71 Killable Rats II (2/2)
BANG! BANG!
Two shots were sent out and Aster did not have to be truly accurate with his makeshift gun because the blossoming spread of his magical and bloody shotgun was enough to riddle the ponytailed man with holes.
The baseball player and his thug life ended with his dropping his metal bat to the floor while his body lopsided to the side. Since Aster shot from his right, the force of the shots forced Batter to drop to his left.
”It is a shame that he did not turn into baseballs.” Aster said with his nasty remarks that put a mockery to the death of the thugs he killed. He looked towards the already shocked Rat and muttered to magically include himself in sorcery. ”Dual Shotgun. I summon you.”
A direct replica of the blood-made shotgun appeared on his free hand and his dual weapons pointed towards the only one left to die. ”Come on, Mr. Rat. Show me the true meaning of unkillable!”
The cunning boss eventually lost all of his men and it made him look back on the past. Maybe he was feeling sentimental and all as his eyes slowly dimmed. Aster did not even shoot out yet but the boss man looked like he died.
”Eeeeeeeeekkkkkkkk!!!” The dead-looking rat suddenly shrieked wildly that Aster's were ringing with the stinging sound.
The rat head remained the same but frizzy and black hair grew all over it. Originating from the hair on his head, the overgrowth eventually started to happen to his body as the ratman's clothes become frizzy and stretched from the hairy accumulation.
The hair was not the only one that diversified as his physique eventually reformed itself to something akin to a giant rat. A naked tail swung behind him as it grew slowly to lengths proportional to his current size. The rat monster in front of Aster was now twice larger from Rat's original height.
Feral eyes and sharpened teeth with two front teeth was the prominent one whose form was an adjacent version of the saber-tooth cat's prominent feature. From a rat-headed man, Rat became the very description of a wererat but with an amputated left arm.
The youth was too shocked by the quick change in attitude that he could not help but joke. ”Is this the Legendary Super Rat foretold by the prophecy?! The very being who empowers himself by eating all sorts of cheese!”
”Very funny, devil!” Rat in his new form still retained his human logic and communication. His voice now became deep and monstrous as he said. ”You wanted to ask for an Unkillable Rat, you now got one!”
”Tsk! To think that you are actually a wererat. A wererat that transforms without the mystical full moon.” Aster clicked his tongue from seeing the great surprise in front of him. ”You must be some half-blood or something like that!”
Rat's sense to kill had clouded his thoughts as he rushed towards Aster on all fours. Murderous Will became useless or motivation to him as a prey trapped by his predator could only fight for his life.
BANG! BANG!
Aster retreated to whatever space he could back into as he shot his shotguns towards the charging Rat. The hair or fur was now akin to a defense mechanism that rendered his bullets obsolete. It was not completely ineffective though because Aster can see the slight bleeding by Rat's head. 'From a mana Expert, this guy turned into a complete monster who relies on body cultivation.'
Anyone else weaker in cultivation than Expert 1 could only run or die when faced with a monster that uses both its body and mana. Thankfully, Rat only chose the body route as his animalistic tendencies got the better of him and the exquisite handling of mana became inhibited. However, instincts and experience would eventually enable the feral wererat to learn to use mana and bodily strength at the same time.
'It would be best to end this quickly or this guy can turn me into rat chow.' Aster's shots focused itself on the head as he slowly accumulated blunt hits that would bruise the skull.
With a blink, Aster reached the air and floated there to rain bullets overhead.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Some bullets that showered made contact with the tail and weakened its foundation towards the caudal end of Rat. With a few more rounds, the tail met its expected fate as it fell with blood.
”Squeeeeekk!!” Another pained squeal of the wererat was heard and it became more frenzied than ever. It clawed through the wall in a hurry and jumped off it to reach the floating gunner. ”Raaaaaahhh!!”
BANG! BANG!
Of course, only a fool would not be able to read such tactic as Aster just teleported out of the way while shooting blood bullets towards it.
The duo continued with their own tactics for minutes that the giant rat buckled and whimpered in weakness. Any other rat in nature would have scampered off to survive but the killing intent that washed over it functioned as a natural suppressor that made it lie weakly on the ground and waiting for its end at the mouth of its hunter.
It was the complete opposite of Rat's earlier desire to run all the while. His wererat form just made him fight when under pressure and surrender when beaten.
”This is somewhat exhilarating and anti-climactic at the same time.” Aster sighed as he compared this hit and dodge boss fight to the relatively large scale vice fights.
”Keee...” Rat was too far deep into his transformation that his shivering and the whimpering sound was the only sound of pleading that he could give towards its hunter.
”You rats are killable, after all.” Aster remolded his shotgun of blood into a spike that pierced through Rat's right eye and into the other eye. With the brain damaged beyond revival, the wererat form reverted into a naked semi-human form of Rat with spike embedded into his rat head.