Arowen head the sound of fighting coming from outside and glanced at the ratling for a brief moment

'just great! *sigh* must be his friends, after all, rats are known to come in packs' he thought and he was true in thinking that, monsters and animals are different species but they still share similarities though it differs from one species to another, there are some rat monsters that do not work in groups but this is not a topic to discuss at the moment

so now Arowen was met with a choice to go out and help in the fight or stay hidden and wait for dawn to break, either choice has its pros and cons, for the first he could gain life force, battle experience and get closer to the other survivors, but it could also end in an early death for him and a gruesome one at that, he could imagine the ratlings tearing him apart while he's still alive or someone stabbing him in the back to save his hide and then the ratlings tearing him apart while still alive,

as for the other choice, he could hole up in the restaurant and ambush any ratling that comes by so he would stay safe and gain some lifeforce but it won't be much and his relationship with the other survivors won't progress much and they could even hold a grudge because he didn't help,  he could also be ganged on by a bunch of ratlings and die a gruesome death with ratlings tearing him apart while he's still alive(AN:hehehe ;) )

'honestly speaking I could die either way so what would I choose, hmmm, the options aren't much, I may be a cautious person, but I am not a coward and its good to take a gamble every now and then, so lets hit the road'

after thinking deeply about his choice, he decided to go and join the fight outside even if he were to die, he knew full well that in this new world, he could only move forward, he may need at some situation to retreat, but not now this is only the beginning of his journey and if he cowards now, could he survive what is to come and let me tell the future is far worse than what they could imagine *evil laugh*haahaaahaaahaaahaaa*evil laugh*

'i may not pioneer the road of this new world but I will not back down easily' (AN: I don't know why I wrote this sentence but it seems to be inspiring to me hehe)

with that thought in his mind, Arowen went out of the restaurant while checking either side of the street and 2 blocks away he could see a chaotic battle going on, around 30 ratlings were attacking the American group, around 20 attacking the Chinese group, around 10 attacking the French group, and a few stragglers that attacked the lone survivors that hadn't joined one of the groups yet which were 5 excluding Arowen, some of them had 1 or 2 ratlings attacking them and they were doing well albeit injured guess there was a reason why they chose to remain alone but not all of them were that skilled and some corpses were being fed on by some ratlings,

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the situation was hard as not only the loners were getting hurt, the groups were also suffering some losses, their numbers gave them strength but also painted targets on their back and that could be seen through the numbers of ratlings attacking them, and the injuries were piling upon them, though the deaths were kept at a minimum by their teamwork, the fight was intense and there seems to be no end to this ratling tide if you could call it that and as the fight went on there were even more ratlings joining in attracted by the noise and the smell of blood

as all of that was happening Arowen took a glance at the situation and made a quick decision to which side he will join, it was not an obvious choice but instead of joining the big groups, Arowen chose to join the loners, after all, they survived until now so it meant that they have some skill and if he helped them he could gain some reliable companions

so the first person Arowen decided to help was a buff guy with a sword and he was swinging it with ease and keeping three ratlings at bay which spoke loudly of his skill, and that was the reason he chose him first if he helped alleviate the stress coming at him from three opponents he may be able to kill one of them and from there it will only get easier

so he went to his side and said while swinging his bat at one of the ratlings

"you look like you need *swing* some *swing* help" (Arowen) of course he spoke English

but what greeted him was only a grunt from the buff guy, but Arowen didn't mind as his grunt could be interpreted as an agreement and so he continued swinging at the ratling of which he got the attention, the ratlings  don't have long arms so their main form of attack is their bite and as it pounced on him mouth open he hit it on the side of its jaw while stepping to the left, something he learned from a tutorial on fencing, but it wasn't fazed and turned its body to face him again for another attack but Arowen remarked that it was a bit slow when turning its body and that screamed weakness in his head, now Arowen knew of two weaknesses of this monster and was going to exploit it to his advantage

after learning of its difficulty to turn its body sideways, the fight got easier for him, as it pounced at him again he did the same stunt, sidestepped and hit it on the side of its head, but this time he quickly turned and as the ratling was still carried by its momentum forward he discarded his bat took out his two new daggers and jumped on its back riding it, and then trust his daggers into the throat of the monster as hard as he can and yanked them violently towards him while it threw him back, successfully tearing its throat out and spilling its blood on the pavement, as Arowen reached the pavement his amateurish training on MMA quicked in and rolled back still holding his daggers in a ready position and surveying his vicinity

Arowen took a glance and no enemy was heading his way, but not the twitching ratling on the ground as one of the ratlings not actively engaged with the buff guy was attracted to its dying brethren and started feasting on it, unaware of the danger approaching behind, we should not forget to mention that the ratlings are extremely stupid creatures