"Hey, Damien, my man!"
"Here to pick up a quest, Damien?"
Damien and Ogerpon exchanged greetings with the crowd as they approached the quest bulletin board.
After yesterday's events, the guild had fully accepted them both.
"Mr. Damien, looking to take on a quest?" Luna asked, approaching.
"Yeah." Damien replied, glancing at her. "Got any recommendations?"
"For new adventurers, how about this? Giant Toad Extermination."
Giant Toad Extermination.
Yes, the same toads from the anime's opening where Aqua and Kazuma took on the quest and nearly got swallowed.
Damien nodded, accepting the quest under Luna's guidance.
The god-slaying toads that repeatedly swallowed the Water Goddess Aqua.
Let's see what you're made of.
Damien was intrigued by the toads that made Aqua say, "Up close, frogs are kinda cute, huh?"
On a lush green hillside, Damien and Ogerpon stood at a vantage point, gazing at the giant toads hopping in the distance.
Every breeding season, these toads multiplied rapidly, wreaking havoc on nearby towns and troubling residents.
Damien didn't act immediately, instead using his Appraisal skill on the giant toads.
Attributes: [Omitted]
Inherent Abilities: Slippery Body (Damage Reduction), Succulent Flesh
"Strange inherent abilities."
Damien didn't know how to comment on "Succulent Flesh." "But Level 5? Not exactly strong."
Rather than the toads being weak, it was more that Kazuma and Aqua in the original story were just that pathetic.
"Ogerpon, remember what I told you about controlling your strength."
"Let's use these toads for a power regulation test."
Damien scanned the area. "Take out that blue one over there."
"That one?" Ogerpon asked.
"Yeah, that's the one!"
Damien pointed at a blue toad flirting with a pink and a yellow toad. "Strutting around like that, acting all cocky... I've had enough of it!"
Ogerpon obeyed without hesitation, leaping into action.
She was lightning-fast, darting from the hillside to the hopping blue toad in a blink.
The blue toad seemed to notice something approaching.
It lowered its head, its nearly ten-meter-tall body looming over Ogerpon like a mountain of flesh.
Unlike the clueless toad, Ogerpon didn't wait for it to react. She summoned her Ivy Cudgel and swung at its belly.
As the cudgel struck, a storm of blue fluorescence erupted, distorting the air and ground in an instant.
A deafening explosion, like dozens of bombs detonating at once, sent a terrifying force surging into the toad's body.
With a pained croak, the giant toad's body burst like a popped balloon.
In the next moment, its flesh and blood sprayed, coating Ogerpon and painting the cracked ground a vivid red.
But that wasn't the end.
The shockwave from Ogerpon's strike flattened the hill beneath the toad.
Caught in the collateral damage were the innocent pink and yellow toads, obliterated alongside their blue paramour before they could even react.
Damien stared, dumbstruck, sucking in a sharp breath.
He hadn't expected Ogerpon's first attack in this world to be this destructive.
Ogerpon herself was just as stunned.
She felt sticky all over. The giant toad was now a pile of gore.
The scene sent shivers down both their spines.
Ogerpon's swing was like a needle popping a water-filled balloon... no difference at all.
Damien rushed to her side, summoning water elements to clean the blood off her.
"Ogerpon's not hurt."
Ogerpon worried she'd ruined Damien's experiment. She hadn't expected the toad to be so fragile despite its size.
It couldn't be helped.
As a B-rank in the Cardinal World, Ogerpon's power in Konosuba scaled to A-rank destruction.
Special A-rank... what did that mean?
In the original Tensura story, after being named, Benimaru, Shion, and Shuna evolved from B-rank Ogres to A-rank Oni.
During the war with the Orc army, Shion's casual downward slash could carve a hundred-meter-deep chasm.
Benimaru's Black Flame Prison could slaughter hundreds of Orcs in one go.
With the same power expression, Ogerpon's single cudgel strike obliterating a Level 5 toad and the hill beneath it was par for the course.
And this was with her holding back.
If she went all out, she could probably reduce a dozens-meter-high hill to rubble.
"Special A-rank monsters are terrifying!"
After seeing Ogerpon's display, Damien decided she couldn't unleash her power freely in Konosuba.
He checked his skill card, noting a 2-point increase in Experience Points.
This confirmed something.
Monsters defeated by Ogerpon still counted toward Damien's Experience Points.
Made sense... summoners didn't have to let their summons weaken enemies and then finish them off themselves, right?
"Take a break, Ogerpon."
Damien had her stay on guard while he stretched and picked his own target.
The Giant Toad Extermination quest required five kills.
But more was always better.
Damien didn't want to waste time on low-level quests. His real goal was to calculate the conversion ratio between Konosuba's Experience Points and the Cardinal World's Magicule.
100 Power Stones = 1 BC
300 Power Stones = 2 BC
500 Power Stones = 3 BC
700 Power Stones = 4 BC
1000 Power Stones = 5 BC
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