A Core Ship From The Start-Chapter 290 - 231: Rat Extermination_1

Chapter 290: Chapter 231: Rat Extermination_1

This was the first time that Duanmu Huai was witnessing the destruction of a deity with his own eyes.

The chainsaw sword roared as it cleaved through the Giant Horned Rat’s head, followed by a piercing scream. Duanmu Huai could only see a strange tendrils-like black smoke suddenly burst out from the rat’s body. However, in the next moment, the Black Flame beside him instantly rushed towards the black mist. Then he saw the black fog explode like a gas, accompanied by deafening screams, the ground cracked, the sky shattered. This ruin kingdom which had once belonged to the Giant Horned Rat, without its rightful owner, could no longer sustain itself and it crumbled completely.

Although Duanmu Huai wanted to stay to behold the end of this world, the Subspace Storm was extremely potent. As a weak deity, he did not possess the power to subdue the Subspace Storm, let alone stir it up deliberately like the Chaos Evil God. So, glancing around at the Divine Realm that was being shattered and swept into the Subspace Storm, he opened the portal once more.

It’s time to make a quick exit.

“Squeak––––Squeak––––!!”

However, when Duanmu Huai returned to the real world, the scene he faced was not too different from hell itself.

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The screams of countless ratmen echoed like waves, even penetrating the heavy underground. The death of the deity they worshipped had dealt them a considerable blow — they clutched their heads as if enduring some extreme pain. Then Duanmu Huai saw a large group of ratmen rush out from the shadows not far away, throwing themselves into the sea like traveling rats without any hesitation.

Thousands of ratmen fell from the cliff, their numbers so vast that they looked like a black waterfall. Well….. no matter how you looked at it, the fish in the sea were certainly in luck.

Moving away from the scene of the rat swarm plunging to their deaths, Duanmu Huai once again opened up the system to check his own information.

He had to admit, defeating the Giant Horned Rat brought a significant harvest for Duanmu Huai.

[God of Destruction Level has increased to LV5]

[Black Flame Level increased to LV5]

[You have garnered 5 Attribute Points, and 5 Specialization Points]

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[Weak Divine Power +8]

[Immortal Warrior (Unlocked): Unlock with 5000000 experience points (Usage: 1)]

[You have destroyed Giant Horned Rat, you can choose one of the following divine jobs]

[Murder/Betrayal/Decay/Disaster/Ratmen/Hunger/Ambitions]

“What on earth are these…”

Looking at the divine jobs in front of him, Duanmu Huai was speechless. Honestly, he didn’t want any of these. Although, if Duanmu Huai were to take on the role of the God of Rat, he would also receive the belief of rats. But just as he had said before, the essence of the deity was consistent with the worshippers who offered prayers. This was why Duanmu Huai transformed his beliefs into the teachings of the tribunal, because only then would they support each other.

On the other hand, if Duanmu Huai were to take on the ratmen’s divine job, then his inner nature would start to be influenced by the ratmen.

And then one day, you might see Duanmu Huai in black armor, holding a war hammer, standing there yelling, “Big Rat, Big Rat! So powerful! So fearsome! Big Rat will rule the world!” and other such nonsense.

Well, just thinking about it made Duanmu Huai give up that idea.

As for the other divine jobs, none of them appealed to Duanmu Huai, Murder, Betrayal, Disaster, Hunger, Ambition… amongst these, only Disaster conflicted somewhat with the God of Destruction. As for Decay, well that would be taking business away from the God of Plague… Duanmu Huai felt his tastes were still very standard, unlike the all-loving Father. So, it was best for him to continue monopolizing these jobs.

At least, I’m afraid I’ll decline that offer.

Looking at the job of Disaster, Duanmu Huai felt it wasn’t very useful either. After all, the Giant Horned Rat was just a local indigenous god of the Novice’s Village. Its so-called disaster was simply the creation of plagues and infectious diseases, or locust disasters, and the like. To be frank, Duanmu Huai felt that the damage caused by one round of the main guns on his flagship far surpassed any of these.

“This seems like a bit of a loss…”

Perusing through the system information, Duanmu Huai ground his teeth. This round of fighting the Giant Horned Rat hadn’t benefited him much. As his Godly Occupation was so different from the Giant Horned Rat’s, defeating it didn’t gain him much in terms of spoils. After all, the Ratman technology had an 80% rate of destruction, which was completely useless. The remainder revolved around curse mastery, poisoning, and corruption, which would have been tempting if he hadn’t already had the Law of Death. But now that he had a law that could directly reduce the upper limit of life and attributes, he had no regard for these curses and poisons.

And to fight the Giant Horned Rat, Duanmu Huai had paid the price of the [Immortal Warrior]. Furthermore, it took 5 million experience points to refresh its cooldown. Coupled with the mentioned (1 time) attribute, Duanmu Huai noted that the more frequently he used it, the more experience it would consume.

This meant that most of the experience points Duanmu Huai gained from his fight against the Giant Horned Rat were consumed by the [Immortal Warrior].

If we consider from the player’s perspective, the biggest gain for Duanmu Huai in his battle against the Giant Horned Rat was the raising of his God of Destruction level and his Black Flame level with his Weak Divine Power increased by 8.

According to the rules, once he reached a Weak Divine Power of 20, he could upgrade to Moderate Divine Power. Once he obtained Moderate Divine Power, Duanmu Huai could unlock the exclusive skill of the Divine Privilege – Instant Kill.

