Joy open his eyes and saw darkness. He felt a hard slimy wall around himself. Instinct flooded his body and Joy knew what he had to do. Feeling his body, he could tell his body was in a crouched hugging position. He pushed his arms and felt the walls crack. With great force, he shattered the walls around him. Red light rushed in through the broken walls. Through the open wall, he saw a land filled with obsidians, black dirt, red dirt, brimstone, sulfur, mountains, dormant volcanoes, black clouds, burnt dead trees, many eggs, and a black sun radiating red light.

The red light from the sun felt energizing and gave Joy strength. From his core knowledge, Joy could tell that the sun had a special type of energy that benefitted lifeforms like him. Looking through his knowledge, he felt like he was missing many core information about himself. Joy decided not to dwell on it and crawled out of his egg.

Joy had a humanoid body of three feet with his back arching up straight, it made him look elegant. His skin was red and rough, it looked like hard scabs that were hard to cut through. Some of his skin stretched over him and covered his entire body like a cloak. His head had black short hair, red sharp ears, two pupil eyes, a sharp nose, and a mouth filled with sharp black teeth, his face looked sinister and cunning. Under his cloak skin, he had four long arms with each having five fingers that had sharp nails, and two long legs with each having five toes that had sharp nails.

The sulfuric air felt wonderful to Joy and he stretched his body. From around Joy, he looked at and study the many eggs, they were everywhere as far as the eye could see. The eggs had all sorts of shapes, colors, and shells. The eggs had unhatched demons and Joy could tell they would hatch soon, he wanted to break the eggs and eat the demons inside but he knew he didn't have the strength to break the outer part of the eggs. Joy looked at his spiky egg and licked the fluids inside, he would need a lot of energy for the upcoming survival fest.

After eating most of the fluids, he looked for a tree and jumped toward it. He jumped far like a grasshopper and he quickly climbed up the tree. Climbing, jumping, and running were very easy for Joy, his body was built for it.

At the top of the tree, Joy's skin color changed to that of the burnt tree, he looked like a part of the dead tree. Around Joy, the eggs start hatching. Demons of all sorts of shapes, sizes, and body parts started hatching. As far as the eye could see, millions upon millions of demons started hatching and fighting. Loud noises filled the air and a huge battle of survival fest began.

A worm demon with a big mouth bit onto the head of a demon and tore it off, black blood splattered through the air. A flying demon with a spear tail dived from the sky and pierced the neck of a demon. A fat demon with spikes all over its body shot spikes out and impaled the surrounding demons. A liquid red corrosive demon splashed onto another demon and melted them. All around Joy, there were screams of pain, anger, suffering, fear, despair, and many other negative emotions.

The battle looked and felt wonderful to Joy, he was very happy watching it. From the distance of his eyes, he saw a three feet tall female red-skinned horned demon with a whip that whipped and whipped. With every whip, blood and skin flew into the air. Every demon that got whipped screeched in pain, they avoided and ran from the red-skinned horned demon.

Far from the red-skinned horned demon, a four feet tall black demon suit armor dashed and slashed with its sword. With every slash, limbs and heads were bisected. Every time a demon died, their soul which was a black wisp of light would come out of their body. The black demon suit armor grabbed and ate the souls of his victim. Energy coursed through his body and he seemed to grow stronger.

Joy could see that the red-skinned horned demon and the black demon suit armor were better than their kind. Their bloodlines seemed to be superior and had a slight suppressive effect on their weaker kind. Joy wanted to know more about bloodlines, but he decided he should start working soon, less the remaining demons around grew too strong for him.

He jumped down from the tree and picked up two sharp obsidian, the battle around raged on fiercely and Joy searched for a target. Joy saw a soft-skinned worm demon shooting acid at other demons and dashed towards it. He came close to the worm demon and his two upper arms shot out of his cloak. His fingers dug into the skin of the worm demon and his two lower arms stabbed with sharp obsidian. He stabbed in quick succession repeated and the worm demon screeched in pain.

Unfortunately, he couldn't hit any vital point and the worm turned its mouth to shoot acid at him. Joy did not stay and leaped away to a safe distance. The acid sprayed far and missed. The bleeding wound on the worm demon tightened and it stopped bleeding. Its body tighten and its mouth tightened inward. Joy saw it was about to make a powerful ranged attack and he dashed to the side.

The many black dotted eyes on the demon worm's head kept its eyes on Joy and it fired a fastball of acid. The ball of acid landed close to Joy and exploded, it corroded Joy's cloak, and surrounding demons close to it melted in pain. Joy didn't feel much pain but was a bit sad to see his cloak damaged.

Joy looked towards the worm demon who was recovering its energy from its attack and he dashed forward. The demon worm turned to flee but Joy was too fast. Joy came behind the worm demon and scratched at its eyes while stabbing its head with the sharp obsidian. The worm demon screeched under the onslaught of pain and soon died.

