Tales of The Mighty Dragonair

Arthur's words alarmed everyone, and as Madly was about to object on this plan again, Ron stood up and rapidly started fire. He then grabbed the body of the monster and started to cut its parts.

He wasn't alone, as Tarry, Edwar, and Lily began to help him, while Madly and Drago were looking after Ouly. As for Arthur, he sat on the ground resting his back to one of the rocks while closing his eyes to rest.

He wasn't trying to sleep yet, as he was afraid if he did, another monster would attack the team.

He didn't tell them, but the scent of blood here was a great seduction to other monsters nearby, while the fire was their greatest threat.

He hoped the fire would help in protecting them, but there was no guarantee, so he needed to stay awake and be ready for any sudden attack.

Arthur had an irresistible urge to just close his eyes and sleep, however he tried to resist that as hard as he could. He knew eventually he would fall asleep, however he was still sticking to the hope of replenishing his energy just before sleeping.

'Just a little more!'

He kept telling himself this over and over uncountable times, until he felt the presence of a strange thing in his mouth with a soft voice telling him to eat.

With a natural survival instinct he ate what he had in his mouth. He was barely able to open his eyes while everything around him started to fade away… the voice, the light, and even sensing his surroundings.

Seconds after he began to chew, he suddenly felt two things with annoying clarity at his state, the bitter taste of the meat plus the sudden gush of power into his body.

Suddenly everything regained its vitality again like he just woke up. The first thing he saw was the face of Lily in front of him while she was carrying more pieces of that monster's meat.

It seemed the bitter taste of the meat made it quite unfavorable to everyone, so he was only the one eating that meat right now. Or perhaps they weren't ready to try something as crazy as that and wanted to try it first on him.

Either way he was grateful for that, as that meat had given him a substantial amount of energy his weak body was desperately in need of. At the same time that proved his theory was a true one, and that was just the second theory he proved.

He tested two theories from his previous world and both came true, plus the tricks he used in the fight from his previous life, that made him quite energetic actually.

Arthur was like a lab scientist freak who wanted nothing more than testing his theories and proving them right. Every success would energize him to do more, and he just was in the mood to do that.

"Let's try to add something to this horribly tasted meat, shall we?" he suddenly moved up and began to walk around while saying this. His strong tone and sudden energetic spirit attracted everyone's attention, especially Ron who was extremely worried over him.

"Are you sure you want to move this fast? Your body was just collapsing moments ago."

Arthur looked at him as he smiled, then laughed as he disappeared suddenly from his place to appear tens of meters away, just standing on a high branch of a tree. Next to him there was a strange flower with pinky edged petals and faint blue in the center.

Arthur wasn't interested in the flower, as he didn't know what it was. He was interested in the leaves of this flower. The presence of such a flower in his previous world would mean something insane, as it would be a treasure without a doubt.

However now he couldn't sense anything from the flower itself, but from its leaves he could sense a powerful amount of energy.

Arthur didn't know why, but after he ate that meat his perception of this world's energy began to change. He started to sense the presence of many sources of different kinds of energies in the area around them alone, and that was something he didn't have before.

That was weird to him, however he knew it must be related to the meat. Somehow he began his mage journey, or perhaps his senses weren't accustomed to the nature of energy here, and that piece of meat just did the trick.

All he did was to pick the flower with its leaves, take a look around him to make sure there was no nearby threat of any kind, and then he vanished to reappear in the middle of the group.

Everyone's eyes were looking at him with different feelings, however they were mainly worried about him.

"Give me more, and you should take your share too," he said as he took the last piece of meat from Lily's hand before he headed to a corner and began to pick the leaves of this flower.

"Are you ok? You just used your trick twice and you said your body can't undertake it," Lily was the one to ask this question which was now ringing like bells in everyone's ears.

"Ah, don't worry about me. this meat is really miraculous, you should start eating as well so you can start your journey," Arthur casually said as he took out an arrow and began to cut the leaves he picked into small pieces with the thin blade of the arrow.

"Journey of what?" Edwar was the one asking as he was holding three pieces of meat in his hand.

"Journey to become mages. By the way, the meat itself tasted bitter, I believe you cooked it with some of his glands and viscera. Next time let me do the preparations, but now come to use these leaves to make the taste better," Arthur said as he put some pieces of these leaves over the meat and began to eat it.

As he expected, the leaves made the taste of the meat quite bearable, besides it raised the total amount of energy he could acquire from his meals.

"Wait a minute, you can cook?" Lily looked with astonishment towards him while Ron's suspicion deepened.

"Don't waste more time, eat and get stronger fast. Our presence here won't be this peaceful for long, and I don't want to work as your babysitter all the time," Arthur said ignoring this question as he finished the piece of meat in his hand.

This was incredible; he could already feel his muscles crave for more meat and leaves. He moved towards the huge body of this monster. Eating it in one go would be good, but he preferred to store some of its meat for future uses.

Who knew when they would meet another monster they could kill. There was a sword lying around beside the cooked corpse of this monster. He took it and began to slice the meat in some professional way.

Arthur was a good cooker back at his world, which was something common back then. Cultivators were usually secluded beings, and they had to depend entirely over themselves to survive and eat.

No one would survive eating badly cooked meals for so long a time counted in years, so everyone back then considered cooking as a life saving skill.

As he feared, they just put the body of this monster on the fire without any kind of preparation, not even a seasoning was used over this monster. He sighed, such a good meal was wasted like this, however he and everyone here needed to eat right now.

He began to slice the body into pieces, and then he started to cut these pieces into thinner ones. The pieces were incredibly similar to each other in size and thickness, which made this look more magical than it should be.

The other began to watch what he was doing, especially when he started to use his leg tricks and reach out for more energy containing plants. He used them to make the taste bearable.

What he lacked actually was seasonings like salt and pepper. He knew he could turn these piles of meat into a stock of salted meat that could be used anytime, but he had no way to get all these for now.

He also knew he and his little gang were malnourished, they needed to eat a lot to make for what they missed.

He intended to push them into eating this meat and finish it in less than a day. They weren't that enthusiastic to taste the meat, however when he finished cutting the monster and clear its body, he started to distribute the meat over them.

"Start eating now, we have a long journey to cross," he said.

"Are you sure this is safe?" Madly was the one to object as she took one piece of meat covered with some leaves and some kind of plant seeds that Arthur put over the meat.

"Yes, and the effects are remarkable. C'mon, moments ago I wasn't able to open my eyes, and now I just used my move many times in a row that would have killed me already. Stop wasting time, and start eating."

Everyone exchanged silent glances together before they nodded in agreement. Trying one bite wouldn't harm anyway, and then like they subconsciously agreed to do it at the same time, they began to take their first bite.

Their energy conception wasn't anyway close to Arthur's, however when they just chewed the meat and even not swallowed it, everyone one of them began to feel some heat in their bodies. They exchanged looks again, as somehow each one began to feel energetic, more than anytime ever in his or her life before.

One bite turned into a mouthful of meat, and one piece of meat turned to be a pile of meat. Arthur just glances silently at them before he smiled, they were like kids to him. always loved to argue and showed their strong stands, however in reality they were all fragile and weak from inside.

He liked that nature of them, at least they weren't bad or mean which was something he was grateful for.