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After handing the ingredients over to Setsuno and the others, Yuuki continued his hunt.
It wasn't until he and Nono were passing a mountain that they saw a very peculiar stone monument.
"Chef Yuuki, look! There are more written records left by the Red Nitro over there!"
Nono said. The sight of it felt strangely familiar to Yuuki. When he saw the characters on it, he finally knew why.
"So it's this thing. Let's see, the activation method is..."
Yuuki looked at the content on the monument and began to tamper with it. Soon, the Nitro characters on the stone seemed to charge up, emitting a blue light.
"What's happening?"
Seeing this, Nono asked with confusion. The other records hadn't reacted like this.
"This is an activation device. It records that the Red Nitro race stored a giant grill here. As long as you can read the text, you'll know how to activate it."
The moment Yuuki's voice fell, the entire Former Biotope 1 began to shake.
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"WHAT'S GOING ON? AN EARTHQUAKE?"
Back at their camp, Setsuno and Granny Ayame felt the vibrations. Ayame was stunned—it was the first time she had felt an earthquake since coming here.
"It's not an earthquake. Something is coming out."
Setsuno could feel that the vibration was caused by something emerging from the earth. Soon, the stone monuments on the various mountain peaks shot upwards.
One by one, the devices were activated. Massive metal arms extended from them, connecting to the surrounding mountaintops.
Soon, a giant metal network, covering a fifth of the entire Former Biotope 1, had appeared.
"What is this thing? Ayame, do you know?"
Looking at the enormous metal network, Setsuno couldn't help but ask. She had no idea such a thing existed here. It wasn't in any of the IGO's records.
She didn't think President Ichiryu would hide information from her—she had access to anything she wanted to check in the IGO's database.
And Ichiryu wasn't the type to deliberately keep secrets from her, unless it was dangerous. But she couldn't sense the slightest hint of danger.
"I don't know. This is the first time I've seen it. Maybe it has something to do with Yuuki and Nono. Let's go have a look!"
Granny Ayame suggested.
Before they arrived, everything here had been peaceful. But after they came, this had happened. She would never believe it had nothing to do with him.
"Let's go see then!"
Though she couldn't sense Yuuki's aura, she could clearly sense Nono's. Following it, the two of them soon found their location.
....
"Looks like you two know what's going on. Care to explain?"
Seeing the two of them standing next to a stone monument from which the metal was extending, Setsuno knew they were involved.
"It's like this, Master. When Chef Yuuki and I were passing by, we saw this monument with Nitro text on it. Chef Yuuki can decipher the content, so we stopped."
"The monument recorded that a giant barbecue grill was hidden here, and the activation method was on it. So, Chef Yuuki activated it."
Nono explained what had happened.
"You can already completely decipher their language?"
Setsuno didn't know what to say...
While Yuuki had deciphered the cookbook before—it was far from the complete Nitro language. But how long had it been? And he had already deciphered everything from the remaining text here.
"Not all of it, but close enough. As long as there are enough Nitro characters, I can figure out the meaning from the general context and then piece it together."
Yuuki said.
Though he made it sound easy, both Setsuno and Granny Ayame were speechless. In this world, only he could probably decipher an entire race's language so easily.
"So..."
Looking at the massive metal frame, Setsuno asked again.
"That's right, it's a barbecue grill. The switch is right here!"
With that, Yuuki fiddled with a spot on the monument. Instantly, a massive amount of fire erupted from the grill.
"The Nitros were all big eaters. It's not that hard to understand them building a grill this big!"
Yuuki said with a smile.
"It seems Acacia-sama's real Hidden Menu was this grill, not the ingredient sealed in there."
Setsuno made the same guess as in the original story, believing this was Acacia's Hidden Menu.
Yuuki didn't offer his own opinion. He didn't know if Acacia had discovered the issue here back then, but it didn't matter. He couldn't be bothered with it... it was just a barbecue grill.
"Since this is the Gourmet God Acacia's Hidden Menu, then there's probably no need to unseal the ingredient, right?"
Granny Ayame said. While she had already transplanted most of the Corona Sunflowers, she still felt it was better not to undo the seal unless necessary.
"No, no, we still have to undo the seal. Because the ingredient inside is also a very good one..."
With that, Yuuki told the two of them the specific information about the Wolf Fire Dragon, including the issue with its soul.
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"An ingredient that involves the soul... no wonder the Wolf Fire Dragon could be on par with the Battle Wolf back then. A pity their race was still wiped out in the end!"
Setsuno finally understood what made the Wolf Fire Dragon special.
"So your Reviver techniques can also revive an ingredient like this?"
Granny Ayame, who already knew Yuuki was an all-rounder but didn't know the extent of his proficiency as a Reviver, once again caught the key point in his idea. Yuuki could actually revive an ingredient like the Wolf Fire Dragon.
"It's not a difficult matter. For a Reviver at our level, reviving an ingredient like the Wolf Fire Dragon is as simple as it gets."
Yuuki stated.
The ability of a Reviver was incredibly powerful. In the original story, Mohyan Shaishai had revived the Four-Beast after it was defeated by Ichiryu, and Yosaku could revive the Gourmet Show Window.
