Leveling Up through Eating
chapter-101

Chapter 101: Poisonous Toad King

Translator: ChubbyCheeks

PR: MattForgenti

It was a sign of corrosion. However, Minhyuk’s frying pan was a legendary frying pan and wouldn’t corrode that easily.

With the poison out of the way, Minhyuk hurriedly turned the frying pan and tried to catch the poison that were going to fall on the ground. Then, he quickly reached out in his food storage inventory.

“Do you have any secret weapons for cases like this?”

Rovan anxiously looked at the poisonous toad king as Minhyuk searched through his inventory. Minhyuk nodded his head solemnly as he pulled the item out of his inventory.

“Eo, eomuk……?”

Rovan looked at him with a confused expression on his face.

What Minhyuk pulled out of his inventory was some eomuk. Steaming hot eomuk!

This was something that he prepared and kept in his food storage inventory just in case he got hungry and had no time to cook something.

He swiftly placed the eomuk on the frying pan that was filled with soy sauce. He poked a piece and placed it in his mouth.

The eomuk was lightly covered with the poisonous soy sauce. Once he tasted the poisonous soy sauce, he couldn’t help but open his eyes wide. It was extremely delicious! It wasn’t too salty but the flavor was extremely savory and deep.

[You have taken the poison from the Poisonous Toad King.]

[Your HP is decreasing rapidly.]

[You will fall under a state of hallucination.]

[Eccentric Meal has been triggered. The food penalty has been ignored.]

“…….Nim. How can you eat something like that?!”

Rovan was flabbergasted. He thought that he just pulled out some eomuk since he was hungry due to their continuous battles.

But he dipped it in poison!

On the other hand, Minhyuk was completely fine.

[You have taken the poison from the Poisonous Toad King.]

[You have gained 4 skill points.]

“Chew, chew, chew. Keuheu! Delicious!”

Contrary to what Rovan thought, Minhyuk was in awe of the poison.

Minhyuk, who was happily eating the eomuk dipped in the poisonous soy sauce, met the eyes of the poisonous toad king.

Screeech!

The poisonous toad king took a step back.

When Rovan saw this scene, he couldn’t help but feel for the poisonous toad king. It seemed like he understood what it was feeling at this moment.

‘You have never seen a person like that before, right? Yeah, me too……’

Shaken with fear, the poisonous toad king hurriedly spewed out poison to try and get rid of the man who gave it such a strange ominous feeling.

Puhaaaaaaaaaa!

The pores in its body suddenly opened widely as small poisonous beads shot out from it! The poisonous beads flew to where Minhyuk and Rovan were.

Puhaaaaaaaaack!

[Rampant Sword.]

[A flurry of rampant swords with additional 30% attack power will be created for 6 seconds.]

The flurry of swords clashed with the poisonous beads in the air and stopped it in its tracks. Minhyuk hurriedly opened his mouth to try and catch the poison that was falling on the ground.

“Slurp! Oooooooh. This is not salty so it’s delicious even if you eat it alone!”

It was quite a sight to see. Minhyuk was trying to drink up the poison that flew towards his face. Then, as he slapped the poisonous beads away, he quickly narrowed the distance between him and the poisonous toad king.

The poisonous toad king’s face was suddenly filled with dread and fear. It was slowly backing away.

Minhyuk had thought of catching it alive to extract poison from it.

***

Rovan looked at the poisonous toad king with pity.

When it appeared in front of them, it was filled with pride and dignity.

I am the Great Mage Rafielt’s Poisonous Toad King! I am the boss monster at the end of the Trial of the Seven Deadly Sins’ Gluttony!

However, right now the poisonous toad king was reduced to being a soy sauce extraction tool(?).

Minhyuk, who had captured the poisonous toad king and tied it with a rope, had been catching the poison that it spewed out of its mouth into his frying pan.

And in front of it, Minhyuk was singing happily.

“Hey toad, hey toad. I’ll give you a punch, you give me soy sauce. Hey toad, hey toad. I’ll give you a punch, you give me soy sauce.”

“Puhaaaaaaak!”

“Ooooooooh. Thanks!”

