"The 20th one!"

Lin Ye directly consumed the relic in his hand completely.

After a day of searching, Lin Ye found a total of 20 relics, but most were of white quality, with only 3 green ones, and not a single blue.

This is normal; after all, the quality of relics is related to the talent of the Professional when they were alive.

High-level, high-talent Professionals are rare, and stronger Professionals have better chances of survival, so the opportunity for them to leave relics is even rarer.

After using up all the relics found, Lin Ye's 'Healer' profession remains the same; aside from some increase in experience value, the level is still maintained at Level 21.

But the 'Space Mage' has already risen to Level 5.

This upgrade speed is evidently much faster than grinding in the Secret Realm!

If upgrading through a Secret Realm, it would take at least four or five days to even complete one Secret Realm and successfully gain experience.

Secret Realms above Level 20 are quite lengthy; although the total experience gained is higher, in terms of efficiency, relics are clearly faster.

Now the moon hangs high; beneath the moonlight, the old ruins of Shan City emit sparse sounds, with occasional monster roars accompanied by summer insect chirps. Despite being in urban ruins, it feels like being in a dangerous dense forest.

In Lin Ye's area, most of the outside monsters are around Level 20 to Level 30.

Unless necessary, he wasn't interested in attacking these monsters, even if there were monsters patrolling around relics; it was enough to have the 'Treasure-Seeking Rat' fetch the items.

No need to take action.

After all, defeating all these monsters wouldn't yield much experience, and the chance of dropping treasures is even smaller.

Instead of dealing with these beasts, it's better to keep them; if any other unfamiliar Professional approaches, they serve as Lin Ye's free alarm bell.

"That's it for today, rest overnight, continue tomorrow!"

Lin Ye's figure vanished on the spot; as the Lord of the Secret Realm, he has a unique advantage in the wilderness.

That is, he can return to his realm anytime to avoid danger or rest.

...

Meanwhile, in Shan City Professional Alliance branch office.

Qin Lang looked a bit annoyed, saying to the two people before him, "I can't believe you lost track of a living person!"

The man and woman standing before Qin Lang's desk were the Dark Guards responsible for closely watching Lingye, Liang Liankang and Wu Ziqi.

Wu Ziqi and Liang Liankang both showed some embarrassment.

Who would've thought Lin Ye would disappear just by going into a public restroom?

"Could it be Lin Ye entered a Secret Realm for leveling, or perhaps just returned to his own Secret Realm?" Wu Ziqi said cautiously.

They were truly innocent in this matter.

Liang Liankang nodded and said, "Though we don't know why Lin Ye would enter a Secret Realm in a public restroom, we can't rule out this possibility..."

Qin Lang simply remained silent for a while at their explanation, which wasn't really an excuse.

After a long time, he finally spoke, "There's nothing else to do; just keep an eye on that restroom, then."

Upon hearing Qin Lang's words, Wu Ziqi and Liang Liankang both showed a bitter expression.

Yet they had no choice; they could only agree, albeit reluctantly.

Because each time a Professional exits a Secret Realm, they appear at the location where they entered. If Lin Ye entered the Secret Realm in that restroom, then he would undoubtedly be transported back there when exiting.

Very few people would choose to enter a Secret Realm from a public restroom like Lin Ye did; it's really quite odd.

In this regard, Qin Lang's instruction to keep an eye on that restroom was indeed reasonable.

But how long they need to monitor it, nobody could say for sure.

It depends on how long Lin Ye stays in the Secret Realm. If it's just two or three days, it's alright, but if Lin Ye decides to stay over ten days, they would need to monitor that restroom for a fortnight.

Anyway, these days, they probably won't have much of an appetite.

...

After 10 consecutive days, Lin Ye finally raised his 'Space Mage' level to Level 15, and his Healer level also increased to Level 22.

Enough experience to raise the Space Mage from Level 1 to Level 15 could only raise the Healer to Level 22.

Professionals' levels are like this; as levels increase, the experience required usually multiplies by the level.

So the experience enough to upgrade a low-level Professional might only marginally increase experience for high-level Professionals.

However, with Lin Ye's exploration progress, the level and quality of relics he obtains are gradually improving.

He's even acquired a Level 30 relic.

Though the quality is not high, the experience value it provides is already significantly higher than a Level 10 relic of the same quality.

The only difficulty is Lin Ye's 'True Sight' can't work through mechanical animals' vision; otherwise, his relic search efficiency might be even higher, and now he can only choose to search for relics from higher vantage points.

"Tch."

Lin Ye fell from a spatial rift, picking up a relic from the ground.

"Level 30, blue!"

This was the first Level 30 blue-quality relic he's obtained since entering Shan City ruins!

Just this single Level 30 blue relic contains enough experience value to allow a Level 1 Professional to directly ascend to Level 10.

It's a good item, but scarce and extremely difficult to find; definitely not something the average person can locate.

Besides this relic, Lin Ye's attention turned to some marks by the roadside.

There, chaotic footprints, scattered blood stains, and even some bizarre meat chunk remnants were found.

These marks have appeared here for no more than five days.

As Lin Ye moved forward, the frequency of such battle traces appearing became increasingly high.

Clearly, Lin Ye had entered a rather special area.

"Only the Demon Hunting Army and Demon God followers would be so active in the wilderness."

Lin Ye muttered.

Typically, in the wilderness, discovering such large-scale battle traces means, without guessing, it's certainly left after a battle between the Demon Hunting Army and Demon God minions.

Just like what Lin Ye is seeing now.

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