Starting Unlimited Evolution from Grinding

"As agreed before, from now on you can come here anytime to browse and use the magic spell scrolls in the Library Vault, but you can't take them away."

"Actually, even without this agreement, the Royal Astrologer had originally planned to have Lin Mo come here anyway."

"The current situation is already very grim. The threat of the Dark Tide makes it impossible for anyone to stay out of it. At a time like this, someone like Lin Mo, a genius with top-tier potential who also wields the Holy Light Power, his growth plays a vital role in the future of humanity and even the entire continent."

"At a time like this, only a complete fool would still hoard knowledge."

"No problem."

Lin Mo nodded, already completely excited.

He naturally didn't need to borrow these magic scrolls to take them out. He only needed to stay here for a while, pick up the collected magic scrolls one by one and take a look, and he would naturally learn them.

Besides, it wouldn't take much time either.

After explaining a few things, the Royal Astrologer hurriedly left as well. He had to hurry up and study the things he'd gained from the seminar just now...

The entire library spanned over ten thousand square meters and had a full twelve floors!

The first six floors contained common-grade and excellent-grade magic, floors 7-9 held Exceptional-Grade magic, floors 10-11 were Epic Level magic, and the top floor, the 12th, held the few Legendary Level spells.

In theory, Lin Mo could learn all of them.

However, the library's scale was truly enormous. If he tried to learn everything, it would take far too much time. And most importantly, he had to pay attention to his mana attributes, so he wouldn't accidentally reach the Heroic Realm. Therefore, he needed to be selective and targeted.

He could always come back later anyway. He'd learn a batch first, then return to fill in the gaps after promoting to the Heroic Realm.

Besides, he had other things to do downstairs. Lin Mo currently lacked not just spell skills; he also needed skills from other professions.

Because of his pioneering theories and techniques, things were easy to handle here at the Mage Association. Skills from other professions, however, were a different story.

Unlike mages, professions like warriors and knights had similar associations, but their scale couldn't compare to the Mage Association. Moreover, there wasn't just one; there were many.

Simply put, no single association could gain the recognition of all practitioners of that profession across the continent.

Therefore, finding skills from other professions probably required help from those major powers.

This was precisely why Lin Mo had spent time earlier getting at least acquainted with those major powers.

Putting aside these distractions for now, Lin Mo started from the first floor. He first took a stroll to get a general understanding of the library's overall layout.

Although the scale was enormous and the number of collected spell scrolls was vast, the library's structure was still very clear. For instance, the first three floors contained common-grade magic. Each floor was further divided into two zones, corresponding to the six main elements: Wind, Water, Fire, Ice, Lightning, and Earth.

As for the Light Element, that was primarily the domain of the Priest profession, not so much for mages.

Additionally, on the third floor, next to the zone for the relatively few Lightning Element spells, there was a small special magic area. It collected some more unusual spells, like simple Light and Dark Element spells such as Light and Dark Shroud—practical little magic primarily for utility.

Besides these, there were also some miscellaneous magic that didn't belong to the main categories.

He'd learn them one element at a time, following the library's division.

The number of spells for each element was enormous. Element checked his current base mana attribute.

812 points. He only needed the last 88 points of base mana attribute to promote to the Heroic Realm.

Learning one common-grade spell granted 1 mana attribute point, one excellent-grade granted 2, one Exceptional-Grade granted 3, and one Epic Level granted 5.

From this perspective, for Element, learning common-grade magic was more cost-effective.

After all, lower-grade spells generally had more room for growth, providing him with more base attribute points. Plus, learning common-grade magic only increased mana attributes by one point, which would also increase the number of skills he could learn.

So, he'd be decisive and only learn common-grade magic.

If one common-grade spell increased base mana attribute by 1 point, then he could learn at most 87 spells. Considering he needed some room for error, it was best to reduce that number a bit. So, he'd learn 14 spells per element. The six elements combined would make 84, just right.

In a library vault of this massive scale, finding 14 spells he hadn't learned was incredibly easy. Lin Mo first went to the area storing common-grade fire element spell scrolls. Within just a few minutes, he found 14 spells he hadn't learned yet that he thought were decent.

Then came the learning process.

The learning process was even faster than the searching. With Lin Mo's current magical level, for such simple common-grade spells, he really only needed to flip through them once, roughly understand the composition of the mana circuits, and he had basically learned them.

Then he immediately tried casting. Most of the time, he succeeded on the first try, and a notification would float before his eyes.

Occasionally, he encountered spells with unusual circuits, which he would master within two or three tries.

Soon, Lin Mo had learned these 14 common-grade fire element spells, and his base mana attribute increased accordingly.

Next were Water Element, Wind Element, Earth Element...

In total, Lin Mo took less than an hour to complete his plan.

Looking at the over 80 new skills in his mage profession skill bar and his base mana attribute that had reached 897 points, Lin Mo smiled with satisfaction.

Matter resolved, it was time to leave and find a way to get skill scrolls from other professions.

Knowing that the Royal Astrologer of the Roxez Empire was probably busy studying the magical theories and techniques discussed in the seminar, Lin Mo didn't disturb him. He just told a member of the Association and left.

Then, he headed straight for the Roxez Empire's Imperial Palace.

By the time he arrived at the palace, Lily had been waiting for him at the entrance for a while.

This was the "task" Lin Mo had given Lily earlier: to negotiate with the Roxez Empire's royal family on his behalf, asking them to provide skills for the Warrior, Knight, Assassin, and Ranger professions.