Minhyuk quickly repeated the action of stopping the poison that was spewed out and quickly catching the falling poison with his frying pan.

As time went by, Rovan could see that the body of the poisonous toad king was slowly getting smaller and smaller. Originally, the monster was about the size of a two-ton truck but now it was already half the size of that!

‘Huh……?’

At one point, the body of the poisonous toad king drooped. Then, notifications began to ring in Minhyuk and Rovan’s heads.

[You have leveled up.]

[You have leveled up.]

[You have leveled up.]

[You have leveled up.]

[……leveled up.]

Minhyuk heard ten leveling up notifications. And it did not even end there.

[Class Quest: You have unsealed the Food Fighter’s Legacy Quest.]

He quickly clicked on the quest to check all of the information from the quest.

[Class Quest: Food Fighter’s Legacy]

Rank: ?

Restrictions: Lv150

Rewards: 100,000 EXP

Penalty for Failure: -100 on all of your stats

Description: The story about the life of the Food God as he toured around Athenae had been spread through many myths and legends. As he toured around Athenae, he left plenty of the most delicious and the most magnificent dishes all over the world for his descendants. The Food God has named these dishes: God’s Dishes. There are five God’s Dishes in total. Only the tower master of the Chef’s Tower, Boroto, knows the location of the first dish. Meet with him and confirm the whereabouts of the first God’s Dish.

‘Wow……’

The mere mention of the name made his heart flutter in excitement. It seemed like the Food God had as much appetite as Minhyuk. And that person had personally made and selected five dishes for his descendants!

Minhyuk shook his head as he recalled something.

‘Ah, the Land of Gold’s map!’

This map was something that dropped from the users who ambushed him when he was in the goblin subjugation force. At that time, it was also sealed due to his level. His level had long passed the required level and he could easily check it now.

(The Land of Gold’s Treasure Map)

Restrictions: Lv130

Description: Once you tear the map, you will be warped to the Land of Gold. You will be able to see the location of the treasure during your warp.

Minhyuk nodded his head.

The Land of Gold!

Once he logged out and returned to reality, he would go and investigate this matter properly.

[Party: You have acquired 1,510,230,000 gold.]

[Party: Minhyuk-nim has acquired Great Mage Rafielt’s Cape.]

[Party: Rovan-nim has acquired Great Mage Rafielt’s Staff.]

Minhyuk immediately checked the item that he acquired.

(Great Mage Rafielt’s Cape)

Rank: Epic

Restrictions: Lv250

Durability: 2,500 / 2,500

Defensive Power: 60

Special Abilities:

━ Skill: Invisibility

━ +50 on Magical Defense

━ Ignore all status abnormalities

It was none other than an epic artifact!

Minhyuk had not yet reached the level threshold so he would not be able to wear it immediately. Furthermore, the attached skill was something incredible. It was the invisibility skill. What was more surprising was that the user could attack for two seconds under the state of invisibility. And the ignore all status abnormalities meant that he would be able to ignore all of the abnormal states once he wore the artifact.

Poison, brainwashing, magic, and everything else!

It was a very good reward. And the same was true for the staff that Rovan had received.

“It, it’s an epic! Wow. Luckily it’s an informational artifact!”

The informational artifact that Rovan said was an artifact that you could check and verify even if it was sealed. Minhyuk’s Ellie’s Kitchen Knife could be regarded as an informational artifact. In other words, if you did not reach the level then you would not be able to read the information about that part.

‘I’ll use the skill points so I could master the intermediate level bandaging……!’

Minhyuk used all of the skill points that he gained from eating the poisonous soy sauce from the poisonous toad king on his intermediate level bandaging skill.

[Bandaging Skill has leveled up.]

[Bandaging Skill has leveled up.]

[Bandaging Skill……]

[You have mastered the Intermediate Level Bandaging Skill.]

[You have gained 30 reputation points.]

[Intermediate Bandaging Skill has evolved to Advanced Bandaging Skill.]

[You have unsealed the Bandaging Skill’s Intermediate Level Special Privilege.]

[You have mastered the skill: Material Restoration.]

