"Iris, it's time to eat." I called for her after I finished cooking.
It had been two days since we had met and we had fallen into a kind of routine after that.
It wasn't as if I had to keep attacking other monsters just because I had been turned into a slime.
I could live however I wanted.
So the first thing that I chose to do was find a home.
After I finished eating those goblins, I asked the female black dragon that I named Iris where she lived.
Though it took some time to get this answer since she seemed like she was quite happy about the fact that I had named her Iris.
In the end, I found out that she didn't actually have a home.
In fact, she had been flying around because she had been looking for a place to settle.
The way that she said this made it clear that there was more to her situation than she was telling me, but it didn't seem like she wanted to talk about it. Since she didn't want to talk about it, I didn't force her to give an answer.
Instead, the two of us found a cave that we were currently calling home.
After that first day, I had gone hunting for food and materials to turn this place into a proper home.
As for Iris, she just brought back a few strong monsters from time to time.
As expected of a dragon, she was able to hunt these things.
Though when she discovered that I could cook, she brought back even stronger things since she wanted me to turn them into meals for her.
In reality, it wasn't as if any of my avatars had the cooking skill to begin with.
The only reason that I knew how to cook was because one of the thugs that I had killed in self defense and swallowed was a cook. From the Absorption Skill, I was able to learn the Cook Skill which didn't really seem that useful until I started using it.
With this skill and the memories of my past life, I was able to cook as if I had been cooking for a long time.
At the same time, I had another ability that I had gotten from another one of my avatars.
The Alchemy Skill was something that was also just as useful as the Cook Skill.
A slime used the Alchemy Skill differently from how a human used the Alchemy Skill.
Instead of using ingredients to form potions, what a slime did was directly swallow the ingredients and form the potion inside of their body.
But I found that there was an even more broken way to use it.
From the plants that I had found, I had been able to create seasoning like vinegar, soy sauce, and such. Even though this shouldn't be possible since these things would take time to ferment, it was sped up all because of the Alchemy Skill.
So with these seasonings, I was able to cook quite the meal and tamed Iris through her stomach.
That was how we had settled into this routine as if we really were a married couple.
Once I called for her, Iris didn't waste any time in coming down to grab the meat that I had roasted and bit into it without hesitation. Though it was a large chunk of meat and she was a little girl, she was more than capable of finishing it since she was a dragon.
I had seen her eat far more than this after all.
She didn't even leave a single piece for me, but that was because this had all been for her.
What I was eating was on a different plate.
"I don't know how you can eat those things. Those are all the worst parts of the prey and they taste terrible. Even if you know how to cook, it's not as if you can make those things edible." Iris said after she had finished eating half of her meat.
She looked at me with eyes that were filled with pity, as if she felt wrong that she was the only one that could eat the best meat.
But I didn't think that was the case.
Especially since the things that I was about to eat were also quite rare.
Though the reason that I was eating them wasn't because they tasted good since they definitely didn't taste good. The only reason that I was able to eat them was because of the effect that they gave.
These parts of the prey that Iris didn't eat since they didn't taste 'good' were really elixirs that could increase stats when eaten. So I didn't hesitate to eat all of these parts and absorb the stats that were in them.
At the same time, it wasn't just stats that I was gaining from eating these things.
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"Poison Breath has been obtained."
"Supersonic Echo has been obtained."
"Crystalline Skin has been obtained."
All of these were skills that I had obtained from eating these parts.
Since these were rare parts of these monsters, it meant that they were filled with the essence of these monsters that actually increased the chances of me obtaining these skills.
Not to mention that I had my luck buff in the first place that also increased the chances.
With this, there was a downpour of skills that landed on me.
With all of these skills, I really didn't know what to use most of the time since plenty of these skills were useless. But there were also many skills that were considered useful.
Just with this, I had become far stronger than before.
Out of all the avatars that had been created, it could be said that I was the most broken one.
Though a lot of this was because of Iris.
If it wasn't for her hunting these high level monsters for me to eat, then it would be hard for me to gain all of these stats and skills.
So I would take care of her until she was tired of me.
It was the least I could do for her.