Imdiate correction. Despite the horrid sll of his brothers, it was quite hard to find them. All that happened while he was trying to do that was that he got distracted when more and more boxes appeared out of nowhere. But luckily, the more the boxes appeared, the more the Imp's body beca stronger and faster! Hah, screw you, dumb boxes with your stupid squiggly lines!
The thing that changed most about the Imp was that he beca much faster and whenever he nearly couldn't run anymore because he was out of breath, for so reason, he could nearly imdiately start running again!
But those feisty boxes kept catching up to him for so weird reason. He managed to kill them a few tis, but in the end, they would always return a little bit later. They started appearing less frequently, yeah, but there was still a new box appearing every few minutes, and always when the Imp did sothing super cool or smart as if they were waiting for him to be distracted.
And a few monts later, the Imp noticed sothing else. It was the sll that he had been looking for all along, and when he did find it and stopped in his tracks to properly find out where exactly his brothers were, the sll beca a lot stronger, while a new box appeared as well.
[You picked up a familiar sll. Perception 1]
"Grarh!" The Imp growled out and simply hit the box to make it disappear again. They were easy to take care of alone, but when they were in a pack, the Imp was feeling quite intimidated, so he wanted to take care of the ones that weren't with the others whenever he could. Now, the Imp did the sa, and then imdiately booked it away from the other notifications that were slowly catching up to him, running in the direction of his brothers.
And soon, he could not only sll his brothers, but he could also hear them! And so other weird sounds. And loud and painful grunts. And-
"Degh?" The Imp muttered out as he looked at the scene in front of himself, seeing his brothers cut up on the ground while three tall, weird-looking things were standing above them. One of them, the shortest, was a completely red thing. It looked a bit like his brothers, but the Imp could tell that it really really wasn't his brothers. It had way too many weirdly colored bits, and the red bits were far too long and not really attached to the weirdly colored bits.
Another one of them was a completely black thing. The Imp could see two blue eyes co out between the weird black stuff that covered the thing's body, which looked similar to the cloth that so of the stronger monsters in his unit wore, but very different, and this one didn't seem to stink the sa way.
And the last of them, the tallest, was silver and blue, and it had a weird shiny stick in its hand, and its foot was directly on one of the Imp's brothers' heads, which was split off of its body.
And that was sothing that the Imp didn't like at all.
Imdiately, the Imp began to bare its teeth, not caring for the boxes anymore, as he was now facing a more imminent, albeit not nearly as dangerous, opponent.
"Look! Another one!" The Red thing exclaid excitedly as it pointed its hand toward the Imp, who simply continued to stare at them. "Huh? Doesn't it look sowhat angry?" The tallest responded as it looked toward the other things. The Imp didn't understand what it said, although it did understand that it was saying sothing, and he really wanted to know what it was.
"Tsk, Angry? You realize you're talking about a monster, right? What could that thing be angry about?" The Black thing asked, and the Imp listened closely as it was movings its mouth, managing to pick sothing out of it. 'Angry'. It didn't know exactly what that grunt ant, but it seed to be sothing important, so it figured that it was a good idea to rember it.
[Beginner Common Language Comprehension Skill Learned]
Noticing the new box that appeared next to it, the Imp jumped to the side a little, before the tall thing seed to release a lot of air at once.
"Guess you're right. Just look at it, it probably ate so Ariz root and is now just high off of his ass." It replied before the Imp averted his attention from the box over to the thing. For so reason, even if he had no clue what exactly they were saying, he sohow knew that they were mocking him. And the Imp didn't like to be mocked.
"Who cares? I want to make it my companion!" The red thing exclaid excitedly before the black thing turned over to the red thing and frowned. "Seriously? Ava, what do you want with an Imp as a fucking pet? It's the lowest-grade Demon-type Monster there is. And it's not even a proper Imp; it's a Lesser Imp. Let's just kill it and get you sothing that doesn't look like it's going to hump the living daylight out of that plushy collection you have at the Inn, Ava." The black thing grunted loudly in a lengthy way, and all of a sudden, the Imp got confused. He had never heard such a long grunt before! The Imp was actually getting sowhat curious and excited!
But then, the blue and silver thing began to grunt as well. "Exactly, Ava, why don't you just stop being impatient and wait, Ava. We know that you're happy you got the taming ability through your Hunter Job, Ava, but an Imp is a really bad choice, Ava. Most Hunters choose animals, like Dogs, Ava." It said with a smirk on its face, and the Imp got pretty confused again.
Why were they saying that weird grunt so often? Was it sothing important as well? Maybe he had to rember that grunt 'Ava'! Although then, the red thing's weirdly colored bits beca red as well, and it beca really loud and angry.
"My na isn't Ava, you fuckwits! It's Avalin! You know I don't like being called Ava!" It exclaid, and this ti, the Imp took a real close look at the place where the grunts ca out of for the red bit, and it slowly tried to copy what the thing was doing.
