I walked forward for around a thousand feet before finding any rats. I found a single rat when it jumped onto my back and started ripping into me. It squealed and screeched as it sank it’s teeth into my back, it’s claws ripping into my sides.

  I quickly dropped and rolled, dislodging the rat. Before it could stand up I lurched forward and collapsed on top of it. I stretched my neck and slammed my jaws down onto its neck. I spat out the piece of skin I had ripped off and stood up, bleeding all over the floor.

  I winced before continuing to walk. The less rats in these tunnels the better. And I wanna level up. Both of these are reason enough for me to commit genocide. Plus who doesn’t want to kill rats? They're like poor people but slightly worse.

  I smiled and began sprinting, enjoying the feeling of my muscles tensing as I ran through the caves. The caves themselves are strangely empty. How many rats are in this nest thing anyway? And why the fuck were they called workers?

  I wonder if they have soldiers rats? Shit nevermind. Do not come at me you fucking rats! Unfortunately, life fucking sucks. The second the thought entered my head two of the strange rats charged towards me.

  They were different from the ones before. They had longer claws, bony plating on their back and a fucking horn. Overall they had somehow become even uglier. I didn’t stop running, instead I sped up in their direction.

  I slammed into the first one with the force of a large metal thing moving fast. It stumbled backwards as I reared up and slammed my feet down onto its head, shoving it to the ground. I leaned down and ripped a chunk of its neck out. I spat the chunk at the other soldier and stomped on the head below me a few times.

  I’m pretty sure the guy under me is dead but I wasn’t able to confirm as the other soldier tackled me. I forget how freaking big I am in this form sometimes. But if I really think about it, it looks like gigantic monsters are fighting right now.

  It’d be pretty impressive to watch, although the rats kinda ruin it with how ugly they are. They have a face not even a mother could love. Thankfully I could help them with that. I smiled at my own joke as I raked my claws along its face.

  The rat screeched and backed away, its beady red eyes staring at me with fury. I just smiled and waved. It screeched and sprinted at me but I just smiled even wider and charged forward. God it feels good to kill stuff.

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  When I was within ten feet of the rat I lunged forward, trying to make myself as short as possible. I slid under the large rat, tearing into its stomach as it screamed in horror. I didn’t plan it very well as when the big beast collapsed it fell onto me.

  I let out a grunt as all the air was knocked out of me. It took me a few seconds to shimmy out from under the large corpse. While shimmying I checked my notifications, confirming my fears.

  You have killed a level 26 Giant Naked Mole Rat Soldier.

  You have killed a level 29 Giant Naked Mole Rat Soldier.

  Seems like this is the next evolution of the naked mole rats. But how are they so weak? I mean we’re the same evolution. I guess it kinda makes sense. Some species are just better. If dragons exist here I bet that they could beat me even if I was five evolutions above it.

  Ooh I wonder if dragons exist here. It’d be fun to meet them. Actually that raises a valid question. Wouldn’t it be fun to explore this world? See new stuff, kill new things and just generally find interesting shit.

  Can’t really do that without leaving my kids behind, maybe we could become a little nomadic horde? Not the worst idea, although I also like having somewhere to live. I’ll plan this a bit more once I’m back by the lake. I miss eating large quantities of fish, they tasted good. And it’s not as fun killing these knock off rats as the normal rats. It just doesn’t feel as personal. Although they killed enough of my people to deserve death, that was kinda the whole reason I was in this tunnel in the first place.

  I smiled and stood up, finally escaping the fat rats form. Yes, it really is nice to kill stuff sometimes. I smiled and skipped down the tunnel, the sound of squeaking beginning to reach me. The noise progressively got louder as I continued down the tunnel. Perfect.

  I sprinted for almost a mile straight, the tunnel didn’t turn once. When the tunnel finally ended it opened into a ginormous cavern easily ten times the size of the one I was staying in. Unfortunately it was also filled to the brim with tiny naked mole rats.

  I let out a little squeal of glee before diving into the crowd. The cavern was like a bowl and for some reason the little rats were only in the center. There was also a ginormous rat that reminded me of the broodmother evolution.

  I belly flopped onto some of the rats and yelled. “I’m gonna evolve after killing you lot! I think. Either way, prepare to die! You’re food now!” I began gleefully ripped apart the small rats around me but stopped when a voice said. “Please, stop.”

  I did in fact stop and watched in both fascination as the large naked mole rat oozed towards me. It walked on two legs, I think. They were hidden by the ginormous rolls of fat and whatever else was there.

  The abomination spoke again. It had a soft feminine voice, which did not match it’s body at all. “I won’t let you kill any more of my children, do you understand?” I shrugged and tossed one of the nearby corpses into my mouth.

  I finished eating then said. “Maybe, got any reason other than that? Bribe, threat or plea? Money?” She shook her head and said. “I’d like to talk for a bit please, if you still decide you want to fight then I will work with my children and you will die.”

  I smiled, adrenaline raced through me as I flexed my muscles and said. “Alright, but I wanna start by saying that you slaughtered hundreds of innocent children, I will not be swayed.” She smiled which was utterly horrifying.

  She motioned for me to sit and I did while playing around with the gory skull of the rat I had just eaten. I could eat bones in this body but honestly the head never tastes very good. I twirled it around in the air for a few seconds before staring at the queen and saying. “Alright, lets talk.”