"Zeren, Zeren, Zeren, ZEREN!" (A man shouted.)
"Huh?" (Zeren opened his eyes.)
"What happened? Oh right, the
demon!" (Zeren said after forgetting the voice.)
Zeren got up and looked around, he saw what can only be described as a blood bath, there were a lot of mangled human bodies on the ground with guts everywhere. He looked at himself and saw the gaping hole in his abdomen, thinking nothing of it, he returned his attention to the scene.
"Damn, this is terrific, If I hadn't been tortured in a gruesome way then I would surely be throwing up right now. Now that I think about it, what happened with the demon and the creature? I guess I'll look for the exit."
Then, what happened after that was a terrible sense of hunger attacking Zeren. He felt like his body was consuming itself and his body was burning all over. Zeren could see how his body was turning thinner by the minute.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck!" (Zeren shouted whilst he strongly hugged his abdomen.)
"If I don't do something about this quickly, I may die from hunger." (Zeren said while looking at the dead bodies.)
"No, I'll find the exit and ask for food, it doesn't matter if I die anyways, I'll just be brought back to life." (Zeren convinced himself.)
Zeren tried to walk back where he came from but quickly got lost, everywhere he looked seemed the same. After what seemed to be an eternity walking he finally collapsed on the floor.
"Am I going to die again? This really sucks, how can I even be hungry if I don't have a stomach, it doesn't make sense!"
Zeren was on the verge of tears, he was looking like a skeleton by now, his ribs were visible and he looked pale, looking like he had lost fifty pounds.
Zeren had lost all hope, but just as he was about to give up he heard a grunt to his right.
Zeren looked where the sound came from and saw the body of the demon that brought them here, seeing as his chest was moving up and down, he figured that it was barely alive.
'He looks very injured right now, like if he was on the verge of death. Wait a second, didn't the man with bruises tell me that a demon can't revive?'
Zeren looked at the demon like a madman, he couldn't stand up, but he could drag himself to the demon. He slowly dragged himself towards the demon, every time he moved his body lost even more weight, by the time that he had arrived besides the demon, his body was looking like an old man's corpse.
'D-damn demon, I'll kill you.' (Zeren thought before closing in on the demon's body.)
The demon had noticed that there was someone besides him but he couldn't move, all his bones were broken and all of his organs were exposed, it was a surprise that he was even alive.
'This pest is trying to kill me, I just need more time to heal, when I recover, I promise to make him pay.' (The demon thought angrily.)
Zeren climbed on top of the demon whist the demon was watching him with reluctant eyes. He then proceeded to think of a way to finish him off.
'I can't even grip my hand and move my body, the only part of my body that I can move is my head… I see.' (Zeren thought before moving his head to the demon's liver and biting hard on it.)
"Squelch!"
The demon tried to scream but he couldn't, his mouth just couldn't move. The demon, having to watch himself being eaten alive, wasn't very happy.
'Aaargh!! This puny bastard human, I'll kill you, I'll kill you!!' (The demon screamed in his mind.)
After fully eating the liver, Zeren seemed to magically gain a few pounds, he now could move his hands with some effort. Zeren then went to eat the demon's lungs before continuing with the rest of his body.
The more he ate, the more his body regenerated and gained strength, with his new found energy, Zeren continued eating the demon with more aggressiveness, his full attention was now on eating him entirely.
The demon died a while ago, but Zeren's hunger had yet to be completely satiated. Having eaten most of The demon's body, he then plucked the demon's hearth and ate it. After eating it, Zeren felt the worst pain in his life.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh!!"
He started to convulse, his eyes turned white, he started to sweat heavily, his body made some crunching noises, overall his body was working on overdrive. A single horn appeared on Zeren's left side of the forehead dropping to the side of his head like a goat's horn, his teeth grew sharp and pointy, the fingernails grew about a centimeter and looked very sharp, his eyes turned into green slits, his body grew and now looked buff with the addition of changing the color of skin to purple, his feet now looked like a werewolf's, it was tilted and weird. After some time, the transformation was complete.
"Huff, huff, huff." The voice calmed down after what seemed to be a few minutes, but it surely appeared longer to Zeren which was suffering with the pain of being transformed into a demon. He slowly stood up before falling on his face.
"Ah! What the hell?" (Zeren yelled whilst trying to stand up.)
Zeren looked at his body and was surprised to find his new body, the hole in his abdomen had closed and he felt stronger than ever. After finally succeeding in getting up, he looked at the eaten demon and cringed in disgust.
"I really don't know how I ate this, probably because I was super hungry but still, it's disgusting. I have to get out of here, rationally thinking, it should be easier to escape now that I'm a demon. There's a lot of demons around, if I can maintain a low profile, I'll surely escape in no time."
At this time, Zeren had already thought of a plan to escape this place, now what was left is finding the pulley to reach the top. Zeren searched a short amount of time before finding it, after he did, he immediately got in it and started going up.
"I just hope that the demons don't stop me or something to question me, if that really happens then I have nothing prepared, I'll have to improvise."
Reaching the top, Zeren started to walk towards the exit of the mine, passing by a lot of demons in the process, however, no demon seemed to pay him attention, this was perfect for Zeren. It was all going well until he reached the exit where he was stopped.
"Stop, the working time is not done yet, are you escaping your duties? Get back in there and get to work!" (The demon commanded.)
"I have some important news to tell the boss, let me pass." (Zeren lied through his teeth.)
"What information do you have with the boss? You need to tell me before you meet him." (The demon said with a grin.)
"Who do you think you are? A lowly demon talking back to me like that, get out of my way before I tear you apart." (Zeren said intimidatingly before pushing the demon aside with one hand and continue walking.)
The demon looked annoyed but he didn't say anything and went back to guarding the exit. It definitely helped that Zeren was twice the demon's size and looked very intimidating.
A cold sweat broke out from Zeren's forehead after talking to the demon like that, he had taken a gamble and it was successful. Following his action, he continued to walk away, aiming to leave the mine and stop being a slave.