"Avva…Avva…Ava" The Imp grunted out, hoping that it said the right thing, but the red thing just beca more angry and red at that. "I just fucking said it's not 'Ava', you goddamn-" It exclaid, and while the Imp didn't realize what it said, the other three things realized what it was.
They seed to look at each other confused, but at the sa ti, the Imp was just taking care of the new boxes that appeared next to him.
[You have learned speech!]
[Intelligence 2][Wisdom 2]
[Beginner Common Language Comprehension Skill Leveled up!]
Imdiately, the Imp just waved his hand at the boxes imdiately, and then at the sa ti, chose to just take out the other boxes that were coming closer again. For so reason, he didn't feel like he was just as scared of these boxes anymore. They were terrifying still, but the Imp now thought he could take them on for so reason!
And while the Imp was just flailing its skimpy, thin arms around at the boxes around it, the three things began to talk amongst each other.
"Did… Did that Lesser fucking Imp just say my na..?" The red thing asked, confused, and the black thing nodded its head slowly. "I think it did… Can Monsters usually learn our language? Is it so unique mo-"
"Who the fuck cares! Ava, ta that Imp imdiately! If we bring it to Zaragon, he'll definitely give us a shitton of money!" The blue and silver thing exclaid, and for once, it seed like the three of them started to agree with each other, although the red thing seed to have sothing small against it still. "It's not technically taming, that's a really hard thing to do, but it doesn't need an 'Ownership Collar'. And my na isn't-"
"Just fucking get to it, Avalin, please. God…" The black thing responded sassily as it crossed its arms and rolled its eyes, and the red thing just grumbled quietly and walked up to the Imp that seed to be swatting invisible things in the air.
Slowly, the red thing stepped up behind the Imp with a leather collar in its hand and then tried to put it on the Imp's neck. And it didn't end up just trying, but it really did work.
And as it did so, the Imp imdiately froze as nurous, blinking red boxes appeared around it, covering its sight.
[WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!]
[AN INVASIVE ENTITY IS TRYING TO TAKE OVER YOUR MIND]
[YOU DO NOT HAVE THE REQUIRED RESISTANCE, INTELLIGENCE OR WISDOM TO RESIST]
And while the Imp wasn't able to really do anything but try to rip at the thing around its neck and just looked around itself as a lot of boxes appeared around it, the Imp just dropped to the ground, starting to shake in fear at this unknown feeling. It suddenly felt weird, as if its mind was being pulled away, and it couldn't help but stare at a single point:
The red thing that was standing next to it.
[You are experiencing extre fear. Resistance 1]
[You have now been placed under the ownership of Avalin Stinehearth]
[As the item used to place you under the command of your owner is not ant for your kind, it is possible to break out of its effect. Do you want to initiate the resistance?]
The Imp didn't know exactly what was going on, but it just realized one thing. That one big box that appeared in front of it just now wasn't one that was trying to harm it. Instead, the Imp was feeling hope from it, and for so reason started to understand what it was trying to tell him.
Slowly, the Imp began to think that he wanted to accept whatever it was the box was trying to make him do before another box appeared around it while all of the others, even the red blinking ones, disappeared, and the Imp began to feel very hazy all of a sudden.
[resistance will be effective in 7 Days, 13 Hours, 11 Minutes, 45 Seconds]
The Imp stared at the box in front of it, and a few of the squiggly lines toward the end were starting to change all the ti. Nothing happened just yet, but the Imp was sure that sothing would happen later as long as he just dealt with what was going on right now. And now, when the Imp looked at the Red thing, it felt a few different emotions.
One, complete will for submission. He wasn't sure why, and he had never felt such a thing before, but the Imp sohow knew that it wouldn't end well for him if he did anything the red thing didn't want.
Two, complete, and utter hatred. To begin with, the Imp didn't like a lot of things. Not the sky, not the ground, and not even that dumb pink flower in the corner of his eye. But now, all of that dislike turned into pure hatred.
Slowly, the Imp stood up and looked around, simply staring in front of it at the red thing.
"Ooh! I think it worked!" It exclaid, and the blue and silver thing began to laugh. "You bet it did. I didn't think those kinds of Ownership Collars worked on monsters, but apparently, they do. Either way, I think that guy is going to be very interesting." The thing said with a grin, but the Imp just ground its own sharp teeth and stepped forward. There was a sudden urge that overca him, which seed to be connected to one of the new boxes that he just started seeing.
[You are too exhausted to fuel the resistance. Sohow regain energy]
The Imp began to be able to sowhat understand these boxes, although just roughly. Even if they were his greatest enemy, maybe he had to rely on them for now. And if that was the case, he really had to get rid of his exhaustion, and there was one certain way that the Imp figured would be a great way to get his energy back, which was to eat.
And so, he ate. His teeth ground through the red at in front of him as bones cracked as he pressed into them. The Imp could feel the disgusted stares from behind him, but the Imp didn't care. He just knew he needed to do sothing, anything, to make sure he could break out of the control they had him under.
Even if it ant eating his own brothers.
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