[Border Town Area]
[Yunzhongjushou: Two Goblin Kings?]
[Liehuo: Really?]
[Minos-Border Town: Our guild will definitely take this intelligence seriously and begin clearing the nearby anomalous magic beasts. We hope everyone will actively share such information.]
[Life Vine: Our party will assist in the investigation and clear the anomalous magic beasts in the low-level area.]
[Honeysuckle: This princess will do her part as well. Subjects need not fear; the empire will eliminate all anomalies.]
“Wow… Should we explain?”
Lili Ya looked at the chat channel on the adventure panel, unable to help feeling a bit guilty.
Li Si shook her head.
There were plenty of misunderstandings like this.
There was no need to explain further; on the contrary, the extra danger would make careless adventurers more vigilant, which was a good thing.
She reached out and wiped the green slime off the pointed ears of her costume, fixing her gaze on the forest ahead.
The closer they got to the dungeon, the more goblins they found.
But they were only level 1-2 goblins, just enough for Lili Ya to level up.
[Nurturing Target]: Lili Ya
[Nurturing Effect]: Experience Sharing
[Approval]: 75%
[Favor Lv1 (Reading the Room)]: 95%
[Relationship]: Companionship and Growth
[Experience Sharing]: When you kill a monster, Lili Ya gains 50% experience / When Lili Ya kills a monster, you gain 50% experience
This was the nurturing effect she had purchased earlier from the Kind Mother Shop for 1 Child Coin.
It was very useful so far.
The Kingdom of Minos had a setting where gaining experience decreased gradually per level.
When you were more than 5 levels above the magic beast, killing it only gave 1 experience point.
But with this ability, when Lili Ya killed low-level monsters, Li Si also got half the experience, and when Li Si killed high-level monsters, Lili Ya could share half the experience as well.
Besides this ability from the Kind Mother Shop, the Strict Father Shop also had a very useful nurturing effect.
Li Si looked at an effect in the Strict Father Shop that cost 2 Child Coins.
[Absolute Guardian]: Once per day, when the nurturing target faces a life-or-death crisis, you will always be able to protect them at the first moment.
As long as she increased approval a bit more, she could buy this nurturing effect.
Although it was only once a day, it could definitely improve Lili Ya’s survival ability.
Li Si withdrew her gaze, looked at the goblin group ahead, and turned to nod at the person beside her.
Lili Ya hugged her crystal staff and rushed forward nervously.
To her shame, as a priest, she couldn’t use the priest’s Divine Light Basic Attack, and could only use the staff as a hammer to deal damage.
Lili Ya arrived under a tree.
On the tree, a goblin about 50 centimeters long was dozing in the fork of a branch.
Lili Ya raised her staff and whacked the goblin on the head with a basic attack.
The goblin was sleeping soundly.
Its head suddenly went thump.
It opened its eyes, still a bit dazed.
Seeing a tall version of itself, it let out a confused “Gaji?”
“Ee-yah!”
Lili Ya swung her staff, thump thump thump, three times.
The goblin was stunned by the hits, continuously making “gaji” sounds.
Li Si watched and shook her head.
If it were a normal level 1 priest, hitting like that would have already killed the goblin, but Lili Ya only dealt half damage.
A useless priest really couldn’t be judged by normal logic.
Li Si stepped into the field.
She casually grabbed a goblin and turned to throw it.
That goblin was sleeping soundly.
Opening its eyes, it saw a tall figure one meter sixty lifting it up high, thinking it was playing a game.
But the next second, it was violently thrown off, crashing into a tree trunk.
Its HP was instantly reduced to a precarious level.
Li Si spoke to teach, “Low-level goblins’ weak point is in the eyes. It’s small, but if you hit it, you can cause blindness and dizziness, and a critical hit.”
Lili Ya had finally managed to finish off a level 1 goblin on her own.
She immediately rushed to the goblin with low HP, raised her staff, and struck it hard right in the eyes.
Even though she put all the strength she could muster into it, she still needed two hits to empty the goblin’s HP.
“Gaji?”
The surrounding goblins were finally startled awake.
Seeing two one-meter-sixty members of their kind, they were full of question marks.
Li Si moved quickly.
The high agility from wearing women’s clothes made her very adept.
In the blink of an eye, all 10 goblins in this group had been thrown to low HP.
Two of them were accidentally killed by critical hits from the throws, while the rest became Lili Ya’s experience packets.
[Killed Level 1 Goblin, gained experience +50]
[Experience reached 1000, Adventurer Level increased to Lv2]
A burst of attribute light exploded from within Lili Ya.
She suddenly felt her body incredibly refreshed, and a strange power surged through her.
She was a bit stunned.
She had come to Border Town at age fifteen, and now three years had passed.
During that time, she had been adventuring diligently, yet she had never experienced the feeling of leveling up.
She stared blankly at her hands, then looked up at Li Si.
Suddenly her eyes turned red, her body trembled with emotion, and she couldn’t hold it in, bursting into loud sobs.
“Thank you, Li Si… I-I leveled up for the first time, wah!”
Li Si was taken aback.
Normal adventurers could start adventuring at age 15.
She had heard the story that Lili Ya was in Border Town at 15, but she didn’t dare believe it was true.
A person adventured for three years in a world where you could revive infinitely, yet didn’t even level up once.
How despairing that weakness must be.
“It’s okay. I’m here now.”
Li Si reached out and gently patted Lili Ya’s head, taking the opportunity to boost favor, while looking at the Strict Father Shop.
[Lili Ya Approval +50%]
[Lili Ya Approval Full, gained Child Coin *2]
[Absolute Guardian, spend 2 Child Coins to purchase?]
[Yes]
The moment the purchase was complete, the adventure panel popped up with available nurturing character information.
There were thirteen characters total.
The other twelve were grayed out because approval hadn’t been maxed, so only Lili Ya’s character card could equip nurturing effects.
After equipping it on Lili Ya, the purchased effect did not disappear.
Like [Experience Sharing], it could be equipped on multiple characters repeatedly.
Li Si set her gaze on a more expensive nurturing effect in the Strict Father Shop.
[Rebate]: For each level difference between you and the nurturing target, you gain 1% all stats bonus (if the target is higher level than you, it becomes +2% all stats)
According to the setting that could be equipped repeatedly, if she had more nurturing targets, as long as she slightly controlled the level gap, she could far surpass adventurers of the same level.
This nurturing effect was currently the one that increased combat power the most in the Strict Father Shop, but the price was steep at 10 Child Coins.
Even if Lili Ya leveled up as fast as possible, it would probably take four or five days to farm it.
Li Si withdrew her gaze and looked ahead.
For now, she still needed to bring Lili Ya to level up faster.
“This is…”
Li Si’s gaze suddenly turned serious.
A little holy light particle drifted around them.
Those particles are arranged and combined, as if forming a guiding path.
She raised an eyebrow and decisively stepped forward, while teaching Lili Ya, who had finished venting, about the origin of this phenomenon.
“This is the Holy Light Mark, a unique spell of imperial mages. It seems the guild takes the anomaly in the low-level training area very seriously, and has sent Yi Li Sha Bai’s Honeysuckle party to investigate so quickly. Let’s go to the next level training area. This time, I’ll do the killing, and you handle your priest duties.”