Last-Ditch Effort

Further down the tunnels, Alex and David were fighting for their lives, as even a single wrong move could cost them.

The rat queen, whose size was now too large to slip away down the tunnel behind it, went on the full offensive and wanted them dead.

Already, the concrete floors and walls showed plenty of paw prints and scratch marks, sizzling and fuming in green, as the queen chased Alex around the room, the latter being too quick for her to catch.

But aside from Genie, he was the one dealing out the most damage to it, and she wanted him gone. She also already understood that Genie had only spawned because of him, and her rat brain worked out that without him there, the wolf might disappear as well.

Of course, she was wrong. Since Genie was a living being, she wouldn't just disappear from Alexander's death.

But she would still take an immense piece off the chessboard if she caught him.