A Dragon Idol’s Reincarnation Tale

Running through the wetland, I came to realize how smart it was from Saori to tailor these mana socks for us two. These socks were helping me a lot with traversing the marsh’s cold and muddy land.

They were, like most of her creations, blue and they went up to my thighs as that was where my scales stopped appearing while in my dragonewt form. While having mud sticking on my skin could be rinsed off easily, that could not be said for my scales, where anything stuck in between them, like mud stuck under fingernails.

Saori was kind enough to make a sock for my tail, too. While the scale ridges and spikes made it hard to put it on, once it was, it was comfortable and kept the cold wind away from my tail.

Shoes or boots might have been better but Saori wasn’t a shoemaker, and we never needed shoes when our feet soles were literally protected by scales and fur respectively. Socks were good enough.

As we were pursuing Rajah, I also decided against using [Air Walk] as it would tire me out easily in this foreign place. If we were to fight something now, I wanted to be in tip-top shape and my senses were telling me a fight was coming up.

After a couple of minutes of trekking through the bog, Rajah stopped advancing and immediately went into prone mode. Due to his height, his verdant green fur was already smeared with muck and soaked in swamp water from being neck-deep in the water.

[“Good decision, Rajah,”] Saori scratched Rajah’s neck to praise him.

Noticing Saori’s focused glare, I directed my attention away from the nearly submerged Rajah and inspected the scene before me. Using my [Detection Sensor], I found out we were completely surrounded by multiple signals.

Creeeepppy…

Most were likely not a threat to me, probably only small creatures like leeches, giant bugs… or frogs. S-Shaking off this fear, I stared off at a small patch of earth in the middle of a muddy pond. Three creatures were circling around it, growling at a mud, grim, and blood covered monster, waiting for it to weaken before they dealt the finishing blow.

Identify.