He tried to find a path.
"Inside this token, hunting is impossible. There aren't any monsters lurking within its dimensional space. Sure, the jade deposits are present, and the enhanced drops are available as well. The nine yin demon guild's gathered resources are also stored here. But none of those things yield experience points. Experience only comes from fighting, from combat. And to fight, you need an opponent."
He stopped for a moment. "But I don't have one. There's nothing here. I'm just drifting in complete darkness, carrying my wounds and my skills. The level counter stays frozen because there's no target for me to use these abilities on."
He thought about the skill cores he had absorbed. The sixty-seven skills. Each one available and functional. He ran through them in his mental inventory that the integration had made complete and immediate.
None of them solved the fundamental problem. A skill was a capability directed at something. There was nothing to direct them at.
