【Simulation of Life System Activated. Current Plot: Smelting Iron.】

In ten days, you have gathered some iron ore and crafted fifty iron spears. Your prestige within the tribe has far surpassed that of the Goblin Shaman.

The goblins have even started calling you "boss." The powerful Goblin Shaman cannot accept this situation and is preparing to kill you to reclaim his authority.

(Option 1: Design a plan to kill the Goblin Shaman, take control of the tribe, and gain +20 points.)

(Option 2: Flee the tribe, with no change in points.)

(Option 3: Abandon your prestige, submit to the Goblin Shaman, and wait for the best opportunity, gaining +10 points.)

Escape is out of the question. After all the effort I've put in, leaving now would be a huge loss.

Moreover, venturing out of here into the Demonized Forest would most likely lead to death.

Submitting to the Shaman would mean giving up on revenge, and I can't afford to wait too long.

I might as well choose the first option. Isn't the purpose of the Simulation of Life System to experiment and make mistakes?

If I fail, I can learn from the situation and be better prepared next time.

【You decide to take a shortcut by poisoning the food of the Goblin Shaman.

However, the Shaman outsmarts you by having a rat taste the food first.

Your assassination attempt fails, and you are severely injured, barely escaping.

In the Demonized Forest, you barely survive for three months, giving birth to numerous offspring and sparing no creature of suitable size.

Half a year later, you finally evolve into the Great Goblin Race—Goblin Warrior, and establish a tribe of over a hundred goblins.

Each goblin is equipped with iron weapons and armor, making your tribe incredibly powerful.

Leading this army, you return to kill the Goblin Shaman and take away the Moon.

Later, through various channels, you learn that the White-robed Nun's Hero Party is in the human territory of Bright Town.

You gather all your forces, planning a surprise attack.

Unfortunately, on that day, the Sword Saintess happens to be celebrating her apprentice Lodel's birthday, and your forces suffer heavy losses.

Only by using a magic circle exchanged from the system do you and Moon manage to escape.

Another half year passes. This time, you establish a medium-sized tribe of three hundred goblins, on the verge of evolving into a Hero Race, with three powerful subordinates.

Moon's strength has also grown significantly, and she has blossomed into a beautiful young goblin.

...

The current Simulation of Life has a maximum duration of one year and will end forcibly.

Summary: Through hard work, you have improved rapidly, but your luck has been poor, and you have faced many setbacks. May the gods bless you.】

【Score: 50 points (out of 100)

Reward: 50 Function Points

The Simulation of Life is complete, with a time progression of 365 days.

Do you wish to travel to the final stage of the Simulation of Life? Once confirmed, this decision cannot be changed.】

Neo's brow furrowed slightly.

Overall, evolving into the Great Goblin Race and almost becoming a Hero Race was quite an achievement.

The main issue was the unexpected failure to kill the White-robed Nun, which significantly slowed down his progress.

It seemed unnecessary and had already alerted the enemy.

Even if he were to travel a year into the future to deal with the White-robed Nun, the latter would be well-prepared, making it impossible to kill him easily.

In summary, the Simulation of Life was meant for trial and error, to learn from failures.

If this attempt was imperfect, he could simply retry after ten days.

Neo quickly refocused on the immediate problem at hand: the cunning Goblin Shaman.

Poisoning him had failed, so he would have to rely on brute force.

With his fifty Function Points, he decided to exchange them all for Experience Pills.

However, his current level cap was only ten, so he needed to continue consuming the flesh of powerful monsters or mating. Humans?

Capturing one would be too risky. Elves? Even more dangerous. As for monsters, that was also difficult. The only available female was his little brother, Moon.

After a moment of hesitation, Neo said, "Moon, I need to talk to you. Follow me to the forest."

"Okay, boss!" Moon jumped up, waving her small hands and striding forward with a look of great excitement.

She followed Neo into the dark woods outside.

As they walked further, the surroundings grew increasingly quiet and unfamiliar, making Moon feel scared.

