Chapter 10 - Turning Point (1/2)

Chapter 10: Turning Point

Little Fla around in the roo

After the breakfast in the ot over his shock, and he had left to deal with various on alone in the house

He had advised it not to depart frohts’ was outside, watching it

Understanding the reasoning, but still annoyed by the unlucky developpe to do but try to discover the wonders hidden inside the e nest

Its first destination was right across the table, the origin of the delicious s beast arrived in the kitchen, lured by the s on the wall, but otten on the counter

White tiling was covering the room and different pieces of furniture hout the kitchen Running up to one of theon stretched its head and placed its front paws on the console to use as a lever in order to see what things laid on top of it

A row of stone dishes were lined on the counter, most of them had been filthy for an eternity, soredients Above the counter hung a row of cabinets, but the dragon had no way to reach thee kitchen

Plundering ingredients and herbs made Little Flame quite satisfied, especially after it tried one of the red fruits from a bowl next to the herbs

Chewing on the sweet fruit, the curious creature continued exploring the other roo hallway behind the kitchen

A layer of dust was covering the floor, yet a trail of footsteps was clearly visible on the ground, running fro room to a door at the end of the hallway

Following this path Little Flame carried its expedition forward and arrived in front of an open door Advancing bravely in the unknown territory, it stumbled across mountains of treasure and junk Stacks of innumerable different ite, soht radiance in the dragon’s eyes

All of these had awakened its interest, so Little Flaht into one of the oods in search of new and exciting oddities

Unfortunately the towering erously as a little invader had clawed its way through their insides, eventually alerting the son, but still a tad bit too late

With a thundering ru, and buried Little Flame in an avalanche of various equipments

Placing several [Water Walls], ca the house to make it appear like no one was present, had exhausted Eldrin, and he took a srassy field of the clearing He had thought about different ways to deal with the knight hiding nearby, and the best solution he could think of at the on outside while the illusion was in place

In spite of the breach of the safety concerning the beast, the elf would truly hate it if such an interesting creature was to leave

Most e upon birth and were able to corowls and barks Additionally soes were occasionally returning to the forest after theirof the coe to their brethren

Grasping the adventurers tongue was therefore possible with a bit of training, although the degree of coence, and es would have relied on the telepathic bond with their familiar to order them around

As far as Eldrin was concerned, there hasn’t ever been a case of a beast or ue or another ‘civilized’ language before a breakthrough into the legend rank, a feat only a few particular faht achieve The vermillion tipped black scaled lizard was a mystery to him

The old elf conte his skin in the sunshi+ne, feeling the war answer to the black and red enigma, he stretched his ancient body and slowly returned to the cottage, ad the peaceful scenery on his path

As he opened the door, a grih theobvious paw-shaped footprints behind it

Unsure on how he should react, Eldrin checked the kitchen first and discovered a trail of dirt co from the entrance of the former servant quarters

Following the claw e room at which he had taken the familiar dishes, only to encounter a chaotic mess where boxes and items had been neatly stacked in the past

A set of recognizable paw prints seemed to enter the room, and a stream of dirt exited it, which co by him earlier allowed Eldrin to assess what had happened with certainty Sighing to hiuided it along the stains, back into the main roouest roo in

Inside the roo blanket on the bed, curling around the cover and shi+vering slightly With an i all of the dirt out of the , and i the bed sneakily, suddenly dropping the ball on top of it With a yelp, life returned to the small bundle of scales, a head appeared, turned around and stared accusingly at the elf that had dared to soak it to the bones

A single word escaped the on

“Punishment”

After that enjoyable abuse, Eldrin left to check on the unconscious e room, where he would make sure to enlist the help of a black and red helper

The rest of the day hence consisted of a certain ani around while an elf tried to teach it how to clear out the mess it created

It took the larger part of the week to wash and restore the storage rooet rid of the ht various neords to Little Fla in the different heaps of ite lizard to repeat the words to beco everyday conversations when they weren’t cleaning up

Additionally, Eldrin was taking the dragon with hi the maids ere still im healed under the repeated use of the [Fountain of Life] spell by the elf

The dragon showed great interest in the healing spell, observing as it closed the wounds incurred from the collision with the rock wall, and cured no s to imitate the incantation and mana flow it attempted to cast the same spell, yet its first atte

On the third day, the black shadow Eldrin had last seen in the [Stone Breaker]’s Den, repairing a certain dragon’s slender flesh, appeared under the repeated effort of Little Fla visible wounds on the maid’s bodies

This accoh he had seen the spell before, consciously using a poas usually requiring a long period of training, at least for a beast Little Flame had not reached the fifth rank and formed a monster core yet, so there was little to no chance that the black shadow could be its innate ability either

To avoid slaughtering too much of the [Sapphire Cows] Eldrin raised, the small lizard had decided to head out and hunt its ownit with Eldrin for a bit, Little Fla and the vicious little creature was killing everything from [Horned Rabbits] of the first rank to [Ar it a contest to shock Eldrin anew each day, displaying the amount of meat it could carry around On the fifth day after their encounter , Eldrin had to ask the proud lizard to stop its slaughter, as the storage room of the kitchen was completely filled with meat