BMN Chapter 17 (Patreon)

Chapter 17: This Indestructible Body!

"I choose you."

Having selected a giant pink toad, Bai Luo pushed off with his feet, launching himself forward like an arrow released from a bowstring.

"Time to finish you!"

Dropping from high altitude, Bai Luo descended from the sky like a meteor, delivering a flying kick toward the pink toad.

Splat!

And so, a familiar scene unfolded before Bai Luo's eyes once again.

When his foot made contact with the pink toad's head, he felt not a single shred of resistance. His entire body plunged straight through its torso as if he were diving into water.

Boom!

The earth shattered, sending countless rocks flying in all directions. Bai Luo stood in the center of a massive crater, drenched in blood, his clothes covered in sticky chunks of flesh and internal organs.

Behind him lay the remains of the giant toad, which had exploded yet again.

"What's going on?"

Feeling the slick, greasy sensation on his body, Bai Luo felt a chill run down his spine. "I shouldn't have used any magical power. Can my physical body alone be this strong?"

"No, that's not right."

Bai Luo looked at the extra skills in his status panel, particularly the passive ones.

Putting aside the magic-based passives for a moment, the physical ones from Lancer, Knight, Swordsman, Crusader, Dragon Knight, Martial Artist, Brawler, and Thief...

When the enhancement skills from so many job classes were combined, even if they were all at level 1, the total boost already exceeded 100%.

Moreover, this 100% boost was on top of the foundation of his body already being strengthened after converting all his magicules into experience points.

"My body, enhanced by magicules, serves as the base."

"Add the job passives and the Martial Artist enhancements, and all my stats have been boosted by at least 300%."

With such a physical enhancement, Bai Luo's already A-rank equivalent body was now no different from a Special A-rank.

In the Cardinal World, Existence Value and actual combat power were not absolutely correlated.

The Storm Dragon's Existence Value of 80 million didn't necessarily make him that much stronger than an Awakened Demon Lord.

However, the current Bai Luo was different.

His magicules were fused into his very flesh and blood. This fact alone already surpassed almost all monsters.

"Alright."

"I've somewhat underestimated my own strength."

Bai Luo once again used water element magic to clean himself off, which finally made him feel a bit better.

"Poni?"

"I'm fine."

Bai Luo was just as disheveled as Ogerpon, but when they looked at each other, they both couldn't help but laugh.

"Okay, just wait a little longer. We'll go back and take a bath soon."

Bai Luo didn't return immediately; instead, continuing to hunt the giant toads.

Only this time, he was no longer so reckless. He used the beginner magic spell Fireball to attack the nearby toads from a distance.

After he had killed the 50th giant toad, he finally heard the notification that his magicule value had increased.

"Fifty toads, each providing 2 experience points, make 100 points."

Bai Luo was currently level 15. A level 15 fighting a level 5 would certainly have an experience penalty, which was why he only received 2 points per kill.

But what truly surprised Bai Luo wasn't this, but the conversion rate between experience points and magicules.

Converting magicules to experience points was a 1:10 ratio.

But in reverse, converting experience points to magicules was 100:1.

This enormous disparity was truly unbelievable to Bai Luo.

"Why?"

Bai Luo didn't understand. He pondered for a long time before finally arriving at a possible explanation. "The experience points from KonoSuba are a low-tier energy. When converting from a low-tier to a high-tier, the ratio is bound to be large."

"As for the previous magicule-to-experience conversion, it's most likely that some kind of interference occurred."

It was like a poor signal reception—the magicules suffered some degradation during the conversion process.

"If that's the case, then the cost-effectiveness of experience points isn't that high."

"Even if I reach the max level, that's only 1 million experience points."

"Converted over, that's just 10,000 magicules."

And to reach the max level in the world of KonoSuba, the number of monsters he would have to kill and the amount of experience-rich food he would have to eat was something Bai Luo didn't even dare to imagine.

"Forget it. Even if it's only 10,000, it's still magicules."

"Every little bit counts. I won't be picky."

Bai Luo shook his head, dispelling the various thoughts from his mind. He called Ogerpon to head back. "Let's go, we're heading back."

BOOM!

Just as the two were halfway back, an incredibly brilliant beam of light descended from the sky, landing not far outside the Town of Axel.

"This is?"

Looking at the scene that gave him a strong sense of déjà vu, Bai Luo immediately thought of something. "Is that Satou Kazuma arriving with Aqua?"

As for his opinion of Satou Kazuma...

How should he put it?

It was quite complex.

Bai Luo didn't dislike Scumzuma. 【TN: "Scumzuma" is a popular fan nickname, referencing his often perverted or underhanded behavior.】

As a protagonist with no real cheats, who had to lead a team of useless teammates and still managed to defeat the Demon King in the end...

To be honest, the guy was quite impressive.

Of course, Bai Luo had no intention of interacting with the original novel's party.

His mind was currently focused on one thing: how to get stronger.

He had no time to waste on the daily comedic antics of KonoSuba.

"I'll just let Aqua and Scumzuma work at the construction site for half a month first."

"This way, Pon-Pon."

Without hesitation, Bai Luo pulled Ogerpon along, heading in a direction far away from Aqua and Scumzuma.

If he rashly approached them at a time like this, Bai Luo was genuinely worried he'd get entangled with them.

Especially Aqua...

Even with the favor of the cheat she had granted him, Bai Luo didn't dare get too close to that girl.

The two returned to the inn and took a bath.

The people they passed along the way didn't pay much mind to their blood-soaked, disheveled appearances.

They were adventurers, after all. No matter how wretched they looked, it wasn't out of the ordinary.

However, what the two didn't know was that on the other side of a small stream, a certain blonde girl clad in the armor of a Crusader was trembling all over, her face flushed with excitement from the scene she was witnessing.

"Hah... hah..."

The girl named Darkness clenched her fists tightly. "That man... he doesn't even spare his own familiar!" 【TN: Darkness is known for her masochistic tendencies and misunderstanding situations in perverted ways.】

"Guhehehe~~"

"Hiss!"

Suddenly, Bai Luo, who was walking toward the inn, shivered.

"Poni?"

"It's nothing."

Bai Luo scratched his head in confusion. "For some reason, I have this feeling like I'm being watched by something... dirty."

"Is it a ghost?"

"I don't know."

Bai Luo looked around but didn't find anything out of the ordinary.

He didn't bother using any detection-type abilities either, because there was no need.

In a place like Axel, there was simply no existence capable of harming them.

"No need to worry about it."

"If someone really tries to make a move on us," Bai Luo said with disdain, "I'll let them know the true meaning of a punch that can blow up a giant toad!"

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