ALL NOVEL Chapter 951
<951 – The Greatest Monster Cuisine Tournament (4)>
The difficulty of the dish cannot be reduced.
Yet they do not have the stamina to endure high-difficulty cooking.
Before becoming half-crippled, forfeiting is not permitted.
Captain-class monsters are at an impasse.
Desperate to survive, they risk becoming crippled, but a slight misstep could lead them to vanish like the previous captain-class.
However, if they keep challenging, it seems they will be utterly defeated by the unyielding Dark Princess.
A special measure has emerged.
“Let’s pool our strength.”
“Pool our strength?”
“Our monster cells are captain-class monster cells. They are evolved forms that gather the strongest potentials from each unit. Even if we combine them into one, can’t we overcome this crisis?”
“!!”
“You must know this. Right now, we are strong at the 7th rank, but if all our cells combine, we can break through to the 8th rank and rise even higher.”
The captain-class monsters glared at each other.
“Who will we pool it to?”
“Of course, it should go to the strongest one.”
“A weak one can’t handle it and will just crumble under the pressure.”
In the end, only one will survive.
No one is willing to die gracefully for the sake of someone else.
From the beginning, those who wouldn’t even implant the monster cells into themselves wouldn’t make it to captain-class.
The Giant Monster struck the Boy Monster and the Old Monster with its arms, sending them crashing against the wall.
Wham!
Before the two monsters, hit by the walls, could even fall, the monster of Triduohexabi slammed into the Giant Monster’s body.
Bang!
In the waiting room, Oknodie screamed in surprise.
“Uwah, they’re suddenly fighting!”
The monsters who were transitioning from Food Fighters to Real Fighters consciously ignored Oknodie’s scream and began to unleash their powers more seriously.
The giant’s large arm twisted Triduohexabi’s two hands up to the wrists, but it couldn’t endure the fingers gripping around the other four arms and screamed instead.
Even as the writhing Giant Monster collided with the walls, ceiling, and floor, Triduohexabi held firmly to the giant’s wrist and hardened its entire body like a metallic clump while determinedly resisting, prompting Oknodie to shout from behind.
“Stop fighting! You can’t end my new event like this!”
The Giant Monster paid no heed and bit down on the metallic head of Triduohexabi with its large mouth.
Crunch!
Surprisingly, the giant’s teeth munched on the metallic head of Triduohexabi like a snack.
Now reduced to Bihexa, the monster couldn’t bear the pain and detached itself, leaving the Giant Monster’s two wrists broken and dangling.
However, at that moment, an astonishing change occurred in the Giant Monster’s wrist that had devoured Bihexa’s monster cells.
Metallic Transformation
Liquid metal flowed through the broken part of its wrist, creating a sturdier metallic wrist.
“Graaah!”
“It’s killing!”
The enraged Bihexa charged at the Giant Monster, which easily blocked the attack with its reinforced metallic arm.
Bihexa’s two faces turned to expressions of shock and fear.
“Farewell.”
Just as the Giant Monster’s opposite hand was about to strike Bihexa, a lightning-like strike severed one of the giant’s hands in a single blow.
The black knight monster, wearing cursed armor, wielded the great sword that had delivered the sneak attack.
“How dare you touch my arm…!”
“That arm, take it with you.”
The enraged Giant Monster lunged forward on one arm but stumbled and flailed in place.
“Go where now?”
“I won’t forgive you for consuming our third.”
While Bihexa stopped the Giant Monster, the black knight monster casually walked toward the severed arm.
The black knight monster has the highest momentary attack power among the five captain-class monsters.
With the addition of the Giant Monster’s mass, the black knight monster becomes an absolute powerhouse without any rivals.
Roar!
Just as the black knight reached for the giant’s fallen hand, a tentacle flew out from somewhere and knocked the giant’s hand away.
“I can’t let you have all the fun.”
“If you want to die first, I’ll grant your wish.”
The black knight’s sword carved through the tentacle horde that was piling up on the wrinkled old man, but for every piece he cut, even more tentacles charged at him, and the matchup was not in their favor.
Five captain-class monsters grab each other’s ankles, hindering anyone from becoming the strongest first!
Oknodie, watching in shock, burst into tears as the shelf in front of her crushed against the black knight’s body.
“Uwah, our tournament is ruined!”
As the captain-class monsters’ chaotic battle royale brought Oknodie to tears, the professors who were merely spectators couldn’t help but squirm in their seats.
Are we just going to let these insane ones slaughter each other?
Even if a professor were to cough from a kilometer away, the jaku, sensing the professor’s mana waves, realized they were on the verge of getting torn apart.
“Oh dear, our little participant was scared! Calm down and enjoy this snack while you watch. This is all part of our tournament’s sanctioned events.”
