Starting with the goblin extermination

"That's it, keep the rhythm!"

The old dwarf Thorin stood at the back, leaning on his battle axe, loudly cheering for the team's cooperation. It seemed that today, it wouldn't be the veteran adventurer's turn to take action.

With the experience of the first success, the subsequent battles became efficient assembly line operations.

Parry, shoot, finish off.

Logan and his two companions repeated the same method, and in the next hour, five more giant frogs became the corpses of Logan's sword.

Of course, in the process, the surrounding lake shore also turned into a muddy mess. The giant frog's heavy body trampled over the surrounding vegetation as it jumped and struggled.

The vast majority of the "Sunset Roses" were either trampled into unrecognizable mud or crushed by splashes of mud and water.

As Logan swung his sword to wipe away the blood, he glanced at the broken petals out of the corner of his eye, and felt a slight pang in his heart.

After all, in his eyes, they were all glittering gold coins.

During this hour, a thrilling little incident also occurred.

When dealing with the fifth giant frog, its tongue somehow bypassed Baron's shield and wrapped tightly around the young dwarf's thigh.

"ah--!"

Barron instantly lost his balance and was about to be dragged back and pulled into the giant frog's gaping maw by that immense force.

At the critical moment, Papa drew his bowstring to its fullest extent and shot an arrow.

The arrow pierced the taut tongue with pinpoint accuracy, the arrowhead even splitting in two inside the tongue. The giant frog painfully retracted its severed tongue, allowing Baron to scramble away and escape unscathed.

Logan then swiftly stepped forward and killed the beast with a single sword strike.

The battle was over, and Papa looked at the mangled tongue on the ground with a sense of loss: "It's over. The tongue is completely rotten, and five silver coins are gone."

"Silly girl, what nonsense are you talking about!" Thorin vigorously ruffled Papa's long brown hair. "You did a fantastic job! That arrow saved him. You know, nobody wants to be inside a giant frog's belly."

Baron thanked Papa, still shaken. After taking a few playful elbows from the girl, the tense atmosphere in the team, which had been due to exhaustion, relaxed once again.

Now, only one giant frog remains on this side of Mirror Lake.

It lay on the edge of the shallow water, its size noticeably larger than the ordinary giant frogs it had killed before. Beside it, the only remaining [Sunset Rose] bloomed quietly.

"Keep your eyes peeled! Give it your all!" Thorin patted Baron on the back. "This one's speed and strength are far superior to those weaklings from before. Kid, hold on!"

"clear!"

The battle broke out instantly.

Papa went first once again. But just as the arrow was about to hit its eye, the giant frog surprisingly tilted its enormous head, causing the arrow to graz its cheek and fly away.

Immediately afterwards, it exerted force with its powerful hind legs.

boom!

Its massive body instantly covered a distance of more than ten meters, crashing down on the crowd with the force of Mount Tai.

Throughout this process, Logan's peripheral vision remained fixed on that "Sunset Rose".

The giant frog leaped up, creating a huge gust of air that swept across the lake shore like a gale. The fragile flower swayed violently in the wind, and Logan could see that the stem even bent at a dangerous angle.

Fortunately, it held up and did not break.

The giant frog landed with a thud, and the mud on the ground exploded in a ring in all directions.

The moment it landed, the long tongue, thicker than an adult's thigh, shot out at a speed too fast for the naked eye to see, heading straight for Baron, who was being used as bait!

Baron instinctively raised his shield.

With a "slurp," the [Stinky Mud Paste] worked its magic again, the slippery mud preventing the tongue from clinging tightly to the shield.

However, this giant frog's tongue is not only covered with sharper barbs, but its muscles also have a far greater ability to coil than those of its kind.

In the instant of slipping, the long tongue slid down like a giant python, actually locking onto the waist and legs of the Baron leather armor.

"What?!?"

Barron screamed in terror. The next second, he was lifted into the air like a rag doll and dragged directly into the giant frog's foul-smelling mouth.

Gudong.

