79 Chapter 79 - Living up to Ones Name (1/2)

Gren tried to move as silently as possible towards where the rat corpse was.After chopping the dead rat to pieces, he left a trail of blood and meat leading to the trap.With that, he should be able to get one close enough to spot him and call its friends.That is, of course, if things actually went as planned.

Gren returned to the three girls and started banging his shield.”Let me know if you hear something coming.”After sitting there for a few minutes, Gren realized that nothing was going to happen.”Any other plans to get their attention?”

”Making a lot of noise is just going to make them scared to approach this area.If you spread the smell as you're cooking some meat then it might attract them.I've used it before to attract a pack of wolves to an area that made it easier to hunt them.It should work with the rats as well.”If Shenzi thought that it would work then it was worth a shot.He felt a bit stupid for thinking that banging his shield would work but now there was a different solution.

There was only one problem that Gren could think of.”How do we spread the smell?I don't know wind magic.”He did have a few spell books that had wind spells in them but they required knowledge from a beginner's wind spell book that he didn't have.There was a good chance that he'd be able to find it in the Merchant Republic of Doga or if it there then there was a library on an island to the south that would definitely have it; however, only magicians could visit there so he'd have to go alone.

Shenzi didn't know a polite way of telling him that he was being an idiot.”Are you always so stupid when it comes to thinking about things that don't involve magic?Just wave something around like a fan.You've got that shield you can use so just wave that.”Gren decided to ignore the abusive language and to just follow her advice.

Gren set up his cooking pit and started a fire.The system didn't have stone or brick unlocked yet so the cooking pit was made of solid iron.He'd have to remember to wait for it to cool down before he stored it again; the temperature of the stored objects were preserved in the pocket dimension and he already had an accident caused by placing something from it that was too hot.

After cooking several pieces of boar meat, there was finally some noise from down the hall.Gren's arms were getting tired from waving the shield so he was almost glad to hear it.The meat itself was eaten by the women while he was waving the shield.There was a rat approaching the trap, occasionally stopping to nibble on the pieces of its dead friend.They were truly disgusting creatures; only their own kind could stomach to eat their flesh.

Gren got the rat's attention by lightly clapping his hands.The rat didn't call its friends like it was supposed to and instead slowly crawled to the trap.”Why is it that when I want them to come in a swarm it doesn't happen?”

”This probably isn't part of their territory.They'd need a reason to come here.Can you make your trap disappear?”Gren didn't know what she was planning on doing but he stored it away.Shenzi launched towards the new rat and pinned it down stabbing into its limbs to disable it.The rat screeched out in pain as she dragged it over to where Gren was.”Okay, now you can bring out your weird creation.As long as this guy is screaming then it'll call the others to us.”

Shenzi's methods seemed brutal but the rats would kill Gren's group if they got a chance; there was no reason to show any mercy.Gren put the trap back in place just in time to see a group of rats charging at them through the door.Gren gripped the handle on the trap that he added after confirming how the points work.Trap kills would count as something killing itself with his trap but if he held on to the trap then it would count as him killing them.This was the only way for the kills to count towards the research points.

When the rats poured into the trap, Gren could hear countless screams of pain coming from them.They were slowly being grinded up on the blades and spikes thanks to the rats behind them pushing them further inside.The dead rats were piling up and the rats behind them tried climbing over them which only caused more casualties as they met new layers of blades and spikes.The trap was getting clogged up due to the massive number of rats.