Chapter 8: 8- Discovering Humans

"Thud!"

Oscar didn't even gave the unicorn rat enough to time to scream and alert the now nearby worker rat at the neighboring tunnels before dropping dead in mid track as his claw was going in from the back of its neck and protruding out from the front, covering in a gruesome blood of his prey

In terms of proficiency Oscar has now scored more than enough at killing these rats in one blow, courtesy of them being alone and dared to show their defenseless back against him

After learning from his past mistakes and with the help of his new 'Sneak' skill, it wasn't hard for Oscar to successfully kill the next six or so lone unicorn rat workers. Managing to level up twice in the process and reaching

While also raising 'Sneak' and 'Sharp Nails' twice as both skills are the ones he used to one hit kill these rats

After expertly dragging the rat into the nearby exit tunnel while clearing the trails as much as he could. He starts gobbling down the raw meat as his knife like fingers danced along its skin splitting the muscle meat apart from its bones with the scent of fresh blood permeating the air

'Somehow their tails are rather elastic' Oscar would have thrown away all the remains of the monster rats, but after checking the elasticity of their tails he thought otherwise

So, he hides the bundle of these tails at one place after binding them together with tight knots, in hope to use them in the future 

'I got level up after killing 3 rats in total and after that the exp got reduced for killing them, so I barely able to gain level 4 by killing more than six... Hence going by this theory, shouldn't I have more Gene aliment points?' Frowning, he doubted the numbers

Oscar was trying to guess the maths behind his reduced Gene aliment points but not after a minute has passed, 'I give up!' 

Raising his hands in defeat he sighed 'How did I even pass my mathematics exams?' 

He wondered before it clicked him 

'Ah! I didn't... Have to retake the exam thrice only for the teacher to forced pass me to maintain her good teaching record' Now he's regretting it but Oscar was one of those who never question the cashier, believing they won't cheat him on some small change 

Shrugging, he opens the mutations available to him

'Maybe...' He contemplated on having a driller on his forehead just like those rats but thought otherwise. He doesn't think swinging his head against your enemy like an angry bull is wise and 'I just don't like it' 

Other than that, he didn't find any new mutation that could interest him

'Yea, make my fangs sharper than the Dracula' Suddenly he lost the sensation in his mouth before feeling two pulls at the sides, the spots his canines were placed accompanied by a strange itching above his mouth like an additional gland was coming to existence 

It didn't take long for the process to complete and him to get two sharp fangs that can stretch further with his thought

"Urgh!" He gasped, clutching his forearm with two poke marks he felt a sudden dizziness and a little nauseous before he saw the upgrade in his poison resistance as some gentle feeling soothes his nerve 

'Guess, it worked' he smiled, having to finally raise his poison resistance before selecting the skill he had his eyes set on from the moment he saw it

Having his confirmation, his scalp starts itching subtly for a moment while he felt a horde of ants crawled on his skin making him shudder with some cold sweat covering his back before he came to his sense

From the moment he was able to feel a slight link with the magic stone. This skill popped up for him to purchase making him excited and hopeful

Stretching his hand, he could now feel the visible magic particles floating around, even though the particles still passes right through him and he couldn't do much other than just feeling a light weight as if a feather touched his palm but when he picks up the crystal, he could now 'feel' it and as he focused his mind solely on it, he could tell that the crystal was responding or reacting to his 'touch'

"Fuu!" Taking a breath, he rubs his head 'That's why I don't like doing it... It's tiring but... Worth it' smiling tiringly, he thought 

Who doesn't like doing something magical, Oscar was no exception to this and that's why he had practiced to make the crystal glow whenever he was not hunting rats or eating rats for the past two days

'Now, time to hunt and gotta dump all my skill points to max this skill at my next level up' 

Oscar wasn't lazy to keep practicing more, he was just smart enough to level it up automatically following the saying 'Why work hard when you can work smart' 

Of course, he would refrain if he finds more interesting skill to spend his skill points than this

Tugging the crystal back inside his hidden pocket, he jumps back down inside the burrow while wearing a coat made of the rats black and red fur to use as camouflage, just in case 

'Huh?'

Oscar haven't even move far in the tunnel, when he caught the scent of many rats moving in one place 

Taking double the precaution, he move more slowly and stealthily as possible. Making sure to rely on his sense of smell and hearing more but because of being underground and him trying to focus tens of rats at once he couldn't tell which one further away or near him as they seems to overlap one another 

Feeling frustrated, Oscar decided to simply upgrade his ears for once

Fortunately, his fear was unfounded and it didn't increase his already large ears instead it improved the inner functions and changed the structure a little making his ears look sharper and better in capturing the sound coming from afar

Having a better detector, Oscar keep moving forward while avoiding the lane the rats are moving in advance by taking some detour to reach through the tunnel, he found with little to no traffic which he cleared by killing the two rats seemingly guarding the passage and almost caught his presence 

