Primrose took a deep breath, maintaining that aloof, compassionate expression on her face.
The hand hidden beneath her voluminous divine robe had already flipped open her thick Sage’s Codex.
‘I don’t know to what extent the Unified Divine Realm permits adding BUFFs…’
‘But I absolutely cannot let Mom lose a single hair!’
Her fingers rapidly moved across the Codex.
‘What BUFF should I prioritize?’
‘Shield type, defense type… Iron Wall increases percentage defense, all kinds of elemental shields… Ah, forget it, there are too many. No time to pick one by one. I’ll just add them all!’
“Divine Protection (Status Immunity), Instant Death Immunity, Immunity to Instant Death Immunity, Absolute Defense, max out Physical and Magic Resistance…”
Primrose layered hundreds of BUFFs onto Lin Naiyue in one breath.
These BUFFs shimmered on Lin Naiyue’s body.
Just then, a deafening boom came from the city gate.
The thick wooden door was cleaved in two by the Horse-faced Demon General’s axe.
The demon horde surged into the city like a flood.
Many demons also climbed up the walls.
Seeing this carnage, Lin Naiyue showed no fear at all.
She turned to look at Primrose.
“Primrose, step back. Mom is going in!”
In that moment, Lin Naiyue gripped her broken iron sword tightly.
‘Although my daught… daughter was already a goddess, all-powerful, and didn’t need my protection… probably.’
‘I didn’t really understand these things.’
‘Whenever I asked before, she always brushed me off and didn’t explain seriously.’
‘But I was a mother. Whether my daughter was a goddess or something else, I only knew that ensuring her safety was always the top priority!’
Lin Naiyue closed her eyes and swung her broken iron sword haphazardly.
“Don’t you dare hurt my daughter! Die, monster!”
The iron sword cut through the air.
‘Wait, I haven’t added any attack BUFFs yet…’
‘No, her mom also wouldn’t understand game terms like BUFFs.’
Primrose couldn’t stop her in time.
Clang — the iron sword struck the calf muscle of a demon that was three adults tall, with bulging purple-black muscles.
The demon was completely unharmed. But the iron sword snapped in half, the broken blade flying off.
Primrose bent her arm and placed a hand on her forehead, a little helpless.
At that moment, Lin Naiyue, a little girl barely 1.4 meters tall, was completely surrounded by several demon creatures three times her height.
“Mom—er, Hero, don’t panic. No need to dodge.” Primrose noticed the soldiers’ gazes and quickly corrected herself.
At the same time, she was utterly calm. She had already applied all the defensive BUFFs to her mom.
Now came the real show. A giant ogre raised its wolf-tooth club and smashed it down hard toward Lin Naiyue’s head.
Hearing her daughter’s words, Lin Naiyue believed them without question, but it was impossible not to feel scared.
She didn’t dodge or evade. She simply closed her eyes, clenched one hand into a fist, and placed it over her heart.
Since her daughter said not to dodge, she wouldn’t.
The next second, Boom!
A golden light glowed on Lin Naiyue’s skin. Even though it was only a thin outline, it actually stopped the wolf-tooth club cold, preventing it from coming any closer!
Seeing this, the other demons widened their dull eyes in surprise.
Then, one by one, they came to their senses and raised their weapons, furiously smashing and pounding Lin Naiyue!
Primrose, of course, wasn’t idle either. Defense was full, so her mom couldn’t be killed. But not being killable and being able to win were two different things.
A Level 1 Hero with only 3 attack power—even if those demons stood still and let her hack at them for ten thousand years, she wouldn’t be able to scratch them.
But with her attack BUFFs attached, that was a different story.
Even with only 3 attack, relying on the Fantasy Divine Domain’s number balancing—which was practically designed with their feet—it could multiply that number beyond the binary system’s upper limit!
Primrose opened her Sage’s Codex and jumped straight to the attack amplification chapter.
Over a hundred pages of BUFF lists flashed past her fingertips.
Her eyes locked onto the first one.
[Giant’s Strength Lv.max] — Strength increased by 100%!
A golden light pattern flew out of the Codex and sank into Lin Naiyue’s body.
[Swift Wind and Thunder Lv.max] — Massive speed increase!
[Star-shattering Fist Lv.max] — Physical attacks gain an area shockwave with a chance to instantly kill the target.
[Heavenly Thunder Through Body Lv.max] — Normal attacks add lightning damage with a chance to paralyze the target.
[Burning Karma Fire Lv.max] — Normal attacks add fire damage with a chance to burn the target.
[Ice Coffin Absolute Zero Lv.max] — Normal attacks add ice damage with a chance to freeze the target.
[Light of Holy Judgment Lv.max] — Damage against demon-type targets increased by an additional 300%.
[Eternal True Hit Lv.max] — Attacks always hit, ignoring evasion and any avoidance measures.
[Piercing Armor and Corroding Armor Lv.max] — Ignores 95% of the target’s defense.
[Chain Hunting Lv.max] — Upon defeating a target, overflow damage is transferred to the nearest enemy unit, applying a vulnerability effect that causes it to take more physical damage.
[Endless Battle Soul Lv.max] — Stamina is not consumed by combat actions.
Primrose piled on several dozen attack-type BUFFs for her mom in one breath, all of them max level.
She had become the strongest sage in the game, with nearly two thousand BUFF types recorded in her Codex.
It wasn’t for nothing that she had once been called the strongest human sage on the entire server.
And at that moment—
Lin Naiyue’s body surface flickered with alternating gold, red, blue, purple, and white light patterns.
She felt warm all over, as if she had just drunk a bowl of hot tofu soup. Her entire body seemed to be bursting with inexhaustible strength.
“Done. Mom—er, Hero, just go ahead and punch them!”
As Primrose finished speaking,
Lin Naiyue stopped overthinking. She simply closed her eyes and swung the broken sword in her hand forward on pure instinct.
“Hyah!”
It was a very plain swing.
No starting stance, no technique—just the most ordinary, clumsy slash.
The moment the broken sword touched the ogre’s calf—
Boom!
The ogre’s entire body exploded.
Shreds of purple-black flesh, mixed with lightning, fire, and ice chips, splattered in all directions.
The shockwave blasted the surrounding demons off the wall, shattering them into pieces midair.
The overflow damage triggered Chain Hunting, and then several arcs of light flashed. In the distance, four or five demons that had been climbing the walls simultaneously exploded.
Lin Naiyue withdrew her broken sword and opened her eyes.
She looked at the broken sword in her hand, then at the spot where the ogre had been standing—now just a smoking crater.
“Add a little more force. Finish them in one go.” Primrose stood behind her, cheering her on.
“Oh!”
Lin Naiyue swung the second sword.
This time, she kept her eyes open and swung.
There was no sound of impact, only a terrifying hurricane erupting from the iron sword in Lin Naiyue’s hand.
It swept across the edge of the wall. The line of demons that had just climbed up were mowed down, the entire row flying off into the air, already dissolving into specks of light before they even fell.
The hurricane instantly engulfed the entire wall and beyond.
Wherever it passed, hundreds of demons were instantly ground into a mist of blood.
The formerly dense demon army had a huge vacuum zone forcibly cleared by this single sword stroke.