Chapter 7: Farming Exchange Points!

Chapter 7: Farming Exchange Points!

"Awooo—!"

Along with a miserable howl, a gigantic black bear nearly eight meters tall was sliced cleanly in half.

As the two halves of the enormous bear crashed to the ground, they revealed an unbelievably beautiful girl with long purple hair standing behind it.

"Tohka, are you okay?"

The ordinary-looking young man who had been waiting beside a large tree hurried over and asked her worriedly.

"I'm fine! Jeez, Toma-kun, seriously! How could something this easy possibly hurt me?"

Apparently dissatisfied that he had so little faith in her, Tohka puffed out her cheeks.

"I'm just worried about you. Anyway, Tohka, hurry up and dig out that bear's Magic Crystal. A monster that huge should have a pretty big one, right?"

Toma paid no attention to her complaints.

As long as Tohka was safe, he didn't care if she complained about him a little.

Besides, right now, the only thing he really cared about was how big a Magic Crystal this giant bear could provide.

It had already been three days since Toma summoned Tohka.

Putting aside all the awkwardness at the beginning, every danger they encountered afterward had been resolved without much trouble thanks to Tohka, an extraordinarily powerful Spirit.

Toma still remembered when he and Tohka had first started wandering aimlessly through the forest.

The first time he encountered a magical beast, he had nearly jumped out of his skin.

Why was he so scared?

Wasn't an otaku supposed to have seen everything already? Shouldn't someone like him remain perfectly calm when encountering bizarre creatures in another world?

If someone asked Toma something that stupid, he would definitely slap them across the face.

What a load of bullshit!

Some things weren't particularly frightening when you saw them in your imagination or as computer graphics.

But when the same thing appeared right in front of you in real life?

Scary as hell!

Want a specific example?

Have you ever seen a mosquito with a body as big as a human head?

And not just seen it from far away.

Toma had practically come face-to-face with the damn thing!

At the time, Toma had gone off to relieve himself and accidentally let down his guard.

Then...

He turned around.

And there it was.

A mosquito whose body was almost as large as his head!

Thankfully, Toma had already finished peeing.

Otherwise, he definitely would have pissed himself on the spot.

A mosquito the size of a human head!

Toma could confidently say that he had never seen such a ridiculously enormous mosquito in his entire life.

Fortunately, Tohka heard his terrified scream.

She instantly flew to his side and finished off the giant mosquito with a single slash of her sword.

After Tohka cut the mosquito down, Toma was just about to walk over and stomp on it a few times to vent his anger when he discovered something surprising.

Just like the magical beasts described in novels, the mosquito actually had a Magic Crystal inside it!

And that wasn't all.

The moment Toma picked up the Magic Crystal, the System informed him that it could be converted into Exchange Points.

It was only worth 10 points...

But even those measly 10 Exchange Points were enough to make Toma ecstatic.

Ten points might not seem like much, but that wasn't important.

The important thing was that Magic Crystals could be converted into Exchange Points!

That meant Toma could hunt magical beasts, collect their Magic Crystals, and use the resulting Exchange Points to obtain all kinds of useful things from the System.

That was what really mattered.

After all, Toma understood perfectly well that his greatest advantage as a transmigrator was this System.

More importantly, he needed Exchange Points to obtain abilities, skills, and equipment!

Only then could he improve his Personal Evaluation and complete missions.

Therefore, the moment Toma discovered that Magic Crystals could be converted into Exchange Points, he immediately had Tohka begin a full-scale slaughter.

Any magical beast they encountered?

Kill it!

No exceptions!

It wasn't like there was some animal protection organization in this world waiting to sue him, so Toma felt absolutely no pressure whatsoever.

As far as he was concerned, if these magical beasts could generously contribute their Magic Crystals—and therefore Exchange Points—to him, then their deaths were completely worthwhile.

Fortunately, the magical beasts had no idea what Toma was thinking.

Otherwise, they probably would have formed a party specifically to hunt him down...

After Tohka killed the mosquito, Toma was so excited and grateful that he exchanged for a huge pile of delicious bread and gave it all to her.

Naturally, Tohka happily devoured everything.

So when Toma later asked her to help him clear out the magical beasts they encountered, Tohka agreed without the slightest hesitation.

Seeing how readily she accepted made Toma genuinely emotional.

He couldn't help sighing inwardly.

'What an amazing girl.'

'All I have to do is keep her well-fed.'

'She listens to me, she's ridiculously strong, and she's unbelievably beautiful on top of that.'

'A girl like this could never exist in the real world.'

'And even if she did, what would she have to do with a hopeless shut-in like me?'

After casually lamenting his miserable former life for a while, Toma and Tohka continued their journey.

Considering Tohka's overwhelming performance so far—and Toma's painfully accurate understanding of his own abilities—the division of labor between them became extremely simple.

Tohka fought the monsters.

Toma hid somewhere safe and watched.

As for the fact that this was basically the equivalent of living off a woman?

Toma felt absolutely no shame.

His dignity had already disappeared the moment he became a hardcore otaku.

What?

Why didn't he train and fight the monsters himself?

Please.

You're seriously overestimating the combat abilities of an otaku.

As a weakling with a combat power below five, Toma was painfully aware that he couldn't even defeat the first mosquito he encountered in this otherworldly forest.

Training?

Forget it.

He had absolutely no intention of getting himself killed.

And Toma wasn't even slightly embarrassed about admitting that he couldn't beat a mosquito.