Chapter Summaries

Lin Mo and the Charging Bull Squad returned to Roland Town after a profitable journey, fighting off repeated Goblin attacks along the way. Lin Mo raised several skills, and the squad reached town prepared to rest before considering a possible Rescue Order.

• The Charging Bull Squad set off for home with backpacks full of loot and discussed the growing Goblin population and a possible Rescue Order from the Association.
• Lin Mo repeatedly rushed ahead to kill Goblins, surprising the squad with his speed and eagerness to fight.
• After more than a day on the road, the squad left the forest, while Lin Mo raised Stealth to Level 5 and trained Tenacity and Shield Bash.
• The squad returned to Roland Town in the afternoon and entered the Association as wary laborers watched them from the streets.

Lin Mo and the Charging Bull Squad turned in their missions and earned a large reward, with Lin Mo receiving the biggest share for his contribution. After lunch, the squad disbanded to rest until their next mission in five days, while Lin Mo planned to visit Edgar’s shop and seek help from one of Alston’s professional contacts.

• Alston turned in the Earth Bear hide, and Edgar paid 50 Gold Coins for it, bringing the squad’s trip earnings to 90 Gold Coins and 73 Silver Coins.
• Lin Mo and Ally turned in their missions and received rewards and materials worth 40 Gold Coins and 73 Silver Coins.
• Alston divided the squad’s earnings, assigning Lin Mo a 30 percent share for his work during the mission.
• Lin Mo reflected on how to spend his savings and decided to visit Edgar’s shop to check on the dagger made from the Tattooed Cat Demon claws.
• Lin Mo asked Alston whether he knew a professional who could help with something, and the squad agreed to rest until their next mission in five days.

Lin Mo trained Tenacity by hiring professionals to spar with him, raising the skill and his Constitution while Alston recruited unsuspecting friends as sparring partners. After three days, Lin Mo’s Tenacity reached Level 5, and he expected to become a Knight once he raised it further.

• Lin Mo asked Parn to punch and spar with him, gaining Tenacity proficiency and raising his Constitution to 9 base points.
• After Parn refused to keep training, Lin Mo paid the church for Healing Spells and asked Alston to find another professional sparring partner.
• Alston tricked Marlo into taking the job by having Parn praise its easy pay, and Lin Mo welcomed Marlo as his new sparring partner.
• Over three days, Alston recruited six friends for Lin Mo’s training, and Lin Mo raised Tenacity to Level 5 with 92/180 proficiency.
• Lin Mo decided his training could soon raise Tenacity to Level 6 and advance him to the Knight Profession, then headed to Edgar’s shop.

Lin Mo bought two daggers from Edgar, then completed his sparring sessions and maxed out Tenacity. The resulting attribute gains and new Knight profession greatly increased his Constitution, and he prepared to inspect his new skill.

• Lin Mo bargained with Edgar and bought two daggers for 23 Gold Coins.
• Lin Mo finished his final sparring session against Alston and gained the last point of Tenacity proficiency he needed.
• Lin Mo maxed out Tenacity, gained 6 Constitution, and unlocked the Toughness skill.
• Lin Mo met the requirements for the Knight profession and received its attribute amplification and the Knight's Heart skill.
• Lin Mo checked his status panel and saw that his Constitution had risen to 21.

Lin Mo gained the Knight's Heart and chose a retaliation effect for his new Toughness skill. At the Adventurer's Guild, he and Alston's team decided to take the Association's Goblin Rescue Order, with Falling Leaf Village listed as the current emergency area.

• Lin Mo received Knight's Heart, which reduced physical damage taken by 10%, and marveled at how much his defense had increased.
• Lin Mo chose Retaliation I for Toughness, allowing it to reflect 40% of the damage the skill reduced back at an attacker.
• Lin Mo arrived at the Adventurer's Guild and found Alston and the others reviewing missions.
• Alston considered the Rescue Order as the team weighed its options, and Lin Mo reviewed its base pay, Goblin bounties, and mission-completion rewards.
• Lin Mo and Alston exchanged a glance and nodded, deciding to take the Rescue Order.

