In the world of Ethereal, Ethan had just finished killing his fiftieth Soulrender. As expected, a new system notification popped up.
Ding…
[System Notification: The nurturing of the Prismatic Stone, Phase Three Progress: Kill 0/500 Soulseekers.]
The sheer number of kills required made Ethan's jaw drop. At his current pace, it had taken him ten hours to kill fifty monsters. Five hundred would take a hundred hours, but the quest timer only allowed seventy-two. With just fifty-eight hours left, he wasn't sure he could finish in time—and who knew if there would be a Phase Four after this?
But he had no choice. He had to push through. Even if he wanted to quit, he couldn't. His Teleportation Stone was grayed out, unusable.
Checking his experience bar, he saw he was at Level 41, 94% progress. The only silver lining was that the monsters here gave an insane amount of experience. Killing one of them was equivalent to wiping out an entire group of mobs in the Life Greenhouse.
