Chapter 686: A Feast to Avoid?
Chapter 686: A Feast to Avoid?
It seems like the Performance Master has successfully deceived the Master Chef, and I've managed to pass this trial.
As the intense gaze fixed on him began to shift towards the little female cleaner, Lyon, who was eating with fervor, couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
While he could accept most other director positions, the role of Crab Director was truly beyond his comfort zone. The idea of passionately kissing a three-hundred-pound fat old man for several days was simply beyond his tolerance.
However, despite his reluctance to become the Crab Director, Lyon was very interested in the Crab Palace Secret Techniques. After all, if he could learn this secret art, he would have mastered five of the Twelve Palace Secrets.
If, in the future, he managed to learn the remaining half of the secrets and became proficient in all twelve, he felt there was a high probability of obtaining an incredibly prestigious badge, perhaps even on par with the Drunken Immortal.
I want both purity and the badge!
Lyon secretly opened the panel and gazed at the four radiant Secret Art Heirs. His determination to achieve his goal was solidified.
To learn the Crab Secret Art without being bound to the position, Lyon knew he had to tread carefully in this selection process. He must neither perform too poorly and lose the chance to learn the secret art nor excel to the point where the Crab Director takes a liking to him.
After all, judging by how this big shot director caught and cooked the Twinfish Director, he might not be as reasonable as the latter. If he truly set his sights on Lyon, even if Lyon refused, the director might not give up easily.
The best strategy, therefore, was to stick close to the flat-chested cleaner beside him. By performing slightly worse than her but significantly better than others, Lyon could portray a sense of "nearness yet distance" and "inadequate but capable." Only then could he successfully avoid the deadly kiss of the Crab Director.
The plan is perfect!
"What?!"
Lyon immediately feigned surprise and, amidst the Crab Director's disappointed expression, hastily dropped his knife and fork. He then lightly touched the fresh sashimi on his plate with his fingertips.
"Sizzle"
[Name: Feast of the Body - Leon Ryan (Miracle, Flesh, Soul)]
[Appearance: Variable, but mostly takes the form of delicious cuisine. Currently, it is a plate of freshly sliced blackfin tuna sashimi.]
[Abilities: Feast of the Flesh, Flesh Restoration, Soul Sorting]
[Cost: Paid by the feast's host, but no intelligent being can join the feast again before complete annihilation.]
[File: The current Crab Director of the Purification Bureau. Following the wishes of his late friend, Charles McLaren, Lyon extracted the master chef's obsession and skills from his soul after his passing.
The former Aquarius Director of the Purification Bureau then used the Anomaly Creation secret art to craft this unique anomaly, using Charles McLaren's skills and obsession as a foundation.
All guests invited to this feast will savor exquisite dishes made from their own existence. After consuming their representative dishes, their flesh and soul will be sorted, filling in imperfections, healing wounds, and achieving a theoretically perfect state.]
[Evaluation: Eating is the prerequisite for sustaining life, and consuming certain existences to sustain oneself, only to be consumed by other existences at life's end, is the ultimate fate of nearly all beings. Only the self-consuming oroboros snake can sustain itself through self-consumption.]
Thus, the Feast of the Body hosted by the Crab Director himself, also known as the Feast of the Tail, allows all the guests to devour their past selves like the Ouroboros Snake and attain a perfectly renewed state.
【Imbued Value: 60】
Holy shit!
Even though Lyon knew from the start that the Crab Director was unlikely to harm anyone during the selection process and that the explicit scene was merely a facade, he couldn't help but gasp in shock after learning the specific effects of the Feast of the Body.
Flesh Restoration, Soul Sorting, Wound Healing, Purging Ailments, and achieving the most ideal state under theoretical conditions... Each of these effects could be described as a complete transformation!
After swallowing the "fish meat" that was cool, sweet, and tender in texture, Lyon rubbed his fingertips together and noticed that the calluses on his palms and fingers had unknowingly faded, and his skin had become fair and smooth.
Furthermore, the sunburn marks from working under the scorching sun, the scar on his arm from a factory gear, the slightly forward-leaning neck and spine, and the knuckle that had remained slightly crooked after a sprain two years ago without timely bone-setting...
The moment the "fish meat" entered his stomach, the injuries on this body suddenly seemed much shallower, and even the joints felt a bit itchy, as if undergoing a second growth spurt.
"It's fine, go ahead and eat."
Lyon instinctively turned his head and glanced at the Crab Director, who was smiling kindly. He then patted the panicked female cleaner on the shoulder and said, "The Crab Noble won't harm us. This dish is truly amazing."
"I... I'm not saying I don't trust the Crab Noble..."
Hearing Lyon's confident judgment, the female cleaner, aware of his abilities, finally calmed down a little. After awkwardly nodding to the Crab Director in apology, she leaned in and whispered urgently, "But this is too scary! You... Oh my! You can't see the details! You have no idea how terrifying you look right now! If you could see it, you'd be too scared to eat even a bite!"
Sorry, I can see everything, but I'm enjoying the meal.
Lyon glanced at the female cleaner, who was full of resistance, and felt a bit guilty as he was planning to use her as a human shield to escape the Crab Director's deadly kiss.
After a brief pause, Lyon raised the fork in his hand and lightly tapped the female cleaner's plate, comforting her softly, "Go ahead and eat. This really has benefits, and they're incredibly huge!"
"But... But after you started eating, your bodies split open, and various parts were dangling everywhere. It looked like..."
"Eat, it'll enhance your bust."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
After a long silence, the female cleaner lowered her head, picked up her plate, and silently returned to her seat. She then closed her eyes tightly, picked up the knife and fork, and savagely skewered a piece of raw fish, trembling as she swallowed it whole without chewing.
She then skewered another piece, and another.
After finishing everything on her plate, she still wasn't satisfied. She even turned the plate over and started licking it with her tongue, cleaning it thoroughly, including the large piece of wasabi on the side, until her eyes were teary.
(End of Chapter)
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