Only I Level Up By Shoveling-Chapter 59: "Brewing A Dirty Plan"

The girl immediately looked up at Castra with red eyes while screaming in a voice that really sounded like a bird’s chirp.

"Hum! Hum! I-I didn’t ambush you!!"

"Then why did you press something onto my back?? Is it a dagger? A cold weapon?"

The girl, feeling wronged, started to shed tears while sniffling.

"Look closely, it’s just a potion bottle, not any weapons!"

The girl raised a palm-sized round potion bottle and spoke with a voice full of grievances,

"I was just trying to find an ally! I didn’t mean to attack you, hum! Hum!"

It was Castra’s turn to be dumbfounded.

Huh? You want to find an ally by creeping behind someone like that?

How could it not be suspicious?!

The girl glared at Castra while stomping her feet.

"Hum! Hum! Since you attack me like that, forget about making a temporary team! I’ll just find other people! Hum!"

The girl tugged at the boy’s sleeves before dragging him forcefully.

"Huhuhu! Mean spirit! My head is still spinning!"

"Himi, slow down, slow down..."

The two bickered casually, looking like a pair of innocent teens, but once they were a certain distance away from Castra, their childish faces instantly turned into calm adults’ faces.

"Himi, did you manage to smear THAT potion?"

"Hum, I did, but just a small amount. That bastard reacted so fast! If I didn’t take a step back, my head would have been smashed open, hum!"

"Calm down. Our next target is the elf spirit. Make sure to smear more potions."

"Hum, hum, I know!"

Once the pair approached the elf duo and the petite mage, Castra immediately looked at Lady Fera who was somehow already back to his shoulder.

Suppressing the urge to blame the disloyal dog, Castra asked with a gloomy face.

"Milady, did that girl really not attack me? Did she use a poison or something..."

His instinct screamed that the girl was suspicious!

Before Lady Fera could answer, Poo, the invisible yet mighty poop, immediately reported enthusiastically,

[Host, host! Poo knows! <⁠(⁠￣⁠︶⁠￣⁠)⁠↗ That girl smeared something on your waist, but not much!]

[What?? What is it??]

[Poo doesn’t know whether it’s a poison or not, but dear host, you better wash it with water!]

!

What a vicious examinee!!

"Duuu!" Dudu also woke up from the excitement and swung his claws around.

Vicious! Vicious!

Castra hurriedly scooped water from a small stream and washed his waist, but even though he felt that the smeared thing was gone, whatever its effect was still there.

Lady Fera sniffed at Castra’s waist and commented,

"Fufufu, it’s strange. It doesn’t smell like poison. If anything, your own body scent just smelled a little stronger than before."

His own body scent? The smell of poop from Dudu and Poo?

Castra sniffed his arm but didn’t smell anything.

"Since it’s not a poison, that’s good, but we have to keep an eye on that suspicious duo."

Castra warned his summoner and after checking his group for any sabotages, he slowly approached the group of foreign examinees at the front.

"Let’s mingle with them and maybe kill some monsters!"

Let’s pray the monsters were not all spirit-eating monsters like before.

If anything, it was already strange that the dungeon suddenly changed and a spirit-eating monster was mixed in with the native monsters.

"M-mister, be careful..."

Ray clung behind Castra as their small group slowly approached the group of foreign examinees.

At the same time, the elf duo, the petite mage and the suspicious duo somehow teamed up temporarily.

As for the merged twins?

They stealthily hid among the rocks and slowly approached the foreign examinees who were fighting a lot of monsters, ready to steal some kills.

When Castra and his small group were only a few meters away from the foreign examinees, they immediately hid behind a reef-like rock and peeked at the foreign examinees.

Clang! Clang!

Bam! Bam!

Shinggggg—

Blub. Blub. Blub. Blub.

Various sounds were mixed together and with the dim light, Castra could only barely see the silhouette of four people.

The first person had a lean and feminine body unique to girls, but the unique thing was that...she had a pair of ears and a fluffy tail.

Not to mention, she swung a long sword skillfully and nimbly, as if she had trained for over a decade.

A female beastman, a swordswoman on top of that.

What a tough examinee.

The second one...is that a moving hill or a body?

The person is huge!

They had a pair of boar tusks on their face, a bald head and a faint green skin...

An orc?

But unlike a barbaric orc, this orc was wrapped in silver armor from head to toe, holding a huge rectangle shield and a lance.

That...is a knight! Or a paladin?

Anyway, unlike the orc, the third examinee was short, so short that they looked like a child but with a beard.

The "child" was tip-toeing while stirring a huge cauldron, not caring about the fierce battle around them.

It’s definitely a dwarf, but why did a dwarf create potions?

An alchemist dwarf? Unheard of!

And the last examinee...

Castra’s pupils dilated and his breathing became quicker.

That pair of white wings and the halo on top of their head...

Holy moly, an angel??

What a rare breed!

Castra was astonished, but he quickly calmed down and silently observed the monsters that the four foreign races were fighting...

And then, his breath got stuck in his chest.

Wait, what??

These three monsters...they are the same as the spirit-eating monster he had encountered before!

But compared to his weak group full of spirits, only the female beastman and the orc knight were fighting against the monsters, yet they weren’t falling behind!

Not to mention, there was already one corpse of similar monster around them.

These kids...they had already defeated one monster??

The dungeon should have changed after the earthquake, which was less than fifteen minutes ago.

In such a short time, these kids had already defeated one C-rank monster that his huge team couldn’t beat?!

Ray also looked at the fierce battle ahead while biting his lips.

"W-what do we do?? If all the native monsters are gone and replaced by the spirit-eating monsters, w-we can never kill one for points!"

Then, they would definitely be eliminated from the top 100 and he couldn’t enter the Althea Academy!

Castra’s face contorted for a split second before a fierce glint flashed in his golden eyes.

"Listen, I have a plan!"