The Dragon Soul Forging

8. Preparation day

We made it home before nightfall, the zombies were awake and the ghost-type monsters came out. I made sure no monsters followed.

“It looks safe.”, we finally got home safely.

Arriving home, Roxy and I immediately took a bath to wash away the sweat and the remaining Monster blood.

After that I just stumbled inside the room not knowing what to do, while Roxy had started sleeping under the bed. The little snoring sound of the dog I could hear clearly.

“He must be tired.”

Roxy has helped a lot today. He saved me from a big rat attack that almost ate my last eye. And also if there is no Roxy, the plan I put together to defeat the praying Grasshopper is unlikely to work.

It's not just being a friend that makes me feel lonely. Roxy has also been my partner when hunting.

‘Can I trust him to guard my back?.’

My mind kept floating thinking about so many things that it kept me from going to sleep.

I finally got out of bed slowly for fear of waking Roxy up. I went to the desk in the room, and started writing what I had been through the last few days.

‘Writing a diary before going to bed, I thought it was as old as what I am?.’ in my heart I laughed at myself for doing something that might only be done by the ancients.

After thirty minutes of writing I felt the focus begin to wane. This method made me feel sleepy. I quickly returned to bed, ending the day.

When midnight the pain in the left eye comes back to haunt. I felt as if something was moving and bit the shrapnel of my eyeball from inside.

It was so painful that it made it difficult for me to sleep and feel the heat all over my body, I had a fever.

But like yesterday, something wet rubbed the left eye socket, making me feel better so I could go back to sleep peacefully.

***

When I woke up in the morning I felt sticky in the left eye socket, I wondered what made it that way.

But my curiosity was interrupted when I suddenly felt an unbearable stomach pain.

Nature suddenly called out to me, I quickly went to the toilet before the disaster ruined the quiet morning.

“Where did Roxy go?.”

When I went to the toilet I realized that Roxy was not in my room, the door was open even though I was sure that I had locked it before, then I put the key on the table.

“Does he know how to open the door with a key?.” I am more amazed or rather creeps in horror with the intelligence of the dog.

Arriving in the bathroom, I saw the toilet door closed as if someone was using it.

But feeling that there was no one else in the house but me, I opened it without excuse. But what I saw was shocking, a black Doberman was using my toilet while reading a book I wrote last night.

“...........”

My body was unable to testify after seeing what was inside the toilet.

Roxy astonishedly looked at me who was pecking in front of her. Until the sound of something falling into the water dawned on me.

“Do not read someone's diary carelessly.” I angrily snatch my book from Roxy.

“Do you know if you read someone's diary without permission you won't be allowed to take a taxi?.”

Roxy just tilted her head as if she didn't understand what I was talking about.

A strange morning, too surprised to see a dog sitting on the toilet reading a book, made me forget my heartburn.

Finished facing the call of nature, I continued with the bath, as usual Roxy did not come during the morning shower because the water was too cold.

When I took a shower I started to smell foul, it must have come from the corpses lying around the house.

“I need to get to minimarket.” as soon as possible

Only half of our journey passed, until finally nightfall forced us to return home.

“Aaah..”.

The pain in the left eye socket returned. Roxy who saw me in pain immediately barked as if worrying about my condition.

“I'm fine Roxy. Maybe in the minimarket there is a medicine that I can drink to free the pain.” I said while rubbing Roxy's head so that he was not so worried about me.

Before continuing the experiment to visit Minimarket, I first prepare the equipment.

Yesterday's fight was so heavy that I lost my flagship kitchen knife when fighting the Iron shell centipede.

Although I could use a rabbit's dagger, but the weapon was too fragile, with just two uses making the dagger that came from the rabbit's ear was broken.

It would be very dangerous if in the middle of a fight suddenly the weapon I used was broken.

“What if the monster I fought took that chance to attack?.” I find it hard to imagine the possibility that could have happened.

Therefore I prefer to use iron weapons such as kitchen knives that are more durable than rabbit daggers.

I still have a spare knife in the kitchen, there are four in total, maybe I should take them all for backup.

In the back of the house I did a small trial, to determine which was better between a kitchen knife or a rabbit dagger.

For durability problems obviously kitchen knives are better. But for sharpness and strength I think the rabbit dagger is superior.

I recalled how the rabbit dagger could split the iron centipede shell easily, whereas the kitchen knife could not do it.

Is it because of the influence of [Aura]?

I don't think so.

In order to test how long I can use [Aura], I continue to activate that Skill continuously. I finally found out if I could use [Aura] for 30 minutes until I lost all magic power.

“I want to be reincarnated into a grass trampled by humans and littered by stray dogs.”

It turned out that the effect of losing a large amount of magic energy was a mental disorder. I felt pessimistic and inferior, as if my life was so meaningless.

The condition lasted for five minutes, after which I returned to myself, the pessimistic thoughts I had previously felt disappeared. It signified that the magic energy had been restored.

During [Aura]'s testing I found interesting facts about which weapon is better if I'm in [Aura] skill mode.

It turned out that the result of the rabbit dagger became stronger when I activated the [Aura] skill. Although the kitchen knife also gets additional strength but not as big as a rabbit dagger.

I don't know why it could be like that. The rabbit dagger glowed faintly as I used it with [Aura], but the kitchen knife was not so.

“What is this because the rabbit dagger is a weapon from the monster body?.” is just that reason that I can currently think of.

The next thing I prepared was safety equipment.

“Pretty comfortable isn't it?.” I said while wearing a chest protector I made myself.

I just hollowed out the centipede shell on four sides of the corner to tie it with a rope. Very simple but powerful tool.

Although the centipede shell is as hard as iron, but when I use it as a chest protector it feels so light that it does not burden me.

“Maybe I also need to make a protector for Roxy.”

My memory of seeing Roxy injured by a praying mantis attack made me even more cautious.

At that time Roxy was saved for leveling up so that all his injuries were healed. But maybe next time he won't be that lucky. Hence giving Roxy protection is a must.

In the end today I did not travel to the Minimarket, because I chose to practice and prepare the equipment.

Roxy and I also did a little exercise by hunting monsters around the house to make our cooperation better.