Chapter 82. Automatic butcher

Zeldi cuddled into me doing the makeshift waltz for a few minutes before breaking away.

"The last outfit I'll leave for tonight as I don't think you'll want to do much of anything else when you see it."

"I have some self control." I counted giving her another kiss.

"I know you do. It's me who wants to see you tear it off with your tongue." Zeldi giggling jumping out of my grasp. "Come on I've waited long enough to see this automatic butcher thingy."

She vanished as quickly as she could to avoid my attempt to grab her but this time I could follow her into her room. I didn't hesitate to do just that and found the open plains like area that was her room just a little bit more crowded from all the blankets we had purchased. They weren't placed in any kind of pattern I could see and instead were thrown on her bed haphazardly before she'd crawled on it to sleep.

Zeldi herself was in the midst of getting out of her new dress and smiled cheekily. "Come to help me get changed Master?"

"Sure. That's the reason I followed you." I agreed in a tone that said that was the last thing I wanted to do.

Zeldi stuck her tongue out at me in response and pretend to get the dress caught on her chest as she was taking it off. "A little help Master."

I so wanted to go to the other side of her right now but I held back and helped her get out of her created predicament. Like always her boobs bounced free the moment they were out of their confinements with the gravity defying strength that seemed like magic.

"Did Tarakona enjoy herself Master?" Zeldi broke me out of my musings.

"Yeah." I coughed clearing my throat. "Yes she did. She has also said that she has tried to fertilize her eggs but I don't know how she has done that."

"Good." Zeldi gave off a smile that was more for our Dragons sake than her own. "She has done a lot for us and deserves to gain some of her own happiness."

It lost a bit of its affect however when she spun around to pick up one of the dresses her mother had gifted her and in the process also flipped her tail to the side.

"I doubt Voras or Dríade would be as well behaved as they are now if Tarakona wasn't on our side." Zeldi continued like she wasn't taunting me.

I tried to get closer to the tease mare but she just turned her front around with the fakest expression she could ever have.

"I agree." I answered siding up to her and placing a hand under her tail. "Good behavior should be something we strive for. And reward."

Zeldi threw her dress at me and I had to bring my hand back to catch the whole thing due to its size.

With a snicker my mare put on a pair of deep blue panties using the long length they came with that sat against her back and a matching bra. She finished it off by maneuvering her tail in what was supposed to be her making sure everything was comfortable but was anything but.

I just stood there watching as my hands were full. Then again my 'helping' might have delayed us.

"Master as much as I would like to we should go check out this automatic butcher thing. And also Voras has something to tell you if she can ever actually say it." She rotated herself around and he's her arms up in the universal sign of put it on me. "If you can I suggest you let her say it outside of her nest. I know she will have an easier time if you do go in there but we need to take a few steps to warming her up outside of it."

I found the part of her dress that went over her head and started to help her into it. Like most times I helped her do this I was absolutely abysmal at actually helping her. That didn't stop Zeldi from wriggling her way into it however.

"If you think that would help I can do that." I said smoothing down a few of the wrinkles and getting the bulk of her dress to sit nicely against her equine half.

Her tail was always amusing in this part as it could be left underneath the dress but there was a hole in case the Centaur wanted it out. This was one of the few times Zeldi actually asked for help dressing as she couldn't get her tail through the gap without help. It was also something I was strangely good at. The only down side was her underwear blocked a lot of my view, but I just had to brush up against it every now and then because of its proximity to her tail. There was no other reason.

"I think it's a start." Zeldi answered once I was done. She had the rosy cheeks of someone who enjoyed what just happened. "Now let's go get Tarakona. I'm sure she's hungry after your mating flight."

Somehow I didn't think she would be but I still wanted to see the automatic butcher. There had been a few distractions when I'd initially put it down. I didn't even know what it looked like.

We left Zeldi's room to find Tarakona still looking through the doorway. If this was some type of horror game I'd have probably slammed my keyboard away in fright. Now though, I was use to a giant eyeball just looking at me.

[I am looking forward to when I can do something similar to that my love. I would also like you to teach me what you just did with Zeldi.]

"Sure. I can teach you the waltz. It is definitely better with music as you can use the rhythm." I responded exiting the door and looking across my land.

It still made me happy knowing it was all mine and that it had gotten bigger when Voras gave me her Deed. There was a slight problem however, what I presumed was the automatic butcher was plopped right in the middle of what could have been potential farming ground. And even worse than that? It was bright silver and reflective.

"Oh that's definitely an eyesore." I grumbled before I could stop myself.

[It's definitely not something I expected to see.]

Hopefully it looked better when I got closer.

The answer? No. It somehow looked worse.

It looked like a silver box around twice the length of Zeldi, so it wasn't too big. That didn't stop it from violating our eyes as we looked at it.

"I was expecting. I dunno something more magical and impressive." I groaned touching the device.

Please select cut of meat:

And of course it hadn't been doing anything while I was away with Tarakona because I hadn't updated its settings.

What about a beef eye fillet steak?

1kg of beef eye fillet steak will be created every hour (5 capacity)

Please confirm:

Ummm yes?

Choice confirmed: 0h 59m 59s remaining.

Okay yay it's working... Next question. How do I get said meat out when it's done.

"Soooo what's it ment to do?" Zeldi asked touching the silver box.

"It's ment to make meat for Tarakona and I guess Voras but I feel like I might have made a mistake." I answered releasing it and moving around it to see if any was different than it being a big box.

[What mistake have you made my love? This device was ment to produce food was it not? Does it not work?]

"Oh it works it's just the quantity. At the time I first read it's description it sounded good as it was my only option but it only makes a single kilogram of meat every hour. Could you survive off twenty four kilograms of meat every day?" I already knew the answer. Tarakona easily weighed in the tons and this just wouldn't be enough to sustain her healthily.

[I roughly need to kill a single creature every three to four days. I don't know what a kilogram is but does that help?]

And if that creature was a cow we're looking at between one hundred and three hundred kilograms every three days roughly. With twenty four kilograms made every day this wasn't going to cover it and that was only if I got up in the middle of the night so it didn't overflow.

The solution however was easy. We just needed more of them. It just took me a long time to actually get this one.

"Okay so it's a good thing to have, but we're just not going to be able to rely on it as much as I thought. Think of this as more of a failsafe in case Tarakona can't hunt for a few days." And if Voras suddenly runs out of Kobolds, I said to myself.

As much as I was saying I disliked it having the ability to make eye fillet on demand made my mouth water. If I could get a lot of them that were all producing different cuts I could do a BBQ.

"So what does that mean going forward Master? Do we still need to find another way to get meat?" Zeldi asked following me around.

"Yes but also no.  We do need another way to get meat as this by itself won't provide enough but it's also simple as we can just double up and have more of them." I somewhat didn't like this idea as it meant having more of these things lying around. Could I built some sort of bunker to store them in? Tarakona is good at digging after all.

[I can continue to provide for myself.]

"You might have to sorry. At least for a bit longer." I winced. This was supposed to be my solution and it hasn't even done that.

How many would we actually need? If Tarakona needed roughly fifty to one hundred kilograms every day then with a production of twenty four...

I winced. We would need at least two more and that wouldn't include Voras or even our Dragonlings.

I am now very thankful for how much silk Voras can provide and that she has been able to hunt herself.

I think I'm actually starting to like the Kobolds at this rate.