Even if Nunu is arrogant surely he didn't did anything to the treasures, right?
After fidgeting from the uncomfortable thought of my child(slave) doing something like that is just...
Spending my time in the library after resting to look for different and any information that may come in handy to help in relieving some stress in me.
"You seem to be working hard oh Sir. Hero"
I turn around and saw Mayor Aartu. I sense a presence coming towards me, but since it doesn't have any hostility I just ignored it. But to think that it was her.
"Not really, I am just looking for something that can help me improve ourselves"
She sat down across me with a book on her hand.
"If you are looking for something that can help to train yourselves then you can go here" She said.
She then pointed out a map in the book she had.
A book with torn pages. One look and you can tell its a very old book.
"I just recently receive information about a dungeon being discovered here. Since it is within the region I govern, adventurers are not allowed yet to enter. I am sure that you will find many things that may pique your interest."
"May I ask why you are going so far. I may have save your town, but to let someone else loot a dungeon of who knows what of treasures are hiding in there. It is a bit over the top don't you think so" I replied.
"That may be the case, however a parent's greatest treasure, their child, is irreplaceable. And my son is now back in good health, you can say that this is my way of thanking you. Do be careful though, they said that a loud howl can be heard inside the dungeon. There is most likely some kind of drake or wyvern inside"
"Thank you very much for your advice and help then"
After bowing lightly she said her goodbyes and left the library.
Before sunrise came, I made sure to be ready and enhance a lot of things. I've upgraded the defensive orb, now I can control it by imbuing soul energy into it. I wasn't able to use it yesterday since its pretty small and it's only suited for small and narrow place anyways.
Speaking of yesterday, I now have new things to add to my 'traumatizing experience' list. I need to somehow be able to reach Levi's level? Not to mention he said that he was weaken as well.
I now truly understand why I was chosen alone. Even if I give it my all back in my world, at most I would only be able to reach the top hundred ranking around eleven to thirty. And those who are within the top ten are powerful but prideful. In a mission such as this, you need to gather a lot of competent individuals and guide them. knowing their personalities, they would have probably overestimate themselves and prefer to go alone or order people around like a tyrant.
After having breakfast, we immediately departed to the cave where Nunu was. Thankfully he didn't do anything stupid or rash.
There he just put all the looted treasures into one place as if throwing some trash aside.
After storing the looted treasures we got yesterday into my inventory, we went in the dungeon and made haste to get to explore every part of it. Of course I put a protective enhancement to both of us in case of something bad were to happen.
"Starting from now on we will be stopping grinding our levels, instead we will be raising our proficiency. Considering what happened yesterday we're too weak in comparison. So instead of blindly leveling up we are going to master the basics and the intermediate first. Do you have any complaints?" I ask.
"None at all!" Alfred replied.
I say all that but Nunu isn't really participating much. Unless I "order" him he won't even budge. His way too smug despite not doing much work.
As we head deeper in we found three dead bodies. The cause of death are from slashes that may come from the claws of a giant four legged creature.
How pitiful, they are quite young as well. As an opportunity seeker I did not hesitate to extract their souls. Souls remain remains inside the body within 24 hours.
As I was trying to absorb their soul energy a pop up came.
[Souls ego: Prideful, deceitful, stoic]
Ahahaha! well now that is pretty good one.
As I laugh maniacally Alfred got chills from the scene he is watching. But I just can't help it.
I ordered Nunu to come in front of me so that I can change his ego. I can now finally get rid of his arrogance and change it into being stoic.
"Wait here and keep on watch. I'll be doing something okay?" I said.
"Understood!"
I started to replace his personality and I can tell that its painful so I started using heal midway. Using the other two souls as a catalyst, the 'getting rid of his arrogance' mission was completed with no problems.
Right after I finish a loud roar echoed in the dungeon. Well someone sure is cranky. Nothing from us is going to change how we do things even if we heard that so we are just going to ignore it.
Now that Nunu became more obedient, he did his task even better now. A soldier worth praising for. Now we can train without worrying about our surroundings.
Our training was mainly on capturing a monster with good defense, then Alfred will start hitting the monster as much as he can while I heal the monster he hits. This training is about Alfred controlling his usage, the concentration and the distribution of his strength. Meanwhile I can level up my healing. of course I am also doing the same as him just slightly different.
Sometimes I just throw him in a group of beast and make him kill all of them.
[Aura proficiency have increase]
[Aura proficiency have increase]
[Aura proficiency have increase]
[Aura proficiency have increase]
[Aura proficiency have increase]
After several days, our proficiency leveled up. As Rita said, training in this world is at least ten times faster compared to my world.
After leveling up our proficiency we started to explore the dungeon and loot all the valuable materials we can find.
