Preparing in the city of 'Dallen'

The next day, Drayan woke up from a dream, and had the dream in his head all day.

*Why... Why did I dream that I was a jiu-jitsu fighter who stopped my opponent's movements with just two fingers? I don't know, but for some reason, I looked good at it. Can I use what I learned in the dream for real life? Wait... This dream is not different from the dream I had a while ago, the dream in which I knew how to fight, even though I never did it...*

Drayan's eyes lit up, and he smiled looking at himself in the mirror.

"I understand now. I learned a new technique. To mean that every time I get a new body, I gain a new technique? No... It's not enough just to have a new body, I also need to reach a new stage of my body."

Drayan didn't get a new technique when he got a mid-level evolved body, nor an advanced-level one. He only gained a new technique when he reached the modified level, with a new body, in a new stage.

Which means that Drayan will only get another new technique, when he reaches a new stage again, at the mutant level.

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Four days had passed since Drayan killed and got the body of the mutated shark, and Drayan still couldn't eat the meat, it was too tough, unlike organs, which were softer to eat.

Drayan had already eaten all the organs, and acquired 40% of the nutrients he used to evolve his body. The shark's teeth, he saved for Darkening to eat.

The teeth were too hard for Darkening to eat yesterday, but this morning the teeth softened and Darkening was able to eat.

After the wolf ate some of the shark's teeth, Darkening gained 10% mutant level nutrients, Darkening also started to gain more power. Drayan wasn't the only one getting stronger, Darkening was also getting stronger, evolving his cells.

Darkening: Evolution of mutant level cells (low): 20%

Drayan saved the rest of the shark's teeth to use as a blade. Drayan looked for some pot handles in the buildings, to make his mutant level weapon.

He learned from his uncle how to make daggers with the teeth of creatures, using handles, and also learned how to make a scabbard and a leather belt. By doing some extra work, and using the hides of the dogs from the town of 'Becke', he was able to make a small scabbard for his dagger and a belt to put around his waist, which would hold the leather scabbard.

Making some more preparations, he made a vertical cut in the handle of the pot, using his big fingernail in wolf aura mode, and smeared glue into the hole, then placed the shark's tooth in the narrow hole, fitting it right.

Drayan made a mutant-level weapon out of the blood-filled shark's tooth. A dagger with a red teeth blade. The rest, 23 teeth, he kept in a plastic container.

He equipped the belt and placed the scabbard on the right side of his waist since he would be using his left hand to draw the weapon.

Drayan looked at himself in the mirror and saw that his new equipment fit him very well. Drayan reached into his pack for a ball of yarn and a metal needle.

He took off his clothes, and in front of the mirror, used the needle to sew up the wounds on his skin. His wounds were improving faster after he evolved his body.

His wounds from the saw shark fight and the carnivore plant fight hadn't healed yet, but it wasn't leaking as much blood as before, just a little. To keep from losing more blood, Drayan decided to stitch his skin.

He acquired a great tolerance for pain, after everything he went through on his journey. So he didn't frown as he stitched up the wounds with the needle. In fact, his face remained serious.

Once completed, Drayan looked like a plush bear sewn together after being torn apart, it looked like something out of a horror movie.

"I look like a human killer puppet. I would be a good fit for a horror movie. A movie in which I carry a knife in the dark night, scaring people, while trying to stab someone with a smile, showing my sewn face. Hahaha! It would be great!"

Drayan laughed in front of the mirror. But gradually, her smile became small, and a depressed expression formed on her face. Drayan was trying to think positively, but he wasn't happy about having such a scary face and body.

His right cheek had a thread, with 10 stitches, which was sewn from the ear to the tip of the mouth, the same was repeated on the left cheek. Each of her ribs, right and left, had a vertical line running from her rib to her waist, with 20 stitches. The legs had various lines and dots as well.

His chest, which had several small cuts, was full of seams. But there was a scar on his chest that was the center of attention. A scar that started at his right shoulder and ran diagonally down to his left rib. That was the scar that the Smiling Fang left Drayan when they first met in the town of 'Becke'.

It was quite difficult to sew his body together with one hand, especially using his left hand, so it took Drayan more than three hours to finish his stitching. He managed to sew up half of his right arm, but his left arm was left unstitched. Drayan had to work very hard to bandage his left arm, using his mouth.

He dressed again, and took the Blue Crystal from his pocket.

Drayan was wondering what to do with the Crystal. He wanted to use it as a blade, but it was too short. He wanted to eat the Cristal, but it was too tough to chew and the Cristal could harm him.

But Drayan felt it might be safe to swallow. Darkening has a good instinct for sensing danger, and it wanted to eat the Crystal, and the sawshark swallowed the Crystal, and it looks like it didn't harm the creature. But the Crystal might be compatible with creatures, not humans. The Crystal could have been specially made for creatures to swallow, but it could be harmful if humans swallowed it.

Therefore, Drayan didn't want to take any chances, he preferred to wait and study more about the Crystal. Drayan could find someone to be his guinea pig, and try to experiment with that person. Fluo would be the perfect experiment.

But Drayan had doubts, if a mutated creature like Darkening wants to eat the Crystal, then the Crystal is valuable.

*Is it really worth giving something precious to that son of a bitch Fluo? I don't even know if I could recover the Crystal that would be in his stomach.*

Drayan would think more about it when he found Fluo. Drayan just pocketed the Crystal, and invoked Darkening to help him hunt.

Drayan placed the saw shark on his left shoulder so that no other creature would steal the shark's corpse while he was away from home. Drayan knew that no creature from the city of 'Dallen' could eat the shark's flesh, but some creature could still pull the shark's body somewhere.

In the city there were only Beetles, but from time to time other creatures appear from different places, like the bee that was killed by the vines. What if a giant rat showed up and pulled the shark's corpse somewhere unknown? Drayan wouldn't risk losing the shark's body, so he thought it best to take the body with him.

Drayan opened the door and the sun immediately lit up his face. Drayan closed one eye and turned his face away from the light.

Drayan walked along the road with cracks and holes, with some destroyed buildings around him, and other buildings very well preserved. Darkening was at his owner's side, following him.

Drayan was only thinking about one thing:

*I'm going to eat like crazy while I'm here.*

He knows, that if he ate enough, and got more nutrients, his body would recover faster from injuries by feeding his cells. He didn't know if his arm could grow back, but if there's a chance of that happening, then he's willing to take that chance and eat a lot.

Drayan was hoping that if he ate enough he could get his arm back. He also wanted to have a lot of nutrients, to execute his plan and be able to eat the meat of the saw shark.

Drayan went to an open field, with green grasses. Drayan left the shark's body on the ground. Darkening sat beside the body, and watched his owner. Drayan placed his hand on the green grass, and...

"Come on, Young Canine!"

And Summoned the Young Smiling Fang.