He was not overly hasty, and with the help of the Trash Slime, he found quite a few materials needed for collection quests.
By around noon, he had gathered everything needed for several quests and finally found a new treasure chest in a hidden room.
Moreover, there were two standard treasure chests pressed together inside the hidden room!
Dark gave Leomon a look, and it opened the chest on the left first, working from left to right.
As the iron lock was picked open, the chest lid sprang up at once, and a Mimic lunged out!
With a twist of its wrist, Leomon raised the Blood Holy Sword and effortlessly blocked the Mimic's pounce.
Leaving aside everything else, these past two days of intense adventuring had genuinely honed its reflexes.
An ambush of this level could not possibly hurt it.
With another burst of force, Leomon sliced off half the Mimic's head, killing it instantly.
Even Mimics varied in strength, and this one was clearly not as formidable as the clown from before.
After slaying it, Leomon gave the inside of the chest a slightly disappointed glance before turning to the chest on the right.
The instant it opened that chest, a shriek like the wailing of ghosts suddenly rang out.
"Ah—"
Leomon staggered back two steps, its ears twitching wildly as the hand holding its sword went limp.
Then, a ghost-type monster shot out from the gap in the chest like lightning. Its body was stretched extremely long, its face possessed two deep and horrifying holes, and its gaping mouth glowed blood-red.
Stunned by its "shriek," Leomon was briefly deafened. Its head buzzed, and it could not even lift its sword, only able to watch helplessly as the monster rushed forward to bite it.
But in the very