Dan grinned he was confident in taking down the boss Chu’ka’te and threw Ursus at its core and it used “void god swallowing fist” and since it was a technique that used void it made a miniature black hole that sucked up all the jelly Chu’ka’te made.
This left him virtually defenceless and he quickly died from the constant, unending punches raging from Ursus. Unlike other monsters, world bosses just dropped coins directly on their death.
He racked up enough money to get another epic rank card and got an epic rank rock elemental 2 star. He combined with the dragon's breath turret and got an epic rank 4 star volcanic turret, this baby spewed piping hot magma.
He continued travelling and found more weird things like cults, but those were all monsters, come to think of it, he hadn't seen any humans so far and that was rare. Maybe he was just on a monster continent or something bigger was happening like a mass sacrifice or a vampire revolution.
Or maybe they were all extinct or hadn't evolved from monkeys yet. Well whatever wasn’t his business they could get themselves out of it. Anyway he decided to find more world bosses or dungeons as he could get way better loot than just normal mobs.
So in the end he kept on travelling through this new world and he found a coast and the ocean. He followed it for a while and quickly learned the sea is deadly as it has legendary and mythical rank leviathans but the coast was a great grinding spot.
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He also learned that the only reason that the drake kind and Chu’ka’te dropped 10 platinum was because they are leader monsters. Plain old grunts just gave one but we’re still hard to kill and each took an hour to fully kill.
They were two monsters, drill nose dolphins and great blue sharks. After grinding for a few days he bought 3 more and got an ultra rare mean old park ranger, an epic rank surfer and an ultra rare wind hawk.
He fused the park ranger with the centaur and acquired an epic rank 3 star centaur park ranger, then he combined the wind hawk and sleipnir to make a Valkyrie a Pegasus.
He almost cried. Finally, I can fly on some things back like a cartoon character. Aside from that he decided to leave, there were no more strong monsters for him to face that weren’t hiding outright and would be too much of a hassle to face.
While he flew over the sea leviathans and megalodons ruled they kept jumping at him so he had to stay at cloud height and still dodge the better attack of the kings which were mythical rank.
Once he finished his long journey(like 2 hours) he was eager to get off the Pegasus and actually see some real humans, maybe they had a teleportation chamber and he could visit his family.
He kept searching for a city but there was nothing here. So to distract himself he continued grinding and moving once there were no monsters in an area while flying on Valkyrie.
But he had to do it, to keep searching. When he entered the card realm he thought it was all fun and games but now Dan knew he might never see his family again unless he finds a city.
And so his efforts doubled, no, tripled to find it. He combed every place that was this continent and when he found nothing he ripped his hair out in frustration, maybe he could never see them again.
Then at that moment in the horizon was a city.
End of arc one wilderness