Chapter 11
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"WHAT THE HOLY F**K! HOW DID YOU KILL THIS THING?" Anya shouted while breathing fast. Her torn white cloak was wet enough to turn semitransparent. Her skin was showing and her ample chest rose and fell as she was catching her breath from the excitement of seeing the dragon's corpse. It was the same dragon that she and an army of 500 had tried to kill only to be destroyed instead.
"Though I vaguely thought that the nercodraig had died, I didn't think that it would actually be true. It should only have been injured gravely. The roars I heard last night were not of a dying beast."
The boy didn't pay any mind to her flustered state and said, "I called it from the inside by eating its heart!" looking very proud. The foolish smile plastered on his face gave away his own excitement. "I actually killed another king! Now this forest only has four kings left."
"What's this about kings again?"
"Oh that? It's what I call the five rulers of the forest."
"Five? The report we read said that there were only four."
"Of course there are five! This dead lizard here," pointing to the small hill in front of them, "the tiger you saw last night, a black turtle near the beach, the flaming bird on the mountain and me who lives everywhere."
"You?"
"Of course me. I am pretty strong, you know. The others accepted me as well. Only the lizard was too arrogant and didn't care about anyone else and ignored me. All the others have their own territory except me. They had already divided the land among themselves by the time I came here. I didn't really care about that. So, I just said that I'll go everywhere and not attack others if I'm not attacked first. All the kings have a quota for safe that they use to inform the others that they can't kill them. The first time I used my quota was on you when I told the dragon not to attack you. But, the lizard actually went against the treaty." Saying the last part, his eyes flashed with rage before going away.
He continued, "The quota entitles the bearer immunity from the attack of the kings and their generals. If this is violated, all other kings are given the right to kill the violator. So, I killed him. That's why the cat didn't care enough to attack me for killing the lizard. I am the only king who doesn't have any generals by the way. The reason the lizard's generals didn't attack you is because he was too arrogant and told them not to bother with ants like you. Else all of you wouldn't have survived that long."
Listening to him say all that, Anya only had to say, "Okay… But why are you naked?"
Puzzled, the boy thought for a bit before asking, "Oh you mean why I'm not wearing any clothes?"
"Yes… Don't you feel cold or uncomfortable or even embarrassed?"
"What's there to be embarrassed about?"
Anya was stumped. How was she to tell him that it was shameful to run around naked? Even if he didn't feel embarrassed, she did.
"About the cold, I only felt cold the first year I was here when white cold things fell from the sky."
"It's called snow" "Yes, snow! I felt so cold and had to wear the skin of a horned wolf. I don't know how I know that name. It was so soft. But when it became hot again, it felt very uncomfortable. Also, after that year, I wasn't cold when it snowed again. So I don't see the point of wearing clothes."
Anya was speechless at the monsters explanation. He continued, "I don't feel uncomfortable. Instead, I can track prey and hunt them without being discovered easily by using the skin of my entire body." Hearing this logic, she couldn't help but ask why he was always covered in blood and even let it dry on himself. Waiting for what complex explanation would come out of his mouth, she started when she heard the simple reply of,
"No water."
"Really? Just because of that? No other complicated reason?"
"Nope. If it were last year, I'd say that the blood helps me intimidate the prey and protect myself. But now, it serves no purpose." He replied blandly.
Suddenly, he was blasted by a cannon of freezing cold water. Unprepared and without his guard up against this new sister of his, he was blasted away and got up drenched and soaking wet. He got up and looked at his body and saw the now dried grey blood of the dead dragon being washed away from his body to reveal his original fair complexion.
Anya was surprised at seeing the boy's milk like skin. She stared enviously.
"I forgot the last time I saw myself without anything covering my skin. I look very different from you."
Irritated for some reason, Anya increased the water pressure by a lot but the boy didn't even flinch this time. Sighing, Anya stopped the spell after the boy was clean.
He took out the small bag from his belt and opened it. Bringing out the red stone, he took a sip and downed half of the golden blood of the insect like monster he had killed. It was surprisingly very hot both in temperature and in taste. He gulped it down and showing the bag to Anya asked, "Want some?"
