Chapter 1

Would you believe me if I told you that in this world, there are many dimensions that we don't know about? To me, this world has so many dimensions that the number and how to find them are still a mystery to mankind, including to me (of course, because I am also a human being like you, dear readers). There are so many things that are still a mystery, that maybe one day there will be a person from the millions, or even billions, of the population who will find them. Of course, if people who manage to solve even a small mystery in the universe are willing to share their findings with the world.

If my guess is correct, it means that every dimension that exists in the entire vast universe will not be the same. I suspect that each dimension must have different rules and problems. Some dimensions might be too feminist, some might be too patriarchal, some may rely on the power of magic as their means of survival, and many more that I don't even know how many dimensions and rules exist throughout this vast universe and what life is like in a different dimension to the dimension I'm in.

So that also applies to the dimension I'm in right now. Right now, I'm in a place where magic and song are the forces that will determine which caste you will enter and your future life. In my world, there are four recognized castes:

The first caste is the users of song and musical magic. This caste is the strongest of the four castes. The rest I will discuss after this one. As the name suggests, these users of song and music magic have the ability to use music and songs as a source of their power, eliminating the need for them to think about their future.

The reason? Because they can pursue a career in any field they want, making them a respected caste, as well as a caste that many new parents hope for their children in the future. The downside is that casting music and song magic requires a certain mood, and the quality of their work will also depend on the mood and the type of song and music they hear. The number of music and song wizards wasn't that great, but they weren't as rare as those of the second caste.

The second is a food magic-user. And as I mentioned at the end of my explanation regarding music and song castes, food wizards are a very, very rare type of caste, so the existence of this caste is highly acclaimed, second only to the song caste. In order to bring out its magic power, food wizards must have high concentration and have a fixed goal when creating the food they want. Due to the extremely high level of difficulty, it was only natural that only a few users of this type of magic power actually mastered their food magic to the fullest.

The third caste is ordinary wizards. These types are people who can use magic, but they don't need the help of any musical instruments, and the magic they cast isn't the type of magic that requires high concentration, like food wizards. Because the type of magic they cast was below that of the users of music, song, and food magic, their sector of work tended to focus on administrative work and other types of work that didn't require high concentration.

And the last, of course, are ordinary people without any magic abilities. Being from the lowest caste and having no power, most of them did menial jobs and trades. Because of their position at the bottom, their voices and opinions are ignored.

Sounds annoying, right? But that's the reality. In the world I currently live in, one cannot choose a caste based on what they think is advantageous, but rather depends on fate to choose their caste in the future.

Okay, enough of this explanation about caste, which is very disgusting to me. To be honest, I even really, really hate the caste order that prevails in the world I currently live in, but I'm too reluctant to protest it any further. Maybe one day there will be a person who succeeds in changing the caste system. And if one day there is someone who succeeds in changing the caste order in my world, I want to ask that person to remove the harmful caste system and replace it with a casteless world so that no one is discriminated against because of the caste status they were born with.

What is clear is that I am very sure that that person is not me. And I really don't want to hope that the one who will change the caste status in my world later is me. I don't want to deal with things that are troublesome, full of heavy burdens of responsibility, and they come with a high price that I must have paid dearly for them all. Like Doctor Strange, who lost his ability as a reliable surgeon in exchange for his power to move space and time at will. No, I absolutely do not want anything like that to happen to me, neither in the present nor in the future.

Back again to my explanation of the world where I have lived since I was born until now. Here, cooking is the most prestigious job. As I mentioned earlier, due to the extremely rare number of food magic power users, they are a caste group that doesn't have to worry about their future career prospects at all. It is certain that they will become reliable cooks, no need to be afraid of starvation on the road, and their future is very bright. Therefore, parents usually want their children to be food wizards compared to other castes, given the clear and stable job prospects.

And for those of you who are curious about how food magic-users create food, there are two ways they can use their magic to create food:

The first are wizards who can cook using their magic, just like ordinary wizards. In contrast to ordinary wizards or song and music wizards, they possessed great magic power that they could not use for anything other than cooking. If someone wants to use their magic to cook, that person must have high concentration and they have to think about what kind of food they will create according to the limits of their abilities. It may seem difficult, but once the person has mastered the technique, it will be easy to do other things related to cooking. Usually, it takes a food wizard varying amounts of time to master the basic techniques, some months or even years since their food magic talent first appeared.

As far as I can see, there are very few people with a talent for cooking magic who can master basic cooking techniques within a few weeks. Even if there are, it means that they are genius food wizards, and they can accelerate their career path, unlike the usual food wizards, by opening their own restaurant or cake shop, as well as becoming food wizard teachers for those who have a strong desire to share their knowledge with food wizards who want to practice their magical abilities and take it to a higher level.

In addition to the advantages, food wizards with the talent for cooking magic also have the disadvantages of the strength they have. Since creating food with the help of magic requires a very high concentration of concentration, if one had even a slight break in their concentration while creating a new type of food, or if the food wizards still had no idea about what type of food they were going to make, the result would be like one of the dishes of one of the cooking school students not too far from where I am right now.

BOOM!!!

"Well, it seems like I failed to cook it again..." said one of the women who was currently learning to cook using food magic. Her face looked so disappointed when she found the food she had worked so hard to make, just exploded in front of her. From my brief observation, I'm sure that she lost her concentration while following the recipe guide she was currently studying. In my heart, I feel grateful that I realized it and managed to prevent the food from exploding prematurely, or else I would have found the entire town where I currently live destroyed by the biological bomb I failed to stop a few seconds ago.

And, well, that's roughly what would happen if food wizards lost their concentration, even the slightest bit of concentration they had since gaining their powers. If you see the results of the cooking directly, maybe now you will be able to understand why the food can explode at any minute.

I mean, look at the thing I am talking about. It can be directly seen with the naked eye. The shape of the food she just created is so terrible, the color that even at one look, a person can tell clearly that it's not fit for any living creature's consumption, and the smell alone would almost make me vomit if I did not stop the result of what she created in a flash before it exploded and littered the class where one of the students I mentioned earlier finished cooking that evil creature, which I can no longer even call food.

All right, let's go back to our main topic. Besides the way I mentioned earlier, there is a second way for food wizards to make food. That is by using music or songs to make food, which means they are born as song and music wizards with cooking abilities in addition. This method is a high-risk method because it relies on 100% of the emotions of the food-making magicians. And most food wizards who use this method are born as geniuses who don't take long to master various cooking techniques with magic.

Even though they seem to belong in a special class, that does not mean they do not have any weaknesses. Just like the magicians of song and music, the results of the food they produce will depend on the emotions they feel when making their food.

If the emotions are stable, the resulting food they create will taste good. If their mood is happy or in love, the food they create will taste sweet. If they cook when they are angry, the resulting food they create will be so spicy that it will burn the mouth of the person who eats their food. If they cook it when they are sad, the food they create will tend to be wet and mushy, with the taste of the food depending on the song they are listening to at the time. Since the technique is difficult and risky, only a few people could use the second technique. It is understandable, considering the risks that will be obtained. And most food wizards use the first method to cook, including food wizards, who can use the second method.