After about half an hour...
SLASH—!
-Garagh?!
Thud—
I killed the last monster wolf in the room with my dagger.
"Huff... huff... haaaaa..."
I was breathing heavily, and my body trembled with exhaustion.
Concerned about my condition...
-ep!
Pyro urged to rest.
Which is exactly what I did...
"Fuuuu..."
I exhaled deeply.
Thud—
And then I let my body collapse onto the floor.
'That hurts.'
I thought as my back slamd on the ground.
Anyway, I closed my eyes after that...
"..."
And I imdiately fell asleep.
*****
Feeling hungry...
"Ugh..."
I woke up not long after.
Still, I felt like I had been asleep for an entire hour.
I recovered so of my stamina too.
Moving on...
-ep!
Pyro greeted , looking incredibly proud.
Then looking at him...
"Did you protect while I was out?"
I asked.
And with a smug smile...
-ep!
Pyro responded. He said yes.
'He's really cute.'
I thought.
"Thank you."
And then I weakly said that while patting Pyro's head.
Anyway, except that, I haven't moved yet—I literally couldn't.
I was too tired and too hungry to move.
And noticing this...
-ep...
Pyro grew worried about .
"No worries, I'm fine."
I assured him with a smile on my face.
And just then...
"Huh?"
I slled sothing.
It wasn't great, but it reminded of the at Kyle roasts back in the academy.
And because of that...
"..."
My mouth began to water, and my hunger intensified!
I weakly looked around, following the scent of it...
And there...
"...?"
My eyes landed on a monster wolf's corpse.
Specifically, the one that had been set on fire by my skill earlier!
"..."
I stared silently at the charred corpse, wondering if it was okay to take a bite out of it.
And less than ten seconds later...
"Fuck it."
I muttered that, slowly sitting up.
"I'll die of hunger sooner or later, anyway. Might as well try anything at this point."
I added.
-ep?
Pyro chirped, curious about what I was talking about.
But I didn't have the energy to reply.
I was saving my strength.
And so, I focused on standing, and after a while...
"Haaaa..."
I finally got to my feet.
My knees shook, and my whole body felt heavy.
Slowly...
"Ugh..."
I made my way to the burnt monster wolf corpse.
And upon reaching it...
Slash—
I cut off a chunk of its at.
"..."
Then, holding the at in my left hand...
"[Lit up]."
I said that.
Swaaa—
A small fire engulfed my hand and the at after that.
Using mana right now for this only made hungrier. I felt like I could pass out at any mont.
But nevertheless, I continued.
And when I thought the at was roasted enough...
Pssh—
I canceled the spell.
And imdiately...
Gulp—
I took a bite on the at.
Seeing that...
-...
Pyro looked at in shock
And as expected...
The at was nowhere near as good as Kyle's roasted at.
Heck, it didn't even taste like anything!
'It's horrible...'
It felt like chewing on pre-masticated rubbery at!
Which is disgusting, by the way!
But still...
'I think it's edible.'
And so with that...
Gulp—
I kept eating.
With every bite, my hunger subsided a little.
I ignored the texture and the taste of the monster wolf at...
All I focused on was recovering my strength.
*****
After a few minutes of eating the at from a dead monster wolf...
"I'm full."
I mumbled that, tapping my stomach lightly.
I wasn't hungry anymore.
I wasn't exactly full, as I had just claid...
But I at least had eaten enough to recover my strength.
"This'll be my source of food for a while, huh."
I muttered, looking at the corpses of the monster wolves scattered throughout the room.
-ep?
Pyro chirped, asking if I was feeling okay.
He was watching with a worried expression earlier as I eat the monster's at.
'He's not sure if it was safe to , after all.'
And that led him to ask that question.
Anyway, with now a bit more energy...
"Yeah, I'm feeling much better than before."
I responded to Pyro.
And this ti, I wasn't lying, I really did feel much better after eating.
Though...
'I'm still thirsty.'
