Day 521-530/Day 530

Day 530 / 60th day
When I woke up, I felt very exhilarated, but at the same time, I had a terribly uncomfortable feeling. The sensations in my body are clearly different from the previous ones, and I can clearly see things in my vision that I couldn't see before, like the flow of the atmosphere. When I somehow understood that it was the flow of magic power filling the surrounding area, I understood that an abnormal situation must have occurred.
I tried to crawl out of the sleeping bag, wondering what was going on when I woke up in my sleep, but that's when I noticed that my body was shrinking. When I crawled out of the sleeping bag, which felt like it was getting bigger, and looked at my body, for some reason my upper body was naked. The skin was dyed black, with a gold tattoo-like pattern all over my body. There were a few other things that had changed, so I'll briefly summarise it from top to bottom.
The body that was an enhanced human became a goblin. The hair on my head is gone and has become a sleek, bald head with a luxurious crown on it. The crown is vaguely connected to a part of me, perhaps a type of bio-armor. I took out a mirror and looked at my face, and while it retains my previous appearance, the details have changed. It's probably like my appearance was applied to the goblin and changed.
Even the mechanical arm that touches my face has changed, and the color is slightly black. It doesn't change in brilliance, strength, or functionality, even though the length seems to have been adjusted to fit my shrunken physique, but it's more integrated than ever before. Then there's one knee length loincloth on the lower half of my body, similar to what a Buddha statue wears. This is also like a bio-armor, smooth to the touch like silk, yet very sturdy. The design is also vaguely elegant.
On such a loincloth there was also a string to hang the black dagger that was lying around my hand when I woke up. This black short-horn sword seems to be part of a biological weapon, and like the Vermillion Spear, it fits well in my hand. I would normally use the Vermilion Spear, but this one seems to be very useful. It's a good thing that I have thick skin on my feet or else I won't be able to walk in rough places.
The rest is a dramatic increase in my body's magic power and the precise manipulation of magic power is now known by instinct. I can release magic power from my fingertips in minute amounts, and each of my 5 fingers can generate fire, water, wind, earth and lightning. Although there is still a lot of room to learn more about magic, it seems that I've somehow been able to manipulate it at will.
I guess that's how it is. Every time I find a change, I think, "No, what's going on," but I decided that I can't help but think that something has changed.
I'm still trying to figure out how my body is changing, but that's about all I can tell from the little research I've done on how it looks. I need to train independently for at least the rest of the day to get a better understanding of this body, but there's still a lot more to think about besides this.
First of all, about the fact that part of my memory has returned. It reminded me that I was reincarnated in this world and that I had a family. I'm angry that I've forgotten such an important thing, that I was made to forget it. The cause must be eaten.
Secondly, the set of equipment I wore before I went to bed. When I woke up, they came off and I was only wearing biological armor, but it wasn't lost. I'm not sure why, but it has become a huge, armed, silver-gray wolf and is standing by my side.
You don't know what I mean. I don't understand it either. I'll go through the process of explaining it to you, but when I woke up, there was a large silver-gray wolf right beside me that looked like it was five meters long if you include its tail. Claws and fangs of a similar shade to the great sword it was using, light wings on its folded back, and a collar that looked a lot like a dragon scale bracelet. The pinned wolf ears have magic items that were actually equipped, such as ring-shaped magic items, attached to them as if they were ornaments.
I'm not sure what's going on, but the silver-gray wolf jumped at me when I woke up. I thought it was an enemy, but I didn't feel any hostility at all, rather I was baffled by the sense that it was even directed at me dearly. He was also flapping and wagging his tail happily, and since he was somewhat knowing, I used my awareness and strength to restrain his body from trying to fight back as quickly as possible, and he pushed me down in the nick of time. It wasn't until later that I realized I had no more strength than I had before I went to bed. The silver-gray wolf opens his large mouth that could take a bite out of my head and other parts of my head, and begins to lick my face with its long, saliva-coated tongue. He rubbed his body against me for a while. Is it like a child in the body of a big dog?
The mechanical arms stroked my face, throat, and back to appease me, and I managed to crawl out from underneath to find out what the hell this gray silver wolf was that was playing with me in a doggy-like gesture. Fortunately, I had left a pack-pack of luggage on the stairs, so I was safe.
When I examined it with the【Simple Appraisal Glasses of Knowledge】that I took out from it, I found that the silver-gray wolf was an【Incarnate Black Wolf Royal Soldier】and one of the abilities it possessed was【Black King's Attendant】.
Honestly, I don't have too much information to make sense of it. After some searching, I found out that it is【Incarnated】, so I assume that it is a mixture of magic items obtained during the battle against the hierarchical bosses based on the Wolf Fiend Soldier's fur, and this and that, and that it is a single entity.
But for the time being, he's not an enemy, so I'll let it slide. I've got a handy presence that obeys me faithfully if I tell it to, and I can even ride it around, so let's just call it a handy existence. There are many other mysteries that will only deepen, but in any case, I decided to move and try to figure out the body before I thought about it. This is not, by any means, an escape from reality. It is definitely not!
