The villain's goal is to save the heroine

only…

Where is the boss?

Lynn looked at the rat swarm being quickly cut down by Eunice and the others, and his brows gradually furrowed.

The so-called "giant demon rat" actually only refers to the largest one. The female rats they met along the way, including those the size of wild boars, have nothing to do with "demons" in essence. They are just of the same species.

The real "Giant Rat" has a body as big as an elephant. It eats living things silently, and can easily blend into the shadows and release barbed attacks. Its level is at least that of a "high school student"!

In the game's plot, the giant rat has been lurking in the shadows from the very beginning. If the player wants to eat it all in one go, there is a high probability that the first game over will appear here!

As an old player, Lin En would certainly not miss such details. He had been searching silently for several rounds since the beginning, but even though he had repeatedly compared the appearance scenes of the giant rat in the game, he could not find the other party!

This made Lin En feel a little depressed...

You know, at this time in the game, Claire is not strong enough to kill the giant rat instantly. The result of defeating it but not killing it is that the giant rat will definitely flee frantically!

The two will keep chasing each other, and after a lot of trouble, they will be accidentally brought into the ruins barrier.

In other words, if there was no giant demon rat to "lead the way", Lin En might not be able to find the "Ice Heart Pendant".

He couldn't help but start to worry. Could it be that due to the force majeure of history, the giant demon rat was now trapped in the ruins barrier?

If that's the case, then this trip would be in vain...

Chapter 21 Sneak attack!

Compared to Lynn's "far-sighted" concerns, Eunice was already struggling at this time.

Six clones are equivalent to six times the mana consumption. Although the full firepower in a short period of time suppressed the rat tide, this state could not last long. When the last round of "tide" was completely defeated, a few drops of sweat had already slid down Eunice's forehead. If the rat tide came again, she was afraid that she would become miserable.

Fortunately, after several rounds of bombing, the rat tide was completely defeated, and Hetty was equally powerful. The area where she was active had become larger and larger. After she killed two female rats in succession on the periphery, the scene was basically in a state of disarray.

Seeing this, Eunice secretly breathed a sigh of relief, waved her hands, and extinguished all the magic circles.

This girl never worries about winning. The key point is, as a super magic genius of the Holy City Academy, if she can't achieve a perfect victory against a bunch of small fry, wouldn't she appear to be a loser?

She knew Lin En was watching from the side. At this moment, she should just wipe out her opponent like a falling leaf in the autumn wind. That way, even that vicious guy wouldn't be able to deny her, right?!

Eunice turned around proudly, ready to show off, but then something strange happened! A crack suddenly appeared in the ground beneath her feet, then gradually widened. With several cracking sounds, the entire ground collapsed in an instant!

The moment the girl slacked off, the hidden "Giant Rat" attacked directly!

A monster's howl was heard from the empty palace, and a giant rat with a huge body and a ferocious face suddenly jumped out from the ground. It opened its bloody mouth, and its sharp teeth were covered with black mucus, as if it was going to swallow the little Loli alive!

At this moment, Eunice still had a look of confusion on her face, and Heidi on the outside just turned around. Before she even had time to show a panic expression, Eunice's small body was already in front of the mouth of the "Giant Rat"!

If nothing unexpected happened, by the time everyone realized what had happened, Eunice had already entered the belly of the "Giant Rat"!

Everything happened so fast and so unexpectedly.

however…

"Oh!"

The giant rat suddenly closed its huge mouth, but gained nothing. There was nothing in its mouth except some air.

In a flash, Eunice was pulled out by Lin En with a silk thread.

All I can say is that it’s a good thing that the person standing here is a former game player. As Lin En had fallen here before, he was more cautious.

He knew that games couldn't be equated with reality, not to mention that the current script was different from the game. He just didn't find the giant rat in its hiding place in the game. How could he be sure that the boss didn't exist?

So he released "Senlu" in advance and was on guard.

Otherwise, based on what happened just now, even if Eunice didn't die today, she would be badly injured!

"Na (this is a shout of na, not ne), see? This is a typical negative example. It's like being overjoyed and then getting carried away." Lynn caught Eunice who was flying backwards, and while talking to Vivian, he threw her out.

"hiss--"

The little girl let out a moan as her butt touched the ground first.

However, when Vivian saw Lynn's disgusted look towards Eunice, she felt inexplicably happy.

