I'm a proper student; I only take nine kinds of potions every day.

While Evan was pondering, the Rat King of Calamity, whose tail had been severed, seemed to grow angrier the more he thought about it.

It could also be because it sensed that its tail was being swallowed by this tiny human.

At this moment, Ivan felt the ground, which had just calmed down, begin to shake even more noticeably.

Ivan immediately gripped his cane tightly, for his intuition told him that the Rat King was coming!

As the shaking intensified, Evan first checked the three vials of potion in his rectum.

A lion, insightful, sharp.

Those basic potions have lost their effectiveness; now Evan uses at least intermediate potions.

The lion can further enhance his physical attributes, and his insight can improve his vision, allowing him to see his enemies better.

The Sharpening Potion makes his attacks more lethal and his reactions faster.

These are all magical potions that can instantly and greatly enhance his combat abilities.

boom!boom!

Then, accompanied by two heavy thuds, two sticky claws emerged from the huge hole.

Each of these two claws has ten incredibly sharp and pointed nails.

Although its shape is similar to a rat's paw, it is extremely disgusting overall.

Because there are a lot of wrinkled skin and flesh behind these two claws.

The skin and flesh could move back and forth, seemingly able to constantly envelop the two claws.

As the claw appeared, a huge, brownish-yellow tubular object emerged from the hole.

This tubular object resembles a giant pillar of flesh, with the surrounding skin exhibiting an extremely tough texture.

It looks very soft, but it has an elasticity that makes it impossible to cut.

It also has segmented ring-like structures, which at first glance look like the body of a giant worm, and have nothing to do with a rat.

"Whose mouse is this?!"

Ivan's golden vertical pupils looked at the scene before him with surprise.

The next second, as the membrane at the top of this thing rapidly unfolded, mucus flowed out...

Ivan saw a hairless rat's head protruding from the middle of the giant worm's body.

As the rat's head appeared, a large amount of flesh and blood folded and receded downwards.

Upon seeing this, Ivan's eyes widened suddenly, and he couldn't help but complain.

"Holy crap... this shape looks like a turtle... no, it's a rat's head!"

The rat head that crawled out at this moment was quite eerie.

It has two huge, jet-black ears and a face that resembles a human's, but its entire head has the structure of a rat.

All its limbs below the neck had merged with the flesh and blood, leaving only its head protruding.

Just then, Ivan heard the old hunter's voice.

"Calamity Rat King, expert level, can be seen with 15 points of spiritual vision, but generally possesses the physical body of a master."

"Since ancient times, rats have been a symbol of various disasters and wars. With the condensation of extraordinary concepts, a mutated rat king will emerge from a large number of rats."

"These rat kings are generally born in the most filthy and twisted places, and are surrounded by a large number of extraordinary characteristics."

"There are even legends that the body of each Calamity Rat King is parasitized by the soul of a fanatical and insane cultist."

"The Calamity Rat King is generally able to utilize the extraordinary properties of various monsters, and most of these properties are related to disasters such as plagues and wars."

"It also carries hundreds, even thousands, of viruses that would be troublesome even for superhumans, and its vitality is extremely tenacious!"

"Be extremely careful!"

After learning the basic information about this thing, Ivan grinned: "In other words, this rat has integrated the extraordinary properties of the Star-Driller's Devourer and transformed itself into a structure similar to the Megadevourer Worm."

After the rat's head crawled out, it immediately let out a shriek at Evan.

The violent shockwave made Ivan's whole body go limp.

[You have been attacked by sonic waves! Your internal organs have ruptured significantly!]

As the notification appeared on the panel, Ivan's internal injuries had fully healed.

"Good grief! A sonic attack! You're trying to play vibration games with me, huh!?"

While the current body structure is indeed tough enough, some attacks cannot be prevented simply by being tough.

For example, various violent vibrations and shock waves.

Just as Evan's body went limp, the Rat King's body instantly extended more than ten meters, opening its huge mouth to bite towards Evan.

