Reincarnation Of Audemars - Chapter 119

Patricia left the Castle with our children to usher them to the Northern Forest for their levelling up as the other junior members were going out in pairs in search for the Quests that had been recorded in the booklet.

The ten apprentices that had signed up for the programme came by and each of them was briefed on the internship programme and had acknowledged on their terms and conditions. Furthermore its already past lunchtime so the programme would start the day after for a duration of 30 days.

The look of enthusiasms didn’t leave their faces as they left the Castle as I turned to my notepad and planned for the first week of internship based on just 4 types of cuisines whose ingredients could be readily found.

After a lot of scribblings, I had finally decided the first one week set of cuisines that are simple to prepare. Based on difficulty levels, the cuisines should be a 2/5 rating.

Well, since we have 28 occupants in the house, having these apprentices to prepare those meals wouldn’t be a problem. At least those meals won’t go to waste as it would be more than enough to go round.

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“Mummy, how many more wild boars you need to kill before you get to Level up? I think I need to kill another 20+ more.” Adam asked as he shot bolts after bolts as each wild boar met its demise as he collected the hide and meat.

“Mummy’s got something like 10+ more, it won’t be long when we level up. So how does it feel to be seniors at the moment?” Patricia asked as she let her Mark of Magi rest against her as she wiped her hands dry after holding the staff for quite some time.

“Well, it’s a matter of getting used to it since I started from the beginning as well. Furthermore, if the juniors were to grind all at the same time, there won’t be enough wild boars to respawn in a short while and it would take at least 2 to 3 days to Level up.”

“Mummy, would you be going with us for the second quest at QM Becky’s?” Ingles asked as she sat down on the grassy knoll and took a small grass plant and put it into her mouth.

“I won’t be going out with you since it would show the other Houses what we are up to. Even if the other junior members are wearing the same battle gear and holding the same weapons, at least they are going out in pairs and it is not that obvious, don’t you think?”

“Aahh… So this is the part where both Daddy and you are training us to be independent. Furthermore, I think if time permits, we may ask around to see who else have Quests for us.” Jane said as she took out her booklet and decides to see which quest she would go next.

“Mummy, Mummy… We also could go in pairs, right? In that case, I would pair up with Jane as usual then. At least whatever she does I could also copycat too… Hii Hii Hii…” Kayla spoke up as she lay on the grassy knoll like she was lying down on a carpet and raised her legs while gazing at the rest of her sisters and brother.

“As Daddy always says, ‘Be very careful when venturing alone or in pairs’. Furthermore, these Quests that Daddy had compiled are quite mild compared to the first one under our Castle. That should be placed under the last order instead of the first.” Patricia held the booklet as she gazed on it and finds them to be more of a gathering quest rather than a battle quest.

“Yes, Mummy… This booklet is not complete which means Daddy hasn’t covered the Southern District yet, am I right?” Adam asked as he saw only a handful of them are in the Northern District and mainly ate gathering quests in the Central.

“That’s right, Daddy purposely didn’t complete the handbook because he can’t be spoonfeeding everyone all the time, right? Alright then, out 15 minutes break us over so we better hurry to the spot near the trolls Cave since there are more than 50 wild boars there and the respawn rate is much higher.”

Patricia said as she picked herself off and dusted her butt… I mean her pants and pointed to the further end of the Northern Forest where a large herd of wild boar was waiting to be grinded.

“Yeay… With Mummy or Daddy around, we won’t need to worry or afraid of anything…” Kayla responded as she rolled on the grass patch before she does a flip and landed on her feet just like a breakdancer. Hah hah hah…

Giving them more points makes them more agile and acrobatic. Luckily they didn’t do any of their stunts at home and practises on their free time around the Castle’s grounds instead.

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“System, could you update me of my current levels since those wooden daggers had been completed? Thank you…” I said as I got ready to be able to Level up considerably even if my Blacksmithing level had been put on hold.

*Ding* Checking. Please hold on. Base Level increased to 15,350/100,000. Master Crafter 4319/100,000. Total Unallocated points: 117.4k.

