Adept of Taste

So you are the one helping Jonas. He told me that he needs swamp moss for his cooking. Swamp moss is very refreshing and many people enjoy eating it, but it is very hard to find. It only grows in cold and damp places deep in the Kruma swamp.

But I know an easier way of getting this swamp moss. It may be a little dangerous, but you don't need to wander the swamp for many days to find the moss. Giant ants like the gray ant and crimson ant collect the moss to line their nests. You will be able to easily obtain the moss by hunting these ants.

Take this insect diagram along with you for guidance. It shows where the moss is stored when the ant collects and swallows it.

Bring me 20 bundles of moss and I will prepare them for cooking. Swamp moss is usually green, but very rarely one may come across brown moss. This brown moss has a fuller flavor and is more nutritious, and fetches a high price on the market. If you want a more luxurious dish, it would be better to invest some time and find brown moss.

Yes. Please continue in your efforts. If you can get twenty bundles of brown moss, I will prepare them well for you. Jonas' dish will become even more astounding.

As I explained before, in order to gather the swamp moss, you must go to the Cruma Marshes and hunt gray or crimson ants. Brown swamp moss is a very rare, so it will not be easy to find it.

I understand. I will go ahead and prepare the twenty bundles of green moss you have brought me It would be best if we could provide brown moss for Jonas ... But since we are short on time, we have no other choice. You won't be needing the rest, so I'll take them.

Here, all done. I've rinsed off all the dirt and cut off any inedible portions. Please deliver this to Jonas. And tell him I will be praying for his success.

Oh my! You've brought me twenty bundles of brown moss. I will prepare them immediately. You won't be needing the rest, so I'll take them.

Jonas will be able to create a wonderful dish from this brown moss. He's had so many failures in the past ... I hope he can finally receive acknowledgement for his cooking skills.

Here, all done. I've rinsed off all the dirt and cut off any inedible portions. Here, smell it. Such a lovely, fresh smell, isn't it? Please deliver this to Jonas as soon as possible. And tell him I'll be praying for his success.

Honey? Hmmm? How did you know? Actually, my family has been in the beekeeping business for many generations. Though I've become a guard, I still haven't forgotten the skills of making a good honey.

To make premium honey, you must collect nectar from the giant bees that live here in Dion Castle Town. Nectar is the honey water that the bees store in their honey sacs after sucking it out from flowers with their tongues. Bring twenty bottles of this, and I will make a honey from it.

To gather the nectar, you must hunt the giant bee called the bloody bee. You could also collect nectar from the weird bee that lives in the swamps, but it is such a large and ferocious creature that you must be very careful when taking it on. And since you probably don't know the structure of a bee's honey sac very well, refer to this insect diagram while hunting.

Oh, and if you are lucky, you may be able to obtain something called royal jelly from worker bees that are less than a week old. It is a white liquid with a sour smell, but it is a rare ingredient with much nutrition and flavor. If you can bring me ten bottles of royal jelly as well, I can make an even more flavorful and golden honey.

Please continue, then. Royal jelly is an ingredient that is contained only within worker bees that are less than a week old, and it will be hard to find. But it is worth all the bother it takes to obtain this. Honey that contains royal jelly cannot compare in taste to ordinary honey.

I understand. I will make a honey from the ingredients you have brought me. It's a shame we don't have enough royal jelly. But it's quite all right. I can make plenty of good honey from this.

Here you go. A honey so sweet that slumbering grizzly bears will awaken with a snap! Ha ha! Be careful not to break the bottle while carrying it.

You've brought me twenty bottles of nectar. And ten bottles of royal jelly to boot! I will be able to make a delicious golden honey from this!

Here you go. A honey so sweet that slumbering grizzly bears will awaken with a snap! Put some of this honey on freshly baked bread and eat it with a nice glass of warm milk ... Ahh ... Just the thought of that makes my mouth water!

I learned the arts of cooking from Master Croker, and have developed my skills by myself for the last ten years. Though I do not know how to wield a sword or anything about magic, I am sure that I know more about cooking than anyone else.

But I am frustrated, as I have yet to receive recognition for my talents. I would like to prove my skills and become famous as the top chef of the kingdom. And I want to return to my family with pride.

That is why I have come to Dion Castle Town. Every month, chefs from all over the kingdom come together to compete in a contest. The judge is the Elven Village Sorceress Mirien, also known as the Food Critic for her food judging abilities and discerning palette. Cooks that receive acknowledgement from Mirien receive a reward from the lord himself.

