A few more hours passed by, and the Rat Extermination Project continued. By this time, he had finally consumed his first bottle of repellent potion.
A single bottle, after dilution, could now last up to 15 hours, lasting more than three times more than its declared duration. This was already better than expected, and he could only count himself lucky.
The distance of effect was really small though, and a lot of its efficacy was lost in the sense that the monsters could get really close and it could only guard him and no one else.
On the bright side, because they weren't too far from him, his halberd could reach them, so he could, to a degree, mimic the barrier effect of attacking but not getting attacked back.
It was just that he wanted to gag several times due to the stench of the monsters' disgusting mouths so close to him.
He missed his barrier that could at least partially block the stench. These bastards were way smellier than he remembered!