"Well...well, teacher, it's not good for you to treat senior Eunice like this...well...isn't it?" The happy Vivian helped the unhappy Eunice up in a questioning tone.

However, Lin En just chuckled at this and put on an attitude of 'thinking about the child' and said, "Haha, this is just a small bit of care from me as a mentor for my lovely student. I want to take this as a warning and a warning to others... Do you understand?"

This made the little girl who just stood up very angry: "Bah! You are obviously disgusted by the smell on me!!"

“…No.”

"Then don't step back!"

"Don't go too far. I saved you just now. Why should I repay you with evil?"

"You still say no?!"

Eunice's hair started flying again with anger.

Fortunately, Heidi rushed over at this time. She looked very remorseful and suddenly half-knelt on the ground and confessed: "I'm sorry, Miss Eunice! I almost caused you to be swallowed by the Giant Rat...! I am so useless, please punish me!"

However, Eunice just straightened her back unhappily and said, "Shut up. You don't think anything will happen to me without this guy's help, do you? I'm not that fragile."

She took two steps forward, stretched out her hand, and all the clones that were originally fighting with the giant demon rat swooped down towards the monster!

The giant rat was already very furious because its sneak attack failed and it was teased by its clones. Seeing those stinky "humans" finally rushing towards it, it jumped towards the clones like crazy, first biting "killing" one, and then the steel hairs on its body hardened, and then it suddenly opened up like a hedgehog, piercing the other four clones to death in mid-air!

however…

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

Eunice's clones suddenly emitted a dazzling blue light, and then all exploded. Rumbling sounds continued to echo in the empty palace, stirring up layers of smoke. The power was in no way inferior to the advanced magic that had just been released!

When the smoke gradually dissipated, the giant rat was blown to pieces with blood all over its body.

There was blood all over his body, and the rat face was particularly serious, with half of his eye blown off, making him look extremely hideous.

"Hmph! How dare you embarrass me? Go to hell!!"

Eunice's left hand ignited a magical energy, and suddenly, the earth on the ground came alive, instantly binding the giant rat's five legs (or tail!)! Then, with her right hand raised, a cone of ice, emitting a chill, gradually condensed into shape!

Obviously, the little Loli was planning to nail the giant rat to death here!

Can…

How can it work?

Lin En didn't come here to kill the giant rat. If he killed it, who would come to look for the treasure?

So, just as Eunice was approaching the giant rat with great momentum, she was suddenly tripped by something and fell headfirst to the ground with a "bang"!

This scene is somewhat funny. After all, she was preparing to judge the monster with the attitude of a victor, so why did she suddenly fall to the ground?

Vivian and Hedy were both a little confused and didn't know how to react for a moment.

But Eunice jumped up and down almost immediately, turned around and started yelling at Lynn: "You damn, disgusting, disgusting bastard! You want to fight?! Huh? Do you believe me or not, I will beat the shit out of you?!!"

Lin En turned her head away and pretended to be stupid: "I don't know what you are talking about."

Then Eunice suddenly pulled out a small notebook from her body, gripped the pen tightly, and then waved it with a look of deep hatred on her face:

"I will remember this grudge!"

It can be seen that the little Loli is really angry this time.

Chapter 22 Chase

However, it was not wise for Eunice to get angry at this time.

While the little girl was madly holding a grudge, the giant rat broke free from its restraints and escaped.

Although this monster was dozens of times larger than the giant rat, it essentially inherited the characteristics of a rat and almost in the blink of an eye it darted into the shadows where the firelight could not reach.

Lynn had barely finished teasing Eunice when she suddenly picked up Vivian and chased after her.

Although Eunice was half behind, she caught up in the blink of an eye, and while chasing, she kept shouting:

"Hey! Damn Lin! Stop right there! You promised to let me deal with this monster!!"

Lin En had no choice but to turn around and said, "I say, how about you just pretend that you've already dealt with the giant demon rat? I'll handle the rest, and I won't take any credit from you. How about we just part ways here?"

"what--"

Eunice was very unhappy about this:

"What do you mean by 'just treat it as it's already been dealt with'? Do I need such a cheap 'just treat it as'? If you hadn't been getting in the way, I would have dealt with it long ago!!"

"How about considering it as a favor? After all, if it weren't for me, you would have ended up in the belly of a giant demon rat."

