Presumably, the dean thought that Su Ce was still despondent about his awakening and chose to give him some more time.
As soon as Su Ce walked out of the city gates, he was stopped by a young man in chainmail. "Hey, brother, where are you planning to farm monsters? Do you want to join our Iron-Blooded Mercenary Group?"
Iron-Blooded Mercenary Group? What an old-fashioned name.
"No thanks. I'm just walking around."
After casually replying, Su Ce immediately blended into the night.
Although it was late at night, and there was almost no light around, this only posed difficulty for ordinary people. To Su Ce, who had 68 Spirit, it wasn't an obstacle at all.
His physical fitness had already reached more than five times that of ordinary people. His vision and perception were both very keen.
Even under the dark light, he could see everything around him.
[Prompt: You have entered Cool Breeze Wasteland.]
The notification in front of him caught Su Ce's attention.
Cool Breeze Wasteland, what a fitting name. Su Ce nodded in approval while looking at the land around him that didn't even have an inch of grass growing.
He continued walking.
The stars and the moon were shining, and the entire place was silent.
This quiet scene didn't last long. Su Ce had only walked in the wasteland for a few minutes before a few hammertail lizards targeted him.
Fortunately, the levels of the hammertail lizards weren't high, so it only took him a few minutes to clean them up.
[Prompt: Obtained Bacterial Slime x2, Black Prismatic Rock x1.]
This is a good start. Su Ce picked up the black rock on the ground and raised his eyebrows slightly with a smile.
The hammertail lizards that attacked him earlier seemed to be the signal for monsters to attack. Just as he finished collecting the drops, he heard chaotic footsteps in the distance again.
[Prompt: You have been regarded as prey by a swarm of plague rats. Automatically entering combat!]
Looks like today is destined to be a sleepless night!
Su Ce shook his arms and took the lead to attack the rat swarm not far away.
He killed wave after wave and even a few high-level monsters. Soon, new monsters came knocking on his door.
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Over the next three hours, Su Ce fell into a bitter night of constant battles.
Fortunately, the monsters in the Breeze Wasteland were not too strong. They were basically around Level 20.
Even the stronger ones were only Level 25.
But there were too many monsters. Since Su Ce started fighting the rat swarm, he hadn't rested for even a few minutes.
Often, as soon as he finished off one group, another would come.
In three hours, Su Ce had killed more than 200 monsters.
He relied on his powerful basic attributes and the bonuses of the Dragon Spear and Dragon Scale Armor skills.
At two o'clock in the morning, Su Ce dragged his tired body and finally found a decent place to stay the night in a cave near a hill.
He sprinkled some beast repellent powder at the entrance of the cave, then set up a tent and fell asleep, exhausted.
The earlier bitter battles had earned him more than 30 pieces of earth materials, as well as some other materials and equipment.
His experience bar had also been filled once, and he was only 10,000 experience away from reaching Level 30.
But these continuous high-intensity battles had exhausted all his stamina, and he had even had to use a recovery potion.
A light snore sounded in the cave, accompanied by the occasional chirping of insects outside the cave, playing the song of the night.
It was unknown if Su Ce had chosen a good location or if the effect of the beast repellent powder was good.
Su Ce wasn't disturbed by any animals until he woke up at eight o'clock in the morning.
After washing up quickly, Su Ce left the cave and continued his unfinished journey.
While walking across the wasteland vigilantly, he was holding a fragrant egg pancake and eating it.
He looked very satisfied.
If I kill another twenty monsters, I'll be able to reach Level 30 and be closer to my goal. I hope the drop rate of the earth materials increases a little today, Su Ce thought while looking at the rising sun in the distance.
In the wasteland, his figure looked slightly lonely.
He walked on the dry and barren ground, his footsteps very cheerful.
On a steep mountain path, he held a straight wooden stick and destroyed the bushes along the way.
From time to time, he took out the map to take a look, happily checking the distance between his current position and Boulder City.
Su Ce estimated how long it would take him to arrive, his expression full of hope. I should get there by tomorrow morning.
[Prompt: The Eye of the Dragon God has activated. There is a random mystic realm 1,300 meters to the right. Status: Unexplored.]
Hearing the sudden system notification, Su Ce immediately closed his eyes and focused on sensing the information brought by the Eye of the Dragon God.
A few seconds later, his expression immediately became excited.
Random mystic realms, as the name suggested, were mystic realms that could appear anywhere at any time. The production of mystic realms was related to energy dispersion and spatial chaos.
But the probability of one appearing was not high.
In addition to the fixed dungeons in each city, random dungeons and monsters scattered outside the city were the main places for Professionals to improve their strength.
But because no one had ever explored random mystic realms, the opportunities and dangers inside were also greater than those outside.
Moreover, the probability of a random mystic realm appearing was very low. Usually, by the time other Professionals received the news, the mystic realm had collapsed because the final boss had been cleared.
So after hearing the system notification that there was a random mystic realm nearby, Su Ce was very surprised.
He didn't expect that while he went out to lie low, he would actually gain something unexpected.
Thinking of this, Su Ce immediately started rushing to the location indicated by the Eye of the Dragon God.
On the way, he was looking forward to what treasures would be inside.
After all, regardless of the size of a mystic realm, there would definitely be boss-level monsters inside.
The stronger the monster was, the higher the reward would be after defeating it.
Based on the monsters inside the Breeze Wasteland, he could deduce that the final boss's level would definitely not exceed 40.
After he circled around a small mountain peak full of rocks and weeds, the view in front of him suddenly became clear.
A few hundred meters away, Su Ce had already discovered the location of the mystic realm, and he became even more excited.
He could clearly see that the space there was distorted compared to other places.
At the same time, under the distorted space, there were some architectural ruins that looked rather historical and clearly didn't belong to this era.
But when Su Ce arrived near the mystic realm, he found that there was already a group of people entrenched not far away from the entrance.
The group of people was sitting on the ground, seemingly discussing something.
There were four of them, two men and two women.
From their clothes, he could tell that their equipment was very good. They looked quite extraordinary.