Anya was surprised at his action of drinking the blood and reached out her hand. She took it before almost dropping it. "It's golden blood! Do you know how rare this is?
He nodded and said, "It's even rarer than red blood. That's why I kept it."
Anya struggled to keep her excitement and said, "A drop of this is enough to buy a house in the capital. The amount in this bag is enough to buy a town! And you are just drinking this like water."
The boy said, "I don't really have water you know. If you want it, keep it. It might be rare but I still get some occasionally."
Nodding, "I want it! I want it!" Anya quickly brought the bag to her bosom and carefully placed it inside as if fearing that he would want to take it back. The boy just watched on quietly.
"Okay, now that I'm done bathing, can we eat?" he pointed at the huge carcass of the black dragon.
"We can eat that?" Anya fell into a daze. That was something that ate them not the other way around.
"Of course we can." Saying so, the boy entered the cave that was the dragon's mouth and grabbing the tongue of the dragon pulled hard and tore it off. He then bit it and started to chew. He was once again covered in blood. "Try it."
Anya came closer and grabbing a part of the tongue bit into it. But, she wasn't able to tear it off. Trying again and again, she failed. She almost started to tear thinking that couldn't eat the delicacy in front of her.
The boy then grabbed a bite sized piece and used his hand to tear it off to give it to her, "Here"
She took it and hungrily put it in her mouth. She tried to chew but she couldn't. She could only enjoy the juicy and spicy taste covering the meat. Even that tasted heavenly. After numerous times, she gave up and swallowed the meat. As it went down her throat, the meat gave a more mellow taste and a fragrance which she couldn't feel before appeared. With one bite, Anya was half full. But she wasn't satisfied. She wanted more.
She looked to the boy and found that while she was struggling to only eat a single bite, the boy had already finished the entire tongue and was eating some meat from another part of the dragon which he had torn out without her notice. She quickly said, "Wait! Leave some for me" as she quickly grabbed the meat and tried to bite it only to fail again. "Why don't you cook this?"
"I can't cook and I don't have fire. Besides, this tastes fine by itself."
Irritated, Anya said, "I can't eat it like this!" She then proceeded to wave her fingers in a rhythmic way before a ball of fire arose from her hand. It then floated just above her palm not burning it at all. Anya looked around for some wood but found none which were usable. So she just pushed the ball of fire into the big piece of meat which was in the boy's hand under his curious eyes.
He watched as the meat he had torn from the dragon's cheek was being cooked from the inside. The grey blood boiled and the dark grey meat began to shrink slightly and emitted a slightly burnt fragrance as the color of the meat slowly changed to a browner hue and the outer area turned crispy. Anya removed her hand from the piece of now cooked meat and snapped her finger to extinguish the flame.
She then hungrily took a bite into the meat. This time she was successful and could also chew the meat in order to enjoy its full taste. "SOOO GOOOD!" Anya yelled out from the depth of her heart. This was the best food she had ever eaten. She looked to the boy and saw him scrunching his eyebrows. "The taste of the meat isn't as good as it was raw. It lost its, what do you call it? Wildness. I think I prefer it uncooked." He then got up and went back to inside the dragon's body.
When he came out after having his full, he saw a funny sight. Anya was lying on her back with her stomach bulged out. She couldn't move after eating so much and had fallen asleep with a satisfied smile.
***
As the days passed, Anya lived with the boy. She didn't mention about going back and neither did he bring it up. She made him some clothes with the dragon hide. He had helped of course. Else she wouldn't even be able to cut it. He was forced to wear the clothes because she said that it was indecent to stay nude and no reason would be enough to persuade her otherwise.
They finished the entire dragon in 2 weeks. Though he was the one who ate the most. As time passed, the boy became accustomed to wearing clothes and eating cooked food. His abilities returned the same as before when he was without clothes. Anya also tried to teach him magic. But he seemed to have no aptitude to anything she knew. Her strongest ability was ice and she only had rudimentary control over the other elements. So she couldn't even test him accurately.
On the other hand, Anya also picked up a few tricks and could now move faster and control her body better. Her physical strength and bodily defense also increased as she would now be able to eat the Dragon meat raw. But alas there was none remaining. Though her abilities increased, it was only a slight increase compared to the boy whose abilities improved everyday seemingly without any limit.
