While Lin Mo was entangled with the goblin leader, the other mbers of the Raging Bull Team were also engaged in their own battles.
Ellie was pinned down by one adult mutated goblin and one sub-adult mutated goblin, having a rather difficult fight.
Although her strength was sowhat greater than other newly promoted professionals, the enemies also had helpers. After all, two fists are hard pressed to beat four hands, making the situation quite perilous.
In comparison, Alden's opponents here were slightly weaker, consisting of only one adult mutated goblin plus so ordinary goblins.
But his pressure wasn't light either, because he couldn't afford the slightest negligence, otherwise the backline mbers Solan and Finnie would face threats. What worried him greatly was that ahead of them, two more sub-adult mutated goblins were attacking Rick and the others.
Although Rick and Carson weren't weak in strength either, they were still struggling against the mutated goblins, having already sustained injuries and were resisting with difficulty.
This was the scene that erged after Lin Mo got pinned down. The Raging Bull Team's strength was still sowhat inadequate to handle this nearly dium-sized goblin settlent.
Fortunately, they had Finnie, who cast two healing spells consecutively on Rick, otherwise Rick would have collapsed long ago.
But Finnie's mana was after all limited. Both healing magic and support-type magic consud substantial amounts. Her mana was now basically depleted, and due to continuous spellcasting, her spirit was also considerably affected, leaving her montarily dizzy and lightheaded.
After discovering the situation here, Lin Mo imdiately rushed over, starting with a combo technique of [Vanish] [Accumulated Sword Combo], directly instantly killing the adult mutated goblin that wanted to attack the backline and was being held back by Alden.
[Vanish] proficiency 8
[Accumulated Sword Combo] proficiency 8
The adult mutated goblin still provided the sa 8 points of proficiency as before.
With the threat of the powerful enemy gone, Alden's pressure imdiately decreased substantially. Those ordinary goblins posed no threat to him whatsoever.
Finnie also felt her spirits lift. Suppressing her dizziness, she mustered courage, tightly gripped her staff with both hands, and forcefully struck at a goblin's head.
Ranger Solan, now freed up, imdiately supported Rick's side. He drew his bowstring to full draw, and a spinning arrow swiftly flew, accurately embedding itself in the back of a mutated goblin.
Lin Mo closely followed, swish swish twice, resolving both mutated goblins.
Thus, only one adult and one sub-adult mutated goblin remained on the field, along with so ordinary goblins.
Seeing the situation turning unfavorable, the two mutated goblins had completely lost their will to fight, directly turning around and fleeing in panic. But Ellie wouldn't let them escape. She was seen holding her sword with both hands, frost spreading across the blade, shouting loudly: "Frost Slash!"
The next mont, an ice-blue sword energy flew out, leaving a deep sword mark on the adult mutated goblin's body.
Blood didn't gush from the wound but instead directly froze. However, this wasn't a good thing, because that icy breath had already seeped into its body along the blood vessels. Within just a few seconds, it made its movents much stiffer.
Lin Mo thus caught up to the opponent faster and decisively took the kill.
The other sub-adult mutated goblin certainly couldn't escape under his watch either, and was also easily caught and eliminated by Lin Mo.
Only so ordinary goblins remained, already fallen into chaos. So died, so fled. Everyone pursued for a while, killing most of them. The remaining escapees weren't really worth chasing further.
"Whew—!"
Alden let out a long sigh of relief. Thankfully, nothing bad happened. Although sowhat difficult, the mission was ultimately completed successfully.
Alden wasn't injured, Ellie only had minor injuries, and Solan and Finnie were well protected. But Rick and Carson's situations weren't great, especially Rick. Even though he had received two healing spells during the fight, he still had many wounds on his body now.
Finnie walked over to them, but her mana was long depleted. She took out a blue potion from her pocket and wanted to drink it, but was quickly dissuaded by Rick: "Wait a mont, Miss Finnie, there's no need to use such a precious item... These injuries aren't serious. After you rest a while and your mana recovers, you can heal us then."
Although they knew Finnie wasn't short of money, they couldn't accept it with clear conscience, as this was a mana potion, even more expensive than life potions!
Moreover, while mana could recover, continuing to use magic placed too great a ntal burden on Finnie. If this continued long-term, it might cause irreversible damage.
"Miss Finnie, please rest first. As adventurers, we're already accustod to injuries of this degree."
Carson also spoke up.
Finnie showed a troubled expression, holding the blue potion in her hand, but ultimately put it away.
Then she imdiately took out a red life potion, "Then use this..."
Rick was montarily caught between laughter and tears. What difference did this make?
They also had life potions on them, but these things were life-saving items for them. How could they bear to use them for such minor injuries?
