Chapter 45

Carl and Donut locate the kobold boss chamber, a converted dog pound filled with caged danger dingoes. They discover the dingoes are enslaved rather than truly hostile, and by feeding them pet biscuits they turn them from enemies to allies. When the boss—Ralph, a Frenzied Gerbil—emerges, the allied dingoes swiftly eliminate him, but a secondary phase reveals Ralph was protected by the dingo he possessed, leading to a final confrontation.

Carl and Donut track heavy metal music to the kobold boss chamber, a former municipal dog pound in Portugal structured as a series of hallways with caged danger dingoes. Most cages are locked with injured dingoes inside; Carl notices one missing an eye and realizes from sounds of cheering that this is an arena setup. Following Mordecai's advice to look for clues, Carl gives a pet biscuit to a dingo, which converts its minimap dot from red to white, revealing they can be made non-hostile. Carl and Donut repeat this process for all fourteen caged dingoes. As they prepare to fight, the boss chamber doors open to reveal approximately forty kobolds escorting the boss: Ralph, a Level 11 Frenzied Gerbil housed in a small metal-reinforced cage. The boss description reveals Ralph's backstory—a surviving gerbil driven mad by starvation and cannibalism, now seeking vengeance against humanity. Carl immediately throws a boom jug at the emerging kobolds, the explosion killing most of them including the pimped-out kobold holding Ralph's cage. Ralph launches from the carrier but Donut scores a magic missile hit. As the remaining kobolds press a button to open all cage doors, the white-dotted dingoes emerge and attack. The one-eyed dingo Carl fed first swallows Ralph whole, seemingly ending the fight. However, when the dingo stands frozen afterward, its head suddenly explodes and Ralph bursts free, having been inside the dingo all along. Carl punches Ralph with a rare Stun proc and finishes him off by stepping on the incapacitated boss.