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I opened the over, and poked at the food with a fork. Thoroughly regretting that I had to bend to do so. I could feel the road burns on my back opening back up. The cuts on my arms, and legs weren't faring much better either. I was a bit woozy, but I only had to survive until tomorrow morning then my problems would solved. 

I decided to wait until the end of the new awakening healing to use any of my skill points. That way I'd be able to get the best healing ability possible. I knew there was no way a dragon tamer like me wouldn't be able to get a healing skill. That just didn't make any sense. If I was meant to fight alongside dragons then I had to have some way to heal myself. 

I started walking was glad my food was done. I laid down on the bed, and started eating a bowl of food. I was starving, and besides laying here there wasn't much I could do at the moment. My guts really appreciated that I was eating. The hunger pains in my gut started to let up right away. 

I sighed in relief. Glad that at least one of my pains had gone away. My thoughts drifted to the cat once again as well. I wondered if all the awakened granted stat points when you killed them. How long before the other people figured out the same thing?

How many people would become murderers if I was right? I needed to seek out another awakened creature to confirm the theory, but I didn't know if I was strong enough to handle another creature that was fully capable of killing me. Monsters were physically weaker so far, but they'd be able to pull more tricks because they had skills. Then another thought struck me. What if there were different classes among the monsters just like the awakened? 

Did animals also have different classes? This could potentially be a very big problem. I got up, and put my bowl in the sink, and filled it with water. Molten cheese was already a pain in the ass. I didn't want it stuck to the bowl on top of being a pain in the ass to begin with. 

I laid back down in bed, and tried to find a comfortable position for a while before drifting off. I would have to solve the phone problem tomorrow. Going without a phone for a day was a pain in the ass sure, but too much longer, and it would become a problem. When I woke the next day I realized I was still in pain. I flipped my computer open, and realized the reason right away. 

It was five in the morning. I sighed heavily, and relaxed into the bed. I'd only been asleep six hours or so, and I couldn't go back to sleep so I pulled up YoVideo. If there was one thing humanity liked it was recording things they'd never seen before. The ability to record, and post was a new thing, but it allowed people to brag. If there was one thing people liked to do it was brag. 

I wish I could say that I was an exception to this rule, but I'd be lying. I was more of a introvert, but I did like to brag about my small achievements. Like the fact that I hadn't been unemployed for longer then six weeks since I turned eighteen. That didn't sound like much of an achievement until you realized that I was actually twenty-eight years old. I hadn't been unemployed for more then six weeks in ten years. 

I played video games for a while until the seven o'clock healing hit me. A wave of energy went through me, and my body suddenly felt incredibly light. I jumped experimentally a few times before taking off my bloody clothes to see if the wounds had scarred. I could see a few faint lines where the new flesh had formed, but nothing obvious. I was actually a little disappointed that I didn't get any scars, and decided that I was do exercise until I maxed out the number of stat points I could get today. 

I was going to sleep like a corpse tonight. I would make sure of that. I realized the hotel had a gym. It didn't take me long to get to the gym after that. I made a few wrong turns, and had to ask directions once, but I got there. 

I started putting myself to work right away. There was this separate mat room that seemed like somewhere people would do yoga or something like that, and after a while I got so sweaty that my t-shirt was actually starting to become a hindrance. I was glad pretty much all my bras were sport bras, and that the room was empty so I actually took the sweaty shirt off. The cool air on my back was a blessing as I continued working out as hard as I could. I alternated between the treadmills so I could sprint my heart out, and going back to the yoga room to do push ups for hours. 

Watching movies, and anime as I did. I had to focus on anime's that had dubs so I wouldn't need to see the screen all the time to enjoy the show, but that limited my options a bit. Not that I cared. I just didn't want it to be silent, and for my mind to be occupied while I exercised. I was a bit irritated that my bra kept slinking down the same way my pants were the day before, but I just adjusted the damn thing whenever it gave me trouble. 

I rested for an hour before heading down to the lobby, and left. Not bothering to order a new phone online. I drove to the nearest phone store for my cellphone service. It took me a while to decide on a new phone, but after that it was easy to put the payment plan of the new phone onto my account. I left my old phone at the store for a discount on the new one.