A split second before the system panel disappeared, Castra clicked the "purchase" button and the system's notification rang in succession.
DUNG! [You have purchased an item "Bug Spray" × 1]
[One-time use only]
DUNG! [The system mall is closed! Thank you for shopping with us. Have a nice day (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧]
Castra's fingers trembled as he looked at the system panel that slowly disappeared, as if they had never existed before.
T-that was close!!!
Damn it. Why would the mall close right before the customer purchased something??
And what's with the sudden off work time...it has only been an hour at most, right? It was still a long time before 6 p.m!
Poo could see Castra's thought at a glance, so he immediately put his tiny hands on his curvy waist.
[Hey, hey, dear host, the time flow in the human world and the spirit world is different!]
The Spirit World's time flowed faster than the Human World, but since the spirits were practically immortals, time didn't really have a deep meaning other than to relieve everyone's boredom.
[Just to remind you, host, I will also go off work in thirty minutes! You have to execute the plan before I go off work~]
[What will happen if I execute the plan after you go off work?]
[Ummm then, the rewards and other benefits won't be sent immediately and will be suspended until tomorrow~ ]
But he needed the reward now!
Castra took a deep breath and sighed.
[Okay, okay, I'll finish these monsters in thirty minutes!]
But speaking of the bug spray…how come there's nothing? He didn't get the item yet!
Castra was about to complain when the instruction panel nudged him, forcing him to read the content.
When he saw the true form of the item and the requirements to use the item, Castra almost fell flat on the ground.
What is this?? Why is the perquisite so embarrassing??
But time was ticking, so Castra could only swallow his embarrassment and whispered the name of the item.
"Use the item Bug...Spray!"
An invisible item slowly entered Catra's body, ready to be released.
Then, the young man held his breath and pushed something hard from his back...
Psssiuuuuu...
A burst of gas came out from behind, with no color, no odor and no presence.
The gas slowly spread from Castra's side to the people around him and the mob monsters who were besieging the group.
The mob monsters who were creating more sand balls to be used as cannon balls sniffed something strange in the air and the next second...
They twitched their front legs and suddenly flipped on the ground with their mouth foaming!
One, two, three...
Crash! Crash! Crash!
Starting from the mobs closest to Castra, the dung beetle monsters suddenly twitched their legs and flipped with their stomachs facing the ceiling.
After the dung beetle twitched their legs a few times, they slowly stopped moving and remained motionless.
Mario, Garfin, Cecily and the other two fire beast spirits looked at the strange scene with wide eyes.
"Ah? What's going on with these monsters?"
Mario looked around the dung beetles whose sand balls suddenly crumbled into sand and felt that he must be dreaming.
How did those ferocious monsters suddenly collapse?
Did those monsters die? Or did they just lose consciousness...
Either way, sum thing is wong!
Even Cecily, who boasted to be an ex-great summoner and Garfin, a mysterious high-ranked spirit, were bewildered.
"Meow, it looks like they're poisoned, meow."
"Poison? What kind of poison can kill these monstels? If thele is such a poison, dealing with insect monstels won't be a headache..."
Of course it's not an ordinary poison.
It's the system's item! An item especially created to deal with insect-type monsters!
But maybe because the item from the mall had the same level as the F-rank Castra but his targets were all at E or D rank, the lethality of the bug spray was limited.
While a few monsters died on the spot, some others only had mild poisoning symptoms and they were still alive!
Castra's face had already turned red as he yelled at his companions.
"Guys, what are you doing?? Kill these monsters while they're still weak!"
At Castra's shouts, Mario, Garfin and Cecily started to attack the monsters who had been weakened to the extreme.
"Go, barbecue! Wolfie!"
"Meow meow flick."
"Hyah! Hyah!"
Even the healer Cecily grabbed a sharp stone from the broken stone wall and started to pierce the weakened dung beetles with all of her might.
The group rapidly killed the mob monsters and as more monsters breathed their last, the boss monster that was previously motionless suddenly moved.
"DUUDUDUDU!!!"
The boss monster shrieked and its whole body moved, along with the entire arena.
"Ah! Ah! Ah! Be careful!"
Everyone held to each other as they watched the ground tilting and the sand got sucked into the huge hole at the center.
Before the group could even do anything, the boss monster stretched its tweezers towards the sand ball in front of it and...
It started to build the sand ball faster than before!
Pa! Pa! Pa!
The sand ball that was originally only as big as a cow slowly expanded to the size of a car and soon, it was about to become the size of a truck!
Castra's face instantly turned pale.
"Ahhh! Everyone! Burn that sand ball!!"
But it was too late.
The boss monster puffed its chest proudly and lifted the truck-sized dung sand ball with all of its might.
"DUUUUUUUU!!!"
The entire arena trembled and the clouds of dust rose to the ceiling.
Amidst the thick sand clouds, one could see the silhouette of the dung beetle with its tweezers raised high.
The next second...
Swwoosh!
The wind blew hard like a tornado and the sound of something blasting the air echoed throughout the arena.
BANG!