CH.511 Visiting the Kitchen Knights
<span style="font-weight:400">Today, I was paying a visit to a certain cooking n I got somewhat acquainted with during the entire final day terrorist attack on the adventuring tournament. That being the Kitchen Knights n.
<span style="font-weight:400">They had sent me a letter inviting me to visit their n headquarters soon after the adventuring tournament, but because of the distance, the letter came all the way to Alewatch for me, it took almost a month for it to arrive.
<span style="font-weight:400">And this is why this world needs the Inte, or some other bettermunicationwork.
<span style="font-weight:400">So because I’m me, and I think sending letters that take a year to get there, so I asked Lawrence to deliver it instead. But he sent Chloe to do the delivery.
<span style="font-weight:400">Yes, both of them have Card Summoner. I gave them the orbs. They also have basic GX style duel disks. They don’t have many cards, but they both have a single B.E.S. ship and a single smaller ship. As well as a few decently powerful monsters to protect themselves.
<span style="font-weight:400">And since I have the mana flowers in two of the three Kingdoms nted, the mapping software I made using the mana beacons held at each flower location is decently urate, even if you end up in areas that aren’t surrounded by the flowers.
<span style="font-weight:400">Yes, I will soon be nting the flowers in Narra Kingdom. It just takes a while to not only prepare the flowers, but also all the magic stones that are needed for it.
<span style="font-weight:400">But that is for another day. I have some meat to prepare, so I can take it to the Kitchen Knights when I visit. In return, I’ll hopefully get some recipes.
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<span style="font-weight:400">The Kitchen Knights headquarters was a nice big building. It was in the city of Tyrin, the city that was next to the Hero’s country on the Be Kingdom’s side. Simr to how Oroco City is on the Ruiso Kingdom side.
<span style="font-weight:400">We entered the building and it looked more like a restaurant than an adventuring ns headquarters, but that was because the Kitchen Knights run a full eatery in their n headquarters.
<span style="font-weight:400">I won’t call it a restaurant, as it doesn’t actually have a menu or anything, they just have a serving station, you pick out foods from what is avable and pay for it.
<span style="font-weight:400">We decided to enjoy what was avable, before we report that we are here for an actual meeting, because I wanted to see how their foodpared to HomeBase food.
<span style="font-weight:400">We picked up some of the nicer stuff, like a nt dish made of C-rank nt monster and some B-rank monster meat. I picked some of the ns mead for a drink, while Lua pondered if she shouldin because they don’t offer any blood.
<span style="font-weight:400">She ended up not bringing attention to it, and we paid for the food. And despite the high ss ingredients, our meals only came to 9 bronze a person. Drinks were a bit extra.
<span style="font-weight:400">But that is still very cheap for C and B-rank monster material meals. Sure you can get a meal for one bronze, but thates with no drink or just water, and it is made of the cheapest stuff with only basic seasonings. This stuff is decently high ss and very well seasoned.
<span style="font-weight:400">As we were eating, a member of the Kitchen Knights came to our table and asked if he could speak with us. I recognized him as the person I asked to cook dragon meat, so I agreed and he sat down.
<span style="font-weight:400">He began by asking how our meals were, and we gave our honest opinions. They were great. Lua then told him about theck of blood as a drink option, which the man was apologetic about and told us he could bring some from the butchering area. Lua simply told him she had her own sk, so she wouldn’t need any, but said that since they have the blood anyway, they should maybe keep some for people who do drink it. He answered that they do keep all the blood and send it to the nearest dhampir safe vige, which Lua was happy to hear. At least they don’t waste it.
<span style="font-weight:400">I then asked him about how they prepared the foods, but he said it would be better to just show me. He then asked how I get dragon meat, while locking eyes with Janina for a moment. He must have realized Janina is a dragon in humanoid form. I just answered that it would be better if I just showed him.
<span style="font-weight:400">So after we ate, he took us to the kitchen.
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<span style="font-weight:400">The kitchen was quite amazing. You could really see that it was important to the n.
<span style="font-weight:400">It had top of the line magic ovens, burners, freezers and refrigerators. Their current magic ovens are even designed by someone at themission of the Kitchen Knights, and it is considered the most advanced magic oven avable.
<span style="font-weight:400">The kitchen wasn’t super busy, probably because the lunch rush is now over, and they are calming down before starting dinner preparations.
<span style="font-weight:400">As we were shown around the kitchen, a few members of the Kitchen Knights joined the tour, adding information here and there.
<span style="font-weight:400">I then asked about the preparations of the meals served, and they exined their process, even telling me that if I’d like, I can observe the dinner service, as long as I don’t get in the way and offer them some dragon meat.
<span style="font-weight:400">I agreed to that, because my entire experience in seeing professional kitchens is from TV shows, so seeing one in action might be cool.
<span style="font-weight:400">They then showed us their spice cabs and their sauce selection. Sadly they didn’t give us the recipes for the sauces, but I think I can live with that.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Then it was time for my half of the bargain. At first they wanted us to head to the butchering area, but I told them there wouldn’t be enough space. I asked them to bring a fewrge trays and head outside, while I changed my race to Wolf-kin and got a few cards out.
