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"A UNIVERSE DESTROYED?? ENSLAVING THE RED NITRO??"
After hearing Yuuki's explanation, Nono was completely in a state of shock. Forget about universes—she didn't even enter the Gourmet World on her own planet yet.
But the matter of the Nitro had already touched upon the destruction of a universe. This scale was something she simply couldn't imagine.
As for the Blue Nitro enslaving the Red Nitro, she also felt there was a big problem.
Though they were part of the same race and hadn't had any interaction before, it didn't mean it was right for the Blue Nitro to enslave the Red Nitro.
If it were her, in this situation, she might have a friendly exchange, or she might just ignore them. But she would never think of enslaving them. It could only be said that in the eyes of the vast majority of humans, the Blue Nitro were trash. Of course, this only applied to humans. For other races, it was different.
After all, whether it was the Appetite Demon race or the beasts, they always believed in the law of the jungle.
....
"We don't need to think too much about these problems. After all, this isn't a realm we can touch. Wait a moment, let me see if I can translate these characters."
Yuuki said. He had told Nono because the topic had come up. As for right and wrong and other things, he didn't plan to get involved. After all, he didn't have the ability right now.
If you wanted to manage these things, you had to improve your own strength. Only when your strength reached that level could you do such things. Otherwise, thinking about it was useless.
At this moment, he was trying to translate the Nitro characters. While he had gotten the cookbook before and had translated most of the characters on it, that book didn't contain all the characters of the Nitro race.
So, now that he had run into a Nitro ruin and these characters, he naturally had to try to translate them. Even though some of the characters were incomplete—he had an Evolving Vision that surpassed Coco's.
Coco could complete a partial mural with his vision. Yuuki's ability was even stronger, so completing these characters was not a problem.
A completed character couldn't be completely deciphered, he could use the characters he could already read to decipher the others. While it was a bit troublesome, as long as there were enough characters, he could gradually translate them.
The process of reading the characters didn't take much time. Soon, he had translated most of the content.
"Chef Yuuki, have you deciphered it already?"
Seeing him stop, Nono couldn't help but ask. She couldn't read these characters. For him to be able to decipher even the language of the Nitro race, she was very surprised—and her admiration for him grew even more.
"I've deciphered it. These characters record a part of the establishment of the Former Biotope 1 and information on various ingredients. Most critically, there's also information about that thing."
Yuuki said, pointing to the massive sealing device.
"Information about an ingredient from Acacia's Special Menu??"
Hearing this, Nono was shocked again. She didn't know what ingredient was sealed inside. She never thought she would get the answer here.
"That's right. According to the Red Nitro's records, what's sealed in there should be the last Wolf Fire Dragon in this world."
Yuuki nodded, telling her what the sealed ingredient was.
"Wolf Fire Dragon? That name sounds familiar. I think I've seen... records of it somewhere."
"It's said that this species is on par with the Battle Wolf species. But the book only recorded that much!"
Nono remembered the information about the Wolf Fire Dragon. In their past studies, they had to be very clear about the information of various ingredients. Otherwise, walking in the world would be very dangerous.
Although the information on the ingredients from the Gourmet World wasn't complete, they had what Setsuno and Jiro had collected, so she also knew a little about the Wolf Fire Dragon.
"That's right. According to the records here, the Wolf Fire Dragon race lost in a competition with the Battle Wolf, and in the end, the entire race was destroyed by them."
"The Red Nitro captured the last one and sealed it here."
"And there's also some introduction about the Wolf Fire Dragon here..."
Yuuki looked at the text and explained. Before, he had thought that the Wolf Fire Dragon being on par with the Battle Wolf was complete nonsense.
Normally in the Gourmet World, a massive size didn't mean slow speed. The most typical examples were the Horse King and the Snake King.
The Horse King was twenty-two kilometers tall and thirty kilometers long. this massive size was like a moving giant mountain, but its speed was not slow. When fighting, its speed was even more terrifying.
The Snake King was even more so. Its body was hundreds of thousands of kilometers long, but its movement speed was astonishingly fast.
A massive size didn't mean slow speed. And the Wolf Fire Dragon's performance in the original story might have been due to being sealed for a long time, such a slow speed couldn't be entirely due to the seal.
In other words, the Wolf Fire Dragon race was inherently a slow species. A massive size paired with slow speed... in the Gourmet World, that was quite fatal.
And the Battle Wolf race, though its size was also very large to humans, for the creatures of the Gourmet World, its size was actually considered small.
A small size, fast speed, and strong attack power... these species ware terrifying in a fight. But now, according to these Red Nitro records, Yuuki finally knew why the two were on par.
The Wolf Fire Dragon race indeed had a hard time fighting against the Battle Wolf race. But it also had a very special characteristic: Its power was more targeted at the soul.
This reminded Yuuki of Girim. After eating the Wolf Fire Dragon in the original story, the Appetite Demon apparition he released had also turned into a Wolf Fire Dragon.
The Wolf Fire Dragon was a living creature, not an appetite, not an Appetite Demon. That was certain. So, it absolutely couldn't become an Appetite Demon.
