PLAYER: CHAPTER 11

And as such, Ling Ru’s real first hunt began. Or rather, it could be described as his first journey as the petty sidekick. Basically he was of no use, although with his firm ability to control emotions he was not scared, his ability to think calmly in a situation also let him understand that he would be completely useless.

Despite being told he could just watch, Ru’ wanted to at least do something, so as to be a bit of use, he had half his attention on the battle and the other half on the environment. If another beast were to attack while they were battling, they would be in a dire strait. The animals here weren’t really strong, but they had stamina and ferocity, so they never gave up easily.

The group had suffered from sneak attacks during battles, it did not affect much but it was still tough to suddenly be attacked. Their strong physiques let them survive such attacks, but if possible and they could actually counter sneak attacks due to an early shout, they would be in much better situations.

While being attentive, Ru’ randomly swung his sword in a straight line, he didn’t pay attention to it, but he wanted his arm to get used to it, so he just kept raising it and swinging it downwards in a straight arc as good as he could.

With his mental ability he actually had the mental power to at least triple task, this was a supposedly rare phenomenon even on earth, only women was said to be able to achieve the triple tasking, Ru was at first very surprised by this ability, but he even felt he could go further and quadra task.

Ru was very vigilant while he was taking note of the landscape, but he was also keeping an eye on the fight, to watch the. extent of the animal’s abilities and Baba’ and the group’s strength.

Currently they were fighting a snow opart, it looked like a leopard, it had white tight fur, very short, and it was as tall as half a demon, or two thirds a human. It had huge fangs out of the mouth, it reminded him of an ancient animal from earth, he could not remember the name but knew they were extinct. He could though remember seeing it in a movie, Ice Age.

The muscles on the snow opart bulged, and it had very agile movements and tremendous strength, but today it met its end. Demons are very strong creatures, unrivalled in brute strength. Even the most inferior demon would be trice as strong as a bodybuilding human.

Not on Arnolds level, but just a hobby bodybuilder. Baba was parrying and pushing as the main force, while Lon was to his left and played the major aggressor, he would at sudden times after or meanwhile Baba was parrying, launch his spear forward with exceptional strength. Ru noted their abilities down, they should train in spear skills, for now they were just using brute force and simple tactics, no skill in the spear was showcased.

Zuo was at the back of the snow opart to limit its movement and keep it in place. Quan assisted Zuo but would also exert pressure to force it to attack Baba so Lon could attack.

After two minutes of engaging in the fight, Baba was getting a bit pushed back, but the snow opart was almost out of stamina. Lon used this to his advantage and managed to propel his spear through the soft part of the snow opart, the eye. The spear directly pierced through its brain, and the very tired and bruised animal, finally dropped to the ground.

They were all very excited, a fight would draw on energy, and while it was fast, it was also not that hard. After they had recovered a little they would be able to repeat. Baba was the first to step forward and stood tall over the body, he raised his leg high, and with an insane stamp he broke open its head. The brain mass was flowing out of the cadaver, blood had spurted in crazy amounts. None of this fazed Baba, what he wanted to know was if there was a so called spirit crystal.

Baba kneeled down and rummaged through its innards, he suddenly raised his hands and everyone could see what he held. It was a similar stone to the one from the rannit, except this was near a dark blue color, and twice as big. Baba looked around as he smiled.

“I think we should let Ru have it. He showed this amazing thing, we can still hunt four more beasts afterwards.”

Baba shared his thoughts, and everyone agreed with a smile on their faces. Ru was very happy to find out how much an adult snow opart would give him in boost. Ru accepted it from Baba and directly swallowed it.

Then he checked the stats of his skill.

[Spirit Taotie]

Skill Level: 1/1

Experience: 1/1

Description:

Consume Fresh Spirit Cores to gain increase in strength.

Current Strength Bonus: 11,5%

‘WHAT! Over 11%, he would be invincible after growing up and eating many of these!’

He could not help but exclaim to himself. Then he looked at Baba and the others who were waiting for his reaction. “It is amazing, we can become the strongest demons like this. A mere snow opart can be one hit if we eat one of these a day for some time. We struck it rich everyone!”

They all gave Ru a thumbs up and then kept going on their hunting.

Normally after one animal big enough to feed everyone the would leave, they would not dare to hunt animals in an area to extinction, it would limit future food source, and also mean they were possibly contesting for territory, this might enrage the animal emperors.

This time, they hunted for three hours straight, only killing. More than 10 animals. Including the snow opart, and the rannit, Ru ate 4 spirit crystals. His bonus was at a whole 20%. One fifth of a demons strength in bonus. The others could also feel the strength increasing, they were very surprised about the direct increase. But Ru also noticed, that after the first snow opart, the bonus after each similar level spirit crystal had less and less of an affect.

But for now that meant nothing, he would probably easy get to 50%+ bonus in a few days, that was also more than amazing. In the future what if he could reach 1000%?

The endless possibilities had him shaking in happiness, amongst his skill, this was currently his favorite, he was already as strong as a normal adult demon, and he was a few days old, only.

Because they had fought much more today, they chose to bring back two cadavers of their most recent battles nearby. Baba also described his increase in power to Ru, it was actually not as significant to them as it was to Ru. They only got one third of the bonus.

But this was already enough to make them very excited, thinking about it, Baba had thoughts of becoming strong enough to overtake the demon village and reforming them. He had no grand thoughts as to being their leader, but when he looked at Ru, he felt that maybe this seedling would be the right choice in leading them to rise.

Lon poked to Ru, he had something he wanted to ask him. “Ru, you know we come from the demon village. If you ever meet demons, could we maybe hide this discovery?” When Lon asked, he did not whisper, everyone heard him, and they all stopped and looked at Ru.

“Huh, why so?” When Ru noticed the atmosphere being a bit heavy, he regretted asking. But Quan, being the most silent, actually spoke.

“We want to become strong, and take back the village and the glory of demons. Not live being afraid of other races nor being ashamed of ourselves.” Quan spoke heartfelt and emotionally. Ru was very moved that they were actually respectfully giving him the choice. He did not want to let them down, and also if this could affect every race, it was best kept a secret.

He nodded solemnly. “Yes, we must never tell others. If this can be useful to other races, it will go against us. It would not be good for us, let us return and eat, we have been gone for long, the others must be starving as well.”