Ivan dodged with incredible agility, and swung his chain sword fiercely toward Ivan's head!

Whoosh!

However, the Rat King was quite astute and immediately sensed the threat posed by the strange weapon.

Its rat head shrank back, disappearing directly into the worm's flesh and blood.

Although the sharp chain sword successfully cut through the worm's flesh, the thing was simply too big.

It cut in about a meter, then lost its power.

Ivan pulled the chain sword back, but because the wind blades on it were too sharp, he didn't bring back a single piece of flesh.

Then the wriggling body retreated back into the burrow, and the Rat King launched another sonic attack.

While Ivan quickly dodged, he roughly figured out the situation of the Calamity Rat King.

This guy is like a dungeon boss; his lower body seems unable to leave this area.

Its main battlefield should be underground.

"In that case, let's finish this quickly and get some flesh and blood first; we can deal with the rest later!"

Ivan does not intend to kill the Calamity Rat King directly.

He wasn't capable of taking these things with him, and killing them would only benefit others.

So Evan's core goal at this stage is to cut off enough of this thing's flesh and then upgrade his own extraordinary ability!

If that's the case...

Then Ivan's sacred bone staff began to change again, and the fragments quickly formed a stark white and grotesque bone arm armor along his arm.

"Die, you son of a bitch!"

boom!

With a terrifying physical attribute of 20, Evan can now attack at an extremely fast speed without even needing to take any magic potions.

Just as the Calamity Rat King was about to launch a sonic attack, Ivan had already arrived behind it.

Then, the fist, clad in bone arm armor, pierced into the massive body, the outstretched hand forming a hand blade.

Accompanied by several afterimages, a large chunk of flesh was cut off.

The rat king on this side immediately felt pain and let out a scream.

Sensing that this tiny human was difficult to deal with, the obese body began to shrink back rapidly.

Ivan wasn't about to let it shrink back so easily, so he accelerated again, quickly tearing chunks of flesh from the creature.

In less than ten seconds, Ivan had ripped off more than twenty pieces of flesh the size of human heads and thrown them around.

At this moment, the Calamity Rat King, whose body was riddled with holes, finally shrank its fat body back into its burrow.

Ivan let out a breath and did not pursue.

Instead, it turned around and began to eat the flesh and blood.

"Luckily, I used up a lot of energy in the battle just now, otherwise I really wouldn't be able to eat..."

As Evan expressionlessly stuffed the pale, pus-filled flesh into his mouth, he sighed inwardly.

In the battle just now, he suffered many direct attacks from the Calamity Rat King.

Various sonic shocks, tail whips, claw cuts...

In order to repair these injuries, which would have rendered any superhuman instantly incapacitated, Ivan also expended a great deal of energy.

Soon, with the feeding, the progress of Starburst's Devour reached 77.4%.

【warn! 】

[Special Trait: Starburst's Devour has reached 77.4%, about to unlock the second stage effect.]

[Upon reaching stage two, you can further increase the spatial volume, combining the storage space with your digestive system to trap the swallowed target within, then using digestive fluids to completely eliminate it.]

[Warning: This effect is a cumulative extraordinary property, not a drug, and its side effects cannot be reversed.]

[Upon activation, you will gain the following weaknesses:]

[1. Intermediate Intestinal Activation: Your intestines have a phagocytic instinct, consuming 1000ml of the user's blood every Tuesday.]

[2. Intermediate Mental Confusion: Your mental strength has decreased by 2 points.]

After seeing the prompt on the panel, Ivan nodded in satisfaction. Of course, he wouldn't activate it here.

In the end, Ivan didn't linger. He donned the Shadow Cloak and left the villa at lightning speed.

The battle just now has caused quite a commotion; let others handle the aftermath!

Anyway, now that I'm an investigator, I've already figured out the situation here.

After all, Ivan wasn't sure if the Institute of Excellence had any other methods up its sleeve.

Just as Ivan left, a large crowd had already gathered around the huge villa.

