144 Giant Ra (2/2)

”Thank you for coming down with me,” she said blushingly. ”I knew you promised that you'll help me but still, thank you.”

Jun felt that something was weird but decided to ignore it. He also felt bashful and only looked ahead. Having someone thank him genuinely was something he would never get used to.

Jun kept silent but nodded his head as a sign that he accepted her gratitude.

Everyone chatted as they fought forward. Everyone was relax since the lower leveled individuals were given priority on killing the rats. Although Jun wanted to prioritize himself and take all the experience, everything that happened today made him realize that he can't do everything alone. Unless he becomes so strong that no one would even plan against him, he needed everyone's help and the only way for other's to become useful was for them to level faster.

As they were walking, Edward suddenly laughed. ”This feels like were inside a dungeon. The only thing missing is a treasure box, traps and a boss monster.”

Some laughed at him while others became more serious after considering the possible threats further ahead. Nik peeled his eyes open and looked at every crevice on the walls.

Nothing really changed to the way Jun walked, but he thought of a few things as he killed a large rodent that dodged the attack of the people ahead.

Dungeons... hmm. he thought. He was thinking of how easy it was to kill these rodents and besides a few scratches on his pants, he didn't receive any damage at all. He was then reminded of the difference between the cemetery and the mines.

If their were levels of difficulty to categorize places, this mine would be considered a beginner or even tutorial area while the cemetery was a mediocre one.

While it was true that the rats had fewer attack patterns, their size and numbers were proving to be an adversary for other people. It was only Jun who was having a hard time since he was using a blunt weapon. Everyone else including Nik and Adrian had to fight seriously since they used sharp blades that lodge deeply into the rats body.

It was fine if the blade gets stuck. The problem was that other rodents were given an opportunity to attack.

Unlike the cemetery that spawns enemies at 1:1 ratio, the mines respawn large rats at 1:5 ratio. That means every minute, 55 or less large rats spawn in their surrounding. They don't know what happened to those missing ones but they're probably respawned at a different place.

It wasn't hard to kill the large rats, but keeping an eye with the respawn timer was proving difficult for some who doesn't like to do so.

The flower-like crystals overhead changed into long stalactites. Jun couldn't help but imagine that if an explosion or an earthquake occured those stalactites would break and fall on them.

”We're near.” Angelica uttered anxiously. Her voice was soft and filled with concer.

Jun focused and looked ahead. The cavern split into two, one on the right and one on the left. They could see lightbulbs on the walls at exact same distance with each other.

After killing all of the respawned rats, Angelica ran forward and took the left wing. The left wing leads to the Leisure Room where her father was supposed to be trapped.

Everyone followed after her and saw her standing still on the idle, staring at a 1 meter tall rat.

”What is that?!” exclaimed Angelica.

Jun turned and looked at her in confusion. Angelica noticed Jun's questioning gaze and explained herself. ”I didn't saw that when I ran away! There were only those slightly larger ones! Not this one! But it seems that there's less of them now... does that mean...”

”Did they ate each other? That's gross...” Sheila said with disgust on her face.

”Let's just deal with it.”

Jun rushed forward with his bonehammer. He channeled energy before unleashing a burst of flame as he threw the bonehammer forward.

The group of large rats already noticed them when Angelica decided to ran forward and wasted their element of surprise.

However, with or without surprising the enemy, Jun would always charge first when he knew that he could deal with enemy. Besides its large body, there was nothing else that differed against the large rats. It still had one tail, two claws and two protruding buckteeth.

The flames on the hammer's head blazed and burned the hairs of nearby rats that it passed through. Before it could hit its target—the one meter tall rat—the bonehammer was swiped by its claws and bounced of the wall.

An ear piercing sound echoed as the giant rat screamed in anger. The ferocity in its eyes apparent as it madly charged forward, shoving and smashing the smaller rodents to the side.