She kept looking around nervously and asked in a trembling voice, "Boss, how much farther are we going?"

"Moon, what do you think of me?" Neo finally stopped when they reached a suitable distance, turned around, and looked at Moon.

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Moon was puzzled but answered earnestly, "Although I haven't spent much time with you, I think you are a very good goblin.

There is no better goblin in the world than you."

As soon as she finished speaking, Neo forcefully pushed Moon against a tree with a thud and tore off her cloth robe.

"Boss, no, what are you doing?" Moon panicked, trying to struggle and grab back her robe, but she was still too weak, not even a match for Neo.

Without the need for moonlight, goblins have excellent night vision and could clearly see Moon's appearance.

Unlike male goblins, she did not have an exaggerated large head or an especially long nose.

She only had sharp teeth and a pair of pointed ears, green skin, and pink short hair, slightly shorter than shoulder-length, making her look particularly cute.

Her eyes were even golden, filled with a hint of shyness and panic. Her small figure was like that of a toy doll.

Moon felt very embarrassed under Neo's gaze and shyly asked, "Boss, do I look strange?"

"Moon, do you like me? Those foolish guys must have made you feel very disgusted, right?" Neo was almost mesmerized and asked deeply.

Upon hearing this, Moon's face turned slightly red. She had indeed developed different feelings for Neo during their time together.

She knew he was different from other goblins and was very similar to herself.

Naturally, she had gradually become infatuated with him over time. She then lowered her head and nodded gently, very shyly.

Neo's eyes became dazed as he stared deeply into her eyes, "I'm glad you like me.

You are the most beautiful goblin girl I've ever seen. Your eyes have stars in them. Can you help me become stronger? I will leave a gift for you~"

“Boss... I...” Moon twisted and fidgeted, her green cheeks flushed with a hint of red.

Neo didn't care about any preliminaries or afterthoughts, “Moon, do you know what love is?”

“Love?”

Upon hearing the word, Moon's eyes lit up, as if something deep within her soul had been awakened.

She seemed to understand it very clearly, almost like a memory from a past life.

She stammered, her heart beginning to race, “I know... Perhaps I have already fallen in love with you, Boss.”

Suddenly! Neo pulled her into his arms, feeling her warm breath.

The more offspring a goblin has, the stronger its power and potential become—that was beyond doubt. However, becoming stronger couldn't be done instantaneously, as the goblin gestation period was about a month.

But Neo, with his Simulation of Life system, had a built-in ability to foresee the future.

He could bypass the one-month gestation period and gain the strength that came from having many children.

【Ding, the host is expected to have a total of 7 children with Moon, increasing the level cap!

Due to the limit of potential, the host gains +9 attribute attack, +100 health, and +10 defense.】

Seeing this, Neo smiled with satisfaction.

One system, double the benefits. As long as the other party had his child, he could ignore the gestation period and directly receive the reward.

However, there was something very important to note. Each race had a limit to the power that offspring could bring.

It wasn't possible to gain infinite power just by having thousands of children.

Looking at Moon, who had already fallen asleep, Neo returned to the tribe.

He still had important things to do, the iron ore in the furnace would be ruined if left unattended.

Fortunately, the few goblins he had taught were not entirely useless.

They had already smelted the iron ore multiple times, removing many impurities. It was almost at the purity needed for making iron weapons.

He then began to custom-make an iron plate for Moon as a chest protector, capable of defending against attacks to the chest and back.

The weapon could be made a bit smaller. He left the remaining iron spears to the other goblins to forge.

“Moon, still lying there, see if this fits.” After tying two iron pieces together with hemp rope, Neo quickly brought it over for Moon to try.

However, she was still lying in the nest of grass, fast asleep and sleeping very soundly.

Neo shrugged helplessly. Since that was the case, he decided to check his attributes first.

