. He had used it many times back in his restaurants on Earth.

Shrinkflation!

Shrinkflation referred to the reduction in the portion size of food while keeping the price the same.

However, Lucian did not want to ruin the beautifully crafted popcorn buckets nor was he in a position to create new ones or buy new ones. Therefore, he would act shamelessly and simply reduce the serving size.

Furthermore, Lucian was the restauranteur. It was his restaurant… food cart. Therefore, his rules had to be followed. Also, who could say the serving size had been reduced? After all, he could simply say he gave Lily more popcorn because of their relationship!

With that genius plan in mind, Lucian continued to cook the popcorn.

As the fragrant aroma spread out, once more, the stunned crowd began waking up from their daze.

"Why the Hell are there so many rules for mere popcorn? Brat, obediently make me a bucket of popcorn right now. The others can wait, but this King is Young Master Yu's fifth most trusted butler."

Lucian turned his head at the man who had just spoken while tossing the popcorn to evenly coat each popcorn in the rich and fragrant Golden Garlic Butter and herbs.

"... Fifth most trusted butler?" Lucian asked speechlessly. "Is that something to be proud of? And you call yourself 'this King'? If you're a king, why do you have a Young Master? Do you have no shame?"

The others who heard Lucian's words nodded in agreement. He was simply a random nobody to the Young Master of the Yu Family. Also, who did not know that the Yu Family had over ten young masters? His Young Master Yu might not even be favored in the family.

Hearing Lucian's words and sensing the ridiculing gazes directed at him, the butler named Peng Ting suddenly became angry out of shame and sternly glared at Lucian. Not knowing how to salvage the situation, he yelled out, "Who cares if I'm a nobody? In front of a mere food vendor like you, I'm no different than an emperor. Now, obediently serve me the popcorn."