BXBX NOVEL Chapter 40 [Bonus chapter] New Floor
“Just like I thought.” Victor said.
Before him, was a creature that he needed no identification to recognize. If anything, it was one of fantasy world’s mystic creatures.
[Red Back Salamander]
This creature needed no introduction as Victor already had a good idea of what it was capable of. Having red in its name mostly meant it would be associated with the fire element, so it was not a threat to Victor. What bothered him however, was the other monster just some metres behind the salamander.
Victor couldn’t really tell what the creature was supposed to be, but for the most part it reminded him of something from his past life.
“Is Great Gamamaru the ruler of this floor? Or do inhabitants of Mount Myoboku exist in this world?” Victor said as he studied the monster.
The other monster looked like a giant toad quite alright, but it stood on its two back legs, completely giving the vibe of some great warrior.
[Red Back Salamander Level 50]
[Poison Frog Colony Level 40].
‘Colony?’
Seeing their levels and the fact that their specialties had no effects against his body, Victor wasted no time and attacked the monsters before him. The Salamander fell relatively easily. Its physical defence was low, and with Victor’s strength, it took just one slash with his newly acquired sword to cut it in halve, but when he moved in to kill the frog, it did something surprising.
[You have killed Red Back Salamander]
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The huge body of frog instantly collapsed in on itself and split into different smaller separate bodies. Victor seeing this knew instantly that chasing the separate bodies one after the other was the wrong way to go, but then he still wanted to see how these creatures attacked. His choice of course was to confirm whether he would be incorporating it into himself or one of his legion.
The smaller frog bodies that had split from the originally 3 metres tall monster frog immediately jumped towards Victor and once they landed on his body, some bit his skin, while others just jumped off as soon as they touched him. Those that tried to bite were completely unsuccessful as Victor’s skin was just that strong, while the others that jumped off immediately just ended up intriguing Victor more.
“System, what are these things?” Victor asked.
[These are Poison Frog Colony original bodies, and is also why they are called a colony as the giant body is just a fusion of the different bodies]
[Just like their name suggest, they are monsters that use poison to attack]
Going by what Victor had already gathered, their poison is most definitely all over their entire body and mouth, and is potent enough to impair their enemies after a single touch. Unfortunate for them to meet such an opponent like Victor who has complete immunity to poison. Their greatest attack and trump card was useless.
‘Inferno Ring.’
As Victor activated the skill mentally, a circle of fire immediately spawned around where he stood while most of the frogs gathered, following that and in an instant, each of the frogs burst into fire like an internal combustion had just happened, and sure enough they died. Following that, Victor followed that skill with another skill Negative Burst that had a wider range, and the remaining frogs died after some seconds.
‘Not bad indeed.’
[You have killed Poison Frog]
[You have killed Poison Frog]
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The frogs were all level 40, and after they joined together, though they remained the same level, they would have grown physically stronger and compensate for their weakness.
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‘That wasn’t bad.’
Victor made sure to feast on the salamander and the frogs that died by the second skill he used. The others were just too burnt to extract anything from them.
This floor was the perfect floor for his legion to level up if he used it well. Unlike him, his legion as zombies still had a terrible weakness to fire, so they would be at a big disadvantage when facing the salamanders, but the frogs were a different case. The frogs’ poison was useless against undead, and that made Victor and his legion the perfect enemies for them.
Victor decided not to be too greedy with the prey, as they will respawn later anyway, so his plan was to leave the prey to his legion for now, then he would return for their evolution material later if needed.
Using the system map that scanned the area around him, he started a little marathon from the spot where he stood and ran towards any direction that was open, allowing the system to scan wherever he had been to and the area around them until he got a good map of the entire place. After doing that, he returned to the beginning of the floor where the entrance was and summoned his entire legion except for a few. Konda and Arac were to big to fit some spaces, so he left them out this time and focused on the others.
The plan was for them to follow behind him and kill every monster they encountered except for the salamanders. As Victor dashed through the cave like terrain of the floor killing every salamander he encountered, he avoided the frogs and left them for the others to deal with.
When Victor had gotten to a certain point, he stopped and using another route went back to the start to pick off all the salamander bodies he had killed along the way. It was a way to do two things at once. While he gained evolution material from the salamander bodies, he left the other legion members to grind experience points to level up.
‘Such a good way to do things ehn?’ Victor thought as he sat before the next salamander corpse.