I Cook Limitlessly In a Fantasy World

Two days passed by in the blink of an eye.

Ainen reached SSS-rank in Wind Manipulation.

He also made Ron and Syl finally level up as they hunted Mortal-rank Monsters on the Island with Yelvina watching over them.

As for Jeli, she could be a bad influence for the kids, so he didn't let her near them anymore.

Ainen wanted to create the catalyst, and the Essence Crystals of Elements were perfect ingredients, but he wanted to attain SSS-rank Manipulation in all primary elements first—Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Lightning, Darkness, and Light.

He had the best resources to achieve an SSS-rank in them, but that would still require time.

Ainen had Limitless Skill Tower Ticket x 2 and Mystic Palace Ticket x 1, so he planned to use them soon to finish all of his possible power-ups and truly reach the peak in this world.

But before using those tickets, he had to deal with Jeli's companion, who was about to arrive today.

…

"Master, she is here."

Ainen opened his eyes and saw Jeli on her fours in front of him, moving her body slightly, which jiggled her half-exposed breasts to Ainen.

Jeli had been a full-on succubus, trying to charm and increase her importance to Ainnen to increase her lifespan.

"Call her here." Ainen stood up and vanished, arriving before Cafe Bistro.

Ron, Syl, and Yelvina were inside, sleeping. Ainen put the Cafe Bistro in his Inventory and then vanished again.

Jeli couldn't sense his presence at all.

But she heard Ainen's voice in her head.

'Call her here and tell her what I told you to tell her, without any mistake.'

'Understood, Master.'

Soon, a person arrived. She was a black-haired beauty in her thirties.

She wore a dark corset of obsidian leather laced with faint red veins, paired with a half-skirt of torn silk and scaled fabric that revealed her long, pale legs wrapped in thigh-high boots. Silver chains coiled around her arms, and a black crystal choker glowed faintly at her throat. Her violet eyes gleamed cold and cruel beneath her flowing black hair — beauty sharpened by malice.

Each step bounced her breasts as she walked towards Jeli with a cold expression, filled with clear anger.

"What the hell happened here while I was gone?!"

As she finished asking, Ainen saw lights shooting out of her bangle that soon transformed into ghastly humanoid figures with glowing pale-blue skin and red eyes, each of them having an Emperor-rank aura in terms of parameters.

'What the hell?' Ainen raised his eyebrows. Those humanoid figures were a mixture of humans, dwarves, and elves, and they looked like kids between five to ten years old transformed into these scary Emperor-rank entities.

'There's a spark of spirit in them.' Lord Black said. 'It means those ten used to be real kids. I think she did something to make them like this, and even made them as powerful as an average Emperor-rank. But they have lost their reasoning and minds, it seems. All they do is obey her.'

Ainen clenched his fist. Just how cruel and bad can these people of Cradle be? It made him furious, and this fury was hard to let go by simply killing them.

They torture and impose a fate worse than death on others without batting an eye. Who knows what kind of torture those ten kids had to go through before they were turned into wraiths like that?

As those ghastly kids floated around Jeli, she felt clear fear and threat to her life, so she quickly started answering. "Loretta, it's not my fault. A powerful human appeared here and did all this. While I was at the altar, I heard a loud blast, and when I came to see the war city, it was gone. You must have seen that huge crater. Everything is gone there."

"That person also hunted me and other Orcs. I barely managed to survive by hiding here and was waiting for your return."

Jeli spoke everything in one breath.

Loretta frowned. "Who the hell is that?"

"I don't know that person's name." Jeli shook her head. "But he knows about Cradle and is likely angry at us."

"That's not new," Loretta said with a snort. "Cradle as many people who hate it in many worlds, yet nothing happens to it. Now, paint that person's face and show me, or do I have to check your memories myself?"

Jeli quickly shook her head. "No need. I can show you right away."

Loretta's eyes gleamed.

Jeli quickly showed Ainen's face to her by drawing it with her elemental energy using Mana.

"This?" Loretta frowned. "I have seen him before."

"What?!" Jeli was startled.

Ainen was also surprised.

But he found the answer in the next second.

"Zurdon showed me and others this picture when we met in the Chaos Lobby yesterday. He wanted us to capture him in case we encounter him."

'Alright, this is it.' Ainen thought and made his move.

Instantly, a 500-meter radius around Jeli and Loretta shifted into motion.

Ainen's Equalizer Zone was activated alongside two formations that appeared like a stream of cyan laser circulating at the border of this zone, ensuring that no person or thing could leave, as the stream created pushing waves from all around.

Jeli was safe as Ainen put her in his barrier, but the ten wraiths instantly vaporized, and the rings that bound them broke from Loretta's fingers, shattering into powder.

