The next day we started decusing the plan. The knight girl will the the tank, the duchess is a priest and princess is a magic swordswoman. So we have one tank one supporter and two damage dealers.
The plan is simple we will spend the next killing monsters in the outer area until the 3 girls all hit level 300, then we will see if it is possible to complete the quest, if it is we will do it if it's not we will move on too the inner area and try to kill the 10 level 400 ants we need to to complete the quest.
The strategy worked great, in just 2 days all the girls hit level 300, this is do to two reasons. First of all I used my fire arrow skill to wound but not kill all the ants we came across letting the girls finish them off. Secondly all the girls have a genius title, The knight girl and the duchess have the epic rank title 'genius' giving them 2 times as much EXP and 25 luck, the princess has the legendary rank title 'true genius' giving her 5 times as much EXP and 50 luck.
I also leveled up a couple of times but sadly I'm not even close to reaching level 400, even with the 100 times EXP gain any level 200 monster I kill is like a drop of water is a endless ocean. But looking at the girls advancement quest I have a great idea on how to get great EXP very quickly, it seem they need to kill a level 300 area boss, what surprised me about there quest is that they can have the help of any one below level 400. I guess it's because they need to kill a level 300 monster but still it's unusual to say the least.
Area bosses are basically a big bag of EXP walking around it's more then 50 times more then a normal monster of the same level and the items they drop are often special instead of materials and equipment you can get skill books and things like treasure maps or recipes.
This may not look like much but it's way more difficult to get then any thing else, the only way to get skill books is to get them from some one that has mastered the skill, from a doss monster or find them in the willed like in a tomb of some old dead mage... The skill books I both are all from other mages that sold the books.
I used my 'god's eye' skill to look for any area bosses near by and it seems we are in luck, one day from here there is a cave inhabited by white cats.
White cats are considered a very rare monster, the reason for this is that they can use healing magic and can potentially evolve up to the mythical level making them empire level bosses.
The fact that they are one of the few monsters that can use high level healing magic and have high agility makes them one of most wanted pets for any monster tamer.
By the way the knight girl needs to kill 100 level 300 monsters to advance and the duchess has to reach the senior level in any sub-class to advance. The area boss quest is for the princess.
We decided to set of immediately, I made sure to choose the route with the most level 300 monsters for the knight girl to hunt in the hoops of her advancing by the time we are back at the ant hill.
The following days weren't to interesting we made it to the cat cave and killed our way to the white cat boss, it was a easy job to do, these cats only have agility and healing magic, this made it so that if you don't kill them in one hit they will just heal but against a OP mage and a legendary rank magic swordswoman they didn't stand a chance. I just pity the knight girls and the duchess they didn't do a thing the entire time.
I can see the look of disappointment in there eyes, I guess it's because there family's never let them leave and now that there finally on adventurers and now that they finally escaped there family they still can't do a thing. Well it's not like they didn't do a thing, they made sure to take all the corpses of white cats over level 300, obviously they gave me the cores and I stored them all.
When I asked them why they want to take all the corpses the only response I got was:
«They can be made in to potions.»
I guess they still don't want to talk to me, it's kind of awkward but I can hold out, as a man that spends days and some times weeks on end without talking to any one in real life I'm quite used to the silence.
By the time we made it to the boos I was already level 361 and the fire arrow skill is at 64, because of it not having a cooldown and my absurd MP quantity I can level it up like there is no tomorrow, any other mage will have to wait for the cooldown to end and then wait for the MP to recover before using it again but not me.
The fight with the boss was easy with the knight girl using control skills on the cat and me and princess spamming out skills none stop we were able to kill it in about 10 minutes. Just as I expected the EXP was so much that even divided by 4 I leveled up 6 times.
On the way back knight girl was able to complete her advancement quest and leveled up to level 306 in one go, by the way princess is level 312 and by the time we were back at the ant hills I leveled up to level 374.
I didn't open the cats core just jet because it can have more then 5 items in it and with the space those items occupy I can take 100 level 30 cores with me. Back at the hill he decided to go directly to the inner area I plan on becoming level 400 before we go back to the city so well have to do a lot of killing but that's not realy a problem for us.
I only pity the duchess because of her never having had a sub-class she can't even try the advancement quest. Because of her background there was never a need for her to learn any kind of sub-class, the people with sub-classes mostly have them as there job and way of making a living.
The inner area of the hill's isn't that different from the outer area only the level of ants went up and they are considered ant soldiers instead of normal ants. We spend about 4 days hunting here I made sure we wouldn't find more then one ant guardian at a time, ant guardian is the title given to any ant that reaches level 400+. in just these 4 days we killed 7 of these guys and I got all the way to level 382 not a bad start.
But on this day I noticed a anomaly, two ant guardians are fighting each other. After some quick investigation I found the reason. It seems two of the ant kings, ant that are level 500+ are about to start fighting each other, because of there extreme power they can't fight underground so they have to come to the inner layer.