novelraw Chapter 344: Snow Mountain Mission, Millennium Cold Cavern, Abyss of the Ice Cavern?
Chapter 344: Snow Mountain Mission, Millennium Cold Cavern, Abyss of the Ice Cavern?
After looking around the room for a while and confirming there were no suspicious spots, Lin Mo led everyone back to their home within the Portable Space.
He hadn't used the Essence Blood Serums purchased earlier yet. Returning to his room, Lin Mo immediately took out those serums and drank them one by one.
As the Essence Blood Serums entered his stomach, the Qi and Blood within his body surged continuously, and his Strength, Agility, and Constitution attributes all received significant growth.
The Warrior profession naturally rose to level 20.
"Universal promotion conditions met. Profession Warrior (lv19) promoted — Current profession Warrior (lv20)."
"Profession attribute enhancement obtained: Strength +14, Constitution +7, Agility +7!"
The Assassin and Ranger professions both rose by 2 levels, reaching level 19.
"Universal promotion conditions met. Profession Assassin (lv17) promoted — Current profession Assassin (lv18)."
"Profession attribute enhancement obtained: Strength +6, Constitution +4, Agility +12!"
"Universal promotion conditions met. Profession Assassin (lv18) promoted — Current profession Assassin (lv19).""Profession attribute enhancement obtained: Strength +6, Constitution +4, Agility +14!"
"Universal promotion conditions met. Profession Ranger...
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Finally, there was the Knight profession. After drinking the Essence Blood Serum, it also gained 40 points in base Constitution. However, base Constitution was still considered his weak point, only at 253 points. It rose from the original level 15 to level 17.
"Universal promotion conditions met. Profession Knight (lv15) promoted — Current profession Knight (lv16)."
"Profession attribute enhancement obtained: Strength +4, Constitution +14, Agility +2!"
"Universal promotion conditions met. Profession Knight (lv16) promoted — Current profession Knight (lv17)."
"Profession attribute enhancement obtained: Strength +5, Constitution +14, Agility +3!"
Lin Mo's status panel received another very significant upgrade.
Now, his status panel had changed to:
【Name】: Lin Mo
【Professions】: Warrior lv20, Knight lv17, Assassin lv19, Mage lv20, Priest lv20, Ranger lv19 (Paladin lv1, Spellsword lv1)
【Attributes】:
Strength: 329 (+374=703)
Agility: 291(+442=733)
Constitution: 253(+384=637)
Spirit: 47 (+219=266)
Mana: 327 (+343=670)
Fire Elemental Affinity: 43%+26%=57.82% (after attenuation)
Ice Elemental Affinity: 42%+12.5%=49.25% (after attenuation)
Lightning Elemental Affinity: 42%
Earth Elemental Affinity: 26%
Wind Elemental Affinity: 26%
Water Elemental Affinity: 26%
Light Elemental Affinity: 44%
Now, Agility had become his highest attribute, no longer a weakness.
A whopping 733 points in Agility, that was already the level of a level 24 agility-based Professional!
His other attributes like Strength and Constitution also far exceeded the entry standard for ordinary Transcendent Level Professionals, and were over a hundred points higher!
Coupled with various "aboveboard" methods, even a level 25 opponent in front of him was nothing more than a larger speed bump.
After admiring it for a short while, Lin Mo closed the status panel.
It was time for the daily grind...
"Skill 【Dual Cultivation】 Lv4 (100/100) leveled up!"
"Current skill 【Dual Cultivation】 Lv5 (1/180)."
It leveled up again.
Currently, 【Dual Cultivation】 was an Exceptional-Grade skill, with a maximum level cap of 7.
He wondered what new effects it would have after leveling up again?
During this period, as Lin Mo's number of skills greatly expanded, the skills everyone learned through the 【Dual Cultivation】 skill also increased, and their improvement speed became faster and faster.
Ellie had already reached level 17, while Finnie and Sherfilia had risen to level 15!
Lena's Mana level had reached level 11, the standard for an Elite Level adventurer!
Because Eve had borrowed someone else's turns before and had been repaying them lately, her progress was slightly slower. But she was already firmly at level 12 and beginning to progress towards level 13.
This improvement speed was enough to match several months of arduous cultivation for her!
Moreover, the increase in the number of skills also made their practical combat abilities stronger.
Coupled with a more comprehensive panel compared to other Professionals, although Ellie was only level 17, she was enough to match wrists with level 19 or even level 20 Professionals.
