“Lin Ye.”
“Vitality index: 10.8. Life index: 9.6. Punching force: 216 kilograms.”
“Next!”
Lin Ye stepped away from the strength tester and let out a long breath, his face betraying neither sorrow nor joy.
The result was within expectations.
Over a hundred years ago, the first Tianyuan opened.
The entire world underwent a drastic change.
Alien races from the starry sky arrived, and the strong among humanity fought back for decades. Though even now, the threats of the Tianyuan and the alien races still persisted.
But today, humanity’s supreme powerhouses could also cross the galaxy and split the heavens with a single punch.
Almost everyone racked their brains trying to become a martial artist.
But as far as Lin Ye was concerned, he had no great ambitions. After all, he was merely a transmigrator from Blue Star, and he understood all too well how precious life was. Fighting and killing—if it could be avoided, it should be avoided.
His aptitude was ordinary. As long as he could get into a passable martial arts university…
After graduation, he would find a high-end residential complex and apply to be a security guard, saving himself forty years of detours.
A monthly salary over ten thousand, good food and drink—enough.
With his current results, there was a high probability that he could achieve this goal.
Just as Lin Ye was preparing to return to the line and continue the afternoon’s routine training, a voice that existed only in his mind suddenly rang out.
【Ding!】
【Retrieving the world where the host is located…】
【World confirmed!】
【Extracting system model…】
【Extraction complete!】
【Strongest Dungeon BOSS System activated!】
【This system is committed to nurturing the host into the strongest dungeon BOSS in this world, making all adventurers tremble beneath the host’s might!】
【Conducting host race appraisal…】
【Beep—appraisal complete.】
【Host race: Goblin (grunt)】
Lin Ye: “???”
He felt himself up.
Mm. His nose bridge was normal and not protruding. His ears weren’t pointed either.
His skin was smooth all over, and it wasn’t green.
He was 1.7 meters tall, not 1.1 meters.
“Who the hell are you calling a goblin?”
【Based on a comprehensive evaluation of all the host’s current attribute values, the host perfectly matches the goblin grunt setting.】
【Evaluation: Weak, pitiful, and helpless. Usually appears in groups. A favorite leveling target for newbie adventurers.】
【Danger level: Negligible.】
【Host need not feel inferior. A hero’s origins do not matter. Even a goblin possesses the potential to become a Demon King who destroys the world.】
【Please abandon unrealistic fantasies, face your race squarely, and prepare to struggle for survival and evolution!】
【This system will definitely make the host the strongest BOSS in this world, never to be cleared by adventurers!】
Lin Ye: “…”
He had nothing to say.
【Beginner mission issued: Familiarize yourself with your panel and skills.】
【Mission reward: Max HP +10. Mechanic added: Out-of-combat regeneration.】
【Failure penalty: None.】
【Note: This is a tutorial mission intended to help the host become familiar with his own power as soon as possible. Please stop clinging to the foolish fantasy that you are human.】
Lin Ye’s eyelid twitched. In the end, he still could not suppress his curiosity. His consciousness sank into his mind, and a light screen resembling a game interface unfolded before his eyes.
【Host: Lin Ye】
【Race: Goblin】
【Level: LV1】
【HP: 100/100】
【Energy: 19/50】
【Stamina: 31/100】
【BOSS Mechanics: None】
【Current Phase: P1. Other phases not unlocked】
【Strength: 11】
【Agility: 9.8】
【Endurance: 10】
【Spirit: 5】
Continuing downward, Lin Ye’s gaze landed on the most crucial “skill tree.”
Most entry-level martial artists like Lin Ye
started with Basic Fist Techniques. After mastering it, they could learn higher-level fist martial skills.
Or they could choose a handy weapon and delve deeply into the corresponding weapon martial skills.
But his skill tree had a very peculiar style, steeped in the thick flavor of an online game.
【P1 Phase】
Unlocked skill: 【Normal Attack: Swing your fist (or weapon) to perform an utterly technique-less attack, dealing 100% damage.】
【Skill cost: None】
【Skill cooldown: None】
【Note: This is the most basic and most commonly used skill of a BOSS.】
【Thick Hide (Passive), not unlocked.】
Just as Lin Ye was studying his panel, an urgent alarm suddenly sounded.
【Warning! Warning! High-level adventurer approaching detected!】
【Adventurer name: Chen Meng】
【Level: LV37】
【Threat assessment: Extremely lethal! Survival probability below 1%!】
【Combat recommendation: Run!】
Lin Ye raised his head and happened to see his homeroom teacher, Chen Meng, clap his hands, ending this baseline test for the whole class, then walk toward him.
His heart tightened.
It was not that he was afraid of his homeroom teacher, but rather that, at this moment, above Chen Meng’s head hovered an incomparably conspicuous, blood-red “LV37” marker.
It made Lin Ye feel a tangible sense of oppression.
Lin Ye looked around and discovered that aside from his homeroom teacher Chen Meng, a genuine martial artist, the other students were basically the same as him, all LV1. Only a few top students had LV2 markers over their heads.
Leaving aside whether this nutjob system could help him grow stronger…
Just this ability to tell another person’s strength at a glance was extremely valuable in this high-martial era where alien races lurked on all sides.
【Ding! Beginner mission complete!】
【You have received HP +10!】
【You have received a new mechanic: Out-of-combat regeneration!】
【Out-of-combat Regeneration (White): After leaving combat, your HP, energy, and stamina will rapidly recover at a rate of 10% per second.】
【Note: Reset, jump off the cliff, next pull!】
Lin Ye was stunned.
He was far too familiar with this mechanic.
He recalled the days in his previous life when he had stayed up day and night raiding with his guild. Once a BOSS was pulled out of combat, it would naturally regenerate its health at high speed.
This mechanic was also very common in other games. For example, if you pulled a jungle monster too far away, it would leave combat and rapidly recover health.
He had never expected it to end up on himself.
Lin Ye opened his panel. In the status bar, it was written plainly: 【Non-combat state. Rapidly recovering】!
After an entire morning of cultivation and drills, Lin Ye had already felt somewhat exhausted.
But at this moment, he could clearly feel his fatigue vanishing at the speed of light, while his energy and stamina rapidly recovered.
Hiss…
With this mechanic, wouldn’t he become a perpetual motion machine for cultivation?
After all, no one was fighting him, so he was always out of combat.
“Lin Ye, think it over.”
“Huh?” Lin Ye suddenly snapped back to his senses.
Only then did he realize that in the huge training room, only he and his homeroom teacher Chen Meng were left.
Chen Meng frowned and said sternly, “Your choice concerns your future. Have you been listening seriously at all?”
“The city has received the new document issued by the Daxia Martial Artist Alliance this year.”
“This year’s cutoff for eligibility to take the National Unified Entrance Examination for Martial Artist Universities has been released: a vitality index of 13, a punching force of 350 kilograms, and a life index above 10.5.”
“You do not currently meet the standard. Moreover, there are less than two weeks until the next school-wide baseline test, when the final list of eligible examinees will be reported. Given your current vitality index, my suggestion is that you get diverted as early as possible and apply for the mech-martial sequence, or simply withdraw from the martial track. Your liberal arts grades have always been quite good.”