Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

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Lost in the ZONE, his body seemed to be moving on its own.

His hands worked so fast. That some of the normal judges who were only simple chefs among them were stunned to see such fine handwork with that kind of precision.

The way he commanded the elemental spirits that he had summoned was stunning as well, and the entire creation process that was happening before their eyes had stunned not only the teachers and the judges, but also some of the few watching him from the spectator balcony who could also see him.

The way he moved, the wis hands moved, the way he used those unique and simple utensils was all something quite phenomenal.

Even their teacher Lady Cleo who was asking questions to the rest of the students occasionally didn't disturbed him and just watched how he used the elements in the cooking, how he was using Aura and the other energy crystals, how he moved and how he controlled the volume of those elements.

He had done it before, they knew that much.

That kind of practical demonstration was only possible if someone had performed that process till mastery. So, she knew he was not doing all that for the first time.

And, that made her even more curious…

He knew the techniques that he was using.

They were from various cultures and not something a single person would know unless they had traveled throughout they world and lived with those various people and learned from them over a long period.

Sure there was a possibility that someone who had travelled the world, like the great empress of Roxanna, might have taught him herself.

But, then again, to master these techniques, one at least needed a decade worth of pure experience.

Not even the best geniouses of the world would have been able to replicate what he was doing right now without at least a few years of experance and, since she at least knew that he was a human with no special physical characteristics, she knew he was still just a fifteen year young adult.

At most, he would have had a decade of experance and, if he was able to do something of that level with just a decade of experance, it was hard to believe that someone else had taught him those things.

As someone who had been doing it for centuries now, she knew how difficult the task of cooking meant. Especially when we were talking about the more complex things like what he was doing in that closed space.

Being able to control flame spirits in order to precisely maintain the temperature of the flames, being able to communicate with them, using water spirits for taste and freshness, and using the most difficult light and darkness attributes to enhance the textures of the smallest components…

As she saw him finish his first few things, she knew he must have either been taught by a god themselves, or he was someone who had lived more than his age.

That was the only explanation she could come up with with her experance, and that just made things even more intresting for her…

She was even more curious now.

And, from the looks of it, the two headmasters weren't that surprised even after seeing that level of skills— which meant they must have expected to see something like this from that child.

He was an interesting fellow with an unknown past and a near impossible mind to see through.

She did not know who he was and she had never cared about it before either… but after seeing all this, there was no way she was just going to let him be. Read latest stories on мѵʟ

'Lucifer…'

She wanted to know who he was, what he was, how could he do what he was doing right now, who taught him, and how was he able to secure all those special ingredients.

He was using some weird things in his cooking that even someone like her had never heard about.

It was similar to the unconventional style of Roxanna's empress, the young grandmaster that she had taught herself.

But he was doing something even more unconventional than her…

Using the leaves and fruits of a great tree, using flowers of an ancient tree, using elemental tampering on elemental ingredients, to using things that she was seeing for the first time in her life…

'Peculiar…'

He surely used the boar meat for his appetisers along with the flat bread that he made himself.

He had also refined spices with the help of his elemental spirits, and even though he was doing eveything so fast that no machine in this kitchen would have been able to keep uop with him, thanks to the spirits that he had summoned and the Magic items that he was using, things were going so fast that it reminded her of the of the [Conquest].

A cooking competition held between the best known chefs of this world happens once a decade.

They all also have fun during that and seeing him do what he was doing right now, she was certain that she was going to see him in that little competition next time.

However, it was still quite a few years away so, that was that…

'Looks like he's done with the appetisers.'

And oh boy they looked appetising…

'He'll move to the main course then, right?'

His cooking skills were unbelievable.

He understood what it meant to cook for the others, as well as what it meant to cook what he wanted.

He had techniques, and he had knowledge. He also had refined talent and good experience so, as they watched, as clock ticked and the other student neared the completion of their three courses, he had only started working on his dessert.

His plating was pending, his final touches were pending, but he did not care about any of that and just focused on his dessert in the last thirty minutes that he had.

In the normal circumstances, people should be done with their meals by the last thirty minutes like the others were, but as someone who took the longest route, and did the most complicated work, he was still behind the other students.

However, unlike the rest of them, he had prepared a lot more than what was asked of them, which meant he was not planning to feed just thre three of them and the judges.

He even experimented with a few ingredients before getting what he wanted as she understood from what she was seeing.

Things would have been much easier to understand if she could smell the fragrance of the things he was making, her sensitive body would taste it directly through that scent, but since all voice and smell was blocked in hat closed space, except the visual output, none of them knew what exactly was cooking in those pots and pans.

It was troublesome since they couldn't judge what exactly he was making but from what they were seeing alone, they could tell things that they will taste would be interesting…

Yes he was just a student like the rest of them and this was a midterms paper for them, but after seeing how he was talking this test, it was clear that he was not leading it the same as the rest of them.

There aren't going to be any extra points for this paper since it is not a high level or supreme level class.

This was just the first year's first exam so even her hands were tied.

The most he might get from this test was going to be a perfect score, so this wasn't going to be something very helpful to him in his scores.

But, even after knowing that, he was putting in that kind of effort…

She knew what he had just made was not something one could buy with simple money.

It was a form of art that people would spend a fortune to experience just once… she didn't know what it would taste like, but if it was as special as she thought it would be, she knew this presentation would be one of the best she had ever seen in an academyan academy test.

It's not everyday one gets to have food like that.

Even if he messes up the entire thing and it doesn't taste any special, the ingredients that he had used, the simple things that he had processed and enhanced were going to be explosive when they hit the taste buds.

She had a particularly sensitive tongue.

She was in fact a creature that experienced the earthly elements in their purest forms, as well as in the most natural form that they were presented to her.

She had some unique skills related to taste and food and natural qualities of a substance, so… when it came to the Food meant only for the fortunate ones, she was an expert that the creators from all over the world feared.

It wasn't easy to please her. It certainly wasn't simple to get compliments from her either.

Her position in this academy was unique since many of the teachers working alongside her were taught by her at one point.

So…

After not only getting amazed at his cooking skills, but after also seeing all those creation techniques, she was expecting the end results— his unique cooking to be something as satisfying as this unbearable wait.

"Last ten minutes! Start plating if you have not finished yet!"

He wasn't done with his dessert yet.

It seemed like he had made some mistakes and had to do a lot of things again and again.

He did not have enough time left anymore, but… she knew he would finish it.

After working at that kind of speed, she knew he would make it even by the last second of their given time.