He couldn't learn Priest skills. Both the Priest and Mage professions used mana attributes as their main attribute. Learning Mage skills had already brought Lin Mo's base mana attribute to a threshold very close to the Heroic Realm. If he learned Priest skills too, his level would break through uncontrollably.

However, there were basically no restrictions on the other professions. His Warrior profession was currently at level 29, Assassin and Ranger were both at level 28, and his Knight profession was only at level 27. These professions were still a fair distance from the Heroic Realm, so he could safely learn more skills, which would also speed up his base attribute growth.

"Please follow me."

Lily's expression was calm, clearly indicating that the negotiations with the Roxez Empire's royal family had gone very smoothly.

After all, Lin Mo had made a huge contribution in the previous war. He had essentially solved a massive problem for the Roxez Empire. Compared to that, some skill scrolls were nothing. Moreover, he wasn't even asking to take them; he just wanted to borrow them for a look. That made it even less of an issue.

However, the skills the Roxez Empire provided were all relatively common ones. They would never give away high-end skills, especially those passed down only within the royal family.

To put it bluntly, these were skills that any common adventurer could also get their hands on.

But that was already enough for Lin Mo.

The Roxez Empire had long since arranged the provided scrolls neatly in a reception hall for foreign guests. They also arranged for a few princes to accompany him—partly to build a relationship and partly as a form of "supervision."

Lin Mo didn't mind. He politely greeted the princes and chatted for a while before starting to browse through the scrolls.

The princes didn't disturb him. They just stood a short distance away, curiously watching.

After all, this was the continent's number one genius. How exactly was someone of this caliber different from ordinary people?

They were very curious about this.

And soon, they understood why Lin Mo was called the number one genius in history.

If anyone ever doubted it, they would be the first to step up and disagree.

Who in their right mind picks up a skill scroll, looks at it for just a few seconds, and then puts it aside?

It looked like he hadn't even seriously looked at it, or like he didn't think much of the skill.

They thought those scrolls he'd set aside were ones he'd rejected...

But then, after flipping through over a dozen skills in a row, Lin Mo suddenly stood up, picked up a practice weapon nearby, and started demonstrating them one by one.

There were no mistakes, no errors at all. Although it was obvious that his proficiency was low and his movements were very rough, for a beginner, there was nothing to criticize.

But he had just glanced at it!

This... he had learned it just like that?

This left the princes, who had all learned these skills before, completely speechless.

To be fair, bearing the bloodline of the empire's royal family, their talents were by no means low. Across the entire continent, they were considered first-rate geniuses. When they were young and learning these skills, they were praised by their teachers for learning very quickly, far faster than their peers.

But even so, starting from scratch to master a skill still took a considerable amount of time.

And that was with the help of famous masters explaining and personally demonstrating...

And this guy?

One look, just a few seconds, and he was already performing the skill on the spot.

And it wasn't even one by one. He wasn't learning one skill at a time. He read over a dozen scrolls in one go and learned all those skills.

Was he even human?

If he was human, then what were they...

Pigs?

The princes couldn't bear to watch any longer. But because of their father's orders, they couldn't leave. They could only watch helplessly as Lin Mo continued like this.

Warrior, Knight, Assassin, Ranger...

It was the same no matter which profession's skill it was. For others, it was "never forget what you've read." For him, it was "learn it just by looking."

If occasionally a skill managed to stump him, even for a minute or even half a minute, it would make them feel a surge of excitement, silently cheering for that skill in their hearts.

"Hold on! You can do it! Don't give up so easily and let that guy learn you!"

And when that skill finally, helplessly "lost," they felt like they had lost a dear comrade, almost wanting to cry.

"Dammit, it still couldn't do it..."

After a good while, Lin Mo, who had learned most of the skills provided by the imperial family, turned to look at the princes and couldn't help but be startled.

"What's wrong with you guys?"

They were supposed to be princes of an empire, yet right now they looked like a bunch of country bumpkins, with expressions as if they'd never seen the world before.

"Nothing... it's nothing..."

The Great Prince, the one in charge, wiped the sweat from his forehead and forced a smile as he spoke.

Luckily, Lin Mo wasn't in the mood to keep chatting with them. He soon turned and left.

"Phew——!"

Seeing his back disappear from their sight, the princes immediately let out a long sigh of relief, feeling as if they had survived a catastrophe.

"This monster is way too terrifying."

The number of skills provided by the Roxez Empire's royal family wasn't small, but most of them were the common ones found on the market. Many overlapped with Lin Mo's existing skills. So, in the end, even after learning them all, his attributes still hadn't reached the Heroic Realm's threshold.

However, his profession levels did all increase.

The Warrior profession unsurprisingly rose to level 30, Assassin and Ranger also reached level 30, and the Knight profession rose to level 29.

"Conditions met for promotion. Profession: Warrior (lv29) promoted — Current Profession: Warrior (lv30)."

"Obtained profession attribute bonus: Strength +35, Agility +15, Constitution +20!"

"Conditions met for promotion. Profession: Knight (lv27) promoted — Current Profession: Knight (lv28)."

"Obtained profession attribute bonus: Strength +10, Agility +10, Constitution +40!"

"Conditions met for promotion. Profession: Knight..."

"Conditions met for promotion. Profession: Assassin (lv28) promoted — Current Profession: Assassin (lv29)."

"Obtained profession attribute bonus: Strength +20, Agility +35, Constitution +10!"

"Conditions met for promotion. Profession: Assassin..."

"Conditions met for promotion. Profession: Ranger (lv28) promoted — Current Profession: Ranger (lv29)."

"Obtained profession attribute bonus: Strength +15, Agility +35, Constitution +10, Spirit +5!"

"Conditions met for promotion. Profession: Ranger..."

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