The dragon's harem

Through the week Arad spent here, he had seen many monsters and slain countless beasts that he had never seen the likes of before. Probably all of them were pure nightmares, drawn straight from Merlin’s worst nightmares.

Animals and monsters were simple and easy to defeat. Monstrosities were hard, horrors left him always near death, and Terrors weren’t something he could challenge; all he could do when spotting one was hide, or let the Terror’s presence hide his.

Why would he bother fighting those powerful and deadly creatures? Can’t he just farm animals and monsters to level up? The answer was simple: this labyrinth system is to blame. Each level required three times the experience of the level before it to clear. 100, then 300, then 900, then 2700, and so on… which resulted in Arad needing too many numbers to bother reading.