<span style="font-weight:400">Some of their eyes widened as they saw me growing out a tail, but they didn’t ask, so I didn’t exin.
<span style="font-weight:400">When we got outside, I got to work. First up, I used Mystik Wok on Tyrant Dragon. Yes, he is still my go-to tribute to the Wok.
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<span style="font-weight:400">We watched as the dragon was cleaved to pieces, the pieces finding their ces on the trays the Kitchen Knights brought out. While it happened, I exined that this was all done by my unique skill, and that the dragon I just butchered woulde back to life by tomorrow. I also exined that that is why a certain dragon doesn’t mind me doing so.
<span style="font-weight:400">We waited while the Kitchen Knights took the meat to their butchering room, because while it was butchered already, they wanted to confirm it.
<span style="font-weight:400">I then took out another Wok, activated it, and this time, I took apart a Judgment Dragon.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Judgment Dragon tastes very different from Tyrant Dragon. Tyrant Dragon has what I call a ‘traditional dragon vor’, while Judgment Dragon carries a more … gamey vor. It is just a bit muskier or something.
<span style="font-weight:400">As a human, I don’t like it as much as Tyrant Dragon, but if I’m a beast-folk race, especially Wolf-folk or Wolf-kin, I prefer Judgment Dragon.
<span style="font-weight:400">I then asked the Kitchen Knights for an empty barrel, as I got out the next two cards. Destruct Potion and Ruddy Rose Dragon.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Like Mystik Wok, Destruct Potion takes a monster and turns it into a consumable that heals you based on the monster''s Attack stat. With Wok, it is food, and Destruct Potion makes drinks.
<span style="font-weight:400">With Ruddy Rose Dragon specifically, it makes a really tasty rosé wine. And it is non-alcoholic. With just one dragon tributed, it makes about 30 liters of the wine. Which admittedly isn’t that much considering how much meat you can get from a single dragon, but in return, the healing effect is condensed. Not that the wine or food will everpete with actual healing items, unless I forcefully supercondence the healing. And yes, that can be done, but I usually don’t, because I don’t make the food for the healing effect. I make it to be food.
<span style="font-weight:400">The Kitchen Knights then asked if I had any more favorite monsters that I cook up for myself, and if I’d share some, so I ended up using more Woks to get some more raw meat.
<span style="font-weight:400">D.3.S. Frog, Terrorking Salmon (for the roe), Royal Swamp Eel, Golden Flying Fish and Naturia Bamboo Shoot all found themselves on the Wok.
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<span style="font-weight:400">… okay, they actually came out raw, because I wanted them to. And as a Wolf-kin the card agrees with me, because Wolf-kin can actually stomach raw food.
<span style="font-weight:400">Well, a human can as well, but way worse. Just differences in biology.
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<span style="font-weight:400">With all the incidents I handed them, I managed to talk the Kitchen Knights into sharing a bunch of the recipes that they didn’t originally share, including all of their secret sauces.
<span style="font-weight:400">They were kind of nice, and I definitely epted the trade. I mean, Woking all those cards didn’t cost me anything, but I got a bunch of recipes out of it. So yeah. A fantastic trade deal if you ask me.
<span style="font-weight:400">With dinner preparation starting up next, I took a ‘seat’ in the air near the corner of the kitchen, so I could observe everything. The girls weren’t too interested, so they headed out to the city to … do whatever they were going to do. They’ll probably just shop around or something.
<span style="font-weight:400">As for how the kitchen ran during dinner service. The dinner service wasn’t an open line of avable foods, but instead à carte style. So order from a menu, and the kitchen will prepare it for you. Much like a traditional restaurant you think of.
<span style="font-weight:400">The kitchen honestly was way more quiet than I expected. I think I just assumed a lot of yelling would be involved, because I had unrealistic expectations from TV shows.
<span style="font-weight:400">There was basically none. The head chef would simply call out orders, the chefs at their stations would know what to do, and the food would get prepared at a super fast pace.
<span style="font-weight:400">It also showed the Cooking skill these guys must have, and honestly just their overall stats. They were moving around quickly, at speeds a LV.1 person probably couldn’t follow with their eyes. Sure it was no problem for me, but I still think this is very impressive.
<span style="font-weight:400">It also shows just how efficient their kitchen appliances are, because those appliances kept up with their crazy speeds.
<span style="font-weight:400">Eventually I decided I’d seen enough, and asked one of the stand-by members, who were ready to take over any of the stations if something bad happened, if I could get a table and taste some of the foods.
<span style="font-weight:400">One of them brought me to private room, which was kept empty for important guests that may not want to preserve a table, and then said they’d make sure I get a nice assortment of dishes.
<span style="font-weight:400">I then messaged my girls that they should return if they want to have dinner with me.
<span style="font-weight:400">My entrées arrived before the girls got here, but I made sure to save them some, and when they messaged me that they were here, I asked the Kitchen Knight standing in the room to bring them in.
<span style="font-weight:400">We then enjoyed the meals the Kitchen Knights were serving, and yeah, it was really good. Definitely rivals HomeBase, probably even exceeds it.
<span style="font-weight:400">But HomeBase has better desserts. That I can 100% confirm, and we all agreed on it.