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The plan was quite simple. She would use her icy wind Technique on the ground. This would freeze the ground underneath the rats. Rein would then use his static formation to paralyze and kill as many rats as he could with the Technique. Once she was done freezing the ground over, she would then use her water Technique to occupy the 3 white rats.
Rein nodded hearing her plan and looked at the group of Grey and Brown rats. There were way more Grey rats than any other rat, this was to be expected as grey rats were common soldiers and workers. After Yozara explained her plan she spotted a huge silver chest in the midst of the rats, she was surprised and pointed it out to Rein.
"Rein, look over there, do you see that treasure chest. It's silver at that, it could have some good stuff in it." Yozara said in a low and excited voice. Rein looked to where she was pointing and saw the beautiful chest. The size was quite big, he couldn't wait to see what was inside.
"Alright, After we kill these rats, we'll get that chest." Rein looked at Yozara and said. She then nodded and preparing for the mini battle soon to come. Both Rein and Yozara prepared their weapons quietly. After 5 minutes they were ready for battle. Yozara ran the plan by Rein again and he nodded as he understood.
"Icy Wind!" Yozara said in a low voice, she summoned cold wind that froze all the rat's feet and the ground underneath them. The rats were shocked seeing the unexpected attack on them. Rein also made his move and used his Static formation, some rats were Paralyzed while the unfortunate ones were shocked to death as their heart completely stopped beating for the electricity.
Yozara looked at the 3 white rats that were surprised, their faces seemed to be saying, 'How Dare these creatures ambush us in our home!' "Water Wave!" Yozara could see the rage in the rat's eyes and used here Technique right away. The Technique wasn't effective on the rats and Rein noticed.
"The Rats Combat strength is higher than yours, their strength is Copper Grade 9! Your attacks are only good for pissing them off." Rein said quickly to warn Yozara. He didn't want her to get greedy and fight a foe that was stronger than her.
"Goodness, why didn't you tell me sooner you dolt!" Yozara was upset, why didn't he say that sooner. She would have changed the plan then if this was the case.
Rein smiled bitterly as he capitalized on this error, he didn't deliver accurate information which could cause death if he wasn't careful enough. "Sorry, I will give more information next time." Rein Said
Yozara sighed "It okay, let's finish this up. We can talk afterward." Yozara said with a smile. The White rats were charging with red eyes of fury. Rein quickly called Graves to intercept one of the rats. Yozara also had her fox fight off one of the rats. The planned had changed, Yozara would occupy the rat army for a bit while the 3 of them deal with the white rats.
Graves used his corrosive sword Technique on the rat. The rat was hit in the mouth with the corroding Technique. "EEKEKEEK" The Rat screamed in pain and a sizzling sound could be heard, Rein wanted to gang up on one of the rats to end it quickly. He stated this to Yozara so she could keep watch on sneak attacks from the unoccupied white rat.
"Die you!!" The rat couldn't resist the combined might of Rein and Graves and was chopped like a carrot on a chopping board. The rat couldn't even scream as he died with great resentment.
[Ding! Congratulations Rein, for killing Fanged Rat(Commander-Class), you've received 1600 experience points!]
[Ding! Congratulations Rein, for killing Fanged Rat(Commander-Class), you've received 1000 System Points!]
Rein rejoice, then he heard a ding sound in his head.
[Ding! Your Skeleton soldier has ranked to up to Iron Grade 1!]
[Ding! Your Skeleton Soldier is eligible to evolve, Choose its path!]
<Grave Ghoul>
<Skeleton Warrior>
<Skeleton enhancer>
<Dark Warrior>
"What? What is this Dark Warrior?" Rein was confused and asked.
[It is far superior to the lich you'd been wanting. That is all I know!]
Rein was surprised, the name even sounded cooler. "Okay, Dark Warrior it is then, evolve him!" Rein said in his head.
The skeleton flashed as darkness covered its body. The bones were now gone, it was no longer an undead type and changed into Abyssal Type Monster. The Darkness was actually black Armor that formed on its body. The monster that used to have a bony face now had armor covering its face.
The aura around Graves heighened, it feared the rats in the area. The white rats were surprised but not scared. The white rat that wasn't occupied by anyone jumped toward Graves, in an attempt to kill him off guard. Graves moved his sword in a flash across the White Rats face, it was sliced straight through, dying on the spot!
