Chapter 20 (1/2)

Translator: Henyee Translations  Editor: Henyee Translations

[40XP consumed. Maga Fighting level upgraded to LV4! Constitution +0.4; Strength +0.4!]

[Maga Fighting level has been upgraded to LV4! Special skill unlocked: Tiger Power!]

[Tiger Power: Strength +0.4! Duration: 30 seconds. After 30 seconds, the subject will suffer the effects of enervation for three hours! Strength -0.2; Constitution -0.2!]

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Thulhu was very surprised when he saw the unlocked skill.

He had never expected that a new skill could be unlocked because of an upgrade. The so-called Tiger Power was in fact a berserk spell!

Although there was a cost, it would be very helpful at a crucial moment.

His strength had now reached 1.5. For most people, the number would only be 1!

Therefore, killing some rats had become a piece of cake for Thulhu.

Soon, he came to the end of the sewer branch.

It was a dead end. The place stank so badly that even Thulhu, who should have become used to the smell down here by now, started to feel disgusted.

Thulhu lifted the lamp higher for a better look. The dim light revealed a body lying on the ground, some fuzzy creatures with red eyes gathered on it.

It was a corpse! A rotten corpse!

Thulhu frowned. Obviously, this meant trouble.

The rats were squeaking like crazy to scare off the approaching figure.

Thulhu wondered if it was the body which had caused the rats to mutate.

He looked around.

Under the body, he noticed a pool of dark brown blood. The smell of blood made him uneasy.

The blood might be the reason why the rats had mutated, and the reason why they wouldn’t leave. It wasn’t like they couldn’t move the body, so the body itself shouldn’t be the reason. Therefore, the blood was rather suspicious.

Thulhu was quite confident that he was right.

The rotten body definitely had some story behind it, and it had somehow affected the environment, thus producing mutant rats.

The mutant rats had some intelligence. They knew that if they left this place, they would lose the chance to evolve further. Therefore, they chose to attack the cleaner in order to stay here.

Was this the body of an extraordinary?

Thulhu’s eyes lit up, and he took a few steps forward.

Squeak!

To protect their most valuable asset, a couple of big rats instantly jumped at him.

However, Thulhu and Shawn had eliminated most of the rats. Now, only five or six remained.

Thulhu killed them one by one, showing no mercy.

The last half-mutant rat was nailed to the wall with Thulhu’s pickaxe.

Thulhu guessed that there were in fact more rats around than what he had seen, but some clever ones had probably chosen to finally run away, taking the rest of the ordinary rats with them after a great number had been killed.

Thulhu approached the body.

To his surprise, although this person had been dead for quite some time, the body wasn’t really rotten. Instead, it had become mummified and the skin had turned black.

The body was incomplete. The rats had consumed some of it.

Thulhu wondered why the mutant rats never thought to drag the body away from this place.

Unfortunately, he didn’t know how to interpret their squeaking.