"Great Rafael, your servant heeds your command. The creatures of this world will eventually perish from the pgue..."

  "Hahaha, hehehehe..."

  "Great Rafael, I am willing to dedicate my senses of smell and taste. I beg you to give me a gift."

  The unconscious female ratman showed a pained expression due to the injury on her shoulder. Sometimes she spoke in unclear [Pgue Language] and sometimes she ughed wildly, making her seem a bit like a deranged lunatic.

  When System spshed rainwater on the ratman to wake her up, he discovered that she was indeed not much different from a lunatic.

  This ratman who understood [Pgue Language] and knew how to read and write in the ratman nguage was basically a fanatic of the God of Pgues and Curses.

  According to the words the ratman had spoken in her sleep, she'd sacrificed her senses of taste and smell, as well as her left eye, to Rafael.

  When System used a dagger to cut the ratman's tendons, not only did she show no fear, she instead responded with a hoarse and strange ugh.

  Later, when System used his tentacle to taste the blood flowing from her wrist, she also raised her wrist and sucked her blood. She even had a cheerful expression on her face as if she was enjoying it.

  Aside from System and Meatball, this ratman was the third being that he'd seen in this world who could happily consume their own flesh or blood like this.

  In order to prevent this madwoman who could communicate with the evil god from self-destructing or suddenly sacrificing herself to curse someone, System decided to kill her as soon as possible.

  There were many ways to kill the ratman. System thought for a while and decided to send out one of his old slime friends, since they had no thoughts or consciousness.

  In this way, even if the evil god's believer suddenly went crazy and sacrificed herself before she died, the only one that would be hurt would be the slime.

  However, because the ratman knew the [Pgue Language], System decided to ask her some questions first before killing her. He wrote down his questions on the paper that he'd obtained from the ratman wizard, then passed them along to the prisoner.

  Contrary to his expectations, when she saw the words written in [Pgue Language], although the ratman was still crazy, her attitude changed drastically. The way she looked at System was also completely different.

  The ratman ignored the fact that System had previously cut her tendons and actually sent him a crazy, but still friendly, look.

  "God's nguage! You actually know God's nguage, too!"

  "Hehehehe..."

  Although the ratman was still in a crazy state, she was surprisingly able to communicate. By writing messages in [Pgue Language], System was able to obtain a lot of information.

  However, the ratman's responses were very confusing, and System couldn't tell whether the things she said were true or false. He decided to just listen for now without making any judgments.

  According to this fanatic of Rafael, she had been directed to the nest by the evil god's guidance. However, as he asked more questions, System realized that this one-eyed ratman would say that any action she took was guided by Rafael.

  He specuted that the ratman had likely come to his nest because of its high terrain so that she could avoid the rain. After finding the nest's entrance, she had decided to hide inside.

  Through his communication with the ratman, System also gained a simple understanding of the social retions of the ratman cn.

  Although they were an intelligent race and tended to live in groups, the ratmen themselves weren't as united as System had imagined. Small-scale wars broke out between different groups of ratmen occasionally.

  The ratman cn was also divided into csses. High-css ratmen lived inside the borders of the gathering pce, while some low-css ratmen lived just outside. Those low-css ratmen needed to regurly submit food to the high-css ratmen.

  Their retionship was basically like lords and peasants.

  It was also because of this that the ratmen in the ratman gathering pce had learned about the arrival of the rainy season, while the scattered ratmen outside remained completely unaware.

  After questioning the ratman further, System also learned about a ratman city in the Warren Pins—Helencia.

  Based on the ratman's chaotic words, System specuted that she'd once lived in Helencia, but had been expelled from the ratman city and ended up here.

  Although the female ratman's words were contradictory at times, and she sometimes ughed strangely, no matter what questions System asked, she would always give some kind of answer.

  He gave up on his pn to immediately kill her and decided to first spend a period of time learning how to read and write the ratman nguage from her.

  ...

  Because System could write in [Pgue Language] on paper to communicate with the ratman, his learning progress was very fast.

  In just three days, she verbally narrated more than a dozen books from the dead ratman wizard's warren. These books generally had very few pages, so although the ratman often went crazy, she still transted them quickly.

  Although System couldn't master the ratman nguage in such a short time, and even the smarter Bck's progress was only satisfactory, he could repeatedly look over the contents of the books using the videos recorded in his [Tools Menu].

  Because of the videos, the crazy ratman quickly lost her value.

  System thought that it would be troublesome to kill this crazy worshiper of the evil god, so he had originally pnned to rely on his old slime friend to complete the complicated operation.

  However, he didn't expect to only need the clumsy tricks that he used to use on ants and other insects. He just told the crazy ratman that if she stabbed herself in the head with a dagger, she could return to the embrace of the God of Pgues and Curses and become extremely happy.

  Almost immediately after he told her that, the crazy ratman took out a dagger and stuck it into the earthen wall of the dungeon, then smashed her head into it and committed suicide...

  Before she died, the ratman showed a happy and crazy smile, which was completely different from the timid and cunning expressions on the other ratmen that System had seen. Compared to the other ratmen who were cunning and frequently lied, he was much more afraid of crazy ratmen like this one.

  In fact, he even waited for a long time just to make sure she was dead before he mustered up the courage to touch her body with his tentacles. Even when he was absolutely certain she was dead, he still hesitated for a long time over whether or not he should use her body as food.

  ...

  Although System had spent three days questioning the crazy ratman, the heavy rain in the sky still showed no signs of stopping.

  The rainwater near System's nest had accumuted to a depth of nearly twenty centimeters.

  However, now that Excavator had used her power to raise the entrance of the nest by half a meter, the entrance was one meter high. System estimated that even if the rain continued for another ten days, there would be no problems with the nest.

  He also began studying the books that had been left behind by the ratman wizard.

  According to what seemed to be a notebook or diary, the ratman wizard who had blown himself up and cast the [Severance Curse] was named Lance. He had been an upper-css rat from the ratman city of Helencia before moving here to study pgues.

  Most of Lance's books were about pgues. In addition to some books about the use of pgue spells, there were also many that recorded the ratmen's knowledge of pgues.

  The ratmen already knew that pgues were caused by extremely tiny pathogens. The ratmen had even developed a unique spell that, combined with some special tools, allowed them to achieve an effect simir to a microscope.

  System skimmed through the books again, then looked at the only book about curses.

  However, when it came to using pgue spells or curse spells, there was a prerequisite—communicating with the evil god Rafael and making a sacrifice.

  Only by doing that would there be a possibility of casting pgue and curse spells.