Rat King's Crown

Bob wasn't sure how good he was going to be at fighting when he was injured, so he told his group to rest for a while

After about 30 minutes of sitting on the ground in silence, in stinking tunnel, doing nothing all of Bob's HP regenerated, Bob wasn't too surprised they regenerated so quickly so he decided to continue on down the tunnel

After about 4 minutes of walking they came across 3 seketons

Since Bob had already killed such a skeleton with one shot, he assumed that this would be free XP

"Hey Bob let us kill something too, we need XP and experience in combat" said Eduard and David nodded in agreement

Bob wanted to grow as strong as possible, and when they tried to take his rightful XP and coins, he instinctively gripped his sword tightly.

"This is my hunt you have joined my hunt if you want to hunt you go out of the tunnel and wait for me to hunt" Bob said coldly but a little angrily at the same time

[Blood Shadow liked your dominant words]

[Blood Shadow donated 50 coins]

Bob didn't wait for Eduardo's reply and killed the three skeletons with one shot because they were close together

[+75XP]

[+300 coins]

"Fine as you like." Eduard said angrily, pointing the other way

"David are you coming with me?" Said Eduard and without a word David headed towards Eduard

"Nina are you coming?" Said Eduard

"I don't know" said Nina

"Nina stay with me I need to shine the light on the road" suddenly said Bob

"We need to light the way too" said Eduard angrily

"Excuse me, but I think I'll go with Bob" said Nina and stood next to Bob

"Suit yourself" said Eduard and he and David left

"Come on Nina" Said Bob

[Mysterious Wanderer likes your charm]

After about 2 minutes of walking Nina lit a cigarette and that added to the smell of the tunnel the smell of cigarette smoke

After 5 minutes they reached a room that looked like the end of this side of the tunnel.

It was quite a big cave-like room, there was a neon blue light because there were some mushrooms growing on the ceiling that lit up, on one side there were long roots that Bob wasn't even looking at

And the main thing in the middle was a treasure chest defended by 4 of those rabbits that Bob had already met.

And right in front of the chest was a hare that was twice the size of a normal hare, so Bob assumed it was the boss guarding the treasure

Bob turned to Nina

"Nina something could happen and I'd have to activate my rage mode, so go about 3 meters away from here and when the fight is over I'll come back for you"

"What rage mode" Nina leaned back confused

"Please Nina go I've got adrenaline in me already and I'm tired of talking to you here" said Bob

Nina didn't even say anything and went back through the tunnel

Since the 4 rabbits were close to the entrance of this cave Bob could defeat them without the boss being present because the boss was sleeping close to the chest and the normal rabbits were at the entrance.

Bob didn't want to be held up by 4 weak rabbits so he decided to finish them off quickly.

Bob crept along the wall until he was in front of the sleeping rabbits.

Bob quickly jumped on them with one of them stabbing a sword into his head while he was still asleep.

"Rffffff" came the surprised squeak of the rabbits when they saw Bob

Bob didn't wait for them to wake up from their surprise and Bob stuck his sword in another one's head

(You might think Bob was he was killing them out too fast when he was fighting 6 rabbits a moment before so he couldn't put them down in 1 hit, but it should be noted that rabbits don't have many snares on their heads so that's their weak spot and that's why Bob was able to put them down in 1 hit)

The rabbits didn't hesitate and the last 2 jumped on him at the same time

Bob however cut them in the belly and threw them to the ground when they started bleeding and then Bob finished them off on the ground

[+140 XP]

[+440 coins]

The boss seemed to have come to his senses and didn't look too happy that he had lost all of his subordinates

The boss was rushing towards Bob when the boss tried to run into Bob but the boss was pretty slow due to his size so Bob jumped over him and as he jumped over him in mid air the sword stabbed him in the back but to Bob's surprise even though Bob put some real power into the stab the sword didn't make as big of a cut as he assumed.

