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Finding a Frog Shooter wasn't hard at all.
While the dungeon seemed to as a whole get wider and larger each floor one progressively went down, the upper floors were nothing like that lower ones passed the eighteenth floor, and were still for the most part caverns as opposed to what amounted to areas topside akin to the size of small villages and growing.
So as it was, I merely progressed through the sixth floor, following the map I'd purchased at the guild of the upper floors, and with a few turns, I found myself coming across a whole group of them.
Four of them in total just minding their own business milling away in a large hallway.
As soon as I stepped into the hallway, a set of red eyes locked on top me, belonging to a large green frog-like beast that would come up over my waist in height.
A loud warbling croak left its throat, drawing the eyes of its companions to me, before it tensed its back legs and leaped through the air towards me.
Its cheeks bulged while it was mid-air and a moment later it spat towards me, its tongue massive in length stretching out towards me, thicker than my head.
I tilted my head, letting the tongue flash past and slam into the wall behind me, the force of the tongue lashing cracking the stone wall.
My hand flashed up, clawed gauntlet slicing through the air and I grabbed the slimy appendage and pulled.
The frog shooter gave a panicked warble as it was yanked even faster through the air towards me, my other fist coming up before it could do anything and slamming into its skull.
I both felt and heard the crunch from the impact as the frog shooter's eyes rolled up into the back of its head and it died.
Before it could fall to the ground I let go of its tongue and grabbed its throat, before bodily tossing it towards the other three frog monsters hopping towards me.
The corpse slammed into the one in the middle, burying it beneath the weight of its once comrade and I rushed forward, jumping as twin tongues from the remaining two lashed out at me like whips and avoiding the hits.
I landed between them and narrowed my hands into a knife edge, the claws of my gauntlets pointed out and shoved my hand through ones eye, straight into its brain, killing it, then spun and launched a roundhouse kick that caught the other one in the temple.
Once again, a skull went crunch.
Just then, the middle one managed to shake the corpse off of itself and it let loose a rage filled croak and launched towards me.
And once again a tongue lashed out towards me like a whip, slashing diagonally through the air, trying to cut me off.
Thinking quick, I dropped flush to the ground letting it pass over me, before pushing up into all fours and like a beast pushing off with my back legs and rushing it.
Before it could retract its tongue, I was already upon it, another knife strike flashing out. Blood splashed through the air as my clawed gauntlet fingers pierced straight through it eye up into its brain and it went limp.
"Hmm, their tongues are way faster than anything I've fought so far." I mused, pulling my hand free and eyeing the corpse.
Up until now, the fastest thing I'd fought had been the progressively getting stronger kobolds. But these whip like tongues were way faster.
Pretty easy to predict the pathing of, but still way faster than the kobolds.
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I wasted no time in extracting the magic stones from the frog shooters corpses and continued on my way to the seventh floor.
For all intents and purposes, it didn't take me long. Between the map of the upper floors I had, my stats that were way higher than your typical level one adventurer skulking around these parts and my enhanced senses, finding my way was a breeze.
I was attacked a few times along the way, by both frog shooters and war shadows, but it wasn't much of a challenge to deal with them.
Especially when they all rushed me in a straight forward group once. They were easy pickings with my fire breath ability.
Really, I think I spent the most time digging out their magic stones and devouring them.
Which was why I really needed a supporter that could take care of them while I tore through the monsters.
A supporter that knew what they were doing would really speed up my kill rate and progress.
Interestingly, as I made my down the stairs, deeper into the dungeon and entered the seventh floor, the area darkened once again, the only lighting being dim blue crystals lining the walls.
There was a big difference though. The seventh floor spread out much wider at the entrance, forming into a massive cavern that had to be at least a hundred feet or more wide, and dozens of stalagmites erupted up out of the ground into pointed spiky shapes.
A chittering sound echoed through the wide cavernous room and my ears twitched beneath my helmet.
A moment later, the chittering got louder, joined by a chorus of similar sounds and from out behind the large stalagmites, large four legged beasts edged their way into my sight. Each a bit bigger than the frog shooters I came across, with sturdy red carapaces.
A group of giant ants surrounded me.
But that wasn't all.
Flittering in the air above one of them, was a large purple moth.
A flash of movement caught my eye to my right, and I looked over just in time to see a white blur land on top of one of the huge ants, before launching through the air towards me.
A white rabbit with glowing red eyes and a spiky horn on its head, aimed straight for me.
It was fast, faster than the Kobolds and as fast as a frog shooters whip like tongue.
I punched it out of the air regardless though, slamming it into the ground, before stomping on its head and killing it.