Starting Unlimited Evolution from Grinding

After advancing to Transcendent Level, the attribute boosts gained from each level up were quite impressive. On top of that, with Lin Mo carrying the Ice Dragon King Bloodline, these boosts received an additional 30% bonus.

This feeling of rapidly increasing strength was really something.

Lin Mo happily shifted his gaze away and looked at the goblins in front of him.

Then let's continue...

While Lin Mo was slaughtering goblins on a massive scale, Ellie and the others, who had formed pairs, were also getting into the groove. Although their goblin-killing speed couldn't compare to Lin Mo's, it wasn't slow either.

Currently, aside from Finnie, who was stuck as a support profession and couldn't help, and Sherfilia, who had to protect Finnie and rarely made the first move—plus the fact that the Assassin profession itself cleared monsters at a slower rate—the remaining Eve, Lily, Ellie, and Flora were all within the top 20 on the scoreboard. This result even surpassed many Professionals who were stronger than them.

A significant part of this advantage came from having well-rounded attributes... For instance, the Mage profession: high Agility meant faster movement between locations, which effectively boosted clearing speed.

After daybreak, the goblins' assault showed no signs of slowing down; instead, it grew even more frenzied.

The Adventurers who had been fighting all night, especially those who weren't very high-level, were now thoroughly exhausted.

Despite their fatigue, excited expressions hung on these Adventurers' faces.

To attract Adventurers from all over to help deal with the Gnome Kingdom's invasion, the Adventurers' Association had naturally put up generous rewards. On this battlefield, the rewards for killing a single goblin were far greater than usual, and the number of goblins was so immense that they couldn't be wiped out. For these lower-level Adventurers, it was a golden opportunity to make money.

As for the dangers of the battlefield... The Adventurer profession itself was one that walked on the edge of a knife, living on blood. Everyone was already used to trading their lives for money.

These Adventurers wouldn't rest for long. Once they caught their breath, they'd jump back into the fight. After all, every extra goblin killed meant more money. If they killed enough this time, they could live off the earnings for half a year or even one or two years without needing to risk their lives working. Even for those Adventurers with higher ambitions, the money accumulated on this battlefield would be enough to buy plenty of resources and equipment to boost their strength.

So the Adventurers' fighting spirit, at least at this stage, was far higher than that of the professional army.

Time continued to pass, and soon it reached noon. By then, the goblin assault had been going on for an entire half-day.

The area near the front lines was already a sea of blood and corpses. Everywhere you looked, there were mutilated goblin bodies, and the thick stench of blood choked anyone who breathed it in.

Gradually, the fighting began to get tougher.

The coalition high command had anticipated this situation, which was why, when designing the defensive lines, they had deliberately made the lines very wide and set the rest camps far back. This gave them plenty of room to retreat.

When the conditions at the front line became too harsh to bear, they would choose to pull back a small distance and hand the messy environment over to the goblins to deal with.

Although, for the goblins, this probably wasn't much of a problem...

The ground wasn't just covered in the corpses of their comrades; those were also their food.

This was another headache when waging war against goblins. On the human side, they needed to prepare ample food and supplies, but the goblins didn't need to do any of that. They just used their killed comrades as rations, and that was enough to sustain their basic survival.

And in such a large-scale war, there was no spare energy to clean up those corpses, so they had no choice but to let the goblins do it.

Fortunately, at least for now, there wasn't much need to worry about supply issues. After all, most of those stationed at the front lines were Adventurers, and there was no need to specifically worry about their supplies.

Before coming here, they had already prepared enough food and water to last a week or even longer.

After a general, small-scale retreat along the entire front line, the impact of the harsh environment was reduced, and the situation at the front line stabilized again.

The current state of affairs was expected to continue for at least two more days.

Lin Mo hadn't chosen to fight continuously without rest. Although his physical strength and spirit were still abundant, and his consumption of Qi and Blood and Mana wasn't severe, this was a war of attrition that would last at least ten days. So it was important to rest and not get hung up on short-term gains.

After continuing the fight through another morning and seeing that it was getting late, Lin Mo used the Teleport function of [Life Contract] to go to Phili and the others. He gathered them all up into his Portable Space.

Time to rest.

After fighting for so long, everyone was a mess. Lin Mo first used [Cleansing Flow] to give everyone a quick clean-up before they went back to their own rooms for hot baths to soothe their tired bodies.

After washing up and coming to the living room, Lena was already preparing dinner.

Everyone sat on the living room sofa, chatting with each other. Their topics of conversation mainly revolved around the day's war, and naturally, that included comparing scores.

"1346 points? Eve, you did that on purpose, didn't you?!"

Ellie cried out in surprise, looking at the wristband on her own hand. It clearly showed her result—1345 points.

Exactly one point short.