He had even revived the flower field that nurtured EARTH. Yuuki's skills were in no way inferior to those two—he could naturally revive the Wolf Fire Dragon with ease.
"It's probably only 'not difficult' for you!"
Setsuno rolled her eyes. There were very few people in this world who could say such a thing. Yuuki just happened to be one of them. And most critically, he had reached such a height in just a few short months.
"Well, let's not talk about that. Since this grill is already out, let's use it. I'll go capture the ingredients. How about you three handle the cooking?"
Yuuki asked.
Hearing this, the three of them nodded. It was clear they also wanted to try out this grill.
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Just like that, Yuuki was responsible for capturing the ingredients, and the others were responsible for cooking. Soon, a series of giant skewers were made. Besides that, Yuuki also found the place where the Red Nitro had stored their cooking utensils.
These utensils were specially made for making giant skewers. After he found them, it became much more convenient for Setsuno and the others. After all, making giant skewers required a lot of things.
The skewers they had made before were all made by cutting down and shaping the giant trees here.
But now, the giant utensils stored by the Red Nitro had solved this problem. There were giant metal skewers and various tools for making seasonings.
In the end, it took less than an hour to make over a hundred giant skewers.
Each skewer weighed dozens of tons. Such a weight was completely unimaginable for an ordinary person, but for Yuuki and the others, eating it was very simple.
"This firepower is really something."
Granny Ayame said with a sigh. Normal flames could hardly cook through super-large chunks of meat. So, as powerful chefs, they naturally had special fire-handling techniques.
Komatsu had learned a lot of these techniques after returning from the Gourmet World in the original story, carrying a floating stove and flames with him.
Those were all special techniques and materials from the Gourmet World.
Yuuki had originally thought about using his own ability to heat them, but this grill was clearly not normal. It wasn't just big. And now, they had made these excellent giant skewers.
"By the way, Yuuki, here's the Corona Sunflower you wanted."
With that, Granny Ayame handed the Corona Sunflower to him. Seeing it, he didn't bother with the giant meat skewers anymore. What he wanted to eat now was this.
It was already night. The interior simulated the outside environment, so when it was night outside, the Former Biotope 1 would also enter night.
Eating the Corona Sunflower was easy. You just had to twist it and squeeze out the single drop of golden liquid inside.
This was all its essence.
In the original story, Toriko had an explosive power-up after eating it and had defeated Girim. There might have been some exaggeration in the anime, but Yuuki felt this ingredient was not normal.
The moment he drank it, his body began to emit a dazzling golden light. His aura began to skyrocket, and his Gourmet Cells directly activated, his muscles constantly expanding.
He could clearly feel an incomparably scorching power entering his body. Not only were his Gourmet Cells strengthened, but even his Inferno ability had changed.
The incandescent white flames gradually turned into a pure gold. The golden flames seemed to be able to burn everything, spreading around his body.
"WHAT IS THAT FLAME?? EVERYONE, GET BACK!"
Although she didn't feel any high temperature, seeing the scene of the flames burning everything around him, Setsuno felt a hint of danger and pulled Nono and Granny Ayame back.
At this moment, in a radius of several meters around Yuuki, everything was burned to nothingness. He was just floating in mid-air.
"Ayame, the Corona Sunflower is your and Girim's partner ingredient. Did this happen when you ate it before?"
Setsuno asked after pulling the two of them back to a certain distance. The commotion he was making was a bit too big, and it was related to the Corona Sunflower he had just eaten, so she had to find out what was going on.
"I don't know. When Girim and I ate it before, nothing like this ever happened. Our bodies would just glow, that's all. But this..."
Granny Ayame also didn't know where these flames had come from. And looking at him, his reaction was much stronger than hers and Girim's.
"Nothing like this happened to you? Could it be because the Corona Sunflower is a perfect match for Yuuki's ingredients?"
At this moment, Setsuno could only guess. After all, she knew he had a flame ability. It was just that his flames were white before. But now, they weren't white anymore—they were a pure gold.
And these golden flames were much stronger than his previous white ones. They could even make her feel danger.
Just as they were guessing what was going on, the flames quickly receded, eventually disappearing. Yuuki's body also returned to its normal state.
"Sorry everyone, the effect of the Corona Sunflower was a bit too good just now, so I couldn't suppress it for a moment."
Yuuki said. The benefits the Corona Sunflower had brought him had truly exceeded his imagination.
Besides activating his cells and making him a lot stronger in one go, the most critical thing was that it had caused his Inferno to evolve again.
The Corona Sunflower had absorbed a large amount of sunlight, and this particular one had existed for a long time.
Perhaps because of the guidance of Food Luck, the one Granny Ayame had brought was the oldest one.
It contained a massive amount of solar energy.
While the ones planted here would continuously supply energy to the sealing device and nutrients to the earth, the energy left in it was still very terrifying.
This one mouthful for Yuuki was equivalent to swallowing the energy of the sun directly into his mouth.
The energy of the sun was not something his flames could compare to.
The combination of the two had ultimately given birth to these pure Golden flames—whose power was who knows how many times greater than his previous white ones.
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