Everyone was done with their boss' run, and now, an air of laid-backness was hovering above.
Everyone has made significant advances in harvesting around, and thanks to that, we have surplus of luxurious ingredients at our hand to use.
As the sun was about to set, we eventually decided to rest our exploration, harvest and boss run. We set-up our tent in the safety area of the lower floors and shifted to have a lavish dinner.
However, there was a big problem. A very big problem.
We have so many high-grade ingredients that it was getting harder to choose a single one.
It was Lana and Karua, who hardly brood over their choices, passed a helping hand to me, which led to the current situation.
I lined-up <Mogyu's Beef Chuck> that both of them had chosen. Ah, what a tempting sight. I couldn't wait to drip them with Hannah's special sauce and grill them.
"So we're going to have barbecue for dinner as well, Zephyr? I want to eat curry."
"You just choose meat copying Lana, huh?"
Karua looked at me with 'was it so?' look.
I had already informed before, but I guess she just forgot. What a forgetful girl, aye.
I explained to her once again.
"<Ultra Curry Tool> is already at work. You will have hot, delicious curry ready in just another 10 minutes. We are currently choosing meat for the BBQ."
"Oh. Great."
Karua's eyes shone with an unprecedented shine at my reply.
Actually, our dinner was supposed to be only BBQ just like lunch, but we got lucky and obtained a high-grade curry making tool from the treasure chest, so we decided to add curry to the menu at the last minute.
Curry always sounds good in moments like this!
Alas, curry's take too long to prepare, alongside the hefty preparation. So I had originally skipped it from the menu since we have a limited amount of time to use this extra dungeon.
Though, of course it wasn't a problem with the curry making tool drop.
High-grade automatic curry making tool is an amazing item, we don't need to have a cooking related job to operate it, it can make large amounts of curry easily, and the prepared curry also comes with buff. You can just put the ingredients in, and it will do the rest. You don't even need to peel the vegetables.
You wouldn't even notice when the vegetables are peeled and chopped into bite-sized pieces and you will have thoroughly simmered delicious curry ready in just 15 minutes. (Though I don't know where those peels went)
I just have to cook rice only.
In the game, however, there was a skip option. Though, it's impossible in reality, and you can only wait for it to be cooked. Not to say, waiting for curry to be prepared with everyone is fun.
All the ingredients used were something anyone could obtain from this dungeon, including curry powder, and all of them were high-grade ingredients from this 10th floor. The meat of choice was the superb beef chuck that <Boss Mogyu> dropped.
Now, all that was left was to wait for it to be ready. I couldn't help but feel excited. I wonder how delicious it will be?
"Now that you get it, wait for curry to be cooked."
"Yes sir, I've firmly etched it into my memory."
Karua nodded with an attentive look, which was rare for her, when I explained so. Indeed, a glutton she is, huh.
"It smells so great. I can feel my stomach rumbling in excitement."
Lana chimed in with a smile at the wafting aroma of BBQ and curry.
"I'm almost done grilling the vegetables as well. Please wait just a few minutes."
So said Ester, holding tongs on one hand and grilling vegetables on one of the three BBQ grills. Shizu and Celestine are handling the grilling of vegetables and meat on the remaining two.
Aside from them, Hannah is in charge of <Beef Chuck>. She's using the <Meat Blaster> we had obtained from the <Gold Chest> earlier to grill it.
"But I can't wait for so long. Isn't there something that can be whipped super quick?"
"Unfortunately, there's no skip function. Skill can make it happen but we don't have any members with cooking skill, so wait for the dishes to be ready."
"What do you mean by skip function?"
"Nothing, don't mind it.
On this note, there are items that can dish out dishes instantly, but it's on the assumption that the person has a job related to <Cook> etc, which we don't have. All we can do without skip function is just wait.
Just then, the door to the boss's room opened. Five people, who were challenging the boss, stepped out of the room.
"Here's your item back, Zephyr, Thanks for the <Flute>."
So said Sierra, representing the group.
I received and stored away the flute. I guess it's time to take it to recover, flute count has dropped.
Then Lulu, Celia, Pamela and Rika appeared in succession.
They had gone to challenge the rare boss with a healer-less party, and judging from their expression, it seemed to have gone well. Well, it was a party full of tanks.
Speaking of, the rare boss trio is composed of <Boss Minotaur>, <Boss Orc> and <Boss Cockatrice>. All three of them are bipideal and can use weapons too, so they're quite strong.
As a rare boss, their status was obviously a step above regular boss, each of them scaled up to the strength of Int-low boss.
Their unique skill is also quite strong, though it kind of has an incomprehensible name, passed in the blink of an eye.