Then Bob grabbed his sword and slashed the boss's leg and it flew away

"Haha I think I found your weakness" said Bob with a bloodthirsty laugh

Bob quickly chopped off all of the boss's legs, leaving it helpless on the ground

Bob didn't hesitate and started stabbing the boss in the gluten

[+200 XP]

[+500 coins]

Bob fell to the ground in exhaustion

'Good thing I found his weakness or I would have been killing him for eternity' Bob thought to himself as he stabbed the rabbit about 40 times before he died

Suddenly the boss's body began to dissolve into little red particles and an inert syringe of blue liquid appeared where the boss's dead body had been

Bob used the eyes of God to scan it.

[Hizceyl IT54]

[Rarity: common]

Bob assumed he was supposed to inject it into his vein but he was a little scared because he didn't know what it did and if it was temporary or permanent so he decided to keep it and if he was going to fight and lose and might die he would inject it, Bob's intentions are to save it to the inventory but the system window stopped him

[Ruby Ruler says it's a permanent mutation and you don't need to worry, and you're supposed to inject it now]

Bob obeyed and stabbed himself in the vein he had on his bicep.

[A mutation is seeping into your body.]

[You were the first to get the mutation and you were given the title: mutant]

Bob suddenly grabbed his eyes because they started to burn terribly after about 1 minute the burning stopped and Bob saw the system's messages he felt a bit offended that the system had labeled him a mutant.

Bob then opened his status

[Name: Bob

Level: 5

Class: Warrior

Age: 21

Race: Human

Supporter: None

Mutations: [Hizceyl IT54 (Improved eyesight)]

Titles: [Psycho] [First Blood] [Warrior] [Mutant]

HP: 160

MP: 9

Strength: 22 Agility: 24

Intelligence: 9 Vitality: 16

Bonus points: 3

Skills: [inventory lvl:1] [Eyes of God lvl:1] [Whispering Forest: lvl:1] Low-level weapon mastery lvl:1]

XP: 900

Coins: 6080

Inventory slots enabled: 0/5]

When Bob noticed the new mutation section and his mutation he was surprised so he looked into the distance and indeed his vision was twice as sharp and he could see from a distance farther than before.

Then Bob checked his new title

[Mutant]

You were the first to add something extra to your DNA that shouldn't be there, apparently you became the first mutant. Your mutations will be 20% more effective.

Bob was amazed at this op title, he couldn't imagine how powerful a mutation would be with this title if he got any stronger

Bob wondered if that treasure chest could be a fist so he decided to spend XP

[Strength increased by 1 Agility increased by 1 Vitality increased by 1]

[You have gained 1 bonus point]

Bob's spirits plummeted when he realized he could only afford 1 level for his hard earned XP (Bob had 450 XP left and the next level cost 500 XP)

Then Bob needed to decide what to do with the remaining 4 bonus points because he already needed to use them

[Strength increased by 3 Agility increased by 1]

The reason Bob increased his strength so much is because if he hadn't found the boss's weakness, Bob would have been killing him for quite a long time (Bob didn't know the boss was meant to fight elite 15 survivors at once).

Bob then walked over to the treasure box and slowly started to open it.

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Nina, meanwhile, sat down on the cold tunnel floor and began to smoke a cigarette

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David and Eduard arrived at the crossroads and decided to take the left side of the tunnel (Bob is on the right)

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Bob opened the chest and in it was an old looking crown, when Bob picked it up he could smell some evil ancient aura coming from it.

The crown was pretty dusty it was all black so it looked like it was made of some black ore on the 6 tops of the tips it had 6 red gems, Bob decided to scan it

[Rat King's Crown

Rarity: ???]

[Ruby Ruler's eyebrows are furrowed because he doesn't know this item yet]

[Mysterious Wanderer suggests you don't put it on your head because it might be cursed]

[Blood Shadow is impatient and says to put it on your head already]

[Night Whisperer has an unreadable expression and says to put it on your head]

Bob thought for a moment and started putting the crown slowly on his head