Once I was back in Floating Ice City, I immediately set out to make my Rank 4 Consumables. To be honest, I should be the first player in Floating Ice City who could make consumables of such high rank. Their obvious usefulness aside, just being able to make them was enough to shock the masses.

I interacted with the NPC at the warehouse to take out a huge number of Salt and Chicken Meat. Since I already had enough Fresh Ginger in my bag, there was no way I wouldn’t make some money out of this.

I opened the cooking window and put in the ingredients: Chicken Meat x20, Salt x10, Fresh Ginger x15. I confirmed the synthesis and a mystical ball of magic light flew from my palm—

Ding~!

System Notice: You have made White Cut Chicken x4, Cooking Proficiency +5!

Huh? Four in one go?

Overjoyed, I quickly began to make my second batch. As expected, I still obtained 3 White Cut Chicken. This was fragrant cooked chicken meat wrapped in lotus leaves. Each could restore 400 MP, a staple for high-level mages.

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Around half an hour later, I had made a total of 120 Rank 4 Consumables. Each slot contained a stack of 10, so I had 12 stacks. All these were cold hard cash!

Standing in the center of...