Chapter 35: Red Team Leveled Up
After tossing the newly looted Cragstone and shoulder armor onto the trading platform, Isaac headed straight back into Venommist Forest.
It wasn't until he started grinding the spider den again that he realized something was off—XP gains from the level 8 mobs had been cut in half. Only then did it hit him: he was already level 11.
Even though there were plenty of Elites here—seventeen per full wave—the lower XP from the regular mobs made the grind less efficient.
He already had full Venommist Sets, a handful of poison fangs, and dozens of materials. Finally, Isaac decided it was time to push deeper into the forest.
As he pressed on, venomous spiders continued to crawl from the undergrowth, now level 9 and even level 10 in some spots.
Isaac didn't bother clearing them. He just waved Red team forward.
"Yeah, no way regular players are gonna make it through this place standing around," he muttered while casually enjoying the scenery. "Gotta keep moving."
Soon the terrain shifted—the thick forest giving way to a towering bamboo grove.
"Ooh, scenery change. Gotta hand it to Aegis—their art and worldbuilding are insane." Isaac stopped to soak it in.
The bamboo was thicker than anything he'd seen in real life.
But then... something felt wrong.