Day 321-330/Day 330

Day 330
Today, I'm busy preparing the battlefield. Since I judged that【Gambling House Of Oni's Howl】and【Demon's Precious Seafood Cave】were not fit to be a battlefield, I am doing the work in other labyrinths. There is still some time before the date and time when we declared war on each country. But there is no guarantee that they will come.
In fact, dozens of scouts have been dispatched to the【Sacred Fire Mountain of Oni's Howl】where they gather as much information as possible. Some countries are saying that that they should challenge us as soon as they are ready. For now, the voices are small, and the top decision-makers are shaking their heads, so it is unlikely that they will come in before the scheduled date, but even so, it is not something to be careless about.
So I'm quickly tweaking the terrain. It takes some time because I have to pay attention to the formation and the terrain to make it easier for the actual fighters, think about how many live adults to leave as insurance, and build escape routes in case some of them have room to grow and look forward to the future. By the way, if you use your brain, you get hungry. The brain needs nutrition as much as it works.
That being the case, I decided to cook a dish using【Cooking Pot of the Seaweed God】which is a metal pan-shaped【Sacred Treasure】. I used【Seaweed Cooking License】and【Special Seafood Cooking Technique】, as soon as I made the seafood dinner using【Cooking Pot of Seaweed God】, it became food served in a pot, with the meat of the Flame Dragon Empress as the main ingredient.
The cooking using marine products is higher in taste with【Cooking Pot of Seaweed God】though it's also possible that if I intend to use other ingredient than those it would also become delicious. I used one of my abilities,【Giant Pot】, because there were many people here to eat this time, but I did not think that it became the size in which it finally would even possible to include Minokichi-kun entirely.
You might say, given that it is just right to cook the dish for a great number of people, I dropped the vegetables from the Labyrinth and meat of the Dragon Empress in large quantities, by pouring in massive amounts without thinking deeply. Sounds popped as it began to boil thoroughly, I distribute the completed dish to members who spill drool putting it into two or more pans again. 
Although I might say the hot pot is huge, as I would expect since there are areas where it's not possible to enclose for all members, I could do nothing but distribute it in this way. With no less than 100 chiefs of leader rank in a circle formation around the place overwhelming the pot in secret, they came flowing in to eat greedily. 
The eating location is in【Waterfall Basin of Water Oni's Howl】, and it has been slightly cold out, so the warm hot pot is even more delicious.
The dragon meat unleashing a good flavor that condenses in the mouth with a gentle, warm texture, the food has a texture like the crunchy "Silver Horn Bean Sprouts" and "Azure Sky Chinese Cabbage", and the slight acidity of "Red Life tomato" deepens the taste more. 
Assuredly the mixed-up hot pot was made by inserting various ingredient materials in various ways, or perhaps I should say... won't the flavors fight or turn out to be strange? The taste in itself is completely unusual. Since taste doesn't change from the hot pot which I shared to members,【Cooking Pot of Seaweed God】will probably adjust it automatically.
To be able to taste various dishes at a time, how convenient of a【Sacred Treasure】. Though I feel its well done somehow, the learning was not possible even if I shook the【Dice of Gambling God】. Though it might be inevitable since a lucky spot did not appear this time either. After we finished our meal, we got down to work. It was less work than usual, but it was still a hassle.
Let's hope that the countries will arrive on time.
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RAWS
“三百三十日目”
今日も戦場を整えるのに奔走する。
【鬼哭の賭場】と【鬼神の尊き海鮮食洞】は戦場に向かないと判断したので、それ以外の迷宮での作業である。
一応、各国に宣戦した日時までにはまだ猶予がある。
だが、はいそうですか、と必ず来る保証はない。
現に今も斥候が何十名と【鬼哭神火山】に派遣され、少しでも情報を集めているし、各国では準備が整い次第、即座に挑むべきなどと声が出ている。
今のところはその声は小さく、また意思決定権を持つトップ達が頭を縦に振っていないので予定日前に乗り込んでくる可能性こそ低いが、それでも油断していいものではない。
なのでさっさと地形をイジったりしている。
実際に戦う団員達がやりやすいように陣形や地形に気を配り、保険としてどのくらい生成体を置いておくかを考え、もし成長の余地があり今後が楽しみな者が居た場合も考えて逃げ道くらいは造っておこう、などと色々思いながらなので、若干時間が必要だ。
ところで、頭を使えば腹が減る。
脳は働いた分だけ栄養を欲している。
という事で、金属鍋型の【神器】である【】を使った料理を造る事にした。
　
以前は【海藻神之調理鍋】を用い、【海藻料理免許皆伝】や【特級海鮮調理術】を発動させて海鮮料理を作ったが、今回は竜女帝の肉をメインに使った鍋料理だ。
【海藻神之調理鍋】は海産物を使用した調理の方が旨味補正が高いのだが、それ以外でも使おうと思えば使えるし、美味くなる。
今回は食べる数が多いので能力の一つである【巨大鍋化】を発動させたのだが、最終的にミノ吉くんすらスッポリと入れるサイズになるとは思わなかった。
まあ、大人数の料理を造るのにちょうどいいので、深く考えずに大量にある迷宮産野菜や竜女帝の肉をドバドバと大量に投下。
グツグツ煮込み、出来上がった料理はまた複数の鍋に入れて涎を垂らす団員達に配る。鍋は大きいといっても、流石に全員が囲めるだけの広さはないので、こうして分けるしかなかったのだ。
百人長以上の幹部級だけで地下を凹ませてはめ込んだ鍋をグルリと囲み、ガツガツと食べていく。
食べている場所は【鬼哭水の滝壺】で、少し寒かった事もあり、暖かい鍋はやはり美味い。
軽く温めるだけで竜肉は口の中で凝縮した旨味を解放し、シャキシャキとした“銀角モヤシ”や“蒼天白菜”の食感、“赤命トマト”のちょっとした酸味がより味を深めている。
色々と具材を投入したゴチャ混ぜ鍋なのだが、不思議と味が喧嘩していないというか、場所によってガラッと味自体が変わっていた。
団員達に分けた鍋は味が変わらないので、多分【海藻神之調理鍋】が自動的に調整してくれているのだろう。
色んな料理を一度に味わえるとは、なんて便利な【神器】だろうか。
なんて感心しているものの、【】を振ってもラーニングは出来なかった。
まあ、今回もいい目が出なかったのだから仕方ないのだろうが。
腹ごしらえを済ませた後は、早速作業に取り掛かる。
分体を使った並行処理も可能なので、手間も普通よりかは少ないものの、面倒な事には変わりない。
各国が予定通りにやって来てくれる事を祈っておこう。
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