“Really?”
“Of course. In fact, this isn’t our first monster cuisine tournament. We’ve held such competitions over a hundred years ago and even two hundred years prior. So we’ve legitimatized it in the rules.”
“Real fights…?”
“If Food Fighters acknowledge their weakness and willingly forfeit, would the tournament not suffer in quality? Thus, we permit participants’ fights to get stronger and allow on-the-spot upgrades.”
The desperate and earnest performance of the jaku was so moving that Oknodie, who was usually quick to catch on to tricks, failed to see through the lie.
“Then, are we back in operational status for the tournament?”
“Of course!”
“Phew! I was worried for nothing. I panicked because it was a new event. Let me know beforehand next time!”
The professors, who had been squirming, reluctantly sat back down, but they did not rest comfortably against their chairs.
Let there be the slightest provocation.
I’ll stand right up at any moment.
The burning gazes made their backs feel warm even now.
Barely escaping the threshold of being torn apart, the jaku grew resentful towards the five monsters.
Weren’t they the ones who, without thinking about the aftermath, dragged me into this mess as if they were about to die?
‘You, I absolutely cannot let you off the hook.’
Secretly, from the jaku’s hand, a shadow snaked out and struck the foot of the black knight that had just smashed the shelf in front of Oknodie.
[Ankle Destruction]
Caught by a targeted cutting attack, the black knight couldn’t evade and the old man’s tentacle assault surged into the gaps of the knight’s armor, ripping it apart.
As the armor that sealed an unstable energy entity was torn, the black knight let out a terrible scream as the energy scattered and caused immediate death.
Witnessing the energy he was about to absorb vanish before his eyes, the old man shouted in fury.
“You, you little rat!”
“How slow. Even the speed of picking up shards.”
The boy absorbed the core parts faster than the old man’s tentacles could gather the shards.
Fortifying his speed and attack power, the boy spun like a top and shredded the old man’s tentacles.
By the time Bihexa and the Giant arrived, the boy had already gained the upper hand with speed, attack power, and tentacles.
“Thanks, everyone. From now on, let’s live as one inside me.”
The boy swiftly pulled out Bihexa’s heart and enhanced the power of the tentacles.
The reinforced tentacles’ durability and the supreme attack power of the tentacle-transforming sword cut through the Giant’s supply lines.
Guzzling the giant’s blood, the boy consolidated the powers of the five captain-class monsters, stepping one step closer to true strength in this moment.
“This was the level of it, huh? Jaku, your level too.”
“The tournament is still ongoing. It wouldn’t be wise to attack me, the host, while the professor-level spectators are waiting.”
“Ha. Don’t be too anxious. I still need time to digest this power, and for now, I don’t plan to eat you.”
The jaku’s strength was around the level of merging twenty-dimensional factors.
From the overlapping dimensional factors of other captain-class monsters, he was capable of reinforcing the overlaps, discarding what’s irrelevant, and absorbing what he could, making him a boy fused with twenty-five-dimensional factors. Though he could win, he was a burdensome target.
But thanks to that, he felt quite relaxed.
The monstrous food that he couldn’t handle alone as individuals was manageable now that the ‘overlapping function’ had combined it into experience points, improving state.
With a confident look, the boy turned to Oknodie.
“Sorry for making you wait so long. Shall we continue the tournament?”
“No more fighting and breaking the arena suddenly!”
“Haha. Of course not.”
Would there really arise a crisis severe enough to necessitate devouring the jaku too?
The boy felt overly confident.
Unless they were to be told to eat the flesh of a giant monster raw, a crisis that serious would not come.
“Then the next monster dish will be~! Giant species monster sashimi!”
“?!”
In one corner of the wrecked arena, the monsters wearing chef hats glared menacingly at the boy.
Only then did the boy realize.
Many chefs at the competition were killed under the collapsed building ruined by the captain-class monsters’ life-or-death struggle, and many of them had perished from the energy of monster ingredients spilling out of the damaged containment facilities.
All of those weaker souls.
All of those deceased.
The cooking infused with their rage and thirst for revenge was precisely this giant monster sashimi.
It was a civil war dish blatantly offered to him demanding he eat it and die!
“Uh, this looks a bit…”
“Is there spicy sauce too?”
“Of course!”
A red, bubbling spicy sauce packed with the blood of monsters was added to the dining table.
Oknodie scooped up the giant monster sashimi with chopsticks and dunked it in the spicy sauce before chomping down.
“What were you about to say about the cooking? You weren’t really thinking of backing out of eating it, afraid a little child might have had it, were you? The audience would be sorely disappointed~?”
Under the jaku’s pressure overseeing everything, the boy monster realized something.
There was no escape anywhere.