Divine Emperor of Death Chapter 198

Chapter 198
"Boss Vass, we've neared the tunnel . . . " A man muttered deeply with a heavy voice .
This man was called Kron, and he was a devout follower of Vass or at least that was how Vass saw it in his eyes .
Vass smiled and nodded . Naturally, his name was fake but no one other than his father knew about his disguise .
They approached the tunnel and went inside it .
"Boss, it looks like someone had already entered here, killing their way inside . . . "
A few seconds into the underground tunnel and they could tell that someone had been here .
"Look, this is the blood of the Five-Clawed Rats . Judging by the remnant aura and energy, the person must be a Silver Stage Body Cultivator!" Vass investigated the various bloodstains that was already dried .
As a Peak-Level Body Transformation cultivator, he could distinguish the battle aura left behind by Davis .
"Let's go!" Vass commanded as he ran and they quickly started to follow .
. . .
Lightning crackled while traveling to multiple directions, striking down the Five-Clawed Rats .
*Boom!*
Davis kicked a rat into the wall with his leg, then jumped on top of it as he stabbed the spear in his hand into its head, dealing death to its life .
He was surrounded by six Spirit Beast Stage Five-Clawed Rats, each one slightly paralyzed by the powers of the Fallen Extinction Lightning .
With his Energy Condensation Cultivation, he simply couldn't deal damage to the Spirit Beast Stage Five-Clawed Rats, only managing to slightly paralyze them for a few seconds .
Jumping off to the side, he hurriedly thrust another Five-Clawed Rat, causing it to give out a shrill scream before dying in its own pool of blood .
He quickly retrieved his spear, managing to block the claw attack of another Five-Clawed Rat that almost got his head .
His eyes suddenly narrowed as bent his body at an unbelievable angle .
*Slash!*
Blood splattered on the ground while a piece of flesh fell from his left arm . He nimbly backed off and stood his ground, keenly staring at the 5 Five-Clawed Rats .
'Hehe . . . I finally got injured . . . ' Davis slightly laughed and glanced at his clothes which were torn and bloodied in various places .
Many tears in his clothes were mostly made by the Sky Beast Stage Five-Clawed Rats but they were unable to injure him in the slightest due to him being at Silver Stage of Body Tempering Cultivation .
He was almost near the underground cave while his senses scoured all over and was gradually closing on it all this time .
By this time, he had already managed to kill many Sky Beast Stage Five-Clawed Rats and a few Spirit Beast Stage Five-Clawed Rats .
There were only these 5 left, except for a Peak-Level Spirit Beast Stage Five-Clawed Rat which was in the underground cave, seemingly posing to be their head .
He looked at their eyes, each one bloodshot to the extreme . He could understand that their eyes emitted killing intent against him .
His uniform was bloodied with their blood, and of course, they would feel hatred against him like any living creature for slaughtering their kind .
Davis frowned but curbed his sympathy inside from coming out .
Are all these rats free of wrong? No . They killed and ate countless town's people above, sowing the seed of demise that will come to them eventually, exterminating them in the process .
Davis wasn't going to stop, and even if he stopped, mercenaries above will eventually come down and kill them .
If they couldn't, then the army from the Empire will eventually arrive, albeit quite late with their slow advance .
'Absolute Enhancement!' Davis chanted in his mind .
His aura grew stronger a few notches while his physique slightly enlarged, veins gradually popping out .
He gripped the spear tightly causing his bones to emit sounds of cracking .
With his Low-Level Sky Grade Spear, he charged ahead, his feet clad in lightning as he activated the Thunder Cloud Movement Technique .
Closing in on them, he slashed their eyes one by one while nimbly maneuvering between their bodies which were at the size of a normal horse .
The Five-Clawed Rats emitted shrill cries but were silenced one by one in the narrow yet wide dark tunnel .
Davis relaxed and released a short breath after killing those Five-Clawed Rats . He then collected the Magical Cores and stored their corpses in his spatial ring while also managing to collect their Soul Essences .
A while ago, he discovered that he could absorb the soul essence of a Magical Beast when he casually tried out . He figured that it should be the ability he gained from entering Adult Soul Stage .
When he asked the Death Book about it, it gave off a sound of displeasure and explained that he would be able to absorb a Soul Essence of a living creature as long as it belongs in this universe .
Its answer put a smile on his face because it gave him more diverse options to get Soul Essences from, while he didn't have to target humans on purpose anymore .
In total, he had gained about 1473 Magical Beast Cores, 18 comprising from the Spirit Beast Stage Magical Beasts .
'The last remaining Five-Clawed Rat . ' Davis thought as he looked to the front .
It was the entrance to the underground cave .
Before going in, applied some medicinal paste to the wound to make it stop bleeding . After checking the injuries, he walked towards the wide entrance and jumped inside .
Gliding down in slowly, he surveyed the landscape .
To the south, there was a pool of dirty water that emitted a foul stench . To the north, there were many holes on the walls, probably leading to the wilderness and other parts of the space around the underground tunnel .
To the east, he saw the remaining Five-Clawed Rat glancing menacingly at him, yet it was aged and old .
Compared to the seven Spirit Beast Stage Five-Clawed Rats before, its bright eyes told him that it was more sentient .
"Do you understand me?" Davis asked out of curiosity .
The Horned Wyvern could understand him to a degree, so he thought that it might be able to understand human speech as well .
The Peak-Level Spirit Beast Stage Five-Clawed Rat kept staring at him as it couldn't understand him .
"Can you even hear?" Davis's eyes narrowed as he voiced out his thought .
This time, its eyes flashed as it nodded its head .
"So you do understand me? Huh . Why did you slaughter the town's people above?" Davis pointed above and asked, entirely curious of their rampage .