The 17th year of the simulation

[You have learned the special skill, Life Retrospection. When your physical abilities approach their limit and you enter a near-death state, if you still have a strong will to survive, you will recover 30% of all physical functions. The special skill cannot be leveled up.]

[Due to your strong will to survive, a miracle happened. Life Retrospection activated, and you feel your body's condition gradually improving. However, Life Retrospection didn't fully heal your injuries, but you are already very satisfied with this. After evolving into an elite-level creature, you will gain slow regeneration. As long as you properly recuperate, your condition will recover to its peak.]

Upon seeing this, Gobro, who had been observing the simulation text, was stunned: "He actually survived like this? No wonder, you're the other me."

[In the second year, you struggled to survive in an unknown plain. The war from a year ago left you with serious aftereffects. Now, whenever you fight at full strength, it will trigger the old injuries, so although you are an elite-level creature, you can only exert a strength slightly stronger than an ordinary creature.]

[In the third year, you worked hard to train your skills, but progress was slow.]

[...]

[In the sixth year, you gained the special skill, Wounded Combat. When your body sustains a certain level of damage and you fight enemies, all attributes increase by 30%. The special skill cannot be leveled up.]

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[In the ninth year, your slow regeneration evolved into full regeneration. Because of this regeneration, your aftereffects were mostly healed. You can now use most of your strength. You know that with a little more time to recuperate, your injuries will be completely healed. So, you remain cautious during this time. After hunting enough food each day, you return to your nest to rest and heal, while also training your skill levels.]

[In the tenth year, your injuries have fully healed, and after ten years of refining, you feel that you can break through to the elite level at any time.]

[In the eleventh year, you advanced to leader-level creature, Goblin Warrior. Similarly, you evolved through the primal evolution path. Your regeneration skill evolved into High-Speed Regeneration lv.1. You gained a new skill, Goblin Guard lv.1, a new skill, Wild Roar lv.1, and the talent, Leader's Pressure. Your talent Small Stomach evolved into Medium Stomach. Your attributes have increased significantly. Additionally, your body grew again, reaching a height of three meters, becoming a normal seven-head proportion. Your figure is now well-proportioned, with muscular physique all over. Your appearance has also become much more handsome.]

[You realize that your strength has changed significantly, but you have no plans to leave the plain. Instead, you remain here to continue refining your level.]

[In the twelfth year, you worked hard to train and improve your skill levels.]

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[In the sixteenth year, you accidentally ate a fire-element spirit herb. The intense fire element rapidly eroded your body, and you felt intense pain. A month later, you mutated into a Flame Goblin Warrior, with fire attribute damage added to your attacks. Your skin turned red, and your level cap increased by six. You also gained new skills: Primary Fire Control lv.1 and Fiery Body lv.1.]

"Isn't mutation supposed to only increase the level cap by five? Why did it increase by six this time? Could it be that there are different qualities even within beneficial mutations?"

[In the seventeenth year, a new adventurer team arrived in the plain region. You originally planned to stay hidden and ignore them, as usual, but a blonde, blue-eyed girl with an angelic face caught your attention. You decided to secretly observe this adventurer team.]

[Before long, this new adventurer team encountered an elite-level monster. Since encounters with human adventurers happen occasionally, you knew the average level of the new team was around level 10. However, humans possess equipment, so their actual combat strength is much stronger than that of the monsters.]

[However, human adventurer teams generally lack experience, and facing such a high-level monster from the start is very dangerous. For the girl's safety, you decided to secretly monitor whether there was danger.]

Seeing this, Gobro fell silent: "The other me, what are you doing! This isn't the time for romance!"

However, the Gobro in the simulation clearly couldn't hear his own call and continued observing whether the human girl was in danger.

[Soon, the human adventurer team started fighting with an elite wolf-type monster. In just one strike, the wolf-type monster bit and killed a warrior from the human adventurer team. The strength of this team was weaker than you expected.]

[The remaining two girls and a boy were so terrified by this scene that they couldn't move. You, overwhelmed by the girl's beauty, decided to step in and help. Just as the wild wolf was about to attack its next target, you rushed out and struck the wolf's head with an iron rod you picked up from the plain. The wolf's head exploded like a watermelon.]

[You glanced at the remaining three survivors and noticed the look of despair in their eyes. Dragging the wolf's corpse, you walked toward them. The remaining male warrior and another female mage ran away in terror, while the blonde, blue-eyed girl sat on the ground in despair. She could sense that you were targeting her.]

[Standing in front of her, you didn't rush to attack but instead asked, "Hello, do you need help? (Human language)"]

[Hearing your words, the girl was stunned for a moment and then stood up, shocked, saying, "You speak human language!"]

[Human language is the language from your past life, so you can speak it. You nodded heavily and continued, "Yes, I speak human language. I saw you were attacked by wild wolves over there, so I came to rescue you. But my appearance seems to have scared your friends away. Sorry about that."]

[Hearing you speak again, the girl was in a state of shock. She never expected that your appearance was to rescue them.]

[After a moment of silence, you said to the girl, "Do you need me to escort you out of the plain?"]

[Hearing your words, the girl was stunned for a moment, then nodded firmly. You both started the journey back.]

[On the way, the girl asked why you could speak human language. Using your strong logical language ability, you fabricated a touching story about how you were once saved by humans as a child. The girl was moved by the story you described and became closer to you, the goblin who maintained friendly relations with humans.]

[And because you evolved into a Goblin Warrior, your appearance isn't considered ugly, and in fact, you look better than many humans, so the girl adapted quickly.]