“Hello there! I'm kinda lost, can you help me getting to the nearest information booth? Also you look ugly, can I call the manager?” the Crow smiled while talking with recently severed head of demon. It had no eyes and purple skin, with small set of jagged teeth in it's mouth, which was located right between his small horns. “Of course I can help you. You are now at hell, the information booth is right near the 'Bob and Burgers' canteen and manager was killed when he turned the freezer on. {Laughter}” Crow was currently very happy for being in hell. It was his dream, get in hell, kill the main demon, usurp his throne, and steal a princess. It was not however how he imagined hell. “The hell was supposed to be a place of death and despair, not the funfair! Well, I guess once I get out of ammo it will be quite troublesome.” Crow shrugged and continued walking.
He was walking for 2 hours, and the scenery was all the same. He couldn't understand where was the north, as compass wasn't working, but the time and external temperature were shown. It was 21:23 and the temperature was 10 Celsius. He also found out that the air was similar to one on earth, albeit containing a bit more sulfur. For the next few hours he was walking without an idea of where he was going, before he came back to the place where he murdered 4 demons and left his minigun.
“Well, I borrowed the minigun, so it's not technically mine. Also it's getting late.” Jack looked at what was happening around him. “Well, let's try to scavenge something from demons, shall we?” Jack grabbed one of his knives and proceeded butchering demon. Surprisingly the flesh was easy to remove and meat was rather soft. Also the demon had very thin bones in it's body, but they were quite resistant to cutting, but easily snapped if pressure applied. Once Crow came upon heart, or what he considered a heart, he found a small spherical object inside it. “Oh man! They stoned to the degree of having stoned hearts!” terrible sense of humor aside, Crow was intensely staring at the object in his hand, when suddenly a pop-up window appeared.
“What the fuck?” Crow dropped the object he held and the window vanished. “I'm not stoned, am I?” Crow grabbed the dropped object and stared at it once again. Same window appeared
“Well, that's kinda strange. Kinda. What if I stare at the corpse?” Jack stared intensely at the corpses in front of him.
“And how do I know that this stuff in his heart is catalyst?” unsurprisingly there was no answer. “Hm... should I eat this stuff? Probably not, but think of what can I gain after consuming the heart of my enemies! Or not. Fuck, I'll butcher other demons and get the stuff from them.” Crow said so and proceeded butchering the recently killed demons.
He finished the process in a few hours, and gained the same stones from them as from the first one. Looking at them they were all named 'Demonic Catalyst', but other than that it contained no information. Crow's stomach growled
“Ups. Guess I'm hungry. Oh well, not like I have any food to eat other than that purple meat. I guess it's purple. Well, let's give it a try?” Crow removed his helmet and cut a tiny piece of meat. Once it was in his mouth, he started chewing on it before swallowing. “Bleh! Taste is terrible! I wish I had pizza!” Crow looked at the hill of meat beside him. “{Sigh} Let's postpone the feast. First of all, if there are blue windows than it probably has status, right?”
“Hey! What the hell? STATUS!!!”
“Oh, I need to wait for around a... two days? Hm... fine. Should I find a place to sleep? Well, I better eat some more meat, the amount I could stomach at least. I doubt I would be able to eat all of it, even if it was tasty.” The taste of demon meat was quite similar to charred rubber sole, but it was quite tender. “Meaning I can easily make bite sized pieces and just swallow it without chewing.” Which he immediately did.
After ten such pieces, Crow understood that he couldn't eat more of this meat. Not because of the repulse, but because he couldn't eat more. The demon meat was quite nutritious, and to the much annoyance of Crow it had quite lengthy shelf life, so it won't spoil for at least a week.
“So, let me get it straight. This shit will feed me for a week?!” Crow asked no one in particular. “Fine, I will eat it for a week. You system better generate me some awesome quest to get the fuck out of this place!”
“Inventory?” Crow asked in hope of getting some rare skill, but it was futile. “Fine, it's not working. Fireball!” and again there was nothing. “Well, I'll have to wait for two days then. Let's make some pack from those demons.” Crow said getting out of his exo-suit and grabbing nearby hides and bones. “This better work.”
After six hours of tiresome labor, Crow managed to make a crude pouch consisting of hides, sinew and bones from demons. It was crude, but for what he had in mind it was of tolerable quality. Unfortunately for him, he was getting tired and had to find a shelter, or make one, as soon as possible. Once the bag secured on the left leg of exo-suit, Crow geared up and moved in some random direction.
“I'm positive that there are quite a lot of demons in this place. I hope I find one with tasty meat.” his hopes however were futile. “Great. Just great. No tasty demons in hell. Hunt just became extermination.”
For the next 14 hours Crow was going around the hell, in search of something. It was still futile as he would sometimes venture back to the place where he killed demons.
“Ah fuck it! I'm going to sleep. Right, Status!”
“Erm, what?” Crow was surprised at seeing the time before system could be accessed by him in 30 hours. “Why is that? Why would day have 30 hours in it?!” Crow stood in the middle of nowhere with no clue on what's going on, besides the fact he was in hell. “Better enjoy the massacre to come. Night, or whatever the time it is here.”
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Jack POV
“Rise and shine!{Yawn}” I opened my eyes to see the all too familiar purple skies and charred ground. “Status?”
Great. I just was in need of some calibration.
“Can I skip... oh wait, better not to.”
“So, status?”
“Is it good or bad? Wait, first of all how do I get points, credits and tokens?”
“Do I have special actions required to get UP or SC?”
“Aw shit. Fuck! I have a way to get UP but not SC.”
“YES! All points to luck. Item or ability to gain credits.” obviously the needed items. Luck is almost maxed, so it might even help me with getting out of this place.
“Fine. I take it, not like there is anything worthwhile for those tokens, unless I search for it through whatever amount of junk items. I wonder, do you have some food in shop?”
Eh? Is it heaven or hell? I'll get some cheap burger.
You just have to grab all of my money system. You're worse than Nanotech! I'll take 3.