4 Is this cooking?

As the sun began to rise and light penetrated through the windows in Sami's bedroom, a noise awoke the young boy.

"SAMIII, I thought you wanted to learn cooking!" boomed William, effectively acting as an alarm clock for the boy.

As Samael heard this he scrambled to get up and get ready, he stayed up too late as he was too excited, thus making him tired.

A few minutes later...

Sami all dressed up and ready walked towards the practice kitchen that surprisingly looked like a modern one but all the technology had a steampunk vibe.

This world is unexpectedly advanced and they use aura to power their technology, it looks steampunk-ish, not as sleek as earth tech.

The most advanced race in the world are goblins they had to rely on technology, as they are probably the weakest race from birth so they used technology to improve themselves going as far to make a mecha (magic mecha lol).

"You're here, today I will show you my peak cooking skills and the basics of our family's technique that have been honed and improved after thousands of years." spoke William.

"Yes Dad" ,Sami said his tone showing his enthusiasm, he was clearly impatient to learn right away.

"Watch closely."

William pointed his hands at the ingredients on the counter and the aura in the surroundings began to move and enclose the food. Williams hands were moving elegantly as if this wasn't cooking but a piano piece.

"Is this cooking?"

Samael watched in shock and awe as the aura around the food began to spin and shine like a star in the night sky, it truly looked fantastic.

After a while the aura began to calm down and in the original place of the raw and untouched ingredients was a beautiful plate of food. It looked like a painting. A perfect and alluring painting.

Sami began to drool uncontrollably, the scent from the food was to bewitching, the mere aroma tasted better than any food he had cooked before.

"Taste it, this is my peak" William said

Just as Samael was walking towards the food, a figure blurred past him, grabbed the dish and devoured it.

It was Victoria.

Samael looked heartbroken his purple eyes were filled with disbelief as his own mother gorged on the food in front of him.

He was devastated, if he tasted that food he could have broken through and reach a new realm of cooking but his mother took that chance from him.

"MOTHER how could you!"

"Hahaha, my dear son you wouldn't blame mother would you, after all she was hungry." Victoria said as she rubbed her belly with a satisfied expression.

"Mother, you are at the peak of the Dao realm, you are one of the strongest people in the empire, how could you be hungry, you can sustain yourself with aura." Samael whined.

"Glutton" he thought.

As he thought this, Victoria glared at him as if saying she knew what he thinking. Sami sheepishly looked away and blushed.

"Unlucky son, your mother always loved my food, anyways let me explain to you our family's cooking technique." William began to say after laughing at Samael.

"Our technique is split into 7 realms, at realm 1 you would be at the peak of a mortals cooking, at realm 2 you can use aura to improve the taste of food, at realm 3 you can use heaven and earth treasures (herbs, medicine and elixirs) and mix them in with your food allowing for good tasting medicinal meals, that could increase strength, speed etcetera etcetera."

"However at realm 3 you can also mix poison into your food and make it traceless, Sami I implore you not to use this technique often, after all we cook to see the satisfied expressions of our customers not to kill them."

"If you constantly use that technique, your cooking loses it's meaning and you will never be able to advance past Realm 3"

"At realm 4 you can use aura to increase the buffs given by medicinal/poisonous meals"

"Realm 5, this is where I am, you can use aura to cook food, reducing the time and mistakes, it also nourishes the final dish as it is made with aura"

"At Realm 6, this where our founding ancestor reached, you can use inedible objects to create food, anything and everything is your ingredient lava, rocks, earth even space once you reach the peak of Realm 6"

"And Finally Realm 7, this realm has never been reached by anyone, many people in our family don't even believe it exists, it is stated that when you reach realm 7 you can create food from nothing, aura will turn into ingredients and become food, at this point you truly become the cooking god"

"This technique is called, Andhrimnir's Art" (Andhrimnir is the God of Chefs in Norse mythology)

As William finished talking, silence filled the room, Sami sat there dazed seemingly shocked at the techniques of their family.

"I knew we should have waited longer to teach him, this must have come as a big shock...…." William was regretting, however, he was interrupted by an immature voice.

"HA HA HA HA HA, I WILL REACH REALM 7, I want to become the cooking god, I want to reach the peak of cooking!" Samael was laughing hysterically the eagerness in his voice was practically overflowing.

His eyes filled with maniac excitement, it was almost unnerving.

"That's my son!" William shouted as he patted Samael om the back.

Samael quickly returned to his senses and firmly replied "Yes Father, I shall not let you down."

"You must cook for mother when you reach realm 7" Victoria's milky voice said as she ruffled up Samael's hair.

All Victoria got in return was a pout, clearly Samael was still mad at Victoria for eating his food.

"My son you are too cute" Victoria playfully said as she squeezed Sami's cheeks "Will you really kick your mother to the curb, how unfilial , I though you loved me." Victoria pitifully said trying to guilt trip Samael.

It clearly worked as Samael quickly promised to his mother he would cook for her.

"Mom, Dad I need to tell you about my physique....."

A solemn atmosphere filled the room as powerhouses, William and Victoria both felt the herculean power radiated from Sami's physique and are proud that their son is a genius but also terrified.

Sami went on to explain the Swallowing Nihility Body to his parents withholding the fact that he can form a neutron star/black hole in his body, the Aether element (The Aether element is prehistoric aura it is very volatile and there are no records of people using it, so Sami is going to hide it and use it as a trump card. ) He also withheld how he can swallow even nothingness as that may scare them after all how can one eat nothing.

30 minutes later

" My son you are a genius, even if your physique may seem basic from a surface level using fusion you can exponentially increase your power and defeat all Tianjiao (This means pride of the heavens in Chinese but that basically means genius)"

"I don't care about that, I just want to be chef, now transfer Andhrmnir's Art to me" Sami said.

For a while, his parents stood there speechless until Samael shook them waking them up. William quickly passed on the technique. Samael run to the counter and began practicing instantly.

"I guess we underestimated how much he liked cooking."

"I guess we did."