Legendary Traveler: By Earning Progress Points I will Become Supreme!-Chapter 67: Chimera Meat! It’s better than Kobe Beef! (1)

Using his Speed and Attack stats to their full extent, Aoni made short work of the corpse, separating the pelt from the body within about an hour before setting to work scraping off all the flesh clinging to it.

Arguably, that was a process that was longer than the actual skinning portion, but once complete, Aoni folded up the pelt into a neat pile and turned to face the skinless corpse hanging by its ankles.

Sucking on his teeth, the lad walked up to the skinless animal-shaped ingredient and examined the meat with interest, not because he had a fetish of some sort, but instead because he noticed that unlike regular muscle and fat, which had a reddish color, this "Chimera" meat had a faint golden hue, reminiscent of the creature’s blood.

’Strange, the myoglobin normally turns meat red when in contact with Oxygen, yet with this guy, it’s gold.’

Myoglobin, a protein commonly found in things such as beef, generally is the cause of its color. Without contact with oxygen, it’s typically purplish, so the fact that this meat was gold surprised Aoni quite a bit.

Even so, between his hunger and the ravenous, drooling fool sitting on the ground beside him, the lad didn’t believe he had much of a choice.

’If I cook the meat thoroughly, I suppose the worst thing that can happen to me is getting the shits…’ Looking around his immediate area, Aoni quickly spotted his swords, and after retrieving Vestr, he allowed Glacia up on his shoulder before asking the most important question he could ever ask a glutton.

"Which portion do you wanna try first?"

Stunned by the question and only vaguely aware of the meaning behind her Lord’s words, Glacia fell into a deep contemplative state.

’If stares could light things on fire…uh…I suppose something like laser eyes isn’t out of the question; THAT ASIDE, if stares could light shit on fire, Glacia would be halfway to cooking this thing by now.’ Chuckling at the intensity of his summon, Aoni followed suit and tried to figure out what he wanted to try eating first.

"When I was skinning, I noticed it has abnormally dense lower back muscles, probably from years of standing on its hind legs to get leaves and fruits off the trees, so that’s probably gonna be juicy; after all, backstraps are normally good." Bringing his free hand to his chin, Aoni thought about what the supposed best cuts of meat are for both bears and deer since that’s what this Chimera seemed to be.

Sitting on his shoulder like a parrot, Glacia cupped her chin with her right paw, much like how Aoni used his right hand.

"Gaooo," nodding her head as if she had ANY clue at all what her Lord was Talking about, the back and forth between the two began as usual.

"For deer, the tenderloin and backstrap are generally considered the best for grilling and pan-frying, whereas, for something like bear meat, I think it’s supposed to be the neck."

"Ooo…" Snapping her head to look at Aoni, Glacia covered her neck with her free arm, for some reason making the connection that he wanted to eat her hunt’s neck, which meant eating hers.

"Then again, we were always taught that Neck meat is better left used for slow cooking like a stew, decisions decisions." Yet because the lad was so deeply immersed, he didn’t even notice her antics and continued on.

Realizing fairly quickly that Aoni wasn’t talking about her neck, the fluff ball went on mimicking her Lord.

"Gaoo, Gaoo," this time, her gaos were almost word for word Glacia’s way of saying decisions, decisions….

"Yeah, you’re right. Backstraps and tenderloins, IT IS!" Unfortunately, that part didn’t get through to Aoni, as he thought she was simply agreeing with him.

Either way, the cut of meat had been decided, so without further ado, the pair of Lord and Summon walked around the backside of the carcass. With a few well-timed and placed slashes and a furry missile acting as catcher, the first ingredients of dinner had been collected.

Mind you, the four cuts of meat Aoni had generated were more than twice Glacia’s size, but given her strength, it was pretty easy for her to move the meat around without help.

Still, that didn’t mean he would let her carry the heavy meat alone.

Bending down and scooping up two of the four cuts, he then guided Glacia over toward the boulder the fur ball enjoyed taking naps on and, after clearing it off, placed the meat down before gathering some salt.

Next was the easy part, salting the meat, and since that was one thing he had an abundance of, it was no issue at all.

However, when it came to the actual cooking part, that was where Aoni was required to exert a bit of finesse.

For starters, using Vestr, he cleared out a three-foot-diameter area before making a camping fire circle out of stones and filling it with branches.

Then, with a strike of a match, the campfire was lit ablaze.

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Since the fire was going and would take some time to get to an optimal temperature, Aoni was at a loss for what to use in place of a frying pan, and in the end, his only option was the thin bowl he had been using to hold the blood earlier.

Stained gold from containing the blood for several hours, Aoni splashed a bit more blood in the bowl, just enough to coat the bottom, and brought it over toward the boulder before butterflying the first cut (thinning meat by cutting it in half long so that it opens up like a door) and tossed it into the bowl.

"That’s done; now I just need something to hold the bowl, and my makeshift stove is good to go." He mused while looking around the platform and eventually settling on hanging it over the fire with one of the drying racks inside the cave.

With the final step ready, Aoni spent some time feeding the fire more branches and fanning the flames until he felt it was good to go, and after nearly half an hour of preparation…

TSSSSSSSSSS

Aoni was cooking his first real meal in over a week.