Loretta felt a clear threat of death as her danger bells began ringing, as several barriers and defensive skills were activated, as well as constant control of the barriers to keep her in place and prevent her from getting sucked into the void.

Her outfit was half-burned, revealing tids and bids of her figure as her face showed panic and confusion.

'What the hell is going on!?'

But she saw that Jeli was completely fine, and things clicked.

"Y-You bitch, you betrayed me?!" Loretta was shocked and furious. "WHY?!"

"The reason is behind you." Jeli smiled.

Loretta turned around and saw Ainen. Her eyes widened. "You…"

"That Zurdon guy. Where is he?" Ainen asked, his voice flat and eyes cold.

Lilian and Yelvina had told him everything about Zurdon, the guy who tortured and transformed them into that grotesque monster.

"Answer me!"Ainen shouted as he powered up his Equalizer Zone, melting away Loratta's defenses slowly and surely.

Loretta was sweating buckets while her heart beat like a thousand horses running over it. 'What the hell is going on?! Why is he so powerful!?'

'Zurdon said he gets stronger faster, but he was fucking peak of Adept-rank when Zurdon saw him!'

'Why is he strong enough to suppress me now?!'

Loretta's brain wasn't working. She couldn't even imagine how someone could get this strong so fast. Even Cradle, the organization that had kind of everything, where super elites who joined could get strong very quickly, was also not this fast!

'He has at least six elements, and three are at SSS-rank already?!' Loretta sensed a bit of this zone's structure as her defenses were fighting against it.

Seeing that she still hadn't answered, Ainen's patience was running thin.

"If you don't answer me now, I'll make sure to fill you with pain, fear, and disgust so much that you would want to die, but I will not give you death! Now fucking tell me, where is he?!"

"I don't know!" Loretta grunted as she tried her best to keep herself in place and safe. "We take missions for different worlds from the organization and go our ways. I am not that close to Zurdon, so I don't know anything."

"You don't know?" Ainen narrowed his eyes.

"Why would I lie when I am going to die, you moron!" Loretta shouted with her white face turning red, her last barrier about to melt away.

But then, the power of Equalizer Zone shifted, making everything colder and slower, but not damaging.

"What were those ten kids that you took out from your rings?" Ainen icily asked. "How did you make them?"

"Those? If you want them, I can teach you if you let me go," Loretta quickly said. "You just need to torture kids between five to ten years old for ten days to fill them with despair and complete an abyss ritual following that. That way, their souls will be completely transformed, and they will be able to harbor a lot of power very quickly. They can become very powerful soldiers."

Ainen clenched his fists, his icy gaze turning to Jeli, who instantly trembled in fear upon seeing his eyes.

"Do you know anything this bitch hates? I want everything that can become her despair."

Loretta's eyes widened. "No…" She turned to Jeli and screamed. "Don't you dare tell him about that! DON'T YOU DARE!"

Jeli grinned and started walking. "Master Ainen. She has one thing she hates very much. So much that she made a power pact with in hate of that thing."

"It's men. The male kind." Jeli looked at Loretta. "She even made a power pact with a higher being that goes like this. One, if she ever feels attracted towards men, she would lose her life, but as long as she inflicted pain on mankind, she would get Rune of Spirit Ruby, which gives her bonus stats percentage and increases the power of her class skills. Second, if she ever touches a male physically, she would feel pain that increases the longer the physical touch. In exchange, every ten male she kills gives her a Rune of Spirit Emerald, which can increase her regenerating power and healing, stacking up to 100, and she can use all 100 to resurrect."

"Right now, she is almost unkillable by all other Emperor-rank except for a couple of ones in the Cradle."

"YOU BITCH! I WILL KILL YOU!" Loretta snarled at Jeli.

'It's like Cradle collects the worst of worse out there.'

Ainen's eyes coldly glinted. Whips of flames flowed into existence around Loretta before binding her arms and legs, before brightening.

Loretta screamed in pain as the chains burned her flesh and bones, but her regenerating power kept her intact and healing.

Ainen arrived before her and waved his hand, burning up all of her outfit and making her stark naked.

Stretching his hand, he grabbed her breasts and squeezed, causing Loretta's scream to intensify as pain doubled due to her power pact.

"Did the kids you tortured scream like this or more?" "Ainen muttered. "Probably more."

The chains shifted as Loretta's legs moved upward and then spread up.

"Pain that increases the longer the physical contact, right?" Ainen stood between her legs.

"No! No! Don't touch me, you dirty insect!" Loretta screamed with bloodshot eyes. Shaking and trembling all over, but she couldn't be free.

Jeli arrived behind her and rested her chin on Loretta's shoulder while grabbing her butt from below. "Oh, Loretta~ This is going to be fun."

Ainen pulled down his pants and inserted his dragon inside.

"NOOOO!"