One day about 5 months after their first meeting, as he was hunting, the boy sensed that a group of people were coming there. He went to scout and saw that the other party was another army who had entered the forest to find out what had happened to the previous group who had come. From the tree tops, he saw that they had caught Anya and had tied her up. A human man wearing a black robe was interrogating her. As she refused to reveal anything, the man started wiping her. Her body started to be covered with bloody marks despite the improvement of her physique.
Not able to bear it anymore, he lifted his spear and threw it directly at the man before jumping down into the ranks and started to kill them all. He landed on the head of one killing him. He then continued by stabbing his hands on both his sides and tore out the hearts of two beastmen. He then kicked a human in front of him crushing his skull. Taking out two knives that Anya had made for him using pieces the dragon's horn, he sliced through the heads of another five.
By then, order was restored within the ranks. He turned to look and saw that the man who he had thrown the spear at had actually caught it. Though he caught it, there was a red dot on his forehead from where a drop of blood had fallen signifying that the throw had indeed hit its mark. Only that the man had caught the spear before it could pierce through. The small wound healed in the blink of an eye.
The man's eyes contained surprise and curiosity with a hint of fear which he quickly covered up. He shouted pointing at the nameless boy, "Capture him alive." Anya struggled and cried out to the boy to run. That the man was a cultivator.
The dragon hide clothed boy smirked as an arrow close in on his back which he caught and threw back at its owner killing him. He charged at the black cloaked man who pulled out a sword and flew up after stepping on it.
Throwing off all the men who surrounded him, he built momentum before leaping up towards the man. He raised his fist as if to punch him but was blown away when a shield made of light appeared blocking his attack.
The man then threw a fire ball at him as he was falling. The fireball hit him on his chest which was covered with dragon hide. The attack was nullified and the boy didn't feel any pain. The fall left a crater on the ground from where he rose up before grabbing a nearby soldier and tossing him at the man in the air. The man didn't seem to care and instead send a wind blade which sliced through the thrown man and continued towards the boy. The boy tried to dodge but was still hit on his uncovered shoulder. The attack had left a thin slice of blood which healed instantly.
Grinning, the boy jumped once again at the man who tisked and shook his head before drawing an inscription in the air which turned into a similar wall of light as the last time.
But surprising the man, the boy landed near the limped Anya who was hung up by ropes tied to her wrists to two poles. He tore the bindings before carrying Anya away in a fast speed which the man could not react. In five seconds the boy once again appeared before the man while he was stunned. He then stomped his feet hard and caused an earthquake which caused the surrounding soldiers to fall down and another one which cracked the ground causing the unprepared soldiers to fall in killing them.
"We can fight for real now." The boy said softly before once again leaping towards the gob smacked cultivator.
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"WHAT THE HOLY F**K! HOW DID YOU KILL THIS THING?" Anya shouted while breathing fast. Her torn white cloak was wet enough to turn semitransparent. Her skin was showing and her ample chest rose and fell as she was catching her breath from the excitement of seeing the dragon's corpse. It was the same dragon that she and an army of 500 had tried to kill only to be destroyed instead.
"Though I vaguely thought that the nercodraig had died, I didn't think that it would actually be true. It should only have been injured gravely. The roars I heard last night were not of a dying beast."
The boy didn't pay any mind to her flustered state and said, "I called it from the inside by eating its heart!" looking very proud. The foolish smile plastered on his face gave away his own excitement. "I actually killed another king! Now this forest only has four kings left."
"What's this about kings again?"
"Oh that? It's what I call the five rulers of the forest."
"Five? The report we read said that there were only four."
"Of course there are five! This dead lizard here," pointing to the small hill in front of them, "the tiger you saw last night, a black turtle near the beach, the flaming bird on the mountain and me who lives everywhere."
"You?"
