"All right, stay here on your own for a while."
"There are some books over there. You can read them to pass the time. I'll go arrange mentors for the other five first, then come back to sort things out for you." Shopkeeper Long pointed at a nearby cabinet, then swayed her hips as she left.
Once she was gone, Lu Ran plopped down on the bed and sighed softly.
"Pretty lucky..." That was all he could say. He had thought a Breakthrough Secret Realm that tested cooking skills would be difficult, but unexpectedly, he had bluffed his way through with Sword Will and passed himself off as a genius.
Sure enough, opportunities favored the "prepared."
Thinking it over, learning to cook was a good fit. In Infinite City, Beast Tamers called this profession nutritionists rather than chefs, because the term nutritionist covered a broader range.
Nutritionists were not only experts at cooking food, but also specialists in nutritional testing, nutritional enhancement, nutritional assessment, and other fields. They combined and cooked foods scientifically to help pet beasts or Beast Tamers grow more efficiently.
Chefs naturally fell under that broad profession too.
Every portion of General Ha's advanced and rare dog food contained several different ingredients. Lu Ran had not bought them at random, but followed nutritionists' recommendations for feeding Wind pet beasts.
Even so, General Ha's meals could not be considered perfect. The nutritional balance was there, but the food was all in its natural state, usually eaten directly without any special processing.
If expert cooking could fuse all the ingredients' nutrients into one, their nutritional value could undergo a qualitative change. That required a professional nutritionist-or chef-to handle it.
Generally, most Beast Tamers would not go to such trouble, mainly because their cooking skills were inadequate. Cooking supernatural ingredients