After having a good rest with his mother, Yunan descended to the 32nd floor and found it full of people, the scene was what you would see in a sunny beach in the heart of summer, the only difference is the fact that war cries and magic replaced the sunbathing beauties and the ogling men.The enemies in this floor were crabs, not the ones you find in restaurant these ones were as tall as a person and as hardy as a battle tank, with huge pincers capable of splitting a man in half like wet paper, they were a menace to those careless and a boon to those who try to grow stronger. As far as Yunan could see there were enough crabs to keep each party occupied, most of the parties ganged up on a single crab, making Yunan feel like they were being too lazy, however upon closer inspection each party had its hands full with a single crab.
Yunan stood there and watched but was pushed from behind by someone in hurry yelling at their teammates "we have to kill at least 2 crabs before the tide comes, we only have until dusk before this place turns into h.e.l.l". Looking around him Yunan could tell that every party was thinking the same thing, so after thinking about it for a moment Yunan walked towards the wet sands trying to find a crab to engage with.
Crabs, like all armoured creatures, had weak joints so he chose to approach with a dagger and dismantling as a strategy, the first crab to come was promptly turned into a limbless body, it frothed at the mouth and cast a jet of pressurised water at Yunan, it kept sending jet after jet until Yunan got close and shoved his dagger into its mouth releasing a lightning discharge, summarily killing the crab.
Yunan could hear gasps and feel looks on his back, the first complete word he heard was "suicidal", then he heard things like "never try things like that, he must be mad, if he is alone he can do as he pleases but your party will suffer if you fight like that". Yunan was just trying his hand at the crab and was called a madman so he changed his style to something that is truly for madmen.
The next crab got a fist jammed into body breaking the armour like it was gla.s.s and then Yunan ripped out its organs, he stored the crab and went for the next one, he used an ice ball to freeze the crab to death, and he kept using overkill methods one after the other, including using the tremor skill of the orcas to blow a crab to bits, while loudly lamenting how the crabs were too weak to even survive a gentle b.u.mp. Yunan kept the spectacle up, all flashy and exaggerated.
After taking down the 100th crab he sat down and took some shark meat to make some soup with crab and clam meats, the pot he cooked in was large enough to feed 30 and the smell that came out of it kept drawing more and more crabs, those also were killed and either added to the giant soup pot or fed to the armour, some were sent home for the girls to feast on.
When the stew was cooked Yunan put out the fire and sat down to eat as if he was in his own backyard, not in the freaking dungeon were death was literally a few feet away from him. A group that was close by and had just finished dealing with their crab came forward and sat down beside Yunan and scooped a bowl each, they ate silently and watched as Yunan emptied one bowl after another.
A man stood up and reignited the fire, he ushered to Yunan to step closer to the pot and Yunan got up and stood beside the man. "Listen here, the shark meat has too much mana and nutrition, it does not go well with the soft crab and clam meats, although you are the first I have seen attempt to eat the clam meat in this dungeon, either way, the meat is too incompatible, and you adding some vegetables and condiments is not going to make it any better, therefore you have to use other kinds of meats to bridge the gap between the two, I would recommend something stringy and flexible, not too tough and not too supple, what kinds do you have?".
Yunan seriously replied "Does orca work? Although it has the same problem as the shark, too much mana, I found a place were the oldest ones live and hunted so many of them, if that is not enough I have corpses from every floor up to this one all well preserved and can be used immediately, anything in mind?" Yunan took out a large slice of the killer whale matriarch and gave it to the man.
After some examination the man gave it a pa.s.sing grade " it will do just fine, now do you have anything that can make the broth thick and creamy as well as something to absorb the harsh taste of the shark meat?" Yunan silently presented a jar of honey and a bottle of lava wine, upon tasting both the man poured half a gla.s.s of lava wine and two spoons of honey into the pot then he looked at Yunan solemnly "every chef in this world would kill to get a spoon full of this stuff please be careful, I don"t know how you got them but you better keep them to yourself".
Yunan laughed hard at those words before filling his bawl again, "then let me tell you a secret, those can both be found in the twentieth floor aplenty, you can only find them by luck, I only stumbled on the location in a drunken stupor so I stocked on a few rings full and I will never go back again". The man did not ask about it anymore but started teaching Yunan about the culinary arts while adding this and that making the broth tastier with each addition.