Super Bodyguard: Molten Flame Demon, Levels Soaring!

[You killed LV.9 Tree-Scale Python*8 and gained 1065 Experience Points (360 points bonus for killing higher-level enemies)]

[You killed LV.10 Forest Brown Bear*2 and gained 280 Experience Points (80 points bonus for killing higher-level enemies)]

[Due to the effect of your Beginner EXP Boost Scroll, you gained an additional 10% Experience Points (135 points)!]

[You obtained Python Scale*8!]

[You obtained Python Fang*8!]

[You obtained Bear Paw*2!]

[You reached LV.2! Gained 10 Free Attribute Points!]

After another wave of system notifications, a burst of white light rose from Lin Yi's body. He had leveled up!

Killing these higher-level monsters granted a substantial EXP bonus. Combined with the extra 10% EXP from the boost scroll Jiang Ya, that Little Rich Woman, had given him earlier...

This wave of monster kills had pushed him straight to Level 2.

Lin Yi put all 10 Free Attribute Points into Spirit.

His maximum Mana surged by another 700 points.

Still, looking at his measly 20 HP, Lin Yi did not feel particularly safe.

That was right. His damage output was maxed out, and so was his awareness.

But grinding alone in a high-level Leveling Zone like this still carried the risk of getting caught off guard.

Especially if there were monsters with stealth skills that could suddenly ambush him and take a bite out of him.

Twenty HP was just far too fragile.

Although this world's underlying mechanics resembled a game, reality was still reality. There would be no respawning after death.

However, Lin Yi had long prepared a solution for this situation.

The extra 700 Mana was exactly enough to put his previous plan into action.

Lin Yi began chanting.

With the 70% acceleration effect of [Divine Grace Chant], the casting took less than two seconds.

As Lin Yi finished casting...

A massive Hexagram Array suddenly appeared on the ground before him.

Magical runes shifted continuously within the array, and the entire earth began to tremble.

Scorching lava erupted from cracks in the ground.

Then, an Elemental Creature over five or six meters tall appeared, its entire body made of searing molten lava.

Tier 6 Fire Spell, Molten Flame Demon!

This spell was a summoning spell!

Its effect was to summon a Molten Flame Demon from the Fire Element realm!

Moreover, this Fire Demon came with several skills. It was a super summon with high defense and thick health, completely obedient to Lin Yi.

If Lin Yi told it to move, it moved. If he told it to fight, it fought. It could not have been more obedient.

Watching his Mana plummet from over five thousand straight to zero, Lin Yi felt somewhat drained. Having all his Mana sucked dry at once was not pleasant.

But when Lin Yi saw the Molten Flame Demon's attributes and skills...

It had all been worth it.

[Molten Flame Demon]

[Level: LV.100]

[Type: Elemental Creature]

[HP: 500000/500000]

[Mana: 250000/250000]

[Strength: 800]

[Agility: 500]

[Spirit: 800]

[Constitution: 1000]

[Skills: Lava Eruption, Earthshaker Smash, Scorched Earth Domain, Lava Shield, Self-Destruct]

A Level 100 summon!

And it had a full 500,000 HP. Without question, to every other monster in the Howling Forest, it was an utterly terrifying Dimensional Strike.

One of them could take on thousands without any problem.

What Lin Yi valued most, however, was the Molten Flame Demon's Lava Shield skill.

This skill could be cast on himself.

Lin Yi controlled the Molten Flame Demon and had it put a Lava Shield on him.

As the Molten Flame Demon swung its enormous elementalized arms, a layer of blazing lava shield wrapped around Lin Yi's body.

Perhaps because of Lin Yi's extremely high affinity with the Fire Element...

The blistering heat of lava, unbearable to ordinary people, only made him feel pleasantly warm.

[Lava Shield: A scorching shield covering the body's surface. It can absorb 15000 damage for you. When you are attacked, it deals 500 fire damage to the source of the attack.]

Fifteen thousand shield points.

And reflected damage, too.

Lin Yi was completely at ease.

With this shield that could last an hour, along with the enormously intimidating Molten Flame Demon at his side, he felt perfectly safe!

Under the effect of recovering 7% Mana per second, Lin Yi's depleted Mana quickly filled back up.

Lin Yi began chanting again and summoned a second Molten Flame Demon.

Then came a third.

Looking at the three mighty, imposing Molten Flame Demons before him, Lin Yi was extremely satisfied.

Summoning three at once was already Lin Yi's current limit. As his level rose and his affinity with the Fire Element improved, he would be able to summon even more.

But for now, three Fire Demons at once already made for a terrifying fighting force.

Lin Yi pondered for a moment before finally making a decision.

He gave orders to two of the Molten Flame Demons.

He had them wander and patrol throughout the entire Howling Forest, killing every monster they saw.

Naturally, the Experience Points and rewards from the monsters they killed would be credited to Lin Yi.

It was equivalent to having two fully automated grinding cheats constantly finding and killing monsters for him.

They were far more efficient than Lin Yi leveling alone.

As for the remaining Fire Demon, he kept it by his side as a bodyguard.

After receiving Lin Yi's orders, the two Molten Flame Demons sped toward other parts of the Howling Forest.

These Elemental Creatures had no legs and were even just upper bodies.

Their method of movement was more like floating through the air and gliding sideways.

Though the two big fellows looked cumbersome, they were actually quite fast, at least several times faster than Lin Yi could run.

Even more terrifying was the two Fire Demons' [Scorched Earth Domain], a Domain Skill that continuously spread lava and intense heat outward from their bodies.

Lin Yi could clearly see that everywhere the two Fire Demons passed became scorched earth. The trees of the Howling Forest burst into flames as well, and Nothing Grows!

Any monster that entered the Fire Demons' Scorched Earth Domain was burned into charcoal before it even had a chance to fight back.

Lin Yi led the remaining Molten Flame Demon deeper into the Howling Forest.

System prompts continuously rang in his mind along the way.

They were all notifications of how many monsters had been killed and how much Experience Points he had gained.

He had barely taken a few steps.

Another burst of white light rose from Lin Yi's body.

[You reached LV.3! Gained 10 Free Attribute Points!]

Before Lin Yi could even finish assigning the 10 Free Attribute Points he had just gained...

Another five or six bursts of white light flashed over his body in an instant.

[You reached LV.4! Gained 10 Free Attribute Points!]

[You reached LV.5! Gained 10 Free Attribute Points!]

[You reached LV.6! Gained 10 Free Attribute Points!]

[You reached LV.7! Gained 10 Free Attribute Points!]

Lin Yi was dumbfounded!

Holy shit, what had those two Fire Demons done?

Why had such an enormous flood of EXP suddenly poured in?

He had shot straight to Level 7 in seconds!

It seemed leveling up in this world was not that hard after all...?