Only I Level Up By Shoveling-Chapter 53: "Someone Is Changing The Dungeon"

Castra, Ray and the pink-haired spirit Miria screamed one after another.

It felt as if countless needles stabbed your brain and a sharp ringing noise kept echoing in your ears.

Ray’s face turned pale and he instantly retched on the spot.

Miria staggered and squatted, spraying water from the bidet spirit to refresh her mind.

Castra...Castra calmly wiped the blood from his ears and grumbled,

[Is it just me or have I been bleeding often recently?]

[It’s true, host! You will need a blood transfusion soon! (⁠ʘ⁠ᴗ⁠ʘ⁠✿⁠)]

"Du! Du!"

Blood transfusion!

[Ugh, guys, c’mon...]

Castra groaned and slowly got up.

He had once been accidentally attacked by a certain fluffy lady’s oppressive aura, so this kind of attack is nothing!

Once his ears weren’t ringing as loudly as before, Castra swung his shovel and slapped the cat-sized lizard on its head.

TWACK!

"Stop yelling!"

"Scree!"

The lizard screamed in a different pitch and its sound wave attack immediately dispersed, as if it was never there before.

The lizard had stars circling its head and it stared at the huge prey in front of it with wide eyes.

Bad human! Interfering with its singing!

If Castra knew that the lizard was "singing", he would have registered the lizard to enter the Produce Series variety show.

A pity, Castra didn’t know, so he ruthlessly hit the wannabe idol lizard with his shovel a few times until the lizard fainted peacefully.

"Huft. Huft. Damn it. Why is this lizard so uselessly tough?"

Castra wiped his sweat and then grabbed the collar of his summoner who had just wiped his mouth.

"Dear summoner, hurry, hurry! Kill this monster!"

"Huh? Huh? What?"

"If you kill the monster, you will get bonus points from the academy, right?"

"Mister, you didn’t kill the lizard— "

"No, I just made it faint. Dear summoner, deal the last blow! You can do this!"

"O-okay, okay, wait..." Ray waved his hand to call Miria his natal spirit and the pink-haired spirit immediately shot out her hair to stab the lizard’s heart.

Only then did the lizard ascend to heaven.

Ray couldn’t see it, but outside of the dungeon, far away at the Althea Academy, his name immediately gained 1 point for killing one Lizard Bat.

Seeing Castra’s move, new audiences and old audiences immediately went deep into discussions.

-Who is this spirit? He actually beats up a monster stronger than him so easily!

-Wait, I’ve seen his face on the Summoner Forune Flamme Empire’s section.

-Is he a new rising star in the Spirit World or something?

-Let me see...ah! This spirit is—

-Is what??

-Uh, nevermind. You will regret it.

While the audience was digging up Castra’s history, Castra was counting his fingers.

"Hum, that’s one point, but we need a lot more points to get to the top 100..."

Ah...still a long way to go, right?

Castra turned around to leave the lizard bat but caught a sight of Poo looking at the lizard with longing eyes.

[? Poo, what are you doing— ]

Poo immediately went berserk, rolling in the air and throwing a tantrum.

[Host, why didn’t you make it *beep* before it died?? (⁠ ⁠≧⁠Д⁠≦⁠) You could have earned Fecal Coins! You’re in debt, remember??]

...oops. He forgot about the damn debt!!

Is it too late to make a corpse poop?

[...too late, host →⁠_⁠→ ]

Poo snorted and Castra felt as if he had lost a treasure.

[Uh, it’s okay, we still have Dudu’s *beep*...]

But next time, he would collect their poops first!

As the group walked deeper into the cave, the cave started to become wider, wide enough for three male adults to walk side by side at the same time.

Naturally, more and more lizard bats appeared.

"Screeee!"

One lizard bat glided from the ceiling and shot out poisonous saliva at Miria, the pink-haired spirit.

But Miria, while trembling from head to toe, subconsciously launched her hair spear attack at the lizard bat ruthlessly.

Stab! Stab! Stab!

"Screeeee!!!"

The lizard bat was dying and Castra immediately used his ultimate skill to get rich.

"Laxative skill activated!"

The lizard bat felt its stomach churning and a waterfall of censored things came out of its b*tt.

Splosh!

Castra used Llyod to collect the thing and immediately got a few Fecal Coins out of the censored thing.

"Yes, I got it!"

Castra didn’t see the eyes of Lady Fera, Ray and Miria changing behind his back.

Even the Bidet Spirit looked at Castra with shock, as if saying:

Is this spirit crazy?!

Even the audience couldn’t bear to see the scene, much less the soft-hearted Ray.

He almost couldn’t kill the monster who pooped until it fainted. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

"U-uh, do you have to make the monster poop first to weaken them or something??"

Isn’t it too cruel??

"No, no, don’t mind me. It’s just a personal need. Keep going, boy!"

Castra waved his hands as he started to search for Lizard Bat to collect poops.

While searching, he remembered something and whispered to Poo in a regretful voice.

[That, I should have collected the elf boy’s *beep*, right? It will be considered a rare *beep*, no?]

[Host, that’s an elf, not a beast. You won’t get any Fecal Coins or new *beep* collection! (⁠눈⁠‸⁠눈⁠) ]

[Oops, my bad, I forgot.]

While Castra and the others were hunting Lizard Bats, the six people who had entered the dungeon ahead of Castra and the group were also doing their own things.

Among the six people, a boy and a girl wearing a black robe and a black hood stealthily went to the corner of the cave.

They looked around carefully and after making sure that no magic orbs followed them, the boy immediately spoke in a hoarse voice.

"Himi, did you smuggle in the item safely?"

Himi hummed cheerfully while taking out a black cube oozing with an ominous aura.

"It’s here, Aran." The girl grinned maliciously as she showed the thumb-sized black cube to the boy.

Aran’s eyes lit up at the sight of the black cube and he immediately urged the young girl.

"Himi, have you found a good place to plant this thing?"

"Yeah, I have. It’s somewhere around here..."

Himi touched the slippery rocky ground and found a secluded part of the lake that was at the center of the huge cave.

"There! Put the cube in this spot, and...hum, hum, hum..."

As the tiny black cube entered the water, the dark blue water slowly got dyed with darkness.

Then, the dark water slowly dyed the rest of the water black, but it didn’t spread to the entire lake and entered small streams near the edge of the lake.

The small stream carried the thick darkness to the small streams flowing throughout the cave.

As for the black cube?

It slowly drifted to the center of the lake and fell deeper into the lake.

A few seconds later, a random Lizard Bat stopped at a small stream not far from the duo and licked the water to quench its thirst, but the moment the black water entered its stomach...

"Kuk! Kuk! Kuekkkk—"

The lizard bat convulsed on the spot and started to wriggle.

Its whole body slowly expanded and...it slowly changed!

Clack! Clack! Clack!