<h4>Chapter 198 Five-wed Rat Elder</h4>


    "Boss Vass, we''ve neared the tunnel…" A man muttered deeply with a heavy voice.


    This man was called Kron, and he was a devout follower of Vass or at least that was how Vass saw it in his eyes.


    Vass smiled and nodded. Naturally, his name was fake but no one other than his father knew about his disguise.


    They approached the tunnel and went inside it.


    "Boss, it looks like someone had already entered here, killing their way inside…"


    A few seconds into the underground tunnel and they could tell that someone had been here.


    "Look, this is the blood of the Five-wed Rats. Judging by the remnant aura and energy, the person must be a Silver Stage Body Cultivator!" Vass investigated the various bloodstains that was already dried.


    As a Peak-Level Body Transformation cultivator, he could distinguish the battle aura left behind by Davis.


    "Let''s go!" Vassmanded as he ran and they quickly started to follow.


    …


    Lightning crackled while traveling to multiple directions, striking down the Five-wed Rats.


    *Boom!*


    Davis kicked a rat into the wall with his leg, then jumped on top of it as he stabbed the spear in his hand into its head, dealing death to its life.


    He was surrounded by six Spirit Beast Stage Five-wed Rats, each one slightly paralyzed by the powers of the Fallen Extinction Lightning.


    With his Energy Condensation Cultivation, he simply couldn''t deal damage to the Spirit Beast Stage Five-wed Rats, only managing to slightly paralyze them for a few seconds.


    Jumping off to the side, he hurriedly thrust another Five-wed Rat, causing it to give out a shrill scream before dying in its own pool of blood.


    He quickly retrieved his spear, managing to block the w attack of another Five-wed Rat that almost got his head.


    His eyes suddenly narrowed as bent his body at an unbelievable angle.


    *sh!*


    Blood sttered on the ground while a piece of flesh fell from his left arm. He nimbly backed off and stood his ground, keenly staring at the 5 Five-wed Rats.


    ''Hehe… I finally got injured…'' Davis slightlyughed and nced at his clothes which were torn and bloodied in various ces.


    Many tears in his clothes were mostly made by the Sky Beast Stage Five-wed Rats but they were unable to injure him in the slightest due to him being at Silver Stage of Body Tempering Cultivation.


    He was almost near the underground cave while his senses scoured all over and was gradually closing on it all this time.


    By this time, he had already managed to kill many Sky Beast Stage Five-wed Rats and a few Spirit Beast Stage Five-wed Rats.


    There were only these 5 left, except for a Peak-Level Spirit Beast Stage Five-wed Rat which was in the underground cave, seemingly posing to be their head.


    He looked at their eyes, each one bloodshot to the extreme. He could understand that their eyes emitted killing intent against him.


    His uniform was bloodied with their blood, and of course, they would feel hatred against him like any living creature for ughtering their kind.


    Davis frowned but curbed his sympathy inside froming out.


    Are all these rats free of wrong? No. They killed and ate countless town''s people above, sowing the seed of demise that wille to them eventually, exterminating them in the process.


    Davis wasn''t going to stop, and even if he stopped, mercenaries above will eventuallye down and kill them.


    If they couldn''t, then the army from the Empire will eventually arrive, albeit quitete with their slow advance.


    ''Absolute Enhancement!'' Davis chanted in his mind.


    His aura grew stronger a few notches while his physique slightly erged, veins gradually popping out.


    He gripped the spear tightly causing his bones to emit sounds of cracking.


    With his Low-Level Sky Grade Spear, he charged ahead, his feet d in lightning as he activated the Thunder Cloud Movement Technique.


    Closing in on them, he shed their eyes one by one while nimbly maneuvering between their bodies which were at the size of a normal horse.


    The Five-wed Rats emitted shrill cries but were silenced one by one in the narrow yet wide dark tunnel.


    Davis rxed and released a short breath after killing those Five-wed Rats. He then collected the Magical Cores and stored their corpses in his spatial ring while also managing to collect their Soul Essences.


    A while ago, he discovered that he could absorb the soul essence of a Magical Beast when he casually tried out. He figured that it should be the ability he gained from entering Adult Soul Stage.


    When he asked the Death Book about it, it gave off a sound of displeasure and exined that he would be able to absorb a Soul Essence of a living creature as long as it belongs in this universe.


    Its answer put a smile on his face because it gave him more diverse options to get Soul Essences from, while he didn''t have to target humans on purpose anymore.


    In total, he had gained about 1473 Magical Beast Cores, 18prising from the Spirit Beast Stage Magical Beasts.


    ''Thest remaining Five-wed Rat.'' Davis thought as he looked to the front.


    It was the entrance to the underground cave.


    Before going in, applied some medicinal paste to the wound to make it stop bleeding. After checking the injuries, he walked towards the wide entrance and jumped inside.


    Gliding down in slowly, he surveyed thendscape.


    To the south, there was a pool of dirty water that emitted a foul stench. To the north, there were many holes on the walls, probably leading to the wilderness and other parts of the space around the underground tunnel.


    To the east, he saw the remaining Five-wed Rat ncing menacingly at him, yet it was aged and old.


    Compared to the seven Spirit Beast Stage Five-wed Rats before, its bright eyes told him that it was more sentient.


    "Do you understand me?" Davis asked out of curiosity.


    The Horned Wyvern could understand him to a degree, so he thought that it might be able to understand human speech as well.


    The Peak-Level Spirit Beast Stage Five-wed Rat kept staring at him as it couldn''t understand him.


    "Can you even hear?" Davis''s eyes narrowed as he voiced out his thought.


    This time, its eyes shed as it nodded its head.


    "So you do understand me? Huh. Why did you ughter the town''s people above?" Davis pointed above and asked, entirely curious of their rampage.