Without further delay, now that Argo had told him about a member strong enough, Fang Zheng immediately got to his feet and had Argo lead him to the person.
"She'll be easy enough to find."
As Argo led Fang Zheng into Starting Town, she spoke.
"Not only is she very strong, but her level is also high. To be honest, quite a few guilds have tried to recruit her. But her condition is harsh: she'll only join if someone defeats her in a duel."
"Oh? Her level is high? How high?"
"Slightly lower than yours. Level nineteen."
"Nineteen..."
Hearing Argo's answer, Fang Zheng froze for a moment, then frowned. In his view, that leveling speed was somewhat unexpected. Although the girls under his command had basically reached that level as well, they had done so through almost sleepless, nonstop grinding.
Yet according to Argo, this person spent three hours every day holding duels in the central plaza. That meant she probably was not the sort of hardcore fanatic who leveled by endlessly farming monsters. And under those circumstances, reaching level nineteen left only one possibility, unless there was a system bug.
Fighting monsters above her level.
How interesting.
Fang Zheng could do that as well, but he had no intention of doing so. There was no point in only raising his own level. Besides, the maximum level limit on the first floor was only twenty-five. In fact, the experience Fang Zheng gained had been dwindling, and farming monsters in the wilderness now yielded virtually nothing.
If she were merely fighting monsters above her level, Fang Zheng would have suspected that she was trying to die—just like Asuna before. She looked fierce, but in truth, she had cast everything aside, like a flame trying to burn on until it was completely