The time has stopped!
Ray immediately stopped the time after dealing with the strike.
He didn't receive a notice for the Giga Toad's death, so it was still living despite the attack.
However,
Ray is still isn't finish!
Ray stored the Giant Slayer Sword back into his storage, and then summoned it again as he then hacks it down the 2nd time with its modified weight!
The huge force of the strike enabled Ray's slash to forcefully break through the Giga Toad's solid skull, as large splinters of bones and blood got spread into the surroundings!
Breaking a hole on the Giga Toad's skull and rupturing a part of its brain inside, Ray's sword then got stuck on its solid bones
The splinters and blood splashes would then freeze in time after reaching a few distances.
Due to the Chrono sphere, there was also no sound produced by his strike.
2 seconds have passed!
It might already dead when the time resumes, but Ray would still like to make sure as he then stored the sword on the storage and summoned it again on a third strike!
This time, the Giant Slayer Sword immediately went inside the hole in the skull and hit the Giga Toad's brain directly.
Blood and brain matter flew everywhere, only to be frozen in time again.
4 seconds have passed!
Ray then made 1 last strike!
5 seconds have passed!
The time then resumes as Ray's Giant Sword was making its impact.
*Boooooooooooooommmmm!!!
*Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmbleeeee...
*Plop *Plop *Plop *Pop *Plop...
Ray was now bathing in the Giga Toad's blood and brain matters that got unfrozen in time, as he then received a notice.
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[Congratulations on killing the 2nd Grade Boss! Giga Toad!!!]
Rewards:
Mist Assassin Ring (Special Accessory)
Giga Toad Smoke Grenade x 10 (Item)
Giga Toad Stuffed Toy (Rare Item)
1 500 small souls (Soul)
1 medium soul (Soul)
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The Giga Toad is dead.
An anti-climactic way for a Boss to die.
It wasn't even given time to show Ray its capabilities.
The Giga Toad is still at its position as before, still filling the wide hole without change, but the only difference this time is the huge wound on its head and the blood and gore surrounding it.
Ray still even wanted to try something.
If the Giga Toad didn't die, then he would have taken the Kamikaze grenades he had, and let them explode on the Giga Toad's brains, but it seems that it wouldn't be necessary.
Ray then checked his rewards.
Adding the number he had gotten from the battle he had with the frogs, the total amount of small souls he had is 9, 368.
Despite the lack of dropped items from ordinary frogs, they had given Ray a bountiful amount of souls.
For the same grade, they had given Ray double the number of souls he had received from the Brood Queen's spiders.
Thinking about the lack of drops, Ray's thought moved into the only dropped item he had gotten from the frogs.
The only item he had received from the frogs is the Vitality Ring he had gotten from the Frog King.
Ray moved his thought on his right hand, beneath the gloves he was wearing, are two rings worn on his index and middle finger.
One is the Spider-Slayer Ring, and the other is the Vitality Ring.
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[Vitality Ring]
Quality: F Rank Accessory
Effects:
Grants Skills
Vitality Boost 1 (Passive): + 5% Vitality.
Description:
An enchanted ring.
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And now Ray had gotten another Ring.
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[Mist Assassin Ring]
Quality: Special
Effects:
Grants Skills
E Rank Poison Resistance (Passive)
Summon Mists (Active)
Silent Steps (Active)
Description:
Ring owned by a skilled ninja.
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Ray wore the ring on the ring finger on his right hand.
[Summon Mist] is an active skill that summons mists around Ray, but unlike the Giga Toad's mist, it was toned down several times as if matching Ray, it didn't even contain poison.
[Silent Steps], on the other hand, is a skill that uses mana in order to forcefully hide the sound made by your steps.
Ray had already known how to move with concealed steps, but if he would use this skill then he could adjust his movements to be faster, the only downside is the mana.
A good ring.
The [Giga Toad Mist Grenade], on the other hand, are just like grenades, but instead of normal explosions, it explodes out into mists with E rank poison.
Next, Ray checked the rare item he had gotten.
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[Giga Toad Stuffed Toy]
Quality: Rare Item
Effects:
Glow: Glows in the dark.
Description:
An especially made toy made to reward the people who had beaten a hard adversary.
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It was a miniature stuffed toy based on the Giga Toad.
A joke.
'What kind of item is this?'
It didn't give any skill or any other effect besides glow.
What is this?
Puzzled, and didn't know what to do with it, Ray stored it in the storage.
