The Mad Rat’s Lab Ch 20 – The Lil’ Demoness

This chapter is from two POV and alternates between them. The first is Andreu’s POV and the second is A Lil’ Demoness's progress in third person.

**Andreu**Dungeon Battle Challenge!Flesh MonstrositiesvsWicked LegionThe Mad Rat’s LabHellish DreamlandDisguised KoalaA Lil’ Demoness

“Ok, so what did she change…”

I look at the rules that she changed. She changed only three of them.

“Fuuuuuuck! It had to be this rules!? She clearly knows about my dungeon and units, and set it in the worst possible way for ! It was supposed to be a fair challenge and she dares to do sothing like this!? How nasty! Wicked!”

The first rule is the maximum cp cost of units, which is set to 300 cp. This ans I can’t use the strongest unit in my dungeon: the Lab Assistant. Because the cost is already over the limit, and the level ups make it cost even more...

The second rule is regarding the environnt hazards, which are disabled. So no mushrooms in the Dungeon Battle.

And the last and third rule is that Critters are prohibited. So I can’t even make use of the most situational and unexpected unit that my dungeon has: the Death Butterfly.

“Oooh, co on! Wasn’t this supposed to be a match to show you are better than !? How can you dare to say this is a fair match when the rules are clearly set so that you can have an easy win!!!!”

Doesn’t she have any sha? I understand the demon’s philosophy of lying and deceiving, but did she have to go so far into the roleplay? She clearly incensed with the ssages so that she could humiliate later with the rules…

“And I fell for her trap. Aaaaah!” I pull my head’s fur. I don’t have hair, so I can’t pull my hair as a normal person would. But I can pull my fur.

“Now, what am I going to do? Can I still win this match? I don’t know… it’s clear she knows how my dungeon works, so I can’t use surprise elents… the tunnels or the freezer zones won’t be able to stop her if she rembers the dungeon’s path, and instead will only obstruct my mobs from finding her…”

“There’s no other way. I can only use the cave part of the dungeon for this match, and fill it with the Demonic Swarrs. I hope they can crush her in numbers.”

It’s true that I still have the laboratory zones, but they are a single room and are too small to be eligible for the Dungeon Battles. So they aren’t an option here.

“So the Mad Rat’s cp value is 300, which leaves 700 cp for the rest of the dungeon units. The 8 Demonic Swarrs cost a total of 440 cp, leaving with 260 cp for traps or more mobs. I can’t use the Lightning Rods because they aren’t effective in such a big open space… and the sa for the falling and exploding corpses.”

“The only thing I can do with those 260 cp is adding so stitched… up to 8 or them.” So I choose 8 stitched and divide them in two squads of four.

“This is the best I can prepare with the rules she chose, designed to cripple … I don’t know how it’s going to go, but I hope she gets pumled to death by a swarm of Demonic Swarrs. Yeah, let’s hope it goes well…”

I press the confirmation button and the Dungeon Battle starts imdiately. It seems she already prepared everything before I did.

“...Which doesn't surprise , given that she already knew what I can and can’t use after crippling …”

After the battle starts, I find myself in a luxurious and extrely presumptuous… banquet?? There are lots of appetizing als on top of a central table. The walls are adorned with paintings and statues, the floor is covered by an expensive carpet, and a huge chandelier hangs on top of everything.

“Wow…” My mouth is hanging open. “Is this really a dungeon battle? It looks more like a dream you would have…”

First of all, I take a look around for enemies. But I don’t find anything in the room, except a few doors here and there. Then, one of the doors opens and a waiter holding a tray with more food cos inside.

“...A waiter!?”

**A Lil’ Demoness**

anwhile, inside The Mad Rat’s Lab, A Lil’ Demoness is steadily moving forward. It looks like she already knows where to go.

“Heh, this is going to be easy! What a fool to let choose all the dungeon battle rules after knowing I already went to his dungeon to investigate. I’m sure he was crying after seeing the limits I put to prevent him from using his best units! Hahaha!”

A feminine and glamorous laughter echoes through the giant cave. Following her lead, two more voices can be heard laughing.

They co from the two Imps that are following the player: nasty and treacherous creatures specialized in magic combat. Even if they are weak, they can get pretty annoying with their high numbers and hit and run tactics. They are the core unit of the Wicked Legion faction, also called the ‘demons’.

“Oho! Here cos the first enemy!”

A weird humanoid with two heads, which looks as if sobody put together half an elf and half a dwarf cos attacking.

*AaAaAAa!* The creature releases a disgusting loud cry before running towards the invader. It does so at a very fast speed.

“Hahaha! It’s funny the way they walk and run, because they seem like they are going to fall to the ground all the ti! But that’s the only fun thing about them... I must take care to not be surrounded by too many of them. Just in case.”

Talking to herself, she prepares for combat. She is wielding a whip. Covered by small bladed tal plates, the whip is clearly designed to annihilate whoever it touches.