Early the next morning, the Adventurers' Association was downstairs. Lin Mo went downstairs and arrived at the association hall. Because he woke up very early today, there were still very few people. He came to the mission wall, carefully considered for a while, and finally selected eight missions in one go.
Seven of them were extermination missions: three C-rank, three B-rank, one A-rank. The last one was an investigation-type mission, also A-rank.
The three C-rank extermination missions were all in the snow mountain area, while the B-rank and A-rank mission targets were all within a Secret Realm.
That's right, within this Frostbreath Snow Mountain, there existed a Secret Realm, and a very stable one at that. It had been discovered for over ten years now.
This Secret Realm was called the "Millennium Cold Cavern", a small to medium-sized Secret Realm, classified as A- rank.
Most of the missions Lin Mo accepted were within this Secret Realm.
【Snow Mountain Phantom】
Mission Number: B8824
Type: Extermination
Client: Adventurers' Association
Reward: 24,000 Gold Coins + Material Recovery (Optional)
Mission Brief: Within the depth range of 40-60 kilometers of the "Millennium Cold Cavern" Secret Realm in Frostbreath Snow Mountain, a dangerous magical creature has recently appeared, causing the deaths of dozens of adventurers. Please go search for and kill it.
Note: Based on current intelligence, the magical creature is suspected to be the high-level Lord Level creature "Phantom Snow Fox". Threat level is temporarily set at 17-19. Please carefully consider accepting based on your own strength!
This was the most difficult one among the three B-rank extermination missions, so the mission note specifically reminded caution when accepting. A depth of 30-40 kilometers was considered a relatively deep area of the Secret Realm, but compared to that A-rank mission, it still fell short.
【Mountain Colossus】
Mission Number: A491
Type: Extermination
Client: Adventurers' Association
Reward: 120,000 Gold Coins + Material Recovery (Optional)
Mission Brief: Within the depth range of 75-90 kilometers of the "Millennium Cold Cavern" Secret Realm in Frostbreath Snow Mountain, Ice Attribute Mountain Giants have been appearing, causing serious obstacles to Secret Realm exploration operations. The Association seeks capable individuals to go and subdue them!
Note: Target is extremely dangerous! Target is extremely dangerous!!! Based on current intelligence, the Mountain Giant threat level is 26-28. Please proceed with utmost caution!
That's right, the target of this A-rank extermination mission was also Lin Mo's goal for this trip—the Mountain Giant.
This saved him a lot of trouble, and he didn't need to investigate information about Mountain Giants anymore.
Perhaps because he had made several huge windfalls in a short period recently, Lin Mo now felt that the rewards for B-rank or even A-rank missions seemed a bit... mediocre.
However, the missions he selected this time were actually considered relatively high-reward ones for their respective ranks.
One could only say, it's easy to go from frugality to luxury, but hard to go from luxury back to frugality...
As for the last A-rank investigation mission, Lin Mo accepted it partly because his curiosity was piqued.
【Abyss of the Ice Cavern】
Mission Number: A754
Type: Exploration
Client: Adventurers' Association
Reward: 180,000 Gold Coins
Mission Brief: Within the depth range of 90-100 kilometers of the "Millennium Cold Cavern" Secret Realm, there exists a bizarre deep valley. This deep valley often appears suddenly and disappears suddenly. A Heroic Realm adventurer once attempted to explore it and rashly entered the Middle Zone of the deep valley, but was forced back by a powerful cold aura and pressure, nearly perishing within! After returning, this Heroic Realm adventurer forgot all information related to the deep valley, and once someone mentions the deep valley, they fall into a state of extreme terror.
Enter the 90-100 kilometer depth range of the Secret Realm, check if the deep valley has opened, and attempt to explore the shallow areas of the deep valley.
Note: Mission danger coefficient is extremely high!
Bizarre, mysterious, and interesting...
This was Lin Mo's impression of this mission.
A deep valley that appears and disappears suddenly—what is the reason and logic behind its appearance and disappearance?
And what exactly is it that could make an adventurer with Heroic Realm strength nearly fail, and even forget all memories, suffering from severe PTSD?
What secrets are hidden within that deep valley?
If it were before, even if Lin Mo was interested, he wouldn't have chosen to rashly go investigate. But now, with reliable life-preserving methods, he could go investigate a bit.
Of course, he still had to maintain sufficient caution. Once something seemed wrong, he would immediately hide in the space, then find an opportunity to Flash and escape.
Lin Mo had already devised a nearly perfect escape method—
Flash to escape, then immediately hide in the space, the moment he comes out, use Flash again to change location, immediately enter the space again after flashing, and so on.
