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Chapter 17 - The Outcast

Screeee!!!

A sharp screech resounded through the street as the rat leapt forwards, breaking through the glass paanel doors of the company.

In just a single leap, it had crossed an entire distance of ten meters, its speed was so fast its figure blurred into a huge shadow and in the blink of an eye, it had shortened the distance between it and Ryver within a second.

Ryver evaded sideways, but he realised he wasn't fast enough to evade. He calculated that the Mutated Rat was more than two times faster than him, Ryver grabbed his two axes and cross them before him.

Clang!!!

The sound of metal clashing against metal echoed loudly. Ryver's body was sent flying backwards, bouncing against the ground from the immense impact. His two axe had been tossed to the ground during the clash.

Ryver twisted his waist, forcefully getting up to his feet, sliding backwards a few meters by the force.

He felt his lims go numb and his muscles extremely painful as though his bones had been dislocated.

Perhaps, it was a good thing the Mutated Rat advanced using its agility and not its strength otherwise 10 points of strength against 2 points of strength was like a grasshopper trying to stop a moving vehicle. Ryver would have been instantly crushed.

"Increase agility by 3!" He hurriedly voiced out. Within a split second, Ryver felt his muscles itch as a warm current flowed through them like lightning but soon disappeared as though it wasn't there in the first place.

The Mutated Rat stared at Ryver with murderous intent flickering within its beady red eyes. Its claws scratched against the tiled surface, digging deeply into it as it pounced towards Ryver.

Stomping his leg heavily to the ground he retreated hastily, while raising the Glock from the holster, he fired.

Peng!

The reaction speed of the Mutated Rat was insanely fast, but Ryver was far too experienced with his aim. Even with its speed, the Mutated Eat wasn't able to dodge fully as the bullet shot into its shoulder, sadly it wasn't able to pierce through and only lodge in between its muscles.

If it were a normal human with vitality points of 1, the firepower of the Glock 20 was enough to blast a hole through their skull, but the vitality of the mutated rat was obviously very high. With the bullets just barely penetrating its muscles.

[Agility +3 Evo points]

In the next moment, the mutated rat had arrived before him in the blink of an eye, it raised its left paw and clawed heavily at Ryver's chest in a flash.

Sidestepping, with 7 points in agility, Ryver narrowly evaded being clawed on the chest. If it was before, there was no way he would have avoided that even if he was able to predict the attack, he would still be too slow to react and would definitely have been hit by the chest and decapitated before he knew it.

However, thanks to 7 points of agility and his ability to perfectly analyse and process the tiniest of detail to predict one's next move, he was barely able to evade being clawed to death.

His sharp combat knife brushed past the Mutant Rat's skin, opening a flesh wound, barely dealing any damage and just adding a red line to it's ash coloured skin. His strength was just too low to deal any real damage to the monster.

River turned as he moved, simultaneously kicked at the belly side of the beast, diving backwards as he fired two rounds at the Mutated Rat's body.

Peng! Peng!! Screee!!!

The Mutated Rat screeched loudly in pain and extreme fury, as the two bullets punctured its neck, drawing out copious amounts of blood. The arteries that carry blood to the brains have been punctured and in time, the Type 1 Mutated Rat would bleed out.

Surprisingly, humans and rats are actually more alike than they are different. For one thing, their genetic structures are 80 percent similar to that of humans.

As Ryver rolled back to his feet, the nearly two-meters Mutated Rat suddenly disappeared from its previous position, then appeared before him like a ghost, clawing downwards at his head.

However, Ryver could now track the mutated beast albeit barely. He forcefully twisted his waist to the side, narrowly avoiding being beheaded as he kicked at the underside of the beast, leaping backwards while opening fire once more.

Whoosh!

Peng! Peng! Peng!

Three bullets tore through the air, penetrating the exact same place on the artery, blood spurted out.

The Mutated Rat's shrieked, its eyes turning red as it went into a frenzy. Its tail whipped through the air, stabbing towards Ryver.

Bang!

Ryver raised his combat knife, blocking the tail from piercing his chest, but he was sent staggering three steps backwards.

Using this opportunity, the Mutated Rat jump pounced towards him. Ryver swiftly fell flat backwards letting the Mutated Rat cross over him.

Peng! Peng! Peng!

Three bullets tore through the barrel, gun powder spraying through the air as the bullet pierced into the neck of the Mutant, its body fell to the ground as it staggered unsteadily, blood spilling profusely to the ground.

Whining sounds escaped its lips as it was weakening and its strength dwindling. It helplessly fell to the ground, struggling to get up, but the blood loss was too severe, affecting its stamina in the process

Ryver watched coldly as life left its body. In a few minutes, the Mutated Rat died in its own pool of blood.

Ryver wasn't happy that he successfully killed the mutated beast. He was unhappy. The unplanned use of his Evo points left him sulking. He had wanted to raise his strength to 10 points all at once, but now it is no longer possible.

He checked his notification to see how many Evo points had been extracted from the mutated Beast and hoped it would be worth it.

[You have no new notification.]

Ryver's expression turned cold and the muscles in his face clenched as his facial expression hardened.

He remained silent for what seemed to be several seconds before saying.

"What a waste." Ryver picked his two axes off the ground, he headed for the stairs, dragging the zombie corpses from blocking the way, he locked the door to the stairs as he headed up.

He needed to rest. His arm is extremely sore and his bones were shaking. Since his vitality is 4 times that of an average human, it should heal after a few hours of rest.

Reaching the 40th floor, the door seems to be locked. Ryver Knocked thrice on the door and the door opened. He met Jacob and the other five executives Glinda, Daveen, Jonathan, Peter and Katniss right before the door.

They seem to be discussing amongst each other before Ryver interrupted.

[Ryver Mvcyger] | [Sex: male] [Age: 28] | [Strength: 2.0] | [Agility: 7.0] | [Vitality: 4.0] | [Evo points: 5.2]