"Of course me. I am pretty strong, you know. The others accepted me as well. Only the lizard was too arrogant and didn't care about anyone else and ignored me. All the others have their own territory except me. They had already divided the land among themselves by the time I came here. I didn't really care about that. So, I just said that I'll go everywhere and not attack others if I'm not attacked first. All the kings have a quota for safe that they use to inform the others that they can't kill them. The first time I used my quota was on you when I told the dragon not to attack you. But, the lizard actually went against the treaty." Saying the last part, his eyes flashed with rage before going away.
He continued, "The quota entitles the bearer immunity from the attack of the kings and their generals. If this is violated, all other kings are given the right to kill the violator. So, I killed him. That's why the cat didn't care enough to attack me for killing the lizard. I am the only king who doesn't have any generals by the way. The reason the lizard's generals didn't attack you is because he was too arrogant and told them not to bother with ants like you. Else all of you wouldn't have survived that long."
Listening to him say all that, Anya only had to say, "Okay… But why are you naked?"
Puzzled, the boy thought for a bit before asking, "Oh you mean why I'm not wearing any clothes?"
"Yes… Don't you feel cold or uncomfortable or even embarrassed?"
"What's there to be embarrassed about?"
Anya was stumped. How was she to tell him that it was shameful to run around naked? Even if he didn't feel embarrassed, she did.
"About the cold, I only felt cold the first year I was here when white cold things fell from the sky."
"It's called snow" "Yes, snow! I felt so cold and had to wear the skin of a horned wolf. I don't know how I know that name. It was so soft. But when it became hot again, it felt very uncomfortable. Also, after that year, I wasn't cold when it snowed again. So I don't see the point of wearing clothes."
Anya was speechless at the monsters explanation. He continued, "I don't feel uncomfortable. Instead, I can track prey and hunt them without being discovered easily by using the skin of my entire body." Hearing this logic, she couldn't help but ask why he was always covered in blood and even let it dry on himself. Waiting for what complex explanation would come out of his mouth, she started when she heard the simple reply of,
"No water."
"Really? Just because of that? No other complicated reason?"
"Nope. If it were last year, I'd say that the blood helps me intimidate the prey and protect myself. But now, it serves no purpose." He replied blandly.
Suddenly, he was blasted by a cannon of freezing cold water. Unprepared and without his guard up against this new sister of his, he was blasted away and got up drenched and soaking wet. He got up and looked at his body and saw the now dried grey blood of the dead dragon being washed away from his body to reveal his original fair complexion.
Anya was surprised at seeing the boy's milk like skin. She stared enviously.
"I forgot the last time I saw myself without anything covering my skin. I look very different from you."
Irritated for some reason, Anya increased the water pressure by a lot but the boy didn't even flinch this time. Sighing, Anya stopped the spell after the boy was clean.
He took out the small bag from his belt and opened it. Bringing out the red stone, he took a sip and downed half of the golden blood of the insect like monster he had killed. It was surprisingly very hot both in temperature and in taste. He gulped it down and showing the bag to Anya asked, "Want some?"
Anya was surprised at his action of drinking the blood and reached out her hand. She took it before almost dropping it. "It's golden blood! Do you know how rare this is?
He nodded and said, "It's even rarer than red blood. That's why I kept it."
Anya struggled to keep her excitement and said, "A drop of this is enough to buy a house in the capital. The amount in this bag is enough to buy a town! And you are just drinking this like water."
The boy said, "I don't really have water you know. If you want it, keep it. It might be rare but I still get some occasionally."
Nodding, "I want it! I want it!" Anya quickly brought the bag to her bosom and carefully placed it inside as if fearing that he would want to take it back. The boy just watched on quietly.
"Okay, now that I'm done bathing, can we eat?" he pointed at the huge carcass of the black dragon.
"We can eat that?" Anya fell into a daze. That was something that ate them not the other way around.
"Of course we can." Saying so, the boy entered the cave that was the dragon's mouth and grabbing the tongue of the dragon pulled hard and tore it off. He then bit it and started to chew. He was once again covered in blood. "Try it."
Anya came closer and grabbing a part of the tongue bit into it. But, she wasn't able to tear it off. Trying again and again, she failed. She almost started to tear thinking that couldn't eat the delicacy in front of her.
