Closing the video, Chu Tian crawled out from under the thorny bushes.
He had previously stolen a dragon egg and used a random scroll to teleport here, then logged off while hiding.
After several days, he logged back in, still in the same spot, not having moved.
At this moment, the most important thing was to level up and stabilize his ranking.
He checked the cooldown on his necklace's teleportation gate; he could return to the Survivor faction.
However, once used, he would have to wait another seven days for it to cool down before he could come back here.
At his current level, returning to the Northern War Zone offered no higher-level areas for him to quickly gain experience.
In the Survivor faction, the highest-level monsters in the war zone were only level sixty.
Only after opening the war zone boundaries would higher-level monster areas become accessible.
Since that was the case, he might as well stay on the Slaughterer side. This was an open map.
As long as he explored the map or knew the coordinates, he could find monsters of any level.
He now needed to find monsters of level sixty-one or higher to grind.
This would ensure the fifteen-level leveling reward, while also not being too much of a level disparity to hinder grinding efficiency.
After careful consideration and checking his current coordinates,
Chu Tian recalled a location.
However, the monsters there were a bit too high in level.
It was a level sixty-seven monster area, and they were all elite monsters.
But, the monster distribution was quite scattered.
It didn't meet the requirements for fast mob grinding, but the levels and quality were high.
The experience gained would naturally be high, and soloing elite monsters at a higher level was not slower than grinding mobs in groups.
Moreover, this was the closest known location.
If he wasted time traveling, he might get attacked from behind while on the road.
Once the direction was decided, he headed straight for his destination.
Ten minutes later, Chu Tian arrived at a hilltop.
This wasn't actually a mountain, but a tomb.
Legend had it that it was the burial place of an ancient founding general.
The first level inside had monsters that were level sixty-seven elite monsters.
It was said that countless guilds on the Slaughterer side had tried to conquer this map.
But they had only managed to reach the eighth level before retreating.
They had no choice but to return in defeat.
Each level of this place increased the monster level by ten.
By the eighth level, the monsters were already level one hundred and forty-seven.
Furthermore, the monster density on each level increased with each subsequent floor.
More importantly, on the ninth level, the entrance was guarded by an endless number of ranged monsters called Javelin Corpse Guards.
Anyone who entered couldn't withstand even a single volley of their concentrated fire.
Before Chu Tian's rebirth, the highest level in the world was one hundred and forty-nine.
Stealth professions like Rogue and Druid had their highest levels only in the low one hundred and thirties.
It was impossible to stop a group of stealth players from entering to clear the entrance.
Monsters at level one hundred and fifty-seven suppressed players at level one hundred and thirty.
Therefore, before his rebirth, this map named General's Tomb had never had anyone see its final level.
No one even knew how many levels General's Tomb actually had.
Monsters had already started appearing on the way up the mountain, but they were all minor monsters, and quite scattered, not suitable for grinding experience.
Upon reaching the mountaintop, a massive portal appeared.
Beyond the gate were stairs leading down, shrouded in darkness.
Awoo…
Strange sounds came from below.
Accompanied by a terrifying aura.
Chu Tian transformed into his Starlight Leopard form and stealthily moved downwards.
[Ding… System Prompt: Map General's Tomb discovered, Reward: 500 experience points.]
Discovering a map only yielded five hundred experience points, the system was truly stingy.
Chu Tian remembered a previous game where exploring maps gave an extremely high amount of experience, causing countless stealth professions to rush to explore maps for leveling.
A few minutes later, he received another five hundred experience points.
He had entered General's Tomb for the first time.
As soon as he entered, he was met by an elite monster dressed as a farmer.
He already knew that the monsters here were more than fifteen levels higher than his current level, so he didn't bother using an investigation spell.
The entire first level was filled with these monsters.
They were called [Corpse Guards].
However, Chu Tian didn't want to confront them head-on.
This monster held a large wooden club, making it look formidable.
But this guy seemed to have some kind of perception, as it instantly turned its head towards the entrance.
Chu Tian quickly changed his posture and moved inwards along the wall, staying in stealth.
The last time he was here, he was level one hundred and ten.
Using his Rogue profession, he had passed right by this guardian monster.
It hadn't even detected him.
Now that his level was lower, he truly felt vulnerable.
He walked along the wall for ten minutes, still not reaching the end. He didn't know how large the first level of the General's Palace was.
However, checking his coordinates, he was close to the location.
Bypassing all the blocking Corpse Guards,
He finally arrived beneath a broken stone pillar.
After circling halfway around, he saw a corpse lying there.
"This is it…"
Chu Tian quickly stepped forward and began searching through the remains of this skeleton.
Beneath it, among its tattered clothing, he found a scroll.
It's good to be here early, Chu Tian thought with a secret delight, looking at the scroll in his hand.
He immediately opened the scroll.
[Ding… System Prompt: Detected Quest Scroll: [Clear General's Tomb 1], accept? Y/N]
"Yes!"
He had delayed this long just to find this; how could he not accept it?
Opening the quest panel, the description was simple: kill monsters.
The quest required killing Corpse Guards: 0/30.
Chu Tian knew this was a repeating quest.
Anyone who searched this corpse could obtain a scroll.
It was as if the scrolls regenerated.
He spent a lot of effort to get this quest because it offered a high experience reward.
It was a percentage of experience based on the player's current level.
Each completed stage directly rewarded 5% experience.
It could be completed five times a day.
Players who were level seventy and above could no longer accept this quest on this level.
Therefore, Chu Tian had always believed that this map was actually a daily leveling spot for players in the Slaughterer faction.
With quests like these, if it wasn't a leveling map, what else could it be?
Putting away the quest panel, Chu Tian began to observe his surroundings.
The area around him was filled with the remnants of giant stone pillars.
He suddenly noticed a stone pillar about six to seven meters high.
With it as the center, within a radius of 40 meters, there were five Corpse Guards.
Seeing this, Chu Tian's eyes lit up. What was the most satisfying way to grind monsters?
It was to trap them and attack mindlessly…
Activating his stealth and the shoe skill, Swiftness,
He dashed past one of the Corpse Guards.
Just as he expected, this simple-minded, farmer-dressed Corpse Guard holding a club, immediately spotted him.
Wielding its club, it limped behind Chu Tian.
Its movement speed was incredibly slow.
Chu Tian paid it no mind and stopped about ten meters away from the broken stone pillar he had spotted earlier.
He activated the shoe skill, 'Leap'.
This skill increased jump height by 300% and lasted for 10 seconds, with a cooldown of 10 minutes.
The moment the skill was activated, he leaped upwards.
His body traced an arc, reaching a height of about five meters.
He also activated another shoe skill, 'Double Jump'.
This allowed him to step on air mid-air and perform another jump, with a cooldown of 1 minute.
His body rose again, and when he reached about nine meters, he landed precisely on top of the dilapidated stone pillar.