Six creatures looking demon like sat around a fire and ate directly from some animal that was cut and roasted above the fire. The meat did not even look roasted yet, but they did not care. They were muscular, naked, five males and two females.

They all had black pupils and a broad but not long nose, they were even quite big, most likely taller than the lion-snake creature. These were not humans, it was more likely that these demons had taken him in because they were of the same kind. The female demons looked more or less the same as the males, they just had breasts and was ten centimetres shorter.

Luckily they were covered with some beast skin, it was not much but enough. This cavern was most likely their home, and the beast looked a bit like the lion-snake beast. When he realized this he exclaimed a “Holy Shit!”.

Due to him being a relatively young demon or a demon seedling as the HUD said, his speech was nowhere near his normal, it was complete gibberish. But it caught the other demons attention.

He was not really scared of them though, and when they were all looking at him, he felt a strange fondness. Maybe being raised by them would not be bad? Ling Ru questioned himself but had no plans to answer just yet. Surprisingly, he could not help but be forced by instinct to look at the almost rawly to be roasted beast, and his stomach was aching for food.

…

After looking at Ling Ru for a while, one of the men stood up and walked towards Ling Ru. Seeing this Ling Ru felt weird about it, he was not scared but he still felt like he messed up. When the demon neared, all he could think of was how small he himself was at that moment.

He tried to stand up, but for some reason he was anxious, it made it even harder to control his body. The giant demon towering in front of him kneeled down, and with one hand he picked up Ling Ru and walked back to the fireplace.

Then he sat down and placed Ling Ru on his lap, this was really poking the limit for Ling Ru, it felt gay. But he did his best to calm himself, clearly, sincerity was the demons were showing him, the demon he sat on was even ready to feed him.

The other demons were very curious, they who ate like mad beasts before was actually taking small bites and observing Ling Ru. Ling Ru decided to become familiar with the one he sat on, for Ling Ru that meant to be able to know who he is amongst the others.

‘I will call him Baba, his scar on his nose is enough to differentiate him from the others..’

As he was thinking of this, Baba stretched out an arm and plucked a notable piece of meat from the beast, withdrawing his arm, he stopped it right in front of Ling Ru. If Ling Ru wanted to eat, he would just have to open up his mouth and bite down.

This was still hard for Ling Ru, to eat almost raw meat. The optimist inside him told him he would probably gain some skill, being able to eat everything or something wild. But this was not how he felt like doing it, instead he stretched out both arms to push away the meat, and jumped off Baba’s lap.

What he chose to was of course to cook the meat he ate better, to a roasted level. The beast was raise too far above the fire to even really be affected. They probably only used it to get the meat a bit hot, intelligence did not seem to be in their favour, heated meat was already a gold find for these primal demons.

Or actually the fact they are able to make fire is notable, their uses are just not developed yet. Ling Ru stretched out and tried to reach for a piece of meat, Baba looked dumbfounded but raised him up with one hand, he was curious about Ling Ru.

With Baba’s assistance, Ling Ru could reach the meat, he took off something that looked fresh and unaffected by the low heat, fewer bacteria. After getting down from Baba’s hand, he looked around for a stick or something, he was exasperated to find something looking like spears made of wood.

He ran over and speared the meat, and went back to the fireplace. By this everyone was dumbfounded, they had never seen a demon seedling acting like this. Demons are not stupid, they actually know how to communicate, they were just looking at Ling Ru because the initial days of a demon seedling usually determine its strength.

Ling Ru had already seated himself close to the fire, it was closer than the other demons were because the demons were bigger and had longer reach so it was no problem for them to sit further away. The heat did not affect them, Ling Ru guessed that the weird feeling earlier when he sat on the floor, was in accord with their weird skin.

Their skin was very hard in comparison to the normal human skin, resilient and hard, but also flexible. It was actually quite enjoyable to move around in the body, the feeling was very good. After Ling Ru sat down, he held the spear in over the fire, just high enough not to be charred, but there was a visual distance between the meat on his spear and the meat that was placed above the fire.

Baba and companions all started acting normal again, like they were before Ling Ru came. Ling Ru listened attentively while they were communicating, it was actually like they were telling each other stories, or something alike.

As time passed, he got more and more used the language, it was imperceptible at the speed he learned the basics of the language, meanwhile, he was even sparing some attention on the meat, to roast it properly.

After hearing a lot of their speech, Ling Ru gradually understood it, he had his doubts about how he could just suddenly learn to speak another language in around twenty minutes, but it was a delightful thing. Being able to communicate with them would make a world of difference to the present Ling Ru.

Looking at his meat, he drew the spear closer to him to carefully check for raw spots, but to his surprise, it looked really good. It was not red at all, and with his first bite, he went to wonderland. He let out a “Mmh” sound to the best of his demon capabilities, this meat was ten times better than pork. A chicken's meat was not even a match for this, it did not even need spices to taste so delicious.

It was right after Ling Ru had taken the bite, and being mesmerised, that he heard another announcement.

[Basic Demon Language Learned]

Skill Level: 1/5

Experience: 1/20

Description:

Language skill unlocked the Demon Language, and you can now speak the basics.

Right after this announcement, Ling Ru felt enlightened. ‘20 experience points to level up!’ He noticed something very important about this language skill, it was very easy for him to progress in learning it. It could be natural affinity due to him being a demon, maybe it was quite normal, he needed to max level it quickly if he wanted to help these demons become smarter.

After unlocking the language skill, Ling Ru ate his meat and listened to the stories of the demons, he learnt a lot of the ecosystem and the beasts living outside, as well as the strength and prowess of the demons. Time passed slowly, and Ling Ru found his eyelids closing automatically for longer periods of time.

He felt very secure about falling asleep here, so he leaned on Baba to use him as a cushion, and due to his fatigue of the day being so abnormal, and the stress of his mind, he fell asleep within moments. It needs to be said, Ling Ru had slept for a long period of time before being transferred to this world and waking up, but he had maybe been awake for four hours since coming to the cave, due to the stress and abnormal occurrences, he was very tired from fatigue.

The younger someone is, the more sleep they need, it’s common knowledge, and the same goes for Demon seedlings. Apparently.