The boy then grabbed a bite sized piece and used his hand to tear it off to give it to her, "Here"
She took it and hungrily put it in her mouth. She tried to chew but she couldn't. She could only enjoy the juicy and spicy taste covering the meat. Even that tasted heavenly. After numerous times, she gave up and swallowed the meat. As it went down her throat, the meat gave a more mellow taste and a fragrance which she couldn't feel before appeared. With one bite, Anya was half full. But she wasn't satisfied. She wanted more.
She looked to the boy and found that while she was struggling to only eat a single bite, the boy had already finished the entire tongue and was eating some meat from another part of the dragon which he had torn out without her notice. She quickly said, "Wait! Leave some for me" as she quickly grabbed the meat and tried to bite it only to fail again. "Why don't you cook this?"
"I can't cook and I don't have fire. Besides, this tastes fine by itself."
Irritated, Anya said, "I can't eat it like this!" She then proceeded to wave her fingers in a rhythmic way before a ball of fire arose from her hand. It then floated just above her palm not burning it at all. Anya looked around for some wood but found none which were usable. So she just pushed the ball of fire into the big piece of meat which was in the boy's hand under his curious eyes.
He watched as the meat he had torn from the dragon's cheek was being cooked from the inside. The grey blood boiled and the dark grey meat began to shrink slightly and emitted a slightly burnt fragrance as the color of the meat slowly changed to a browner hue and the outer area turned crispy. Anya removed her hand from the piece of now cooked meat and snapped her finger to extinguish the flame.
She then hungrily took a bite into the meat. This time she was successful and could also chew the meat in order to enjoy its full taste. "SOOO GOOOD!" Anya yelled out from the depth of her heart. This was the best food she had ever eaten. She looked to the boy and saw him scrunching his eyebrows. "The taste of the meat isn't as good as it was raw. It lost its, what do you call it? Wildness. I think I prefer it uncooked." He then got up and went back to inside the dragon's body.
When he came out after having his full, he saw a funny sight. Anya was lying on her back with her stomach bulged out. She couldn't move after eating so much and had fallen asleep with a satisfied smile.
***
As the days passed, Anya lived with the boy. She didn't mention about going back and neither did he bring it up. She made him some clothes with the dragon hide. He had helped of course. Else she wouldn't even be able to cut it. He was forced to wear the clothes because she said that it was indecent to stay nude and no reason would be enough to persuade her otherwise.
They finished the entire dragon in 2 weeks. Though he was the one who ate the most. As time passed, the boy became accustomed to wearing clothes and eating cooked food. His abilities returned the same as before when he was without clothes. Anya also tried to teach him magic. But he seemed to have no aptitude to anything she knew. Her strongest ability was ice and she only had rudimentary control over the other elements. So she couldn't even test him accurately.
On the other hand, Anya also picked up a few tricks and could now move faster and control her body better. Her physical strength and bodily defense also increased as she would now be able to eat the Dragon meat raw. But alas there was none remaining. Though her abilities increased, it was only a slight increase compared to the boy whose abilities improved everyday seemingly without any limit.
One day about 5 months after their first meeting, as he was hunting, the boy sensed that a group of people were coming there. He went to scout and saw that the other party was another army who had entered the forest to find out what had happened to the previous group who had come. From the tree tops, he saw that they had caught Anya and had tied her up. A human man wearing a black robe was interrogating her. As she refused to reveal anything, the man started wiping her. Her body started to be covered with bloody marks despite the improvement of her physique.
Not able to bear it anymore, he lifted his spear and threw it directly at the man before jumping down into the ranks and started to kill them all. He landed on the head of one killing him. He then continued by stabbing his hands on both his sides and tore out the hearts of two beastmen. He then kicked a human in front of him crushing his skull. Taking out two knives that Anya had made for him using pieces the dragon's horn, he sliced through the heads of another five.
By then, order was restored within the ranks. He turned to look and saw that the man who he had thrown the spear at had actually caught it. Though he caught it, there was a red dot on his forehead from where a drop of blood had fallen signifying that the throw had indeed hit its mark. Only that the man had caught the spear before it could pierce through. The small wound healed in the blink of an eye.
The man's eyes contained surprise and curiosity with a hint of fear which he quickly covered up. He shouted pointing at the nameless boy, "Capture him alive." Anya struggled and cried out to the boy to run. That the man was a cultivator.
