It is Saturday, the time has come.

“Time to get myself a job now”, Exxone off to the tavern that he applied as a cooking assistant in the morning about 10.

Today is the cook examination , this is a chance for Exxone to get some earnings for his daily life. Six months before he attended Magical Mudrost, he was a home cook and sold his homemade dishes. His cooking is well known at Rias Avenue Street, his home neighborhood.

"Thanks to all the applicants who have gathered here, now let's just start the test as a chef assistant at Union Tavern!" , Dalvi as the manager of the Union Tavern where Exxone applied for a job as a chef's assistant started the examination.

"Why are we here? Doesn't the chef have to work in the kitchen?", asked Claude, one of the applicants. A young orange colored hair with thin posture.

"A chef does not only depend on his cooking skills! A chef is also tested in real conditions which force him to improve his cooking skills! You will be asked to cook all the ingredients you take from this place, if you are caught using the ingredients you brought yourself, you will be disqualified right away!

You can use fire magic if it could help the cooking process! But no transmutation, transformation, or teleport-thing magic, I will know directly by just seeing the dish ", Dalvi warned all of the applicants.

There are about ten applicants here.

Danilo’s Wish, a biome that filled with river, long grass, and waterfall, a perfect place to find inspiration and aspiration for artist, also a place for people to hangout and having great time while enjoying a peaceful air.

But today, it will filled with competition and seafood cuisine, we think so.

"In addition, we will give a magic book that contains fire magic that you can use for your own good!", added Dalvi while showing them a book with a smiley icon on the cover.

"Who is the author of the book, is it some kind of person Professor Nebojsa? Because book of magic is a rare item to be able to published if the original writer is a wizard", asked the other applicants.

"Hmm, there is no author's name here, only the title is Magic for Dummies, Fire Edition, this book belongs to our family and it has been kept in our house for a long time, we also don't have the magic power to unleash the magic content of this book, that's why we make this as a gift from our family to the person who got accepted! ", explained Dalvi.

“Hey, you said Magic for-? ", then everyone started to be noisy and talking about what kind of dish to cook because this place have limited ingredients to find.

"Your time is only 3 hours from now, without saying much, we start in 3..2..1! Start cooking!", shouted Dalvi. Everyone started running and started to looking for cooking ingredients.

"Hmm, the river, yes, it gives me a choice of seafood, some of the leaves on the ground must be some kind of algae plant that can be used as a burning material", Exxone rushed to the river to have a look.

Most people bring nets or swim to catch fish, and another person bring a rifle-

BAM!

"These people don't know how to treat the ingredients properly, huh", Exxone got away from the crowd and found a different river path by himself.

"I will use my new magic skill I got from that book", Exxone took out a small knife that he always carried everywhere, *chant* Work for me! Then the knife dashed into the river and hit the two fish at once, then lifted the two fish.

“Not bad for me as a beginner, hehe”, suddenly he heard the sound of horse steps.

"Drrp..drpp…drpp…hiii", the sound of a horse came from the land under his feet, Exxone standing away about five meters away on a higher ground.

"Here, take it, make sure you pass this test and bring the book to me", Exxone can’t see who the person wearing a robe and mask is coming and delivering something to Claude, one of the applicants.

"*chant*Far Sight", Exxone saw what a mysterious person gave to Claude, it turned out that when Claude opened the cloth on it.

"HA? Fried fish? This person really is a bastard, he asked other people to bring food here? A chef is nothing if he can’t cook", muttered Exxone with anger and clenched his fist.

Claude felt like he was being watched from a distance, then he turned his gaze up where Exxone was looking at him, "Ah, who's there?!", Claude immediately rushed up to catch Exxone.

“*chant* Buff me!”, then he sprinted and jumped over the rocks and ran towards Exxone.

"?! HA?! He could also do magic?! What kind of magic is that?", Exxone was surprised seeing Claude moves really fast to his spot.

That boy was jumping over the rocks swiftly and already in front of him in one more step,

KRAK!!

"Hee?", Claude was taken aback.

The last stepping stone cracked and destroyed into pieces, then he lost his balance and fell, he let go of his grip on the basket of fish and he fell into the river.

Exxone who realized what was happening,

"*chant* Work for me!", instead of helping Claude not to fall into the river, he saved the basket filled with fried fish.

“Of course I will ignore that bastard and chose this fish instead”, he gave a look saying that to…. us?

"How could I fly a person, I just got this magic before this week", in Exxone's mind.

BASH!!! BUSH!! DRAP..DRAPDRAPDRAP ... !!, the sound of hurried steps towards Exxone once again, only this time Exxone felt a panic accompanying the sound of the steps.

"HEY, PLEASE GIVE IT BACK, I ALREADY HAD ENOUGH DIFFICULTIES TO MAKE IT!", Claude said in a jolting tone with a gasping breath.

He walks up to Exxone in drenched clothes and on his head a lot of aquatic plants stuck together.

"Hooo... you were struggling what you mean by secretly avoiding the crowd and took a dish from a suspicious person who appear in the middle of nowhere, huh?", Exxone interrogated.

"*chant* Tinder", Exxone flicked a small fire from the tip of his middle finger towards the basket of fried fish, "A chef who can't catch and fry fish better die-", Exxone got tinder magic in his childhood from his dad.

"WOAH WOAH WAIT , WAIT !! YOU'RE CRAZY ?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! ”Claude panicked.

"As you can see, it's not like I want to get in the way of your life to earn money that you use to trick anyone other than this tavern manager, but as a cook I extremely can’t accept this", Exxone firmly.

"WAIT WAIT! Can't we negotiate something? Anything?", Claude panicking.

"There's nothing to discuss," replied Exxone coldly.

"Damn, there is no other choice," Claude said as if there was no other solution. "* chant * Buff me!",

"Oh shit", then Exxone immediately burned the basket of fried fish slices after hearing Claude's magic chant. "UOHH !!", Claude dashed to hit Exxone and knocked them both into the river. In the middle of the day, the calm river water became messy because of their actions.

BUWOSHHH!! PLASHH!!

The fried fish was thrown backwards and the contents of the fish all came out, but the fish is still in the wrapped plastic bag. The two of them immediately got out of the water and rushed towards the basket which had been burned, but the contents of the fried fish were still saved because they were thrown out. Claude is already in front of Exxone after they noticed it. Both of them now looking at the fried fish.

"I won't let you!", said Exxone as he cast magic to fly a stone to destroy the fish.

"*chant* Buff me again!", Claude jumped over the stone thrown by Exxone and hugged the fish as if protecting his own life. Seeing that Exxone canceled his magic activation effect and the stone fell before hitting Claude.

"Hahh, okay then, I lost, take the damn fish and get out of my sight", said Exxone.

Claude then said, "I'm not doing this without good reasons, I also have my own reasons for doing this".

"Hoo ..? What is it?", Exxone quipped with his provoking expression.

Claude then turned his face to Exxone while sitting on the ground and said, "I want that book and become a fire wizard", Claude said with slightly watery eyes.

“Does he EVEN KNOW what is he saying?”