Chapter 70
I moved the lantern to look at the rest of the area and saw that there was a horde of demon rats .
And all of them were very large .
Serulis unsheathed her sword and said,
“These are some big rats . And there are so many of them . ”
“Yes, I can see how this would have been too much for two people . ”
I said and Ario nodded .
“Yes, we ran out in a panic . ”
“Just the thought of being eaten alive by those rats gave me a chill . ”
It was just as Josh said . It would be one of the worst ways to die .
“Ario . Use fireballs . I will charge into them at the same time . ”
“Understood . ”
“Josh, you support us with arrows . ”
“Of course . ”
“Serulis, you get any that I miss . ”
“Leave it to me . ”
And then I unsheathed the Devil King Sword .
“Groof?”
Grulf looked at me with eyes that seemed to ask the question, ‘why don’t you give me any orders?’
“Grulf, your work begins when the rats start trying to escape . I want you to work with Serulis to get any that leak through the cracks . ”
“Grr!”
Grulf puffed out his chest . His tail was wagging excitedly .
“Ario . Let’s start . ”
“Understood!”
Ario’s fireballs began flying .
They landed and exploded inside of the demon rat horde .
“SQUEEKI-KI-KI-KI-KI-KI-KIIIIIIIII!!!!”
The shrieking of the rats echoed around us .
Over a dozen of them had died from the blast .
And so I charged into the confused swarm .
I swung the Devil King Sword with all of my strength and cut into five of them .
“SQUEEKI-KI-KI-KI-KI-KI-KIIIIIII!!!!”
The rats cried noisily as they grouped together and jumped at me .
But I cut them all down .
I had thought that most of them would try to run away, but they were mostly jumping towards me .
Perhaps their appetites for food were stronger than their instinct for self-preservation .
The demon rats were even eating the dead rats that I had killed .
To them, it didn’t matter if it was a monster of the same species . It was just meat once they were dead .
I could sense an intense hunger throughout the whole horde .
It all felt very horrifying .
What if they had managed to get out of the sewers?
They would have begun to attack and eat people immediately .
They may have been rats, but they were as big as medium-sized dogs .
An adult may be able to kill one of them .
But they would be hard pressed against two or three . A child would not be able to fight even one .
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“We’ll kill them all!”
“Yes!”
Ario shouted in reply .
Josh unleashed his arrows, killing the rats one by one .
“Ario . Try not to waste your magic . ”
“I know!”
The power of a Sorcerer was not unlimited . It was important to use it wisely .
I too was swinging my sword as to not let a single rat escape .
However, there were just so many of them .
Not only that, but they were attacking from all sides .
It would be impossible to defeat them without using magic .
“Leave this side to me . ”
“Groof!”
Serulis and Grulf were fighting the rats that got passed us .
“Thank you . ”
I continued to swing my sword .
By the time there were over a hundred corpses surrounding us, the battle ended .
“It looks like it’s over for now?”
“No . I think there are more of them deeper in . ”
“Is that right . ”
Serulis said with a serious expression .
“Grulf . Stay on your guard . ”
“Groof!”
“And you can mark your territory . ”
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“Groof-groof!”
We had Grulf watch for more rats as we collected the magic stones from the rats .
They were small and of terrible quality .
Still, they were at least bigger than the ones from normal demon rats .
“Serulis . Look at my hands as I work . ”
“Yes . ”
Serulis looked at my hands intently as I removed the stones .
After that, I had her try it .
As an Adventurer, taking out the magic stones was a necessary skill .
The demon rats reeked and were filthy . Normally, you wouldn’t even want to touch them .
But Serulis never showed any hesitation or disgust as she removed the stones .
At the same time, Grulf was carefully sniffing out the area .
And he would occasionally squat and mark his territory in different places .
And he was a wolf . A spirit beast wolf . Most rats should be too afraid to come close to that scent .
After taking out all of the magic stones, we gathered the corpses into a pile .
And then I explained to Serulis,
“They might turn into undead or start to rot if we leave them here . And so they must be dealt with . ”
“I see . ”
Serulis was a very capable fighter but had very little experience as an Adventurer, and so she listened attentively .
“It would be easy to burn them if we were outside, but this is the sewers . I suppose we will just have to put them in my magic bag . ”
“But what should you do when you don’t have a magic bag?”
“Find a way to burn them down here…or take them outside a little by little and burn them . ”
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I said and Ario nodded .
“Yes . When Locke fought the goblins with us, we had to drag a few dozen goblins outside to burn them . ”
“That’s right . It was really hard work . ”
“It was, but we had no choice but to do it . ”
“I see . ”
Serulis said as she listened .
Grulf was nodding his head next to us .
And then I asked Ario,
“What do you two usually do?”
“Well, we usually only have to kill a few of them . So we drag them outside and burn them . ”
“I see . Yes . ”
After that, Josh seemed very interested in my magic bag .
“By the way, Mister Locke . That is a very impressive bag . ”
“And his mansion was huge . I believe Locke to be a very rich man!”
“Well, maybe . ”
And then I said to them,
“There are likely still more of them . ”
“I agree with Locke . ”
“Yes . I think the likelihood of that is quite high . It is no use unless we crush them all at the source . ”
Everyone looked very serious .
And with that, we descended even further into the sewers .