Chapter 99

"Slime monsters are highly toxic, and you don't have strong ranged attack capabilities. I'll take care of these monsters," Liu Siyi said, looking down at the slime monsters. Directly killing over forty slime monsters should allow him to level up again, making him a low-level fifth-tier hero. Moreover, since the slime monsters are two tiers higher than him, he should be able to obtain a high-level skill.

As his strength grew, his mood naturally improved, but then he suddenly thought of a problem that made him have to reconsider carefully.

In the early stages, as long as someone leads, the leveling speed is very fast. However, once you reach a high tier, like the mantis, no matter how many small monsters you kill, it's uncertain when you will level up. It seems that to level up to the eighth tier and sense the power of the law, the task is arduous and the road is long. To truly level up to the tenth-tier deity, it's unknown when that will happen. Therefore, other worlds have become a necessary tool for rapid leveling. However, at least in this world, he needs to enhance his strength to the seventh tier.

The compressed lightning bomb struck down, not giving the slime monsters any chance to react, and a brilliant lightning snake exploded among the slime monsters.

If the slime monsters were hiding deep in the gold mine, using the advantage of the terrain to face the invaders, Liu Siyi would have no good strategy and could only rely on his strength to wear them down. But once they were exposed, the slime monsters' slug-like bodies, which contained a lot of water, mostly toxic, might be affected by the world's rule that water can conduct electricity. In this situation, he believed that one more lightning bomb would be enough to kill all the slime monsters.

Indeed, after the lightning dissipated, only black, hard, unknown substances remained. These were the remains of the slime monsters, whose bodies had been dried out by the lightning and then condensed.

"Master, these things are very precious materials," Lina said, looking at the remains of the slime monsters.

"Oh? They have such a use? I'll collect them later," Liu Siyi said, naturally thinking of the various uses of the materials after Lina's reminder.

"Wolf, are there any remaining slime monsters?" Why haven't I leveled up yet? Are there still some in the mine, or did some survive the lightning bomb?

"Lord, there shouldn't be any left. I'll go down and check. A few slime monsters are no longer a threat to me," Wolf said, nodding at Liu Siyi, and then patted the thunderbird to land.

"I surrender, please don't attack." As soon as Wolf landed, a high-pitched voice came from inside the mine entrance, making people feel as if they were being pierced. Then, a green elite slime monster, much smaller than a regular goblin and covered in bone spines, oozed out.

"Lord, what do you think?" Wolf didn't immediately agree to the slime monster's surrender but looked up to Liu Siyi for instructions.

"Why do you want to surrender?" Liu Siyi and his subordinates landed on the ground outside the mine, nodded to Wolf, and asked the slime monster.

"Powerful Lord, there are no more of my companions in the mine. Only I am still alive," the slime monster said in a pitiful tone, its voice still high-pitched, indicating that this was likely a characteristic of the slime monster race.

"What use are you alone?" Liu Siyi said casually.

"Great Lord, please don't kill me. I can do anything for you," the slime monster immediately prostrated on the ground, nodding rapidly, and pleaded anxiously, elevating its words from "powerful" to "great."

Liu Siyi hadn't expected such a strong reaction to his casual words.

"Keeping me is very useful. I can detect the presence of toxins and absorb various toxins. As long as I am here, you will never be harmed by toxins," the slime monster said, seeing that Liu Siyi hadn't immediately killed it.

"Oh? You can absorb toxins?" Liu Siyi asked.

"Yes, Great Lord," the slime monster looked up, gazing hopefully at Liu Siyi, who could decide its fate.

"Very well, I'll temporarily take you in. Your first task is to clear the toxic gas in the mine. This shouldn't be a problem for you, right?" Liu Siyi accepted the slime monster's surrender through a mental link and gave it its first order.

The battle ended, and the evolution power spheres flooded into Liu Siyi's body, shining with a golden light. He finally leveled up again, becoming a low-level fifth-tier hero.

The transformation, which was initially painful but then sweet, increased his mental strength by 30% and his physical strength by a certain amount. The evolution power then fused into two high-level skills: Advanced Spatial Magic and Advanced Magic Power Recovery.

Advanced Spatial Magic Skill: +60% power of spatial magic, -60% mana cost for using spatial magic.

Advanced Magic Power Recovery Skill: +150% mental power recovery speed, +150% mana recovery speed.

Without much thought, Liu Siyi directly selected the Advanced Spatial Magic skill. Whether it's a dimensional door, lightning time tunnel, or teleportation, this would immediately bring a qualitative improvement to spatial magic. As for the recovery skill, it only restores mental and mana power. If it were like the high-level holy energy of the previous high-level light magic, which increased all recovery by 300%, it would be worth considering.

