A Kobold's Wizard Journal

Luge is gloomy and low-spirited. He has noticed that he's been shedding fur lately. But that doesn't matter. The door to the extraordinary world is opening wide before him. He is going to become a mighty wizard, and then cover himself from head to toe in scales, just like that infuriating, terrifying twenty-eight-clawed Burrowing Dragon. In his spare time he often dreams of no longer having a dog's head and dog's face, but returning to being that clean-cut human he once was. He also often imagines the long, slender, twisted horns of a high-tier demon kind sprouting from his fast-balding forehead. But that's hardly any easier than growing scales. The legendary great dragons and the mighty demon kinds, it is said, will gain a natural human form once they come of age—yes, an enormous detour, just so they can be human again, bidding farewell to that stinking, endlessly shedding kobold shell. At least, at the very beginning, that is how he thought about it.