I entered a chicken dish at the last contest, but failed. But that is because the weather was bad and the meat was not good! It had nothing to do with my cooking methods! I plan to enter the contest being held next month. I am currently thinking up a new dish that I can enter. I would appreciate it if you could help me with gathering the ingredients later.

(Quest for characters level 24 and above.)

I need the juice of the mandragora to make a sauce for the steak. You can get this from Trader Sonia.

The salad that will accompany the steak will be made from marsh moss, one of Dion Castle Town's delicacies. This moss only grows in the Cruma Marshlands, and its refreshing taste is truly a treat. They say that you can find the moss if you ask Priestess

I am planning to make a salad dressing with mustard and honey. They say you can obtain the finest honey if you ask Guard Jacob to do you a favor.

I am thinking of having potatoes with the steak. They say that the potatoes grown in Dion Castle Town are the best in the kingdom. You can obtain them from Grocer Pano in the village of

The main dish of steak, as I already told you, will be made of floating eye meat. I heard that one must go to Sorcerer Rollant to find floating eye meat.

I have heard from Jonas. So you are assisting him find ingredients, eh? I wonder what dish he will make?

If he is hiring someone to collect ingredients, he must be making something magnificent!

Was it made by Jonas? I tasted his cooking last month. He definitely has talent, but still lacks in some areas. His cooking is flawless, but his selection of ingredients is ... inappropriate, should I say? I wonder what this dish will be like.

Oh! It's a steak! Shall I have a taste ...?

It is monster eye meat! How did he think to cook it into a steak? It is a unique idea. Ahh ... Delicious! Truly delicious! The tenderness of the meat and the sauce are first rate. Did he use mandragora essence? The fresh moss salad goes well with the meat. The honey mustard dressing is also very good. Excellent!

This steak is by far the finest I have tasted since I have come out into the Human world! With these skills, I believe he has a great chance to become a court cook of the King's Castle of Town of Aden. I will give Jonas the highest marks. Please give him this review. And tell him that I anticipate more of his fine cuisine in the future.

Dionian potatoes? Yes… People say they are the best potatoes in the kingdom, raised in our own province. They are not only big but also sweet.

However, recently hobgoblin plunderers are interfering with our potato production. The farmers are experiencing severe damage. Those hobgoblin rascals steal flock, tear up the fields, and take all our crop... If this goes on, it will be difficult to properly harvest any crop this year, let alone potatoes. Since wares are not coming in, it is harder for me to keep up my trade.

The village chief seems to be hiring some soldiers to try to keep out the thieves... But it is not as easy as people thought it would be. It would be nice if you went out and got rid of the hobgoblins. If you take care of the task, I will give you some Dionian potatoes that I have in stock.

I will keep my promise, so don't worry. Here, I have written a contract, so keep it safe with you. Remember the conditions of the contract. If you kill the hobgoblins and bring back thirty tokens as proof, I will give you a sack of Dionian potatoes.

Good job! You have not completely driven out all the hobgoblins from Dion Castle Town, but now they will not be able to swagger about the farms or villages arrogantly.

As promised, I will give you a sack of Dionian potatoes. They are not only big, but also sweet, and are the best potatoes in the kingdom.

That you want to use monster eye meat, one of the eight ingredients of magical studies, in cooking ... What a unique idea. I am becoming curious myself as to what the result will be.

Very well. I will assist you in finding monster eye meat. If you hunt the monster eye and bring back the carcass, I will prepare it for you. To make monster eye meat for one person, you need thirty carcasses.

The monster eye meat eaten by magicians when they prepare spells for psychic seeing and detection is usually obtained from monster eye searchers and monster eye gazers Compared to other monster eye meat, which is very tough and bitter, the meat of these two monster eyes is tender and sweet. I think they will be appropriate to use as cooking ingredients.

Take this book. I have marked the sections on the monster eye's body that have the most flesh. Keep it in mind when you hunt monster eyes.

You have found all thirty monster eye carcasses! Thank you for your efforts. Now I will begin to prepare the meat.

The monster eye has many pores that emit poisons on its body. Therefore it is very dangerous if you do not trim the meat properly. If you cut off all the dangerous sections, you are not left with much meat. That is why you need thirty carcasses to obtain meat for one person.

There! All finished. I have packed it well, so take it to your chef friend just as I've packed it. Monster eye meat steak...I am truly curious as to its taste. Tell your friend that I wish him luck.

You need mandragora essence? I do not know who you have come on behalf of, but if you need mandragora essence of the finest quality, you have come to the right person.

