As I step past the broken door and into the smell of the sewer water hits my nose, rancid and slick with the stench of human waste and who knows what else. Shockingly enough, the smell wasn't the reason why the city sealed the entrance off or why the council warned the citizens not to enter no matter what sounds come out of its walls.

This sewer system is actually the upper floors of the dungeon, one whose dark power is slowly but surely creeping upwards corrupting the animals that inhabit the biome and may very well start corrupting those above. Which is why the city has sent guards down to patrol and enforce some form of control over the situation, all have failed and those that returned were never the same. Though the animals are dangerous, thankfully the evil is weak enough so that it won't hinder my quest.

What is my quest you may ask? It is to find the source of this evil and eliminate it before it can reach past the city limits and corrupt my homeland. Wading through the waters, thankfully lit up by the torches on the walls, there, after wandering down one of the hallways, I encountered my first challenge, sitting in a puddle blankly staring into one of the walls.

"A rat?" I said, confused.

The guards I spoke to told tales of ferocious beasts and monsters of unnatural proportions, I remember the scarred faces and terrified eyes of the men who were sent to patrol and suppress the growing corruption. And yet as I stared at the rat, who was still just dumbly staring at the wall, I failed to see what sparked such fear.

"No matter how unseemingly the enemy looks, never underestimate them", the words of my father rang in my head. With that knowledge at hand I slowly crept up to the rat while at the same time grabbing my steel sword and holding it overhead, it still would not move, I then swiftly slashed down on to the rat's skull and cleaved it into two pieces. It didn't even shriek or scream once, just fall down onto the floor motionless.

'Well that was surprising, why didn't it try to attack or atleast run away'? I thought to myself, while pulling the blade out of the rat's skull, as I looked down onto the remains I could see the dark and ominous liquid that seeped into the veins and tendons of the rat, crawling all the way into its brain.

'Poor thing', I thought, they didn't deserve this, no one does. Just having your own mind and body turned against you as your will crumbles down, it was a horrifying thought to imagine. Looking down into the rats' beady yellow, lifeless, eyes I realized, ' This is why I have to stop this evil infection, before it spreads to more innocent people and creatures'. With that in mind I went to see what I could scavenge from the corpse and the room. But just then two more rats, bigger than the one I just slain, came running from the door at the far left of the room with killing intent in its eyes and claws ready to tear into flesh.

Thinking quickly, I shifted into a defensive stance and braced for impact. The first rat charged at me so I blocked it with my sword while the other came barreling down at my right.' There just rats so they probably don't have much strategy in mind when attack so if I just', I left that thought to trail on as I spun to the right causing the the first rat to fall down onto the floor, quickly using my momentum to swing my sword and in one fell swoop I severed the second rats head from its body. And then, still using my momentum from the initial swing, I quickly swung my blade from underhead turning overhead and stabbing it into the first rat's skull, killing it instantly.