Living inside in this dungeon wasn't a problem for us since we are guys. We just eat the food beforehand that I stored in my inventory and not taking a bath doesn't really bother either the two of us anyway.
While looting, we stop right in front of an enormous door.
Well this sure does bring back some awful memories.
The air which came from the inside is downright menacing.
It send chills to my bones.
I scattered my aura as thin as I can and found out that the one who keep howling and roaring the past days was on the other side. Now that we got stronger I am pretty confident we can pack a punch.
We open the door and a creature greeted us with a roar. An enormous four legged creature with giant wings, vibrant green eyes as if its glowing and the aura it release is that of a dignified being.
No matter how you look at it that's neither a drake nor a wyvern. That's a dragon! What is a dragon even doing here? Shouldn't all dragons be in the western continent? In the dragon kingdom!
We got closer and noticed that Alfred was paralyzed from shock due to the roar earlier. Dragons are worshiped in the beast clan as gods of destruction, after all. Something to be feared. Which is why they do not dare to anger them.
"If you want to get stronger, then beat that giant lizard over there. I will be watching on just how much you have improve" I said to him.
The dragon roared again in anger.
He steeled himself and started to attack.
Now then let us see what he can do. After being thrown into dangerous situations multiple times his movements became more naturally fluid and better. There are no more any unnecessary movements in each step and strike. I am so darn proud of my student!
Even though the dragon is extremely weaken for some reason, its scales still has the capabilities to protect itself against Alfred's fist. Plus the chains that is shackling the dragon is made from the anti-magic attribute that seals its mana, forcibly making it unable to cast magic. With that, the only thing Alfred needs to be cautious of is the dragon's breath.
The dragon roared even louder than all the previous ones. As it try to cling on to its life fighting a one-sided battle.
No hard feelings dragon.
After a while he was able to kill the dragon. Its crystal clear that his exhausted.
"Your movements are now better than before and your control as well. But! You were relying only on your instinct during the fight and lost all sense of reason, making yourself unaware of your own surroundings. Nevertheless good job"
After saying my remarks, he fainted.
As he evade all the breaths from the dragon, he didn't paid attention to his surroundings. Making me, his ally, to almost get hit. I wasn't hit of course, I just brush it off with my own aura.
He needs to be cool headed in the future to be someone capable of commanding those who are under him as he fight.
I healed and let him rest. Even if it was weaker and restrained it was still a dragon. Alfred is already way superior to anyone around his level.
I then started to inspect the dragon. After destroying the chains with brute strength, the dragon's power was release. If the dragon was this powerful, then to win against it, I would have to fight it seriously by myself.
Thump.
Thump.
I can hear my own heart beat quicken by the second. Now, its as if I can hear it echoing in this room.
This eerie feeling makes me want to throw up.
I started to absorb the dragon's soul bit by bit since its amount was no joke.
[Evolution commencing
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Evolution is now done]
I took a look at my information and my skills increase. It seems my mana capacity in now three times than before.
[Skills got from evolution:
*Fire manipulation- The ability to control fire. Is proportional to the amount of mana you use.
*Dragon flame- The ability to create the same fire as dragons. A flame created by a dragon is a hundred times more powerful than an average fire.]
Pretty nice! I have to reward Alfred later.
Now for the most important part...
"Nunu from now on you will be inhabiting this dragon's body!" I said gleefully.
Just now, I think Nunu gave a sigh expression.
"It won't hurt. I promise."
I started to put Nunu's souls to the soulless dragon. It took me about three hours to safely merge the soul and the body. The dragon's body started to glow and shrank in no time at all. And there was a boy in his late teens. With hazelnut colored hair and vibrant emerald green eyes.
Hey now don't tell me that is Nunu?!
[The slave named Nunu have successfully merge with the dragon's body and have now turned into a dragonoid. The dragon's skill cannot be used since the hero have absorbed them already]
His physical stats skyrocketed. In terms of physical power dragons have the highest attack. This is amazing.
"I thank you for giving me a body, master" (Nunu)
Of course he can now talk. Still, why the hell does he look good?! It irritates me the fact that he got a good face. Well that doesn't matter, I feel really bad for him. To kneel to someone while naked and all. And the fact that he isn't bothered by it is what bothers me the most. I better put some common sense in him later. I gave him my spare pants and some slippers we got from the dead bodies back then.
"You really like stepping out of the line huh" (Loki)
"I'm sorry what do you mean by that?" I ask curiously not knowing what he meant to what he said.
[The Dragon God is enrage in your actions. You have killed a young innocent dragon with no reason at all. The Dragon God wishes to kill you]
How am I supposed to know something like that?! Sigh. Forget it, I will just make it up to him somehow.
We went back to the mayor's house after Alfred woke up. And I explain everything that happened on the way.