VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?

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"Oho! Young girl! You sure know your cooking~."

"It is nothing special."

Olive was in a small village right now.

She wanted to go to Moongold town first, but Alex and Elio recently told her how they were separated, so she also had no reason to start in the same place as them anymore.

They were figuring things out on their end, so she decided to go on her own until they were done with their matter.

She just went ahead to a different place that was decided randomly by the system.

"Can I have one more of these brown ones? What do you even make them from?"

She was in a small village right now, selling a few things that she had cooked a while back to the natives.

She was planning to leave the village and move to the nearby town soon, but before she did that she had to get stronger.

And selling these little things wasn't going to make her any stronger.

"Oh, it's simple flour. I just added some good quality meat that I came across, you can think of it like a stuffed bread ma'am."

If she told people the thing they were eating was made with monster meat, they wouldn't eat it even if it was delicious and safe.

"Oho? Stuffed bread? Sounds like what those rich people would eat, huhuhu."

So she just didn't tell anyone about those unnecessary things.

She was enjoying this game, almost everything here was real.

It didn't even feel like a game and she didn't know if it was because of the chariot that she used or because it naturally just was like this.

She liked playing with various things, like the fake natives that didn't know how amazing the meat of the creatures that they just sold out to the various merchants actually was.

"It's a pleasure that you like it, ma'am. Would you like to take some with you as well?"

"Oh, of course I would like some. I'll take three of those brown ones."

"Of course~."

Olive's tutorial was all about gathering some simple herbs in a big place which didn't even take a few hours with her excellent eyes.

She had worked in the kitchen for years now, and after having experienced cooking techniques of various cultures all around the world, she knew how to distinguish between a wild grass and a precious sweet herb.

She had obtained that Golden star with much difficulty. And unexpectedly, her years of practice had helped her in her tutorial as well.

"Please come again~."

"Huhuhu. I'd like to come back, but are you going to stay here for longer?"

She was on a shopping street right now, in a stall that she had rented from a local for the day.

The old lady that she was tending to this time looked quite simple, but her deep Crimson eyes seemed to be that of the people who had played with life and death their entire life.

"Well…"

She knew Olive was a foreigner, one that wasn't going to stay in this small place for too long.

She could even see how talented Olive was, so when she couldn't answer her question honestly and was looking back at her with an awkward smile, the old lady just smiled and shook her head.

"Can I know your name, young one?" The old lady asked with a genuine smile. Innocent Olive couldn't not answer that simple and affectionate look.

"It's Erisea, ma'am."

It was her immortal name in this world, so that was the only true name that this world was going to recognize her as.

"Hmmm… a fine name indeed."

The woman smiled at her, and placed a bronze coin on her stall.

"You're young, and it seems like you're new to this world as well.

There's no need to be tied down to a place that holds no significance to you.

Go, wander around, and find a place that's better suited for your interests. Make friends, or better, find someone you love."

With another happy look, the old woman was just about to leave her alone, but she remembered something in that instance.

"Oh, and before we part ways…"

She leaned in closer to Olive and whispered in her ear.

"Red Goblin meat tastes better after you smoke it. Try doing it for your next batch."

Backing off, the old woman bid her farewell, took another bite from her stuffed bread, and departed with a delighted expression.

The bread was the best among all that she has had until now, but the filling could get even better.

She knew Olive would figure it out by herself. So she didn't say much.

But still…

"She knew?"

Olive was left stunned in her place.

She didn't think that simple looking old lady would figure it out on her own, not after she had worked so hard on the filling.

It was surprising for her, and more than that, the bronze 'coin' that she had left for her surprised her even more.

"Hmmm? What's this?"

It wasn't money.

It looked similar to a common bronze coin but in fact, it wasn't anything like that.

"Excuse me-… hmmm? Where did she go?"

It wasn't money so Olive thought that lady made a mistake and wanted to return the coin.

However, by the time Olive realized that and turned her head, the old lady in that simple white cloak had already vanished in the relatively empty streets.

She couldn't find her, Olive even left her stall to find her, but she was nowhere to be seen.

It was as if she had vanished into thin air…

"What in the hide and seek?"

She didn't understand where she had vanished, but the fact that she had figured out what her bread contained remin true.

"Will it be problematic?"

The only reason people preferred to sell monster bodies instead of using them was because they couldn't use them properly.

They were naturally poisonous to the humans, however, she had learned from many videos online that this monster meat was in fact edible.

The people in higher positions who could afford costly things consumed these things on regular bases. There was a simple way to make these things edible but common people of this world did not know it yet since it was a trade secret.

But she knew it, as well as how to make various kinds of meat even better.

She was a baker primarily, but there were various ingredients that she liked to use in her cooking. Meat was one of the simple things… though, it wasn't easy to tell what someone was eating was in fact meat of monsters.

She didn't think someone from a small village like this would figure it out, but that old lady did…

And now that she had vanished, Olive didn't know what to do with her stall, as well as with the strange coin that she had left for her.

"Haaaa."

Well, it was evening so it was peak time for sales.

There were other customers gathering around her stall, so before she left town, she was planning to at least sell everything she had right now.

She can think about the coin and other things later…