But what Girim released when fighting Toriko was indeed a Wolf Fire Dragon. Now, Yuuki had finally found the answer: the soul of the Wolf Fire Dragon race was very strong.
When a normal creature died, its soul would enter the World of Souls. But the Wolf Fire Dragon was different. After death, its soul would remain in its body for a period of time.
During this time, if other creatures ate its flesh, they would be influenced by it.
Of course, it wasn't possession. The soul of the Wolf Fire Dragon would only affect the consciousness of the creature that ate its flesh, making them lose their reason and become incredibly arrogant.
You know, the Wolf Fire Dragon was a creature that lived in the Gourmet World. In the Gourmet World, besides beings like the Eight Kings, if other creatures developed such a mentality, they would almost be doomed.
At that time, these creatures that had eaten the flesh of the Wolf Fire Dragon wouldn't care if their enemies were stronger than them. They would attack them as if they had gone berserk.
It could be said that the Wolf Fire Dragon was a kind of flesh curse. The influence on Girim in the original story was very great.
The corrosive ability of its flesh was already strong, and he had swallowed it alive. As a result, he was greatly affected and ended up in that state.
....
After Yuuki told Nono some of the introduction about the Wolf Fire Dragon, she also knew the terror of this ingredient.
"I didn't expect there to be such a horrifying ingredient in this world. Eating it without knowing would be a dead end!"
Nono said with some shock.
"It's not necessarily a dead end. As long as you have a strong enough soul, you can resist the corrosion of the Wolf Fire Dragon. These Nitros can easily do it."
Yuuki said.
While these Red Nitro weren't strong, they had long lifespans. The long time had continuously polished their souls—so their souls were very strong—and while the flesh of the Wolf Fire Dragon would corrode the soul, it couldn't even stir up a wave in the souls of the Red Nitro and would be directly devoured.
The Red Nitro had discovered this when they ate the flesh of the Wolf Fire Dragon.
But the flesh of the Wolf Fire Dragon also had a positive effect. As long as the soul resisted and was not affected, you could counter-devour it. After devouring the soul of the Wolf Fire Dragon, you could strengthen your own soul.
So, in a sense, the Wolf Fire Dragon was a soul ingredient. But the premise was that your soul had to be stronger than it. Otherwise, it was all for naught, and you would fall into its trap yourself.
Yuuki didn't dare to gamble, so he planned to kill the Wolf Fire Dragon and let its flesh sit for a period of time to ensure its soul had dissipated before eating it.
....
Taking Nono, Yuuki came to a plain. There were a large number of Regal Mammoths here. It was hard to imagine the scene of dozens of them running together.
If you got a little closer, it was a super earthquake that surpassed a magnitude 12.
But for Super-strong beings like him and Nono, it wasn't a problem.
Looking at these Regal Mammoths, Yuuki's calories formed a series of flying needles, which quickly pierced into their bodies.
In the blink of an eye, all the Regal Mammoths stopped in place, motionless. The Knocking was complete.
"ROARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"
Just as he finished the Knocking and was about to go and capture the Jewel Meat, a massive roar suddenly came, and then a behemoth fell from the sky, its target being these Regal Mammoths.
"A Savannah Dragon!"
Seeing its figure, Yuuki naturally recognized it. A Savannah Dragon, a distant relative of the Tundra Dragon from the Ice Hell. Their color, size, and strength were all different.
The strength of this Savannah Dragon was close to level 100. At this moment, its target was these Regal Mammoths.
This Savannah Dragon looked more like a dragon than the Tundra Dragon.
But for Yuuki, they were all ingredients—there was no difference. He already had a Camping Monster prepared for him by Jiro—he didn't need this Savannah Dragon.
And taming such a beast was very troublesome. He didn't have time to waste on it.
As the Savannah Dragon approached, Yuuki's Knocking also caught up. The next second, the massive dragon fell directly next to the Regal Mammoths.
"My prey is not for you to touch."
Yuuki looked at the Savannah Dragon in front of him. He had already considered it his own food reserve. For the Regal Mammoths, he was only taking the Jewel Meat. But this Savannah Dragon was a solid ingredient.
He naturally wouldn't let such an ingredient go.
Later, Yuuki captured a lot of Jewel Meat. But because Nono was here, he didn't put it in his storage space but used Knocking on the ingredients.
The purpose of this Knocking was also very clear: to preserve freshness. This was a mid-level Knocking technique.
Just like many ingredients that were knocked for hundreds of years and were still alive—the same went for this Preservation Knocking. It could keep ingredients in their freshest state for decades.
This was actually the prototype of Eternal Knocking. Yuuki could now easily keep these ingredients in this optimal state for a hundred years.
As for Nono, she had originally wanted to help freeze these ingredients. Her freezing was different from normal freezing—it also had a similar effect to Preservation Knocking. As long as the time limit was not exceeded, the ingredients would always be fresh.
There was no need to worry about them turning into a pile of zombie meat like when you put them in the refrigerator.
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