【Young Goblin: Lv7—(Cap Lv17)

Race: Goblin Class: None Titles: Lowly Monster, Blasphemer, Blessed by the Gods, Potential Deity

Health: 40

Strength: 10

Defense: 9

Skills: Genetic Devouring

Overall: 65】

His attributes had improved significantly, but it was still far from enough.

What did these titles mean? Unfortunately, he couldn't check them through the system.

Neo's eyes lit up. His level cap had increased by 7 levels!

Normally, he would only be at level 10, but with the prospect of having seven offspring, his level had actually increased by seven!

This surprised Neo. It meant that the more children he had with Moon, the higher his level cap would be, even surpassing level 100!

The legendary power of the female goblin was indeed true!

There was one difference. Normally, goblins could only increase their level cap by a fixed amount after "mating" with other species—ten levels, twenty levels, thirty levels—before they could evolve.

Offspring were actually for increasing strength, not levels.

With humans or elf hybrids, the level cap was twenty, but the potential would be greatly enhanced.

Once the potential reached its limit, it would convert into attribute points.

To further improve, one could only devour the flesh of powerful creatures.

In layman's terms, each race's females were level and potential boosters for goblins, while flesh was an experience package.

Today, Neo was truly excited. He would no longer have to worry about his level cap in the future.

He might even break through the world's rules and surpass level 100. Of course, that was a matter for the future.

For now, his potential seemed to have reached its limit. The legend of marrying and having children with a female goblin was true!

Too exhausted to stay awake any longer, he collapsed and fell into a deep sleep.

When he woke up again, he found himself being held high by many goblins.

“Neo! Neo!”

The surroundings were filled with cheers and celebrations.

Neo quickly realized that the iron spears had all been completed.

“Neo, we've finished the iron weapons. Can we go attack the elves now?” one goblin said excitedly.

Neo shook his head, “We still need to cut down some long, slender wood. The more, the better. Everyone, get moving!”

The spearheads were done, but they still needed shafts.

The key was to get all the goblins out of the way.

If they were all here, he wouldn't be able to make a move against the Goblin Shaman, who had a summoning skill to control them.

“Fifty life points can exchange for fifty experience pills, but I wonder if that's enough to max out my level,” Neo muttered to himself, exchanging them all at once.

He ended up maxing out his level and had twenty experience pills left over.

It then occurred to him that levels generally required fewer points in the early stages and more in the later stages.

He immediately checked his attribute panel.

Now, his health had reached 120, strength 20, defense 11, and overall 150.

This was still far behind humans or magical beasts. Combined, it was even less than the Goblin Shaman, who had already evolved into a Greater Goblin.

“Goblins are just too weak. I'll have to rely on equipment.” Neo muttered, putting on the simple plate armor and crescent sickle he had made.

In an instant, his strength increased to fifty, and his defense reached an impressive 30.

His overall strength slightly surpassed the 200 of the Goblin Shaman. Killing him would be no problem.

At that moment, he never expected the Goblin Shaman to come out by himself, coldly asking, “Where did the other goblins go?”

“Boss, I sent them to find materials for making iron weapons,” Neo replied with a flattering expression.

The Goblin Shaman's eyes narrowed slightly, but he just hummed and prepared to go back inside.

At this moment, Neo called out to him, “Boss, I just finished this iron weapon. How about you take a look?”

“Oh? Bring it over,” the Goblin Shaman became interested and stopped in his tracks.

If he could ambush this guy, his chances of winning would be one hundred percent. The Shaman was already old and frail, with very low health. He could be killed with just two or three strikes.

Slowly, Neo approached with the crescent sickle in hand. The Goblin Shaman's eyes were fixed on the sickle. Just as Neo was one step away, he suddenly heard him say:

“Put the knife on the ground, and I'll pick it up myself.”

Neo's heart skipped a beat! This old man was actually thinking to this extent?

He probably suspected that Neo's intelligence was too high, which was why he was so cautious.

If it were any other goblin, they wouldn't believe that there was any intention of rebellion.

The situation was becoming serious. To avoid blowing his cover, Neo had no choice but to put the crescent sickle on the ground first.