34 A Rat and Escape

*Drip*

Eodum wakes up to the sound of water drops hitting the cold, dirty stone ground. As Eodum's consciousness resurfaces, it slowly raises its head. Its heavy eyelids flick open, and Eodum begins to look around. Rotting bodies, Sheila, Henry, death. Yep, everything's there! As Eodum looked around, it slowly began to get up. At that moment a wave of exhaustion and hunger washed over Eodum.

Eodum instinctively pounced at the rotting corpse of the giant man. Eodum began to devour the man; it ate, and ate, and ate way beyond its body's limit. Speaking of its body, after devouring the flesh of the man, Eodum noticed its new appearance. Eodum now was about the size of a medium-sized dog. Eodum's fur was a beautiful, spotless black. All light that touched Eodum's fur would never meet the eyes of another being.

Eodum quickly went to check on its status.

[Status:]

Name: Eodum

Race: Void Rat

Gender: Male

Age: 5 days

Level: 1

Hp: 175/175

St: 252/252

Mp: 88/88

Str: 25

Dex: 16

Agi: 30

Wis: 47

Int: 52

Cha: 14

Con: 38

Mnt: 32

Lck: 85

Skills: Excavate 6, Distant Scratch 8, Crush 6, Intimidate 5, Body Scan 4, Presence Erase 7, Focused Muscle Strengthening 7, Shadow Body 2, Pinpoint Precision 7, Acid Resistance 3, Blunt Damage Resistance 7, Support Magic ll, Mana Detection 8, Petrification Resistance, Rat Command, Regen Enhance 4, Tail Elemental Synergy 5, Gravity Magic 5, Teamwork 3, Dagger Mastery 3, Void Storage

Accomplishments: Genocide, Stone Breaker, Lord Slayer, Torturer

SP: 11

AP: 0

Eodum was thinking about how neat its new status was, but saw it had a new skill. Quickly, Eodum went to check it out.

[Void Storage]

[The user may store items of any size into a bottomless void. Time flows normally in the void, so consumables can spoil.]

Neat! Eodum was unsure about how useful this was for itself, but it was most certainly useful. Very, very neat! While Eodum was thinking of just how neat this new skill was, a message popped into its mind,

[Creating [Unique Skill] because of 2nd evolution]

[analyzing current abilities.]

[Skill created: Pocket Dimension]

[Pocket Dimension]

[The user may enter a pocket dimension with a 20 by 20 by 20 meter area. Others can enter the user's pocket dimension with the user's consent, likewise, the user can pull other people into the pocket dimension with their consent.]

[Alert! Due to similar skills, Pocket Dimension and Void Storage are combining!]

[Void Entry]

[The user may enter an endless void and store items in there. Time will move normally and affect all items in there. Others may enter the void with the user's consent, and the user needs the other's consent to pull them into the void.]

Super, mega, ultra neat! This would be great for escaping combat, and it can store an infinite number of things! This is fantastic! [Void Entry] would be a great skill asset. After Eodum had finished thinking of its newly gained skill, it looked around. Rotting bodies, Sheila, Henry, and death. Yep, it hasn't changed since a few minutes ago.

Eodum saw its friends and called out to them, "Hello."

"Oh, hey," Henry replied, "Woah, it's hard to look at you."

Sheila turned her head to the squeaks of her companions and said, "Oh, Eodum's finished! Wow, looking at your fur is disorienting as hell!"

Eodum didn't understand what Henry was talking about until it took another look at itself. It was surprised to see the difficulty of comprehending its own fur. One couldn't really get a sense of depth on Eodum; it looked like you could reach into the pure black fur. Eodum could only agree, "Yeah, I became a void rat!"

Sheila asked, lost in the conversation of her companions, "What's Eodum saying?"

"He says he's something called a void rat, what is that?" Henry both replied and asked.

"I don't know, never heard of one." Sheila replied.

Eodum looked at its companions communing in a different language, and realized that it would be too difficult to go on like this. Eodum looked through its skills and decided to buy [Translate]. Eodum looked back to its friends and began to speak, "Hello." While Eodum didn't have the vocal cords to pronounce a human's language, magically it was translated into something understandable.

"… What?" Henry and Sheila questioned in surprise as they turned their heads to look at Eodum. They could only stutter out, "D-Did you just speak Naerok!?"

"Yep!" Eodum replied happily.

The two inquired, "H-How!?"

"Got the [Translate] skill!" Eodum answered.

The two just looked at Eodum in confusion, but decided to put their reaction off. They were running out of surprise at the moment, and couldn't find any big reaction in themselves. They sighed as one last sign of surprise, and went back to discussing the next matter at hand. Henry then said, "Well, now that the sudden translation issue was over, what the fuck now?"

"Our current goal would be escaping this sewer," Sheila replied, "The next question is how?"

Henry then said, "On that note, I think I might have an idea for that."

"How!?" Sheila could only reply in surprise.

"Well during the battle, I felt a draft through these tunnels, and that means there is an opening over there." Henry answered.

Sheila could only stare at him, but quickly went on, "… Ok then, let's head towards the draft!"

The trio quickly set off with the guidance of Henry, excited to get out of this disgusting sewer. Soon, all members felt the pleasant cool breeze, and that only invigorated them further. They went off into a brisk jog, and quickly found the spot. Oh.

"Oh. Well shit." The trio quickly said when they saw the grate in the way of their freedom. The area they were looking at was a grate that let the water on the streets flow into the sewers. Sheila asked, "Well, how the fuck are we going to get beyond that? It isn't even big enough to fit us!"

"I might be able to sort that out," Eodum stated confidently, "I can dig through there."

"… Okay then! Go at it!" Henry replied to Eodum's statement. Eodom's body began to grow after Henry had said that. His body grew in size and appeared less bottomless and more shade-like. Spike sprouted from the spine and a blade formed at the tip of Eodum's tail. Eodum's claws grew in size and sharpness. Eodum flicked its head up and reared up on its back legs, and struck down with its front claws using [Excavate].

The stone walls were ripped apart at the powerful attack, and light shined through the newly made hole in the wall. The trio crawled through the hole and found themselves standing in the middle of an alley. They looked around and saw a pathway towards Main Street. The party walked out into the bustling street, and they were met with the screams of shocked civilians. Ah right, they were all monsters. Fuck!

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