The dragon hide clothed boy smirked as an arrow close in on his back which he caught and threw back at its owner killing him. He charged at the black cloaked man who pulled out a sword and flew up after stepping on it.
Throwing off all the men who surrounded him, he built momentum before leaping up towards the man. He raised his fist as if to punch him but was blown away when a shield made of light appeared blocking his attack.
The man then threw a fire ball at him as he was falling. The fireball hit him on his chest which was covered with dragon hide. The attack was nullified and the boy didn't feel any pain. The fall left a crater on the ground from where he rose up before grabbing a nearby soldier and tossing him at the man in the air. The man didn't seem to care and instead send a wind blade which sliced through the thrown man and continued towards the boy. The boy tried to dodge but was still hit on his uncovered shoulder. The attack had left a thin slice of blood which healed instantly.
Grinning, the boy jumped once again at the man who tisked and shook his head before drawing an inscription in the air which turned into a similar wall of light as the last time.
But surprising the man, the boy landed near the limped Anya who was hung up by ropes tied to her wrists to two poles. He tore the bindings before carrying Anya away in a fast speed which the man could not react. In five seconds the boy once again appeared before the man while he was stunned. He then stomped his feet hard and caused an earthquake which caused the surrounding soldiers to fall down and another one which cracked the ground causing the unprepared soldiers to fall in killing them.
"We can fight for real now." The boy said softly before once again leaping towards the gob smacked cultivator.
"WHAT THE HOLY F**K! HOW DID YOU KILL THIS THING?" Anya shouted while breathing fast. Her torn white cloak was wet enough to turn semitransparent. Her skin was showing and her ample chest rose and fell as she was catching her breath from the excitement of seeing the dragon's corpse. It was the same dragon that she and an army of 500 had tried to kill only to be destroyed instead."Though I vaguely thought that the nercodraig had died, I didn't think that it would actually be true. It should only have been injured gravely. The roars I heard last night were not of a dying beast."The boy didn't pay any mind to her flustered state and said, "I called it from the inside by eating its heart!" looking very proud. The foolish smile plastered on his face gave away his own excitement. "I actually killed another king! Now this forest only has four kings left.""What's this about kings again?""Oh that? It's what I call the five rulers of the forest.""Five? The report we read said that there were only four.""Of course there are five! This dead lizard here," pointing to the small hill in front of them, "the tiger you saw last night, a black turtle near the beach, the flaming bird on the mountain and me who lives everywhere.""You?""Of course me. I am pretty strong, you know. The others accepted me as well. Only the lizard was too arrogant and didn't care about anyone else and ignored me. All the others have their own territory except me. They had already divided the land among themselves by the time I came here. I didn't really care about that. So, I just said that I'll go everywhere and not attack others if I'm not attacked first. All the kings have a quota for safe that they use to inform the others that they can't kill them. The first time I used my quota was on you when I told the dragon not to attack you. But, the lizard actually went against the treaty." Saying the last part, his eyes flashed with rage before going away.He continued, "The quota entitles the bearer immunity from the attack of the kings and their generals. If this is violated, all other kings are given the right to kill the violator. So, I killed him. That's why the cat didn't care enough to attack me for killing the lizard. I am the only king who doesn't have any generals by the way. The reason the lizard's generals didn't attack you is because he was too arrogant and told them not to bother with ants like you. Else all of you wouldn't have survived that long."Listening to him say all that, Anya only had to say, "Okay But why are you naked?"Puzzled, the boy thought for a bit before asking, "Oh you mean why I'm not wearing any clothes?""Yes Don't you feel cold or uncomfortable or even embarrassed?""What's there to be embarrassed about?"Anya was stumped. How was she to tell him that it was shameful to run around naked? Even if he didn't feel embarrassed, she did."About the cold, I only felt cold the first year I was here when white cold things fell from the sky.""It's called snow" "Yes, snow! I felt so cold and had to wear the skin of a horned wolf. I don't know how I know that name. It was so soft. But when it became hot again, it felt very uncomfortable. Also, after that year, I wasn't cold when it snowed again. So I don't see the point of wearing clothes."Anya was speechless at