For the next week, Kane continued killing and killing respawning rats. He was already level thirty. Now monsters died in three, three and a half hours. When the tenth one died, he received a message:
[Congratulations! You received the title "Fearsome Enemy"
Description:
Strong monsters have begun to fear you. When you approach, high-level monsters automatically reduce their territory radius in which they can attack you by 5%.
+2% of base damage to attack against monsters exceeding your level by 10 or more.]
And he was finally close to killing the last rat. It had about 7% life left. The warehouse floor was covered in blood, pieces of flesh with mangy fur, and thirteen bags from disappeared rat corpses. But finally the cursed rat took its last breath and fell sideways.
RAVen sighed with relief and was about to jump out of the door when a presence of some evil creature began to be felt in the warehouse. Its aura reached Kane, and he concentrated on finding the source. For several minutes nothing happened. But then the guy heard an unpleasant screech.
Wondering what could produce such sounds, he quickly got an answer. From the open basement into the warehouse center crawled a huge rat. It was about three meters tall. Purple smoke radiated not only from its eyes, it seeped from its entire body. Large claws led to not very comforting thoughts about what would happen if one got under them. And instilled instinctive fear.
For a couple moments Kane forgot he was in a game. The rat ran its claws across the floor, and he heard that screech again. Having torn up the passage, the monster stopped in the middle of the warehouse and, sniffing, slowly turned its head toward Kane.
"Damn..."
Reflexes worked faster than brain. The loaded crossbow immediately shot at the boss, and the rogue rolled back into the small room. Carefully sticking his head out, he applied "inspect."
[Name: Pack Leader (Viscount)
Level: 51
Health: ???]
"This is bad. If I leave now, will the rats respawn? And will this boss remain here?"
There was no doubt this was a boss. The prefix with "viscount" made it clear this wasn't an ordinary mob.
Plus the curse aura covered its entire body. What abilities this leader had, he really didn't want to check. RAVen gathered his thoughts, considering his actions, but was interrupted by a hit to the cache wall. The vibration was such that it slightly threw him up.
"What's happening?"
He looked down again and almost regretted it. The leader, not waiting for Kane, began hitting his shelter with its tail, which like a whip lashed at the refuge walls. The guy didn't know how long they would last, so he cocked the crossbow and began methodically shooting at the giant. The rat, not stopping, tried to hit the impudent human, but its strikes only hit the walls.
Miss
Miss
Miss
-14
The effect from the last shot worked and disoriented the leader. While it shook its head, RAVen continued shooting. No matter how hard the leader hit the walls, they cracked, vibrated, but continued stoically enduring the strikes. Kane, who decided this would continue, soon regretted it.
Five hours their battle of endurance continued. The rogue only stuck out to shoot and instantly crawl back. The aim constantly went off, and frequent misses deprived all hope of killing the monster. And then, when he once again hid in the room, a strike lashed across the floor, and after seconds came a crack.
Understanding nothing good was coming, he ran to the ladder placed at the window. When the room collapsed, he had already climbed outside and was hanging on the ladder, observing how the leader's evil muzzle bent over the collapsed boards. It sniffed again and then saw the rogue.
For a couple seconds they looked at each other. Kane thought the leader would keep standing, but immediately realized he underestimated the enemy. The rat rushed to the exit, clearly intending to go around the warehouse and reach the opponent. Realizing this wouldn't end well, Kane shot like a bullet climbing onto the roof. Thanks to the ladder being initially constructed with access right there, there were no problems with this.
He climbed as fast as possible, but when several rungs remained to the top, felt the ladder suddenly jolt and begin falling sideways. A thought came that the monster apparently couldn't brake at speed and simply crashed into it at full force. Kane, not wasting time, pushed off with his feet from the step and caught the roof edge.
Pulling himself up, he realized he was a hair's breadth from death. The ladder lay below, clearly having taken quite a beating. The leader stood looking at the prey that had slipped away from it.