After leaving the team, the adventurer ladies regretted it deeply

This annoyed Lin Da, yet he felt fortunate about it as well, otherwise, given the deity's lazy nature, Da himself might have reached level 100 while Kafni was still loitering at level 10.

"Lin Da, come quick, this slime, it's huge!"

Kafni's excited cry came from behind.

Lin Da hurried over.

In a small pit half a meter deep, there lay a blue, chubby slime as big as a calf!

Its eyes, small like grains of rice, were tightly shut, deep in sleep.

Within its nearly transparent body, Lin Da saw a blue stone.

He rejoiced in his heart—it was a demon core!

Demon cores, only present in stronger magical creatures, are organs that store magic power.

Demon cores are extremely useful; the day-to-day training of adventurers, crafting magical equipment, career advancement, constructing arrays, and so forth, all require demon cores.

This item could even be used as currency.

Lin Da thought to himself: A slime possessing a demon core must be at least level 3, while he was currently only level 0; he needed to be extra cautious.

The elite slime slept soundly, completely unaware.

Lin Da descended into the pit and approached successfully.

He held his one-handed sword in a reverse grip, aiming right at the center of the slime.

His waist and abdomen tensed and he thrust the fierce sword towards the slime!

Just then—

"Ying!!!"

The elite slime instinctively sensed the danger and suddenly opened its eyes.

Seeing Lin Da with the sword, the creature erupted in anger, its round body split gelatinous tentacles from both sides.

The slime's exclusive skill: Slime Whip!

Upon being attacked, a red number appeared above Lin Da's head: -50.

His arms were whipped by the slime, causing some pain, but not much.

Lin Da's initial defense attributes were as high as 12, with an additional 1 point from leather armor.

After withstanding the slime's whip, his hit points remained at 230, which was quite healthy.

Lin Da knew he was an anomaly in terms of stats, which is why he chose to approach the elite slime directly. However, if it were a typical level 0 adventurer today, this one strike of the slime's whip could have taken away half of their hit points!

Engaging any magical creature always involves some risk!

He endured the slime's whip and thrust his one-handed sword relentlessly, penetrating the slime thoroughly.

The legendary skill "Eye of Truth" activated, allowing him to see all the damage numbers.

A bright red -300 popped up from the top of the elite slime's head!

Because it was a fatal wound, a fatal strike was dealt!

The system popped up a message: [You have killed a level 3 water series elite slime and earned 10 mystical points.]

Lin Da managed the kill without much danger, excitedly glanced at the system message, and saw killing a level 3 slime had directly earned him 10 mystical points, enough to level up on the spot.

He extracted the slime's demon core and placed it on the hooked belt at his waist then opened the system panel, converting all 11 mystical points into experience points.

With a bang,

a beam of golden light descended from the sky, landing on Lin Da's head.

Within his spiritual world's star map, the first star was fully lit, standing guard like a sentry around the core source.

Lin Da clearly felt his strength and various attributes improve!

The system message area scrolled continuously as his level rose in an instant.

[Your level has been increased to 1]

[Strength+13, Magic Power+13, Defense+2, Magic Defense+3, Agility+2, Hit Points+200]

[Next Level Experience Points: 0/20]

As Lin Da looked at the vast number of attribute enhancement numbers, he couldn't help but feel excited. Except for the rarest dual defense attributes, the rest had nearly doubled the panel of a level 0 Healing Hero.

This showed the importance of initial attributes.

An initial strength of 3, when moving from level 0 to level 1, would at most increase by 2-4, not possibly reaching a +13 strength.

Lin Da had merely killed a few slimes, and his combat power had doubled.

With boundless motivation, he clenched his fists, thinking that today he must kill 100 slimes to drastically increase his level!

On the other side, Kafni seeing the golden light of leveling up fall upon his head, was a bit incredulous, "You're leveling up this fast?"

After being stunned for a while, Kafni seemed to realize something and laughed heartily with hands on hips, "As expected of the hero chosen by this Deity, well done hahaha!"

As it turned out, as Lin Da leveled up, Kafni, who was attached as an accessory, also upgraded from a level 0 thief to level 1.

This feeling of effortless gains was very comfortable for Kafni.

After leveling up, Lin Da did not rush to hunt the next slime.

"Keep an eye on the surroundings, I need to rest for a while."

Lin Da used resting as a pretext to sit down cross-legged on the spot.

In the system prompt, he had gained 1 skill point.

Finally, he could have attack skills and not rely on normal attacks!

Lin Da opened the system panel - Skill Tree page.

There were three skill trees, with the green Recovery Series as the main one.

The right side was pitch black, the Witch Series yet to be unlocked.

The left side was the purple Poison Technique Series.

Lin Da was interested in the Poison Technique Series.

He mentally clicked on the first layer's skill slot.

Initially sealed with two X-shaped chains, as the skill point was injected, it seemed like he could hear chains rattling and the sound of sealed gates opening.

Purple light illuminated on the skill slot.

It depicted a pale hand with the palm facing forward, releasing a purple magic sphere from its center.

A message popped up: [You have mastered the Poison Technique Skill: Venom Magic Sphere!]

[Skill: Venom Magic Sphere]

[Quality: Purple Rare]

[Type: Common Skill]

[Consumption: Minor]

[Proficiency: lv1, Beginner]

[Effect: Fires a Venom Magic Sphere straight ahead, moderate flight speed, inflicts high damage per second to the hit target, duration five seconds, stackable for 0 layers]

A new skill appeared in his personal panel. After reading the description of the skill, Lin Da showed great delight.

The skill description of this [Venom Magic Sphere] mentioned 'high damage', which generally means 2-4 times the adventurer's magic attributes.

Its strength lies in the fact that once it hits the target, it can deal damage every second for five seconds!

Compared to the Mage's [Fireball Technique], which also described as high damage, the single shot damage of Fireball Technique might be slightly higher, but the Venom Magic Sphere can damage over five seconds, making the total output far surpass that of the Fireball Technique.

The magic consumption of Venom Magic Sphere was also very good, classified as 'minor consumption'. This type of spell could be cast about ten times in full magic power.

The third powerful aspect of this skill is that it can 'stack 0 layers' as described. The current description might sound a bit funny, as 0 layers doesn't differentiate it from not stacking at all.

But it's important to note that the current proficiency of Venom Magic Sphere is just lv1 beginner.

Once Lin Da increases the proficiency, the layers it can stack will definitely not be zero.

By then, he could almost just throw one Venom Magic Sphere and then do nothing but wait for the Magical Creatures to continuously lose hit points until they die.

Its main feature is not a high initial burst, but altogether a disgustingly high total output!