BMN Chapter 16 (Patreon)

Chapter 16: The Aqua Devourer, the Giant Prairie Toad!

"Yo! Little bro Bai Luo!"

"Here to pick up a quest, Bai Luo!"

"Good morning, Pon-Pon."

"Poni!"

Bai Luo and Ogerpon greeted everyone as they made their way to the notice board where quests were posted.

After yesterday's events, everyone here had accepted Bai Luo and Ogerpon.

"Mr. Bai Luo, are you here to accept a quest?"

"Ah."

Bai Luo looked at Luna, who had come over to him. "Any recommendations?"

"For a new adventurer, how about this one? Subjugating Giant Toads."

Subjugating Giant Toads.

That's right—the very same frogs that Aqua and Kazuma chose to fight at the beginning of the anime, only to almost get eaten by them.

"Alright."

Bai Luo nodded and, following Miss Luna's instructions, accepted the quest.

'The god-slaying giant frogs that swallowed the Water Goddess Aqua multiple times.'

'Let's see what you're made of.'

Bai Luo was quite interested in the giant frogs that could make Aqua say, 'Up close, frogs are quite cute too.'

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

And so, on a green grassy slope, Bai Luo and Ogerpon stood on high ground, looking at the numerous Giant Toads hopping in the distance.

Every year at this time, the toads would enter their breeding season, and then a large number of them would wreak havoc in the surrounding area, causing a lot of trouble for the residents near the town.

"Appraisal!"

Bai Luo didn't act immediately but used his appraisal skill on these Giant Toads.

【Giant Toad】
Level: 5
Specific Attributes: Omitted
Inherent Abilities: Slippery Body (Damage Reduction), Meaty and Delicious

"What a strange inherent ability."

Bai Luo didn't know how to complain about the 'Meaty and Delicious' setting. "But it's only level 5—it doesn't seem very strong."

It wasn't so much that the giant frogs were weak, but Kazuma and Aqua in the original story were incredibly pathetic.

"Ogerpon, remember the precautions I told you."

"Let's use the giant frogs here as an experiment to control our power."

"And then..."

After speaking, Bai Luo began to look around. "Hmm, get rid of that big blue guy over there for me."

"That one?"

"Yes, that's the one!"

Bai Luo pointed at a particular blue giant toad that was flirting with a pink one and a yellow one. "One on each arm—talk about arrogant! I've had just about enough of it!

"Get it!!"

"Poni!!"

Ogerpon accepted the command and leaped out without any hesitation.

Her speed was incredible; in the blink of an eye, she had rushed from the hillside to the front of the hopping blue toad.

"Croak?"

The blue toad seemed to notice something approaching.

It lowered its head, its nearly ten-meter-tall body like a mountain of flesh in front of Ogerpon.

"Ivy Cudgel!!"

Unlike the bewildered blue toad, Ogerpon wouldn't wait for it to react. She immediately materialized her Ivy Cudgel and struck at its abdomen.

"Boom!"

As the Ivy Cudgel swung, a storm-like blue light scattered, and the surrounding air and ground were twisted and shattered in an instant.

A world-shaking boom, like dozens of bombs exploding at the same time—the terrifying explosive force rushed into the blue toad's body before it even knew what was happening.

"Croak?"

"Splat!"

Amidst a painful croak, the Giant Toad's body burst open like a balloon.

The next moment, the toad's minced flesh and blood mixed, covering Ogerpon's entire body, and then dyed the cracked earth around them a shade of crimson.

But this was not the end.

As Ogerpon's cudgel struck, the surging wind pressure that followed instantly crushed the hill under the giant frog's feet.

Also crushed were the rather innocent pink and yellow giant frogs.

The three giant frogs didn't even have time to react before they followed their lover to the afterlife.

"I..."

"Hiss~~~"

Bai Luo stared blankly at the scene before him, taking a sharp breath of cold air.

He hadn't expected Ogerpon's first attack in this world to have such terrifying, destructive power.

Also not reacting was the perpetrator herself, Ogerpon.

"Poni..."

The little one felt sticky all over, and looking at the Giant Toad, it had already become a pile of minced meat.

This scene sent a chill down the spines of both Bai Luo and the little one.

Ogerpon's strike was no different from piercing a water-filled balloon with a needle.

"Pon-Pon, are you alright?"

Bai Luo quickly ran to Ogerpon's side. He summoned a water element and began to wash the blood off the little one's body.

"Pon-Pon is not hurt."

"But, is this okay?"

Ogerpon was a little worried that she had ruined Bai Luo's experiment. She hadn't expected the toad, which looked huge, to be so fragile.

This couldn't be helped.

A B-rank Ogerpon from the Cardinal World, when placed in the KonoSuba world, could already display A-rank destructive power.

What did Special A-rank mean?

In the original story, after being named, Benimaru, Shion, Shuna, and the others evolved from B-rank Ogres to A-rank Kijin.

During the battle with the Orc army, a single downward slash from Shion could create a bottomless trench hundreds of meters deep.

Benimaru could kill hundreds of Orcs with a single Black Flame Prison.

With the same power manifestation, it was perfectly normal for Ogerpon to blow up a level 5 Giant Toad, along with the small hill under its feet, with a single blow.

And this was with Ogerpon holding back.

Otherwise, at full power, she could probably smash a mountain tens of meters high into dust.

"A Special A-rank monster is terrifying!"

After seeing Ogerpon's performance, Bai Luo didn't dare to let her attack carelessly in the KonoSuba world anymore.

He took out his skill card and found that the experience points on it had increased by 2.

Through this, Bai Luo confirmed one thing.

That is, the experience points from the monsters Ogerpon defeated would also be counted towards Bai Luo.

Thinking about it, it made sense. After all, a summoner couldn't possibly let their summon beat the enemy half to death and then go up to deliver the final blow themselves, right?

"Pon-Pon, you rest for a bit."

Bai Luo had Ogerpon cover him, then stretched his body and began to choose his own opponent.

The requirement for the Giant Toad subjugation quest was to kill 5 of them.

Of course, the more the better for this quest.

Bai Luo had no intention of wasting time on such a low-level quest. What he really needed to do was to calculate the conversion ratio between KonoSuba experience points and Cardinal World magicules.

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