Once again, Mater spotted the large metal pins and the chains.
Back in David Rendell's house, these metals pin and chains were also presented. They were there to restrain the bloodwraith prior to its release.
Now, those same mechanisms were holding a different wraith.
This wraith was not as weak as the first green wraith that Mater had encountered. But it was also not that strong as the bloodwraith.
The green wraith was probably a level 1 supernatural creature. The same level as Mater.
The bloodwraith was level 5.
This wraith was probably level 2 or 3.
In the middle of the room, behind the metal bars, a large creature being held by the chains. It looked like a giant rat without a face.
The ratwraith had six smooth human hands spreading across its body like a spider, acting as its limbs. Its main body was a ball of long black fur.
When it spotted Mater, the ratwraith revealed its mouth, hidden deep beneath layers of hair. It was a mouth with an uncountable number of black spiky teeth.
"It seemed like there are people who want to create more wraith." Mater mumbled.
The two undead from before stood up. They weren't destroyed completely like the first one and tried to attack Mater again. The black cat screamed at them, pushing the two undead backwards five meters.
"Ugh. This spell is great for distance controlling but not that damaging."
Mater controlled the Dark Grimoire to approach one of the falling undead. The black cat jumped on top of an undead and screamed point-blank at its face. This time, the head of the undead was crushed to a mush.
The repelling force pushed Mater upward as the Dark Grimoire caught him flawlessly. The second undead managed to get up but Mater attacked it from behind with another [Desperation Scream].
The head of the remaining undead was blown off.
"Now. Let's deal with the boss."
Mater jumped over the space between the metal bars first. The Dark Grimoire closed itself to slip between the bars, following Mater.
The black cat returned to the book once he got to the other side. The Dark Grimoire could fly and move much faster than Mater so he preferred to stay on it.
The ratwraith immediately rushed at Mater but its chains stopped it before it could reach him. It extended one of its smooth limbs to claw at Mater.
The black cat opened its mouth and released a shockwave, damaging the limbs and sending its back.
The other limbs immediately went forward, attacking Mater. The black cat flew around, rolling with the Dark Grimoire to avoid the strikes.
Whenever the cool-down of [Desperation Scream] finished, Mater released a shockwave to the nearest limbs.
He slowly ground the limbs of the ratwraith with each passing minute.
Spells inside the Dark Grimoire needed no Chaos so Mater really could do this all day. The only Chaos Magic he was wasting was to control the Dark Grimoire to dodge the attack.
"Whoever restraining you has done me a great favor. Without them, dealing with you would be much more troublesome." The black cat meowed, releasing another shockwave at a limb.
Black blood splashed out from said limb and its fingernails were blown clean off.
"Yep. The spell doesn't have that much damage but with enough times, I can still kill it."
The ratwraith's six limbs were damaged slowly and persistently. Their fingernails were destroyed. Their fingers were bent and broken. Black blood poured out from within the flesh.
"Ugh. These physical wraith is disgusting."
A hand of the ratwraith opened wide and it tried to smack Mater from above. He didn't dodge it. Instead, the black cat jumped up and delivered a [Desperation Scream] to the hand, pushing it backward and disrupting the strike at the same time.
The ratwraith was pissed off. It gave up on attacking Mater and instead, all six of its limbs grabbed at the chains that were restraining it.
The wraith pulled with all of its strength. The four metal pins trembled greatly.
"That is not going to happen, filthy wraith!"
Mater used [Chains of Shadow]. Black chains materialized in darkness and shot out, wrapping around the limbs of the ratwraith, stopping it from pulling out the metal pins.
The ratwraith didn't seem to resist the disabling effect of the Chains of Shadow like the bloodwraith.
Mater approached the ratwraith's head, where its mouth resided, and punched the wraith with the shockwave attack.
He had a total of twelve seconds before [Chains of Shadow] disappeared. [Desperation Scream] had a five-seconds cool-down. If Mater timed his attack right, he could damage the ratwraith twice within the effective time of Chains of Shadow.
The ratwraith lunged forward, trying to bite the small black creature in front of it. Mater controlled the Dark Grimoire to roll in the air and avoided its teeth.
Five seconds were over. Mater screamed at the side of the ratwraith's head.
Black hair was blown away and fell to the ground. A big area of skin was revealed underneath, creating a bald patch.
Mater used the repelling force to push him away from the ratwraith, extending the distance between them.
Twelve seconds were also over and the black chains disappeared.
The ratwraith immediately clawed at the small black cat. But the cat was too cunning to let it be caught.
Mater continued to fly around the prison cell, dodging the limb attacks and counter-attacking with [Desperation Scream]. He didn't use [Chains of Shadow] as he would like to save it in case the ratwraith wanted to break free again.
"I wonder if I should catch this wraith with Page of Imprisonment..."
[Page of Imprisonment] provided targets for Mater to enslave with Submission Seal. The ratwraith had a very big and agile body. It was much bigger than the previous bloodwraith.
However, its attacking pattern was much more predictable and it didn't have any special attack at all.
In the end, Mater decided to just kill it and take its Chaos Stones. He was in need of quickly advancing his level.
"We've been playing long enough, rat." Mater meowed.
Most of the limbs of the ratwraith were blown off. Its only had one full limb left but that limb was also badly injured and covered in black blood. The rest had their hands blown off by the shockwave. They were bleeding non-stop.