Once the video was up I sent it to the TV sitting on my bed before I entered the operating room. Inside, the white-tiled room was about the same size as my bedroom. Originally there were several machines that I had stripped out and repced. The northern wall had a small backroom with a window where doctors would sterilize themselves. The East wall now had a line of shelves full of boxes each filled with different colored liquids. Test tube holders filled with vials of different colored liquids, jars, and bottles all of which were some form of potion. There might even be an ointment in there somewhere. The south wall had a door that would normally lead outside to the rest of the hospital but for some reason even after removing the handle, the door remains shut.

  First, I had to clean up the pce, storing away the leftover goblins and prepping everything. Within half an hour, I think I got everything stored away. Once I was sure I left the operating room and created a backup.

  Once back inside I went into the side room and dressed up in scrubs then started removing the corpses one at a time. ying out two of them on the three operating tables that sat on the west side of the room, grabbing a tablet and a stylus I began taking notes.

  Maybe it's from growing up on the farm, maybe it's because Dad always field-dressed deer when we went hunting. But I just don't feel anything when looking over these corpses. Just investigating their anatomy like one would with a frog in biology css.

  Notable physical features: bck fur, dog-like head, cws. These were the easiest observations along with their digitigrade legs, with paw pads on both the soles of their feet and the palms of their human-like hands. "The ones on their feet were pretty hard" I noted while poking them with the stylus. Turning the current batch over I noticed that both of them had a short tail, tucked between their butts, it stuck out just above the glutes, and you might not even notice it if you didn't look for it. Using some measuring tape, it was about 6/9 inches depending on if the fur counts.

  Taking a better look at their heads, they had yellow eyes with round pupils, and from the encounter, they can get quite beady when aggressive. As for their teeth, their dog-like heads would suggest quite simir to a dog's though how many teeth do dogs have? (42) They have fewer teeth than dogs. More in line with a human. Another notable feature about their heads was their lower jaws, which covered their necks, creating a defensive structure around their throats and arteries contained within. While it didn't protect from significant blunt force trauma caused by metal limbs it would prevent infighting from killing the loser of a conflict. After a little test, it did stop a knife.

  I continued going through the bodies in the two bags writing down notes for each one including, cause of death and notable features before tagging them and moving them to a spare bag when I was done. A good majority of them were in much better condition than what I went through with the goblins.

  While I was going, I had to know, and soon discovered that, unlike the goblins, these 'dogemen' did have two genders. I ended up shaving one's chest when I discovered multiple mammaries along their chest. It was an interesting feature, to say the least. (does that mean they have litters?) Having six in total, the first pair was the rgest with the second set being half their size, and the st being barely noticeable.

  While I went I was also taking measurements, the females stood between 6’8 -7 feet tall, while the males stood 7’2 -8.4 feet though, the Alpha might be an outlier. Otherwise, it was 7’2 -7’6. As I finished up my analysis of the common 'dogemen' it was now finally time to look at the Alpha.

  Like the goblins, it seemed to be a 'rge breed' bigger and bulkier than its counterparts. But unlike the goblins, this feels different. I don't know how to put it, more like... an aberration? Or that was the impression I got. With its hunched back and deep chest, it had strange ape-like quadrupedalism when others of the species walked upright. On the topic of apes, it even had longer arms to assist in this type of locomotion. There was also the strange pcement of its skull (at the back of the head). It was like a missing link in the creature's evolutionary history. If I were to compare it to humans, it was like a caveman compared to the modern species.

  Due to the thick, shaggy, and matted fur that covered the Alpha's body, I ended up having to trim and shave away a decent portion to continue my documenting. But I made a shocking discovery, “This thing's female…” I was quite shocked not just by the discovery but the size "BIG..." Even the smallest pair was rger than the common breed's first. "Does that make it a matriarch of the species?" I wondered out loud as I started thinking about what this meant for the species' reproduction. (Did only one get pregnant at a time, giving birth to a small litter? If it did then that might be enough to account for their ecosystem and prevent overpopution in such a confined space). Once I was finished removing a substantial portion of the thick fur I returned to noting down the various physical differences between her and the others. From the hardened toughness of her cws to her superhuman strength.

  "Cause of death: Beheading," I noted down as I started making notes regarding the head. She had more teeth than the others but still less than the 42 of a dog. When I checked the skull I found that my shot directly into its eye seemed to have missed the brain by a centimeter margin.

  While I was writing away I remembered the tribal-looking tooth neckce that had hung around the beast’s neck (while it was still attached). Digging around in the bag for it, before pcing it on a medical tray. If my guess was right this was possibly a magic item simir to the totem that I found before... (I still needed to get to that at some point). For now, I would start with some pictures and notes.

