Chapter 8: The Self-Cultivation of a Little Devil
With his feet on the hot ground, Roy carried a strange rabbit-sized creature on his shoulder, carefully surveying his surroundings as he ran.
Walking through a dark forest, he cautiously avoided the hanging branches of the twisted and hideous trees, for they were demonic trees, and when they were touched by living creatures, they would immediately wind up in a frenzy to catch their prey.
Between the dark trees, there are many places with dense white cobwebs, these cobwebs are things that must be careful, when you see these cobwebs, it means that you have entered the hunting range of the spider demon.
Suddenly there was a strange cry in the sky above the forest, and Roy quickly threw himself on the ground, put the strange creature he was carrying on his back, and then lay motionless.
A huge black shadow swept past him, but luckily, it didn't seem to notice Roy lying on the ground, and flew straight over.
Roy was lucky, he was already ready to give up his prey, and if the shadow found him swooping down, then the first to catch must have been the prey he put on his back......
Finally avoiding all kinds of dangers, Roy finally came to the bottom of a huge tree at the edge of the forest, this giant tree has long since died and decayed, but at its root, there is a large naturally formed hole, which has become Roy's residence.
After arriving at the location of the tree hole, Roy did not enter immediately, but first carefully looked at the camouflage he left before leaving, and found that the camouflage did not have any traces of passivity, he picked up the rotten branches and leaves at the entrance of the cave, and then carried the prey into it.
In the cave, Roy let out a long sigh of relief as he lowered the prey he was carrying on his shoulder.
It's been more than a week since he came to this underground world, and now he has finally adapted to life here, although there are still many environments and species that are dangerous for him, but as long as he is careful to observe, he can still avoid it.
In this period of more than a week, Roy's biggest progress is to learn to hunt, no way, any living creature needs to eat to survive, Roy is naturally no exception, but for now, the prey he can catch is quite limited.
In addition to the demons living in the underground world, there are also many monsters, these monsters are equivalent to the beasts of the human world, but to be honest, just looking at the appearance, Roy is really difficult to distinguish the difference between the lower demons and the monsters, because according to his observations, many lower demons are also acting according to their physical instincts most of the time, hunting, killing, destroying, these behavioral characteristics do not show much intelligence at all, and they are no different from monster beasts.
In other words, low IQ......
But a low IQ does not mean that it is easy to bully, in fact, the demon clan is the master of this world, even if it is a lower demon, when they gradually move from a juvenile body to an adult body, their bodies will become stronger and stronger, and their strength will be greatly improved, and if they can survive for a long time, they will gradually become the top of the food chain.
If the demons of the juvenile body are only the existence of the lower bottom, then the adult experience will slowly upgrade to the lower middle level, until it finally becomes a mature body, which is the lower top level, and then up, if the demon's bloodline is not too complicated and relatively pure, then maybe there is a chance to be promoted to the middle level demon......
Roy didn't know what the middle demon looked like, because so far, he hadn't encountered it, so he had been suspecting that there were lower worlds in this underworld that could be accessed through certain entrances, but Roy had limited exploration range and hadn't been able to find these entrances yet.
These are all conclusions that Roy has come to while observing and guessing, and even if there is a deviation, it will not be far from ten......
Similarly, during this period of time, Roy's body is also growing, his body has become a little stronger, and his size has grown a lot, although he still hasn't broken through one meter two, but in the attribute feedback of the system interface, his strength has increased by 2 points, his speed has increased a little, and his magic energy has not increased, and his activity has increased the fastest, increasing by 5 points to 18 points.
The strength speed and magic energy are easy to understand, mainly because of the attribute of activity Roy is a little confused, and according to his experience during this time, he found that this activity may refer to his own life force!
The strength of the vitality represents the extent of the damage that one can bear, and the time it takes to recover after the injury......
Putting down his prey, Roy began to prepare his own dinner.
The strange creature he caught, Roy himself didn't know what to call it, but it should be some kind of monster, and it was a juvenile of the monster, because Roy only caught it when he saw it come out of the ground and wanted to climb up the tree, and in his impression, it seemed that only certain insects would behave similarly.
This strange monster hatchling, which looked like a fat bug, but had four hooked thighs, like an ant without claws, but it had a large hole in its head, which was shot by Roy.
The revolver in Roy's hand was not upgraded by him, but it took a while to depict and supplement the details of the gun body, and now this revolver is very similar to the Colt Monty Python revolver that Roy has seen in his memory, and after modifying the lines of the gun body to make the barrel straight, Roy found that even if he fired at a long distance, he could ensure a certain degree of accuracy, instead of only daring to fire at close range like the previous five-cent special effect......
As for why he didn't continue to upgrade this weapon, it was because Roy found out that it was not worth it!
During this period of time, Roy had encountered several adult lower demons, although they were all seen from a distance, but he found that the defense of these adult demons had been greatly improved, especially when he saw an insect-type lower demon, the body covered with chitinous carapace, there was a shiny metal feeling, just by visual inspection, Roy felt that it was difficult for a bullet to penetrate such a carapace.
Unless Roy is willing to spend a lot of money and consume his soul to attach some attributes such as [Armor Piercing] and [Penetration] to this gun, otherwise, with such a gun, he will die an ugly death when he encounters this kind of defensive demon.
After realizing that the role of a simple external weapon in the future began to be limited, Roy began to change his mind and wanted to try to modify his body.
His own strength is really powerful, especially for a creature like a demon, but now Roy, it may take a little time to become an adult, if according to the system's evaluation of him, he is afraid that he will reach the top level of the lower level in this life, and the promotion or something has nothing to do with him at all, because his demon bloodline is too mixed, not only him, but even most of the oviparous little demons, the highest can only be the lower top level.
But now, because of the existence of the system, Roy has another option.
In fact, Roy could have eaten it in the form of painting and then using his soul to exchange it for human food such as braised beef Dongpo elbow, instead of risking his life to go out hunting like now, but he still did it without hesitation, the reason is that he is now accumulating souls, and his next transformation plan for his body needs to use a large number of souls.
The monsters that are hunted also have souls, but the quality is not high, the quality of the soul seems to be linked to the intelligence that the species has before its death, the higher the wisdom, the richer the emotion, the higher the quality of the soul formed after death, and the more soul values it can contain, and now the souls that Roy can get are relatively low-grade, so it can only be that the quality is not enough, and the quantity is made up.
In the past week or so, Roy has captured four prey and obtained four soul light clusters, but they are all much smaller than the four-eyed little demon he got before, but even so, Roy feels that it is almost enough.
Enduring the psychological discomfort, Roy ate the insect monster, he didn't dare to make a fire to bake cooked food to eat, because he was worried that the taste of cooked food would attract powerful enemies, but there was no need to worry too much about the smell of blood, because there was a smell of blood everywhere in this forest......
Before there is no self-insuring capital, it must be coaxed......
After the hunger pang in his belly was gone, Roy summoned the system interface and began his first body modification.