Ling Ru yawned, another day means another start. Waking up Ling Ru lied on his primitive bed for a while, considering whether he should set some goals for today. He did not really get anything done yesterday, he bonded a bit with the other demons, but he was after all still a seedling.

Stories and history taught him a lot about this world, but more of the races and their hatred externally. He still needed to research the world to get a better grasp of what he is dealing with. He had thought of setting some extreme goal of world conqueror, with unlimited skills he had the potential to be limitless in power, maybe he could even become indestructible.

Considering for a while, he sat up on the bed. He should definitely set some goals, not only today but everyday. With this he could map out his brilliance, reach higher! Ling Ru could not help to giggle to himself, planning is the basis of all masterminds.

Looking at his three skills, the easiest to level was definitely the language, but even if it evolved to ‘Advanced Demon Language Skill’ it would not be of any help to him. Crossing that out for now, he only had two other skills. The carpenter skill needed to be levelled up, with it he could create siege weapons if he wanted to wage war. He had a faint of idea of overtaking the demon city, and force them to take in Baba, Lon, Quan, Zuo, Red and Flower. Red had told him what they had done to get banished, and it was kind of laughable.

Lon was accused of starting a fight, without any evidence or eyewitnesses, the elder council just banished him. The logic was so surreal in that community, it was like they were playing god of all demons, it was unacceptable. Quan was an alcoholic, and since his wife left him he had gone mad in an inn, breaking a few chairs and some jars of alcohol. He was drunk, this kind of stuff happened on earth too, though a fine or a bit of jail time would suffice, as long as no one was hurt. Banishment was standard for descendants of the demon ruler, everyone had one chance if they were his descendants. The others had similar stories, except Baba.

Baba was not even banished from the demon city, he got into a heated discussion with his grand parents, which are part of the elder council about Lon’s banishment. When they did not want to listen to reason, Baba had just walked out of the city without coming back. He had already planned to meet up with Lon if they did not budge. Together with Lon he moved around in the wilderness, they would sometimes scour back to the exit of the city to look if anyone was banished.

Once a month they would meet outside the city to see if anyone was banished, no one from the city could stop this, and they all gradually began to accept that a small group of banished demons survived together. The council was not stupid enough to think they could easily order a kill on the banished demons, so they just let them do whatever, as long as they did not step inside the city.

Whether Baba’s parents and grandparents regret their decision, was unknown. Ling Ru was quite touched by Baba’s friendship towards Lon, who was even younger than him. Ling Ru was a bit sidetracked by his thoughts, but he casually reminded him of the issue at hand.

Goals, Ling Ru needed goals. A few goals he commonly set himself in games was to hit a specific damage range, or clear a dungeon in a certain speed, but this was not relevant here. What mattered in this game was clearly his skills and abilities, and how to create new skills, maybe even some super powers. It gave him a super idea, power, in MMORPG’s the character uses a weapon, he needs to master a weapon.

The weapons Ling Ru was currently able to make was only the spear, despite craving to be a holy swordsman, he saw the reasoning in training the spear, unless! Ling Ru got a brilliant idea, it did not matter if the sword was made of wood, clearly a spear of wood is not as good as a spear made of metal alloy, or what was actually used. Point is, he is able to make a simple wooden sword with two pieces of wood and a strip of something to wrap around it. It would have the form of a sword, and therefore should by reason, also equal a sword.

Levelling up his mental skill, and his carpenter skill was all good, but against real combat prowess at the early levels, he could not even be sure he would be able to survive. He had this sense of foreboding, that even though the demons had not been found for a very long time, it would not be long till’ they would meet other races.

They might even try to kill the demons until the race is extinct, for Ling Ru this proved to be against his thoughts of being a hero and a prodigy, one needs time. Unsure of how much, he needed to learn to fight. As he was thinking of this, he realized he should go with the others to hunt!

And right as he had thought of it, Lon came walking into his cave room.

