Chapter 7: Chapter 7

The reloading time between shots gave the rat time to think. It circled around the warehouse the hopes of evading RAVen's attacks, but it kept returning to its initial position. Three hours later, its health had been whittled to 4700. To RAVen's advantage, the monster didn't regenerate If it had, he would have given up. Will had nerves of steel; he shot at the damn thing again and again without changing his location. His first three quivers had quite an effect on the rat - patches of its skin and blood splatters dotted the walls and floor. the By the time Will had emptied the fifth quiver, the rat looked more like a bleeding porcupine than anything else, but still had more than 50% HP left. Six hours later, it was at 17%, and going down steadily, which was the only thing that kept Will from folding under pressure. Two hours more, and the rat fell like a ton of bricks . It spent its last breath on a plangent high-pitched roar, which made the rest of the horde stick their ugly noses out of their holes. There were four of them, but they were clearly not as tough as their fallen leader.