They are mostly older, wealthier residents who live here.

At this moment, the gentlemen and their servants looked in the direction from which the heavy shaking sound was coming from, their faces showing either worry or contemplation.

As members of the upper class, some of them know the details inside.

However, due to the complexity of the area and the involvement of too many factions, it was left unattended.

Meanwhile, Rudolf, having received the news, finally arrived with his men.

After quickly dispersing the crowd with the police, he led his men inside.

Then they saw the traces of the fight between Ivan and the two assassins, as well as the pus and blood splattered everywhere in the hall, and the floor that had been crushed by the immense force of the impact.

Tom, wearing a leather jacket, and Pick, whose nose had fully recovered, were both filled with shock upon seeing these scenes.

"Damn it! What on earth happened here?"

Pique stared at the floor and tiles on the ground, shattered by the immense force of his foot, his pupils constricting to their limit.

At the same time, Tom teleported into the hall, holding a completely torn cast iron door panel in his hand.

You could see that his complexion was also quite bad.

"Someone set up an ambush here, but all the ambushes failed!"

"The traps were all triggered perfectly, yet no one was hurt!"

"The identities of the two corpses have been confirmed; they are assassins from the Black Knife Alliance."

"It's clear that these two guys died in despair, with virtually no resistance."

While his two subordinates were in shock, Rudolf was in a state of high excitement.

His eyes widened, his fists clenched, and he carefully examined the terrifying footprints around him and the cast iron door that had been casually crushed, muttering to himself.

"Arkham! Arkham! Just as I expected! He didn't disappoint me!"

"What a perfect body, what an addictive power!"

At this point, Rudolf showed no interest in the case taking place here.

As for the disgusting monster below, he had no interest in it.

At this moment, all his attention was focused on the man who could arm wrestle with him.

"Arkham!!" Rudolf's wide eyes were bloodshot, and the golden light in his pupils had turned into burning flames.

"I absolutely must have that most primal, man-to-man physical encounter with you!"

"Let's have a real showdown! Let's see who's the real man!"

……

A sneeze!

Having already left the villa, Ivan, using the cover of his shadow cloak, finished washing up, changed into decent clothes, and quietly returned to the city center.

"Is some beautiful woman talking about me? After all, with my current health, I won't catch a cold from a cold shower!"

Ivan rubbed his nose, a look of amazement on his face.

He left the villa and sped away from the city.

In the newly melted river on the outskirts, I washed away all the smell from my body.

He changed into decent clothes and returned to the city wearing a cloak.

At this point, he randomly found an ordinary hotel to stay in.

Upon entering the simple and cramped room, Ivan immediately set up a spiritual shroud.

Then the cane in his hand changed again, turning into a wide, S-shaped dagger.

The dagger is pure white, with a mysterious and cool design, and is covered with dense runes and magic circles.

This dagger is the ceremonial knife that Ivan uses now.

Unable to establish a permanent magic workshop, he began to nurture his ritual sword, just like Erlong did.

Over the course of four months, Evan used this ritual knife to perform many rituals and magic circles, leaving behind a great deal of spiritual energy on it.

He also used the special effects of the sacred bone staff to record some commonly used spells and rituals on it.

This way, each time a spell is cast, there's no need to draw those complex, complete spell circles; just a few approximate lines will suffice.

It's like using simple line drawing techniques to achieve the effect of a finely crafted painting.

At this moment, Ivan casually took out a few ritual materials and set up a spirit-guarding array in the room to prevent other people's spirits from spying on him.

There is also a warning array that can instantly wake the caster from a deep sleep.

After completing the inscription of the two magic circles, Ivan took a deep breath and directly activated the Devourer of Stars.

In an instant, Ivan felt himself being swallowed by something terrifying.

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in a pitch-black space.

Soon a bright spot appeared in the pitch-black space, and the bright spot quickly zoomed in.

That was a red planet!

At this moment, countless terrifying giant worms are wriggling back and forth on this planet!

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