Eve glanced at her expressionlessly, said nothing, and just shook her head.

Whether that shake of the head was meant to answer her question or to say... "You're not good enough," was unclear.

Either way, Ellie bristled and lunged at her, and the two tumbled into a heap.

As they gradually got to know each other, their distances shrank, and they weren't as polite as before. "Clashes" became more frequent, and playful roughhousing became routine.

"Alright, you two, cut it out..."

Lin Mo helplessly grabbed Ellie by the collar and lifted her up.

Ellie flailed her limbs for a bit before giving up the struggle.

At the end of the day, she wasn't really angry. It was just ordinary roughhousing. Their relationships were still good... right?

Lin Mo wasn't too sure about that, and he didn't dare to ask.

Either way, as long as things stayed as they were, it was fine.

"Wow... Sister Flora, your score is so high!"

On the other side, Finnie had huddled up with Flora. Speaking of which, the two were actually good sisters. It was through Flora that Lin Mo had originally met Finnie and Lady Bessie.

And Nuolun was also Finnie's older half-sister, which meant the stunningly figured maid Shirleyas was part of that circle too.

Finnie was closely connected to all four of them: Sherfilia, Flora, Nuolun, and Shirleyas.

Ellie, who had calmed down, heard Finnie's voice and curiously looked over.

"What is it, what is it? How many points does Flora have?"

Flora had always been a forthright person, so she simply raised her hand and showed her score.

1984!

A really high score.

Even Lin Mo was taken aback for a moment. This result had to be in the top ten.

Lin Mo opened the rankings to confirm, and sure enough, Flora was right at 10th place.

A Mage's monster-clearing efficiency really was high.

But that was only temporary. When the stronger goblins started to show up, the situation might not stay that way.

When it came to breaking through tough defenses, Mages didn't have a clear advantage over other professions.

The Assassin profession was clearly the most dominant in this regard. Under successful sneak attacks, against an opponent of the same level, an Assassin could essentially be said to have the fastest kill speed.

Lin Mo checked his own score.

5339, solidly at number one. The second place had only 3490 points, though that was still a very good score. He guessed that person was also a Mage.

Beyond the scores, the most important thing, of course, was the actual gains from this period.

This was mostly keeping up with the initial pace. The speed at which proficiency was gained was extremely fast, and many skills had undergone level-ups and evolutions.

Lin Mo's level had also risen consecutively again.

The Assassin and Ranger professions had both reached level 24.

"Promotion conditions met. Profession Assassin (Lv23) promoted to—Current Profession Assassin (Lv24)."

"Obtained profession attribute boost: Strength +14, Agility +20, Constitution +6!"

"Promotion conditions met. Profession Ranger (Lv23) promoted to—Current Profession Ranger (Lv24)."

"Obtained profession attribute boost: Strength +11, Agility +20, Constitution +5, Spirit +4!"

Many of these base attribute points came from the clones created by the [Shadow Split] skill using Assassin skills, and from the level-ups of those skills.

As for the [Shadow Split] skill itself, its proficiency had grown quite well and reached level 5.

There was no way around it. After all, it was a Legendary-level skill, and the proficiency required was astronomical. Killing a single ordinary goblin provided a negligible amount of proficiency gain for a Legendary skill.

Being able to level it up twice was already the result of sheer volume.

This was another problem Lin Mo would have to face in the future.

He currently had a considerable number of skills on hand, but with constant grinding, the number of low-level skills was starting to run thin.

And for high-level skills, the rate of improvement from killing these ordinary goblins was too slow...

Shaking his head, Lin Mo didn't dwell on it further. Just do what needed to be done now. There was no need to overthink and invite unnecessary trouble.

Besides the Assassin profession, the other professions had also improved.

The Warrior profession had reached level 23, the Knight profession had reached level 22, and the Mage profession hadn't leveled up yet, because Lin Mo hadn't used magic as much recently, having shifted some of his focus to the other professions.

This was also why the gap between him and the others on the leaderboard wasn't that big.

"Promotion conditions met. Profession Warrior (Lv22) promoted to—Current Profession Warrior (Lv23)."

"Obtained profession attribute boost: Strength +15, Agility +10, Constitution +10!"

"Promotion conditions met. Profession Knight (Lv21) promoted to—Current Profession Knight (Lv22)."

"Obtained profession attribute boost: Strength +5, Agility +5, Constitution +20!"

The speed of this strength increase was quite good.

Of course, since Lin Mo's strength was improving so rapidly and his base attribute points had grown considerably, it was only natural for him to think about benefiting others.

Some of the stronger Bronze Goblins were even a match for many of the lower-level Adventurers on the coalition's front lines. It was easy to imagine that if they were ambushed by Bronze Goblins hiding among the ordinary goblin horde, they could easily be injured or even killed on the spot, causing the first real casualties on the defensive line.

