Chapter 58: A Fierce Battle with the Ratman Boss (1/2)

No matter who it was, whether it was the one-star imps or the two-star One-eye, none of them stood a chance against the rampaging locomotive known as the ratman boss. It barely took him a second for him to knock aside anyone who got in his way.

A portion of the large imps were so terrified that they lost their will to fight. All they could do was stand there in a daze, dumbly watching as the rodent charged towards me.

“Master be careful!”

“Master stand back!”

No.3 and Big 4 shouted as they rushed out to shield me. From the moment they saw him break into a charge, they had already adopted a vigilant stance. In just a short span of time, the formidable rodent had already knocked aside ten more imps as if they were nothing more than bowling pins.

He had come. After forcing his way through hundreds of my imps, he was now a measly 50 meters away from me. At this distance, I could feel his hatred filled eyes boring into me.

He picked up his pace even further. With just a few more seconds before he reaches me, there’s no longer any need for hesitation or caution. He charged, the fury in his eyes growing more oppressive with each step he took.

My heart skipped a beat as the sheer ferocity of his gaze stunned me for a second. Focus! I forcefully suppressed my body’s discomfort.

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Bone Wall!

Just as he was about to collide with No.3 and Big 4, I erected my bone walls. Three massive bone walls rose out of the ground in a flurry of bone fragments and dust. Due to the sheer speed of the ratman, I couldn’t channel too much mana into these walls thus resulting in the walls being significantly thinner than I would like.

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While it definitely couldn’t stop his charge, hindering him for a second should be possible.

As the bone wall rose up without warning, the ratman boss’s feet landed right on top of it, abruptly halting his stride, causing him to trip and nearly fall from the loss of balance. However, the ratman immediately reacted to this by stomping down on the brittle wall, crushing it in an instant before continuing his charge, leaving the bone wall to continue its pointless ascent.

While this bone wall didn’t slow the ratman down by much, it still succeeded in delaying him for a second.

The timing of the bone wall must’ve also been perfect as the ratman’s pacing had been significantly disrupted by that minor trip. As he struggled to maintain his furious speed, he staggered a few steps before finally giving up and adopting a more primitive beastlike stance.

“Chit Chit Chit!!”

It was still the same old chittering from the ratman but at this moment, he seemed more like a terrifying dragon from the legends.

Having adopted a beastial charge, his ferocity rose even further. He tore through the remaining two bone walls as if they were paper and continued his charge unhindered.

“Go and die!”

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No. 3 and Big 4 roared as he dashed to meet the ratman head on. Unfortunately, their lack of an arm made them that much weaker than One-eye. With a slight acceleration on his part, the ratman easily sent them flying.

With the two hindrances gone, his focus locked back onto me.

At this very moment, the only person who could protect me was the snow white puppy standing beside me. However, there’s no way this newborn puppy could possibly stand up to this ferocious charge.

Just based on the size difference alone, he could probably stomp her to death.

“Stop him!”

In the heat of the moment, I had almost forgotten that I still had one more trump card to play. As I looked at the silent grimoire, I pinned my last hopes on it and tossed it at the rat in what was my version of the hail mary throw.

Who knew that this b*****d would immediately betray my hopes. After flying for a mere two meters, it immediately flew back at me. It even flew above me, to a height where I couldn’t reach even if I jumped!

“Hey! ヽ(ಠ_ಠ)ノWhat are you trying to pull here! It’s a crucial moment right now, if you don’t help, I’m going to die!”

As I hastily backpedalled, my right arm hugging the devil egg still, I yanked on the bone chain connected to my left arm, hoping that it would be enough to drag that little b*****d back down. However, the grimoire stubbornly refused to come down, leaving me in an awkward situation.

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As all these happened, the ratman was still charging towards me. Without any other option left, I decided to take a gamble and activated my untested ability —-Shadow Guardian.

As the mana instantly drained from my body, the shadow behind me began to stir of its own accord.

By now, I could see the whites of the ratman’s eyes. His mouth widened as if he was going to swallow me whole and howled with that rancid breath of his.

The shadow guardian swiftly elongated itself and coiled itself around the ratman like a giant python. With a raise of his shadowy scythe-like hands, he hacked ruthlessly at the ratman’s neck. However, this was merely a minor obstacle to the ratman.

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He violently writhed around and a split second later, tore through the shadowy binding and began to attack me once more.