The Last white rat that was fighting the little fox was shocked, its comrades died so fast! The white rats seemed to understand something right away and called for the other rats to assist it so it could escape. "EKEKEKE" The rats in the area swarmed towards Graves. Graves saw the incoming Rats and raised his sword and swung it. The sword tore through the void, the rats were that were swarming were turned into blood mist just like that!!
"Oh my Goodness!!" Yozara almost fell out of her wheelchair seeing such a crazy Technique, what the hell was that!? Rein's mouth was wide open from shock, he didn't even notice that he just ranked up to Iron 1 because of how many rats Graves had killed. Graves was now at the mid-stage of Iron 2, the majority of the rat in the cave died from one slash from Graves Void Cutting Slash Technique!
The white rat was horrified and turned to run seeing that most of its comrades had died so harshly. "Wanna run!? I don't think so!" Rein flashed towards the White rat, he was now an Iron rank, so could this white rat resist? of course not! "EKEKEKE!!?" The rat gave a hateful scream and shot some acid like spit, Rein dodge and shoved his sword into the Rats mouth. The screamed as lightning penetrated its body. The rats then dropped dead, it was charred black and smelled burnt.
[Ding! Congratulations Rein, for killing Fanged Rat(Commander-Class), you've received 1600 experience points!]
[Ding! Congratulations Rein, for killing Fanged Rat(Commander-Class), you've received 1000 System Points!]
The other rats in the area made a break for it as soon as Rein and Grave turned to them, just what was this!?
Rein looked deeply at Graves who was still silent, he had all black armor on. His sword that was once Some low-class sword had turned pitch black. The armor on his face looked like a skull but it wasn't his actual face, obviously. Rein nodded with a smile seeing the change to Graves, he was very satisfied with the transformation.
Yozara rowed over with an astonishing expression as she looked at Graves. "Th.. that escalated quickly!" That was all she could say, just what move was that!?
"Hehe, are you jealous?" Rein gave Yozara a knowing grin as he said.
"Hmph, just you wait until my little fox evolves then we'll see whose jealous!" Yozara turned away from rein's annoying provocative words and toward the silver chest. At this point, the rats in the cave were all gone, as they had all ran away or died.
"Alright, let's open up this chest and see what's inside." Yozara said to Rein. Rein nodded and walked over to the Silver chest. Rein tried to open it up but it was quite hard to open. "Graves, Give me a hand in opening this chest." Rein commanded, Grave immediately complied and they manage to open the chest.
There were 7 Items inside, this included a map. The treasure chest had 2 Technique cards. There were also blue and red life crystals inside. These were usually very hard to find, for the last 5 items, there was a black Cube called the Monster Prison Cube. Rein found this cube interesting and threw it into his storage ring. They both were going to split the Life Crystals for later use, they could raise one's combat strength if you could absorb the energy inside of them. Rein could even have the Mysterious egg absorb the energy inside to speed up the hatching process.
There were 4 Items left. There was a storage ring that seemed to be the same size as Rein ring. It could store the same amount of items as his, that is. The next Items was two pistols that looked like Lucian's relic Guns from League of Legends. Rein looked at the Duo weapons in shock, weren't they actually the real thing!?
"These pistols seemed to be the same as Lucian's guns!" Yozara was also shocked, how could a league of legend weapons be here!? "Well, I will take one, and you can take the other." Yozara suggested, Rein just nodded in agreement. The next item was a Dark Blue Robe with gold designs on it, this robe was clearly for a female to wear. Rein checked the attribute and saw it boosted water type abilities by x2. Rein let Yozara have it without batting an eye.
The last item was a Trap Token that could be used to trap "Any Monster" for 5 minutes Before going on cooldown. It could only be used 5 times before it broke completely.
"Wow, It looks like we gain some good items! This map, let's take a look at it, it might tell us where we are." Yozara said as she opened the map. Both Yozara and Rein looked at the map and was Dazed at what they were seeing. The map showed where they were and many other places in the world. It showed a place called Corrupted Circus, The Forsaken Ruins, Ancient Ruins and all of the starter areas like Where they were and more.
"This is Crazy! We are here in this dark part, this evil dread Forest!" Yozara said with a bit of depression. Rein looked at the map and noticed it too, he wanted to get out of here and head to the grassy plain as soon as possible!
