"You're the one."
Selecting a giant pink toad, Bai Luo pushed off the ground, launching himself forward like an arrow from a bowstring.
"I'll finish you!!"
Dropping from above, Bai Luo descended like a meteor, delivering a flying kick to the pink toad.
"Splat!"
And so, a familiar scene once again appeared before Bai Luo's eyes.
When Bai Luo's foot touched the pink toad's head, he felt not the slightest resistance; his entire body, like someone diving into water, directly pierced through the creature.
"Boom!"
The earth shattered, countless rocks splattering in all directions. Bai Luo stood in the center of a massive crater, covered in blood, his clothes stained with viscous broken meat and internal organs.
Behind Bai Luo was the exploded remains of the giant toad.
"What's going on?"
Feeling the slimy sensation on his body, Bai Luo shivered with revulsion: "I shouldn't have used magic essence, right? Is a pure physical body really this strong?"
"No, that's not right."
Bai Luo looked at the extra skills in his attribute bar, especially the passive skills.
Leaving aside the magic-type passive skills for now, the physical-type skills included Lancer, Knight, Swordsman, Crusader, Dragon Knight, Martial Artist, Pugilist, and Thief.
With so many class enhancement skills stacked, even if they were all Lv1, it would still be more than a 100% boost.
And this 100% was under the premise that Bai Luo had converted all his magic essence into experience points and used them to strengthen his body.
"With a body strengthened by magic essence as the foundation."
"Plus the class passives and the Martial Artist's enhancements, all attributes must have received at least a 300% boost."
With such body attribute bonuses, Bai Luo's already A-rank physical capabilities were now indistinguishable from Special A.
The existence value in the Cardinal World did not have an absolute relationship with actual combat power.
A Storm Dragon with 80 million existence value wasn't necessarily much stronger than an awakened Demon Lord.
However, the current Bai Luo was different.
magic essence fused into his flesh and blood; this alone already surpassed almost all monsters.
"Alright."
"I underestimated my own strength."
Bai Luo again cast water element magic to clean himself, which made him feel a bit better.
"Boneh?"
"I'm fine."
Bai Luo and Egui Peng were both quite disheveled, but after looking at each other, they burst out laughing in unison.
"Alright, just a little longer, and we'll go back to shower."
Bai Luo didn't return immediately but continued to hunt giant toads.
This time, however, Bai Luo was no longer so reckless; instead, he used the basic magic Fireball to attack nearby toads from a distance.
And when Bai Luo killed the 50th giant toad, he finally heard the sound of his magic essence value increasing.
"50 toads, each providing 2 experience points, that's 100 points."
Bai Luo was currently Lv15, fighting Lv5 creatures, so there was definitely an experience penalty, which is why he only got 2 experience points.
But what truly surprised Bai Luo wasn't this, but the conversion rate between experience points and magic essence.
magic essence converted to experience points was 1:10.
But conversely, experience points converted to magic essence was 100:1.
This huge disparity truly made Bai Luo feel incredible.
"Why?"
Bai Luo didn't understand. He pondered for a long time and finally thought of a possibility: "Konosuba's experience points are a lower-level energy. When lower-level converts to higher-level, the ratio is bound to be very large."
"The previous magic essence to experience point conversion, most likely, had some kind of interference in between."
It was like poor signal reception; the magic essence experienced a certain amount of loss during the conversion process.
"If that's the case, then the cost-effectiveness of experience points isn't that high."
"Even if I reached max level, it would only be 1 million experience points."
"Converted, that's only 10,000 magic essence."
And how many monsters Bai Luo would need to kill, how much experience-containing food he would need to eat to reach max level in the Konosuba World, he couldn't even imagine.
"Forget it, even if it's only 10,000, it's still magic essence."
"Even a mosquito's leg is still meat, no complaints."
Bai Luo shook his head, dispelling the various thoughts in his mind. He called Egui Peng back: "Let's go, we're heading back."
"Boom!!"
And just as the two were halfway back, an incredibly brilliant light descended from the sky, landing not far outside of Axel City.
"This is?"
Looking at the rather familiar scene, Bai Luo immediately thought of something: "Is Kazuma Satō bringing Aqua over?"
As for Bai Luo's opinion of Kazuma Satō...
How to put it?
It's quite abstract.
Bai Luo didn't dislike the perverted Kazuma.
As a protagonist who had no cheats, yet had to lead a few problematic teammates, and ultimately defeated the Demon Lord.
To be honest, this guy was quite amazing.
Of course, Bai Luo had no intention of contacting the original party.
He was currently single-mindedly focused on how to become stronger.
He had no time to waste on Konosuba's daily comedic plot.
"Let's just let Aqua and the perverted Kazuma work at the construction site for half a month first."
"This way, Peng Peng."
And so, Bai Luo unhesitatingly pulled Egui Peng and walked in the direction away from Aqua and the perverted Kazuma.
If he were to rashly approach them at this time, Bai Luo genuinely worried he'd get entangled.
Especially Aqua...
Even with the past favor of the cheat, Bai Luo dared not get too close to that one.
The two returned to the inn and took a shower there.
People along the way didn't pay much attention to their blood-soaked, disheveled appearance.
Adventurers, after all, couldn't be too disheveled.
However, the two didn't know that on the other side of the stream, a certain blonde girl in Crusader armor was so shocked by the scene before her that her face was flushed, and her body trembled uncontrollably.
"Huff puff~~ huff puff~~"
The girl named Darkness tightly clenched her fists: "That man, he didn't even spare his own familiar!"
"Guhehehe~~"
"Hiss!!"
Suddenly, Bai Luo, who was walking towards the inn, shivered.
"Boneh?"
"Nothing."
Bai Luo scratched his head in confusion: "For some reason, I feel like some dirty thing is staring at me."
"Is it a ghost?"
"I don't know."
Bai Luo looked left and right but found nothing amiss.
He also didn't use any detection methods, because there was no need.
In mere Axel, there was no existence that could harm them.
"No need to worry so much."
"If someone really comes after us," Bai Luo said disdainfully, "I'll let them know what it means to explode a giant frog with one hit!"