Angel understood Gloria's explanation, but he still found some of what she described a little hard to believe.
In Angel's view, wasn't Moss Baby simply a middleman who "produced whatever he ate"? Was his role really that important?
Could there not be other ways to process food?
Cooking, cooking—it was all about handling ingredients, wasn't it? Pots, bowls, ladles, and pans could all serve as tools for food processing. Did they absolutely have to use Moss Baby?
Faced with Angel's doubts, Gloria shook her head. "It's different. You can think of Moss Baby as an intermediary stage in food processing, but his method of processing is exceptionally special. He can purify ingredients, evolve them, cause qualitative transformations, mutations, quantitative changes..."
Purification and quantitative change were nothing especially novel. As for evolving ingredients, Gloria could do that as well.
But qualitative transformation and mutation were fields Gloria had never touched upon, talents belonging to Moss Baby alone.
For example, Gloria could cultivate trees that grew cream bread. That came from her "Genesis" talent.
After Moss Baby ate cream bread, he could likewise produce moss, mushrooms, and even tree seeds that yielded cream bread... Yet this was not Genesis, but a special kind of qualitative transformation and mutation.
Moss Baby was a third-party food processor, but he was also a supplier that produced raw ingredients.
It could be said that what Gloria saw in Moss Baby was an immense treasure, a glimmer that could overturn the very concept of cuisine.
The one thing Gloria found regrettable was that Moss Baby was a Dream Plant Fairy born in the Dream Wilderness, an existence between illusion and reality that could not descend into the real world.
Otherwise, with Moss Baby's abilities, he could probably revitalize the Candy House by himself in the shortest possible