Demonic Devourer, Book 1: A LitRPG Adventure by Aaron Shih

Author:Aaron Shih [Shih, Aaron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-08-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26: Twenty-sixth, roll

Fire is all I know. Burning darkness suffuses me, setting every nerve ending I have alight.

I have Pain Resistance at a Silver tier. Level 15, no less. I have been able to put aside the sensation of pain even when half the bones in my body were broken.

And yet bright hot pain consumes me, devours every lucid thought in my mind. My body is alight with agony, my very soul burning under the wraithfire that slices into it.

Pain Resistance advanced to level 16!

Through the mind-shattering pain, I manage to wonder if this is what being Devoured feels like.

I can’t tell how long it lasts. My vision is shades of black and white and red. All I can taste and smell is sulfur and ash and slowly-cooking flesh. The silence of the room is broken by a woman’s piercing scream. It’s not until my throat is raw that I realize it’s mine.

Pain Resistance advanced to level 17!

Flesh chars to a crisp and sloughs off, Demonic Heritage replacing it just fast enough to keep my body from falling to pieces.

Pain Resistance advanced to level 18!

After a few short eternities, the pain starts to subside ever so slightly, and my vision returns enough that I can make out blurry shapes of light on dark. My skin continues to char to the point of boiling and falling off, but the screaming agony has reduced to merely excruciating pain, which I can push aside in my mind.

New skill unlocked: Demonic Resistance

You take 10% less damage from demonic attacks.

New skill unlocked: Fire Resistance

You take 10% less damage from fire attacks.

New skill unlocked: Wraithfire Resistance

Wraithfire deals less damage to your soul.

I can’t ignore it in its entirety since it’s sort of important to know if my body is still falling apart on me, but my increased resistances beat back the undying waves of flame until I can function again. My mind regains its facilities enough to let me know that I’ve screamed myself hoarse.

Targets killed: [0/5]

Warning: XP reward reduced from 600 to 500.

They killed the dragon baby while I was suffering, it seems. Sure enough, when my eyelids are intact enough to blink and my sight begins to return, I see the two of them kneeling next to it. Adrian’s sword is wet with blackish-red blood, and I’m surprised to see that Sierra’s half-covered in it, too. She’s elbow-deep in the corpse, and I can see magic flowing out of it into her.

Pragmatic. I can respect a woman like that.

Though everything still hurts, I’m able to start moving once more. I use Shape Blood to keep leaky exposed muscle from falling apart.

My charred bones creak as I rise, and my hiss of pain is genuine for once.

The two unburnt members of my part turn at the sound.

“Gods asunder, Evelyn,” Sierra gasps, horrified. Her face is streaked with tears that have long since dried, but at the sight of me, new ones well up. She doesn’t wipe them away.

Adrian vomits into the void. From how little he empties his stomach, I’d wager this isn’t the first time he’s done that.

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