[You have gained 100 DEX by mastering the Intermediate Special Privilege.]

[Your special privilege for achieving 1,100 Dexterity Points has been given.]

[A special privilege will be generated for a random skill picked out from your skills and abilities related to DEX. Your skills and abilities related to your Food Fighter job class are excluded from the random picking.]

[The Intermediate Blacksmithing Skill has been randomly selected.]

[You can now view the sealed special privilege.]

Minhyuk first checked the Material Restoration.

(Material Restoration)

Active Skill

Level: Master

Mana Required: Depends on the material or ingredient.

Cooldown: None

Effects:

━ Material Restoration

━ Restoration Recipe

Minhyuk clicked on the two effects to read the detailed information about the effects.

[Material Restoration. Food that has been kept in room temperature for quite a long time, including milk and meat, can be restored to its freshest state.]

[Restoration Recipe. Not all of the food can be restored to its freshest state. The restoration recipe can help you restore very, very, very old ingredients and materials. You can also use the restoration recipe to check whether you can restore the old ingredient or material to its freshest state.]

Minhyuk smiled happily as he continued to check his intermediate blacksmithing skill. The notifications said that a special privilege was created just like the bandaging skill’s special privilege. He checked the information with a look that screams ‘Hooray!’.

‘Cooking Ingredients Appraisal.’

Minhyuk heard that there were only a few of the superior blacksmiths who had the appraisal skill. This skill could be said to be something similar to that.

“Detailed description of the cooking ingredients appraisal.”

[Cooking Ingredients Appraisal. It can show and boost the hidden abilities and effects that are hidden in the ingredients.]

Although he still needed to spend some more time to completely master the intermediate blacksmithing skill, he still thought that this ability would be worth it.

And finally, he also confirmed the advanced level bandaging skill.

(Advanced Bandaging)

Passive Skill

Level: 1

Effects:

━ Wound recovery +11%+11%

━ The wound will recover quickly. 100% acceleration.

With the bandaging skill alone, Minhyuk would be able to recover by 22% and once he used the absorption transition skill then he would recover 60% in one fell swoop. However, the only disadvantage for bandage wrapping was that he would not be able to wrap it quickly and easily especially if he was in the middle of a fight. This was the case if he was only alone. This could also be used to help another person bandage their wounds.

“Rovan-nim, you got hurt earlier?”

Minhyuk reached out to Rovan.

Even though Rovan could easily recover with his Berserker skill, he would still need to wait for the cooldown to end before he could recover completely.

He used the bandaging skill on Rovan’s arm.

“Bandage!”

[You have achieved the best bandage wrap.]

[The wound recovery has an additional 5% increase.]

[The recovery time has increased and became faster.]

Before, when he achieved the best bandage wrap there was only a 2% increase in wound recovery but it had now increased by 3% for a total of a 5% increase. In other words, the person would recover 27% of their HP.

Rovan blinked blankly as he saw his HP increase by 27% after the bandage was wrapped on his arm.

“How is it? Does it feel okay?”

Minhyuk grinned at his silly look.

At that moment…

[You have successfully hunted the Boss Monster.]

[You can now leave the field.]

[Would you like to leave now?]

The two of them disappeared after they answered ‘yes’ at the same time.

Minhyuk confirmed that they came back to the path where the Ares Guild had chased them once he opened his eyes.

Soon, Rovan removed the bandage that was wrapped on his wounds. It was already completely recovered. He looked confused as he moved his arm to test it out. After confirming that he had well and truly recovered, he looked straight at Minhyuk.

“Minhyuk-nim. I have a request.”

“A request?”

When he told him about a request, Minhyuk thought that he would want to ask him for Rafielt’s cape. If that was the case, then Minhyuk was prepared to give him a good deal. After all, he gave Minhyuk the thousand-year-old hasuo before. However, when he heard his request, Minhyuk thought that it was quite surprising.

“Please fight with me. Just one time.”

***

Footnotes

[Hey toad] It’s a KR children’s song about toads. The original lyrics goes: Hey toad, hey toad. I’ll give you an old house, you give me a new house. You can search for it as 두껍아. It’s quite catchy.