My lips were chapped, and talking was a struggle.
Just like food, I don't have any water on when I fell into the hole and ca here.
But now that I had realized I needed to use anything and everything around to survive...
I started looking around the room.
"..."
And after a while...
"There."
I found a small cup made of tal rolling on the floor.
It was old and dusty, but it was to be expected if it is in this kind of places.
Anyway...
'With just a few cleaning... It'll be good as new.'
I thought, looking at the cup and grabbing it.
"This is exactly what I need."
I muttered, the corners of my lips curling into a smile.
Then, curious...
-ep?
Pyro asked what I planned to do with the cup.
And instead of answering him...
"Heh."
I just smirked at him.
And while wearing that sa smirk on my face...
"You'll find out later."
I said that to Pyro.
*****
After taking the cup with and piling the corpses of the monster wolves in one corner...
Creak—
I left the room.
And imdiately after doing so...
Tap- tap- tap—
I walked back into the hallway.
Pyro and I had small talks along the way. They weren't anything important—just idle chatter to keep ourselves entertained.
Then finally, after a while...
"Phew..."
I found myself back at the entrance of the dungeon mansion.
And without hesitation...
Tap—
I exited the place in a hurry.
...
Outside the mansion...
"..."
I saw the corpses of the monster wolves I had encountered earlier.
And since they're now my main source of food...
"Let's put them inside."
I started moving them into the dungeon mansion one by one.
...
...
After about half an hour...
"Haaaa... All done..."
I had moved all the monster corpses inside the mansion.
And with that task complete...
"It's ti for to go back to the main objective."
The only reason I left the dungeon earlier was to find water.
And the reason I'm outside is because, when I first got to this area...
I noticed the ground on the left side of the mansion looked kind of wet.
I guessed it might be water that caused it...
And so, without further ado...
Tap- tap- tap—
I headed in that direction.
*****
After arriving at the left side of the mansion, near the far back...
"Haha..."
A small laugh escaped my mouth, and a full-on smile spread across my face!
-ep!
Even Pyro seed excited about what he was seeing.
After all, in front of us...
There was a small spring!
And it was full of water!
I didn't waste any ti after that...
Swish—
I imdiately scooped up a cupful of water using the tal cup.
And while holding the cup in my right hand...
"[Lit up]"
I mumbled those words again, and a small fla instantly engulfed my hand!
This ti, the fire didn't swallow the cup like it did with the monster's at earlier—it just ford a glove of fire around my hand.
And using my hand as a makeshift stove...
I heated the cup and started boiling the spring water inside it.
That's right—I was disinfecting it.
...
After a few minutes...
"This should be enough."
Psssh—
I stopped the fire and let the water cool for a bit.
And once it was cool enough...
Gulp—
I drank the entire cupful in one drinking.
"Huuu..."
It wasn't as refreshing as I'd hoped, probably because it wasn't cold.
But it still subdued my thirst!
And so...
"One more."
I repeated the process a few more tis: scooping water from the spring, boiling it for a bit, and then drinking it.
-ep!
I even gave Pyro a drink too.
Unlike , he seed to enjoy the fact that the water was warm rather than cold.
Anyway, just like that...
"Haaaaaaa..."
I finally quenched my thirst.
"Thank God, I thought I'd have to use water magic just to drink sothing."
I mumbled to myself.
Though the idea of using water magic to produce drinking water might sound practical...
It wasn't a good solution.
Elents created by magic are primarily made of mana—they're completely different from the real thing.
Drinking water created with magic wouldn't help at all, it wouldn't even refill my mana since that's not how absorption works.
If anything, my body might reject it and cause complications!
Anyway, that's that...
With the monster wolves' corpses and this spring here, I now had the basic resources I needed to survive.
So now, all that was left was to clear the dungeon.
"Looks like I'll be out of the academy for more than a week."
I mumbled, staring at the massive mansion in front of .
There's just no way I could clear that place before my one week vacation ends.
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