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

He dove at me head and claws first. Up close, I finally felt the brunt of his oppressive, murderous aura. As my head blanked out in fright, I fell on my butt and dumbly stared at the impending doom, any thoughts of crawling away, totally forgotten.

Is this the end? If there’s no other surprises, I’m definitely dying the very next second. No! I must hold on even if it’s just for one more second.

The shadow guardian only requires a second to reform after being destroyed; all it cost me was more mana.

As the shadowy figure stirred from my shadow, it turned into a serpentine figure once more and coiled around the ratman. I knew the result would probably be the same. The shadow guardian is just not able to match this rat so all this is just a futile endeavor. All it could do was buy me one extra second of life.

By now, my vision was filled with his furry visage.

I’m going to die again…there’s no one left to save me this time…by the way, why aren’t I dead yet? It’s already been several seconds.

Hey, what’s with the mime show. If you are going to kill me, just do it, why must you mock me!

Wait…something seems off. Why isn’t he killing me. It certainly looks like he’s trying, his claws are shaking from his tremendous effort right now but something seems to be holding him back.

“Did that scare you?”

Violet Snow’s deadpan voice rang out beside my legs. As I lowered my eyes to look at her, I caught a glance of the mysterious force holding back the rat.

Unbeknownst to me, both of his feet had been fully encased in ice.

“This…this is your doing!?”

My eyes widened in disbelief as I gazed at the harmless-looking puppy before me. She actually managed to bind this Boss-level monster.

“Chit chit chit!”

The ratman boss continued with his violent struggling and finally after a few more seconds, the ice began to crack as he pulled out his bound legs. At the same time, the shadow guardian binding him was dispersed as well. Without the ice holding him back, the shadow guardian stood no chance on its own.

Upon regaining his freedom, he immediately tumbled away, at the spot where he once was, was a pile of ice residue.

“Chit chit chit chit!”

The ratman chittered angrily at me before resuming his murderous rampage. However, his target was no longer me but the white puppy beside me.

Violent Snow calmly raised her right front paw and slapped the ground. An icy stalagmite rose from the ground the very next instant and rushed towards the rodent’s belly. The ratman immediately tumbled away, dodging it at the last second. Having extended to its maximum range of two meters, the stalagmite was no longer able to reach the ratman.

He resumed his charge but Violet Snow was already way ahead of him. As she opened her adorable little puppy mouth, she breathed out a frosty cloud of ice shards. Seeing the razor sharp ice residue hurtle towards him, the ratman immediately jumped to the side and latched onto the wall beside him.

With a casual lift of his claws, he continued his charge while scaling the wall like a gecko!

That icy gale only took a second of her time. Seeing that it failed to restrain the ratman, she immediately dodged backwards. As if she had predicted his moves, right as she did so, the ratman landed on the very spot she just occupied a second ago.

As he busied himself with Violet Snow, I wasn’t standing idly by the side either. I began channeling my fireball. However, this was a slow casting spell. Furthermore, this rat seemed to possess an agility inconsistent with his burly stature, making this a tough shot to make.

Even so, this was the only spell I had, that could hurt him right now. If I didn’t use this spell, I will have nothing left to cast.

Having missed his mark entirely, the ratman boss stood still for a moment as he searched around for Violet Snow. Naturally, this once in a lifetime opportunity didn’t go unnoticed by me. I locked onto him with my eyes and immediately shot out the basketball-sized fireball at him.

As the fireball hurtled towards him, he began to feel the heat singe his hairs slightly. He instantly knew what was coming towards him. Without even turning his head, he attempted to dodge to the side. However, this bit of rashness cost him dearly as Violent Snow took this opportunity to strike at him.

From the moment she dodged backwards, Violet Snow begun concentrating mana in her mouth. Just as the rat landed on the ground, she shot out a basketball-sized ball of ice. The iceball careened through the air and crashed into the ratman’s legs before he managed to dodge my fireball.

*Bang*

The iceball shattered loudly upon impact and instantly encased the ratman’s legs in a thin layer of ice, preventing him from moving. The next moment, my fireball crashed into his back. As the scorching flames burnt into his back, the rat howled in pain but unfortunately for him, no amount of howling could reduce the damage.

“Chit chit chit!”

The ratman seemed to have noticed that he was clearly outmatched in this two versus one match. He gave us a furious glare before turning around and trying to leave.

“Don’t even think of escaping!”

“Where do you think you’re going!”

My two little potatoes, No.3 and Big 4 showed up once more to try and stop him. Having not learnt their lesson from their previous encounter, the two one-armed heroes charged at the ratman with their large swords raised high and…they were knocked away once more…

Lucky for them, the ratman boss was busy trying to escape and had no time to finish these two off. A moment later, the two of them got to their feet and glared helplessly at the slowly disappearing back of the ratman boss as it faded into the chaotic battlefield.

With the unexpected retreat of their boss, the Abbadon Rodents’ morale instantly plummeted and they began to flee for their lives as well. Now that their leader was gone, no one was stupid enough to stay behind and fight to the death. After 10 minutes of chasing after them, this battle was drawn to a close.