Chapter 202: The Cosmic Mammoth
"Herta, you should go back with Ruan Mei for a bit."
Kenji handed the Herta puppet to Ruan Mei. For the past few years, the Herta puppet's daily tasks had been just recording and cleaning. The big Herta had just remembered that she had a puppet over at Kenji's place, so she had asked Ruan Mei to bring it back for a look when she had time.
"Am I no longer needed?" the Herta puppet asked, her face expressionless.
"The big Herta wants to see you, so go back with Ruan Mei this time," Kenji shook his head. Having a Herta puppet around made chores much more convenient. It was a freeloader-enabler.
"Herta, don't go!"
"I can't live without you!"
Hearing that Herta was leaving, Saber Alter's face changed. She was usually too lazy to even walk, and it was Herta who brought her junk food.
Kenji was speechless. She had truly been raised into a useless person.
"Darling, I'm leaving now."
Ruan Mei gave Kenji a natural kiss and left with the Herta puppet.
"Haah ♪?!"
Elysia gasped. What is this? Cheating right in front of your wife? And how could Ruan Mei be so biased? She should have kissed her too!
"I'm going too ♪. After I've dealt with the Honkai, I'll come back to your place to play."
Elysia hugged Kenji, her breath like an orchid by his ear, and then returned to the Honkai world.
"Atashino, let's the two of us take a trip to space to prepare a wedding gift for Toriko."
"Alright! I've never been to space before."
The Planet Ship. A special vessel constructed entirely of stellar material. It could adapt to all kinds of environmental changes in the cosmos, and its defensive power surpassed that of most planets. Although it looked like a spaceship, it was essentially a star: sturdy, durable, and capable of playing interstellar bumper cars. Even when navigating through space, there wasn't the slightest bump.
Racing through the stars in a planet... wasn't this much cooler than a spaceship? Its base speed could reach 100 kilometers per second.
A few days later.
"Sugoi! It's countless times bigger than the original species of Regal Mammoth!"
Atashino was astonished. She was looking at the Elephant Herd Nebula. Each Cosmic Mammoth's body was as massive as a sun. They had small wings and looked just like Regal Mammoths.
"A Cosmic Mammoth. Its Capture Level must be at least two or three hundred thousand," Kenji scratched his head. The capture-level detection equipment on Earth was no longer applicable in space. Any random ingredient in space was over ten thousand.
The Cosmic Mammoth was the size of a sun, but when you got close, you could clearly feel that it was like a mobile, radiating star. Any planets they passed would be incinerated by the power they gave off. An ordinary gourmet planet couldn't withstand it.
At this Capture Level, on a cosmic scale, they couldn't even be considered at the bottom. In the manga, Acacia, after fusing with his Gourmet Demon, had a Capture Level of 30,000, and that wasn't even NEO's peak. If the Acacia from that time had encountered a Cosmic Mammoth, he definitely would have been crashed.
"This is just too big, isn't it?" Atashino's jaw dropped. Compared to it, a human body wasn't even a speck of dust.
"The Regal Mammoth has Jewel Meat. The Cosmic Mammoth should also have a special and delicious piece of meat inside. Let's just call it Sun Jewel Meat," Kenji said.
"Atashino, how about using this as a wedding gift?"
"Okay!"
Atashino nodded. A sparkling ingredient like Jewel Meat... it looked very festive.
"Stellar Protection."
Kenji wrapped Atashino in stellar energy. This would prevent her from being burned by the terrifyingly high temperatures. He himself was completely unaffected.
The Cosmic Mammoth's mouth was so large that they entered without any effort at all.
"Good heavens. It has a self-contained world inside its body."
The inside of the Cosmic Mammoth was staggeringly large. The inside of a Regal Mammoth was just a vast cave, but the inside of a Cosmic Mammoth was like a container for countless planets. After all, the Cosmic Mammoth itself was the size of a star. You could see small planets and continents inside its body.
The internal temperature was about 100 degrees Celsius. Although this would be a lethal temperature for an ordinary person, it had no effect on Kenji or Atashino.
"The temperature outside was so high. I didn't expect it to be so normal in here." Atashino no longer needed Kenji's protection. This temperature... you could find many similar environments even in the Human World.
"The light in here is being provided by the Sun Jewel Meat. I can't imagine how bright it must be," Kenji said, expanding his senses to search for its location.
Following the direction of the light, Kenji confirmed the location of the Sun Jewel Meat.
"Kenji, look," Atashino said, pointing.
Not far away was a group of Crimson Flame Earth Dragons. The crimson flames radiating from their bodies could ignite the air.
"They all have the aura of an Eight King. As expected of creatures that parasitize the inside of a Cosmic Mammoth," Kenji sensed. Tsk, tsk, tsk. The Eight Kings were the apex beasts of Earth's strength, but here, there was a whole group of them. They had been reduced to a unit of power measurement.
"Don't worry about them. Let's go straight for the Sun Jewel Meat."
Using his spatial power, he took Atashino and traversed the inside of the Cosmic Mammoth. Powerful beasts could be seen everywhere. A complete food chain had already formed inside the creature.
SHING!
With his Dragon-Slaying Knife in hand, Kenji cut a hole in the thick wall of flesh. The Cosmic Mammoth didn't react at all to this commotion. It was just like in the human body; when a single tiny cell dies, you don't feel anything.
"Here."
Kenji took out a pair of special sunglasses and handed them to Atashino. The light from this Jewel Meat was too dazzling, just like staring directly at the sun. He could withstand it, but Atashino's eyes were already watering from the brightness.
After putting on the special sunglasses, Atashino opened her eyes. The light had been so stimulating just now that she couldn't look directly at the Jewel Meat.
"It's so beautiful... the patterns are just like the surface of the sun. Compared to the Regal Mammoth's Jewel Meat, the impact of the flavor will be even more shocking," Atashino marveled. It was normal for it to be blinding; after all, this light was illuminating the entire interior of the Cosmic Mammoth. However, it wasn't as scorching hot as the surface of the beast; rather, it was very gentle, creating a stark contrast.
When you thought about it, it made sense. For all kinds of creatures to survive inside its body, the environment couldn't be as harsh as a fiery hell.
"This size... it's comparable to a planet."
Kenji could feel his cells radiating joy. The wonderful aroma emanating from the Sun Jewel Meat... just like the Honeydew Shaved Ice Comet, it was a true cosmic-level ingredient. Just smelling the fragrance made his cells react like this. If they ate it, his cells would undergo an evolution. Atashino felt it too.
A deliciousness like that of a star, compressed and precipitated in this Sun Jewel Meat. To make a comparison, it was equivalent to the GOD nurtured by the Cosmic Mammoth.
The Regal Mammoths on Earth were probably from the same lineage as the Cosmic Mammoths, having undergone an adaptive change after acclimating to the environment on Earth.
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