The tunnel size keep raising till it reached the normal size cavern without a shred of any magic crystals growing from the walls as he came closer to the ones he kills the two guard rats by distracting the first one by throwing his self made rat fur coat from the intersection before taking down the other one that growls angrily at his disappeared partner with some difficulty as the rat almost alerted the nest by its painful squealings till he tightened the death grip on its neck using the rope made of rat tails 

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'Fuu... Almost got caught' Catching his breath, he pulls the bodies aside just behind some random boulder

'Now... Huh?!' Peeking through the end, Oscar was dumbfounded when he saw the cavern was connected to a giant room like Hall riddled with many holes the size of any normal rat worker to pass through, while he could see rows of rat workers picking and dropping the magic crystals collected by the other smaller rats coming out of the side wall tunnels at the heap of crystals seemingly making a small mountain 

"Crunch! Crunch!"

While, standing in the middle on its two hind legs, a giant bear looking rat with two rodent teeths and whiskers of 7ft in height or ten times larger than the little Oscar, can be seen munching on those same crystals leisurely 

'What kind of... Raticulous rat is this?!' He means ridiculous 

With a silent gulp, he shuddered from fear as he remembered that giant snake from before 

'And wait, can we eat these?' He questions himself, seeing that giant rat munching on those magic crystals like some snacks 

But before that 'Let's get the hell outta here' 

With a nod, he silently backed away but he didn't get past some twenty meters away from that Hall when he heard a squeal from his side the place he had hidden those dead rats 

"Squiiiii!"

'Can't you wait for me to get away before wailing for your dead girlfriend?' Cursing at that bastard who somehow had already alerted the nest and most probably that Raticulously giant Rat. He picks up his pace and dashed towards any nearby small burrow he could find 

As he could tell from how the ground shakes subtly that giant rat had came out to check the commotion and it didn't take long for the monster to shriek loudly at the runaway intruder 

"Kkhrriiiii!"

Followed by the powerful booming squeal, hoardes of rat flooded all the tunnels and the one he was running in didn't comes in exemption

'Sh*t!' Holding his breath, he runs on all fours hoping to outrun them but his hope dashed away when he picks on the rats drumming behind one corner away 

"Hap!"

Taking a quick turn, he jumps up at the exit tunnel leading outside but a rat soldier at the lead caught him in the sight at the last moment and followed him 

"Puchi!"

With a surprised snap like bite, Oscar Punctured its hide with his sharp fangs and release a slow poison that put the low leveled monster in a drowsy state while not killing it outright and its body blocked the other rat soldiers to check upon this exit making them run ahead after feeling nothing wrong 

'Ahh...' After checking if there's more rats coming this way, Oscar sighed in relief 

Although, he could kill one or two easily in one hit adding with the surprise factor. He definitely isn't capable to defeat a horde of rats at once 

Coming out of the exit from the burrow placed in an inconspicuous place, Oscar pulls out the sleeping rat with him

Though not dead, its body was slowly dying 

'Should I eat it?' Frowning he thought of that rat boss monster 'Yea if he can then... Why not me?' 

With a simple mind, he about to swallow the crystal in big gulo before a red prompt popped up, stopping him in mid track

'Hmm... ' On a second thought, he puts down his hand and runs his brain for a moment to find an alternative 'Why take the risk, when others are ready to take for you...' 

With a toothy smile, showing his fangs and teeths Oscar grabs the dying rat by the mouth before forcing the mana crystal down its throat before making it chew thoroughly as he pressed its jaws together to crush the crystal then pulling its neck up to make it swallow it all 

The rat could only squeal in pain as Oscar roughly handled its limp body 

Standing, Oscar keep staring at it. Observing the changes that may happen to its body

But after nothing happens other than the rat slowly taking short breaths because of his poison, he was disappointed 

'Tch!' With a click of his tongue he again was about to swallow the mana crystal to see if this could raise his magic power in the status but stopped when he felt sudden change with the rats body

'What... Is... This!!!' 

The change was too sudden and outrageous even 

As he couldn't even think twice before a blinding light shone from the rats every orifices before its skin starts cracking like a boiled egg shell, Leaking out a dazzlingly bright light making him force shut his eyes for a moment and a deep sense of foreboding triggered his mind causing him want to take cover beside the strong looking boulder and just when he dives to hide... 

"Boom!!!"

A loud explosion takes place and the rat died with its body blasted into innumerable parts flowing throughout the cavern, painting its wall in a bloody red and gore

"Cough! Cough!"

Coming out of the rubbles in a fit of cough, Oscar was stunned from seeing the after-math of the explosion

'Why it didn't said the one who eats will literally explode!' 

Dusting himself, he grumbles while feeling lucky for not eating that thing himself and thanking his future generations for saving him by sending the warning screen before he did anything stupid 

"Here! The sound came from here!"

'!!!' Startled by the sudden voice, Oscar turns back in alert

'Humans?' He thought, since he doubts a regular monster could made such sophisticated noise, save for their some unique deep growls and grunts as way of communication

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