But then…. the distance to +20 was still very far.

Certainly, if we don’t consider it from the player’s perspective, then Duanmu Huai’s actions resulted in a very good outcome. The calamitous Giant Horned Rat was obliterated, causing massive damage to the Ratman Clan, putting them on the brink of extinction. In the upcoming apocalypse, at least everyone wouldn’t need to worry about being stabbed in the back by a horde of rats.

Of course, besides this, Duanmu Huai had also received some intangible “benefits”.

Yes, the reason for the quotes around “benefits” was because…

Duanmu Huai reached out his hand and silently clicked on the last line of information.

[By killing the Giant Horned Rat, destroying its divine realm, and annihilating a deity, your actions have drawn countless attentions in the subspace]

[God of Trickery’s Attention +100, Favorability +100]

[God of Plague’s Attention +100, Favorability +100]

[Brutal God’s Attention +100, Favorability +100]

[God of Lust’s Attention +100, Favorability +100]

[Dwarf God Clan’s Attention +100, Favorability +500 (Favorability with the Dwarf Gods has risen to Friendly)]

[Human God Clan’s Attention +100, Favorability +500 (Favorability with the Human Gods has risen to Friendly)]

[Elf God Clan favorability +100, goodwill +100 (your goodwill with the Elven Gods has increased to neutral)]

[Messy Brother Two’s attention +300, goodwill +100 (you have become the opponent they are eager to defeat)]

Damn it, I’d rather not have the first four!

Also, I don’t want the last one either! What are all these messy things!

However, looking back, Giant Horned Rat, you are really unpopular. After your death, all the gods from the Novice Village, whether orderly or chaotic, have increased their goodwill towards you. There is not even a single one that has decreased it. This goes to show just how disliked the Giant Horned Rat is among the gods of the Novice Village.

Your circle of friends probably has no one to like or follow you. Is this why you’re furious and wanting to destroy the world?

Seems like choosing the Giant Horned Rat as a sacrifice was a smart move. At least no other gods will trouble me because of some old feud with the Giant Horned Rat.

Or maybe not………

Looking at the final reputation notification, Duanmu Huai twitched the corner of his mouth. Messy Brother Two is the deity of the Orcs, and the Orcs… erm, to be honest, Duanmu Huai really isn’t willing to be noticed by them.

But now, it seems they are interested in having a fight with me…

However, Duanmu Huai has no interest in fighting with these two green skins.

These guys are much more challenging than the Giant Horned Rat.

After a full round, Duanmu Huai casually added all his points to strength 2, intelligence 2, and physical attribute 1. Then, he put the specialized points into [Death Essence] to raise it to LV5, increasing the chance and intensity of counterstrike. After this, he opened the portal and returned to his warship, dragging his exhausted body along.

While the [Immortal Warrior] allowed Duanmu Huai to revive on the spot, the [weakness] debuff after the rage state ended is also a headache. At least for now, Duanmu Huai only feels sore all over. He just wants to take a good rest to recover his energy.

However, when Duanmu Huai teleporting back to his ship in his exhausted state, he saw a petite figure darting towards him.

“Sir knight, help me!!”

“What’s wrong? Ann?”

Hearing Ann speak, Duanmu Huai was taken aback. He remembered that this princess was overseeing the construction of the first modern commercial district in Manaria. How did she run back to complain to him?

“Something happened, it seems like another succubus has gotten in!!”

“………What?”

Although he didn’t know what was going on, Duanmu Huai felt that taking a rest was more important. After promising to deal with Ann’s problem later, Duanmu Huai went back to his room, flopped onto his bed, and fell asleep. When he woke up from a refreshing sleep and finished eating breakfast, he finally had time to listen to Ann’s explanation.

The story is quite simple. To put it plainly, five sons of nobles were fighting in the street, and they were fighting over a woman. According to them, this woman was their girlfriend, but she cheated on them with other people……

“Is that all?”

Hearing Ann’s story, Duanmu Huai was bewildered.

“What does this have to do with a succubus?”

“Well…because those noble sons are talented individuals, their families don’t believe that their children would get involved in such an event. Therefore, they believe that the girl is a succubus and hope that you, Sir Knight, will help investigate……”

“I have to investigate this kind of crap……”

Duanmu Huai rolled his eyes in exasperation. He could somewhat understand the nobility’s mindset. Their sons were fighting over a woman in public, which would be a disgrace to their reputation if word got out. Also, according to Ann, these sons of the nobles were unlike the previous fools who were deceived by the succubus; they were all talented individuals.

With the history of the succubus deceiving the sons of nobles, it was unknown whether these people thought this way because they didn’t want to lose face or whether they were scared from past experiences. In any case, they just laid all the blame on the succubus.

“The Tribunal is not a church. Why didn’t you look for Lorena and Saharir?”

This matter isn’t the Tribunal’s responsibility. Of course, if you were having something like a public nudity event, the Tribunal would have to consider whether it was a gathering of the Followers of the God of Lust.

“Uh… I did look for them, but they both believe that the girl is just a mere human.”

“So isn’t that the end of it?”

“But the nobles insist on having you interrogate her in person……”

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai was speechless.

“Alright then, I’ll go take a look.”

He just woke up, so he might as well treat it as a pastime.

But, come to think of it…

“Why do the nobles of your country all tend to produce such odd characters?”

“……I don’t know. I’m also desperate………”

Ann felt like crying herself.

If the descendants of the nobility are all like this, can Manaria really be alright?