I can prepare mandragora essence for you, but first you must bring me forty mandragora roots. You can easily obtain mandragora roots that have a red tint.

However, rarely, there are also white roots. If I prepare the essence with only the white roots, I can obtain a clear, transparent fluid that is richer and stronger in taste compared to the red. If you bring forty white mandragora roots, I can make you clear mandragora essence.

Since you are ignorant, I assume you do not know which part of the mandragora to collect. Take this illustrated book of botany to refer to when you gather the roots.

Well then, please find a few more. You may or not know, but riper mandragoras have more chances of having white roots.

Good. Then I will prepare the mandragora essence using forty of the roots you have brought. The extra roots are of no use to you anyway, so I will take them.

Here, take this. It is completed mandragora essence. Although it is not clear but red, the quality does not fall so far short.

I see you have found forty white mandragora roots. With this, I will make you mandragora essence of the finest quality. The extra red roots are of no use to you, so may I have them?

Here, take this. It is completed mandragora essence. Isn't the essence clear and transparent? It is thicker than regular red essence, and its effects are many times stronger.

I see you have brought all five ingredients that I asked you for. Thank you for your trouble. However ...

I am sorry, but the ingredients are not very much to my liking. You could have found better ingredients if you had spared a little more time ... But we must not tarry any further, so I will go right into the preparations.

First, to slice the monster eye meat into appropriate pieces and marinate it in drevian wine ... Next, we go into preparations for the steak sauce ... Mix mandragora essence and vinegar and add thinly sliced onions ...

There! It is complete. I have finished the setting and packed it, so please hurry and take it to Sorceress Mirien. And please tell me how she evaluates my cooking!

I see you have brought all five ingredients that I asked you. Thank you for your trouble. However ...

I am sorry to say this, but some of the ingredients you brought could have been better. You could have found better ingredients if you had taken a little more time ... But we must not tarry any further, so I will go right into the preparations.

First, to slice the monster eye meat into appropriate pieces and marinate it in drevian wine ... Next, we go into preparations for the steak sauce ... Mix mandragora essence and vinegar and add thinly sliced onions ...

There! It is complete. I have finished the setting and packed it, so please hurry and take it to Sorceress Mirien. And please tell me how she evaluates my cooking!

I see you have brought all the ingredients that I asked you. Thank you for your trouble.

Some ingredients could be better ... but this will make quite a satisfactory dish indeed. I will proceed immediately with the preparations.

First, I cut the monster eye meat into small pieces and marinate it in drevian wine ... Next, we go into preparations for the steak sauce ... Mandragora extract combined with vinegar, then thinly sliced onions ...

And so! It is complete. I have finished the setting and packed it, so hurry up and take it to Sorceress Mirien. And please tell me how she evaluated my cooking after she tasted it.

I see you have brought all five ingredients that I asked you for. Thank you for your trouble.

I see you have found excellent ingredients. These ingredients will make a magnificent dish. Shall we begin cooking, then?

First, I slice the monster eye meat into appropriate pieces and marinate it in drevian wine ... Next, we go into preparations for the steak sauce ... Mix mandragora essence and vinegar and add thinly sliced onions ...

There! It is complete. I have finished the setting and packed it, so please hurry and take it to Sorceress Mirien. And please tell me how she evaluates my cooking!

I see you have brought all five ingredients that I asked you for. Thank you for your trouble. These ingredients will make a first-class dish. Shall we begin cooking, then?

First, I slice the monster eye meat into appropriate pieces and marinate it in drevian wine ... Next, we go into preparations for the steak sauce ... Mix mandragora essence and vinegar and add thinly sliced onions ...

There! It is complete. I have finished the setting and packed it, so please hurry and take it to Sorceress Mirien. And please tell me how she evaluates my cooking! This dish will most definitely receive the highest points.

Is this Jonas' cooking? I tasted his cooking last month. He definitely has talent, but still lacks in some areas. His cooking is flawless, but his selection of ingredients is ... inappropriate, should I say? I wonder what this dish will be like.

Oh! It's a steak! Shall I have a taste ...?

It is monster eye meat! How did he think to cook it into a steak? What a unique idea. However ... The meat is tough and the sauce seems too mild. The salad goes well with the meat, but lacks freshness. Is it because of the dressing? It was a good attempt, but has some weaknesses.

I will give you this letter with my review. Please give it to Jonas. And tell him that I look forward to finer cuisine in the future.

