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System Error: The Imp Who Shouldn’t Exist (Web Novel) - Chapter 6: Status (b)
Chapter 6: Status (b)
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Chapter 6: Status (b)
There it was. His face. To the imp, it was the most disgusting thing he had ever seen. All things considered, among the countless horrors that crawled through Hell... it wasnt even that bad.
His skin was a deep, blood-dark red. Like clotted fluid left to rot. Pocked. Scarred. Not a single patch of smooth flesh. He stared at the image. Touched his face, trailing to his lips.He remembered, none of the others had them. The swarm it came from had mouths full of exposed, serrated teeth. No lips. Just meat and bite.
Did you?
[Lips required for communication. Increases chance of survivability.]
He hadnt even noticed.
His hand drifted higher, brushing over the small horns that now crowned his head. In the image, two three-inch horns jutted from its skull, curved slightly inward. Another thing the others didnt have.
Its pupilless eyes, dull and sickly orange, narrowed, moving onto the lines of text. His profile.
[User Profile]
[User Name // Unknown]
[User True-Name // None]
[Entity // Imp]
[Class // None]
[Status // Unrecognized]
[Rank // Unranked]
[Flag // Anomalous Host Detected]
[Level // 2]
[Attributes]
[STR // 2 // F]
[VIT // 3 // F]
[AGI // 4 // F]
[INT // 2 // F]
[FLH // 1 // F]
[WIL // 0 // F]
[AP // 3]
[Soul Integrity // 41%]
[Defense]
[Natural // none]
[Resistance]
[Fire // 100%]
[Hellfire // 10%]
[Racial Traits]
[Heat Resistance // A]
[Dark Vision // S]
[Wall Crawler // C]
[Stealth Movement // C]
[Natural Weapons]
[Claws // F]
[Teeth // E]
[Tail // F]
[Active Skills]
[None]
[Passive Skills]
[None]
[Racial Skills]
[Savage Feed // F]
[Minor Shifting [Unstable] // X // RARE]
[Daily Directives]
[Feed // Active]
[Survive // Critical // 1236 hrs]
[EVOLUTION PATHWAY]
[Next Available // Locked]
[Requirements // Soul Integrity 49% / First System-Confirmed Kill / Reach Lvl 10 / Locked]
Everything was confusing. He could barely process what he was looking at, numbers, anomalies, and attributes. It all blurred together.
None of it mattered. Not compared to what sat at the top of the screen. His name. Or rather, his lack of one.
What is a True-Name?
[Recommendation: Hold claw on any item for definition.]
He pressed his talon to the words: [User True-Name // None]
A smaller screen flickered open.
[System // Definition]
[True-Name]
[A demon's original, divine identifier encoded at creation // If spoken aloud by another entity, it grants absolute control over the demons actions, thoughts, and form]
[!! Warning !!]
[Exposure of True Name compromises all system defenses]
But I dont have one. Can I make one?
[Negative. Imps are not born with True-Names. Assignment impossible. User cannot generate own True Name.]
Then how do I get one?
[Unknown. Possible methods include exploration of Hell or unlocking next stage of evolution.]
Evolution.
He knew the word. Knew his kind werent meant to reach it. Werent supposed to change. But now the system had said it out loud, confirming the text hed seen earlier. It wasnt just theory anymore.
It really was possible.
Removing his finger from the True Name section, he pressed it against the section, [Evolution Pathway]
[System // Definition]
[Evolution Pathway]
[The Evolution Pathway outlines potential forms the host may take beyond current classification / Each evolution grants physical and metaphysical upgrades aligned with consumed data]
[Available Paths // Unknown]
[Primary Requirements // Sufficient Soul Integrity]
[Additional Requirements // Unlocked progressively upon threshold checks]
[Note]
[Evolution is irreversible // Each path alters the host's biology, instincts, and identity // Selections are final]
This says Each Evolution... I have more than one?
[Evolution potential cannot be fully diagnosed. Pathway, Unknown.]
Better than none, but what are these little moving lights? Its getting hard to read.
He tried swiping at them, over and over, but the lights kept growing.
[Recommendation: Run.]
Huh? Why
The screen blinked out. Replaced by another.
[System // Notification]
[!! WARNING !!]
[!! WARNING !!]
What?!
He swiped the alerts away, just as the lights in the distance revealed their true form. A cloud of fire coming fast. The true king of the Maw had found him.
He dropped to all fours and ran, tearing across the warped terrain as fast as his limbs would move.
What do I do?!
[New Quest Available]
[Survival Quest // Don't Get Cooked]
[Condition // Flee Scorch Gnats before they turn you to charcoal]
[Reward // Skill Unlock // Rend]
[Accept]
[Yes/No]
"Accept! Go away!"
[Survival Quest // Don't Get Cooked // Accepted]
The screen blinked away.
Just ahead, the top of the waterfall ruptured, vomiting out a massive skull, some thing long dead and long forgotten.
The voice cut in, flat as ever.
[Recommendation: Do not die.]
