Chapter 261 Heading Out

[Ace POV],

"This should be enough," I muttered as I stared at the explosives on the table in front of me.

Eventually, I decided to abuse my basic stamina pills for the entire day, I think.

Well, I assume a day has already passed since I last left this location.

And at last, I was able to produce a sizable number of additional explosives. It was significantly better than when I first started, at least in terms of quantity.

Nevertheless, I still had a poor success rate when making the explosives.

Even though it was better with the ignite rune, I wasn't really making the progress I wanted to with the explode rune.

I currently had 20 explosives in my possession, only 4 of which were explode runic explosives. Even though it wasn't as much as I had wanted, the rest were ignite runic explosives, and depending on how I played my cards, it was already enough for my plans for the earth rat den.

As I was thinking about these things, I turned to look at blue, who was now sleeping on one of the tables.

Every time Blue ate, he continued to sleep for an unidentified reason. Yes, he required feeding several times over the course of the last few hours whenever he woke up to bother me.

Because of this, I was also able to determine that Blue had some intelligence because, on the occasions when he woke up hungry while I was making an explosive, he would remain silent until I had finished.

Another thing I learned was that Blue could consume magical substances as well. At least he can consume magical gems.

When he awoke to find a small pile of magic gems on the table I was using to make the explosives, he called out to me with his less slightly annoying cries of excitement, and while it took me some time to realise what he wanted, I was able to find out he could eat magic gems, albeit barely because he nearly choked on them several times.

This compelled me to purchase a jar of milk produced by a magical creature from the Primordial Chronicle store and mix it with the magical gems I ultimately crushed for Blue's easier ingestion.

I reasoned that since one could buy clothes from the store in the primordial chronicle, one could also buy milk there.

Additionally, this made me realise that eating monster meat was actually possible. I learned about this because I stumbled upon it in the store while looking for milk, but I ultimately decided to buy the milk from a male seller in the shop.

I had no idea how he obtained the milk and did not care to find out.

It wasn't necessary to know the milk's source or how it was harvested as long as it worked, so everything was fine.

And, while I had to spend more coins because of blue, there were benefits.

For starters, blue was able to level up significantly thanks to the milk from the magical beast and the magic gems that were mixed in.

Additionally, I was able to confirm that Blue changed as he levelled up because he grew gradually larger.

Blue is currently at level 6, which is still very low, but his body is the size of a three-month-old German shepherd, which is quite big.

This made me wonder what size blue would be at level 10 and level 20.

I wonder if slaying monsters will help him level up as well.

While I was thinking about these things, I carefully placed all of the explosives on the table in my storage ring and went to the bathroom to take a bath. My body reeked horribly. Even I, the owner, found it to be intolerable.

I'm curious how blue was able to tolerate being so close to me.

After taking a bath in the shower, I changed into another set of clothes and returned to the lab, where I held blue in my arms before heading to my bedroom to sleep for a while.

Before I even tried to leave, I needed to get rid of this exhaustion because it was going to be a busy day in the true world, depending on what happened as a result of what I did in the earth rat den.

As I considered these things while carefully placing the sleeping gryphon on the bed, I climbed into bed with him and promptly fell asleep.

.....

"Screech!" Screech!" Screech!"

As I began to hear the almost familiar sound of blue, I slowly opened my eyes to find him jumping around me on the bed, and with a small movement, I slapped blue off my bed in mid-air.

This baby gryphon had peed on my bed at some point, and I'm not sure why I suddenly hit him, but it felt strangely satisfying.

The slap was just enough to get it away from me, so blue was okay, but it was now staring at me with guilt in its eyes. Of course, I didn't hit him hard to hurt him or make him feel pain.

I assumed it was guilt because the uncomfortable feeling I was experiencing now resembled the guilt feelings I had read about in my previous life.

As I tried to divert my attention away from the emotion I was feeling, I remembered that today was D-day and that I needed to leave the alternate dimension soon.

In light of this, I got out of bed, put it in my storage ring, and then held blue by his neck as I made my way to the bathroom so that we could both take baths.

As I opened the bathroom door, I pondered how things would play out in the true world.

......

"Go call celeb," Andrew Dawn instructed Emilia, who did so immediately after a brief bow.

"Do you need me to follow you, Dad?" While the family was eating, John Dawn turned to his father who was sitting on the other side of the table.

When Andrew Dawn heard this, he responded.

"Don't worry, it's just a couple of rats."