Chapter 6: The Ultimate Bodyguard—Ragnaros the Firelord, Surging Through the Ranks!

[You have slain eight LV.9 Tree-scaled Giant Pythons, gaining 1,065 experience points (including a 360-point bonus for defeating higher-level monsters).]
[You have slain two LV.10 Forest Brown Bears, gaining 280 experience points (including an 80-point bonus for defeating higher-level monsters).]
[Thanks to your Beginner Experience Boost Scroll, you gain an additional 10% experience (135 points)!]
[You have obtained eight Giant Python Scales!]
[You have obtained eight Giant Python Fangs!]
[You have obtained two Bear Paws!]
[You have reached LV.2! You gain 10 free attribute points!]

After another round of system notifications, a burst of white light enveloped Lin Yi—he had leveled up!
Defeating these higher-level monsters granted him a substantial experience bonus, compounded by the additional 10% experience from Jiang Ya’s gift of an experience boost scroll.
This wave of monster kills propelled him straight to level 2.

Lin Yi allocated all 10 free attribute points to Spirit.
His maximum mana surged by another 700 points.
However, staring at his mere 20 hit points, he still felt uneasy.
Indeed, although his damage output and alertness were maxed out, venturing alone into such a high-level leveling zone carried the risk of sudden mishaps.
Especially if some monsters possessed stealth skills and launched surprise attacks.
With only 20 hit points, he was far too fragile.

Though the world’s underlying mechanics resembled a game, reality was not a game—there was no chance to respawn and try again.
But Lin Yi had long prepared for such a situation.
The extra 700 mana perfectly enabled him to execute his previous plan.
Lin Yi began chanting.

Thanks to the 70% speed boost from the Divine Grace Chant, his casting lasted less than two seconds.
As the spell completed, a massive six-pointed star magic array suddenly appeared on the ground before him.
Magical runes constantly shifted within the array, and the entire earth trembled.
Scorching magma erupted violently from the fissures in the ground.
Then, a towering elemental creature, at least five or six meters tall and composed entirely of searing molten lava, materialized.

A sixth-rank fire spell: the Molten Flame Demon!
This spell was a summoning spell!
Its effect was to call forth a Molten Flame Demon from the fire elemental realm.
This demon came equipped with several skills and was a tanky, high-defense, high-health super summon that obeyed Lin Yi’s every command.
Lin Yi could order it to move or attack at will—it was remarkably obedient.

Watching his mana drop from over five thousand to zero, Lin Yi felt the strain—the sensation of his mana being completely drained was unpleasant.

However, upon seeing the Molten Flame Demon’s attributes and skills, he knew it was worth it.

Molten Flame Demon
Level: LV.100
Type: Elemental Creature
HP: 500,000/500,000
Mana: 250,000/250,000
Strength: 800
Agility: 500
Spirit: 800
Constitution: 1,000
Skills: Lava Jet, Earth-shaking Slam, Scorched Earth Domain, Molten Shield, Self-Destruct

A level 100 summon!
With an impressive half a million hit points, it was undoubtedly a terrifying force against all other monsters in the Wailing Forest—a true dimensional downgrade strike.
One of these could easily take on thousands.

What interested Lin Yi most was the Molten Flame Demon’s innate Molten Shield skill.
This skill could be applied to himself.
Lin Yi commanded the demon to bestow the Molten Shield upon him.
With a mighty swing of its massive elemental arms, the demon enveloped Lin Yi’s body in a blazing molten shield.
Perhaps due to Lin Yi’s strong affinity with fire elements, the magma’s intense heat felt merely warm and comforting to him, unlike the unbearable heat it would cause others.

Molten Shield: A searing shield covering the body’s surface that absorbs 15,000 damage. When attacked, it retaliates with 500 fire attribute damage to the attacker.

Fifteen thousand shield points and damage reflection.
Lin Yi felt completely reassured.
With this shield lasting a full hour, plus the imposing Molten Flame Demon by his side, he was filled with a sense of security.

Thanks to a 7% mana regeneration rate per second, his depleted mana quickly refilled.
Lin Yi chanted again, summoning a second Molten Flame Demon.
Then a third.

Seeing the three imposing, domineering Molten Flame Demons before him, Lin Yi was very satisfied.
Summoning three simultaneously was his current limit, but as he leveled up and increased his affinity with fire elements, he would be able to summon even more.
For now, three such demons already represented terrifying combat power.

After some thought, Lin Yi made a decision.

He issued commands to two of the Molten Flame Demons.
They were to patrol the entire Wailing Forest, slaying every monster they encountered.
The experience and loot from their kills would be credited to Lin Yi.
They were essentially fully automated leveling bots, continuously hunting monsters on his behalf.
Far more efficient than Lin Yi grinding alone.

The remaining Molten Flame Demon would stay by his side as a bodyguard.

The two demons swiftly flew off to different parts of the Wailing Forest.
These elemental beings lacked legs or a lower body, resembling floating upper torsos.
Despite their bulky appearance, their movement speed was not slow—at least several times faster than Lin Yi running.

Even more terrifying was their Scorched Earth Domain skill, a spreading area-of-effect that radiated lava and intense heat from their bodies outward.
Lin Yi could clearly see the scorched earth left in their wake, with trees in the Wailing Forest igniting into roaring flames, leaving no vegetation alive.

All monsters caught within the Scorched Earth Domain had virtually no chance to retaliate before being burned to cinders.

Lin Yi, accompanied by the remaining Molten Flame Demon, ventured deeper into the Wailing Forest.
Along the way, his mind continuously received notifications—counting the number of monsters slain and experience gained.

After only a few steps, another burst of white light enveloped him.

[You have reached LV.3! You gain 10 free attribute points!]

Before Lin Yi could even allocate these points, five or six more bursts of white light rapidly surrounded him.

[You have reached LV.4! You gain 10 free attribute points!]
[You have reached LV.5! You gain 10 free attribute points!]
[You have reached LV.6! You gain 10 free attribute points!]
[You have reached LV.7! You gain 10 free attribute points!]

Lin Yi was dumbfounded!
What on earth had those two Flame Demons done?
How had such a massive wave of experience suddenly flooded in?
He had just instantly jumped to level 7!
It seemed leveling up in this world wasn’t all that difficult after all...