Eunice learned that Jim had been found and sent him away from the Lord's Mansion under watch, while Lin Mo and the Charging Bull Squad traveled to Falling Leaf Village to answer a rescue mission. The journey stopped when Goblins blocked the road, but Lin Mo swiftly cut them down.

• Rall reported that the young man who claimed the Mutated Goblin reward had been found at the Adventurer's Guild, and Eunice said someone else would handle him.
• Jim left the Lord's Mansion in disguise by climbing over a side wall, unaware that a woman watched him go.
• Lin Mo and the Charging Bull Squad set out by carriage for Falling Leaf Village with other adventurers who had accepted the rescue mission.
• Alston encouraged Ally to sit beside Lin Mo, and Ally eagerly joined him outside the carriage.
• Parn stopped when Goblins blocked the road, but Lin Mo rushed past and cut them apart with two flashes of his sword.

Lin Mo and the adventurers reached Falling Leaf Village as Goblins attacked and fought their way through the devastated streets. Lin Mo rescued a girl from several Goblins, but found her father dead in their ruined hut.

• Lin Mo’s Cross Slash reached Level 5 after he killed Goblins on the road.
• Lin Mo and the adventurers spotted Goblins attacking Falling Leaf Village and rushed to help.
• Lin Mo and an assassin killed the Goblins surrounding a group of young villagers, then learned that the village was under attack from other directions.
• The adventurers split up to enter the village while Carson sent injured villagers for treatment.
• Lin Mo killed Goblins assaulting a girl and discovered her father dead beside the wreckage of their hut.

Lin Mo and the adventurers fought to protect Falling Leaf Village as a massive Goblin invasion overwhelmed its defenders. With Harek missing and the exhausted fighters still surrounded, the battle remained unresolved.

• Lin Mo saved a girl from Goblins, sent her running, and continued searching for villagers in need of help.
• Lin Mo encountered scenes of villagers sacrificing themselves or facing the Goblin attack, while he saved some and found others dead.
• Parn, Marlo, and the other adventurers discussed the growing horde, and Alston concluded that an intelligent Goblin was directing it.
• Harek left the fighting to circle behind the Goblins and search for their commander.
• The villagers and adventurers continued fighting through the night as Goblins kept arriving and the defenders grew exhausted.
• Alston worried that Harek had not returned after nearly twenty minutes, and the adventurers wondered whether a Goblin Spellcaster had stopped him.

Lin Mo went behind the Goblin army to confirm whether a Goblin Spellcaster was directing the attack on Falling Leaf Village. After finding the badly wounded Harek and learning the enemy’s strength, Lin Mo circled toward the army’s flank to hunt Goblins and improve his Stealth.

• Lin Mo decided to investigate the Goblin army’s rear despite Alston and Ally warning him about the danger.
• Lin Mo slipped through the darkness and found Harek wounded and hiding in the forest.
• Harek told Lin Mo that a Goblin Spellcaster had cursed him while guarded by three adult and five subadult Mutated Goblins.
• Lin Mo left Harek to recover and checked his Stealth proficiency, which was close to leveling up.
• Lin Mo circled to the Goblin army’s flank and prepared to hunt Goblins for proficiency.

Lin Mo maxed out Stealth, became an Assassin, and gained the Concealment skill before launching a surprise attack on the Goblin Spellcaster Zorn. Zorn survived behind a magical barrier, leaving Lin Mo facing the protected spellcaster and its Mutated Goblins.

• Lin Mo raised Stealth to its maximum level, gained Agility, and advanced to the Assassin class, receiving Assassin's Heart.
• Stealth evolved into Concealment, which let Lin Mo vanish briefly and strengthen his next physical attack; he chose to extend its duration.
• Lin Mo headed toward the rear of the Goblin army, where Zorn guarded several captured young women behind Mutated Goblins.
• Lin Mo struck Zorn with Cross Slash, but Zorn sensed the danger and raised a force field that weakened the attack and left it wounded rather than dead.
• Zorn's Mutated Goblins shielded it as Lin Mo recognized it as the Goblin Spellcaster Harek had mentioned.

Lin Mo killed Zorn, rescued the captive girls, and fought the Goblins while Falling Leaf Village’s defenders struggled to hold their ground. After Alston ordered a retreat at the end of five minutes, Carson spotted the Goblin rear falling into chaos.

