The Demon King Mode System

CHAPTER 8: THE CULTIVATION OF THE LITTLE DEVIL

Roy carried a strange creature the size of a rabbit on his shoulder while running on the hot ground and closely observing the surroundings.

Walking through the dark forest, he carefully passed through the twisted branches of the tree. These trees were demon trees, and once a living being touched its branches, they would immediately wrap around it and frantically catch its prey.

Among the dark trees, there were many places with dense white spider webs. These spider webs were things that he had to be more careful of, because if there was a spider web it meant he had entered the demon hunting territory of the spider.

Suddenly, a strange shout came from the sky above the forest. Roy quickly fell to the ground and placed the strange creature he carried on his shoulder onto his back and lay motionless.

A giant shadow flew over him, but fortunately, it did not seem to find Roy lying on the ground and flying directly over him.

Roy's lucky, he's already made a plan to release his prey. If the dark shadow swooped towards him, his first catch was the prey on his back …

Finally, he avoided all sorts of dangers to come to the large tree at the edge of the forest. This huge tree is dead and rotting. However, there was a naturally formed hole in his roots, which became Roy's residence.

After arriving at the tree hole, Roy did not head straight into it but first observed the camouflage he had carefully prepared. Only when he discovered that no trace was being disturbed did he pick up the rotten branches and leaves from the hole and enter with his prey.

Inside the cave, Roy placed his prey on his shoulders and then heaved a sigh of relief.

It had been more than a week since he had come to this underground world, and he had finally adapted to life here. Although there were many dangers to him in terms of environment and other predators, he could avoid them if he was careful.

Over the past week, Roy's greatest progress has been learning to hunt. He had no choice because all living things needed to eat to survive, and Roy was certainly no exception. However, even now, the prey he could capture was still limited.

Other than demons, there were many other monsters living in the underground world. This monster was equivalent to a ferocious beast in the human world. However, to be honest, it was difficult for Roy to distinguish between low-level demons and monsters just from his appearance. From his observations, most low-level demons basically followed their physical instincts to hunt, kill, and destroy. This behavior did not show much wisdom at all and was not much different from monsters.

In other words, they have low intelligence…

Nonetheless, that does not mean that they are submissive. In fact, the demon race was the ruler of this world. Even the bodies of low-level demons would become stronger and stronger as they gradually grew into adulthood. If they could survive for a long time, they would gradually rise to the top of the food chain.

Baby demons were the only existences at the low rank, and they would slowly rise to the lower-middle rank and finally the peak of the low rank as they matured. If their bloodline was not too complicated, they might even have the chance to be promoted to a mid-level demon …

Roy had no idea what a mid-level demon was like since he had not met him so far, either, so he wondered if there was a world deeper than where he was so that he could enter through several entrances. However, Roy's scope of exploration is limited, and he has yet to find the entrance.

This was the conclusion Roy made while observing coupled with some guesswork. Even if there was a deviation, it didn't seem like he missed too far…

At the same time, Roy's body grew, becoming slightly larger and taller. He might not pass 1.2 meters anymore, but his strength attribute increased by two in the system interface. His speed also increased slightly, although his magic energy did not move at all. What changed the most was his activity, increasing from five to eighteen

The power, speed, and magic energy were easy to grasp, but the activity attributes confused Roy a bit. According to his experience during this period, he realized that it might be referring to his vitality!

After taking down his prey, Roy begins to prepare his dinner.

Roy doesn't know what to call the strange creature he caught, but it must be some kind of monster, and still a baby. This was because Roy saw him drill out of the ground and caught him while trying to climb into a tree. In his memory, only certain insects had such behavior.

This strange monster looked like a fat worm, but it had four claw-like legs, resembling ants without pliers, and a large hole in its head made by Roy's gun.

Roy hasn't improved his revolver yet, but he has spent some time adding some details to the body of the gun. In his memory it now resembles a Colt Python pistol. After modifying the barrel to be straighter, he realized he had a certain degree of accuracy on long-range shots, unlike how he only dared to shoot from close range with fifty-cent special effects before…

As for why he did not upgrade this weapon, he realized that it was not cost-effective to do so!

During this time, Roy meets some adult demons. Even though he had only seen them from a distance, he had realized that the defenses of the demons of today had improved greatly. In particular, an insect-shaped low-level demon covered in carapace with a shiny metallic luster made Roy feel that even a bullet would not be able to penetrate it.

Unless Roy was willing to spend a large amount of souls to add some attributes like Break Armor and Penetration, he would die horribly with such a weapon when he encountered a defensive-type demon.

After realizing that the outer weapons would be limited in the future, Roy begins to attempt to change his body.

His own strength was true strength, especially for a demon-like creature, but Roy needed time to mature. According to the evaluation system, it would be difficult for him to become a top of the low rank in this life. The promotion had nothing to do with him at all because his bloodline was too complicated. Not only him, but even most of the other hatched demons could only be the pinnacle of the low rank.

However, Roy has another choice now because of this system.

Roy can draw and trade human food such as boiled beef and Dongpo pork through soul consumption rather than risk hunting as he does. However, he did so without hesitation because he was accumulating souls, and his plan to change his body required a large number of souls.

The prey also has a soul, although the quality is lacking. The quality of the soul seems to be related to the intelligence it possesses. The higher the intelligence and the richer the emotions, the higher the quality of the soul formed after death. The quality that Roy could obtain now was low, so he could only hope to get more out of them.

Over the past week, he had captured four prey and obtained four souls. However, these souls were smaller than the previous four-eyed demons. Even so, Roy felt the amount was enough.

Roy eats these insect monsters while enduring his psychological discomfort. He did not even dare to light a fire to cook it because he was worried that the smell would attract a powerful enemy. He did not need to worry too much about the smell of blood as it permeated the entire forest …

He had to do what he had to do to survive before he could protect himself …

After satisfying the hunger in his stomach, Roy calls the system interface and begins his first physical transformation.

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