Only I Level Up By Shoveling-Chapter 105: "What’s Wrong With These Plants?"

Even if he died, Castra wouldn’t forget that familiar voice, the source of all his misery—

"Mario??"

Mario was the one who summoned him?!

Hearing Castra’s exclamation a few meters behind, Mario immediately screamed louder,

"Why are you so far away?? I summoned you to be near me, ah!"

Of course, it was actually near, but Castra was attacked by a vine right after landing, so he was pushed further away.

No matter how much Castra disliked Mario, sensing the summoner in danger, Castra couldn’t just sit still.

If the summoner died, he would get a huge, huge penalty!

"Hang on, idiot!"

Castra was about to rush when he paused and suddenly whistled towards the dense leaves.

Crowie, who thought that he could hide and laze around at the tree, suddenly felt an invisible force manipulating his body!

"Caw! Caw! Caw! Black magic!!!"

His body flew uncontrollably towards Castra and Castra immediately gave a command:

"Go, help my summoner."

"Caw! Caw! Caw! Nooooo— "

The cowardly crow watched as his own body rushed to the unknown danger ahead, his feathers instantly exploded, falling everywhere.

"Gyahhhh— "

Heh. This is the power of the master-slave contract!

Thinking about this contract, Castra peeked at the cat lounging around his neck and silently sighed in relief.

Thank God, Garfin and Lady Fera never directly commanded him to do this and that even though they could...

He only knew about it now!

Amidst the crow’s miserable scream, Castra and his entourage rushed towards Mario and Castra immediately saw the large group of people battling strange plants scattered here and there.

Mario, the one tightly protected in the middle, had his natal spirit Archie shooting fire arrows at the strange plants.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

However, the plants cleverly and agilely dodged the arrows, allowing the arrows to stab the wet soil and immediately slapped it with their roots, extinguishing the fire in one go.

Archie, a fire-element spirit, had a health reduction debuff and his face turned pale.

"Master, where’s that summon spirit?? I can’t continue alone!"

His mana is running out and he feels like he’s about to die too!

"That fake spirit is already behind— "

Then, a black crow crashed right onto the back of Mario’s head, almost plunging Mario straight into the mouth of a man-eating plant.

"Caw! Caw! Caw!"

"Uakh— what the hell is this??"

Mario grabbed whatever hit his head and when he saw a dizzy crow spirit, he almost threw it to the man-eating plant.

"Ha! Speak! Are you here to assassinate me??"

Mario squeezed the crow and Crowie immediately howled dramatically.

"Kaaaa! Kaaaa! Help! Help! Crow murderer! Wait for this venerable’s revenge— "

Mario quickly clamped Crowie’s beak and growled,

"Shut up! Shut up! Do you want to attract more plants and animals this way?? Just whose summon spirit you are— "

"It’s mine!" Castra ran all the way to Mario’s side, snatched Crowie and immediately swung his shovel, almost hitting Mario on the head.

"Hey, hey, hey! Be careful!" Mario was so shocked that he bumped into another guy and the other guy almost fell straight into the plant’s mouth.

"Uh, sorry, sorry, " Castra apologized sheepishly but then, he immediately turned stern.

"Say, Mario, what the hell is going on here? Isn’t this the Elven Forest?"

There were indeed man-eating plants in The Elven Forest, but surely not this many, right??

And these plants...

Castra looked at the darkened plants with blood red veins and strange eyes all over— they looked completely different from the vine that attacked him before.

These plants looked like the odd ones out!

"Duh, if I know what’s going on, I won’t summon you to help me!"

Mario rolled his eyes and saw the familiar OP cat on Castra’s neck— and his face instantly beamed into a bright smile.

"Ah, hello, hello, big boss! Nice to meet you again!"

Knowing Garfin’s true ability, Mario’s heavy heart immediately settled and he was secretly glad that he specifically summoned that fake spirit!

It was Castra’s turn to roll his eyes at Mario’s b*tt-licking expression while looking at the chaotic battlefield around him.

"So, you summon me to beat just this one plant in front of you, or all of them?"

One was okay, but beating more than five gigantic Man-eating plants...

"Of course, all of them, ah! These bastards are too cunning and our fire elemental spirits are severely suppressed!"

"I think an earth element spirit can counter these wood element monsters, so I summoned you."

Castra once again had an urge to roll his eyes.

Since when could earth element beat wood??

But well, this is the first time he saw a plant-type monster...

And just when he thought of it, a familiar churning swept through his belly.

BEEP. [The passive skill Gut Feeling is triggered.]

Gut feeling: "Ahhh, a C-rank monster...a dark element monster on top of that...just lay down and get eaten!"

Castra’s face instantly changed.

"What?? A dark element monster??"

Again??

Mario was taken aback by Castra’s sudden outbursts but then, a scream suddenly pierced through the air.

"Ahhh— help! My spirit— "

A summoner not far from Mario’s place, wearing the same clothes as everyone else looked at his summon spirit in horror.

A plant bit the spirit’s hand and the spirit’s flesh was bitten off.

Then, the bite wound quickly festered, the flesh rotted in the blink of an eye, revealing the bones inside!

The humanoid spirit turned pale and almost fainted on the spot.

"It hurts....it hurts!!!"

The spirit screamed in agony as the rest of its body started to fester and rot too, so fast that the others could only watch as the spirit turned into a puddle of blood and meat in less than a few seconds.

Such a big spirit— gone.

That spirit died!

Mario was stunned, his feet were rooted to the ground.

W-wait, what? What’s going on?

Many of his people and their spirits got injured by the Man-eating plant, but none suddenly died just like that spirit!

Mario was so shocked that he didn’t see the man behind him suddenly bumped into him and then...

Mario’s body was pushed onto the mouth of a Man-eating plant.

!

"MARIO— "