  Tribal neckce: effect unknown. A strange neckce made with several bones and teeth pced at even intervals, all of them seemed to be in an oddly perfect/pristine condition. The brown-colored string that tied the teeth and bones together seemed to be some form of rope likely made from the twisted fibers of pnts found inside the dungeon.

  While I don't know if this neckce was like the totem I did feel something while touching it. What that was I didn't know and there was the likely need to wear the neckce before anything happened and I wasn't going to do that at the moment. Once I was finished documenting it would be stored away like the totem. I'm going to get to them sooner or ter, right now they are low on the priority list.

  I was tired after having run around a forest for the afternoon and now finished making notes. But I wanted to try a little experiment. Adding the Alpha to a spare item bag I went over to the cart with a TV and a ptop. On the ptop, I opened up a video of a padded room before sticking my head inside the TV. Once I was inside I opened the bag and dumped the Alpha's body inside before tossing in the head.

  With the parts inside, I went to the east wall of the operating room. Going over the items on the shelf until I came to a mini fridge. Instead of food inside was a small nonfmmable box filled with mystical glowing red-orange feathers and a pair of fireproof gloves. Putting on one of the gloves I opened the box getting a decent wave of heat in the process. Plucking one of the Phoenix Downs I returned to the cart entering the TV before dropping the feather on the Alpha. I watched the crimson feather gently float down to the corpse, on contact the body burst into fmes. Within several seconds the smell of burning meat filled the room. As the corpse burned, a mass of ash was left in its pce, and the resurrected target would appear out from the ash. 'Should' appear... "So, it's not resurrecting... Why?" I had done this close to a dozen times now, though my targets only being various types of goblins.

  It was alive less than an hour ago and was trying to kill us. The body was intact, more so than some of the goblins I tried before. And time didn't pass on the inside of the storage bags, warm food would be just as hot once taken out as it was when it was pced inside.

  (What's the difference?) There was something I wasn't getting.

  "I've already tried goblins from fictional media." The most notable one was from Goblin Syer, I grabbed a dead one from a random panel when I started comparing the differences (they were green all the way through). Later I used it as a test subject in the resurrection trials because of its missing limbs (An arm and a leg which were restored perfectly) and he had a successful resurrection. Afterward, I used him for training, his erratic movements made for great training. He's stabbed me more than a few times in the training ground, and he was smart enough to use traps. He was also comparatively uglier than the real-world ones. "Ah! I got sidetracked".

  Pulling my head back to the operating room my hand on my chin I started thinking about the cause. (What was the reason why it failed?) I've resurrected goblins pulled out from other images so that wasn't a factor. I returned the head before I started the process so that was out. "Then... it's 'how' it was beheaded...? No, that's wrong too... Maybe, it's 'what' was used during the beheading?" The bde that had executed the beast. The sword designed to cut souls; my zanpakuto. "According to Danny, he saw a light then the head came flying off...”

  (Souls). I had never believed they actually existed… maybe as a kid, I did. But once I was old enough to start forming my own thoughts and opinions I started to view the ideas as derived from the breath of life in most religions. "Can't I test that?" My thoughts started to shift to an item I had stored away because I had no real use for it.

  Digging through a collection of photos I kept in my item pouch I pulled out the one I needed. Taking out the wand box that had two dull wands in it and the bck diamond-shaped Resurrection Stone. Its name was misleading, instead of allowing one to revive the dead it instead allowed one to see the souls of the deceased. More so it drew these spirits back (unwillingly) from wherever they go. Or that's the lore I remember.

  Holding the stone in my right hand I began rolling it over. Once. Twice. Three times I turned the stone in my hand. looking around the room and I didn't see anything out of the ordinary. Entering the TV again I looked at the pile of ashes and couldn't see anything. Turning the stone in my hand again three more times. I saw something I couldn't believe, materializing in front of me was a near-transparent semi-solid female Dogeman. She looked different from the others and more importantly different from the body that was used. Far less bulky and looking more; 'motherly' was the best way I could describe it. Seeing the ethereal body for the first time shocked me and I ended up dropping the stone on the operating room floor. Which caused the effect to end just as spontaneously as it started.

  "...Did I just prove that souls exist...?" I knew they would exist in fiction, but these images were originally taken in the real world... and seeing it for the first time. "More importantly, she had a completely different appearance from what we just fought in the dungeon! What the heck is that neckce”!?

  When I finished calming down after proving the existence of souls and the general analysis of the Dogemen I was completely done for the day. After stripping off the scrubs I returned to my bedroom and took another shower, I was taking significant care to disinfect myself and anything I grabbed from an image after I got home.

  END

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