"Prepare the sauce, and then you can eat it."
The dipping sauce for dumplings was something El accidentally developed while researching the texture of gargoyle flesh.
The gargoyle's digestive system contains a special substance with a powerful ability to decompose and ferment.
Crush the berries you find, add water, and put them into the gargoyle's stomach. After a week of fermentation, it will turn into a sweet and sour liquid similar to vinegar, with a fruity aroma.
If left to sit for a while longer, it will turn into a low-alcohol fruit wine. However, El is not yet an adult, so he has not yet tried what fruit wine tastes like.
"Moreover, a gargoyle's stomach can be reused and fermented multiple times, which will make the vinegar produced inside taste better and ferment faster."
What's the principle behind this? It's similar to the broth used for braising meat for many years—the longer the better?
Pour vinegar into a dish, scoop out all the dumplings, dip them in the vinegar, and put them directly into your mouth.
"!"
The moment the food touched his tongue and stimulated his taste buds, the flavor made El's eyes widen involuntarily.
What does this feel like?
The first aroma that wafted through the air was the sweet, meaty scent of the minotaur dumpling skin. The skin, repeatedly pounded by El, concentrated the essence of the meat, possessing a unique resilience that seemed to be the minotaur's last struggle, brimming with vitality.
Next, you bite through the dumpling skin and find the filling, a mixture of gargoyle brains and vampire meat, intertwined with fruit vinegar.
The gargoyle has its own umami flavor, the vampire flesh has a spiciness due to the fire element, and there's a touch of just the right amount of sourness that balances the two flavors.
"An unforgettable taste, very good, absolutely perfect, I love this so much."
The flavor is layered and complex, with that appetizing sour taste. One dumpling, two dumplings, three dumplings.
As he continued to eat, a different world appeared before El's eyes.
He rowed his boat, drifting on the red water, surrounded by that wonderful sweet and sour aroma—a sea of fruit vinegar.
That sweet and sour scent enveloped his body, and inhaling through his nose made one's mouth water.
"Boom..."
A loud bang came from below. What happened?
He felt a force propelling his boat toward the sky.
It was a volcano, an underwater volcano, a volcano made up of all sorts of flesh that erupted.
Blood-red liquid magma, along with rocks formed from chunks of flesh, carried him through the air.
He felt what inexhaustible vitality was, and experienced the ultimate taste sensation.
Immediately afterwards, his consciousness returned to the real world.
"It's still too little, not enough to eat at all. Luckily, we still have enough ingredients. Let's keep eating rice."
The dumplings were all eaten, and El felt a warm current flowing through his body.
Objectively speaking, due to consuming a large amount of monster food, El's body has been strengthened to a level that inspires envy and jealousy.
Normally, it's not easy for monster food to cause significant changes to its body, but this monster dumpling meal certainly did.
[Entry: Glowing Cuisine; Entry: You are what you eat (triggered)]
[Consuming homemade food, specifically the glowing monster dumplings, replenishes life force, replenishes mental energy, repairs internal injuries, dispels moderate negative effects, temporarily grants moderate high-speed regeneration, restores mana, moderately enhances strength/mental power, and permanently grants a small amount of lifespan, moderate amounts of life force/physical attributes/mana, and a small amount of blood magic affinity.]
As always, through constant overeating, El went further and further down the path of numerical monsters.
Thanks to the monster's kind help, he was able to undergo such a transformation.
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