The wilderness sky was quiet. Too quiet.
Lin Yi stood beneath a towering pine tree, the Abyssfang Blade resting lightly in his hand. The forest floor around him was scattered with feathers and broken twigs, the only evidence of the hunt that had already begun.
Then a dark blur descended from the sky. A bird-shaped monster dove toward him at frightening speed, its wings slicing through the air like blades. Lin Yi didn’t even look up. His arm moved.
SLASH!
The blade flashed once. The monster split cleanly before it even touched the ground.
[Dust Crow Defeated]
[EXP gained: 10]
[Amplification Triggered — Multiplication ×1000]
[New EXP gained: 10,000]
Lin Yi exhaled calmly, then looked up. The sky above the forest was filled with movent. A flock of black birds circled overhead like living shadows.
Dust Crows.
Level 1 monsters.
Normally, hunters didn’t even bother engaging them. Their bodies were fragile, their attacks weak, and their rewards almost nonexistent.
Ten experience points.
That was their standard value.
But for Lin Yi, ten experience points ant sothing very different.
Another crow dove.
SLASH!
[Dust Crow Defeated]
[EXP gained: 10]
[Amplification ×1000]
[New EXP: 10,000]
Another followed.
SLASH!
[Dust Crow Defeated]
[EXP gained: 10]
[Amplification ×1000]
[New EXP: 10,000]
Lin Yi moved like a machine. His blade flashed again and again, feathers filling the air with each clean, effortless strike. Notifications flooded his system in a steady.
SLASH!
[Dust Crow Defeated]
SLASH!
[Dust Crow Defeated]
SLASH!
[Dust Crow Defeated]
Twenty Dust Crows fell within minutes. But the hunt didn’t stop there. More birds arrived, so diving directly toward him, others circling the canopy and screaming in harsh cries. Lin Yi kept swinging, and each monster gave another ten thousand experience. The number inside his system bar climbed without pause.
10,000.
50,000.
120,000.
200,000.
The forest floor slowly disappeared beneath a layer of black feathers.
The monsters dropped items as they fell.
Beaks.
Claws.
Small monster cores.
Occasionally a crude weapon.
Normally these would be worthless, discarded by any hunter with standards. But under Lin Yi’s system, every single drop underwent 1000× amplification.
Materials multiplied.
Weapons evolved.
The ground around him quietly transford into sothing resembling a market stall that had exploded.
Lin Yi kept fighting until the sky began turning dark.
Then, The last crow fell.
SLASH!
[Dust Crow Defeated]
He finally lowered his blade and opened his system panel. His experience bar had surged past anything he had seen before, the numbers settling at one massive total.
350,000 EXP gained.
[Level Up!]
[Level 22 Reached]
Level 22
EXP: 66,000 / 75,000
Lin Yi let out a low whistle. "...Not bad."
He tapped his inventory.
The panel appeared. Then his expression froze.
Inventory Capacity: 50 Slots
Status: FULL
He stared at the notification for a mont, then looked at the forest floor. The sight was genuinely ridiculous.
Thousands of black feathers blanketed the clearing.
Dust Crow beaks ford small piles across the roots and stones.
So amplified material stacks had grown so large they looked like compressed haystacks in the low light.
Lin Yi then rubbed his forehead slowly.
"...I may have overdone it."
There was no way to carry everything. In the end he picked through the piles carefully, taking only the items with the highest value.
Weapons.
Rare Materials.
Energy Cores.
The rest he left where it lay. Even then, by the ti he finished selecting, his inventory sat completely full. He turned and walked back toward Jianghe City as the last light faded from the sky, the massive gates closing behind him alongside the final returning hunters.
He walked quietly through the city streets to the academy dormitory. The mont he lay down on his bed, sleep ca instantly.
...
Morning arrived with sunlight pouring through the dormitory window. Lin Yi sat up, stretched his arms, and checked the tournant schedule. Three days remained before the elimination round. He left his room and walked down into the dormitory hallway, where he found a familiar figure hunched over a phone on a bench downstairs.
Wang Hao. Scrolling rapidly with the focused intensity of soone doing serious research.
Lin Yi walked over. "What are you doing?"
Wang Hao jumped slightly. "Oh!" He turned the screen around. "Checking equipnt prices."
"Planning sothing?"
Wang Hao sighed, "Brother Lin... the elimination round is coming. These people are monsters." He scrolled again, shaking his head. "Epic weapons. Rare armor. Everyone is buying sothing." Lin Yi glanced at the screen.
The prices were outrageous, the kind of numbers that most students could spend an entire sester not affording. Wang Hao sighed again. "If I had just one good weapon, my chances would improve a lot."
Lin Yi thought for a mont.
"Let’s go."
Wang Hao blinked. "...Go where?"
"The Hunter Market."
Half an hour later they stood inside one of the largest equipnt stores in Jianghe City. Weapons lined every wall, armor sets glittered behind glass displays, and rare materials sat sealed inside secure reinforced containers. The shopkeeper approached with a practiced smile.
"Looking for sothing?"
"Epic weapons." Lin Yi pointed toward the weapon rack without hesitation.
The shopkeeper’s eyes widened slightly. He moved quickly, returning with several items laid out for inspection.
A sleek dagger glowing with faint concentrated energy.
A reinforced scout blade with a clean, balanced grip.
The price tags attached to them were the kind that made normal students take a step back. Wang Hao’s jaw dropped.
"...Brother Lin. Let’s leave."
Lin Yi pulled out his hunter card. "Pack them."
The shopkeeper’s expression lit up with the particular joy of a sale he had not expected to close.
Minutes later the purchase was complete. Wang Hao stood in the middle of the store holding an Epic-ranked scout blade in both hands, staring at it as if he wasn’t entirely sure it was real. His entire body trembled slightly.
"Brother Lin..." His voice ca out unsteady. "You... bought this for ?"
"You’ll need it."
Wang Hao looked up with the expression of a man on the verge of an emotional crisis. Then he took a breath and shouted at full volu inside the store.
"BROTHER LIN IS THE BEST!"
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