• Zorn used Slow Spell against Lin Mo, but Lin Mo escaped the curse, pursued him, and killed him with a concealed attack.
• Lin Mo defeated several Mutated Goblins, rescued the bound girls, and brought them to Harek before returning to fight the Goblin army.
• At Falling Leaf Village, the exhausted defenders suffered heavy losses while Alston and the adventurers debated whether to retreat.
• Alston gave the group five more minutes to hold the line, then ordered everyone to prepare to retreat.
• Carson noticed that the Goblin army’s rear was falling into chaos.

Lin Mo returned after killing the Goblin Spellcaster, causing the Goblin army to rout and saving Falling Leaf Village. After the villagers thanked the adventurers and everyone settled in for the night, a sleepy Ally slipped into Lin Mo’s bed, while his uneasy feeling about the crisis remained unexplained.

• Carson spotted the Goblins losing their formation, and the adventurers and villagers kept fighting until the enemy rout began.
• Ally caught Lin Mo’s familiar scent and ran to meet him, then checked him for injuries while he awkwardly tried to redirect her attention.
• Lin Mo told Alston and Carson that he had killed the Goblin Spellcaster, though several Mutated Goblins had escaped and Harek was recovering from his injuries.
• The villagers tended to the wounded and thanked the adventurers, who were given places to rest after the battle.
• Lin Mo fell into a deep sleep, and Ally entered his room in the middle of the night and lay down beside him.

Lin Mo and the Charging Bull Squad received a village chief’s request to rescue more than fifty girls kidnapped by the Goblins. Drawn by an ice Spell Scroll offered as payment, Lin Mo accepted the dangerous mission and set out with Alston and Ally.

• Lin Mo woke to find Ally sleeping beside him, and she explained that she had gotten lost and come to his room after being frightened for his safety.
• At the village chief’s house, the village chief gave Alston the squad’s completed mission document and asked them to rescue the missing girls, including his granddaughter.
• The village chief offered the villagers’ savings and an ancestral Spell Scroll as payment, and Lin Mo recognized that the scroll contained ice magic.
• Lin Mo agreed to the rescue mission, while injured Carson and Rick stayed behind and Soran was told to return with them.
• Alston arranged for the others to take the carriage home, then prepared to depart with Lin Mo and Ally.

Lin Mo, Alston, and Ally searched the forest for the Goblin nest before Fok and his Blood Sea Gang squad ambushed them. Lin Mo killed two Profession user attackers, while a blond young man watched from a tree branch as Fok charged him again.

• Ally tracked the Goblins’ scent as Alston and Lin Mo searched for their nest and considered how they might rescue the captive girls.
• Lin Mo sensed an ambush and struck at Fok, while Alston and Fok exchanged blows.
• A Ranger fired at Lin Mo, who split the arrow, then dodged Fok’s skill and wounded him with sword energy.
• Lin Mo used Concealment to kill the hidden Assassin and then the Ranger, leaving Fok to fight him alone.
• Fok charged Lin Mo again as a blond young man in platinum-colored armor watched from a tree branch.

Lin Mo and his companions defeated Fok’s group, but Jim ambushed Lin Mo with magic and nearly killed him. Flora arrived, killed Jim, healed the survivors, and questioned Lin Mo about the scroll; his account suggested the Mutated Goblin’s nest had been deliberately staged to lead him to it.

• Lin Mo killed Fok, while Ally helped Alston defeat their opponent, and the group rested before continuing the rescue mission.
• Jim appeared and impaled Lin Mo with an ice spell stored in a Magic Crystal, then attacked him and his companions.
• Ally wounded Jim while protecting Lin Mo, but Jim injured her and resumed his assault on Lin Mo.
• Flora arrived, shielded Lin Mo, and killed Jim with flames after learning he had acted on Eunice’s orders.
• Flora healed Lin Mo, Alston, and Ally, then questioned Lin Mo about the scroll from St. Antonia Academy.
• Lin Mo explained that he found the scroll in a Mutated Goblin’s unusually orderly nest, which suggested someone had staged it.

