Every time he reached a new rank and unlocked a new Points Shop, the item that caught Lin Mo's attention the most was always the titles.
After all, they were the hardest things to get.
So far, Lin Mo's SSS-rank talent, Soul Flame, had advanced to the fifth stage, unlocking a total of five abilities: Equipment Incineration, Skill Incineration, Pet Incineration, Scroll Incineration and Title Incineration.
The first four were easy.
Low-tier equipment, low-level skill books, low-level magic scrolls, and low-level pets were all easy to obtain. By using these cheap items that were practically worthless on the market, Lin Mo could easily earn large amounts of Evolution Points.
Then he could evolve them into priceless golden equipment, SSS-rank skills, SSS-rank magic scrolls, and Ancestral pets.
Only titles were difficult.
Even the lowest-grade white title could only be obtained by triggering hidden opportunities or completing special achievements.
As a result, ever since unlocking Title Incineration, Lin Mo had only obtained four golden titles:
Divine Gear User, Supreme Lord, Resourceful, and World-Renowned.
Among them, Supreme Lord had been awarded directly by the system as a golden title.
In other words, Lin Mo had personally evolved only three golden titles using his talent.
Now that they had reached the second-tier main city and unlocked the Super Arena, the Points Shop had become Lin Mo's only reliable way of obtaining titles.
So, taking advantage of the tenfold purchase privilege he had earned as one of the first three players in Inferno City to reach Gold rank, Lin Mo exchanged for ten Purple Titles in one go.
"A Purple Title gives 8 Title Evolution Points when incinerated. Ten of them makes 80 Evolution Points."
"It takes at most 63 Evolution Points to evolve a White Title into a Golden Title. If I start with a Purple Title instead, it only takes 56 Evolution Points."
Lin Mo smiled.
"Time to make another Golden Title."
Even with the power of evolution, every Golden Title was still hard to come by.
So, among the ten Purple Titles he had randomly obtained from the shop, Lin Mo picked the one most beneficial to his development.
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Tamer (Purple Title):
Title Effect: The holder's deployed pets receive a 10% increase to their core attributes based on their role.
Core Attribute Bonuses:
Warrior pets: Physical Attack +10%, Armor Penetration +10%
Assassin pets: Critical Rate +10%, Movement Speed +10%
Tank pets: HP +10%, Defense +10%
Mage pets: Magic Attack +10%, Skill Damage +10%
Archer pets: Physical Damage +10%, Attack Speed +10%
Support pets: Healing/Buff Effects +10%
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Normally, players could only deploy one pet.
But Lin Mo's Golden Title, Supreme Lord, granted him one additional pet slot, allowing him to deploy one more pet than other players.
That meant other players could only enhance one pet with the Tamer title.
In Lin Mo's hands, however, its value was doubled.
Darkgold Strong-Maned Pig and the Divine Descent Seraph Siya, both Ancestral pets, were Lin Mo's greatest helpers.
Strengthening them was the same as strengthening himself, "Let's see just how strong the Golden Tamer bonus becomes."
With that, Lin Mo immediately began evolving the title.
[Ding~ Consumed 8 Title Evolution Points. Congratulations! Your title Tamer has evolved from Purple to Orange!]
[Ding~ Consumed 16 Title Evolution Points. Congratulations! Your title Tamer has evolved from Orange to Red!]
[Ding~ Consumed 32 Title Evolution Points. Congratulations! Your title Tamer has evolved from Red to Gold (Maximum Grade)!]
Lin Mo opened the title information.
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Hearts Connected (Golden Title):
Title Effect 1: Deployed pets' core attributes +30%
Title Effect 2: Deployed pets' all attribute growth +30%
Title Effect 3: When the title holder comes into contact with a pet, they can establish telepathic communication with that pet.
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This title... was incredible.
A 30% increase to core attributes, targeted exactly where it mattered.
And the 30% increase to all attribute growth was even more outrageous.
For example, Strong-Maned Pig, as an Ancestral pet, originally had an incredible 150-star HP growth, meaning every point of Constitution granted 150 HP.
With the 30% bonus from Lin Mo's Hearts Connected title, Strong-Maned Pig's HP growth increased to 195 stars, so every point of Constitution now granted 195 HP.
With both the core attribute boost and the increased growth stacked together, Strong-Maned Pig's stats became absurd.
There was no need to look at his Attack, since that wasn't his specialty.
Lin Mo opened his status panel and looked directly at his core attributes.
Strong-Maned Pig's maximum HP jumped from 2.31 million to 2.85 million (the title provides a base bonus, not a final multiplier).
His Physical Defense and Magic Defense rose from 41,000 and 42,000 to over 50,000.
Whether it was durability, recovery, or reflected damage, Strong-Maned Pig had once again received an astonishing improvement.
Calling him the number one tank pet in the entire Divine Oracle server at this stage wouldn't be an exaggeration.
As for the Divine Descent Seraph Siya, whose role was Support, her core attribute bonuses were Healing Effect and Buff Effect.
Although her stat increases weren't as dramatic as Strong-Maned Pig's, these two bonuses were a perfect match for the exclusive effects of her two exclusive pieces of equipment, the Eternal Heart and the Eternal Eye.
They greatly increased both her healing ability and the strength of her buffs.
Seeing both Strong-Maned Pig and Siya receive such huge improvements, Lin Mo said with satisfaction, "This title really is excellent."
But how exactly was Title Effect 3, telepathy, supposed to work?
Lin Mo tried placing his hand on Strong-Maned Pig's shoulder.
Suddenly, a clear voice echoed in Lin Mo's mind...
["If only I could talk. Then I'd be able to chat with Master anytime like Siya and Ah Li do, and share my happiness and sadness with him."]
["Master must think I'm boring. All I ever do is grunt. I'm as dumb as a pig!"]
He could actually... hear his pet's thoughts?
Lin Mo couldn't help blurting out inwardly, 'Holy crap!'
'This title effect is simply amazing!'
All this time, Strong-Maned Pig had always acted carefree. Lin Mo had assumed that a pet evolved from an ordinary Pipi Pig that couldn't even speak wouldn't have many thoughts.
As long as it could follow its master around, eat, play, and fight monsters, that was probably all Strong-Maned Pig wanted in life.
Only now did Lin Mo realize that beneath Strong-Maned Pig's little head was actually a surprisingly rich inner world.
So Lin Mo said to the dejected Strong-Maned Pig, "Don't worry, Brother Pig. It doesn't matter if you can't talk. I've never thought you were boring."
"You and Siya will always be my best companions."
Strong-Maned Pig looked at his master, his eyes lighting up.
He still went, "Roar! Roar! Roar!"
But in his heart he was thinking, ["Is Master telling the truth?"]
["But how did he know... Could he hear what I was thinking?"]
["So Master has never thought I was a burden. Master really cares about me! That's wonderful!"]
["This Old Pig will definitely protect Master with everything I've got!"]
Hearing Strong-Maned Pig's thoughts, Lin Mo felt deeply gratified.
Just then, he turned to look at Siya, who was standing off to the side in silence.
"If I can hear Strong-Maned Pig's thoughts..."
"Then I should be able to hear Siya's too."
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