That day after Elliot retreated in front of the humanoid monster he had kept on walking and hunting inside the forest, just like this a few days had went by. His routine had became killing, sleeping, eating. It was everyday the same thing but every time he absorbed a soul he felt stronger and stronger and he never got bored of that feeling.
This time it had already been 15 days that Elliot was in the breach, it was the longest time he had ever spent in one go inside it but since his family was set with a lot of spare money and lived in a good place he felt reassured and kept on hunting.
That day when the fifteenth night was approaching Elliot walked over to an extremely high cliff, he stood on the edge and looked down but all he could see was an ocean of clouds painted red by the setting sun. The scene was so beautiful that Elliot couldn't resist and pulled out his cellphone to take a picture, although he couldn't use things such as calls and internet in this world, as long as his phone still had battery he could use the offline apps.
He stood there and enjoyed the view until the sky went completely dark and then he heard a horrible shriek, it didn't sound like a human could produce this sound so Elliot guessed that must have been a monster and the sound came straight from below him.
'Scary... alright time to sleep.'
After looking below one last time to check what it was that had made this sound Elliot decided to sleep there, he climbed a random tree and closed his eyes. Recently this was how he slept and he always woke up energized, he would just close his eyes but stay aware of things happening around him through hearing and sometimes looking at the map that he almost never closed.
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The next morning Elliot woke up earlier than sunrise because he wanted to enjoy the view of the cliff so he ate his breakfast while waiting for the sun to come peeking out, when he was done he took a few steps towards the cliff to sit down but was surprised by the emptiness.
All the clouds were gone and he could see straight beneath him was a castle surrounded by high walls and the mountain, it looked extremely old and a lot of parts of the surrounding walls were broken and had fallen inside the castle and so Elliot guessed this must be an abandoned castle.
'That shriek from yesterday... is there a monster living inside this castle ?'
As Elliot was thinking of a way to sneak in the castle and steal any potential treasure he remembered his class.
'Right I'm a Shadow knight ! I can definitely sneak in and out using the Stealth skill.'
[Stealth : Any image, sound or presence emitted by the user will be erased; high leveled existences will be able to detect the user; certain type of perceptive spells will reveal the user.
5 mana / 1 minute.]
Elliot looked at his 500 mana stats and realized he could stay in a stealth state for a total of 100 minutes at once if there was nobody to reveal him.
'Alright now it's decided I'm sneaking into that castle but how am I going down?'
As there was no path Elliot walked next to the cliff for a long time until finally he felt like he was going down, the cliff must have been around 2 whole kilometers high so of course Elliot wouldn't try climbing it down, even if he had a rope he still wouldn't and anyway the rope he had was only 20 meters long and he had left it in he grotto.
'I feel like I've already walked 40 kilometers, how long is this going to take ?'
When Elliot was starting to get bored of walking on as straight line the land had finally started going down, this plateau was so huge that Elliot had started thinking it wouldn't ever go down.
After another long walk the cliff finally joined with the ground and Elliot was able to do the reverse road to reach the castle. He didn't realize it but he had already went way past the range of the breach on his map, this place he was now was completely unexplored by earthlings and he was the very first one to discover it.
[Congratulations to the player Evans Elliot for discovering a new terrain : Deep plateau.
Reward : Experience x5 for 5 days.]
The sudden pop up surprised Elliot, he was used to seeing them but never so suddenly when he had done nothing to get it, it usually appeared when he killed a monster and absorbed his soul but right now he was just running.
Then he looked more closely at the content and he gasped.
'Huh? Wait what the hell I never heard about this ! Does this mean that I was never the first one to discover the places I've been to ?'
The situation made him think about a few things such as : 'Leo's village was rather close to here since he wasn't the first to discover it or else someone also had been sent there during a quest but this was a real world so events shouldn't repeat themselves.'
He didn't think long about what it meant and looked back at the insane reward, if he had known that discovering new zones was so worth then he would have started hunting in those zones awhile ago !
He kept on running towards the castle and was quite disappointed that there were no monsters to attack him, the map around him was completely void of red dots but when he was back in range to see the castle on the map he realized a green dot was speeding at a surprising speed towards him, it looked as if he was riding a car but Elliot was well aware that there were no adventurers from earth here, he just stood there with dagger in hand and waited for the green dot to reach his line of sight.