From Ant to Abyssal Demon

Chapter 16: Mission System Activated!

“Advanced Attribute Template!” Upon hearing the system prompt, Su Bai was overjoyed.

The reason he risked coming here to hunt goblins was not just for the advanced attribute template that the goblin thrower might possess?

Without caring to devour the fallen goblin thrower, Su Bai immediately opened his attribute panel.

【Template】: Advanced Attribute Template

【Source】: Goblin Thrower

【Bonus】: Life +100, Strength *3, Agility *0.5, Constitution 2

【Skill】: Brutal Throw

【Brutal Throw】: Active skill. Consumes half of the stamina, throws an extraordinary blow surpassing the ordinary, dealing damage equal to twice the strength attribute to the enemy.

A very powerful attribute template.

The basic attribute template Su Bai currently had only increased all attributes by +1 each level, with no other bonuses.

The goblin thrower’s attribute template increased strength by +3, agility by +0.5, constitution by +2, and also added an additional 100 points to life with each level up. Not to mention, this attribute template also came with an active skill, “Brutal Throw.”

Looking at this attribute template, Su Bai felt somewhat conflicted.

The biggest drawback of this template was its lack of bonuses to the mental attribute. Moreover, with only a +0.5 bonus to agility, Su Bai would only be able to develop towards the direction of being a tank in the future.

This didn’t fit his plan.

Moreover… in his current form as an Overlord Ant, the skill “Brutal Throw” was also useless, completely unusable.

Once the attribute template was replaced, it couldn’t be changed again unless he obtained a higher-ranked attribute template. Even though Su Bai was confident in himself, he didn’t think he could obtain an elite-ranked attribute template in a short time.

Feeling somewhat unwilling, Su Bai’s gaze turned to his second option.

[You can choose to use this attribute template as experience to enhance the rank of the currently owned attribute template.]

When he saw the description of the second option, Su Bai’s eyes lit up, no longer hesitating.

“I’ll use the Advanced Attribute Template as experience to enhance the current attribute template!”

As Su Bai spoke, the advanced attribute template of the goblin thrower disappeared, and a progress bar appeared next to the template section on his attribute panel.

Basic Attribute Template: Progress, 23%.

“Which means, as long as I hunt down five monsters with advanced attribute templates, I can upgrade my attribute template to an advanced one…”

After a brief thought, Su Bai closed his attribute panel.

Hunting down five monsters with advanced attribute templates was not easy, nor was it difficult.

Goblins were communal creatures, and finding a goblin camp here meant there were plenty of other goblins in this forest.

All he needed to do was obliterate five goblin camps, and his attribute template would smoothly advance.

The only thing to note was to control his level.

The goblin thrower’s level was 5, and only by keeping his level below 5 could he obtain the advanced attribute template after killing the goblin thrower.

Next…

It was time to reap the rewards.

The bodies of the three types of goblins meant a lot of experience, gene points, and evolution points.

He could easily raise his level to 4, strengthen himself again, and then go find other goblin camps.

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After a full hour, Su Bai devoured all eleven goblin corpses, gaining a large amount of experience, gene points, and evolution points. His level had also smoothly increased to 4.

At this point, his attributes had changed to:

【Name】: Su Bai

【Species】: Overlord Ant

【Template】: Basic Attribute Template (23%)

【Level】: Level 4

【Status】: Life 100, Mana 110

【Attributes】: Strength 8, Agility 7, Constitution 10, Spirit 11

【Talents】: Soul Points, Devour Evolution, Adaptability

【Skills】: Sharp Claws and Teeth, Tough Carapace, Regrowth, Basic Poison Resistance

【Gene Points】: 259 points

【Skill Fragments】: None

【Soul Points】: 4 points

After devouring all the goblin corpses, there were dozens of shabby pieces of equipment left behind.

If it were a player who cleared out this goblin camp, these shabby pieces of equipment would be their loot. However, judging from the quality of these equipment pieces, they were probably just the lowest-level white-grade equipment.

The javelin pouch left by the goblin thrower might be a magical item.

Su Bai wasn’t a player and didn’t have the inventory skill.

With a body only twenty-five centimeters long after leveling up again, he couldn’t carry this huge javelin pouch forward and could only discard it.

However, in the tent in the camp, Su Bai found a small treasure chest.

After biting off the lock of the treasure chest, he found several items inside.

First, a pile of silver coins, probably about thirty or forty.

Completely useless to Su Bai.

Next, was a rough map. It depicted symbols of a dozen campfires drawn in crude strokes, with a tent at the deepest point of these symbols.

[Ding! You obtained the ‘Rough Map.’ You discovered the ‘Gloomy Forest,’ and gained 10 experience points.]

“So, this forest is called the Gloomy Forest.

“Then, these symbols of campfires, are they goblin camps? But I wonder what the symbol of this tent represents…

“Too bad I’m not a player, it would’ve been great to have a system map right now…”

Carefully memorizing the marked routes and symbols on the map, Su Bai set the map aside and picked up the last item in the treasure chest.

A piece of animal skin stained with blood, covered with strange symbols.

[Ding! You obtained the ‘Blood-stained Letter.’]

[Ding! You activated the mission ‘The Rise of the Goblin Kingdom,’ and the mission system is activated.]