the monsters explanation. He continued, "I don't feel uncomfortable. Instead, I can track prey and hunt them without being discovered easily by using the skin of my entire body." Hearing this logic, she couldn't help but ask why he was always covered in blood and even let it dry on himself. Waiting for what complex explanation would come out of his mouth, she started when she heard the simple reply of,"No water.""Really? Just because of that? No other complicated reason?""Nope. If it were last year, I'd say that the blood helps me intimidate the prey and protect myself. But now, it serves no purpose." He replied blandly.Suddenly, he was blasted by a cannon of freezing cold water. Unprepared and without his guard up against this new sister of his, he was blasted away and got up drenched and soaking wet. He got up and looked at his body and saw the now dried grey blood of the dead dragon being washed away from his body to reveal his original fair complexion.Anya was surprised at seeing the boy's milk like skin. She stared enviously."I forgot the last time I saw myself without anything covering my skin. I look very different from you."Irritated for some reason, Anya increased the water pressure by a lot but the boy didn't even flinch this time. Sighing, Anya stopped the spell after the boy was clean.He took out the small bag from his belt and opened it. Bringing out the red stone, he took a sip and downed half of the golden blood of the insect like monster he had killed. It was surprisingly very hot both in temperature and in taste. He gulped it down and showing the bag to Anya asked, "Want some?"Anya was surprised at his action of drinking the blood and reached out her hand. She took it before almost dropping it. "It's golden blood! Do you know how rare this is?He nodded and said, "It's even rarer than red blood. That's why I kept it."Anya struggled to keep her excitement and said, "A drop of this is enough to buy a house in the capital. The amount in this bag is enough to buy a town! And you are just drinking this like water."The boy said, "I don't really have water you know. If you want it, keep it. It might be rare but I still get some occasionally."Nodding, "I want it! I want it!" Anya quickly brought the bag to her bosom and carefully placed it inside as if fearing that he would want to take it back. The boy just watched on quietly."Okay, now that I'm done bathing, can we eat?" he pointed at the huge carcass of the black dragon."We can eat that?" Anya fell into a daze. That was something that ate them not the other way around."Of course we can." Saying so, the boy entered the cave that was the dragon's mouth and grabbing the tongue of the dragon pulled hard and tore it off. He then bit it and started to chew. He was once again covered in blood. "Try it."Anya came closer and grabbing a part of the tongue bit into it. But, she wasn't able to tear it off. Trying again and again, she failed. She almost started to tear thinking that couldn't eat the delicacy in front of her.The boy then grabbed a bite sized piece and used his hand to tear it off to give it to her, "Here"She took it and hungrily put it in her mouth. She tried to chew but she couldn't. She could only enjoy the juicy and spicy taste covering the meat. Even that tasted heavenly. After numerous times, she gave up and swallowed the meat. As it went down her throat, the meat gave a more mellow taste and a fragrance which she couldn't feel before appeared. With one bite, Anya was half full. But she wasn't satisfied. She wanted more.She looked to the boy and found that while she was struggling to only eat a single bite, the boy had already finished the entire tongue and was eating some meat from another part of the dragon which he had torn out without her notice. She quickly said, "Wait! Leave some for me" as she quickly grabbed the meat and tried to bite it only to fail again. "Why don't you cook this?""I can't cook and I don't have fire. Besides, this tastes fine by itself."Irritated, Anya said, "I can't eat it like this!" She then proceeded to wave her fingers in a rhythmic way before a ball of fire arose from her hand. It then floated just above her palm not burning it at all. Anya looked around for some wood but found none which were usable. So she just pushed the ball of fire into the big piece of meat which was in the boy's hand under his curious eyes.He watched as the meat he had torn from the dragon's cheek was being cooked from the inside. The grey blood boiled and the dark grey meat began to shrink slightly and emitted a slightly burnt fragrance as the color of the meat slowly changed to a browner hue and the outer area turned crispy. Anya removed her hand from the piece of now cooked meat and snapped her finger to extinguish the flame.She then hungrily took a bite into the meat. This time she was successful and could also chew the meat in order to enjoy its full taste. "SOOO GOOOD!" Anya yelled out from the depth of her heart. This was the best food she had ever eaten. She looked to the boy and saw him scrunching his eyebrows. "The taste of the meat isn't as good as it was raw. It lost its, what do you call it? Wildness. I think I prefer it uncooked." He then got up and went back to inside the dragon's body.When he came out after having his full, he saw a funny sight. Anya was lying on her back with her stomach bulged out. She couldn't move after eating so much and had fallen asleep with a satisfied smile.