Reborn in Japan as a Chef God
Chapter 111: Keep a Good Attitude

Chapter 111: Chapter 111: Keep a Good Attitude

"System, I remember I have a lottery spin that I haven’t used yet, right?"

Communicating with the system, Xia Yu asked directly.

"Yes, you completed the bet task with the ’Divine Tongue’ Eriina Tiqie, and you have earned one system lottery spin opportunity," the unique mechanical voice of the system inexplicably reassured Xia Yu.

"Then let’s start!"

"Request accepted!"

Beep.

A lottery panel appeared on his retina, with the start option beneath the pointer. Next to it were densely packed annotations, merely introductions about reward categories like ingredients, kitchenware, recipes, consumables, and special items.

With a previous lottery experience, Xia Yu immediately ignored the text, took a deep breath, and didn’t overthink about whether his bloodline was European or African, those trivial matters, and gently clicked the start option on the roulette wheel with his mind.

The roulette’s crystal pointer immediately started spinning at high speed under his gaze. Xia Yu tried to keep his mind blank, without unnecessary expectations. The higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment. At this moment, one should remain calm, calm!

"Stop—"

He shouted, and with his command, the pointer gradually slowed down. Xia Yu’s attention was instead drawn to the reward icons on the roulette.

Silently counting in his mind, he realized his luck wasn’t bad this time, out of 24 slots, there were actually 4 slots glowing with golden light, all talent/skill icons, indicating a pretty high jackpot rate.

The ’Divine Tongue’ talent icon appeared again, a golden tongue icon, dazzling.

The second was the ’Divine Sense of Smell,’ a nose icon.

"Huh!"

Xia Yu suddenly noticed with surprise, the third one was a single eye, the pupil surface covered with a layer of data grid, could it be, could it be the super vision talent that allows one to copy others’ cooking skills and steal others’ recipes?

Even though he kept hinting to himself to remain calm, his heart couldn’t help speeding up, and the blood was rushing to his head!

This was the talent he most wanted to obtain!

The power of super vision was beyond doubt. Crucially, it allowed him to quickly improve his culinary skills, compensating for deficiencies in the basics. Additionally, Divine Tongue had a similar effect, tasting others’ dishes, learning others’ cooking skills, and casually making the recipes his own.

Thinking about it, Xia Yu realized that whether it was the divine level talents in Food Wars, or talents from the Chinese culinary world, or even the talents in Gourmet Hunters which hadn’t been showcased yet, all were incredibly beneficial to him. So he simply decided not to fret over it, thinking that any god-level talent would be worthwhile!

His gaze returned to the pointer on the roulette, which was gradually slowing down.

"This, this..."

Xia Yu was dumbfounded. This time, it wasn’t just his heart racing, but his entire body’s blood was boiling!

"Stop! Stop quickly!"

Seeing the pointer slow down, almost stopping at a slot glowing with golden light, Xia Yu couldn’t contain his excitement, his eyes fixed on the pointer, his breath echoing in the Chef God Space.

But soon, Xia Yu was dumbfounded.

The pointer was about to stop, but it just moved slightly forward, stopping on the dividing line between two slots.

With the naked eye, it was really hard to tell which slot the pointer favored. Xia Yu swallowed, as if listening to the final death sentence, listening to the system’s prompt message:

"Ding, the host has received a [Fame Package] (medium) *1."

Blinking, Xia Yu opened the inventory, looked at the package in the third slot, and a bunch of black question marks and exclamation points flew across his cluttered mind.

Tragedy!

A human tragedy!

Xia Yu even heard the sound of his own heart breaking. To describe the feeling, it was as if ten thousand alpacas were galloping through his heart. If he had heart disease or high blood pressure, Xia Yu was really afraid he would drop dead in the Chef God Space.

A golden god-level talent slipped away!

After a few minutes of deep breathing, Xia Yu managed to cage the rampant beast in his heart. He felt the deep malice from the Chef God System, so he decided that next time he used the lottery wheel, he would directly extract the result. Otherwise, this kind of tragedy was more likely than not to happen again, and his heart wouldn’t withstand a second blow.

Forcefully reversing his mentally explosive state.

The second system lottery spin ended there. Xia Yu clicked on the package in the inventory, softly calling out "use"!

"System: You have received 5000 Fame Points."

Raising an eyebrow.

This outcome was quite unexpected. Xia Yu had thought a medium Fame Package would reward him with just a few hundred Fame Points, but it turned out to be a full 5000 Fame Points, equivalent to half a piece of purple kitchenware or a purple recipe!

"Not bad at all!" he thought with delight.

"Medium Fame Package, the fame draw range is 5000 points - 10000 points, please check, host!" the system suddenly reminded, and this time the mechanical voice sounded so cold and pitiless to Xia Yu’s ears.

"..."

Looking up at the sky, the corners of his eyes shimmered with tears. Xia Yu could only accept the fact that he had an African lineage.

The minimum! The minimum! The minimum!

Fame Points were actually the minimum reward for a medium Fame Package!

A bunch of gibberish floated in his head. Xia Yu took a deep breath, "It’s okay, it’s okay, just think of it as building reputation, yes, building reputation, next time I will definitely get something good!"

"I have a great attitude!"

Constant self-suggestion pulled his mentality firmly back.

Looking on the bright side, with these Fame Points credited, Xia Yu realized he suddenly became quite wealthy.

Five thousand Fame Points could purchase 5 pieces of blue kitchenware or about 10 blue recipes, but he couldn’t let the excitement go to his head when shopping in the mall. Planning was essential. Xia Yu pondered, opening his task list:

"Task 1— ’World Full of Peaches and Plums’ (Part 1)."

"Task 2— ’Initial Use of Fantasy Ingredients.’"

The first task was the one where he decided to accept the joint appointment from Far Moon and the IGO institution, automatically acquiring the instructor series task.

It could be said that the Far Moon series tasks were the main reason Xia Yu was determined to become a guest lecturer. In other words, it was for the Fame Points, considering them a way to earn fame, while the little teaching salary on the appointment agreement wasn’t really appealing to him.

"’World Full of Peaches and Plums’ (Part 1): The first step to conquering Far Moon, earn the sincere recognition of 10 Far Moon students.

Reward—3 Free Talent Points."

"’Initial Use of Fantasy Ingredients’: Shuangjiang Tofu is the first hunter fantasy ingredient you encountered. Try to integrate it into your recipe ’Magical Mapo Tofu,’ improve the recipe.

Reward—’Great Magic Panda Tofu’ (Purple)."

One task grants talent points, the other a recipe.

There’s no need to mention the recipe; the purple label made Xia Yu’s eyes gleam with green light.

As for talent points, their importance goes without saying.

In Xia Yu’s understanding, the culinary level granted by the Chef God System actually had the greatest utility in providing a stable reward of talent points at each level, so he wouldn’t face the awkward situation of having skills and talents but lacking talent points to level them up.

However, the system clearly marked that the culinary level cap was 100. This meant that by reaching the maximum level, he could obtain at most 100 free talent points.

Are 100 talent points a lot? Xia Yu just shook his head.

For example, the Heart of Cooking talent needed an investment of 40 talent points to progress from beginner to intermediate to advanced to god-level, requiring 10 talent points per big level.

With the remaining 60 talent points to allocate among other skills and talents, it was clearly a tight fit, not nearly enough.

Therefore, tasks that rewarded talent points should be cherished like a first love.

Xia Yu’s mind was clear, having long sorted out the relationship between culinary level, talent points, and culinary skills and talents.