Chapter 266 Sudden Turn Of Event

[Raw chapter so I'll edit it later. There's a serious lack of constant electricity in the country I'm in, especially in the particular area I'm currently in so I'm sorry for the late uploads throughout this month. Also, I'm thinking of making another cover art for Anna so please say your thoughts in the comment section of what other character art you'd like to see. Thanks for reading],

[Third Person POV],

Ace did not actually need to come into the earth rat den to complete his job quest again as it only remained a few more monsters for him to kill to complete his job quest.

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[Kill Unranked Monsters using Magic: [100/100]✔

[Kill Rank 1 Monster using magic: [50/50]],✔

[Kill Rank 1 Monster with the aid of Alchemy: [11/30]],

[Kill Rank 1 Monster with a single hit with the aid of Alchemy: [0/1]],

[Time Limit: 43 Days: 11 Hours: 42 Minutes: 25 Seconds],

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If he wanted to be patient enough and take things slow, he would only have to hunt monsters for a few more days and he would be able to complete the requirements for his job.

The main reason he decided to use the monsters in the earth rat den to complete his job requirements was because the earth rat den was much safer than the true world.

This might be misunderstood since compared to the monsters in the true world that were distance away from each other, this was a den full with monsters so how was it much safer than the true world?

If was quite simple since according to Ace experience with the earth rat den, he noticed that if one was to ignore their numbers, their levels was nothing to be bothered about. Well, this was true to the current Ace.

The only thing that made them dangerous was their numbers but if one was able to plan well around this, it wasn't much of an issue again.

At least, the earth rats in the den should not have grown to the level that he could not handle them individually. It was not that he was planing to but at least, together with his earth element and his level, he should be able to still escape if things were going the opposite way.

At least, it was much safer than having to meet a monster more than 5 levels above you in the true world.

Ace had several experience with encountering monsters stronger than him by five levels and every time, it was only by wits and luck he escaped.

The monsters in the true world also appeared to be getting stronger by the second since it was rare for Ace to even see a monster lower than him in level and even if the monster was lower than him in level, it was still not going to be something he could kill in a single hit.

Ace was just taking his chances with the earth rat den.

Ace plan was to search through the tunnels for where a large numbetr of earth rats were gathered and thro some explosives on them.

His plan was just that simple but there were alos dangers to this.

For one, he had to make sure that he doesn't get surrounded by earth rats before he can even fulfill hs goals becuase even though the earth rats were weak individually, their numbers were not something any rank one would want to deal with so Ace had to be careful in his actions.

Well, this was the plan when the tunnel that Ace was in started shaking.

"What's happening?' Ace thought as he quickly went to the wall of the tunnel he was in to hold its rough edges to remain firm on the ground and not fall since the way the tunnel Ace was in and even the whole rocky hill above the earth rat den was shaking violently.

Dirt was falling off the ceiling of the tunnel as the whole place started getting filled with dust that even Ace could not but sneeze several times.

Fortunately for him, it didn't seem like the tunnel was going to collapse any time soon. Even if there was the possibility of always dying in the true world, Ace never wanted a death of being buried alive but his thoughts were soon cut off as it didn't take long for the somewhat familiar squeaks of the earth rats that Ace had heard before echo through the tunnel that Ace was in.

And looking at the way the squeaks sounded with the occasional sound of explosion, Ace could already make it out that a fight was currently ongoing in the earth rat den and there was only one person that would fight in the earth rat den apart from Ace and that was Andrew Dawn and his men.

But if there was something that could make Andrew Dawn participate in a fight of this level, didn't that mean that the den was much more dangerous than Ace initially thought?

But what was powerful to that extent in the earth rat den?

'Is it a monster or another human or even another race?'

Thinking of this for a while, Ace made his way deeper into the den through the tunnels and made his way to the source of the noise through the violent shaking. There were some tunnels that did shoke less than some other tunnels that looked like it would collapse so Ace figured that the more violent the shake, the closer he was to the source and in the end, his curiosity won.

At least the contract he signed with Andrew Dawn never stated that he could not speculate whatever busineess they had in the earth rat den.

Meanwhile a few minutes ago outside the rocky hill, Celeb and the other subjects that Andrew Dawn told to stay behind and try to prevent anyone from entering the den were all observing the Ace pet, blue, as he was currently drinking the 'magic milk' that Ace had left behind before he went into the den.

Ace expected that blue would wake up later and according to the short experience he had with blue, he knew that the gryphon would wake up hungry and he was right.

Looking at the cute little thing that was in front of them, Andrew Dawn men all tried to remember anything they could remeber about the myths of the gryphon in their old world.

This might be surprising but it wasn't given that it wasn't everybody that would be like Ace who had things to do with the old age knowlegde to know these things.

In his past world that was technologically advanced, myths that were famous in the old age slowly died as only a few people bothered with them either because they were forced to in a way or because they were interested in it.

Ace was a little bit of both.

For one, Gustav was responsible for his interactions with the old age technology and Ace was also naturally interested in knowledge whether old or new so he was one of the few people on earth that knew most myths.

Seeing as the little gryphon was greedily drinking the food Ace left for it, Andrew Dawn men had a little discussion between themselves.

"Do you think those little wings can carry it?" A man among the three asked as they all looked at blue's wings.

It wasn't that blue wings were small and they were in fact large but the thing was that they just looked too weak to do anything.

"I'm not sure but I guess it should be able to fly when it gets stronger", Celeb stated as another discussion started between the three as they watched as blue later fell asleep a few seconds after eating.

Everything was going smooth as the discussion even drifted to if Andrew Dawn was going to let Celeb off and not punish him when the earth suddenly started shaking.

It was quite violent to the point that tiny cracks slowly started appearing on the ground around them.

The rocky hill still stood strong but it was unknown how long it would be before it also got affected.

While Celeb and the others were caught off guard by the sudden change of event, they were not slow to react as they all withdrew from the rocky hill to a further distance after Celeb took the little gryphon.

"What is happening now", a man on the left side of Celeb spoke as the other on the right side said something that caused a trace of worry to appear on the face of all the three men.

"I don't know but hopefully the emperor is alright"

As both men prayed for the safety of their king, the culprit responsible for all this was currently coated in the deepest part of the den with his whole body fully coated in lightning as he stared at the monster in front of him.

[Rank 1 Dragonic Mutated Rat Queen Level 37],