"That already cancels out what happened when you tripped me just now!!" Eunice shouted with her fist raised.

But Lin En didn't buy it: "How can that be? I clearly saw you write it down in your little notebook. You must be planning revenge."

"Huh? That's called a one-size-fits-all deal!" The little girl said stubbornly, "I'm just not going to bother with you about tripping me, but for embarrassing me like this, I'm definitely going to settle the score with you!!"

"You're clearly already at size two, right?"

"I don't care! Anyway, I have to deal with this monster... Hetty!"

She called out, and saw the burly girl following behind her suddenly hugged her, slid on the ground and spun around, then threw Eunice out!

With a sudden acceleration, she overtook Lin En and the other two. The little girl condensed sharp ice cones in mid-air and laughed loudly, "Ha! No one can stop me! Die, you stinky rat!!"

The sharp cone shot out like a cannonball, aiming directly at the running and injured giant demon rat, as if to kill it with one blow.

But how could Lynn let Eunice kill his treasure-hunting rat?

He threw out the silver "Forest Threads" at a faster speed and entangled the ice cone on its trajectory. With a strong pull, the huge ice cone was instantly chopped into pieces by Lin En and turned into ice crystals all over the sky.

Eunice was immediately furious: "You stinky Lin En! You're so blatant now! What the hell do you want to do? Are you in love with that stinky rat?!"

"I...I said it was a slip of the hand, do you believe me?"

"I don't believe... a damn thing! At least give me a decent excuse!!"

Eunice became more and more unwilling, as if she was angry. The more Lin En tried to stop her, the more she wanted to kill the monster!

She gritted her teeth, and as a cyan magic circle formed beneath her feet, Eunice accelerated again, shooting forward once more! Then, blue light after blue light lit up in the air, and powerful icicles formed one after another. With a wave of Eunice's hand, countless icicles rained down on the giant demon rat!

Lin En suddenly felt a headache. The situation in front of him seemed to have turned into a fruit ninja. Faced with such a huge number of ice cones, he had to try his best to manipulate the silk thread to intercept and cut them.

At the beginning, many cones that escaped the net fell to the ground, but gradually, Lynn became more and more proficient in controlling the silk thread, and was able to easily withstand Eunice's attack.

Unwilling to admit defeat, Eunice changed her mindset. She began to attack from the angle of casting, one group on the left, one group on the right, and occasionally making sneak attacks. She was able to break through Lynn's defense network soon and almost hit the fleeing monsters several times!

Faced with this situation, Lin En had no choice but to narrow his defense to the vicinity of the giant demon rat. When the protection range was reduced and "Senlu" could easily cut the ice cones, he once again blocked the overwhelming attack.

But Eunice still refused to give up. She kept attacking and waiting for Lin En to make a mistake. But Lin En's skills were very good, so how could he lose to a "high school student"?

They attacked and defended like this for several minutes, and finally, Eunice's magic power could not hold on any longer.

She decided to put all the remaining magic power into the last shot and make Lin En a big one. In this way, even if the ice cone would be cut by the opponent, the monster would be drowned with its size!

"Now let me see how you can fight me!!"

Eunice laughed and pushed with both hands, and the ice cones as big as small hills fell towards the giant demon rat!

She is not the only one who is exhausted now. The injured giant rat is also at the end of its strength. This blow is definitely enough to take its life!

however…

“Huh?” Eunice was stunned and looked at Lin En with some confusion, “Did that guy give up?”

Yes, this time Lin En did not attack again, but just stood there and let the ice cone hit the giant rat, as if it was not him who had just tried to stop it.

The reason why Lin En did not take action was because the giant rat suddenly stopped fleeing.

Anyone who has played the game knows that this underground ruins barrier forms an independent space, and the reason why the giant rat stopped fleeing can be explained in the words of the game:

"The smell from the outside world has been cut off, and the giant demon rat is unable to determine its direction for a moment."

In other words, while he and Eunice were attacking and defending, they had unknowingly entered the ruins barrier.

Now that his goal has been achieved, what reason does he have for Eunice?

So, similar to the game, the giant rat died at the speed of light the moment it entered the ruins, becoming a perfect exit for the NPC.

At this time, Eunice, whose magic power was exhausted, fell from the sky and was caught by Lin En, so she was not injured.