Despite the obvious sense of danger that Danny felt and his still ordinary mind's fear , his new body remained calm , alert and seemed ready to fight.
'The body's muscle memory and experience is strong. That's perfect.'
If it was just Danny's mind in control at the moment , he was sure that this would have damn well been a panic and run situation.
Danny's thoughts were interrupted when , from behind a rather tall bunch of bushes , a tall grey skinned man in an old dirty tattered Japanese traditional Yukata.
The man's features were clearly demonic with a short horn jutting of his forehead , sharp teeth , claws for hands and spikes along his outer forearms.
"He he he , I didn't think I'd find one of you foolish samurai so soon.
It's been a while since I was satisfied i'll savor you."
Danny was less surprised by the demons appearance and more at how easy he understood Japanese.
'Must be the system.' He concluded then leaped aside to dodge the demon's clumsy but unnaturally fast lunge.
For Genya's apparent lack of talent in breathing arts , Danny had to admit that the dude had a hell of a body.
Even the superhuman strength and speed of the Demon was still a step below Genya's own physical capabilities. His body was a product of obsessive and very intense training which brought out the scary talent in every person connected in anyway to Demons and Demon Slayers.
After the third time , the Demon seemed to finally give up on catching Danny out of frustration then stopped lunging wildly at him.
"It doesn't matter if you are trained samurai , I am a demon and demons will always be stronger."
With that smug declaration he raised his arms and swiped through the air releasing a wave of his flesh spikes.
The spikes , unlike the Demon, actually surpassed Danny's current speed and perception significantly but he still managed to gaurd his vital points before they hit.
With a grunt of pain , Riley slid back and dropped to his knees in pain. The pain reminded Danny that physical capability and mental Fortitude were completely different things.
The pain of the around 4 inch flesh spikes lodging into his stomach , arms , shoulders and core made Danny's vision go white for a moment then he refocused when his body's senses detected an attack.
Danny painfully rolled aside right as a clawed foot kicked the air where his chest had been.
Immediately Danny stumbled a good 3 metres away , he decided to just go through with the path he had been trying to avoid as much as possible.
He gritted his teeth and grabbed the base of three flesh spikes in his arms before ripping them out. Without delay , Danny tossed them into his mouth and chewed a few times before swallowing.
"Ha ha ha ....do you think that will turn you into a demon. It seemed even you stupid samurai are just a bunch of greedy bastards."
The Demon was so lost in his delusions of victory and arrogance that he didn't notice the other flesh spikes get pushed out of Danny's body as his body slowly healed up.
Riley on the other hand , was staring at the screen that had opened infront of him when he ate the Demon flesh.
(+10 exp)
(+10 exp)
(+10 exp)
The possibility of more exp gain from the Demon and the subtle increase in strength that Danny felt after eating the demon's flesh completely changed the way Danny looked at the Demon.
Obviously at that point he didn't hesitate or wait , with superhuman speed , Danny pounced onto at the grey skinned demon and gave it an uppercut to the face.
While the stunned demon got knocked back , Danny followed with his unsheathed sword slicing deep into the demons neck and cracking it's spine.
Before it could even heal though , Danny's hands shot into the cut he made then he pulled apart and ripped the demon's head right off.
Before his sword could fall , he caught it again and cut down from the demons neck opening up its chest cavity entirely.
After that , Danny threw the sword aside entirely and under the still living demon's terrified gaze , he ripped organs out of the open chest cavity.
Without thinking about it , Danny bit into the organs ripping them apart and swallowing the flesh with the blood dripping and gushing out of it.
"Wait what are you...no no stop that."
Even headless the demon's body continued trying to push Danny off but he had already gotten a strength boost from the demon's flesh so it was pointless.
The Exp messages kept on pouring in and Danny focused more on the screen so that he could ignore the fact that he was eating something disturbingly close to human meat.
(+20 exp)
(+12 exp)
(+32 exp)
(+9 exp)
(Host can now increase the integration of available templates)
Without stopping his feast of demon meat , Danny willed the system to use all his exp to increase the integration of the Tatara template.
-Tatara 0% > 6%
This time a different rush of strength entered Danny's body brought about by changes in his body instead of extra fuel (demon flesh). While the Demon meat just gave him some sort of charge, the template integration changed his bones , flesh and body entirely.
Strangest of all , the Demon meat that Danny had been forcing down his throat at first became flavourful and actually consumable.
Danny's Ghoul hunger immediately showed itself when his mouth got used to and started enjoying the taste of the Demon more.
With animalistic actions and a crazed grin on his face , Danny ripped into the Demon and ate all his internal organs even as they tried to regenerate then he moved on to the demon's flesh immediately.
Soon only a weeping head remained while the mostly consumed body of the Demon with only It's midsection , skin and bones remaining wriggled and squirmed disgustingly on the ground weakly trying to regenerate.
Danny was experiencing what could only be called a high brought from satisfaction.
While he was eating the Demon, Danny had poured more of the exp into integrating the Tatara template so now he was at 23%.