*Ding* Congratulations. You had reached 15% of your target. Commencing sequence of system upgrade in 5…4…3…2…1… System upgrades complete.

*Ding* Hello, Sam in your previous life and Audemars in this life. You can call me Ceres from now on. From time to time I would alert you of any incidences that might prove beneficial to you.

“Wow… Something like a fortune teller or a soothsayer? That would be great… Can you tell me what I would be having for sinner afterwards?” I thought aloud as I thought the system upgrade would be able to tell the future for me.

*Ding* I’m not something that you could predict the future. What you would be having for dinner is most probably food. Yes, food, that you would fork down into your mouth and shove down your throat. After some hours, it would be withdrawn like an atm machine out from your butt.

“Eehh… How come the upgrade made you a little bit cocky now?”

*Ding* System inherited some of the host’s traits.

“Hmm, not only its a bit cocky, but it has turned out to be foul-mouthed as well.” I visualised the words since the system, or Ceres as what it wanted to be known now, is able to read my thoughts not unless I drew it out. Hah hah hah…

Alright, it seems that everything is on track right now. All I need is to let the cooks prepare breakfast tomorrow and then I would prepare all the ingredients for lunch and dinner and make a small demo.

From then on the apprentice would be able to present their skills for on both lunches and dinners and once the whole 3 weeks is done, it would move to desserts, cakes and so on. At the meantime, whatever the present cooks want to impart additional skills, it would be most welcome for my part.

I had set up the regime since I would be doing a demo for the first week and the last week and from then on I would pin up a recipe and it would be their creativity to present it to me and the rest of the family and members.

Well, this is a planning but I’m sure it would change when the time comes. At this moment, I gave a set of ingredients to prepare for tomorrow’s lunch and dinner and the menu would be as follows: Tex Mex Meatballs and Turkey Tetrazzini.

These two recipes had been extracted out of my memories on what I learnt so far from all the culinary books from the past, present and future. After giving the set of ingredients for tomorrow, one of the cooks went to get the ingredients in the local produce while I went to Northern Forest to meet with Patricia and our children.

Along the way, the junior members had followed my instructions and moved in pairs so they would look inconspicuous to the other Houses. Even if the Macleod’s Lucky Badge was visible on their black battle gear, at least they don’t attract the crowd’s attention when they moved in groups.

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I met Patricia when I reached the Northern Forest and informed her that I’d go meet NoOne first and then join with the rest. Seeing me without my battle gear or even a single weapon in my quickslot, she knew that I’m not there to grind.

“Be way of the….” NoOne began to narrate his usual greeting when I greeted him and I hushed him up immediately and said u want to trade and after I showed him the wooden dagger, it was offered 1 credit per item and I gladly shoved the whole 50k pieces to him.

“Haiyoo adventurer… What am I going to do with so many of this wooden daggers? Make the wild boars go against the rest of the adventurers with these?” NoOne lamented to me as he thought I wanted to trade one or two pieces.

“Hah Hah Hah… You could use it for firewood since you are always here and grilling those rat meats ever since I met you. By the way, any other adventurers came here and asking you about the secondary quest of the stolen Iron ingots?”

“None so far today, ah well… Might as well I make this into firewood as you suggested. Just my luck getting stranded here and have to trade these useless wooden daggers even though I find them if no use to me or to retrade back.”

“You are doing just fine, NoOne. You had been a great help for me since the day I get to know you and had been robbing you with utmost courtesy.” I told NoOne and praised him for his tenacity of being here alone and no one to converse with. I excused myself and walked over to the children to check their progress.

“Woot… All of you had levelled up already. Don’t you want to go back and head to QM Becky for your quest?” I discovered that even if the children knew they had levelled up they decided to add some more progress to it so at least they would be able to achieve half more when they grind on some other days.

“A little bit more Daddy, I’m going to hit the 50% mark then I would call it a day,” replied Kayla as she shot a single bolt to bring down a wild boar about 15 meters away.

“Kayla… Not only you who would reach the 50% mark, so would I and the rest too…” replied Jane as she hollered from the other side some 25 meters away.