Time flew by.
Before he knew it, the month had entered its latter half of June.
The results of Ogrande City's rat extermination efforts over the past few days were extremely gratifying.
Large numbers of Calamity Rats, and even Nightmare Ratmen, were slaughtered.
Cartloads of rat corpses were hauled to the city outskirts for mass incineration, the flames soaring into the sky.
The Ogrande Steam Daily was full of one victory report after another.
Of course, this was the scene that ordinary residents saw.
But what the Transcendents encountered was a completely different picture.
As they continued to clear out the sewers,
the Transcendents finally ran into some real trouble.
In the Border Region where the Dark Realm met the deeper parts of the sewers, within the depths of an extremely viscous, dark curtain,
lay the territory of the Rat King. The terrifying Rat King lurked there.
There were even rumors that the fearsome Rat King was establishing his own "Underground Realm."
