"Oh, you are done already?" the receptionist asked in surprise. Which is not surprising as he only took half the day to hunt all five ck Steel Bettles.


    "Yes, and here is what they asked for," the receptionist take a quickly look at the sack he was carrying and nodded.


    "Looks like all of it are here, lets ge-" Alros put his hand in front of the man.


    "I would like to take another mission," the receptionist'' eyes wided at his request.


    "Are you sure?" he asked, his tone hesitant. "After all, hunting five ck Steel Bettle is hard for a D-rank, especially one doing it alone,"


    Alros nodded, "Yes, I think I can take another mission for the day, though I might take a quick break before heading inside,"


    The man sighed, "If that the case, th you can, but there will be palty if you failed to the mission in the time allocated," he reminded the demon.


    "Yes, don''t worry, I knew," he shrugged of the worries as he began to search for another mission. Though, maybe something easy this time.


    -x-


    "Search for berries, they say, it will be easier, they say. However said it need to spd some time in hell, or ev worse, Zell Forest!" Alros yelled out, trying to outrun the monsters behind him.


    Besides him, several other advturers did the same thing, running for their very life as they are chased by monsters that is not ev the lgth of a child arm''s, from the tip of his finger to the elbow.


    Why are they running from such small monsters, one would ask. Well, they have numbers on their sides, a lot and lots of it. After all, that is the procedure of getting chase by ck Poison Ant.


    Ev with it''s diminutive size, it still chase after him and three other advturers, and still keep up with them. As for the reason he was hunted for sports by the ants, well, he find the berries he need near their nest.


    Walking as siltly as possible, he was able to collect what he need. Wh he was about to make his get away, the three idiots, all male, crashed near the nest, alerting all the bigger than normal ants.


    And so, begin the ant chase, one he get involve wh they run into his direction, much to his chagrin. And now, they are still chased by the monsters.


    Alros already put them in the list, one he put all the people he wanted to kill as brutally as possible. He don''t know wh he can do so, but he would be looking forward to it.


    As they ran, at the corner of his eyes, he spot one of them throwing something in his direction. Moving away as quickly as possible, the jar, he realize, hit a tree, sterring it with sticky substance.


    Realizing what they are nning, Alros growled before taking out his spear and impaled all three of them, his rage too great to be quched at the momt.


    The trio did not expect it, and so find themselves skewered like kebab, his attack impaired all three of them at once. Once he did so, Alros threw the bodies into the thick masses of veryrge ants, making them stop for a brief momt.


    One he took as he ran as fast as his legs can took him.


    -x-


    "Huh... T-that... huh, is a close one," he said while gasping for air, his heart beating quickly from the impromptu marathon he was forced to take part of.


    "Let see if there is any danger," he said to himself after gathering his breath. This action would save his life as he sse some Mana on top of him.


    Quickly jumping away, Alros spot several glittering, well, he did not know what to call it, fell on the g. He did not know what it could do but he suspect it is not something he would like.


    While he want to check the dust, his eyes head upwards as idtifying the source of it should tell them of what the dust actually is.


    As he did so, his eyes wided as he eximed, "Dream Butterfly!"


    Dream Butterfly is not really arge butterfly, only the size of the upper half of a man''s body. But the butterfly''s ability is the reason for many people to fear it.


    The Butterfly could create dust aptly named Sleep Powder, and it''s effect can be guessed from the name alone. Having these dusts dropped on you would sd you to dreamnd in matter of seconds.


    While it is not a problem at home, the same cannot be said wh one is outside and in the middle of a hostile vironmt. Sleeping there is equivalt to death stce.


    He cursed as he quickly took out a mask and wore it. Thankfully, a way to prevt from sleeping is by making sure one did not get hit by the dust. And the reason he wore a cloak that covered his head in the first ce, just in case he met the monster called ''Number One Reason For Advturers Death in Zell Forest''.


    He unleashed his aura, causing the butterfly to be paralysed, and causing it to drop into the g. As the butterfly dropped to the g, Alros cautiously walked towards the creature before wrapping it with a piece of clothing.


    While getting put to sleep by one would meant certain death, if it is captured, it can be sold for arge amount of money. After all, insomnia is something that gued this world too, and having a, sprinkle of Sleep Powder would put anyone to sleep.


    Though, now he think about, there is one other use for the Dream Butterfly.


    "Wee to home sweet home," he said, the Dream.Butterfly, subdued by him already flying inside the newir he made for it.


    < Bug Lair (Medium) - Air for monstrous bugs. Can be put to contain any type of monstrous bugs. Can be changed depding on the type of monstrous bugs inside


    Space Limit - 00


    Cost: 30000 LP >


    Considering it''s size, he assume it meant for monstrous size one ev if the name did not mtion it. And as Dream Butterfly is it sole inhabitant, he changed it to fit butterflies. Maybe in the future he would be able to have morerge butterflies though it would take some time for it.


    "At least there is something goode out of it," he put his palm out and therge butterfly get on top of it. Thankfully, Sleep Powder only released wh it feel threated, and with him subduing it, it no longer scared of him.