02 Shades and Hell
A short nightmare assaulted Ju Wang while he lost his consciousness.
A dream that continues to remind him of his mediocre life.
A reminder that continues to torment him even after his reincarnation in the new world.
It was not long before Ju Wang regained his consciousness only to see the floating roasted pheasant.
*Slurp*
The sucking sound startled Ju Wang awake as he looked at the pristine looking pheasant bones.
*Guu*
A loud stomach rumble shifted Ju Wang's attention to the source and the sight shocked him even more.
A canine-like head as big as a five story building was watching the bones with rapt attention before its long sigh ended its reminiscence.
A sudden turn of attention made the beast change its attention to a shocked Ju Wang with a disappointed look.
*POP*
It was the only sound Ju Wang was aware of before his soul was pulled out of his body.
He couldn't talk and all he could do was watch as the beast hem and haw while it appears to be examining his body and soul?!
With nothing to do, Ju Wang finally started to look around his surrounding.
It was dark with nothing but strange grey tiles that seemed to have strange wiggling lines all over the walls and ceiling.
The whole place may be enormous for someone like Ju Wang but the beast seem to occupy the room like a rat in a trap... I mean a dog stuck in a hole.
As soon as Ju Wang finished looking around the place, he couldn't help but notice that he seems to be able to sense everything around without even looking with his supposed "eyes" as he put his attention on the beast.
Though that ended its time sniffing at his body and started his time in hell....
With his body shaping up like a ball it seems to have triggered something in the beast.
Losing all interest in his physical body, it blow Ju Wang's body to a corner and started kneading his soul with its paws and stamping him on the ground.
It wasn't long before the beast decided to throw him against the wall only to catch with its mouth only to spit him out onto the wall again.
'What is this, although I'm not feeling much pain but this is driving me crazy!!'
Encouraged by how sturdy Ju Wang's soul appear to be, hell for Ju Wang as a toy appear to be starting now.
'50 shades of dog toy? 18 layers of dog toy hell?! Ack it's getting more and more painful'
Chewed - check.
Stretched - check.
Torn - check.
Scratched - check.
Turn into pillow - check.
Frisbeed - check.
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There seem to be no end in this beast's creativity turn Ju Wang's soul into a toy to relieve its boredom.
A short playful time for the beast but long torturous session for Ju Wang finally ended as it seems that the beast finally get what it wanted.
"Make your choice"
A deep raspy voice woke Ju Wang out of his reverie being a chew toy.
"Wolf or die"
"5 4 3 ..."
*Woof*
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For Ju Wang, any choice would be better to dying and although strange this seems to be the fortuitous encounter he thinks he needed to change his destiny.
Although he had only been a dog toy for a while it seems to help him with mastery over the shape of his soul as he quickly added something like a dog's tail at the back of his soul and gave another response to the beast.
*Woof*
If anything, Ju Wang's response seems to have amused the beast as it looked at him so hard, it reminded Ju Wang of the toy hell he had just gone through.
"Hur Hur Hur"
The sinister sounding laugh was last thing Ju Wang heard another day being toy commence for him.
Paperplane, Frisbee, Gundam, even a chihuahua, Ju Wang gave it his all to avoid the toy hell.
Ju Wang trying to be smart tried to bounce away from being caught into the mouth but unbeknownst to him it only serve to stimulate the beast even more.
Although strange but Ju Wang was slowly shaping his soul into a small jack russel terrier like dog.
Satisfied with the shape Ju Wang is turning into, the toy hell turn into a canine training hell.
Running
Eating
Rolling
Sniffing
Stalking
Digging
Play dead... 'play dead???'
Even postures meant to act cute !?
'What!? How did this turn into [How to train your dog] instead of wolf'
"I am wolf, but you turn into a dog, good thing I wasn't a tiger... It would be the joke of a lifetime for a tiger to give birth to a dog hur hur hur. Continue"
The wolf beast responded to Ju Wang's thoughts and seems to be increasingly amused as it went into its thoughts without saying any else to Ju Wang.
Dog training in soul form continued until the edge of the third day until Ju Wang was tossed back into his physical body.
Enormous mental and physical fatigue washed over Ju Wang as he felt immense hunger and thirst hit him.
Struggling to stay awake, Ju Wang quickly scanned the pile of discarded stuffs for the water gourd and proceed to drink as fast as he could without choking himself.
He was about to gorge himself on his tasteless emergency ration before the beast pulled him to the pile of pheasant bones
"Eat"
Ju Wang was about to refute before his mind was suddenly bombarded with torrents of memories and knowledge. Drown in the myriad thoughts Ju Wang was going to combine and compare them with the stuffs he read in a novel before the beast's voice sounded in his mind again.
'Useless rubbish for mediocre dog like you... '
'What shit going against the heaven, only idiots fight against heaven head on. '
'Remember this well, to cultivate is to dig under the heaven, especially when heaven isn't looking'
'Heaven is like a 100 meter tall wall, with guards, sentries and what your memories call cannons/ artillery /tesla coils on top'
'Heaven is omniscient and omnipotent but not all the time'
'Everyone wants to transcend heaven only for most to become shit on the ground'
'All road leads to heaven, but you don't necessarily have to pay to use the toll highway'
More and more memories continues to pour into Ju Wang and made him felt like an overstuffed dumpling about to explode.
Clutching his head as he bang his head on the floor in pain, Ju Wang passed out as the wolf beast's eyes flicker with satisfaction.