After leaving the team, the adventurer ladies regretted it deeply

Lin Da thought to himself, the Healing Hero should really be called the Blood Ox Brave, which would be more fitting.

With high defense, thick health points, plus Healing Art, as long as he didn't recklessly charge into piles of Magical Creatures, it was almost impossible to die.

After resting for half an hour, Kafni, all covered in filth, came out of the cave holding Demon Cores.

Lin Da's Magic Power had also fully recovered.

The next wave of monster hunting began anew.

...

On the Barren Plains, Lin Da transformed into a BOSS, madly sweeping through the surrounding Magical Creatures with Kafni.

One Slime after another burst as he smashed them.

The Blood-sucking Mosquito had its proboscis plucked out.

The Black Armored Scorpion had its carapace pulled off...

Lin Da couldn't be bothered to check the system message bar anymore, which was filled with a string of notifications.

From morning till dusk, he did only one thing: fire out Venom Magic Spheres, unleash Venom Eruption, then rest, meditate.

With the newly acquired Demon Cores, he slowly recovered Magic Points, and once they were restored, he'd continue firing until he was out of energy.

The setting sun's blood-red light enveloped the land.

Lin Da and the others sat on the ground, panting, counting the day's loot.

Kafni, turned into a money-grubber, stacked the Demon Cores like a small hill on the ground and counted them one by one.

"75 level two Demon Cores, 23 level three Demon Cores, 15 level four Demon Cores... Ha, hahaha, no more sleeping on the sofa, hahahaha!"

Kafni quickly calculated in her mind, the value of a level two Demon Core was one silver coin, three level three Demon Cores was worth three silver coins, and one level four Demon Core was worth one Gold Coin.

In other words, these Demon Cores altogether were worth around twenty-four Gold Coins.

When it came to buying Magical Equipment, it wasn't much, but for daily life expenses, it was a significant amount of money.

They could live in a big villa with a swimming pool!

"Great, this is just fantastic!"

Kafni wiped her dirty face with the corner of her clothing, tears of joy running down her cheeks.

Having been a Goddess for a lifetime, she had never done such dirty and tiring work, but as she held the hill-like pile of Demon Cores, she felt it was all worth it.

But for Lin Da, the Gold Coins were just a secondary gain.

The main prize was Mystical Points.

He handed the Demon Cores to Kafni for safekeeping and sat down cross-legged himself, opening his personal panel.

After an afternoon of hunting Magical Creatures, he amassed a total of 1217 Mystical Points.

Through continuous bouts of hunting, Lin Da surmised some patterns.

The acquisition of Mystical Points was not fixed.

The more times he killed the same kind of Magical Creature, the fewer Points he received.

At first, a Black Armored Scorpion was worth 40 Points.

Towards the end, it only gave 20.

Lin Da delayed leveling up in order to amass more Points.

It also involved an over-level kill reward: the more levels he surpassed the creature and the higher his output towards that creature, the more Points he would get.

Conversely, if level three Lin Da killed level zero juvenile scorpions, he'd gain not a single Mystical Point.

This setting was the same as the games in the Mystic Continent. Killing higher-level Magical Creatures gave more Experience Points; killing lower-level ones, fewer.

If the Magical Creatures' level was too much lower than one's own, it wouldn't contribute any Experience Points at all.

"We've farmed the Barren Plains fairly thoroughly; let's call it a day here," Lin Da mused.

Immediately, he opened the Mystical Points exchange page.

Without a second thought, he converted 1000 Experience Points.

There was no need to hold back on leveling up now.

Being at a higher level would make it easier for Lin Da to move to higher-level maps to hunt creatures.

A level four Blood-sucking Mosquito's Demon Core was worth one Gold Coin, but a level ten Black Skin Leech from the Painful Swamp could sell for three Gold Coins.

If it was an Elite Black Skin Leech, it might be worth ten Gold Coins.

The rate at which high-level adventurers earned money was nearly like using a sack to collect Gold Coins.

