Gilthunder currently felt like shit, he came to this place under orders to investigate and found a dragon. Then he found an unknown mercenary group and now this fucked up situation. The man dashed as he stabbed shadows that tried to attack him.
"What the fuck are these shadows? They seem high-level but move somewhat slowly. Are they all unbound?"
While the shadows were of pretty high level, they did not have stats in the thousands. This became the limit of solitary leveling. A level 25 Novice could have higher stats than a peak [Adept] so long as they got into a strong battle harem.
Of course, fighting experience and the rest of the system would grant more rewards to the [Adept] but stat wise it remained a universal truth that a bonded system user would perform better than one who is not. And so long as Gilthunder didn't get surrounded he would never lose.
