God Of Crafting

Chapter 82: Who cares about perpetum mobile of the ancients when we have supreme pastry!

A Vahanea structure. A perpetuum mobile of the cultivation world. A structure capable of endlessly reproducing true Qi as long as someone feeds it with a bit of spiritual energy in the beginning.

In other words, something that, according to any laws of physics, cultivation, or common sense, couldn't exist.

And yet...

"Are you going to tell me now that it actually exists?" I asked while raising my eyes to the girl's face.

"What? No, of course it doesn't!" she quickly exclaimed, only to then shake her head. "But that doesn't mean there are no structures made with Vahanea's structure in mind. And even if they all ended up failing, it doesn't change the fact that some of those..."

Claire averted her eyes and looked down while biting down on her lips.

"Some of the structures made in Vahanaea image certainly do work, even if they are still a far cry from what the original was supposed to be," she explained.

But there was one word that instantly caught my attention.

"The original?" I muttered while raising my eyebrows. "I thought it was impossible to make one, so how could there be an original?"

Claire sighed.

"And that's where we enter the realm of what you brought at the very beginning, the realm of myth. According to that very myth, there wasn't just one... but a total of seven different Vahanea structures that predated even the mystical area. That time of cultivators running free all over the world and holding the reins of all of humanity?"

I wasn't overexaggerating here. Not even in my time of working for my uncle when money was hardly an issue and when I frequented his place did I get a taste as rich and flavorful as I did just now.

"It's..." Claire gave me a strange, slightly confused look. "It's just a pie, you know?" she muttered, before turning her gaze over to the huge plate with more squares of the pastry. "Oh, I..."

"Look here," I called out to the girl, only to strike out with my right hand... and stuff her mouth with the piece I just took a bite from as soon as she turned to face me again.

At first surprised, Claire awkwardly munched down on the cake while allowing the drops of crumbles to fall down to the plate I held just below her chin. Then, for a moment, her expression melted down as she got to taste the delicious treat herself, only to swallow... and look up with a hint of anger in her eyes.

"Tasty, isn't it?" I asked with a huge smile on my face, more than eager to move away from all those heavy topics and charge straight ahead to the next point of the day's schedule.

"It sure is..." Claire begrudgingly muttered. "Just don't eat too much of it, since it's made with Atraxia leaf."

"And what's that?"

"Quite the vicious herb," Claire shook her head before pushing the plate with the last bite of the cake away from her mouth. Yet, rather than just letting me have it, she actually grabbed the plate before forcing it out of my hand and putting it back onto the table. "While it's not bad in small amounts... Well, it uses your own Qi to enrich the taste of whatever it is that you are currently eating.

So using it sparingly shouldn't be a problem, but well..."

Claire looked away.

"It's better if you won't get used to its effects because once you get addicted to this level of taste and start consuming it on a regular basis, the burden it will place on your cultivation will be actually massive."