Chapter 16
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Chapter 16: The Level Has Reached Its Limit
Good morning!
It’s another day full of hope!
Big Bear left early; he must be very hungry, phew, phew, phew…
Everyone in the exploration team, give your best today! And the home team, make sure to dig the tunnels while Big Bear is away!
Me?
Well, I need to work hard today… Ugh! Who wants to have babies!
…
After a night, the smell of blood from the exploration team, Team Ant, faded quite a bit.
Lin Yu assigned tasks to the Weak Ants according to last night’s plan.
Captain Ant, at Level 7, led 20 other Weak Ants to form an exploration team for hunting, while the remaining 9 Weak Ants began digging a tunnel from inside the ant hill to the cave outside.
Lin Yu stayed quietly in the room, focusing her attention on the exploration team’s Captain Ant.
They continued to explore the same path as yesterday.
After discovering the existence of a powerful monster like the Granville Wolf lurking outside the cave, Lin Yu grew increasingly wary.
After traveling for a while.
They found a slime!
Go on, take it down!
Captain Ant swiftly ended the battle with a single bite, but the experience points gained from the slime were so insignificant that Captain Ant’s experience bar barely budged.
Some time later.
Discover a group of slimes!
Defeated the group of slimes.
Gained a small amount of experience.
It seems luck wasn’t on their side this time; over an hour had passed, and the only creatures encountered were slimes.
This forest stretched far beyond Lin Yu’s expectations; despite walking for so long, all she could see were thick, endless trees.
Finally, she discovered a target to hunt!
It was a group of six mountain deer.
Hold your breath…
Sneak closer…
Ah! They ran away!
Even though I was very careful, this group of mountain deer is nothing like the slimes or the little yellow pig I encountered before. They were highly alert and noticed us when we were still less than a hundred meters away.
They ran away very quickly and disappeared in an instant.
Lin Yu was stunned.
There were some insects in the grass, but they were all normal-sized insects, just like in the previous world.
They are not only hard to catch, but they also do not have much meat, so Lin Yu did not want the ants to waste time on them.
Along the way, I found some small fruits that looked like apples, but they were tiny and seemed not ripe yet.
I tried to let the Weak Ants pick some and eat them.
Then the Weak Ants automatically rejected the fruit and spit it out.
The taste was so sour and bitter that even Lin Yu, far away in the ant hole, felt her brain tremble and quickly severed the connection with Captain Ant.
The fruit is not ripe at all and cannot be eaten.
By the time the exploration team returned to the cave at dusk, they hadn’t hunted any prey. However, they hadn’t ventured too far either, as they had to consider the time needed for the return trip.
Although they didn’t find anything to eat, there was nothing they could do.
That’s true; if it were that easy to find food, that bear wouldn’t have come back empty-handed yesterday.
Besides, the nearby prey might have already been mostly eaten by that bear!
It was just luck that they encountered that pair of yellow-haired piglets yesterday.
The exploration team’s mission was a big failure.
And worse, there was an unexpected issue with the home guard team.
Lin Yu’s biggest worry finally happened.
The tunnel that was being dug suddenly collapsed in the middle, burying three Weak Ants underneath. Lin Yu quickly ordered the other Weak Ants to rescue them.
The three Weak Ants almost suffocated but thankfully were saved just in time.
So, the digging task was put on hold once again.
The home guard team became the stay-at-home team.
…
At night, the long-toothed brown bear returned.
Once again, it had not caught any prey and looked a bit restless.
The girl quietly prayed inside the ant nest for the bear to starve to death.
…
In the days that followed.
The exploration team followed the brown bear every day, but their catches were sadly few, sometimes even none at all.
And when they said “catches,” they really meant just a few larger bugs.
Once, the exploration team even stumbled upon the toothy brown bear. As soon as Lin Yu saw it, she immediately instructed them to run far away.
It was clear that most of the large prey in this area had been hunted by the toothy brown bear.
The only creatures that could survive in this area were those that were highly alert and quick, like the mountain deer they had encountered before.
And then there were the slimes.
These strange beings, which looked like squishy jelly, appeared almost every day from under the trees or from the mud.
There is no need to worry that they will go extinct.
Unfortunately, slimes cannot be used as food.
Therefore, these ant groups are actually consuming the food they had stored before—the meat of the yellow-haired pigs.
By now, most of the meat has been eaten.
However, the strength of the ant group has also increased a little.
Among them, there are 28 Weak Ants with no rank:
——
Name: None
Species: Weak Ant
Qualification: None
Class: None
Level: LV.5 (MAX)
Health Points: 48/48
Magic Points: 0/0
Skills: None
Attributes: Strength 0
Agility 0
Intelligence 0
Physical Resistance Ability 0
Elemental Magic Resistance Ability 0
Abnormal State Resistance Ability 0
——
The Health Value Limit has still increased, and it is still 10 points.
Besides that, their levels have reached the limit, and the Experience Value progress bar is full and not moving.
After this, they will no longer gain experience from eating meat, but in exchange, their appetite has significantly decreased.
For a classless monster, it seems that the level limit is LV.5.
No, the D Qualification Captain Ant’s level has long surpassed LV.5.
In other words, does qualification relate to the level limit?
Lin Yu felt a sudden realization.
For a D Qualification, a Weak Ant without a rank will have a higher level limit than other Weak Ants without any qualifications. And… if I’m not mistaken, only those with qualifications of D or above can advance to Class D without a rank, right?
But can Weak Ants with no qualifications improve their qualifications?
We can’t be sure about that; maybe there are other ways to improve monster qualifications.
Ah! By the way, my rank is S+!
What kind of qualification is S+? Based on my past gaming experience, it must be the highest level!
Yes, it must be the highest level! No arguments allowed!
Next is the level change of two D Qualification Weak Ants.
——
Name: None
Race: Weak Ant
Qualification: D
Class: None
Level: LV.8
Health Value: 60/60
Magic Value: 10/10
Skills: None
Attribute: Strength 1
Agility 0
Intelligence 1
(continued)
——
Name: None
Race: Weak Ant
Qualification: D
Class: None
Level: LV.6
Health Points: 50/50
Magic Points: 0/0
Skills: None
Attribute: Strength 1
Agility 0
Intelligence 0
(Continued)
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Although the Weak Ant, who was the Captain of the exploration team, only raised its level by one and increased its Health Value Limit by 10, Lin Yu was happy that another Weak Ant with a D Qualification reached Level 6 and gained a bit of strength.
As the Queen Ant, she also leveled up twice, going from Level 5 to Level 7.
In the two upgrades, the first two options were still Health Value Limit +10 and Magic Value Limit +5, as for the third option…
The third Gift Option for the first upgrade was Agility +1.
The third Gift Option for the second upgrade was still Strength +1.
Since she had never increased her agility, Lin Yu chose Agility +1 during her first upgrade.
As soon as she received the gift, her body felt much lighter, allowing her to run faster, swing her front legs more quickly, and even enhance her dynamic vision.
Agility was even more useful than Lin Yu had imagined.
It was not only helpful in battle but also useful for escaping. With improved dynamic vision, she could more easily notice changes in her surroundings.
In terms of priority, Lin Yu placed agility ahead of strength.
After much hesitation, Lin Yu ultimately chose Health Value as the second blessing.
In the long run, she probably should have chosen Magic Value, but she felt that her 10 points of Health Value were too low.
Maybe one day she would fall and hit her head and die again?
She always felt very unsafe.
…
The overall strength of the ant colony has indeed increased, but the crisis of food shortage has appeared again.
Lin Yu plans to send the exploration team further away to explore.
