The Gourmet World lay beyond the lands where humans lived and went about their lives. It was also known as a treasure trove of undiscovered ingredients.
There were countless known and unknown delicacies hidden there!
In this Gourmet World, food was equivalent to wealth. So it was perfectly fair to say that the Gourmet World held vast riches. Any ordinary person who happened to discover and develop even one previously unknown delicacy could become rich overnight.
However, wealth in the Gourmet World often came with immense, unknown risks.
With countless terrifying gourmet beasts and all manner of unknown, dreadful threats lurking there, ordinary people wouldn't dare venture into it. Even most gourmet hunters were reluctant to go, and not even sovereign nations dared extend their reach into the place.
That was precisely why the laws of this world granted people the right to name and develop unknown delicacies, with priority going to whoever discovered them. The point was simply to encourage those fearless gourmet hunters to gradually explore and develop the vast Gourmet World beyond human civilization, and to expand the places where people could live, bit by bit.
After all, the Earth was unimaginably vast. Beyond the human world lay enormous stretches of unexplored territory, covering tens of thousands of times the area where hundreds of human nations currently lived. With terrifying gourmet beasts threatening them, it wasn't easy for humanity to claim this enormous planet.
But today, half a month later, gourmet hunter Toriko had come calling again. He sought out Annie, one of the major shareholders of the IGO.
"The Gourmet World?"
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"Why would we go to the Gourmet World?"
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"Is it somewhere like Hankrila Island, where we went last time?"
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Annie was eating.
For the past half month, she'd been staying at the