The soul of the demon worm came out of its body and Joy ate it. Energy coursed through his body and he felt himself grow stronger. He grabbed at the sliced-off flesh of the demon worm and quickly ate. As he ate, he knew danger would come soon and he stayed alert.

From the corners of his eyes, he saw the black demon suit armor rushing toward him with its sword slashing down the surrounding demons. Joy stopped eating and grabbed the obsidians on the ground with his four hands. He threw the obsidians towards the black demon suit armor at high speed. The obsidians collided with the black demon suit armor and broke its legs, arms, and neck. The surrounding demons saw its weakness and rushed in to attack.

However, the black demon suit armor didn't die from the onslaught, its armor was too tough. It put its limbs back into position and killed the surrounding demons, it then rushed towards Joy. Joy found the armor of the black demon suit armor quite troublesome, but he was sure he could break it to death. Obsidians after obsidians flew towards the black demon suit armor. The flying obsidians were too fast and the black demon suit armor couldn't parry them all.

The black demon suit armor limbs were broken again and it tried to put them back into position again, but Joy kept throwing obsidian after obsidian and kept breaking more of its limb. Seeing that it was losing, the sword of the black demon suit armor seem to come alive with energy and shot toward Joy.

Joy did not expect the attack and he dodged to the side. The sword cut through his shoulder and he felt a pain that wasn't too high, the long evolution of demons greatly reduced their pain. The sword continued flying and pierced through many demons. Joy could tell his shoulder was broken and he kept moving as he was afraid the sword would attack him again.

Keeping his eyes on the sword, he saw that it had landed on the ground and stopped moving, it seemed to have run out of energy and could no longer fly to attack him. Joy turned his eyes towards the black demon suit armor. The demon was not still on the ground as he expected, it was right in front of him, and Joy froze with momentary fear.

The demon slammed its first into Joy’s shoulder with great force and flung him to the ground. The demon rushed towards him and pinned him to the ground, it proceeded to rain down fist after fist on Joy’s face. Every hit for Joy felt like getting hit with a bat.

Joy struggled with his arms and tried to scratch the demon but it felt like scratching steel. He tried to push the demon away but the demon weighed too much.

“Fuck you man!!!,” Joy screamed.

Joy plunged his sharp finger into the demon's dark eye slit. He felt soft flesh and tried to push his fingers in. The demon pulled its head back from Joy’s fingers and grabbed his wrist, it twisted and snapped Joy’s wrist. Joy felt some pain and knew he couldn't use his wrist anymore. His other two hands grabbed some nearby sharp obsidian and stabbed them towards the demon’s neck.

The obsidian plunged into soft flesh but the demon felt no pain. It grabbed Jay’s two wrists and broke them. Joy knew he was dead, but he didn't want to give up. The demon raised its fist and slammed them down on his face. Fist after fist came onto his face and Joy saw his vision and mind getting blurry.

A whip flew in the air and struck the black demon suit armor, the whip made a big slash on the black demon suit armor and severed two of Joy’s left arms. The attacker was the red-skinned horned demon. The black demon suit armor reacted quickly and grabbed its sword, it then rushed towards the red-skin horned demon.

The red-skinned horned demon whipped again but the black demon suit armor deflected its attack. The whip attack was strong, but it was predictable and slow enough for the black demon suit armor to deflect it.

Joy became happy about his chance to escape and grabbed his two severed arms, he got up and ran away. His head was still dizzy and his eyesight was still blurry, but he felt them slowly getting better. The two demons behind Joy fought and the surrounding demons made room and fought each other. After a while, Joy's dizziness soon stopped. Unknown knowledge flooded his head and he opened up a status.

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Joy - Hatched High Demon

Race: Armstalker Demon

Str: 2

End: 1

Agi: 2

Demon Energy: 1/1

Demon Essence: 0.03

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Joy then stopped running and looked toward the two demons fighting. He checked the status of the black demon suit armor and calmly ate his severed arm.

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Hatched Superior Demon

Race: Swarmor Demon

Str: 4

End: 6

Agi: 4

Demon Energy: 2/3

Demon Essence: 0.34

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The strength of the Swarmor demon made him feel lucky, if the Swarmor demon hadn't been tired from killing so many demons, it would have easily killed him. Joy then checked the status of the red-skinned horned demon.

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Hatched Greater Demon

Race: Whirpin Demon

Str: 3

End: 2

Agi: 3

Demon Energy: 2/2

Demon Essence: 0.20

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Comparing the stats of the two, he felt that the Swarmor demon would win, it had many advantages except stamina. A demon came close to Joy and he threw a sharp piece of obsidian toward its head and killed it, he then went back to watching the Swarmor demon and Whirpin demon fight.