The Dragon Soul Forging

19. A gift from the Dwarves

Ding!

[Successfully made Low rank potions]

[Opens Job Alchemist]

An announcement rang out in my head after giving Akita a decoction of herbs. Looking at the details of the announcement made me even more convinced that the herbal medicine I had just concocted was similar healing potions in a fantasy story.

{Bocah!}

The old man called me. I still don't understand how there's a subtitle on top of that guy's head. The only reason I could think of was the effect of the race change, or my own left eye causing all of this.

“Call me Budi, Old man!.”

{What?.}

Before I tried to allow myself to the old man, but because of communication problems made the effort I did not go well.

“B.U.D.I..... Budi.” I'm trying to introduce my name. But...

{Boy (league)}

“Bye.” I also gave up.

The old man then introduced his name as Tohir Smashsteal, and he was a Dwarf.

“As I expected.”

Looking from the stature of an old man with a bushy beard as well as the posture of an adult's chest-high, plus he looked expert in forging iron. Anyone who saw it would have thought the old man was a Dwarf.

{Bokah, where did you get those weird eyes?.}

Tohir pointed to my left eye. Feeling no need to hide it, I told Dwarf what happened this morning that saved my life.

But it's certainly not as easy as I imagined. Although I understood Tohir's words, he did not understand what I was saying.

{That eye is already there once you wake up?.}

“Ak... finally...”.

After I tried to explain in various ways, to make dancing unclear. But I did not regret it at all because the effort ended up sweet.

I really have no regrets.

{How can it happen, where did the eyes of the dragon come from?.}

Tohir asked again, at once I cried in my heart because I did not know how to explain. But then I remembered the gift box that I had not opened.

[Taking bronze-level gift boxes]

Instantly a light shone in front of me, after which a square meter-sized box appeared after the light disappeared. Tohir looked surprised by the sudden appearance of the bronze box.

{You want to say if Dragon's eyes get from a box like this?.}

I'm so happy that the Dwarf easily understood what I meant. Because it would be very painful for my soul and mental health if I had to explain as before.

‘In addition to not being able to cook, I am also a bad teacher. Glad to know the weaknesses of his own.’

Ding!

[Opens Job Pervert]

“APA!.”

I shouted so loudly when suddenly an unexpected notification sounded.

‘Mesum, I'm a pervert. But why?.’

I thought about why I suddenly opened a very strange job, so I realized that I was still without clothes, just a white towel covering an important part of mine.

‘Is showing your body to an old man considered a perverted act?.’ I see if Jek is awake. ‘Why is Jek's face flushed?.’

Not wanting to get another odd job, I immediately went back to the well to continue taking a shower and then went to breakfast.

Before the assault incident, Jek had already cooked breakfast, it was pancakes with honey as a topping.

“Thanks Jek, I got excited because of your pancakes.”

{Did he say he liked it? I hope so because I am so grateful to him for saving me, again}

Even Jek's words can be understood with subtitles. But strangely all I heard from Jek's voice was a growl, but the subtitle actually wrote down a lot of things.

I still don't understand the dragon eye power mechanism I just got. Feeling no need to rush, so I will learn it gradually.

***

When I intend to bury the corpse as I did the day before. Suddenly Tohir stopped me, he said if he wanted to give me something so I followed him to the workshop under the house.

{This is for you.}

Tohir handed over a strange object that looked like a series of bones and ropes forming a skeleton arm. Seeing that I was confused, but soon realized after Tohir asked me to eat it on his left arm.

“Could it?.”

Following the direction of the dwarf, I put the device on the left arm. At first nothing happened, the artificial arm was immobile, so different that I thought.

{You have to drain magic energy to make it work.}

“Even if you say so, but the problem is I don't know how to use magic energy.”

{Do you want to say you can't use magic energy? Then how did you create those potions?.}

“It's not magic energy, but Aura.”

Tohir did not understand what I was talking about, until I showed him how to use Aura.

When the skill was activated the artificial arm showed movement, seeing that I was very happy. Although still very stiff, but with an artificial arm I feel much better than just having one arm.

I was so happy to get the gift that I cried so happy.

{The technique you use looks similar to body strengthening. Although it worked well with the technique, but the problem was too wasteful of magic energy. It's better if you start learning magic energy processing techniques.}

I listened to Tohir's advice carefully. I'm quite interested in learning magic energy processing techniques, because it's possible that I will open a witch's job afterwards.

‘Wouldn't it be very helpful if I could use magic?.’

The gas I have in a moment will run out, it will be very troublesome if I have no way to make fire. Maybe with magic I can solve this problem.

After knowing the basic technique to cultivate magic energy from Tohir, I immediately learned it while doing the task today.

Jek was still limp from the loss of blood, so I told him to rest and not to help dig a grave today. Since there was an artificial arm, I could use the shovel better.

{I hope to have a book that can be read to pass the time}

He's definitely a goblin who's not what I think he is. To thank him for the food he gave me this morning, I started teaching him the language of the world, specifically Indonesian.

***

Accompanied by the two dogs, I rode a horse carriage filled with rotten corpses into the forest. On the back, a goblin with the appearance of a human child was trying to read the book I gave him.

Several times monsters came from the forest, disturbing us while we were doing the funeral procession. Tohir had already told me that there seemed to be a Dungeon in the interior of the forest, so he warned me not to go deeper.

He said the attack this morning happened because he wanted to know where the monsters were coming from. The search leads Tohir into the forest, he finds some herbs on his way.

But unfortunately he was not aware that the herbs he found turned out to be a trap to attract someone to approach the Dungeon. It all ended the way I saw it this morning.

Tohir meets four wolves, he runs to save himself. Jek who saw Tohir attacked also immediately helped him, but it actually made him injured until his life was threatened.

“Using herbs to attract attention, isn't it very ingenious.”

I was amazed by the intelligence of the fantasy monsters I found. They're not entirely the same as told in the fictional stories I know.

My gaze was fixed on the depths of the forest, “Very mysterious and full of challenges.” I said as I imagined what was inside the dark forest.

What is a powerful monster, an unidentified strange plant or a treasure?. The curiosity I felt made me want to explore the forest, but not now.

“I need to tidy up my house first.”