Sun Jingyu looked at the furious chef. He knew that the chef was the person he was looking for.
The chef was broad and fat, with a large face and a thick neck. He wore a white chef's uniform and a chef's hat, and he held a very large cleaver.
If not for the fact that he had only one eye, the chef would have looked fairly normal.
But he had only one eye.
His sole eye sat in the middle of his forehead. It was very large, with a deep-red pupil.
He was the hidden boss of this Instance, the One-Eyed Chef.
At that moment, the One-Eyed Chef was glaring at Sun Jingyu because the man had refused to eat the delicious food he had made and had even dumped it on the floor.
This was outrageous. It was an insult to him!
As if sensing their boss's anger, all the staff and diners stopped what they were doing and looked at Sun Jingyu.
Sun Jingyu felt as though countless gazes were piercing his body.
But he wasn't afraid. Everything before him was exactly what he wanted.
To complete the hidden quest, he had to face this boss head-on.
Besides, the boss had been weakened, giving him even less reason to be afraid.
The One-Eyed Chef charged out with his cleaver. He was going to teach this fool who didn't know his own limits a lesson for daring to dump the food he had made with his own hands!
He was going to turn this man into food too, and share him with the others to taste.
When the people around them saw the One-Eyed Chef charge out, they rushed forward in anger as well. They too wanted to tear the man who had wasted such delicious food to pieces.
But just as they were about to reach Sun Jingyu, something blocked their bodies.
It seemed to be a wall, one formed from Sun Jingyu's powerful mental energy.
The wall kept them from advancing even an inch.
Sun Jingyu sneered and took three short swords out of his inventory. As though they had minds of their own, the swords circled around him.
He was a control-type Ability User. Manipulating objects was his basic ability.
The three short swords shot toward the surrounding crowd, slashing at their necks and cutting off their heads.
In an instant, the entire restaurant descended into bloody chaos.
Seeing this, the One-Eyed Chef roared and charged forward.
He chopped one of the flying swords in two with his cleaver, sending it clattering to the floor. Then he leaped into the air and brought his cleaver down at Sun Jingyu.
Sun Jingyu hurriedly concentrated his mental energy to block the cleaver.
"Boom!"
A tremendous crash rang out.
Two enormous forces collided, then scattered outward, creating an explosion.
The blast of powerful energy sent the people nearby staggering back, while the restaurant's tables and chairs shattered under its impact.
Though the diners and staff were furious, they couldn't take part in the fight.
Against powerful Ability Users, their strength was clearly nothing to speak of.
The clash of the two fighters' power produced no victor. The One-Eyed Chef stumbled back several steps and crashed into a table behind him, making him even angrier.
Sun Jingyu felt a sharp pain in his head. He had just used a great deal of mental energy to block the One-Eyed Chef's attack.
But after that exchange, he felt he could still defeat the One-Eyed Chef.
It seemed the boss of this Instance really had been severely weakened.
The One-Eyed Chef bellowed and charged again.
"Boom!"
With a tremendous crash, Sun Jingyu controlled a short sword to strike the One-Eyed Chef's cleaver, forcing him back another step.
The One-Eyed Chef let out an angry roar. He had never imagined that the human before him, who looked so easy to crush, would possess such power.
Turning him into a dish really wasn't going to be easy.
Just as he was about to charge again, he suddenly sensed something behind him.
He hurriedly turned to block it, but he was too late. A short sword brushed past his cleaver and stabbed straight toward his chest.
The One-Eyed Chef's chest was pierced, leaving a large hole.
The One-Eyed Chef glared at Sun Jingyu in fury. The human before him was too cunning, controlling a short sword to launch a sneak attack from behind!
But such a wound didn't stop the One-Eyed Chef's attack. He charged forward again, his body changing as he rushed ahead.
His arms stretched out and transformed into countless tentacles, which swept toward Sun Jingyu in an overwhelming wave.
The defense formed by Sun Jingyu's mental energy was broken. Countless scarlet tentacles surrounded him, wrapping around his body in coils like ropes.
Sun Jingyu was pinned down.
"I'm going to chop you to pieces!" the One-Eyed Chef shouted angrily.
Just as he was about to strike, a flying sword stabbed toward him again.
The One-Eyed Chef sent some of his tentacles to meet it, wrapping them around the flying sword.
Suddenly, the trapped flying sword unleashed a tremendous surge of energy and exploded.
The flying sword broke into metal fragments, which slashed at the tentacles with great precision.
The flying sword's fragments severed the tentacles one after another, and Sun Jingyu broke free.
The One-Eyed Chef stared at the scene before him in disbelief. All his tentacles had been cut off, and several metal fragments had struck his body as well.
As the One-Eyed Chef stood there in shock, a flying sword stabbed straight into the back of his head and exploded inside it, sending shattered metal fragments flying along with his flesh and blood.
The One-Eyed Chef's life ended in disbelief.
At that moment, the restaurant's staff and diners screamed and rushed out of the restaurant.
Even their boss had been killed so easily. If they stayed, they would only be serving themselves up.
Sun Jingyu didn't pursue them. Instead, he looked at the corpse before him, delight spreading across his face.
Everything had gone so smoothly that his heart pounded with joy.
This was a hidden quest. He had even prepared to sacrifice himself, yet completing it had been far too easy.
Now all he had to do was remove the One-Eyed Chef's eye.
This eye was the ultimate goal of his trip into this Instance—the Demon Eye.
It was an item of great importance that had appeared in an A-rank Instance by accident, and all the evil guilds coveted it.
At last, it had been kept out of the evil guilds' hands. Otherwise, the human world would surely have fallen into chaos.
Successfully obtaining the eye was practically the same as saving the world.
He stepped forward and thrust a short sword into the One-Eyed Chef's eye socket, forcibly gouging out the eye. At that moment, he heard a system notification:
"You have obtained the Demon Eye. Please leave the Instance as soon as possible."
Sun Jingyu was ecstatic. Everything was in order, and he had successfully obtained the key quest item. Now he only had to leave the Instance.
He could already imagine how his superiors would value him after he returned. His colleagues would probably envy him greatly, and from then on, the guild would likely focus on nurturing him.
Looking at the eyeball flashing red in his hand, Sun Jingyu couldn't help laughing.
Just then, he suddenly sensed a strange gaze fixed on his back. A flicker of unease passed through him, and he hurriedly turned around.
Not far away, a cute little doll girl sat on a table, smiling as she watched him.
Sun Jingyu instantly felt as though he had fallen into an ice cave. How could it be her? Why was she here?
He knew full well how terrifying this Puppet Girl was.
This Puppet Girl's strength was actually quite ordinary, but she was good at framing people for harming her.
In Sun Jingyu's eyes, the Puppet Girl before him was far more terrifying than the One-Eyed Chef.
He didn't know how he was going to get away.