[Level: 4 (99.00%)]
Lin Moyu glanced at his status panel.
One more step—and he would level up again.
Around him, thirteen Skeleton Warriors roamed the perimeter like tireless reapers, their blades flashing as monsters fell one after another. Experience flowed in steadily, without pause.
Compared to the previous level, this breakthrough had come even faster.
From start to finish, it had taken less than fifty minutes.
"The number of skeleton warriors has increased."
"The monster density is higher."
"And the speed of killing hasn't slowed down at all."
Lin Moyu calmly analyzed the situation.
This was precisely why his leveling speed was not decreasing—but accelerating instead.
He had already reached the depths of the novice dungeon. Level 6 and level 7 monsters were everywhere, packed densely together.
Only one thing remained untouched—
The level 8 monster, the final existence of the dungeon.
Skeleton Warriors moved like mechanical harvesters, cleaving through enemies without fatigue, emotion, or hesitation.
The only regret was that monsters in the novice dungeon dropped nothing.
After all, this place existed purely to help new professionals adapt to real combat. It was fundamentally different from the wild.
Here, nearly all monsters were weakened overall.
Only the level 8 monster was an exception.
It retained the same strength it would have in the wild.
This was intentional.
By the time a professional reached level 8, they were expected to have enough combat experience. Before leaving the novice dungeon, they would face a real monster—unchanged, unweakened—so that the transition to the wild wouldn't catch them completely off guard.
With a flash of light, a pillar of brilliance erupted around Lin Moyu.
Level up.
He had reached Level 5.
His attributes increased. His skills improved.
And once again, the Skeleton Warriors grew stronger—
Each of their attributes surged upward by another 100 points.
[Kill level 7 brown bear, EXP +70]
[Kill level 7 brown bear, EXP +70]
The Skeleton Warriors didn't slow down in the slightest after the level-up.
They continued their relentless slaughter, blades rising and falling with perfect efficiency.
From the moment Lin Moyu had entered the dungeon, they had never stopped moving.
"…The leveling speed has slowed."
Lin Moyu noticed the change immediately.
Before level 5, killing a level 7 brown bear granted roughly 0.2% experience.
Five hundred kills meant another level.
Now?
Each kill gave only 0.1% experience.
That meant a thousand kills per level.
The required effort had doubled.
"At this pace, ordinary professionals have almost no chance of reaching level 12 in a single week."
"Even if they leave the dungeon and go to the outskirts of Xihai City, time alone isn't enough."
"Xia Jing Academy really is brutal…"
Lin Moyu frowned slightly.
He knew that to qualify for Xia Jing Academy, level 12 was the minimum.
To reach level 12 in one week, a professional had to:
Reach level 8 within three days in the novice dungeon
Then move to the outskirts of Xihai City
Hunt higher-level monsters nonstop
Only then was it even possible.
Thinking of this, Lin Moyu couldn't help but marvel again.
"My sister reached level 16 last year…"
"That speed is absurd."
He shook his head.
Without hesitation, Lin Moyu activated his skill again, spending his remaining mental power.
Three more Skeleton Warriors rose from the summoning vortex.
Sixteen Skeleton Warriors.
Sixteen tireless executioners.
For Lin Moyu, the bottleneck was no longer killing monsters—
It was finding them.
But splitting the workload across sixteen summons?
Killing a thousand monsters was nothing more than a matter of time.
"At most an hour."
"I'll be level 6."
Lin Moyu continued forward.
The Skeleton Warriors swept ahead, cutting through tall grass and flushing out monsters hiding beneath it.
Before long, the terrain began to change.
The endless grassland gave way to towering trees.
A forest stood before him.
Lin Moyu's eyes narrowed.
"This is it."
"The end of the novice dungeon."
The final level 8 monster was hidden somewhere within this forest.
"It's been six hours and forty-two minutes since entering the dungeon."
"Less than seven hours…"
"And I'm already here."
At this moment, most professionals were probably still level 3.
Even Xia Xue would be lucky to be level 4 by now.
Lin Moyu was certain of one thing—
No one was leveling faster than him.
He stepped forward, following his Skeleton Warriors into the forest.
He wanted to see it.
The unweakened level 8 monster.
He needed to know whether his Skeleton Warriors could handle it—
And to prepare himself for the wild tomorrow.
The Skeleton Warriors entered first, blades raised.
Branches snapped as they moved.
But—
Nothing appeared.
"No monster?"
Lin Moyu frowned and followed them in.
The instant he crossed the forest's boundary—
A thick branch snapped down from above, whipping through the air like a lightning-fast lash.
It struck Lin Moyu directly.
Yet—
He felt nothing.
No pain.
No impact.
No sensation at all.
It was as if an invisible barrier had absorbed everything.
Passive Skill: Damage Transfer.
All damage he took was automatically transferred to his summons.
As long as even one summon remained alive—
Lin Moyu could not be harmed.
A true god-tier passive.
Even compared to his god-level talent, it was only slightly inferior.
Lin Moyu's gaze sharpened.
"So this is what an unweakened monster feels like…"
Then he smiled faintly.
"Good."
"Let's see what else you can do."