“Ru, we are going hunting soon, do you want to tag along?”

What a perfect timing, Ling Ru was astonished by it. ‘Oh well, if I can’t time attacks, at least I can time my thoughts with others actions.’ he thought of a troll sentence in his mind. You only have the fun you make yourself, or in this case Ling Ru was just a plain weirdo.

With the question of Lon, Ling Ru nodded and followed him. While they were walking to the main cave, Lon briefed Ling Ru in a very patient manner. Lon spoke of the dangers, and even advised Ling Ru to stick close to him so that he could protect him. The males in the main cave was just fidgeting with their own stuff, sharpening their dull spears, funny thing is they were actually using sharp stones. Ling Ru had noticed that before he found the sharp stones, they had sharpened their spears with teeth or nails, that was just crazy.

They did not mind really, but the sharp stones was clearly more effective, and their spears became sharper than ever. No one had picked up the spears with the sharp stones attached to it, they were Ru’s in their eyes, so it was his belongings. Unless he gave them permissions, they would not take it.

Everyone had already established some kind of bond or connection with Ru, demons mature quite fast, Ru was just a bit faster than everyone else. To Ru’s surprise, no one even thought of him as a child, it was just a tiny bit precarious to him. He treated it like when on earth, someone acted more mature than their real age, so therefore people treated that person as a grown up instead of a teenager.

And he really had grown a lot in just a few days, his height was to their tummies, which was around a meter and a half. He sat down close to the others, and picked up his two spears, the ones with one sharp end and one stone end.

“Baba and Lon, I will give you one of these spears each, if you help me get two pieces of pipe like wood, and help me rip a strip of skin from the beast over there.” Ling Ru got the idea to have the two strongest men help him, first of all, it required huge amounts of work for him to get a strip of skin from the cadaver, whereas Baba and Lon could just use their nail and strength to rip a good and long strip for him.

As for finding the wood he needed, they clearly knew how to go with obtaining it, since they had so many spears. He wanted to create his sword before they went hunting, maybe he could even obtain some basic sword skill, it would be awesome if he could level up that skill on the hunt.

Baba and Lon was clearly enlivened by that deal, for them it was as easy as picking bogeys from their nose. Lon agreed really fast, and even went over to fix the strip of skin from the cadaver. He towered over the huge beast, he was just much bigger.

Lon raised his hand, and instantly he swung down, mid air he formed a claw with his fingers, which holed into the skin at a fixed distance. The after wind made the hair on the cadaver fluctuate, he had managed to stop his hand right as he pierced the skin, the precision and power was insane. Demons were innate fighters, this was no joke.

What made Ling Ru happy and satisfied, was that he did it three times along the cadaver to make it a very long strip, and ripped it out, and he even ripped out a few extra strips that Ling Ru could use to make other weapons with. This was a good bargain, even for the strong Lon and Baba it was quite a good trade.

Lon threw the strips at Ling Ru, satisfied at his own work and the surprise on Ling Ru’s face after he had shown his prowess. Without Ling Ru noticing, Baba had already left the cave, it made Ling Ru wonder where he went, did he really go to get the wood.

“Where did Baba go, Quan?” Ling Ru chose to ask Quan, he was just sharpening his spear, a tad sad he did not get a good spear from Ru.

“He went to get the wood of course.” Zuo answered without letting Quan answer, Zuo was also a bit surprised about the deal, but he was not affected the least. He could also have done what Luo and Baba was asked to do, but he could also just ask Ru to make one for him, Ru was already a friend of his, he was sure Ru would agree.

Ling Ru pondered, Baba must have known already, where there was wood at. He had no intention of asking, he would also know sometime soon enough, but it was meaningless for him to spend time to wander and explore. With the new friends he had, he could have just asked them for their help, instead he chose to give the spears to the two strongest, it was clearly out of appreciation for them that Ling Ru chose to do it.