Unstoppable Strength: Leveling Up from a Mine Slave

[Traditional fantasy] [Half power fantasy]

Blackscale Mine, an underground hell where daylight never reaches. Lin Yan has spent three years of his youth here, with nothing for company but a cold pickaxe, whip marks soaked in blood, and a will to survive that grows more numb by the day. Then, one day, the flesh between his thumb and forefinger splits open again, and a few drops of blood seep into the pickaxe handle. A cold, mysterious interface slowly lights up in his field of vision:

[Strength: 0.9 (+)]

[Assignable points: 0]

Spend points, and you grow stronger. One point of strength gives you a hundred jin of force. Simple, brutal, and utterly unreasonable.

It starts with cracking the first slab of hard “Ironback Rock,” with lifting a basket of ore he could never have budged before, with the first time he straightens his barely perceptible spine beneath the overseer “Blackheart Zhang’s” whip... Lin Yan knows that something has changed.

Deep in the mine, the only sounds echoing are no longer the desperate blows of pickaxes. There is also the beating of his heart, growing louder and louder, like a war drum. Every bit of strength he accumulates is a silent punch, quietly thrown at this world that devours people.

But the waters of the mine run deeper than he imagined. There is the overseer’s greedy scrutiny, the mine boss’s brutal oppression, and the martial master who, according to rumor, rules the mining district like a savage beast... Revealing even a fraction of his strength could bring utter ruin.

He has to keep this light hidden, accumulating strength bit by bit in the narrow gaps between whiplashes and schemes, until he has enough to

Cracking stone is only the beginning.

Shattering iron reveals the edge.

When his points are full, he will burst through the earth in one mighty leap