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After a bit of a struggle, he managed to tilt the support that held up the beast, so that the cadaver fell to the ground. He was simply too short to reach it otherwise. After it mildly crashed down onto the floor, Ling Ru started looking at the remaining skin that had not been ripped apart.

There also landed a quiet note in his mind reminding him of how strong demons are when they are fully grown, or grown-ups. But he was focused on the work at hand, and how strong he would be physically in the future would be useless if he could not even solve what was in front of him.

He needed a way to cut off the skin, he tried pulling at it, but it was quite nasty and he kept touching the lion-snake rib bones, they were slimy and filled with leftover muscle tissue and other … nasty stuff.

Ling Ru was able to loosen the skin from the body but was not able to get it off, he needed to cut it. He looked back at his pile of sharp stones, while they might not be able to cut the skin, maybe he could smash it. He walked over to his sharp stones and picked up the sharpest stone he had.

As he stood over the big beast, he hammered the sharp stone on the beast skin, it actually made a hole. If he did this in straight lines on the skin, he would be able to cut out strips of skin. As such, he kept hammering.

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A whole hour passed with hammering, he took a few breaks because of the numbness and pain in his arms, he was still very weak, for a demon. Also, he only managed two strips in that hour, because he was unable to keep going due to the fatigue and lack of energy. Hunger was not a problem, he just did not have energy without food, demons were very special and he was still learning how his own body worked.

Ling Ru lied down for a while to relax, after ten minutes he sat up and took one of the spears, he broke it in half and used his stone to make it a more of an abrupt break, removing splinters. He chopped with the stone into the side of the spear around five centimetres down the wood, and also chopped in the middle of the top of the wood. This created a kind of rectangular spot, he would put the stone here and bind it around the remaining wood, which could act as support.

He pressed the stone onto the missing rectangular spot in the wood and began binding the strip of skin around the wood and the stone. He quickly noticed how it would not work, the strip was not tight enough. After pondering for a moment, he remembered watching a television show, they even crafted something very similar just with a knife.

He made a quick decision to use his own weight as a counter force and bound one end of the strip of skin to his foot. Then he wrapped the skin around the shaft and the stone, and then he pulled as hard as he could to tighten the wrap, while his own weight was keeping the strap to the ground so that it was tightened to the best of his abilities.

His feet was almost stopped from getting blood, but he managed to get through with it because of his tough skin. The line was taut enough to keep the stone to the spear. He made a simple knot and was finally done.

Ling Ru was quite surprised with how good his spear looked, it was sharp in one end, and had a sharp stone in the other. It was already many times better than the not so sharp spears that the males used for hunting. He needed to make three more to have enough to give each of the males a new spear.

The females would also have been amazed if they had seen what he had done, but they had gone out to search for some other food, meat is not everything. When they returned later, they saw that the beast was on the floor, and Ling Ru who was sweaty lied on the floor taking a break. He had just finished his second spear, and he had no more straps of skin for now.

When the females saw the spears they were very curious, they even went up and picked up one each. They looked at Ling Ru for a while before praising his work, their praise was very simple, but they were actually quite stunned. Demons possess an innate high intelligence in comparison to beasts, and they had seen similar weapons in the Demon City.

Only that when demons tried to wrap the stone to a spear or a stick, it would be wobbly and not tight, it would also look weird to have a stone to the site of the spear, but the spears Ling Ru made looked like the stone was almost an extension of the spear. They were on par with the quality from the demon city.

This also made them question his origins again, how did this little demon become so smart, but since he was clearly too young to have been taught anything from his parents, they decided to not ponder the matter. They did nothing else than praise Ling Ru before they gave the spears back and walked to their own room.

Ling Ru was a bit stunned, they even recognized the worth of the spears, they were really smart. He could even teach them to make this, if the males learnt it, it would be easier for them to survive. At some point the experience gained from spears would not be enough for Ling Ru, he was already at level 2 for the carpenter skill with 25 experience.

The first spear had levelled him up, but after levelling up the second spear gave 5 experience less, this meant that the appreciation of his work in accord with experience would be less every time he levelled up his proficiency at a skill. It challenged him to make better work. His second spear was even much better than the first, he had done some small regulations to make it more flexible, and had even done a very good job at wrapping the stone to the spear.

Yet it had given less experience. Ling Ru pondered for a long while before he decided to go outside, just outside the cave should be safe, Ling Ru thought. He went outside to stretch and feel the breeze, it reminded him of how good the air felt in the morning when you woke up early. It reminded him of Earth. After stretching for a while, he sat down leaning on the mountain wall while looking up. There were stars, but there was no moon. He did not know what gave the light, but there was some just like how the moon illuminated earth at night.

This light though, seemed like it came from nothing, or maybe the stars projected some kind of light in this galaxy. He could not research it, he had no prior knowledge of astrology or similar stuff. He chose to abandon this thought of train and instead he dozed off.