21 Chapter 17: Savouring the Golden Bacon!
Natsumi: (With gleaming eyes) its the golden bacon!
Emyrs: Golden bacon?
Natsumi: (excitedly) Yea, yea, the golden bacon, the extra extra rare delicacy that burst meaty juices when bitten and melts on your tongue when savoured. In addition, it boost your defence by 80% for 5 days, that is like a double win win! Come on, lets cook it. (In deep thought) Hmm should we boil or sour vide or sear or deglaze or...
Emyrs: Really? (Turned around) What does everyone-
Everyone else: (ecstasy) Melty juicy bacon Melty juicy bacon Melty juicy bacon
Emyrs was lost for words He began to wonder, what was the best solution.
Flashes ingenious idea began to light up one by one.
PRESENTING EMYRS GOURMET COOKING SHOW!
With some imagination a cast iron pan materialized out of thin air, [creation]. He placed a cast iron pan above 2 rocks that has a gap of half a meter between them, and with a flick of a finger red hot flames burnt indefinitely, heating up the pan.
In the meantime, Emyrs will be giving a touch of black pepper on both sides and finally salting the meat using the salt bae style.
Sizzling-
Half a stick of butter and a splash of oil was added first, then on goes the seasoned bacon.
Emyrs: (saliva slid down his throat) Just look at the beautiful marbling on this piece of meat.
In the next few minutes, the colour of the bacon slowly changed from a golden cold hard bacon to a luscious autumn crisp.
Once done searing the sides and the bottom, Emyrs threw in the rest of the butter, add some thyme, rosemary, garlic and flipped over the meat. He then started to glaze the meat by tossing the melty butter over it and rubbing the meat with aromatic herbs. The bacon once again returned to its former shiny self, but this time substantially more mouth watering.
Taking it out of the cast iron pan and letting it sit there for about 15 minutes, but then...
Growl-
An all too familiar chillies thundered down his spine. It was the same chills when he was about to be haunted down by a ravenous pack of ferocious dogs in his childhood. Now it was here.
Emyrs: (turned around, stiffly) Wha-
Apparently, the scent of the bacon had already dissipated towards the rest of the team members... Their inner demons had awoken. They were now ready to fill their hunger.
Charge!
Rampaging and devastating everything they cross path with, like a swarm of terrorizing locust; Emyrs started to panic.
Emyrs: Adamantine wall! [a very hard enormous wall that blocks the path and absorbs a certain amount of contacted damage]
Crack-
The wall couldnt withstand the brutality bombardment of the beasts and started to crack.
Emyrs: (sighed in relief) That should be able withstand it for a whil-
Boom!
Emyrs: I take that back...
Emyrs: Cool your minds! Blizzard! [A wide radius freezing hail storm that causes small damage for every hail hit and has 40% chance to freeze enemies for 4 sec and an 80% chance of getting slowed by 60% for 12 sec]
At this moment Emyrs increased his luck to max, by reducing the [(SSSR)limitation] spell that he had placed on himself. This causes an increase to a 100% chance of freezing chance and 5 min of freezing time, 100% chance of getting slowness by 100% for 15 min {author: Yup, he broke the game} (note: although he cant change his status with [status customization] he is able to limit his status used through [limitation] for a period of time or indefinitely in his case.)
Emyrs could finally breath properly; he then turned back towards the iron cast pan. The flame was reignited. He started by sautéing finely diced garlic and shallots, after the shallots turned translucent, splashes of red wine and a touch of balsamic vinegar were added. Subsequently, he begin to scrape of all the sweet caramelization, that was caused by searing of the bacon, and infused it with the red wine at low heat. Fresh thyme went in along with some beef stock. Following, it was reduced to a sauce like consistency before slicing the bacon into perfect bite size pieces and drizzled the reduction sauce over it.
PRESENTING THE SEARED MEDIUM RARE BACON WITH BALSAMIC REDUCTION SAUCE!
The rest of the team had began to worn out from the somewhat eternal freezing; thus, when Emyrs presented the plate of goodness, they were exhilarated yet dejected because they didnt have the strength to even lift a silver spoon. It wasnt a problem, since Emyrs gave Gaviel a recovery potion; thus, healing him, Gaviel immediately used [(SSR) mass healing] on everyone.
With their minds cooled everyone sat down to savour the wonders that this dish has to offer. Anyhow, Emyrs still had the doubt that his meal would end without a fight. His assumption wasnt without reasons to support; he could faintly sense a inextinguishable flame that could be reignited at anytime in the eyes of his fellow teammates. A common occurrence of friend to foe in a matter of seconds. All he could hope is a peaceful meal (I have no idea why i ended like this XD)(maybe you guys could give me some suggestion^^)
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