Chapter 8: Silent Rats

The third and fourth floors were filled with giant rats and each floor added one rat to a group after every level. After killing most of the giant rats I received another notification that all my stats increased by one. This notification came later than I thought since I killed more than 500 rats by then. I was still feeling happy about getting stronger when going to the fourth floor, and when I gained one of the giant rats skills from killing the first group I saw as well, I squealed in delight.

 

< Racial Skill Gained: Adaptability(Giant Rat)- What makes a rat so dangerous as pests is their adaptability to any environment. You now gain that adaptability and if exposed to harmful influences then you will gain resistance to it. If already have the resistance skill then you will gain resistance attribute points. >

 

I was extremely embarrassed by the squeal I let out and took that embarrassment on all the rest of the rats on the floor, which seemed much easier then in the past level. While going on my killing spree, I was shocked by this amazing skill that I received from simple giant rats. It seems like I have a way to train my resistance skill without relying on blood or cum. Even if that way is to put my body in environments that I'm not supposed to. As I arrived back at the stone wall to reach the next floor, I took a look at my new updated stats.

 

< Name: Thema Enat Makena >

< Race: Ibtala'a >

< MP: 105 >

< Astral: 7(10.5) >

< Constitution: 5(7.5) >

< Resistance: 5(7.5) >

< Strength: 5(7.5) >

< Agility: 5(7.5) >

< Dexterity: 7(10.5) >

(Author Note: Remember that the points in parentheses are the attributes with the 1.5 bonus listed in the skill ‘Ibtala’a Body’ in chapter 3. MP will just show the value with the 1.5 bonus. MP is 10 times the astral attributes which is listed in the astral attribute description in chapter 3.)

While I do feel stronger right before the notifications that my stats go up by one, the feeling of looking at my stats showing that change was different. I sit on a rock, taking a rest before going to the next floor. I sit there in a daze for a while before I wake up to my pussy lips being rubbed and a burst of pleasure causes a shiver to go down my spine, which causes me to bite my lip to shuffle a moan.

I began to look down but stopped myself when remembering I wouldn't be able to see my pussy since my breast or in the way. I try to find the source of what’s rubbing me and notice my tail unwrapping itself from my leg and rubbing my pussy on its own. I notice it only wonders when I don’t eat anything for a while. Something that is only confirmed when I notice myself getting hungry and horny. I guess I was in a daze longer than I thought I was if I’m feeling like this after just eating.

The feeling of wanting to let my tail continue almost overwhelmed me, but I remember I have a time limit and there is no way to know how long time is passing since it's always day here, and gain back my focus. I get off of the rock, move my tail back to its usual position of being wrapped around my leg, and start walking towards the stone wall. 

 

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I start the portal and quickly walk through. When I regained my vision I was underground in some type of tunnel. The tunnel was about twice my height, both horizontal and vertical. I looked behind me to see nothing there but more tunnels. Everything about this screamed boss fight and I mentally prepared myself for my first difficult fight since I got here. ‘Guess I will fight the same enemies for four levels and get the boss fight on the fifth level.’ I guessed. Only time will tell if my guess was right for the rest of the floors or if the first five levels were unique

I start walking into the tunnels, trying and quickly failing to mentally map my route. Suddenly I feel pain in my left calf muscle. I hop to the side and try to find what hit me. I failed to hear or see anything around me and continued walking while being more aware of my surroundings. 

Out of the corner of my eye, I see a black figure jump out of one of the smaller tunnels to my right. The creature made no noise, even when I stabbed it with my tail through its eye. I bring my tail in front of me, careful not to get the blood on me, and see a giant rat skewered on it. 

Seems like the giant rats on the boss floor are completely silent unlike the constantly squeaking rats on the lower floors. I walk carefully through the tunnels, dodging and killing the giant rats that I notice, and tanking the scratches of the ones I don't and killing them before they can hide again. 

It takes what feels like hours for me to see different surroundings then the unending tunnels. One of the tunnels I was walking in opened up into a giant empty cavern. The ‘ceiling’, walls, and floor of the cavern was covered with hundreds of tiny holes. The emptiness and quietness of the cavern made me more self conscious of my surroundings then I would have liked. 

I walked in the middle of the cavern, being careful to avoid the holes and expecting an ambush at any moment. While looking at one of the walls, I suddenly feel something pierce the back of my skull and exit through the front.

I went into full blown panic mode, feeling the puncture, and suddenly losing my vision, thinking I died again so quickly after being reborn. When I felt the impact of my hands and knees hitting the ground after I apparently fell forward, I remembered that my body doesn't have a brain and The Manager modified my soul so that it receives the signal that my brain usually does. 

I don't need my brain to survive. But I'm helpless without my sight since I can't hear anything. I lie on the floor faking like I'm dead so that I can heal without being attacked. While faking my death, I feel a tiny figure on my head slowly eating my head.

I realized awhile that while my entire body is more sensitive than my past life, I am more numb to pain. Getting slashed or stabbed, while still painful is not mind numbing painful as I think it would be. But the pain from being eaten makes me fear how this would feel if my sense of pain wasn't numbed. The pain is almost mind numbing and I bite my lip and clench my teeth so that I don't cry in pain from the feeling. 

I quickly realized that I can't take this much longer and slowly raised my tail and stabbed through the creature which I will put on my life as a rat. The rat notices the danger and tries to run but my tail pierces its hind leg and halts its escape. I quickly find its position from where I feel my tail is and jump to it to pierce it with the claws on my left hand. It struggles a little bit but stops moving after a few seconds.

I drain the little shit to quicken up my healing and see what I can gain from it. The smile thing doesn't have that much blood and I quickly drain it dry. Two notifications show up in my mind as I feel my eyes reforming. The feeling of my head healing freaks me out a little bit but I push past it to read the notifications.

< Enough blood Drained: All stats increases by 1. >

 

< Racial Skill Gained: Silence(Giant Rat)- Can choose to make no sounds with any of your actions(except your voice.). You can also choose to only let out some sound or lower the volume of some sounds. >

 

The silence skill is awesome and I quickly think of having all sound I produce silenced. There is no reason to make sounds while being in this dungeon, while doing nothing but fighting. While getting up from the floor I notice there is no ruffle of soil under my hands and feet. I notice that I unconsciously move in a way that no sounds come out and I move in a way I can only call ‘softly’. As I finish with trying my new ability, my vision finally returns in my left eye and a moment later, my right eye too. 

 

I look at what I just killed, and see a tiny all black rat dead and with a hole in its leg and a giant hole in its chest. While walking towards the tunnel I came in from, I kick the carcass across the room while saying “Fuck you”.

 

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