***As the days passed, Anya lived with the boy. She didn't mention about going back and neither did he bring it up. She made him some clothes with the dragon hide. He had helped of course. Else she wouldn't even be able to cut it. He was forced to wear the clothes because she said that it was indecent to stay nude and no reason would be enough to persuade her otherwise.They finished the entire dragon in 2 weeks. Though he was the one who ate the most. As time passed, the boy became accustomed to wearing clothes and eating cooked food. His abilities returned the same as before when he was without clothes. Anya also tried to teach him magic. But he seemed to have no aptitude to anything she knew. Her strongest ability was ice and she only had rudimentary control over the other elements. So she couldn't even test him accurately.On the other hand, Anya also picked up a few tricks and could now move faster and control her body better. Her physical strength and bodily defense also increased as she would now be able to eat the Dragon meat raw. But alas there was none remaining. Though her abilities increased, it was only a slight increase compared to the boy whose abilities improved everyday seemingly without any limit.One day about 5 months after their first meeting, as he was hunting, the boy sensed that a group of people were coming there. He went to scout and saw that the other party was another army who had entered the forest to find out what had happened to the previous group who had come. From the tree tops, he saw that they had caught Anya and had tied her up. A human man wearing a black robe was interrogating her. As she refused to reveal anything, the man started wiping her. Her body started to be covered with bloody marks despite the improvement of her physique.Not able to bear it anymore, he lifted his spear and threw it directly at the man before jumping down into the ranks and started to kill them all. He landed on the head of one killing him. He then continued by stabbing his hands on both his sides and tore out the hearts of two beastmen. He then kicked a human in front of him crushing his skull. Taking out two knives that Anya had made for him using pieces the dragon's horn, he sliced through the heads of another five.By then, order was restored within the ranks. He turned to look and saw that the man who he had thrown the spear at had actually caught it. Though he caught it, there was a red dot on his forehead from where a drop of blood had fallen signifying that the throw had indeed hit its mark. Only that the man had caught the spear before it could pierce through. The small wound healed in the blink of an eye.The man's eyes contained surprise and curiosity with a hint of fear which he quickly covered up. He shouted pointing at the nameless boy, "Capture him alive." Anya struggled and cried out to the boy to run. That the man was a cultivator.The dragon hide clothed boy smirked as an arrow close in on his back which he caught and threw back at its owner killing him. He charged at the black cloaked man who pulled out a sword and flew up after stepping on it.Throwing off all the men who surrounded him, he built momentum before leaping up towards the man. He raised his fist as if to punch him but was blown away when a shield made of light appeared blocking his attack.The man then threw a fire ball at him as he was falling. The fireball hit him on his chest which was covered with dragon hide. The attack was nullified and the boy didn't feel any pain. The fall left a crater on the ground from where he rose up before grabbing a nearby soldier and tossing him at the man in the air. The man didn't seem to care and instead send a wind blade which sliced through the thrown man and continued towards the boy. The boy tried to dodge but was still hit on his uncovered shoulder. The attack had left a thin slice of blood which healed instantly.Grinning, the boy jumped once again at the man who tisked and shook his head before drawing an inscription in the air which turned into a similar wall of light as the last time.But surprising the man, the boy landed near the limped Anya who was hung up by ropes tied to her wrists to two poles. He tore the bindings before carrying Anya away in a fast speed which the man could not react. In five seconds the boy once again appeared before the man while he was stunned. He then stomped his feet hard and caused an earthquake which caused the surrounding soldiers to fall down and another one which cracked the ground causing the unprepared soldiers to fall in killing them."We can fight for real now." The boy said softly before once again leaping towards the gob smacked cultivator.
