Chapter 43: The Baron of the Stomach Stands Tall Across the Sea!

Chapter 43: The Baron of the Stomach Stands Tall Upon the Ocean!

After heartily enjoying an entire [Rainbow Fruit], Caesar intended to head into the Temptation Forest, pluck some of his favorite foods on the spot, and use them as dinner.

After all, given his current appetite, a piece of [Roasted Whole Pork Tenderloin] and a single [Rainbow Fruit] were utterly incapable of filling his stomach in terms of sheer volume; they were barely enough to fit between his teeth.

Bizarrely, however, before Caesar even stepped out of the tree house door, he felt an overwhelming sense of satiety.

Measured against the standard meal portions in the Navy training ship's cafeteria, it was roughly equivalent to a ninety-person serving.

"Hmm?"

Caesar touched his belly with a hint of perplexity.

Previously, after finishing the [Pork Tenderloin], he hadn't felt the slightest bit full; on the contrary, the fragrant roasted pork had made him even hunglier.

Therefore, the problem could only lie with the [Rainbow Fruit] he had just eaten!

"Could it be..."

Caesar frowned in deep thought, trying to recall the general settings regarding the Rainbow Fruit from *Toriko*, but unfortunately, he drew a complete blank, leading him only to consider another possibility.

"The world of *Toriko* is filled with all sorts of bizarre, high-level ingredients. Both in terms of deliciousness and the difficulty of acquiring them, these ingredients far surpass ordinary food!

"Most importantly, the vast majority of those high-level ingredients marked with a rank are capable of providing the Gourmet Cells with a certain degree of 'evolutionary progress'!

"Although my body does not currently contain Gourmet Cells, high-level food originating from the *Toriko* world can still perform its most basic function—replenishing the massive amount of calorie expenditure required by the body!

"Broadly speaking, the ingredients in the *Toriko* world can all be regarded as premium foodstuffs rich in massive amounts of energy and nutrition!"

Having deduced this possibility, Caesar's eyes suddenly lit up.

His mind even began to conceive a grandiose aquaculture project tentatively named "Baron of the Stomach Private Farming"!

As for the reason?

Ordinary people simply cannot comprehend what kind of painful experience it is to have to eat at least fifty giant bowls of food per meal to be considered a [Glutton].

Ever since acquiring [Savage Physique], Caesar had completely transformed into a ruthless feeding machine, spending nearly two or three hours every single day just consuming food!

This was simply a tremendous waste of life!

Once he had access to those high-energy, high-level ingredients from *Toriko*, Caesar wouldn't need to waste so much time every day on mindless eating.

He would then be able to pour more time and energy into a far more glorious cause—

The career of fish-slaughtering!

I, Caesar, the fish-slaughterer (angler), will never scale that wall!

I am no ruthless feeding machine!

"High-level gourmet food is an important pathway to solving the current problem of excessive dining time."

Caesar sat back down on the wooden stool he had just polished, his fingers gently rubbing his chin.

"The problem, however, is that I cannot stay on Boin Archipelago forever! Furthermore, many of those high-level ingredients in *Toriko* are extremely difficult to preserve!

"Ideally, I would have a storage space with infinite capacity, stopped time, and food that never spoils—

"Damn it! I simply don't possess that protagonist-staple ability!"

Caesar thought with a stomach full of grievances.

This light curtain just didn't have a storage function; it truly sucked~

"Of course, there is another pathway—absorbing a massive amount of food in a short period and storing it within the body, thereby drastically increasing the body's energy storage upper limit!"

Caesar clenched his fists, a technique called "Food Honor" flashing through his mind.

"Food Honor" was a special ability in the *Toriko* world, a technique capable of elevating a person's mental tier, thereby vastly optimizing the user's agility, skill proficiency, attack power, and energy consumption.

The second pathway Caesar had just envisioned was an advanced application technique of "Food Honor"—"Food Immersion"!

"Although 'Food Immersion' is one of the advanced application methods of 'Food Honor', it remains fundamentally just an auxiliary ability, so its comprehensive evaluation shouldn't be too high!"

Caesar raised his eyes to look out the window, his gaze slowly sweeping over that herd of fat, plump, immobile animals in the Temptation Forest, making them look like a bunch of walking live baits.

"Over the next month, by continuously slaughtering these creatures on the Boin Archipelago, there should be a chance to fish out the 'Food Immersion' ability!

"At the very worst, there is still that top-tier C-grade bait accumulated from the training camp to fall back on!

"Now, it's time to harvest the bait!"

Caesar stood inside the wooden house, stretched his limbs, and then executed the [Shave] technique, vanishing from the spot like a phantom.

A moment later.

The dying wails of animals echoed continuously through the Temptation Forest.

[You have defeated a wild boar with a comprehensive evaluation of F!]

[You have defeated a crocodile with a comprehensive evaluation of F!]

[You have defeated...]

The message prompts on the light curtain scrolled by like flowing water, their density nearly merging into a solid blur.

In the galley of the Navy warship, when Caesar processed those sea beast ingredients, he had to carefully debone and portion the meat to avoid wasting any of it.

On the Boin Archipelago, however, Caesar had only one objective: slaughter!

As long as a single blow was fatal, that was enough!

Giving full play to his C-grade agility attribute, Caesar swiftly shuttled and roamed through the Temptation Forest. The scalpel [Autopsy Incisor: Replica] transformed into the Grimcutter of Death, incessantly harvesting the lives of the sluggish, obese beasts.

Barely half an hour passed.

The fallen creatures in the Temptation Forest were thoroughly reaped by Caesar.

The once dreamlike food kingdom was now permeated with a thick, almost suffocating scent of blood, enough to make one's heart race with apprehension.

Caesar exhaled a breath of stale air and pulled up the light curtain to check.

In just half an hour, he had harvested 8 E-grade baits and a massive quantity of F-grade bait.

"The quality of the bait seems a bit off!

"The quantity of E-grade bait is far too scarce, while the quantity of F-grade bait is far too abundant!"

Caesar frowned.

He recalled that all the large beasts he had killed all the way from the Bandit's Forest were E-grade creatures.

By comparison, most of these fallen creatures in the Temptation Forest were merely F-grade, with E-grade creatures being pitifully rare.

"It seems I shouldn't hunt creatures in the Temptation Forest anymore! Although the slaughter is not difficult, the bait quality is low and the cost-performance ratio is terrible."

Caesar temporarily revised his future hunting plan.

"From now on, I should hunt animals in the Bandit's Forest and rest and recover in the Temptation Forest!

"Still, this is fundamentally the conventional development method within the Boin Archipelago.

"Eat to your heart's content in the 'safe zone', and hunt like crazy in the 'wilderness' to burn off the calories and fat accumulated in the 'safe zone'!"

Caesar looked up at the sky, noticing that night was about to fall, and decided to terminate today's hunting operation.

Right at that moment.

Rumble—

The ground in the Temptation Forest suddenly emitted a violent tremor, followed by the massive, earth-shattering roar of a landslide.

The entire terrain tilted toward the center of the island, its edge rising vertically toward the sky.

The Baron of the Stomach stood tall upon the ocean!