Simultaneous travel: invincible from the beginning of the anime!

Chapter 408: Minezaki, whose strength has skyrocketed, heads to the food world!
After a pleasant picnic and camping, Seiya and Minezaki did not rush into the food world, but started collecting information in the camp.

To venture into an unknown land, intelligence and certain preparations are necessary. During the two days of intelligence gathering, Seiya and his companions also learned that rare ingredients do have the effect of improving physical fitness.

The more high-quality and rare the ingredients, the greater the improvement to the body, and this improvement is also related to the level of the chef who prepares the ingredients.

The more delicious the dishes cooked with rare ingredients, the greater the benefits of these rare ingredients to the body.

Because rare ingredients will only have an enhancing effect the first time they are eaten, great chefs are more sought after in the food world.

In addition to improving your physical fitness by eating dishes made with rare ingredients for the first time, some ingredients themselves will also provide a short-term benefit after being eaten.

It's just like when Minezaki ate the elephant bear meat and gained a short period of immense strength. According to the terminology in the game, it should be called a gain buff.

The reason why gourmet hunters can hunt in the dangerous gourmet world is that their bodies have long been strengthened by various rare ingredients, making them far stronger than ordinary people.

According to them, enhancing one's physical fitness and abilities through the use of rare ingredients is due to absorbing the gourmet cells within those rare ingredients. (I'm aware of the gourmet cell setting in Gourmet Prisoner, but this is a secondary setting. I won't be writing about the plot and characters in Gourmet Prisoner; I'm just borrowing some of the settings from that.)
During these two days, Seiya and Minezaki spent almost all their time eating, in addition to collecting information and preparing for their trip to the food world.

Now that we know that rare ingredients are not only delicious, but also have the effect of improving physical fitness and enhancing combat effectiveness, then before going on an adventure, we naturally have to strengthen ourselves first.

The gourmet hunters gathered in this camp are all small characters with ordinary strength. The rare ingredients they capture rarely exceed the capture level of mammoths and bears.

But no matter how small a mosquito leg is, it is still meat. Although these low-level rare ingredients do not bring much improvement to Seiya, they are a real tonic for Minezaki, who was originally just an ordinary person!
The elephant bear increases strength, the goblin rabbit increases speed, and the bat snake increases perception. After two days, Fengqi has eaten all kinds of rare ingredients and experienced firsthand what it means to reach the sky in one step!
Putting aside his combat skills and experience, Minezaki's current physical fitness alone has even surpassed 90% of the gourmet hunters in this camp.

The reason for this seemingly cheat-like improvement is naturally because of Seiya.

Seiya's excellent cooking skills allow him to maximize the improvement of rare ingredients every time.

Originally, with the little money they had, it was not enough to eat all kinds of rare ingredients in the camp, but while helping Minezaki cook, Seiya also worked as a chef in the camp.

As mentioned before, great chefs are highly sought after among gourmet hunters. Most chefs will not come to such a dangerous place, so most gourmet hunters use extremely rough cooking methods when they eat rare ingredients for the first time.

But now it’s different. With the great chef Seiya here, the improvement of rare ingredients can be maximized. Most people naturally won’t miss such an opportunity. They take out the rare ingredients that they were reluctant to eat before and ask Seiya to help cook them.

As a processing fee, Seiya will also symbolically charge them some rare ingredients as fees.

Because of this, after just two days, Seiya and Minezaki even gained a certain degree of fame in this camp.

What made Seiya feel a little regretful was that when Minezaki was eating all kinds of rare ingredients in the entire camp, he had tasted almost all of them, but Minezaki took off on the spot, while Seiya's improvement could only be described as negligible.

There was no way. His original strength was too strong. These low-level rare ingredients might be able to transform Feng Qi, who was originally an ordinary person, but for him, the effect was really not that great.

Seiya estimated that in order for him to feel the improvement in strength, he would have to capture at least level 50... no, maybe even level 80 or above.

"Brother Seiya, you will come back to the camp later, right?" "Yeah, it's really rare to have a great chef in a place like this. Don't die in the food world."

When they first arrived, Seiya and Minezaki, as newbies, were even treated like fat sheep to be slaughtered.

And yet, only a few days had passed, and when the two were about to leave the camp and head for the food world, they were so popular that most of the people here sent them off.

"Are you really planning to go on an adventure with me into the world of food? You know, that's an unknown place I've never been to. If you run into any danger, I might not be able to protect you.

With your current strength, it won't be a problem for you to return alone. There's really no need to follow me to such a place and take risks."

Before heading to the food world, Seiya looked at Minezaki beside him and asked one last question.

He had brought Minezaki with him before because he had no choice. In such an illegal place, a beautiful and hot lady like Minezaki was like a fat sheep.

But after being fed with many rare ingredients, Fengqi now seems to have the ability to protect himself.

If that's the case, he can naturally return to the city alone without having to go to the food world with me.

"What nonsense are you talking about? I must go with you. It's okay that I was a weakling and was despised before.

There are few gourmet hunters in the camp who can beat me now, and you still want to abandon me.

Or do you have any other hidden secrets besides the desire to capture rare figures when you travel alone to the food world? For example, to encounter some beautiful food hunters?"

After hearing what Minezaki said, Seiya wanted to say that you are still a weakling in my eyes, but Minezaki insisted on following him, and Seiya had no choice but to compromise in the end.

Just as Minezaki said, now she at least has some ability to protect herself.

Furthermore, since this was Seiya's first trip to the food world, he didn't plan to go too deep, so he shouldn't encounter too much danger.

There is no being in Seiya who possesses the power of space, and cannot perform that kind of spatial storage. It would be a good idea to bring back more human-shaped cattle and horses from Minezaki and bring back more spoils.

After leaving the camp, Seiya and the others quickly arrived at the depths of a forest based on the map in their hands.

According to the map, the entrance to the food world is in the cave in front of them.

As long as you walk into the cave, you can leave the current human world and arrive at the so-called food world.

The food world has multiple entrances in the human world, and this is just one of them. Humans in the human world can enter the food world, but the beasts in the food world cannot come out.

(End of this chapter)