"Where am I?" Blanco asked as the surroundings became clearer. A giant underground chamber with large tunnels carved throughout appeared. As Blanco looked around, his gaze landed on a giant skeleton embedded in the wall of the hole.

Seeing that skeleton, Blanco suddenly became shocked because, with one glance, he felt it was familiar to him.

"Is this... a human?"

The skeleton was a large, two-legged being, and Blanco initially thought his guess was right. However, as he observed it more closely, he realized some of its features were different from what he knew of humans.

The skull had four eye sockets where its eyes were supposed to be and two mouths. It had four arms that were abnormally large. Behind it, embedded in the wall, were remnants of wings that probably extended from the skeleton, slightly visible.

"With these features, he can't possibly be a human, but considering the kind of world I'm living in now, maybe there's a possibility he is one."

Siiing!

At that moment, the rays of sunlight falling from above shifted slightly, causing some of their light to fall onto a place previously in shadow. From that sunlight, something shiny illuminated, catching Blanco's eye.

"What is that?" Curiously, Blanco investigated the source of the shining object and found that it was a red-colored gem buried in the ground, with only the upper part visible.

"Eh, is that a gem?" Blanco hurriedly ran toward it. Since it was buried, he began to dig it up, but as he did...

Thunk!

His sharp claws, digging into the ground around the gem, collided with something metallic. Observing it, Blanco realized that the gem was embedded onto something.

Continuing his digging, Blanco unearthed the entire object to which the gem was attached. Within a few minutes, a giant axe, embedded with the red gem at its center, was revealed by Blanco's efforts.

"Phew! That took a lot of effort. I hope this is something valuable," muttered Blanco, gazing at the giant axe.

"Well, the axe won't be much help, but that gem should be something special, right?" Walking toward the red gem still shining in the sunlight, Blanco tried to get it out from the axe.

First, he tried to move it with his hands, but it didn't even budge. After failing, he tried to pluck it out with his claws. Despite appearing to have been in place for a long time, the gem was still tightly attached to the axe and didn't move an inch.

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From above the hole, the frog was still watching Blanco, but seeing that he had completely lost interest in it, the frog turned around and jumped away.

Clink!

Opening his mouth, Blanco tried to bite out the gem from the axe. It was not an intelligent thought from his human side; instead, it came from his wild, animalistic instincts.

But as he was trying, a drop of poison at the tip of his teeth fell onto the gem.

"Oh no," realizing what had happened. Blanco tried to lick the poison away, but in the next moment, he was surprised to see that his extremely corrosive poison couldn't even leave a scratch on the gem's surface.

"Is this real, or is my poison's lethality reduced?" confused, He dropped a bit of his poison on the bone of the giant skeleton.

Chizzz!

Within seconds, a sizzling sound came from the bone as the poison ate into it deeply.

In the next moment, he dropped another bit of poison on the axe that the gem was embedded in, and similar to the gem, the axe showed no effect from his poison.

"Seems not everything can be affected by my poison," Blanco muttered, admiring the axe and the gem once more. He tried to pluck it out again, but at that moment, the rays of sunlight shifted from the gem and The gem's shine vanished, leaving behind a dull, rock-like crystal.

Seeing the once-shining crystal turn into a dull stone, Blanco's interest in it diminished tremendously.

"I thought this was something magical, but other than its durability, which is totally not of any value to me, it's just an old weapon," said Blanco as he turn his gaze away from the gem and direct it tiward the giant skeleton.

"Pretty sure this belongs to him. Just how old is this thing?" he wondered aloud. The skeleton was tightly embedded into the walls, and from the ground, some tree roots and stones protruded, further securing the skeleton and dragging it deeper into the walls.

Looking at it, Blanco suddenly realized that the height of the skeleton almost reached the level of the hole's edge.

Blanco moved quickly and climbed through the skeleton, passing through its hand to its four eye sockets, and from there, he could see the overgrown brush on the outside of the hole.

"Hmph!"

Taking a position, he jumped from the top of the skeleton's head to the outside of the hole and landed successfully.

"I'm out," Blanco muttered to himself as he looked down at the hole he had just emerged from. The dull-looking crystal and the axe once again met his eyes for the last time before Blanco turned his head around.

"So where is tha—" he stopped mid-sentence as what he saw in front of him surprised him.

the frog that lured him into the trap remained close to the hole. It hadn't strayed far, seemingly fixated on a few flies flying around in a nearby bush. Staying close to the bush, the frog extended its long tongue in an attempt to catch any of them, but the nimble little flies managed to evade the frog's tongue with their speedy maneuvers.

Th-uk! Croak!

the frog emitted a disappointed sound after missing its prey once again.

"Quite shameful, right?" Blanco's voice suddenly rang out from behind the frog.

Croak!

Startled, the frog quickly looked back, only to see Blanco standing right behind it. With a panicked hop, the frog tried to leap away, but...

Pthwew.

A few drops of Blanco's poison landed on the frog, and within seconds, it lost the ability to move completely.

"You should have escaped when you had the chance, but on the other way it's good thing you didn't"

The last thing the frog saw was Blanco closing in, and his mouth opening to swallow it.