After all, entering the Portable Space had no cooldown. Unless someone could directly and precisely locate his Portable Space and forcibly break it, there was no way to deal with him.
With this set of methods, facing potential opportunities, Lin Mo gained the confidence to take a gamble.
After selecting the missions, Lin Mo took the torn-off mission list and came to the counter of the Adventurers' Association.
Because it was relatively early, and because the missions Lin Mo accepted included high-difficulty B-rank and even A-rank missions, he went to the counter for the high-difficulty mission section. The number of adventurers coming here to accept and submit missions wasn't high, so there was no need to queue at all.
Soon, the Adventurers' Association Counter Lady completed the mission registration. Lin Mo turned and left the association with everyone, heading all the way outside the Royal Capital.
Around 9 AM, they appeared outside the city gate on the north side of the Royal Capital.
Frostbreath Snow Mountain was still quite a distance from the Royal Capital. Next, it would be several more days of travel.
There was no helping it; such was the adventurer's life... more than half the time was spent traveling, something no one could avoid.
Even Heroic Realm adventurers were the same.
At most, they used faster means of transportation, saving some time.
Or if the distance wasn't too far, some speed-type adventurers would choose to travel on foot directly, which would be faster.
Fortunately, travel life now was no longer so dull and exhausting, but relaxed and pleasant.
As usual, Lin Mo meditated for a while, then continued expanding the Portable Space.
When he got tired, he would simply slump on the sofa. Naturally, someone would help massage and relax him, and there was no shortage of people serving tea and water, feeding fresh fruit to his mouth.
Traveling on the main roads of the Lonia Primary Kingdom, one basically wouldn't encounter many magical creatures.
Only in the later days, after leaving the Official Road and going into the outskirts, would they need to clear out magical creatures from time to time.
Time flew by, and soon another four days passed.
Lin Mo ended his meditation, slowly exhaling a turbid breath.
Checking the proficiency progress of 【Intermediate Meditation Technique】, it had reached Lv2 (29/40). In a while, it would reach level 3, and he would obtain the base attribute points.
As for the Portable Space...
He had a lot of free time these past few days. Lin Mo spent great effort on it, with remarkable results.
Now, the size of the Portable Space had been expanded to 40×150×150, three to four times larger than before!
As the saying goes, the speed or efficiency of spatial expansion grows exponentially. The further along, the faster the expansion speed.
Now, Lena's experimental field was completely large enough. The Cat-eared girl was busy every day and couldn't handle more. She didn't need more space in the short term.
The space for the house they lived in was also sufficient. Continuing to expand would instead make it feel empty and uncomfortable to live in.
After expanding the warehouse several times in a row, the items stored inside now didn't even use one-tenth of the space.
So, with the remaining space, Lin Mo began arranging scenery.
First, he enclosed a large courtyard outside the house, planted ornamental plants inside, added a large swimming pool, and a place specifically for camping and barbecuing.
In more distant areas, once the space got a bit larger, Lin Mo planned to first create a small forest and raise some animals inside.
In short, this space was becoming more and more like a small world.
Lin Mo looked at the results of his efforts during this period with satisfaction, then with a thought, appeared in the carriage.
The next moment, the Ice Bow appeared in his hand. Lin Mo drew the bow, nocked an arrow, and casually shot.
A sharp arrow streaked across the sky, accurately landing several hundred meters away. Accompanied by a short, sharp scream, proficiency points directly entered his account.
The number of magical creatures encountered these past few days wasn't as many as expected, so progress in skills wasn't huge.
But a few Excellent-Grade skills had risen to Exceptional-Grade, among which there were one or two quite useful ones. Although they couldn't serve as the main force against powerful enemies, they were very suitable for daily clearing of these not-so-high-level magical creatures.
Because they were traveling, the skills that leveled up were still mainly Ranger profession skills. At this time, Lin Mo's base Agility attribute had reached 301 points. The Assassin and Ranger professions had also risen to level 20, only one step away from Transcendent Level.
When they universally promoted to Elite Level before, these two professions leveled up simultaneously but didn't obtain any special professions.
He wondered how it would be this time?
Thinking of this, Lin Mo suddenly had a bold idea.
Since the progress was about the same anyway, why not simply have four professions... or even include the Knight profession, have all professions universally promote together?
This way, there might be a greater chance of obtaining special professions.
The bonuses given by special professions were still considerable. They were already significant when universally promoting to Elite Level; universally promoting to Transcendent Level would only be more exaggerated.
Hmm, happily decided.
If that were the case, then the currently lagging Knight profession would need to put in more effort...