As soon as Lin Mo stepped out of the classroom, he opened the Silver Chest on him.
[Ding! Acquired Tier 1 Time Fruit *1]
[Ding! Acquired All Attributes +2]
Two consecutive notifications sounded.
Lin Mo picked up the Time Fruit glowing green and swallowed it.
[Ding! Time +1 day!]
The time on Lin Mo's panel increased from 1.1 to 2.1.
One Time Coin represents one day.
In the Eternal Kingdom, time is both the "experience points" needed for evolution and the hard currency for transactions in the game.
For a Cursebearer like Lin Mo, time is especially crucial.
Cursebears experience time faster than ordinary Godblessed, and they require more "experience points" to level up.
[Experience points detected to be sufficient, would you like to use 8 hours to level up?]
The system upgrade prompt sounded.
"An hour more than the experience points needed in my past life?"
Lin Mo muttered to himself.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing. For a Cursebearer, the more time consumed in leveling up, the greater the potential.
In this life, he started with 10 attribute points awakening his abilities, indirectly boosting the potential value of [Cancer], naturally consuming more time to level up.
He directly chose [Yes].
[Ding! Consumed 8 hours to complete upgrade, All Attributes +1.]
[Ding! Consumed 16 hours to complete upgrade, All Attributes +1.]
[Ding! Consumed 24 hours to complete upgrade, All Attributes +1.]
After leveling up twice, the remaining time was insufficient to continue upgrading.
2.1 Time Coins could directly level up to Level 5 for other Godblessed, but for him, it only reached Level 4.
With the reward of [All Attributes +2], his Personal Panel changed:
[Lin Mo]
[Level: 4]
[Cancerization Total Value: 12]
[Time: 0.27]
[Strength: 5.6+6]
[Speed: 5.7]
[Constitution: 5.5]
[Spirit: 6.1]
...
Once the cancerization value of the upper limb reaches 10 points, simple aberrations can occur.
His right arm could already transform into simple bone sword and bone blade forms, but more complex forms required further cancerization value improvement.
The strength value of the right arm bone sword was nearly 16 points. If facing the BOSS Steelblade Nock Fiend from earlier, he wouldn't need to rely on other Godblessed.
It wouldn't take him long to cut it down.
"Roar! Roar!!"
Just as he was opening the chest, several Nock Fiends suddenly rushed out from the distant corridor, followed by more and more fiends pouring out from the classrooms, filling the corridors of the entire teaching building.
In a cleared classroom, there wouldn't be any remaining Nock Fiends. These fiends must have killed all the students in the classroom before emerging again.
Logically, the difficulty of the first three waves of the Novice Trial Beast Tide wasn't very high.
But these students, who lived in a greenhouse, even if they suddenly mastered great power, might not be able to use it in unexpected danger.
Classroom 208 was able to stabilize the situation quickly, not only because Wang Ze had a C-Rank God-given Talent, but crucially because Lin Mo took the initiative to kill the monsters, making most students realize the monsters weren't that scary, calming them down.
"Ahhh, help! I can't use my skills!"
Students fled through the classroom corridors.
Many had just gone through a fierce battle, exhausting their energy, and their talent skills were in cooldown.
Now facing hundreds of Nock Fiends in the corridor, even with one or two BOSSes mixed in, they were overwhelmed.
Screams and wails continuously echoed from the corridor.
Many students hurriedly shut the classroom doors, fearing more Nock Fiends would break in.
Lin Mo, however, did not retreat. Facing the attacking Nock Fiends, he wielded his bone sword, easily harvesting them.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
The sharp bone sword precisely decapitated each fiend, one sword per small fiend.
[Ding! Time +10min, Time +10min...]
However, Lin Mo's actions didn't attract much attention, as exclamations soon came from the other side of the corridor.
"God-given—Thunderfire!"
A massive explosion sounded at the end of the corridor.
The firelight engulfed dozens of small fiends, leaving a scene of dismembered bodies after the explosion.
Cheers erupted around.
"Damn, what an awesome area skill!"
"Who set off the bomb?"
"Who is that guy? His talent is terrifying, killing twenty or thirty small fiends at once, right?"
"Thunderfire? Sounds familiar, isn't that the talent of Yan Zhou, the big shot from the chat channel?"
"Yan Zhou is amazing! No wonder he's the Godblessed with the highest talent in our academy!"
"..."
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With Yan Zhou's help, the rampant small fiends in the corridor were quickly brought under control.
Lin Mo squinted at the battle in the corridor, choosing not to intervene, instead plunging his bone sword into the bodies in the corridor.
[Right Upper Limb Cancerization +0, +0, +0, +0.1...]
[Left Upper Limb Cancerization +0.1, 0.1, +0, +0.1...]
Compared to the left arm's cancerization value, the right arm's absorption progress was noticeably slower.
Sometimes several bodies might not even provide him with 0.1 cancerization value.
This is because each player's level-up is an evolution.
As the level of life increases, the threshold for absorbing cancerization value also rises.
At this point, absorbing low-level monster bodies naturally yields less cancerization value, or even none.
However, the numerous bodies in the corridor were enough for Lin Mo to continue absorbing.
"Splurt!"
He continued to plunge the bone sword into the bodies, rapidly "expiring" each still "fresh" body under his hand.
His blood absorption speed also increased, from two or three seconds before to less than a second now to drain a body.
As Lin Mo indulged in the joy of absorbing bodies, a sudden exclamation came.
"Oh my god, what are you doing, that's disgusting!"
A student covered their mouth, looking at him in horror.
Hearing the voice, many nearby turned their heads, just in time to see Lin Mo plunge the bone sword into a student's corpse, which was drained at a visible speed.
"Damn, a vampire!"
"Fuck! Is this some humanoid monster?"
"Hiss~!"
Many felt their scalps tingle, cold sweat streaming down.
The sight of blood continuously flowing up the bone sword gave them a massive shock.
Many instinctively thought Lin Mo was some kind of BOSS or monster.
This commotion also attracted Yan Zhou, who was clearing monsters along the way.
His pupils slightly contracted, clearly startled by the horrific scene.
What kind of operation is this?
He was about to speak when someone nearby already scolded, "What are you doing? Why are you touching our classmates!"
Others quickly came to their senses.
"Yeah, are you crazy!"
"What kind of lunatic is this? Even sucking people?"
For many, this scene was hard to accept.
Someone even stepped forward to dissuade, "Classmate, you must stop your actions immediately."
Lin Mo lifted his eyelids, glanced coldly at the person blocking him, and said:
"If you don't want to die, get lost."