Killing Deathborn and leveling up didn’t actually conflict at all.
Caelan could completely keep hunting Deathborn while raising his level at the sa ti. After reaching the peak of 4-star, he could continue completing the [classmutation quest], and fully remove the seal on [Wax Effigy Core (Sealed)] as well.
In short—one move, multiple gains.
Still, Caelan wanted to break the seal on [Wax Effigy Core] as early as possible.
He was genuinely looking forward to seeing what kind of effect it had—after all, it was the most valuable reward in the entire [Killing Tower]!
Should he find the Deathborn’s nest and drop a nuke on them?
...But that sohow felt a little immoral.
Of course, Caelan didn’t really care about that kind of ssy moral nonsense.
The real problem was this: Deathborn nests were rarely discovered, and once one was found, the authorities would wipe it out with thunderous force.
Unless...
Unless he could find a Deathborn nest that hadn’t been discovered yet!
But that wasn’t easy. Who knew how many eyes were already watching that juicy piece of at.
On top of that, Caelan was facing another issue—ranking up his dinsional level was costing more and more gold coins.
At the beginning, even a small skill only took a few hundred million gold coins to push to lv99999. But now? Any random minor skill needed at least 2 billion gold coins.
And that wasn’t even counting awakened skills!
The mont he thought of that, Caelan realized sothing else—
Making gold coins was just as urgent.
How is it that the stronger and higher-level I get... the poorer I beco?
So in the future, he had to be much more careful when learning skills.
Gold coins didn’t just blow in on the wind, after all.
He already had enough offensive thods for now, so when choosing skills going forward, he should lean toward utility and functionality instead.
Caelan silently laid out his next plan.
Once everything was settled in his mind, he drove once again to the Instance Control Center.
If he wanted to find traces of the Deathborn, then without a doubt, the Instance Control Center would be the most well-inford place.
And just as he stepped through the door, Marov was already coming up to him.
"Honorable Mr. Caelan, how may I assist you?"
As he said that, Marov rubbed his hands together, his face full of anticipation.
Caelan knew exactly what the man was hoping for.
But today, Caelan wasn’t planning to sell anything he had on him.
"I’m not here to sell items today."
Marov paused for a fraction of a second, but the smile on his face didn’t change at all.
"Even so, Honorable Mr. Caelan, we will still serve you."
Caelan nodded, then directly asked Marov about Deathborn nests.
However, Marov answered with absolute certainty, shaking his head hard.
"Honorable Mr. Caelan, you don’t actually need to keep fixating on Deathborn nests. According to data from the past few years, the Deathborn distribution has already blood everywhere. It’s impossible to confirm where their nest is."
"But... if you need a Deathborn heatmap, I can provide that."
Caelan froze slightly, confusion flickering through his eyes.
Heatmap?
Marov, on the other hand, smiled and explained.
"A heatmap is a direct visual representation of Deathborn density within a certain area. If there are enough Deathborn in that region, the heat value will be higher. Conversely, if there are very few Deathborn in that region, the heat value will be very low."
In just a few short sentences, Marov made Caelan understand the heatmap’s value.
If Caelan wanted to grind Deathborn, then the heatmap would be an extrely important guide.
"Then I’ll leave it to you," Caelan said, not refusing, but nodding instead.
Marov delivered as reliably as ever. In less than three minutes, he returned with a heatmap.
But unlike what Caelan had imagined, it wasn’t an ordinary map at all.
It was an item.
More precisely, it was a map-type item that updated in real ti based on the Instance Control Center’s data.
Which ant this [heatmap] could update Deathborn distribution in real ti—basically like live navigation.
He really hadn’t expected the Instance Control Center to have sothing this good!
Instinctively, Caelan lowered his head and checked the Deathborn distribution in the surrounding area.
And very quickly, he realized sothing—
In this world, the sheer number and scale of Deathborn existence far exceeded his imagination!
To be precise, ever since the ga invaded reality, the entire world had undergone massive changes.
Whether it was the overall landmass, or the bizarre, unthinkable incidents that kept popping up—everything could be described as endless and constantly escalating.
Even now, although most of the human race lived within city-states, in the unseen shadows, there were still countless unstable factors lurking inside those city-states.
Caelan sifted through intelligence related to the Deathborn.
Very soon, he discovered that the numbers and suspected incidents had already reached a shocking level.
[Southwest—Rodri City: suspected attack by a Deathborn King. City-state defensive formation has been activated. No casualties for the ti being.]
[Haver City-State Reminder: Eliminating Deathborn is everyone’s responsibility. Within the next ten years, Deathborn will completely reshape the human race’s structure.]
[Warning! Deathborn are gathering. A massive number of Deathborn have been detected in the Abyssal Valley. Their objective is unknown!]
...
Looking at it from this angle...
Unlocking [Wax Effigy Core (Sealed)] didn’t seem that hard after all.
As long as he could find Deathborn, everything else was a small problem.
And then...
When Caelan saw reports about Deathborn devouring children’s hearts and blood, his fists clenched so hard they practically crackled.
This kind of thing had to be wiped out—down to the last one.
Once I grow strong enough—whether it’s monsters or these damned Deathborn—every single one of them will be completely exterminated!
Caelan chose a region on the heatmap,
then directly used [Flashstep], and his entire body vanished from where he stood.
...
Southwest border—Rodri City.
The situation here had already beco critically dangerous.
Although the city-state’s defensive formation had been fully activated, even so, the enormous curtain of light ford by the barrier was still being assaulted nonstop.
If this continued, no one knew how long the formation could hold.
Most of Rodri City’s awakeners had already rushed to the battlefield.
The ones left inside the city-state were mostly ordinary civilians.
These civilians looked up at the barrier overhead—so fragile it seed on the verge of collapse—and fear spread across their faces.
"Are we really going to die?"
"So unwilling...!"
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