The whip is released towards the enemy at a frightening speed, and forces the charging enemy to montarily stop. It’s clearly not the effect of the whip strike, sothing else must be at work.

“Fufufu! What’s up, little guy? Are you afraid of coming closer? Don’t worry, I’ll keep you company with my whip. Are you enjoying my whipping?” She says while continuing to strike the deford creature again and again. A nasty smile adorns her face.

It doesn’t take too much ti until one of the halves is killed. Then, the other half gets covered in a dark fog and its stats increase a lot. The whip is no longer enough to keep the enemy at bay, and it gets closer to the invader.

At this mont, her eyes start glowing pink, and the enemy stops again.

“Yes, that’s it! Happy dreams! Fufufu!” She says.

This is the effect of the Charming Eyes skill, an innate skill exclusive to a very specific kind of demonic creature.

Charming Eyes (Innate active skill)Cost: 10 EP and 10 MP per second, cost increased by 10 every second it’s activeCharm a single enemy for as long as you keep this skill activated. This skill can only charm enemy Champions and Bosses for a maximum of 5 seconds. The tir resets one minute after the charm ends.

After a few seconds of being chard by the intruder, the weird enemy falls to the ground, dead. The dark aura not only increased its stats, but also consud his life.

“Now it’s two of them, huh…”

While the fight was going on, so ti has passed, and two more of those half-and-half enemies have appeared. They are running towards the place where they were fighting until now.

*AaAaAAa!* *AaAaAaAa!* Each creature releases its own cry when it gets close enough, and then they rush towards the invader at maximum speed.

Needless to say, the sa scene as before repeats again. Only that this ti, the two Imps also join the fry.

**Andreu**

“...a waiter!?”

No, sothing’s amiss. It has the sa proportions as a normal human, but its skin is charred and instead of normal veins it’s covered in a web of red strings that resemble magma.

The ‘waiter?’ doesn’t waste any ti and cos to attack , still holding the tray full of food.

“This’s no waiter! It’s a Hellspawn!” I shout in surprise. I didn’t expect to see a waiter in a dungeon, even less a hellspawn dressed as one.

Hellspawns are units that take a similar role in the demon faction as the one the Demonic Swarrs: units that are better than the basic unit (in the demon’s faction, the Imps) but can still be considered sowhat weak.

It’s weird for a single Hellspawn to co attacking alone… I’m sure there are more of them nearby.

“Where are you hiding!? Co and show yourselves! I need to assess your potential usefulness before deciding if I want to capture you!” Not that I can, since this is a Dungeon Battle.

I don’t have to wait too much. After just two seconds, another door opens and a new waiter-hellspawn shows up.

“Aha! I knew it!”

The combat starts, and since only one hellspawn has reached , I decide to kill it with my staff. anwhile, the other hellspawn is getting close.

I have just killed the first one when I hear sothing falling from behind . But the second hellspawn is now in lee range, so I don’t waste ti looking at what it is. One Cold Blast and two staff attacks are enough to kill the newcor.

Just as I want to celebrate my victory. At exactly that ti, as if it was all planned to ruin my mood, sothing strikes from behind. I wasn’t expecting an attack, so I am surprised and turn around.

What I see is… one of the portraits has fallen to the ground. Where it was previously hanging is now a hole in the wall and an Imp is casting spells from there in my direction.

“You sneaky shit! How dare you attack from behind!”

I quickly start casting Cold Blasts to kill the Imp. But as soon as I turn around to face it, I hear the sound of more objects falling to the ground.

“...don’t tell …” And sure, I look around the room and several more portraits have fallen to the ground. And more imps hiding in holes start casting spells in my direction. What’s even worse, the remaining doors are also open and more waiter-hellspawns co into the room.

“So you decided to co all at the sa ti, huh!? Fine by ! You made a mistake there, Lil’ Demoness! If you investigated so much, you should already know that I’m actually stronger against multiple weak enemies than if they co in waves!”

I start trying to kill as many imps as possible until the hellspawns get close to one another. Luckily, the huge banquet table is obstructing them from coming at from all sides at the sa ti.

“Hah, hah…” I am out of breath after the battle. After seeing that I neutralized the hellspawns, the nasty imps were playing a hide and seek ga with , waiting for to expose myself to start casting again, and hiding from my spells when I was facing them…

“I’m gonna take a short break. Luckily, there are luxurious chairs around the table, so I can be comfortable!”

I sit on the closest chair. But suddenly, from the chair I’ve just sat on, I hear a *Click!* sound.

“Shit! A trap!?” Imdiately after the trap is triggered, sleeping gas cos from the chair and I’m put to sleep for so ti. It says for 20 seconds.

“I wasn’t expecting gimmicks or traps since the environntal hazards are prohibited… but it’s true that the traps were allowed… I am stupid! Stupid, stupid, STUPID!” I say while pulling on my fur again. ntally, because I can’t actually move my Champion while asleep.

Well, the damage is done, so I have no other option than to wait for the sleep to end… Let’s take a look at the progress from the other player anwhile!”

