After a good rest, Alex was ready for battle again, so he went down to the first floor stairs.
Arriving at the first floor he found the same scenario as the second, several blood marks, broken doors and an empty place.
Looking at the completely broken exit door with a section of the wall, Alex knows the imps couldn't have done this.
"Which means it was that monster." But there's something strange about it all, the monster had obviously been in his apartment, however, he's still alive.
"Besides, from the fourth floor, there are no bloodstains." Which makes everything even more suspicious.
-hackkkk- brought out of his thoughts by a pixie snarl, Alex braced himself to be attacked.
However, contrary to his expectations, the imp that had just entered through the front door was not attacking him, it was just staring at him from afar.
"It seems to be afraid." That's when Alexander remembered his advantage, [demon slayer] causes fear effect on demons below his level.
"In fact, I'm now level 2, which means the imp is one level lower than me." Deciding to run some tests, Alex approached the imp.
He noticed that the little monster, even though he was very afraid, did not back down, however, he also did not seem to have enough courage to attack him.
Even seeing the monster in fear, Alexander did not stop advancing and when he got very close the monster seems to have taken courage and attacked him.
However, he was prepared and managed to hit it squarely with his club, sending the small monster flying a few meters into the air.
However, unlike the last few times, its strength had increased to a great degree, so the monster didn't even slam its body into the wall before exploding into red particles.
"It looks like my strength has really increased." That was a good thing, however, looking at his club that had several cracks, he decided he needed to find a new weapon.
[Level 1 Imp Soul]
[+ 1 soul]
[Level 2 (1/25)]
"A trunk." Seeing a chest where the monster exploded into particles, Alexander got excited.
Picking up the trunk, Alexander walked away from the entrance and into one of the apartments, he then opened the small wooden trunk.
"A green crystal." Unlike the last crystal that was white, this one was green.
[Level 1 loot crystal]
(Produces some random item with the affinity of the soul of the being that dropped the chest.)
"Soul affinity? Maybe it's the monsters' soul color?" After all, the imps had red souls, while the dark bat had a black soul.
Thinking this makes sense, Alex wonders if his affinity would be gravity.
"Now I wonder what item this crystal will give me." Breaking the crystal with his hand, it turned into green particles and entered his body.
At that moment he again felt a change in his "interior", entering there quickly he saw a replica of his body almost completely naked.
And next to his body there was a giant metal table, on top of the table he could see only a ring.
"What does it all mean." Approaching her naked body, he realized it was an exact replica of himself.
"It looks like a mannequin." The replica of him didn't speak, breathe, blink or react, so he realized it was a mannequin with his exact appearance.
Going to the table, he looked at the ring, which was completely black and had some types of runes he didn't recognize.
When he took the ring, he could see a holographic screen.
[Ring of pandemonium, level 1]
(Allows you to use the [demonic area] skill at the cost of vitality.)
Holding the ring he decided to make a test, taking the ring he put it on the dummy's finger, and surprisingly he noticed that on his finger the ring of pandemonium appeared.
Coming out of his interior he saw that indeed the ring of pandemonium was present, in addition, he felt a new energy running through his body.
"Is it my vitality?" Entering its interior again, he saw that now, next to his mana, there was a glass sphere containing a light green liquid.
"Actually, it's probably my vitality." His vitality store was the same size as his mana, represented by the 2 points his attributes showed.
Coming out of his interior again, he wanted to do some tests with his ring, so first he took the ring out in the real world and went back inside.
"The ring is no longer on the mannequin or on the table." He then returned to the real world and placed the ring back on his ring finger.
He then went to his inner world and saw that the mannequin was without the ring, but looking on the table, he could see the ring.
Alexander then took the ring and tried to put it in his own body that was in the inner world, but he couldn't, it seemed to have a repulsive force preventing him from putting the ring on.
"I wonder why that is." Placing the ring on the mannequin, Alexander hadn't been able to get any concrete results, but it was better than nothing.
Leaving the world from the inside, Alex now wanted to test the powers of the ring, thinking about how to use it he had an idea.
Feeling her vitality that ran through her body, Alex took her to the ring, it took a while, but he got used to the new energy a little bit, and he soon got it.
It was then that various information entered his mind, Alex discovered what his ring could do and how to use it.
Basically, his ring had the [demonic area] skill, which basically created an area filled with demonic miasma from his vitality.
The miasma was very fatal, for people, with low resistance, even demons who have a higher resistance, have to be careful with the miasma in high concentrations.
Alex wanted to test this skill, but was afraid of attracting some stronger monsters.
Returning to the first floor corridor Alex thought about what to do, at the moment he had three options.
First he went outside even though it was night and prayed not to find a strong monster.
A second option would be to go back to his apartment and stay there until the night was over, and then see if the monsters were gone.
And the third option was to wait on the first floor while killing occasional imps that entered the building and training your gravity power.
Thinking about what to do "The first option had a lot of risk, and he would probably die, the second option was safer, however, it could be a waste of time, after all nothing says that the monsters will come out at dawn so that leaves the third option."
Which in his opinion was the best, after all it had low risk and high return.