Chapter 16: Advance of the Attribute Template

In the camp, the goblin spellcaster was in despair.

For several hours, it had cast countless attacks, and more than a dozen elementary fireballs. Not only did that drain its mana points, but it also drained its spirit.

It couldn't escape, so it only accumulated mana points again and again, and cast fireballs one after another, in vain.

When Bates appeared in the camp again, the goblin spellcaster could no longer bear it and roared angrily, "Die! Demon! Beginner Fireball!"

Without any intention to dodge, Bates allowed the fireball to hit his body. He only felt a warm feeling pass over him.

Suddenly, Bates appeared in front of the short goblin, and quickly pierced the sickle through its head!

"Ding! You have killed the flame goblin. Obtained 150 experience points."

"You have killed the flame goblin. The flame goblin has an advanced attribute template. You have obtained the attribute template of the goblin spellcaster."

The last advanced attribute template had been obtained!

When Bates merged this attribute template with his own, his attribute template finally reached 100%!

"Ding! Your attribute template has reached the limit of your current level. Do you wish to advance?"

"Advance!" Bates said excitedly.

"Fusion of attribute templates..."

"Extracting battle method... generating skill..."

"Upgrade begins..."

"Ding! Attribute template upgrade complete!"

Bates immediately checked the attributes of his upgraded template.

[ template ] : Advanced Attribute template

[ source ] : Basic Attribute Template Upgrade

[ bonus ] : Health +200, Strength x3, Agility x3, Energy x3, Spirit * 2

[ skill ] : Shadow Stealth

[ shadow stealth: passive skill. When you are in a hidden state, this skill will greatly enhance the effectiveness of your stealth, greatly reducing the chance of you being discovered by the enemy. When you leave the hidden state, you will receive a speed bonus of agility x2, lasting for 2 seconds. ]

'Very good, very impressive!' he thought to himself, as he excitedly brandished his sickle.

This was the attribute template that Bates wanted!

Compared to the attribute template that the goblin spellcaster had before, the template that he had now, after the fight, was countless times stronger!

His health immediately increased by 200 points, and every time he leveled up, his strength, agility, and energy would increase by 3 points, and his spirit by 2 points.

Even the skills that came with the attribute template seemed to have been specially made for him.

Bates' strength had once again increased explosively!

'Next, it's time to raise my level.' he thought. 'Once my strength has increased further, I can try to go to the goblin's headquarters and investigate.'

Bates dragged the corpses of the goblins together, and began to devour them. Each corpse represented a large amount of experience, gene, and evolution points. He no longer needed to suppress his level, so he had no worries about devouring them.

About ten corpses were enough to raise his level from level 4 to level 5.

Half an hour later, Bates had devoured all the corpses, and had managed to increase to level 5!

He picked up the red wooden stick that the goblin spellcaster had left behind. That was definitely a magic staff, an expensive piece of magic equipment. Just by holding it in his hand, Bates could feel the scorching aura emanating from it.

Unfortunately, he was not a player, so he could never use it. Even if he wanted to possess the magic staff, he could not take it with him, much less cast the powerful elementary fireball like the flame goblin.

Bates thought for a moment and placed a part of the staff into his mouth. With just a light bite, it instantly broke.

The sound of the system notification made Bates' eyes light up!

"Eating... you have consumed a rare magic ingredient. Obtained 20 evolution points."

"Eating... you have consumed a rare magic ingredient. Obtained 30 evolution points."

So magic equipment had that effect too! Bates' eyes got brighter and brighter.

The magic staff alone had increased his evolution points by 150!

Now, Bates' attributes had undergone a huge change.

[ name ] : Bates

[ race ] : Overlord Ant

[ template ] : Advanced Attribute template

[ level ] : Level 5

[ status ] : Health 330, Mana 130

[ attributes ] : Strength 11, Agility 10, Energy 13, Spirit 13

[ talent ] : Soul Bonus, Devouring Evolution, Adaptability

[ skills ] : Sharp Claws, Tough Armor, Limb Regeneration, Intermediate Poison Resistance, Intermediate Flame Resistance, Stealth

[ gene points ] : Goblin gene 548, Salamander gene 23, Rabbit gene 11

[ evolution points ] : 673

[ skill fragment ] : none

[ soul points ] : 4

An extremely powerful attribute panel!

If not for the fact that he had seen it several times, Bates would not have believed that this was actually his own.

Currently, the accumulated amount of his various attributes and points had greatly exceeded Bates'prediction.

If anyone was to take a guess as to the kind of monster his attribute panel belonged to, people would believe that it was an elite monster or even a lord-tier monster!

On the other hand, many lord-tier monsters did not have as many talents and skills as he did!

He had planned to take a more detailed look through the goblins camp. However, it seemed he needed to rest.

His fourth evolution required 1,000 evolution points. Initially, he thought that was a huge amount, and it would take a long time to gather. Now, it seemed that, as long as he cleared out a few goblin camps, and ate a few pieces of magic equipment, he would be able to gather the evolution points required for his fourth evolution much quicker!

Before long, he would be able to charge into the goblin's headquarters, instead of carefully ambushing. Bates had enough of hiding in the bushes every time he attacked, waiting for the perfect opportunity.

"I must become stronger, and continue to kill and eat. I could make the entire Dark Forest tremble before me!" Bates swung his sickle and cut down a large tree. His eyes were burning with passion!

Goblin General Geer?

The boss of the novice village?

The leader of the Goblin Kingdom?

Perhaps it wasn't long before the boss of the novice village needed to be replaced!