During the previous two days of fighting, although many of the weaker Adventurers in the coalition had been drained of stamina and occasionally suffered injuries, they were basically at zero casualties.

But starting from today, it seemed like that situation was about to change.

Lin Mo was just thinking about whether he should go and notify someone when he saw that the coalition had already sent out a warning signal. He immediately felt relieved.

As expected, the high command wasn't just for show. Even if they weren't directly participating in the battle for now, they were still very attentive to changes on the battlefield and were directing things fairly well.

But warnings were just warnings. Even if everyone knew about this, casualties tonight would probably still be hard to avoid...

As they say, war is cruel.

Sure enough, despite the command center quickly dispatching personnel to spread the word and using magical communication devices to broadcast the news so that most people on the battlefield were aware of it, the situation on the front lines still changed dramatically soon after the Mutated Goblins and Bronze Goblins appeared.

Many Adventurers and soldiers had gotten used to the battle intensity of the first two days. They had grown accustomed to tearing through the goblin army like gods, rampaging and killing indiscriminately. This kind of ingrained habit was hard to shake off quickly, even if they reminded themselves to be careful. It was inevitable that some would let their guard down.

What's more, even if they were very careful, with insufficient strength, they might not be able to fend off the surprise attacks of those powerful Bronze Goblins.

The Gnome Kingdom had finally made its move. The real war was just beginning now!

Lin Mo didn't relax his vigilance just because of his own overwhelming strength. Although neither the Mutated Goblins nor the Bronze Goblins could pose any threat to him, who knew if there were even stronger goblins hiding among them?

His perception was powerful, but if he let himself get too relaxed, he might miss some important information. So he had to be serious and cautious in the battles to come.

These newly appearing, extraordinarily strong goblins caused a lot of trouble for the coalition, but for Lin Mo personally, they were good news.

His efficiency in gaining proficiency had clearly improved again...

The fierce fighting continued all night. By dawn of the next day, besides goblin corpses, quite a few human corpses could be seen on the front lines.

Using magical energy devices for a rough estimate, nearly two thousand Adventurers or soldiers had tragically lost their lives during that night's battle.

Compared to the total number of people on the defensive line, that didn't seem like much. But one had to remember, this was just the beginning.

So, when dawn arrived, the atmosphere on the front lines had clearly become much heavier.

Some Adventurers stopped and chose to leave.

Although it was a great opportunity to make money, no matter how much money you made, you had to be alive to spend it.

They were well aware of their own strength. They knew that in a situation like this, they could easily become casualties. Those who were already injured, especially, didn't hesitate and left immediately.

Once daytime arrived, the Bronze Goblins on the battlefield seemed to have all retreated.

The number of Mutated Goblins had also decreased significantly, appearing at only about half the frequency of the previous night.

One had to admit, the Gnome Kingdom's approach was very clever...

The tactic of having Bronze Goblins hide among the ordinary goblin horde for sneak attacks could also work during the day, but the success rate was definitely far lower than at night.

So during the day, they just kept sending cannon fodder to fill the lines in exhausting attacks, just to prevent the coalition from getting any respite. They didn't plan to achieve anything major.

And when night fell, that was when they launched their truly effective attacks, aiming to inflict real casualties on the coalition.

However, the human side could also come up with counter-strategies.

For example, the lower-level Adventurers who had chosen to stay could opt to rest less during the day and fight longer, while at night, they simply wouldn't participate in the fighting and would rest normally.

But if they did that, whether the front lines could hold with fewer people at night was an unknown.

In short, they needed to replenish their combat power.

To that end, within the Roxez Empire itself, a significant conflict had erupted.

Many believed that since things had progressed this far, the Empire should commit to a full-scale war, resolve this Gnome Kingdom expansion event, and stabilize the situation around the Empire's borders as soon as possible.

Others felt that since a coalition front line had already been formed, the Empire didn't need to invest more resources. They could let the coalition handle things themselves. If the front line couldn't hold against the Gnome Kingdom's assault, the Empire could step in then. This would minimize the Empire's losses in this war.

The two factions argued endlessly, and it was hard to reach a conclusion for a time.

Until another day passed, and a distinguished guest arrived at the Imperial Capital of the Roxez Empire.

A golden carriage was flanked by neatly uniformed Silverplate Guards, each holding a standard-issue knight's lance.

Riding at the head of the procession was a burly knight.

He was around forty-five years old, and his suit of gold-and-white armor looked exceptionally splendid.

The Great Prince and Crown Prince of the Roxez Empire personally came out of the city to welcome him, a full smile on his face.

As the future successor to the empire, there were very few people on the entire continent whom he would receive so grandly. And these two people before him were certainly on that list.

"I never expected that this incident would also disturb His Highness the Saint Child and Knight-Captain Harvey..."

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