Chapter 51 - Raising a Child?!
“Toby!” Greya lifted a hand. The seabird sitting on Angor’s hair took off and returned to her.
“Toby has been following me ever since it was created. It’s a new life form I made, using several phantom spirits and valuable materials, while based on an ordinary seabird. I tried many times to recreate the process, to make something similar. But I never succeeded. Toby is one of a kind,” Greya explained while looking at Toby with a gentle look.
“Toby has been here for years. It doesn’t have any special powers like other monsters, but it’s intelligent. It can understand human speech now, and it also has a spirit capacity similar to apprentices.”
Angor was already getting a hint about Greya’s intention to leave Toby to him.
“Barbie’s Restaurant is always traveling around the world looking for materials. Toby is safe with me. But now, I’m approaching my bottleneck to break through. When a gourmet wizard needs to do it, he or she will need lots of unique cooking materials and recipes. I’ve swept through the entire southern region in these centuries. There might still be something left, but they won’t help with my breakthrough now.
“This is why I’ve decided to leave the south and head for somewhere far away. An unknown general plane, even. I never thought about this before, but I’ve stuck at the bottleneck for hundreds of years, if I don’t find a path soon, I’ll never make it. I’m doing it now.”
Greya used a sound-proof ward when speaking, so only Angor heard it.
He thought about Alan’s daily behaviors. The boy was either eating or on his way to eating.
Even the mirages released by Barbie’s Restaurant today did not force Alan to do anything harsh. He was only confused.
Mara never thought about his grandson’s actions. He only believed Alan needed to eat a lot for his growth. Now Greya mentioned it, all those facts pointed towards Alan’s talent.
Yeah… people involved inside something could not see the whole picture.
When Greya finally left, Mara began to hesitate. Should he send Alan to Candy House to become a gourmet wizard?
Gourmet wizards were considered Occult. However, they had weaker positions in the wizarding world because they were not strong in combats. Many apprentices studying gourmet never made it to wizards. Added by the fact that they could not fight very well, they simply became cooks for stronger wizards. Not an outstanding achievement.
Alan had the talent, and of course, he could choose another path. It was up to the boy.
With Greya’s recommendation, at least Alan would at least achieve something in Candy House. It was extremely difficult to become strong just by being a gourmet wizard. Mara really did not want his grandson to end up as someone’s house chef.
What to do!?