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RAWS
“六十日目　／　五■三十■目”
目が覚めるととても爽快な気分である一方、凄く違和感があった。
身体の感覚が明らかにこれまでと違うし、視界には今まで見えなかった大気の流れのようなモノがハッキリと見える。
そしてそれが周囲に満ちる魔力の流れだと、何となく理解できた時点で異常事態が発生したのだろうと理解した。
寝起きに何だと思いつつも寝袋から這い出そうとしたが、そこで身体が縮んでいる事に気が付いた。
大きくなったように感じる寝袋から這い出して身体を見れば、何故か上半身は裸だった。それに裸体の皮膚は黒く染まり、金色の刺青のような紋様が全身にある。
その他にも変わっていた点が幾つかあるので、頭から足に向かって簡潔に上げると。
強化人間だった肉体は小鬼となった。
頭髪が無くなってつるりとした禿頭になり、そこに豪奢な王冠が乗っている。
王冠は自身の一部だと何となく繋がりがあって分かり、多分生体防具の一種だろうか。
顔は鏡を取り出して見たところ、俺の容姿を残しつつも、細部が変わっている。俺の容姿を小鬼に当てはめて変えたような感じだろうか。
ペタペタと顔に触れる機械腕にも変化はあり、色合いがやや黒い。縮んでしまった体格に合わせて調節されたような長さになっても輝きも力強さも機能性も変わらないが、これまでよりもより一体感が出ている。
それから下半身には仏像が履いているような膝まである腰布が一つ。これも生体防具の類らしく、肌触りは絹のように滑らかで、それでいてとても頑丈だ。デザインもどことなく品がある。
そしてそんな腰布には起きた時に手元に転がっていた黒い短角の剣を吊り下げる紐もあった。この黒短角剣は生体武器の一部らしく、朱槍と同じく手によく馴染む。
普段は朱槍を使うつもりだが、これはこれで使い勝手がよさそうだ。
上半身の防具と同じく靴の類も無くなって素足だが、足裏の皮膚が分厚いのか荒れた場所でも問題なく歩けそうだ。
後は体内魔力の劇的な増大と、魔力の精密操作が本能で分かるようになった。指先から魔力を微細に放出できるし、五指それぞれに火、水、風、土、雷などを発生できる。
魔術などはまだまだ勉強すべき余地があるのだが、何となくで自在に操れるようになったらしい。
といった具合だろうか。
いやどういうことやねん、と変化を見つける度に思うが、何か変わってしまったので仕方ないと思う事にして。
まだまだ肉体の変化については把握できていないが、見た目の変化など少し調べた程度で分かるのはこのくらいだ。
少なくとも今日一日は自主訓練してこの身体について理解を深める必要があるのに、この他にも考える事はまだまだ多い。
まず、記憶の一部が戻った事について。
それによって、俺はこの世界に転生し、家族が出来た事を思い出した。
こんな大切な事を忘れた、忘れるように仕向けられた事に憤りを感じる。
原因は喰わねばならない。
次に、俺が寝る前に着ていた装備一式。
目が覚めたらそれ等は外れ、生体武具の類しか身に纏っていなかったのだが、別に無くなった訳ではなかった。
どういう訳か、武装した巨大な灰銀の狼となって俺の傍に侍っている。
言っている意味か分からないだろう。俺もよく分からない。
順を追って説明すると、目が覚めたら、すぐ傍に尻尾まで含めれば五メートルはありそうな大きな灰銀狼が居た。
使っていた大剣によく似た色合いの爪牙、折り畳まれた背中の光翼、竜鱗の腕輪によく似た首輪。ピンと張った狼耳には指輪型マジックアイテムなど実際に装備していたマジックアイテムがまるで装飾品のようについている。
何が起こっているのか把握出来ていない中、目覚めた俺に向かって灰銀狼は飛びかかってきた。
敵かと思ったが敵意は全く感じず、寧ろ親愛すら向けられている感覚に困惑した。
パタパタと嬉しそうに尻尾も振っていたし、それにどこか知った気配だったので咄嗟に反撃しようとする身体を抑えるのに意識と力を使うと、その隙に押し倒されてしまった。
寝る前よりも力が出ない事に気が付いたのも後の祭りだ。
灰銀狼は俺の頭部などペロリと一囓りできるだろう大きな口を開け、唾液に塗れた長い舌で顔をペロペロ舐め始める。
しばらくは揉みくちゃにされた。
大型犬にのし掛かられる子供のような感覚だろうか。
機械腕で顔やら喉やら背中やらをワチャワチャと撫でさすって宥め、下から何とか這いだして愛犬のような仕草でじゃれついてくるこの灰銀狼は一体何なのかを調べた。
幸い、階段に荷物を入れたパックパックを置いていたので無事だった。
そこから取り出した【知識者の簡易鑑定眼鏡】で調べてみると、灰銀狼は【受肉した黒狼王兵】、保有する能力の一つは【黒王眷属】と出た。
正直情報が足りなさ過ぎて意味が分からない。何とか色々探ってみて、【受肉した】とあるので、【狼狂兵の毛皮】をベースに階層ボス戦で得たマジックアイテムとかがあれこれ混ざって一つになった存在なのだろうと推察してみる。
ただとりあえず敵ではないので、それでよしとしておこう。
指示すれば忠実に従うし、乗って移動する事も出来るので、まあ便利な存在を得たという事にしよう。
その他にも色々と謎が深まるばかりだが、ともあれ、考える前に動いて肉体の把握に努める事にした。
これは決して、現実逃避ではない。
ではないのだ！
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