BXBX NOVEL Chapter 269 Battle
Unlike the other types of earth rats, who could use a little magic, the red skinned rats bartered their ability to cast magic for a stronger physique, allowing them to only fight in close combat.
The other mutated rats, unlike the huge earth rat fighting Andrew Dawn, could not endanger Andrew Dawn's life, but their numbers were more than enough to cause problems for him if they teamed up with the huge rat to fight him. It will make the fight more difficult and reduce his chances of victory.
When Andrew Dawn's men saw the negative impact the additional mutated earth rats had on his fight with the huge rat, they realised it was finally time to act and help their king, so they went down the hole with the intention of quickly arriving at their king's side.
Unfortunately for them, they lacked Andrew Dawn's ability to move quickly through a crowd of red-skinned rats who would be unable to react due to his speed.
They were both level 37 with rare grade jobs, so before they could even think about fighting close to their king, they had to kill their way through the red-skinned rat crowd, and the opposing party did not make it easy.
Andrew Dawn had a frown on his face as he decided to become more serious as the situation that wasn't even good in the first place gradually turned against him.
It wasn't that Andrew Dawn wasn't going all out against the earth rat; he was, but it wasn't fully all out because he wasn't fighting the way he was supposed to fight in normal situations.
For one thing, Andrew Dawn was a mage, so he shouldn't have bothered fighting close combat with the massive mutated that was physically very strong if he had been any other normal mage, but his job simply made it more versatile for him to switch up his fighting style, but that didn't change the fact that he was a mage first and foremost.
It was already very impressive for him to be able to fight against an opposition that was using its strong point against him who wasn't.
Andrew Dawn's strong points were his speed and elements, and he had only been able to showcase his lightning element among the two due to the other mutated rates that ganged up on him closing a lot of space for him to freely move around.
The lightning attacks he sent out were also not doing as much damage as he would have liked because the red skinned mutated rats' scales protected them from the intensity of the lightning attacks.
Because of these factors, Andrew Dawn's situation appeared to be rather dire, so before attempting to use any of the trump cards he had in his storage ring, Andrew Dawn wanted to use soul magic, which he hadn't used fully since the beginning of the underground fight.
Andrew Dawn's job didn't just entail manipulating black lightning; he could also perform soul magic.
His lightning attacks usually dealt some soul damage, but they weren't always lethal depending on who he hit since it wasn't pure soul magic.
Soul magic is a very powerful and rare magic that was even rarer than the lighting element, making it much more difficult to use and control.
This magic nearly killed George Winter's daughter.
And that was only a rank 0 soul magic spell, making one wonder how powerful the spells above rank 0 were, and Andrew Dawn had a lot of these spells memorised as a result of his job.
He wasn't going to cast any spells for this fight though, instead just channeling more soul energy into his lightning attacks, and it didn't take long for this new form of attack to take shape, as the mutated rats who were hit by his lightning attacks all screamed before collapsing on the ground.
If he was lucky, the mutated rat that was hit would die in the first attack or be stepped to death by its kind; if he was unlucky, the rat would stand up again after recovering to attack him again, only this time it would be much weaker.
Overall, the fight began to tilt in Andrew Dawn's favor as he was once again able to focus his attacks on the largest rat of its kind.
During the fight, he also used the primordial chronicle to quickly check the rat information and discovered that this particular huge rat had a special status among the mutated rats.
[Rank 1 Dragonic Mutated Rat Queen Level 37],
Apart from being the leader of the rats, specifically the mutated rats 'queen,' Andrew Dawn was more concerned with the dragonic in its name.
For one thing, he had already realised that these red-skinned rats were unique because of their scales, which, while he didn't admit it, looked carefully crafted. He could now confirm that the dragon heart had something to do with the new mutation that occurred in the earth rats.
His only suspect was the dragon heart because it should be the only item related to dragons in this den, and Andrew Dawn was amazed that even though no one could use the dragon heart as it was limited to him by the primordial chronicle, the aura of the dragon heart could still affect the surroundings.
It was enough to make many people wonder, but it only made Andrew Dawn more ruthless in his attacks as he frantically attacked the mutated rats in order to grab the dragon's heart and flee.
If the dragon's heart can do this in its normal state, imagine what it can do when he merges with it.
Andrew Dawn hasn't forgotten the part where the primordial chronicle said he could change his race if he fused with the dragon heart, but for now, he has to have the dragon heart in his hands before he can even consider the possibility.
He also had to end things quickly because he saw his men fighting against the mutated rats, and from the looks of things, they won't be able to last long, but thankfully everything is going well.
Well, It was going well until Andrew Dawn noticed that the surroundings began to appear to be tinted in red.
He initially thought blood had gotten into his eyes, but when he checked, there was no blood in his eyes, and when he examined the surroundings for anything that could be causing the area to look red, he finally saw the change that was happening to the dragon heart.
The Dragon heart was still on the platflow in the centre of the pit, hovering in the air, unscathed by the shockwaves it had encountered during the fight, but this was not the scene that caused Andrew Dawn to narrow his eyes.
There were several lines of blood surrounding the dragon heart, and the dragon heart was greedily sucking it in, and the more it devoured the lines of blood, the brighter the red light it was emitting became.
Because of the bright red light it emitted, the surroundings in the hole appeared to be tinted in color, and when Andrew Dawn quickly observed the surroundings a little more, he discovered that the lines of blood that the dragon heart was devouring came from the blood that spilled on the ground and from the mutated rats corpse.
Andrew Dawn had no idea why the sudden change had occurred, but he didn't want any of it because he didn't know if what was happening was good or bad.
Even when he avoided fighting the mutated rats in order to rush to the dragon heart to check on its condition with the primordial chronicle, the mutated rats and the rat queen arrived and stopped him.
It didn't help that as the red light emitted by the dragon heart grew brighter and touched the mutated rats, they appeared to grow stronger gradually.
The situation had turned against Andrew Dawn once more.
Andrew Dawn did not want anything bad to happen to the dragon heart because, aside from being an item that should and will grant him great power, the dragon heart was something he had risked his life for, and no one in his situation would accept something they risked their life for being destroyed or damaged right in front of their eyes.
As Andrew Dawn considered these things while the rat queen and the mutated red skinned rats continued to obstruct his path, he finally blew off in rage and began firing soul magic spells, despite the fact that the spell was still the same rank 0 magic spell that nearly killed George Winter's daughter, the mana consumption increased by several cuts.
Nobody in the hole realised that everything that was going on at the time was being replayed in the eyes of a certain male teenager.