In a dense forest 600 kilometers outside Frost Mechanical City, Zhou Heng lay on the Fusion Warhorse with his feet propped up, drinking Red Potions like wine and occasionally smoking a Heavenly Horse Cigarette.
The journey lasted a full ten days. Over those ten days, the Fusion Core and Heavenly Horse Cigarettes gave Zhou Heng a total of 1,800 attack, 1,800 magic, a permanent +19,000 Health, and a permanent +18,000 Mana. Each player could smoke only one pack of Heavenly Horse Cigarettes; smoking any more would no longer grant attributes. Including the extra rewards for finishing an entire pack, Zhou Heng also enjoyed increases of +1.0/s to attack speed and +1.0 m/s to movement speed.
Meanwhile, the two additional Ceramic Shards he had obtained from Eternal Krossa successfully merged into the Sakast Imperial Sword (Holy Sword). Compared to the original Sakast Imperial Sword (Holy Sword), its Killing increased to 1,000/3,000, and its Protection increased to 10,000/30,000.
Originally, Zhou Heng had planned to kill some level 21 wild monsters during the ten-day journey to let his upgraded Sakast Imperial Sword (Holy Sword) taste blood. But as it turned out, over the entire ten-day journey, aside from wild monsters at level 11 and below, he barely saw any above level 11.
He did not know whether this was because the area lay on the border of the Sakas Empire, or because the Longevity Family had really cleared out the wild monsters even in regions like this. If everything within a radius of several hundred kilometers was like this, then neither new players nor the younger generation of NPCs truly had anywhere to level up and improve themselves. The restrictions on leveling were even more extreme than he had expected.
"Pfft, pfft~"
The Fusion Warhorse abruptly stopped, as though something was blocking the