Otherworld Adventure

It turned out that when the bear had jumped into the air, the vines that were braided by Cecil hadn't snapped. It was the tree branch instead that was the one that snapped.

Bearing the weight of the bear and the 40kg boulder, it was no wonder that the branch snapped although it was over a meter thick.

Of course the whole branch didn't snap off only a portion of it, and that portion was the thing that fell on top of the unsuspecting bear below it.

When it fell, it landed on the bear's head literally squashing its skull and snapping its neck, killing the monster immediately. It was a result that caused Cecil to release a sigh of relief.

This battle had showed him how naïve and foolish his original plan was. The only part that went according to plan was him attracting attention and successfully wrapping the vines around its neck and arm.

The preceding events that he envisioned went way off. The rocks, the jump, and the quake, that followed after.

When he was caught off guard and fell on his back, he thought he was a goner when the bear started roaring and charging at him. Only to then be saved by the branch that fell from the skies. He was only lucky to be alive now.

"Haaahhh… that was scary. I have to learn from this. I was so naïve earlier which almost cost me my life."

"Woof…"

"Haha, don't worry Silver, you did your part perfectly, not to mention you had distracted it for a split second!"

"Woof!"

Silver did his job well, while Cecil himself, almost died. If he died, then Silver would have been taken down along shortly after him.

'I don't think I could stomach that even after I'm dead.'

"Let's take a look at your wounds Silver."

"Raau…"

Cecil got up and took another look at Silver's wound on his hind leg.

"What a relief. The blood has already clotted."

After taking almost 2 hours to kill the bear, Silver's wound had already stopped bleeding, it didn't seem like Silver lost too much blood since he still seemed energetic. But he had to find a way to close the wound and let it heal faster.

"Phew, there's nothing I can do right now. So let's take a look at the spoils?"

Silver started barking in reply.

Cecil walked up to the remains of the bear that was squashed to death by the branch.

Except for the head, the rest of the bear was still intact.

Was it also luck that allowed the blade on the top of the monster bear's skull to be snapped off with all of its blade fully intact and just lying In front of the bears broken skull?

Anyways, Cecil proceeded to pick up the blade. He examined it and found the base of the horn actually being smooth and only a couple of inches away from where the sharp part of the horn was.

The smooth part fitted perfectly in his hand and it could act as an impromptu knife.

"Haha! Awesome, lady luck is smiling on me!"

After grabbing the horn, Cecil rolled the broken branch off the head of the bear.

"Time to skin this thing."

Having survived on the island for a couple of years, Cecil had picked up the know-how of skinning animals that he killed.

It was a necessity because he had to skin the animals he killed in orders to access its meat for food. So he was able to skin the large bear after 20 minutes.

The harvested fur was huge. He cut it up into two pieces and placed them on top of Silver.

"Hold them for me, I'm gonna gather some of the meat so we can eat it later, okay?"

Barking in reply, Silver seemed happy when Cecil mentioned meat. He started wagging his tail joyfully.

Cecil took the knife and started to carve out some of the meat. He carved out 2 blocks of meat from its thick forearms and cut off the 2 paws of the bear.

It was easy to break the bones around the wrist of the bear with the horn. After cutting them off, he grabbed a vine and tied it around the meat and paws and hung them up.

He was draining the blood out of the meat. While doing so, he started prying out the claws of the bear with the horn blade. Gathering all 8 of the claws, he set them down beside Silver.

After doing so, he took another look at the bear and remembered the sharp elbow blades of the bear.

"They're a meter or so in length, I could probably use them as swords if the bases are smooth like the horn."

He went over and started carving out the meat around the elbows until he hit the bones. The blade was connected to the ulna bone of the bear's arm.

'Good, I could use them as swords this way.'

Clang!

"Eh?"

After carving out the meat that was around the forearm of the bear, Cecil tried striking the bone in order to snap it only to find himself recoiling from the strike. His hands were numb from the recoil.

"Oh no…"

The bones on the wrist of the bear were only small and somewhat brittle, but the bone in its arm was thick and strong. It seemed that there was no way for him to snap or cut it off.

"Oh well, I guess I'll just use the entire thing?"

Saying that, he proceeded to carve out the meat that was stuck to the ulna bone all the way up to the wrist and pulled free the entire bone along with the blade.

"Hmmm… better than nothing I guess."

The forearm of the bear from the elbow to the wrist was almost a meter long, adding that with the blade, it was almost 2 meters in length.

It was taller than him if he held it upright. He could use it as a walking stick too since only half of it was sharp.

He proceeded to do the same thing with the other elbow blade.

"Good, now I have weapons to protect myself, next time I won't be so helpless when I fight against another monster animal."

He returns to the pile of claws that were next to Silver and start closely examining them. The smooth part was only around 2 inches long. He could use them as throwing knives.