Author Note: Here is the Link to the Map. Yes, this map was made by me. :)
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f9/d0/15/f9d015e2fdd150b3069c1a946f179494.jpg
Rein sighed "Alright let's take a break for a bit then continue." Rein said as he sighed. Yozara nodded as the little fox jumped into her lap. Rein took a chair out of his Storage ring and sat in it, he was looking at the maps constantly. Both Yozara and Rein relaxed for about 30 minutes but they still had their guards up. They were still in enemy territory so it was best to keep your guard up.
Rein and Yozara then continued through the cave. Every now and then a rat would pop up to attack them or try to sneak attack them but died every time. "How Annoying! They keep coming 1 at a time to make things even more annoying!" Yozara was getting irritated with the rats coming one at a time and performing sneak attacks.
"It's all good, we are getting exp from them and you even ranked to the peak of Copper 7." Rein encouraged as he pushed Yozara. Yozara nodded and understood that this was a good opportunity. As they were walking they came across some stairs that led downward. They clearly discovered that the cave had levels to it.
"Hmm, I think we should go down, I think the queen should be down there." Rein suggested. There were bound to be more rats below and guarding the queen.
"Of course, Let's head down and kill that rat Queen." Yozara happily agreed and they advance downward with there Summoned Beast. Rein put the Wheelchair into his storage and started to carry Yozara with a happy expression if you know what I mean, hehe.
After about 5 minutes of walking downstairs, they finally reached the lower floor. At that moment the ground shook and Grey and brown rats came out the ground. "EEKEKEEK" The rats seemed to be pissed about the intruders but expected them to come here. The rats had completely surround Rein and Yozara, some were even coming from the stairs, they actually had a plan!? No, They were being commanded by some unknown rat!
The Ground shook again revealing 6 rats. There 5 white-haired rats and one Black haired rats that looked vicious. This was clearly the leader of this group of rats. Rein couldn't appraise it now because he and Yozara were being sieged by rats.
"Static Formation!" Electricity covered the area around the attacking rats. The rats, with their Combat strength, couldn't resist and were paralyzed while some died. Graves was busy killing rats that were coming from the stairs while the fox was killing rats that were trying to perform sneak attacks.
Their exp was skyrocketing as they killed rat after rat. Rein then took the time to looked at his mission progress.
Mission: Pest Control: Kill 250 Fanged Rats (197/250)
The white rats then shot their Saliva Spitting Technique towards Rein and Yozara, who he was carrying. Rein only needed to use his hand to activate his Static Formation Technique, so carrying Yozara was no Problem. Yozara was attacking with water Techniques while being carried so she was doing all the attacking. Rein didn't have time to take out her wheelchair and put her in it under the attack of so many rats.
Yozara saw the incoming attack and used her barrier ring right away to block the attacks. "Graves, go kill those White Rats as fast as you can." Rein commanded Graves, the White rats combat Strength was only Copper Grade 9, so could they fight an early stage Iron 3 combatant? Graves switched from killing brown and grey rats to the group of White rats. Rein had already reached the mid-stage of Iron 2. Yozara just hit Copper Grade 8 as her fox was now Iron Grade 1! The rats were simply no match for the group.
Graves Flashed on top of the white rats back and stabbed into it with its corrosive Sword Technique. The rats Screeched in pain but died shortly afterward. Graves didn't waste time and went to the next target, just when he was about to attack another white rat he was intercepted by the black rat who swung it tail knock Graves back.
Rein and Yozara were surprised to see that Graves was repelled. Rein then took the time to check the Black Rats status.
Rarity: Uncommon"
Type of Monster: Rodent"
Monster Name: Fanged Rat (General Class)" Black
Element Type: Earth"
Combat Level: Iron Grade 4"
[Techniques]
[Poisonous Fang: (Beginner-Lv6) [Toxic Saliva: (Beginner-Lv5) [Saliva Spitting (Beginner-Lv6) Tremor:(Beginner-Lv7) Plague Fang: (Beginner-Lv5) [Earth Spike: (Beginner-Lv5)
[Skills]
Digging: (Beginner-Lv7) [Spiky Fur: (Beginner-Lv4) Steel Tail: (Beginner-Lv5) Tail Swipe: (Beginner-Lv5)
Passive Skills:
[Dread Odor] [Cry For Help] [Basic Intelligence] [Odor Control] [Army Leader!] [Army Commander]
[Hard Head] [Hard Tail]
Rein: Uh oh, This doesn't look good!