Chapter 268 Rat Queen

[Third Person POV],

The Epic Grade Dragonheart was something that would lead numerous races to wage war against one another to obtain it owing to its powers, yet despite having them, Andrew Dawn never fully comprehended the power of Epic grade items.

Because it was derived from a dragon, the dragon heart was even unique among epic classes.

Dragons are mythical creatures that have captured the imaginations of people around the world for centuries. Regardless of how small, anything connected to dragons was unique.

Before the apocalypse, they were only known as fairytales and were considered myths in the ancient world. Naturally, the same could not be stated about the true world because even the fairytales they were exposed to as children were a massive oversimplification of what the true dragons were capable of.

The majority of individuals in the true world were oblivious to this because, even among the small number of people who had contact with dragon-related objects, they were unaware of the full range of its potential effects.

Andrew Dawn gave the two a general nod and then slowly began to circulate the mana in his body, seeing as his men did not "object" to his plan.

The job that Andrew Dawn had belonged to the elemental route, which meant that much of the improvement it brought to him had to do with his mana and elements. But, because it was an Epic Grade job, the improvement it brought to his physique was many times stronger than what a Rare Grade job that had to do with physique would give, therefore Andrew Dawn was still quite powerful even if one were to remove his elements.

His speed was his strong suit, and when he covered himself in lightning mana, it turned into an even more lethal weapon. This sharply raises his speed to a point where even individuals with certain jobs of Epic Grade won't be able to catch up.

Andrew Dawn was attempting to use his unusual speed to get the dragon heart in the middle of the crowd of mutant earth rats.

As the Dragon Heart comes into contact with physical contact, it shrinks in size, thus there was nothing like having to carry a heavy heart about if he got close to it and grabbed it. Of course, that was if he could get through the horde of red-skinned rats and reach the dragon's heart.

Andrew Dawn's plan wasn't even bad because it was a logical and straightforward method, but as the phrase goes, not everything goes as planned.

Andrew Dawn's body began to exude a very frightful pressure after circulating the mana in him to completely coat every inch of his body in black lightning. Even the red-skinned rats in the hole below him turned to look at him. The largest rat in the area also turned to face him.

At this time, Andrew Dawn's aura was like an alarm that kept sounding and giving warning signals to everyone nearby, including his men standing next to him.

Andrew Dawn was unconcerned that their location had been found because he and his men were going to be "through" soon and would murder anything in their way as they exited the tunnel.

Andrew Dawn snorted as he saw all the red-skinned rats turn to face him and quickly vanished from the area. A gust of wind chased after him as he dashed between the groups of unresponsive red-skinned rats.

All the Andrew Dawn men could see, even with their strength, was a dark light that occasionally changed directions between the crowd of red-skinned rats that was starting to become noisy, and all the red-skinned rats could see, or rather feel, was a cold wind passing them.

The gap between the dragon heart and Andrew Dawn was previously at a reasonable distance, but because of his speed, it was quickly crossed. The red-skinned rodents stared as he raced past them and drew nearer to the dragon's heart since they were utterly powerless to react to his speed.

This was true for the majority of the red-skinned rats, but for one specific mutated earth rat—the largest of its kind—it was different.

When Andrew Dawn's gaze landed on the mutant earth rat close to the dragon's heart, he also noticed this.

Regardless of how fast Andrew Dawn moved, this mutant earth rat just seemed to be able to follow his movement with its eyes, which was the strangest thing about it and what distinguished it from its species. It seemed that no matter how fast Andrew Dawn ran, it would still be able to follow him with its eyes, but aside from utilising its eye to do so, its body remained static. As a result, Andrew Dawn reasoned that it could only think quickly and move its eyes but not its body.

Andrew Dawn stepped up his defence a little as he neared the dragon's heart since this seemed logical.

Although he didn't think the rat would be able to fight him, since it was indeed the oddest of all the rats in the area, there must be something unique about it. It was therefore better to be vigilant and prepared than to be caught off guard by an unexpected event.

This was Andrew Dawn's idea as he approached the dragon's heart. When he did, however, come within a distance of less than a dozen metres, along with the enormous mutant rat, Andrew Dawn was about to pass the enormous rat when he abruptly stopped, threw a punch to his left side, only to be hit with a punch from the enormous rat.

Interestingly, the rat was even able to move and respond to Andrew Dawn's speed, and on top of that, fire out an attack.

Even if that weren't unusual enough, Andrew Dawn was taken aback that the mutant earth rat did not fly from his attacks and continued to stand firm; in fact, it didn't even appear as though the rat had been harmed by him.

This was of course not Andrew Dawn's full-strength punch, but even then, it should be clear that Andrew Dawn was considerably stronger than his level.

Because of how unique his job was, it was actually unknown whether his attack was something a recently evolved ordinary rank two specie would be able to handle.

The ogre king event was an outlier that could not be regarded as usual, but a rat could compete with him in strength?

As this thought raced through Andrew Dawn's head, he suddenly became enraged because he was irritated by the difficulty of launching this rat into the air and the fact that it was diverting him from his objective.

Andrew Dawn once more delivered a punch to the large rat next to him, this time using all of his strength and a dense covering of black lightning.

When Andrew Dawn's fist and the monster's fist collided, a huge shockwave was created around them as both of them flew to different places due to the wind that was created from their punch as the den began to shake. What he expected was that when his punch came in contact with the rat, its body would be blown into tiny bits of flesh.

Andrew Dawn was relieved to see that the hovering dragon heart did not appear to be significantly damaged, but there was now another thing that caught his eye.

Within a couple of hours, he had come into contact with two beings that were not humans but had the strength to battle with him, and while he did not feel great about it, it is not what he should be thinking of right now.

As Andrew Dawn regained control of his body in mid-air, he ran back to the dragon heart and stretched out to grab it when the huge mutated rat from earlier appeared in front of him to block him.

Upon seeing this, Andrew Dawn became enraged once more and unleashed another punch with a roar. The monster then imitated this action and launched its own punch, and both Andrew Dawn and the monster exchanged dozens of blows in a matter of seconds, sending shockwaves that caused the den's rocky hill to violently tremble as if it were about to collapse.

Both the Andrew Dawn men and the red-skinned rats were taken off guard by the rapid change in the situation, and they all struggled to stand on the ferociously vibrating ground.

In comparison to the red-skinned rats in the hole, Andrew Dawn's men were still doing well. Because there were so many mutated rats congregating in one location, unlike Andrew Dawn's men, who were just two, casualties began to occur among them.

Also, it did not look good for them because some of them had collected in the area of the conflict as the shockwaves and indirect attacks from the two beings engaged in combat began to kill off the mutant rats nearby.

Nobody noticed that the dragon's heart was generating a faint red light as blood began to gather in the pit.