96 Training Dungeon 4 (1/2)
Lars and Susan didn't hesitate to stabilize the crates. Luckily the rats couldn't really exert any strength against these, so it was easy to keep them in place.
Meanwhile, Ivan defended the gap with everything he got. He could feel clearly that he had become much better at analyzing the incoming rat's path of attack and calculating the best way to divert their strength. Before his only option, when facing a strong attack, was to dodge it, but now he was capable of diverting it. He too had found out that in many cases blocking an attack would give him a better window for a counter attack, then just dodging.
Finally, the killed off the last of the rats and Tina let herself drop down to the floor.
”Damn, that was exhausting.”
”But that should have been just about all the rats left.”, Lars encouraged her.
Ivan who wasn't as exhausted as the rest, thanks to his higher stats, took a look in the now empty hall. As Lars had said, there weren't any rats left.
”Let's recuperate and then we can challenge the last hallway and hopefully the final boss.”
When everyone else sat down too, to rest, Susan looked at the crates still stacked up as a barricade.
”Hey Ivan, if you have such a big inventory, could you bring some real materials for a barricade next time?”
”What materials?”
”I'm not sure, but I imagine something like concrete or even metal.”
”I too think we should bring something like this with us.”, Tina interjected, ”How about you Susan check out what is good and then Ivan can buy it and bring it with him. Of course, we will have to provide the money for it together.”
”Sounds good. Oh right, we haven't exchanged our contact number yet.”, Susan accepted Tina's proposal.
Everyone else too accepted the proposal and then exchanged their contact number.
”Alright, now that that is out of the way, how about we continue on?”, Tina asked. She had been the most exhausted, but after only a short rest now once again seemed to be filled with energy. Ivan and Susan could only marvel at her rate of recovery, while the other two were already used to it.
Ivan stored the crates once again in his inventory and the group carefully made their way forward. They were especially careful when crossing the big hall since a surprise attack by some rats they had missed would really get them into danger. Because they were in a hall, their standard front to back fighting style wouldn't work. It would be impossible for Susan and Ivan to tank the rats and keep them away from the easier injured members.
Luckily nothing happened and they soon reached another small hall. The hall was round and with a large free space in the middle. Divided by a row of columns an around two-meter width path went around the room. The pillars were made from stone and had a distance of about three meters from each other.
In the middle of the hall laid a huge rat. It was about five meters long and while it's hight wasn't visible, it should be at least two meters.
”Wow, that is one big guy. How the hell are we going to defeat something this big?”, Lars exclaimed in astonishment.
<< Rat Lord
Level: 260
The lord of the rats of Floor 1 of the training dungeon. After it had entered this hall, he ate a relique stored here, which lead to his might drastically increasing. Unfortunately, as a side effect to his increased might, his body too had increased in size, leading to it being unable to leave this hall. It spends most of its time in a deep sleep from which it doesn't easily wake up.