One could only say, truly worthy of being the city lord's young lady—her concept of money was just too different from theirs.
Seeing Finnie's disappointed and troubled expression, Lin Mo greeted Alden before slowly walking over: "Since it's Finnie's goodwill, you should use a little. Otherwise, she'll feel bad too. Afterwards, this potion can be counted as team expenses and deducted from the extra mission rewards."
Rick and Carson exchanged glances. Thinking that there would be extra rewards, it didn't seem so hard to part with anymore, and this trip had indeed earned them quite a bit.
But Finnie shook her head, suddenly mustering courage, her voice also louder: "No need to deduct it, it's really fine... Although I'm already very happy that everyone is willing to take on missions, I still want to truly beco a mber of the team."
—Rather than being treated as soone to be taken care of, separated from the others.
Lin Mo looked at her sowhat surprised. It seed this young lady, who appeared soft and gentle on the surface like a well-behaved girl, actually had her own thoughts and principles in so aspects, surprisingly.
Indeed, if not for this, she wouldn't have wanted to beco an adventurer.
"This..."
Rick looked toward the team leader. Seeing Alden nod, he no longer hesitated: "Then we won't stand on ceremony."
Thus, he took the potion from Finnie's hand and opened the stopper.
Even so, they really couldn't bear to drink much, consuming less than one-fifth. The injuries on their bodies imdiately recovered considerably, and the pain gradually disappeared.
This was sufficient.
They imdiately got up and began cleaning up the battlefield together.
There were too many corpses to deal with, so Lin Mo didn't just watch but joined in to help.
Even Finnie followed by his side, learning to process the loot.
At first, her hands shook terribly, not daring to make the cut at all, almost cutting her own hand.
Lin Mo demonstrated, but it still didn't work well. He could only teach her hand-to-hand several tis before she improved slightly.
Hmm, not bad, her hands are quite soft...
After processing the loot, they quickly moved to a clean place to rest properly.
The ti actually wasn't very late, not yet 3 PM, but having just experienced a major battle, continuing to the next mission at this ti clearly wasn't appropriate. They simply rested properly, conserved energy, and planned to continue tomorrow.
With ample ti, they could have a proper dinner. Solan and Alden went hunting nearby, while the others remained resting in place. Lin Mo and Ellie set up traps.
After resting for a while and her mana almost recovering, Finnie still cast one healing spell each on Ellie, Rick, and Carson.
Lin Mo observed—professional-level healing spells were indeed powerful. One healing spell was roughly equivalent to one-third of a basic life potion's effect, though the mana consumption was also quite substantial.
Normal professional mages wouldn't run out of mana after just a few spells.
He could find an opportunity to learn it later, but practicing it... given Lin Mo's current mana level, he probably didn't have the leeway for that yet.
Better not be too greedy, first focus on mastering the two spells at hand. When he has more mana later, he can consider developing other professions.
There's also that spell scroll in his possession—after returning, he can consign it to the auction house. Once sold, he can purchase other spells or consider saving up for mithril gloves.
Besides the healing spell, the other two spells Finnie used earlier also made Lin Mo sowhat curious.
One of them helped recover stamina—this should also be a relatively basic spell, as even the apprentice priests at Roland Town's church knew it.
But the other spell that increased attributes was quite impressive.
"Mr. Lin Mo, are you referring to 'Light's Assistance'?"
"Yes, that spell that can increase attributes. This spell should at least be of excellent grade, right?"
"That's an exceptional-grade spell, but I'm not very proficient yet..."
Finnie looked sowhat dejected: "So the effect isn't very good, and the duration is quite limited."
Indeed, Lin Mo recalled—that enhanced feeling only lasted about two or three minutes.
After all, she was only a level 1 priest. Using an exceptional-grade skill, not lasting long was normal.
"I'm sorry, if my magic could be more proficient... I could help everyone more."
Finnie lowered her head, sowhat self-blaming.
"It's fine, you've already done very well."
Lin Mo gently patted the round hat on her head: "Two or three minutes is also quite impressive."
Finnie blinked sowhat puzzled. Although these were comforting words, she felt there was sothing strange about Mr. Lin Mo's tone?
"Ahem—"
Looking at Finnie's innocent face, Lin Mo coughed awkwardly twice. Thankfully, people in this world probably wouldn't understand this reference.
Solan and Alden soon returned from hunting. This ti, they had hunted a wild boar, looking like the smaller variety, not very large in size.
But it was definitely enough for them to eat, and such half-grown suckling pigs had the most tender at.
Lin Mo couldn't wait to set up the campfire. Tonight, they were having roasted at...
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