Chapter 121: B2: C21: Master Ranker
While Zarian spent the past four months studying to seal his Overwhelming Darkness, his fellow Floridians had taken separate routes to advance themselves. Just like him, they’d often committed to tedious, less rewarding tasks.
However, they hadn’t studied volumes of books to create a legendary technique. Instead, they’d dealt with clearing random packs of weaker monsters or lifting rubble from a fallen hill of fortresses off a trapped adventurer. Or, in Naomi’s case, having to pick up something big and lift it a bunch of times in between drills with the youngsters.
That hadn’t seemed like much. And it hadn’t been, especially for Naomi, Bianca, and Gilbert. So to maximize their growth, those three had to find stuff to do day-in and day-out, almost nonstop and with little rest other than the bare minimum.
These simple and well-known words, ‘Welcome to the grind,’ summed up that part of their lives after the Darkrun Apocalypse.
Naomi had focused on her stats and pushing herself beyond her limits. She’d kept developing her physicality and her Aura Ignition with the help of her psychic abilities.
Bianca had focused on dealing with her trauma after being brainwashed by traditional good. She’d gone on adventures to fight and meditate on how free good +5 worked, which was different from traditional good.
Gilbert had leaned more toward being a major support for their young guild members and for foreign adventurers. He’d often saved lives at the expense of being a drunken human meat shield and taking more and more punishment.
Unlike the other three who’d often gone out into the wilderness for multiple days to weeks at a time, Hannah stayed in Ride-or-Die Village. Hannah’s way of grinding and growing had come from completing many side quests that were related with the village or crafting or enchanting or all three.
The System truly seemed to favor Hannah and went as far as providing enhanced levels with higher than normal vitality when she’d accomplished her quests. Granted, she alone had uplifted the sole human bastion standing against the wolf dragons, wolf kobolds, and the savage creatures of the northern frontier.