At the low-level fifth tier, Liu Siyi's skills are as follows:

Talent: Spatial Constitution, one of the hero's special constitutions, allowing the perception, traversal, and fusion of space.

Advanced Wisdom: Can learn and use 1-5 level magic, expanding the range of mastered magic skills to 300 meters.

Basic Alchemy: Sacrifice a certain amount of gold and resources to obtain 1st and 2nd tier puppet troops.

Advanced Reconnaissance: Reconnoiter enemy conditions, view the abilities of the opposing hero.

Reconnaissance range increased threefold (each level of reconnaissance skill increases the range by one fold).

Intermediate Intelligence: +40% mental strength.

Advanced Luck: +3 to the luck of all allied troops.

Advanced Mental Magic: +60% power of mental magic, -60% mana cost for using mental magic; -30% minimum mental power consumption for using any magic.

Advanced Light Magic: +60% power of light magic, -60% mana cost for using light magic.

Advanced Lightning Magic: +60% power of lightning magic, -60% mana cost for using lightning magic.

Advanced Adamantine Body: Passive skill, +30% to all physical attributes, +30% defense, +300% health.

Advanced Spatial Magic: +60% power of spatial magic, -60% mana cost for using spatial magic.

Possessed treasures:

Monocular Telescope: 1st tier treasure, +1 to hero's vision range.

Gold Bag: +500 gold per day.

Black Courage Medal: 1st tier treasure, +1 to morale (ineffective for non-biological units).

Magic Scroll: Flight Ban: 3rd tier treasure, 3rd tier wind magic, bans the flight ability of flying troops and those with the flight spell.

Gambler's Card: 1st tier treasure, +1 luck to all allied troops.

Dwarf King's Rune Warhammer: 3rd tier treasure, +15 to hero's melee attack, +10% to all allied troops' melee attack, +10% to all allied troops' magic defense.

Damaged Guardian Cloak: 1st tier treasure, +10% to hero's magic defense.

Movement Gloves: 1st tier treasure, +5% to all allied troops' movement speed.

Dwarf Armor: 2nd tier treasure, +15 to hero's melee and ranged defense, -1 to hero's movement speed.

Magic Staff: 3rd tier treasure, +50% to hero's magic attack damage.

Night Pendant: 2nd tier treasure, grants hero night vision (already submitted to the witch lord).

Amplification Horn: 1st tier treasure, +1 to sound transmission range.

Four-Leaf Clover: 1st tier treasure, +1 luck to all allied troops.

Magic Ring: 1st tier treasure, +10% to hero's magic attack.

Snake Fang Sword: 2nd tier treasure, +10 to melee attack, with a poisoning attribute.

Ghost Card: 3rd tier treasure, can transform into a ghost and possess all ghost abilities, each transformation costs 200 gold. Note: During the transformation, the original abilities cannot be used.

Unit Sealing Crystal: 4th tier treasure.

Crystal Tier: 7th tier.

Seals a unit of up to 7th tier, allowing the hero to recruit a sealed unit for 1 crystal + the original price of the unit per week. Currently, no units are sealed, and recruitment is not possible.

Unit Sealing Crystal: 4th tier treasure.

Crystal Tier: 7th tier Mantis Sealing Crystal.

Allows the hero to recruit a mantis for 2500 gold + 1 sapphire + 1 crystal per week. Current mantis count: 1/1.

Skeleton Ring: 4th tier treasure, Heart of Fear, enemies hit by physical attacks suffer a 20% reduction in all attributes due to fear, cannot attack, and have a 50% chance to flee. Note: Only effective against biological units.

Mutated Essence: 4th tier treasure, refined from the blood of a mutated two-headed dragon lord, usage count: 1/1.

When used by a living being, one of its attributes is randomly enhanced by the attributes of the mutated two-headed dragon lord.

When used on a unit building, limited to 1-7 tier unit buildings, it ensures a 100% chance to recruit a mutated unit from the building each week.

(PS: Many books list all the data when the protagonist levels up, which not only adds to the word count but also gives readers a clear understanding of the protagonist's strength. I admit that I didn't do this well before, which might have made it difficult for readers to fully understand the protagonist's strength. Therefore, I will list all the skills, magic, and troops the protagonist has each time they level up... but after some thought, I decided to only list the more important ones, and the rest you can just be aware of.)

Recalling the skills he had, Liu Siyi realized that he didn't have the most common wind, fire, water, and earth magic skills, which he found quite intriguing.