Ray's thought then returned to the Giga Toad.
It was said that it had eaten a treasured pearl.
He thought about where could it be.
Stomach? Brain?
Ray didn't know.
Ray then began pondering whether to chop the Giga Toad into pieces.
He could try storing the body parts one by one in the storage and see whether he could split the pearl from the body.
As he was thinking so, light then began appearing in front of Ray as a pearl then drops in front.
What?
How?
Why?
Things are getting weirder, and weirder.
But considering the things that already happened, Ray moved on immediately.
Ray picked up the item.
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[Treasure Pearl]
Consume to gain [gigantification] racial trait.
Description:
Takes years in order to show true potential.
Warning: Are you willing to abandon humanity?
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Seeing the item's description, Ray thought that its a joke.
No matter what happened, he won't ever throw his current body in order to become a giant.
He might gain physical strength more than ever, but he would also gain numerous disadvantages, it was just incompatible to him.
If he had some kind of pet, he could probably let it eat the pearl.
An anti-climactic treasure.
The same as the fight.
If you include the rare item, then that was another one too.
Disappointing rewards, but still better than nothing.
If he keeps them, they might have an unexpected use in the future.
Moving on, Ray is more interested in the medium soul he had received.
[Ring of Madness]
He needed two medium souls to buy the item from the mystery merchant.
And now he only needed one more.
Ray turned around as he then comes down from the Giga Toad's corpse.
Ray looked at the misty swamp in front, as he began pondering what to do next.
'I should start preparing for the desert then'
...
On top of the Giga Toad after Ray was gone.
Light suddenly gathered as an angel appeared.
The angel then looks at the Toad.
"Hngggg! So Frustrating!"
*Pak! *Pak! *Pak!
The angel began kicking the corpse of the Giga Toad.
"What a Giant stupid!-
*Pak!
"Stupid Toad!"
*Pak! *Pak! *Pak!
The fight earlier appeared too easy, that she was embarrassed to even make a report about it.
She was in charge of this area; monsters, habitat, rewards.
Following the rules set carefully, she had done her best to do her job well.
And she was the one who had personally chosen and brought the bosses from the list of passable creatures here from different places.
The angel thought the Giga Toad was the strongest boss from the three that she had brought and would take a lot of people in order to kill.
But the reality is different from her expectations.
It was true that, regarding their main purpose, she could be said to be successful.
However, in the process...
The Giga Toad was killed so easily, that it hadn't managed to do what it was supposed to do.
It would appear as a failure on her part.
Too embarrassing!
What's even making her madder, was the Boss' attitude.
"Stupid-
*Pak!
"Coward!"
*Pak! *Pak!
The Toad even had the gal to retreat after eating the wrong thing.
She knew!
The Giga Toad had summoned thicker mists and had even used [Silent Steps] in order to retreat back to its bed, afraid of even fighting the human from before.
Such coward!
Think about the difference in their stature.
It was like an elephant afraid of mice!
It only knew how to attack weaker and defenseless beings!
The Frog King even lasted longer than it was.
It was a better creature!
It should've been the boss instead!
Embarrassing! Too embarrassing! That such a creature personally brought by her would act like that!
She had a lot of expectations from the Giga Toad.
The Giga Toad gave her a huge headache at the start.
It was not the first inhabitant of the swamp, it was a foreign creature which was brought personally by her from another dimension later.
At first, she had gathered various species of Toad to live in the swamp with it. However, the Giga Toad had eaten all the toad who was stationed first at the swamp and had even eaten the recent summons... it only backed away when she had summoned a whole family of frogs who would always gather in a group.
Now, because of the Giga Toad, there were no other toads remaining in the swamp besides those golden toads hidden in the trees.
All her hard work, for such disappointing performance!
*Pak! *Pak!
"Bas-
*Pak!
"Tard!"
*Pak!
"Hmm?"
Suddenly the angel realized something, as she then moved her hands performing a surgical attack on the corpse of the Giga Toad.
*Schwingggg!
*Gush... *Gush... *Gush... *Spurt!... *Gush...
"Wow, amazing~ It's still alive?"
"Wait... This soul"
The angel then pondered if she could do something about it as she found something about the soul of the creature.
"Interesting..."
Light then gathered on the place as something happened.
"I'm not breaking any rules with this"
A creature is mutating...
"Happy Birthday~ hope you make things a little bit more interesting~" The angel said as it then fades away. The anticipation she had for something interesting, had completely erased her recent frustration.
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