As he read his mind went wild, if he could show emotion his eyes would be bursting out of his own head in shock, what stood before him in paper format was basically telling him that this ring was earth, not just any earth, one of many, but one where the demons kept their sanity and experimented an their own children and made artificial demons, once he read he came up with a theory as to what this ring was about, the grave sin that was committed… knowledge, 'what else could it be?' He thought, as he read more and more he realized what happened, someone or something descended to kill the people here, then he realized another thing, every ring was a failed earth, what did it fail? It failed the sudden appearance of powers, which that same thing would then collapse the earth into another ring, then leading to the eighth to get destroyed and be replaced with the seventh ring
[you have found the true nature of "hell" you have been given the forbidden attribute, time until it takes effect: ???]
this was a shock to him and yet the damned system prevented him from processing it at once, adding yet another thing to wonder about as he looked around he noticed that the tips of the wisps "flames" had a weird shade of black coming off them now
[all familiars will be given the forbidden attribute as well]
'Oh fucking lovely!' He yelled in his head, he instinctively knew what he had was bad news, for all he knew he was now a purging target, bet then the facility shook as a voice went off in the speakers
"WARNING! Another earth has failed! WARNING"
'this isn't a coincidence, but what about that human, will he become a demon?' He wondered, but was interrupted before he could think further
[time until ring collapses: 1 hour. To become residents of the new eighth ring, please slay 100 demons. Demons slain so far: 56]
'FUCK, what do i do!?! I still need to find those other artificial demons! This isn't good, should i go up and hunt demons on the surface? I think i killed all the demon rats here, so staying wont do meany good, but maybe if i go up ill have to deal with some strong demons, well dying from strong demons doesn't seem like a bad thing if I'm gonna die anyways' he decided running up the stairs and exiting the door, killing the few remaining rats that he came across
[73]
'that was a lot more then i expected, but as of now i dont get rewards for killing things, so i might as well just focus on the weaklings' he looked around frantically a round dragon, it had tiny wings and little stumps for feet and a large mouth filled with razor sharp teeth 'fuck, thats the fucking cutest thing I've seen,i don't wanna kill it, c'mon you remember the incantation for familiar making!?!'
[you have three familiars, automatic learning of the familiar making incantation inquired: accepted]
he walks up to the beast, realizing it shaking unsure what to do 'ok, incantation time, god i hate being able to cringe. Be mine beast I've taken an interest in, be mine and bind to my soul' he decided to add an optional part, a play to emotions 'let me let you survive and have you fight for me as i help you grow'
the dragon creature seemed to glow as it did a little smile
[daragon registered: adding kill count + 10]
[83]
'ten, thats pretty good little buddy' he reminisces on how he was always alone in hell, now he was trying to make that up by making friends, quite literally, he was so used to having the others in the boys mind around that he forgot what loneliness felt like, and he didn't particularly like the feeling
[30 minutes remain]
'ah fuck' he send the wisps into different directions and the daragon with one of the weaker wisps, he himself heads out in a fourth direction, soon he comes across a skeleton, one that was moving, it has a broken blade in its hands, healer was able to dispatch of it quite easily, while the skeleton was destroyed the sword remained 'is it an artifact?' He pondered, he picked it up and soon found that the blade was alive, it pulsed with mana
[found artifact: living weapon]
he was curious but put it to his side it floated beside him, as if there was a sheath by his side, he looked around for other demons, he was unsuccessful, finding only two, assuming stronger demons hunted out all the weaker ones already, he was out of luck until he got a notification
[counted demons slain by familiars, new count:99]
he just needed to find one more, one more and he and his familiars would live, he ran around looking for one final demon
[15]
it was looking hopeless, this barren wasteland housed no more weaker demons, they all killed each other
[10]
he search frantically, unable to find a single being
[2]
he was losing hope at a rapid pace, he funnily expected to die
[1]
he couldn't find anything and that was when a cockroach fought his eye
[50 secs]
he ran towards the roach
[30]
he was getting closer
[10]
if
[9]
only
[8]
he
[7]
was
[6]
faster
[5]
faster!!!
[4]
FASTER
[3]
his hand was ready to crush the bug
[2]
just a second away
[1]
and as the timer ran out
[0]
he crushed the bug with a sickening crunch
[congratulations, if any demons receive this they will be transported to the new eighth ring]
he was knocked out as he was enveloped by a bright light
[notice, system desync detected]
'huh?'
[resyncing with system, entering hibernation mode]
'wait, what about my familiars!?!'
[familiars entering hibernation]
he felt frogging in his black mind space, he considered something, if this was… all a dream… and none of this ever happened