For now, Cecil didn't have anything he could use to store them in so he could only make an impromptu holster-c.u.m-belt using the vines he had braided earlier.

After loosening them a bit and cutting the vines so the length was just enough to wrap around his body twice, he pushed the claws into the spaces between the vines, holding them in place.

He started walking, jumping, rolling and running around, testing if the claws would injure him if he did any other action other than standing.

"Maybe I should make a bag from the other half of the fur…"

Thinking of that, he remembered that he should also harvest the tendons of the bear.

Using the tendons as thread, he could use them to knit himself a makeshift bag from the bear fur.

He went back to the bear's corpse to harvest the tendons. He aimed only for the tendons from its arms and legs, since they were easier to locate and harvest.

After harvesting them, he started testing them out. They were very sturdy. Pulling and stretching them made him think it was rubber instead of tendons.

After around 10 minutes he finished acquiring them.

Cecil grabbed vines and some twigs, then he bundled up the meat, tendons, bones and other spoils around the fur and tying them together.

Like this, he created an impromptu bag that he could sling onto his back. Cecil left the other half of the fur on top of Silver and used a bone blade as a walking stick.

"Alright, I got everything I need, time to head towards the river."

It was dangerous to linger around here, since the blood of the monster bear could potentially attract other monsters towards here.

Cecil and Silver quickly make their way towards the direction of the river he spotted from earlier.

Since he was only running in circles around the area from before, they hadn't shifted too far from the place all that much.

It was a river, so as long as they head towards the general direction of where Cecil saw it from, they would eventually reach the river despite not going back and traveling the exact same path from before.

But, first they had to get out of the area quickly.

They ran away from the area where the bear had died. After running and jumping for around 10 minutes. They stopped and started looking around the area.

Seeing that Silver was keeping up with his speed even while injured, Cecil picked up his pace towards the river. The faster they got there, the quicker than could wipe off the lingering bloody scent on them.

After around an hour of travel, the duo no longer met with any other monster animal. They also finally heard the sound of flowing water. They had finally arrived in the vicinity of the river he saw earlier.

Cecil slowed down and rested for a bit.

Normally animals would camp around and build nests near rivers to act as a water source. It was all a part of their instincts so he had to be cautious when approaching. He might stumble upon a nest of monster animals, if the animals of this world followed the logic of earth's animals.

Nevertheless, caution was needed even if they didn't. It was better safe than sorry.

As he quietly, but quickly crept forwards toward the river. He kept his steps light and tried to move from tree to tree and crawled under the green foliage.

After around 10 minutes, he finally arrived at an area that had a wide view of the riverside.

Cecil was observing the area from under the dense foliage of greenery. His eyes sharply surveyed the surroundings.

"I shouldn't commit another blunder now that I've finally arrived."

After making sure that the area was clear from all other animals. He slowly walked towards the river, he told Silver to stay back so he could probe the area first, just in case something was actually there.

After walking to side of the river, he looked around once again. Finding that there was no monster animal charging towards him, he let out a sigh of relief.

"Come over Silver!"

Silver quickly limped towards the riverside. After arriving next to Cecil, he quickly shook off the bundle of fur that was still on his back.

"Sit here."

Cecil untied the bundle on his back, took out the monster bear's skull, or what's left of it. Then started to wash the skull of the monster bear until it was somewhat clean. At least the bloody stains were all gone and the skull was now white.

The skull was half crushed so he could only get the other intact part.

Cecil started scooping up water from the river using the skull and poured it onto Silver's wounded leg.

*Whimper*

"Don't whine."

Cecil quickly cleaned out the wound as best he could, he then took out the bears finger bones, he chose the thinnest one and started sharpening it. Then he began further thinning the bone with the horn knife.

He cleaned the finger bone using the river water. While he was at it, he also started cleaning all the tendons and bones of the bear that he harvested earlier.

He picked out a tendon that was longer than the rest and tied it to the end of the finger bone.

His intent was to close Silver's wound using this. Although he was somewhat worried about an infection, but since there was no fire to boil the river water he couldn't ask for what's not there right?

He could start one, but that might attract attention instead.

Besides, the water was really clear. So clear in fact, Cecil was able to observe the riverbed from the riverside.

The deepest part seemed to be around 5 meters in depth, not too deep nor too shallow.

There were also fish swimming around too. It seemed clean enough, so he cast all the worries aside.

He then started to sew together the wound on Silver's hind leg. He was whimpering only at the start, but soon got used to the pricking afterwards.

After Cecil finished sealing the wound he looked at his handiwork. The stitching was very tight and a bit messy, but at least the wound was finally closed.

"Great, it's sealed. Hopefully it'll get better in a couple of days."

He grabbed the rest of the materials gained from the bear and started washing them in the river.