Flora and Lin Mo concluded that Baron Lar and the Lawrence Family had likely covered up a student's murder, and Flora planned to investigate while helping Alston reach safety. They rescued the captured girls from the Goblin nest, where Ally's newly awakened ice talent helped her fight and Lin Mo finished off the remaining Mutated Goblins.

• Flora agreed to escort Alston out of Lawrence territory and investigate the suspected murder from Silver Creek City.
• Flora joined Lin Mo and the Charging Bull Squad to clear the Goblin nest and rescue the village chief's commission targets.
• Flora used fire magic to rout the Goblins while Alston, Ally, and Lin Mo entered the cave and fought the Mutated Goblins.
• Ally revealed ice power from her Ice Wolf bloodline and officially advanced to become a professional.
• Lin Mo killed the remaining Mutated Goblins, and the group freed the unharmed girls from their cages.
• Ally pulled the grateful girls away from Lin Mo and shielded him from them.

After returning from the rescue mission, Lin Mo and the Charging Bull Squad settled their affairs in Roland Town and departed for Silver Creek City, while Flora helped repel pursuers on the road. At their first camp, Lin Mo asked Flora to teach him magic, and she began showing him how to sense and use magic power.

• Flora helped Lin Mo and Alston rescue the captured girls, and the group escorted them back to Falling Leaf Village before leaving for Roland Town.
• Lin Mo and Alston identified the assassins’ token as belonging to the Blood Sea Gang and suspected the gang served the Lawrence Family.
• The Charging Bull Squad submitted the rescue mission, received its rewards, and prepared to leave Roland Town; Laina joined them on the journey to Silver Creek City.
• Flora killed black-clad pursuers hiding in the forest as the convoy traveled away from Roland Town.
• At camp, Lin Mo shared a sandwich with Flora, heard about Lady Raphael, and asked Flora to teach him magic.
• After Lin Mo revealed that he was both a Warrior and an Assassin, Flora agreed to teach him how to use magic power and helped him sense its flow.

Flora taught Lin Mo the basic magic circuits, and he quickly learned to cast Fireball through practice. The convoy continued toward Silver Creek City, where Lin Mo hunted Goblins to improve his new spell and reached its first upgrade.

• Flora explained magic circuits to Lin Mo and was shocked when he combined two circuits and cast a spell within minutes.
• Lin Mo practiced through the night, learned Fireball, gained one point of Magic Power, and fell asleep after his watch.
• The next morning, Lin Mo asked Alston to leave any monsters they encountered to him and traveled with Ally and Laina.
• When Goblins attacked the convoy, Lin Mo used Fireball to kill them and raise his spell proficiency.
• Lin Mo kept fighting Goblins during the journey, and Fireball reached 10/10 proficiency and upgraded.

Lin Mo improved his Fire magic, learned about combining martial and magical weapons, and began studying an Ice spell during the caravan journey. After more than two days, the caravan reached Silver Creek City, where Flora described its respected ruler, Viscountess Beishila.

• Lin Mo leveled Fireball to Level 2, then asked Flora about the Novice Flame Reagent and drank it to improve his Fire Element affinity.
• Flora explained that Lin Mo could pursue a weapon combining sword and staff functions, and suggested Mithril Gloves as a practical alternative.
• Lin Mo demonstrated his powerful Level 2 Fireball to Flora, then asked whether Mages could learn spells from multiple elements.
• Flora explained elemental specialization and the basics of Ice Cone, and Lin Mo took the scroll to study it.
• The caravan arrived at Silver Creek City, where Flora described Viscountess Beishila as a kind and capable ruler.

Lin Mo and the party arrived in Silver Creek City, registered with its Adventurer’s Guild, and arranged work for Laina. After dinner, Lin Mo, Ally, and Laina found an inn, leaving Lin Mo ready to explore the city and take on missions.

• Lin Mo and the party entered Silver Creek City and saw how prosperous it was compared with Roland Town.
• Ally suggested sharing an inn with Lin Mo, while Laina worried about affording a place to stay.
• Flora took the party to meet Branch President Vic, who offered Laina a receptionist job starting the next day.
• The party registered their information at the Guild, and Alston refused to arrange work for Bena for the time being.
• Lin Mo, Ally, and Laina had dinner together, then rented rooms at an inn.