Hearing the old man's words, Ethan glanced at his level: 21. Experience: 3,661,650/3,808,000.
From memory, he calculated that leveling from 15 to 21 required roughly 5.2 million experience points. Adding in the 3.6 million already in his experience pool, he realized he'd accumulated close to 9 million experience points in total.
With his Gathering skill casting at one-second intervals, he earned 3,000 experience points per minute, or 180,000 per hour.
That meant he'd been here for at least 50 hours.
Of course, gathering wasn't a constant process; there were interruptions. The old man had said he'd been here for three days. That was probably accurate.
Which meant he hadn't logged out in three days.
"So… you're saying my body in the real world is…" Ethan hesitated, asking the question he dreaded.
"Yes," the old man confirmed.
"On Earth?" Ethan pressed.
"Yes."