Is this Jonas' cooking? I tasted his cooking last month. He definitely has talent, but still lacks in some areas. His cooking is flawless, but his selection of ingredients is ... inappropriate, should I say? I wonder what this dish will be like.

Oh! It's a steak! Shall I have a taste ...?

It is monster eye meat! How did he think to cook it into a steak? What a unique idea. However ... The sauce tastes too mild. The salad goes well with the meat, but lacks freshness. It was a good attempt, but has some weaknesses.

I will give you this letter with my review. Please give it to Jonas. And tell him that I look forward to finer cuisine in the future.

Is this Jonas' cooking? I tasted his cooking last month. He definitely has talent, but still lacks in some areas. His cooking is flawless, but his selection of ingredients is ... inappropriate, should I say? I wonder what this dish will be like.

Oh! It's a steak! Shall I have a taste ...?

It is monster eye meat! How did he think to cook it into a steak? What a unique idea. The taste is very good. It would have been better if the sauce were a little richer ... The salad goes well with the meat, but it is not that fresh. There are a few flaws, but overall, I am pleased. A little improvement will make it a magnificent dish.

I will give you this letter with my review. Please give it to Jonas. And tell him that I look forward to finer cuisine in the future.

Is this Jonas' cooking? I tasted his cooking last month. He definitely has talent, but still lacks in some areas. His cooking is flawless, but his selection of ingredients is ... inappropriate, should I say? I wonder what this dish will be like.

Oh! It's a steak! Shall I have a taste ...?

It is monster eye meat! How did he think to cook it into a steak? What a unique idea. It is truly delicious! The sauce is excellent. Did he use mandragora essence? The fresh salad goes well with the meat. Magnificent!

I will give you this letter where I wrote my review. Please give it to Jonas. And tell him that I look forward to finer cuisine in the future.

I see you have returned. I have already heard the news. So Mirien was not all that pleased? I had anticipated as much, but ... I'm sorry to hear it. Next time, please find me better ingredients so I can try again.

Here, take this. It is not much, but it is a token of my thanks for helping me. Thank you so much for your trouble. If my dish had received high points, then I would have given you more with the lord's prize money ... I am truly sorry.

I see you have returned. I have already heard the news. It is not easy to receive a favorable review from the Food Critic Mirien. However, it seems that she was not greatly pleased. What a pity ... Next time, please find me better ingredients so I can try again.

It seems that the lord has already been informed of the results. Although I did not receive high points, the lord sent some prize money. As promised, I will give a portion to you. Thank you so much for your trouble. I hope we can work together again next time.

I see you have returned. I have already heard. It is not easy to receive a favorable review from the Food Critic Mirien. However, we must not be satisfied at this level. Next time, please find me better ingredients so I can try again.

It seems that the lord has already been informed of the results. I did not receive a high score, but the lord sent some prize money. As promised, I will give a portion to you.

And as a gift, I will give you a memo with the secrets of my cooking. When I later become a famous cook, the secrets may sell for a high price to rich epicures ... Ha Ha!

I suppose you have your own dreams as well? Be patient and persevere. Then someday you will fulfill that dream.

I see you have returned. I have already heard the news. It is not easy for the Food Critic Mirien to say that something is "magnificent!" At last, I will be recognized as a cook! Now I can be the man of my family. This is all thanks to your help.

It seems that the lord has already been informed of the results. He has sent me some prize money. As promised, I will give a portion to you. Thank you so much for your trouble. You have gone through so much trouble to find good ingredients.

Ah, and as a gift, I will give you a memo with the secrets of my cooking. When I later become a famous cook, the secret may sell for a high price to rich epicures ... Ha ha!

I suppose you have your own dreams as well? Be patient and persevere. Then someday you will fulfill that dream.

I see you have returned. I have already heard the news. So the Food Critic Mirien said that it was the "best dish!" Finally, I am acknowledged for my skills as a cook! Do you think this is finally the reward of all the shame and contempt I received from my family and friends? This is all thanks to your help.

I plan to cultivate my skills further and someday go to the king's palace of Town of Aden and apply for the position of court cook. Then I will go meet my family in style.

The lord has sent a letter of congratulation and prize money. He has requested that I prepare the food that will be served at the banquet that takes place at the castle next month. I think I will be busy with that for the time being. As promised, I will give a portion of the prize to you.

Ah, and as a gift, I will give you a memo with the secrets of my cooking. When I later become a famous cook, the secret may sell for a high price to rich epicures ... Ha Ha!

I suppose you have your own dreams as well? Be patient and persevere. Then someday you will surely fulfill that dream.