"Yo! Little Brother Bai Luo!"
"Are you here to take a quest, Bai Luo!"
"Peng Peng, good morning."
"Bo Ne!"
Bai Luo and Egui Peng greeted everyone as they walked to the quest board where requests were posted.
After yesterday's events, everyone here had accepted Bai Luo and Egui Peng.
"Mr. Bai Luo, are you here to accept a request?"
"Ah."
Bai Luo looked at Luna who had come before him: "Do you have any recommendations?"
"For new Adventurers, how about this one? Subjugation of Giant Toads."
Subjugation of Giant Toads.
Yes, it was those frogs that Aqua and Kazuma chose to subjugate at the beginning of the anime, and then almost got eaten by.
"Okay."
Bai Luo nodded, then, following Miss Luna's instructions, accepted this request.
'The god-slaying giant frogs that have repeatedly swallowed the Water Goddess Aqua alive.'
'Let me 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.'
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Thus, on the emerald green grassy slope, Bai Luo and Egui Peng stood high up, looking at the many giant toads hopping in the distance.
Every year during this period, the toads would enter their breeding season, and then large numbers of toads would run rampant in the surrounding areas, causing great trouble for the residents near the town.
"Appraisal!"
Bai Luo did not immediately make a move but used his Appraisal skill on these giant toads.
[Giant Toad]
Level: 5
Specific Attributes: Omitted
Innate Abilities: Slippery Body (Damage Reduction), Delicious Meat
"Strange innate abilities."
Bai Luo didn't know how to complain about the 'Delicious Meat' setting: "But the level is only 5, so it doesn't seem very strong."
Rather than saying the giant frogs weren't strong.
It's more like Kazuma and Aqua in the original work were incredibly weak.
"Egui Peng, remember the precautions I told you."
"We'll use these giant frogs here to conduct an experiment on strength control."
"And then…"
After Bai Luo finished speaking, he began to look around: "Hmm, take out that big blue guy over there for me."
"That one?"
"Yes, that's the one!"
Bai Luo pointed at a certain blue giant frog that was flirting with two other giant frogs, one pink and one yellow: "With two on its arms, so arrogant, I've tolerated it for a long time!"
"Get it!!"
"Bo Ne!!"
Egui Peng accepted the command and leaped out without the slightest hesitation.
Her speed was very fast; in the blink of an eye, she had rushed from the hillside to the hopping blue toad.
"Croak?"
The blue toad seemed to notice something approaching.
It lowered its head, its nearly ten-meter-tall body appearing like a mountain of flesh in front of Egui Peng.
"thorn vine stick!!"
Unlike the bewildered blue toad, Egui Peng wouldn't wait for it to react. She immediately conjured her thorn vine stick and struck towards its abdomen.
"Boom!"
As the thorn vine stick swung, blue fluorescent light, like a storm, scattered, causing the surrounding air and ground to twist and shatter in an instant.
A deafening roar, like dozens of bombs exploding simultaneously, and that terrifying explosive force, surged into the blue toad's body before it even knew what was happening.
"Croak?"
"Pfft!"
Amidst the painful croaking, the giant toad's body burst open like a balloon.
The next moment, the toad's shredded flesh and blood mixed together, enveloping Egui Peng's entire body, then dyed the surrounding cracked earth a vibrant red color.
But that wasn't the end.
Along with Egui Peng's strike, the surging wind pressure that followed instantly crushed the hill beneath the giant frog's feet.
Also crushed were the rather innocent pink giant frog and yellow giant frog.
The three giant frogs didn't even have time to react before they followed their lover.
"I…"
"Hiss~~~"
Bai Luo stared blankly at the scene before him, immediately taking a sharp breath.
He hadn't expected Egui Peng's first move in this world to unleash such terrifying destructive power.
Equally stunned was Egui Peng herself, who had caused all of this.
"Bo Ne…"
The little one felt sticky all over, and looking at the giant toad, it had become a pile of shredded meat.
This scene sent shivers down the spines of both Bai Luo and the little one.
Egui Peng's strike was no different from pricking a water-filled balloon with a needle.
"Peng Peng, are you alright?"
Bai Luo quickly ran to Egui Peng's side. He summoned water elements and began to wash the blood off the little one's body.
"Peng Peng isn't hurt."
"It's just, is this okay?"
Egui Peng was a bit worried that she had ruined Bai Luo's experiment; she also hadn't expected the toad, despite its size, to be so fragile.
This was unavoidable.
Egui Peng, a B-rank in the Cardinal World, could already display A-rank destructive power in the Konosuba world.
What is the concept of Special A-Rank?
In the original work, Hong Maru, Zhu Cai, and others, after receiving their names, evolved from B-rank Great Ogre Clan to A-rank Ghost-Human Race.
When fighting the Pighead Clan army, Zhu Cai could effortlessly cleave a chasm hundreds of meters deep with a single downward strike.
Hong Maru, even more so, could casually unleash a Black Flame Prison, slaughtering hundreds of Pighead Clan members.
With similar performance, it was perfectly normal for Egui Peng to explode a Level 5 giant toad with one strike, along with the small hill beneath its feet.
And this was with Egui Peng holding back her strength.
Otherwise, at full power, she could probably shatter a mountain hundreds of meters tall into dust.
"Special A-Rank monster, truly terrifying!"
After seeing Egui Peng's performance, Bai Luo no longer dared to let her casually make a move in the Konosuba world.
He took out his skill card and found that the experience value on it had increased by 2 points.
Through this, Bai Luo confirmed one thing.
That is, the experience points from monsters defeated by Egui Peng would also be counted towards Bai Luo.
It makes sense; after all, a Summoner couldn't possibly let their summoned beast half-kill the enemy and then step in to deliver the finishing blow, right?
"Peng Peng, you rest for a bit."
Bai Luo had Egui Peng cover for him, then stretched his body and began to choose his opponent.
The quest requirement for subjugating giant toads was to defeat 5 of them.
Of course, the more of this quest, the better.
Bai Luo had no desire to waste time on such a low-level quest; what he truly wanted to do was calculate the conversion ratio between Konosuba experience points and Cardinal magic essence.