The giant frog's Adam's apple bobbed, and in an instant, a living dwarf was swallowed whole.

"Baron!!" Papa was so frightened that her face turned pale. Her little hands frantically searched the quiver, and she couldn't even draw an arrow.

Logan was also startled, but when he noticed Thorin's expression and remembered what Thorin had said earlier, he felt relieved.

"Alright, everyone, stop moving!"

The old dwarf was surprisingly calm. He grabbed Papa's arm, his battle axe hanging casually at his side. "Uh... don't worry, don't you remember what I said before? That kid's covered in so much shit, he won't die. Count to five, and he'll be out in a minute."

as predicted.

Before the giant frog could even digest the dwarf it had swallowed, just five or six seconds later, its massive body began to convulse in discomfort.

It can feel a sharp pain in its stomach.

The stench, a mixture of garlic and feces, seemed to be fermenting inside its sealed stomach.

Nausea, unbearable nausea.

"Ugh—quack!!!"

The giant frog painfully tilted its head back, and as its enormous belly contracted violently, a huge stench spewed from its mouth, forcing Logan and the others to close their mouths and noses tightly.

Immediately afterwards, a fleshy mass covered in green slime was suddenly ejected.

clack.

The lump of flesh slammed heavily onto the muddy ground and slid several meters away.

Barron scrambled to his feet in the slime, snot and tears streaming down his face, gagging and seeing stars. Although he looked extremely disheveled, he was clearly still intact.

Of course, Barron wasn't the only one who suffered terribly; the giant frog was in just as bad shape.

It was breathing heavily in pain, its tongue lolling out of its mouth, and the violent spasms in its stomach had robbed it of the will to continue fighting.

It turned its massive body, its hind legs gathering strength, preparing to leap back into the lake.

Upon seeing this, Logan's pupils contracted sharply.

Because if this monster jumps in that direction just once more, the only remaining [Sunset Rose] will be crushed into a puddle of mud by its huge webbed feet.

"Damn it, my money!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Logan tensed his thigh muscles instantly.

He sprinted forward, using a protruding blue stone on the riverbank to push off, and his whole body was lifted into the air, blocking the giant frog's escape route before it could jump!

"Thrust!"

The giant frog was startled by the creature that suddenly appeared in front of it.

Startled, it instinctively stuck out its long, slimy tongue, which instantly wrapped tightly around Logan's waist and abdomen in mid-air, abruptly interrupting Logan's about-to-unleash combat technique.

Thorin and his group stared in disbelief as Logan was caught in mid-air by the giant frog's long tongue and then swallowed whole like a snack.

Logan's vision went completely black for a moment, and a nauseating stench and a burning, acidic smell assaulted his senses.

He quickly came to his senses.

If the release of combat skills is interrupted in the air, what about here?

[Thrust]

A strike delivered with all one's might.

The sharp sword pierced through the giant frog's internal organs without any resistance as it went from bottom to top.

Then, Logan stirred it with all his might.

......

outside.

Thorin and Papa looked at each other in bewilderment.

They saw that the giant frog's hind leg muscles, which were already preparing to jump, suddenly stiffened, and the leap never occurred.

Its massive body made a muffled thud, then went limp and crashed to the ground.

"Logan!"

Everyone rushed forward in a panic. Thorin used his battle axe to forcibly pry open the giant frog's lower jaw, while Papa, enduring the nausea, dragged Logan out of the pile of rotten flesh.

"Cough cough... Huff..."

Logan took a deep breath of fresh air and stood up from the mud with a smile.

His blond hair was now completely stuck together with green slime, and his entire body was covered in an unknown, stringy liquid.

"Barron, now I'm just like you." Logan wiped the slime off his face, laughed, and punched Barron, who was also covered in slime and still in a daze.

After a brief moment of astonishment, the crowd burst into hearty laughter at the two mud figures that looked as if they had been pulled out of a cesspool.

Not far from them.

The translucent, citrine-like petals swayed gently in the breeze, incredibly beautiful in the afterglow of the war.