Chapter 109: Curse of Sanke (5)


    Through the hallways nearby the town of slimes; Shinto and the group hurriedly rushed along the paths as they battled against the rats that appeared.


    "Kiikk!" The rats pounced forward towards FreyHowever, in return for fire, Frey hurriedly kicked the rats towards a wall. Then, from behind her, Kon scurried over as he sent a burning me, swiftly turning them to grey-ash.


    "Is it me, or are the rats much fewer in numberspared to back then?" Frey tilted her head in question.


    "Well, Rustly did say this part of the catbs was heavily guarded by the slimes," Shinto exined whilst shooting out a few mana sparks over to the running rats. Following up with that, he casted [Divinity Point], pushing them back slightly.


    "If they''re few in numbers, it means we can just level up peacefully," Ethaniel calmly stated whilst swinging his sword in an arc, turning the rats that Shinto had pushed back into ash.


    "Yeah," Shinto nodded his head as he moved his eyes over towards the notification screen.


    [ You have levelled up to level 25! ]


    [ Kon has levelled up to level 16! ]


    "We''re also levelling up at a nice pace despite the decrease in monsters," Shinto stated. From the time they''ve entered the hallway to now, it had only been around thirty minutes. During that time; Shinto had levelled up by two.


    ''And...'' Looking at his profile status, he saw that his divinity stat was steadily increasing from his increased usage of divinity spells. Unlike with his shadow stat, divinity had been rising slowly.


    Currently, the shadow stats was at a solid 26 whilst his divinity was at 17. The disparity between the two stats was big, however, Shinto couldn''t do much about it. This was because the frequency of usage between his shadow and divine skills were like day and night.


    His shadow skills be avable much sooner than his divinity skillsNot only that, by the time his shadow skills go off cooldown, he has enough shadow gauge to use it without dy. Compared with his divinity skills, where [ Divinity Point ] and [ Hallowed Crest ] had a cooldown of five and fifteen minutes respectively, [ Shadow Fields ] and [ Mark of Umbra ] had a cooldown of ten and three. Thus, the difference in usage was extremely high when counting the numbers.


    ''It''s nice that I''ll be reaching Divinity to 20 soon,'' Shinto thought to himself. ''I wonder if there''s a special event that will happen like with Shadow?''


    He hoped that with the ''special event'' that may ur, he''d learn more about his ss. Alongside that, maybe he could unlock another skill. The more he thought about it, the next skill obtained should be a divinity rted one, since, in pattern, he had three shadow skills whilst only having two divinity skills.


    ''In theory... I technically only had four initial skills,'' he continued to think to himself. ''Unlike the summoning skill used to summon Kon, It was only avable to me for usage when I reached 20. So the probability of me getting a new divinity skill is high.''


    Nodding his head with a slight excitement for the future, Shinto continued along with his group as they fought against the rats that appeared.


    ...


    Finishing up with the battle, the group let out a tired sigh as they rested nearby the walls of the catbs. However, despite wanting to rest, the group had to constantly be on guard due to the possibility of rats that may appear from time to time. Although they could go back to the slime''s town to rest, the group chose not to in order to be efficient in levelling up.


    "Hmm... I don''t get why that slime was so scared of us going here in the first ce," Frey questioned whilst sitting down and eating a spicy rice cake that Greld had made for her. "Compared to that other hall... this ce is less scary!"


    "...cough. Rustly''s exact words was ''Beware of the Elite Rats. If you end getting spotted by them, you''ll be in big trouble," Shinto stated. "If I remember correctly... the elite rats that he was referring to might be the ''Elite Dweller Rats''."


    "The ones that chased us to the very brim?!" Kon cried out as he stood up. Soon after, he quickly hid behind the back of Ethaniel who was near him. "...and you didn''t mention it sooner?!"


    "Bah. Did you forget what Zayden instructed?" Ethaniel clicked his tongue. "Just don''t go too far into the hallway and we''re good."


    "Rustly did specifically say not to go to where the elite dweller rats lurk," Shinto shrugged as he turned towards the deeper end of the catbs, where he noticed a few shes of red eyes. "Thest time we went deep into the hall, the rats chased us down. But... From the looks of it, the reason why was probably because we went too far."


    "O-Oh, right, you did say that," Kon muttered out as he slowly walked away from Ethaniel. However, as he did so, a rat suddenly appeared before himQuickly making him jump onto Ethaniel in shock. "EEEK!!"


    "Tch, Kon!" Ethaniel clicked his tongue as he stood up. In the next moment, he unsheathed his sword, quickly swinging it over towards the rat that had appeared.


    "Kiikk!" The rat dodged the attack as it pounced over towards Ethaniel in anger.


    "Ugh..." Ethaniel groaned in annoyance at the annoying small enemy in front of him. Swaying to the side, he dodged the attack as he used the hilt of his de to push the rat over towards Frey.


    "Hey, what the heck?!" Frey cried out at Ethaniel''s sudden action as she abruptly punched the rat further into the catbs. "What gives Ethaniel?!"


    "Why don''t you me the fox that''s clinging onto me that''s on the verge of falling if I do any abrupt movements?" Ethaniel frowned.


    "That was sudden alright?! I wasn''t prepared!" Kon shouted out.


    "God... why are you this scared?" he raised his brow. "It''s just a rat."


    "Don''t jinx things! You might bring another horde to us..."


    "Whatever," he scoffed. "Now can you get off me?"


    "Ahem..." Kon let out a cough as he hurriedly released his grip from Ethaniel''s body. "Not gonna happen again, I promise!"


    "Yeah, right. Isn''t this the second urrence?"


    "I told you I was caught off guard!"


    "Again, the second urrence."


    "Ahh! Let''s just continue clearing the fields!"


    "Aha..." Shinto sighed helplessly at the scene before him. "Then, let''s just continue fighting against the monsters. Looks like from themotion earlier, more appeared."