Supreme Husband System! & Supreme Wife System!-Chapter 782: But it's even more interesting this way

Chapter 782: But it's even more interesting this way

"Sofia is only a Silver Rank now, and she doesn't practice the way of the Beast Tamer. Her Soul Force is much weaker than mine," Arabel mused, trying to reduce her own to a level that would correspond to the Silver Rank so that Sofia could monitor all her movements.

"Oh, it's really difficult," Arabel smiled, realizing that with such limited Soul Force, the cooking process that used to be easy for her has become much more difficult.

"But it's even more interesting this way," she decided, starting cooking.

When Arabel started cooking, Sofia's mother and the two waitresses immediately noticed the difference between her technique and Sofia's. Even they, ordinary mortals, did not immediately notice that the girl's skill was much higher than Sofia's.

They were mesmerized, watching Arabel's every move, enjoying the cooking process. Even mere mortals like them noticed how capable Arabel was.

Sofia, however, realized from the very first seconds how excellent her opponent's skill level was. She watched Arabel's every action, not missing a single detail. Everything was visible very well and clearly.

[Host, your opponent's skill level is significantly higher than yours], her System suddenly addressed Sofia.

"I noticed it without your reminders, the System," Sofia replied.

[Host, this is your chance! Watch her carefully, absorb everything, and you can use this as the basis for your second Ascension trial.]

"What? Really? Are you serious?" Sofia asked excitedly.

[Yes, the Host. You will not need to follow the previous instructions and compete with other chefs of this world to gain experience and create the basis for the second Ascension trial.]

[Just watch your opponent's skill, that will be enough.]

"Oh! Great!" — Sofia was delighted. Not forgetting about her cooking and putting all her skill into not losing, she also followed Arabel's actions, absorbing everything new that she noticed with the help of her Soul Force.

Meanwhile, Sofia's system, after giving her advice, went silent.

Sofia's system would like to say that, according to her observations, her opponent deliberately does not give his best to show her his skills and inspire her.

However, knowing the stubbornness of its Host, Sofia's System decided to remain silent. It felt that it would be better for its Host if she observed her opponent and gained experience.

***

While Arabel and Sofia, the contestants, were in the kitchen, the three judges took their places at the large table.

Arthur, as the oldest and most experienced, took the center seat, with two girls flanking him.

Arthur glanced at Darkia, and she noticed it, looked back at him and smiled.

That smile made Arthur uneasy, and he even felt a little fear.

"Awakened", — he thought, watching Darkia closely.

"With those two female chefs, there are three awakened ones here. Beatrice wasn't lying when she said that the awakened ones were involved in this competition," he said to himself.

On the way here, he had already found out what this place was and that Beatrice had been sent here to check out the new rumors the family had received.

On the one hand, it gave him hope that she might have finally found what the family had been looking for for so long. On the other hand, he was wary that Beatrice had contacted him and asked him to come here without first informing his family.

The Royce family was going through a difficult time right now.

Of the younger generation, only three became Awakened, and those were from a side family. The main business on which the family was based after the disaster brought only losses. For a long time, family members have been discussing the abandonment of the old policy and the abandonment of restaurants in favor of an alliance with other, more influential families.

The family's leadership was not going to give up its roots and was still looking for ways to revive not only the business, but also the influence.

They believed that just as technology and other industries find new paths of development with the advent of new opportunities, culinary arts can develop along the same path.

But not everyone shared this point of view.

Recently, many of the family's attempts to find new chefs and new opportunities have been sabotaged. This caused the management to suspect that someone from the family was behind it, who did not agree with the current policy.

However, it remained unknown who exactly was behind this.

The number of dissatisfied people was too high, and the leadership did not dare to blame everyone yet. But they couldn't turn a blind eye to the problem either.

The main difficulty was that this group also included those branches of the family where the young people had become awakened.

When Beatrice contacted him, Arthur decided to follow her advice and not tell his family yet, in order to check everything himself first. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

He tried to stay calm, but inside he was overwhelmed with emotions. He even began to fear that his heart would break, either from disappointment if his hopes were not fulfilled, or from joy if they came true.

After all, he was no longer as young as before, and his body did not have the same health as before.

And so, a short time after Sofia and Arabel started cooking, a pleasant, magical aroma appeared in the air, which instantly aroused Arthur's appetite.

He had an overwhelming urge to get up and go to the kitchen to see for himself, but to his disappointment, he couldn't do it.

Beatrice felt the same way too.

Only Darkia remained calm. Being Awakened, unlike Arthur and Beatrice, who were mortals, she watched the cooking process with her Soul Force.

The fragrance was so alluring and tantalizing that the wait for Arthur and Beatrice seemed excruciatingly long.

But finally their ordeal ended when the first waitress came out of the kitchen, holding the first three dishes prepared by one of the chefs on a tray. Arthur and Beatrice didn't know whose dish it was.

However, they didn't care too much about it. They were looking forward to the moment when they could fully appreciate and enjoy the delicious dishes of the first participant.