I open the screen to show the other player’s progress.

“Holly cow! Her na is A Lil’ Demoness but I don’t find anything that’s small! Definitely not her chest!”

My enemy is playing as a Succubus. She is decently tall, has huge horns on her head, nicely grabbable buttocks and Oh my god…! Those breasts that jiggle with every movent she makes…!

I am srized by those jiggly masses for a short while until I manage to snap myself awake from those hypnotic movents.

“Don’t lie to the people!! Don’t call you ‘little’ when you have nothing little!”

“It seems she has already killed most of the Demonic Swarrs… Of course, why should it be different from what I’ve seen until now…! Even her champion is designed to counter my dungeon! With the Charming Eyes she can neutralize the Demonic Revenge skill… She only needs to ti it right and they will self-destruct after the skill’s buff expires! Shiiiiiit!”

As soon as the sleeping effect disappears, I continue with the dungeon exploration. I must reach the end before she does or I’m going to cry… This match isn’t fair…

**A Lil’ Demoness**

A Lil’ Demoness continues her dungeon invasion while Andreu is sleeping (and hypnotized with so jiggling movents).

“What a fool to fall for the sleeping trap. He went and actually sat on a clearly suspiciously placed chair… What is he, a little kid!? Hehehe!”

She, too, has been taking peeks at the other player’s progress during her dungeon invasion.

“But I’m surprised we didn’t find any traps… Oh, of course! How silly of ! All the traps that he currently has aren’t suitable for big areas like this one! So he must have spent everything on mobs.”

“And talking about mobs, here co so more. Ugh… disgusting. Do you really like these gross mobs? Because if it were , I wouldn’t use them even if I had no other option!”

A group of stitched is approaching the invader, trying to defend the dungeon.

“I don’t ever want to get close to sothing like that… Hellfire!” She uses a skill exclusive to the Wicked Legion faction called Hellfire. It’s similar to the Fireball spell, but it attacks in a wider area, and can be kept active for as long as you want to deal continuous damage after the initial burst damage.

Shortly after, the area where the stitched are is engulfed in dark flas that consu everything, and the stitched are imdiately killed… without being able to enter combat mode.

“I must be close to the dungeon core already. Maybe one or two more minutes maximum. Oh, there it is!”

She has reached the end of the cave, and sees the dungeon core at the furthest point from the entrance to the dungeon.

“How easy it was! I didn’t expect it to be so easy even with the crippling rules I set for him! Hehehe! A piece of cake! Hehehe!”

While laughing, her chest goes up and down a lot. If Andrew were watching this scene, he would surely be hypnotized again.

She then grabs the dungeon core and imdiately shatters it on her hand.

**Andreu**Dungeon Battle Lost!Winner:Wicked Legion - Hellish Dreamland - A Lil’ DemonessRewards Obtained…

“Fuuuuuck! She won!” I am ashad of this loss… “Even if she crippled , it was too easy! Am I really that bad at Dungeon Battles? Though it's true that I’m skilled towards normal Dungeon Invasions instead of Dungeon Battles with those no-killing skills…”

“Shit! This can’t end like this! I must have another match, this ti a fair one! And I’m going to show her I’m actually better than her!”

[Disguised Koala]

‘You may have won this match, but it was clearly to your advantage! How can you claim to have won a fair match against ? Are you proud of winning a match where you clearly put the rules to your advantage!?

I demand another match, this ti with all rules set with default values so that no one has a clear advantage! That is, unless you are a shaless succubus that only fights when the win is already decided!’

[A Lil’ Demoness]

‘And what if I’m a shaless succubus? Would you like to co play with tonight? Fufufu! You should have taken into account your own limits and not be playing the ‘gentleman’ if you can’t face the consequences!

But I can’t leave my client unsatisfied, so if you want a rematch, a rematch you’ll have! How about tomorrow at the sa ti?’

I send a ssage saying that ok, that we will have the rematch tomorrow at the sa ti. At least this ti, it’s going to be a fair match… I hope so.

“Or maybe not… how about I ast Ricard, and maybe even Laura about tips and ideas to make her have the nastiest experience ever…? Fufufu! Hahaha! Yes, let’s do it…! Hahaha!” Evil laughter escapes from my mouth.

It’s a sha that it went so bad… Though not absolutely everything is bad. At least I can save the battle replay and keep those hypnotic pattern movents for later private use… Yeah, for private use. You know what I an, right?

“There’s one status effect that clearly beats all other status effects in terms of usefulness: the charm status.

It’s easy to understand why: it makes the enemy absolutely unable to do anything. But it also isn’t broken by taking damage like the sleep status, doesn't make the enemy run away like the fear status, is easier to apply than the stunned status, and in so cases, you can even make the enemy attack its own allies while chard.

The only problem is that there are only a few skills that can apply the charm status. This is what makes incubus and succubus two of the most dangerous units to look out for when playing against the Wicked Legion. They innately can apply the charm status with their Charming Eyes skill.”

- A tip from a professional DMA player to newer players.