Lin Da needed a lot of money to recruit team members with exceptional talent.

Digging up an adventurer of the caliber of Lia and Aiko, don't even think about it without a hundred thousand Gold Coins.

"System, level me up!"

Lin Da silently chanted in his heart.

A thousand Experience Points surged into his personal panel.

In an instant, Lin Da only felt countless soft little hands massaging him, the joy of leveling up sweeping through his body, and streams of golden light continually falling on his head, leaving him so comfortable that he almost fainted.

[System notification: You have risen to level 4!]

[System notification: You have risen to level 5!]

[System notification: You have risen to level 6!]

[System notification: You have risen to level 7!]

[Total: Strength +50, Magic Power +50, Defense +8, Magic Defense +11, Agility +7, Hit Points +800!]

A tremendous Magic Power surged within Lin Da's body, in the Star Map of his spiritual world, seven Stars were revolving around the core, shining brightly!

When Lin Da first came to the Barren Plains, his Magic Points were only 13.

But now, his panel, not counting equipment, already shows—

Name: Lin Da

Occupation: Chosen Healing Hero

Level: 7

Magic Power: 90

Strength: 90

Defense: 24

Magic Defense: 35

Agility: 22

Resistance: None

Experience Points: 0/700

With a Dual Attack as high as 90, almost nine times what it was at level 0.

Such a tremendous increase allowed Lin Da to burst all the Magical Creatures on the Barren Plains with merely a One-Handed Sword, without using a Spell.

His one Venom Eruption was an instant kill, no Magical Creature could withstand his enormous damage.

Besides attributes, he also gained four Skill Points.

But as to which Skill to add, Lin Da needed to make a detailed plan after going back.

He had two Skill Trees and one unlocked Witch Series Skill Tree; all use of Skill Points must be careful to avoid spreading them too thin and ending up with mediocre Skills.

On the other hand, Kafni leveled up along with him, but she was so engrossed in counting Demon Cores that she wasn't prepared for the influx of golden light on her head. The comfort and happiness directly stupefied Kafni.

For a moment, Kafni's eyes rolled back, her mouth wide open drooling, her body shivering...

"Are you okay?" Lin Da kindly cast a Healing Art.

Kafni sobered up considerably, wiped her drool, and pinched the soft flesh between her thighs as she said in a daze, "This isn't a dream, right? How did I suddenly get to level 7?"

"Because I leveled up," Lin Da explained.

"How did you level up? Is there something you're hiding from me?!" Kafni, thinking of something, became furiously angry, "You didn't pledge allegiance to the World Tree Goddess, did you? Did she give you a new Skill?"

A strong feeling of betrayal rose in Kafni's heart.

Lin Da did not expect such a big reaction from Kafni and explained helplessly, "It's my inherent ability, gaining strength from killing monsters, then saving up that strength for a breakthrough in one go."

"There's such an outrageous Skill?" Kafni sat down, half convinced.

Lin Da did not intend to tell anyone about the existence of the system and said smilingly, "Isn't it good to level up quickly? Raise our levels as soon as possible, defeat the Demon King, and you can return to the Divine Realm."

Considering it, Kafni thought that made some sense.

"As a hero, you're somewhat useful," Kafni unexpectedly encouraged Lin Da a bit.

The two of them packed the Demon Cores into small bags, with Kafni responsible for holding them, then slapped the mud off their bottoms and planned to return to White Dove City before it got dark.

Just then, Kafni suddenly stopped and furrowed her brows, looking suspiciously toward the north.

There lay a vast red gorge, Red Rocks releasing heat that made one sweat profusely even from a great distance.

Seeing Kafni motionless, Lin Da inquired, "What's wrong?"

Glancing in the direction of Kafni's gaze, the place was called 'Scorching Gorge,' Lin Da had a recollection of it, as he often went there to level up in his previous life playing the game.

It was full of Little Lava Creatures, ranging in levels from 3 to 7, with earth system and Fire Series attributes, which gave them resistance to his Poison Series, not a suitable map for leveling up.