Aias: from a world of kaijus to a world of fantasy and magic

Chapter 22

The next day, I led Ned's party to the dungeon after going to the adventurer guild to enter into our quest first.

They were a bit nervous at the entrance, but they were also excited. Before we entered, I showed them the map of the dungeon I bought yesterday and then explained what I had learned diving inside the dungeon.

Once we were down to the third floor, I separated from Ned's party and continued going down because I wanted to find more interesting monsters to fight, and I told them that the 3rd floor was a good place to dip your feet into dungeon diving.

Each floor I go down, a new monster starts to spawn. However, they were weaklings who didn't put up much of a fight, so I just jumped straight down a couple of floors till I found something interesting.

Eventually, on the 8th floor, I found something that could put up a fight. There were purple toads with a pair of fangs, about the size of a medium-sized dog.

From looking at its appearance, I'm guessing it uses its fangs to bite and inject venom into its prey.

They're quite agile and hard to dodge for normal adventurers, but to me, I was grinning at how much fun it was, treating this more like a game than anything else because these toads were more dangerous than the goblins. I didn't have any antidote potion, so if one of them were to bite me, I would be in big trouble.

After this, I should buy an antidote potion since a healing potion only heals and won't cure me if I am poisoned or injected with venom.

As I was thinking about buying an antidote potion, three of these purple toads spawned.

I took a step or two to dodge each of the toads, then I cut down two out of three of them with my short sword.

Taking out a spike, I threw it at the last toad, who was readying to attack. It screamed in pain as I hit its left leg to stop it from moving.

I approached it and swung my blade down at its head to stop its loud screaming.

The dead bodies of the venom toads turn all black and fade like ash, each dropping a shard. However, something had unexpectedly dropped from the last toad I'd killed; it was one of its fangs.

Neet, if I remember correctly, it's incredibly rare for a monster to drop something other than a crystal shard, so this should sell at a decent price.

Collecting the fang and the magic shards, I think it was a sign to leave the dungeon because I had lost track of time having fun fighting the toads and I had more than enough magic shards to complete my quest.

I counted the number of shards in my pouch, which was 37 in total, and went up to the dungeon's entrance.

By the time I was out of the dungeon, I was surprised by how long I stayed inside. It was already dark, and when I asked one of the guards, they said it was around 3 in the morning.

Did I really stay inside for that long? It felt way shorter.

I better go back to the inn, Ned and everyone is probably really worried about me.

When I got to my inn, Ned was waiting for me outside.

He saw me and said,

"Where were you? We were worried."

"Sorry, I lost track of time."

He had a relieved sigh and told me to get some rest.

The next day, I was woken up by Mark knocking on the door of my room.

Yawning, I got up and told him I was getting up. I got only a few hours of sleep last night since I came back at around 4 in the morning.

After we got something to eat, we went to the Adventurer guild.