Ever since I became a nobleman, the rank has been stuck above level 7.

The Dark Elves have a racial penalty when calculating experience points, and the level they refer to is +2 on top of the current level, which means that I am not counting from level 7 to level 8, but from level 9 to level 10. Now I have to at least deal with a stronger opponent like a bear goblin or an ogre to gain experience, and of course, this is a monster with no class and no evolution.

So in the attack on the ground, the slaughter of a large number of but generally low-level villagers has almost no experience points, the experience points against the forest guards are also thinned by teammates, or the group of thugs who did it alone in the player's shop give the most experience points, but these are still far from the experience points I need to get to level 8.

Originally, it wasn't difficult to find bear goblins or ogres or stronger opponents than them, but you could easily meet more difficult ones outside the city, and the dark areas were not a safe place to visit. However, due to the recent tension in Demon Blade City, it is said that some families with lower ranks are about to move, although there is no sign of targeting our Dark Flame Family, but just in case, all nobles are required to stay in the city except when performing family tasks.

As a new member of the family officials, I haven't had enough trust from my mistress to get the opportunity to carry out the family's secret missions, so I still have to do nothing in the city. If I'm in the city to practice with bear goblins or ogres, I'm sorry, although it is not illegal for nobles to kill slaves, but slaves are usually the property of families or other nobles, and they still have to be compensated for damage to other people's property for no reason. Elephant kobolds, goblins, and goblins are the most numerous and cheapest guys I have no experience points when I kill them, and of course it doesn't mean the kind of professional riding ferocious wolves in the gladiatorial arena just now. The smaller the number of bear goblins or ogres, the more expensive they are. Minotaurs are even rarer, and it is said that the first family of Demon Blade City has a team of 50 minotaur guards, but there are very few in other families, not to mention the high price. The gladiatorial arena will sacrifice a minotaur berserker like Kuka, which is really a big investment, and it must have made a lot of money from the audience's bet.

I heard that watching others fight also has experience points, so I came to the gladiatorial arena to watch. Unfortunately, after watching many gladiatorial matches, I realized that only watching battles that are much higher than my own level will be effective. I've been here for so long, I can't say that I don't have any experience points at all, but the experience points have increased a little. Well, it's only a little bit, indeed.

Maybe it would be better to find some slaves to kill. I thought to myself, if I kill a bear goblin or ogre, plus the original experience points, I estimate that I can reach level 8 without killing 200. It's just that I don't know how much gold I have to pay to compensate the slave owner for the loss.

"Why, is Lord Scorpio interested in these barbaric performances?" The last person I wanted to see was the last person I wanted to see - Battle Commander Ayton Darkfire.

"Aren't you here to watch the gladiatorial fight?" I could.

"I just like to see blood and carnage, to come to the gladiatorial arena to kill time when there is no fighting, the fighting between these lowly slaves is just some clumsy show." Ayton replied.

"Even though you say so,." I said, "But there are also very good gladiators here, the Kuka who died just now is a powerful berserker, and the goblin Fierce Wolf Knight combination that can kill it is even more powerful, and I am afraid that I may not be able to deal with either side of it on the field." ”

"Hmph~~~ It's just some jumping clowns, and it's easy to cut their throats." Ayton replied haughtily, "It's just a vulgar show to please the audience, you haven't seen a real fight yet!" ”

Ayton continued, "If you're interested, we can have a competition, and I'll teach you the true way of fighting the Dark Elf nobles - graceful and deadly attacks. ”

Is this a provocation? I looked at Ayton closely, his smile on his face, as if he was only proposing an exercise in friendship, but I could sense some mortal danger.

Depend on! Is it true that I can't kill you! Although Ayton claims to be able to easily slaughter the combination of the Minotaur Berserker and the Goblin Tyrannosaur Knight, I can do the same - after all, the strength of a warrior depends on equipment, and how can those gladiator slaves have magical equipment like me, although it will not be too easy.

“…… I don't think I'm qualified to fight you right now, so I can only decline your kindness. I humbly said.

It's too risky to fight him now, the difference between noble NPCs and civilian NPCs is not only in the level, it's impossible to have two brushes in terms of ability, judging from the equipment on Ayton's body, he is definitely not a mage or a priest. Although the Mithril shirt he wears is most suitable for thieves, it is the standard equipment of nobles, and for dark elves, stealth operations are very important, so warriors or rangers also love to wear mythril shirts, although rangers have their own animal companions, but it is difficult to say whether they will not be used, and it is impossible to tell from the appearance whether his profession is a warrior, a ranger or a thief. I don't know the details of Ayton, but I think the level is definitely above me, and if you are not careful, the one who will be slaughtered will be me at any time......

I almost fled the gladiatorial arena in embarrassment, and it was so shameless to talk to Ayton, it hurt my self-esteem...... This revenge is not a gentleman, and wait for me to become strong and ready.

I rode the riding lizard that had been retrieved from the riding pen in the Shadows and Vipers Bar, and walked around the edge of Blade City.

To cope with the difficulties that may be encountered in the future, the first thing is to improve your strength, and raising the level is one of the ways. But it is not advisable to kill slaves, and the amount of compensation to be paid for one or two is not much, and I can afford it, but one or two hundred is different.

The Mistress asked all the nobles and officials in the family to stay in the city, and I naturally didn't want to disobey the Mistress for such a trivial matter, but I couldn't find monsters that provided experience points without leaving the city, so I had to wander around the most desolate areas on the edge of Demon Blade City, and maybe I would encounter some monsters that slipped past patrols and ran into the city, or escaped slaves. Being idle is also idle, so it's better to try your luck.

The edge of the city was desolate, and there were few signs of life, and the occasional encounter with a lone goblin or kobold would strike me away from afar, and though it might have been an escaped slave, I didn't chase after it—I had no experience with killing a goblin or kobold or kobold.

Hey, there seems to be a female voice coming from the front......

I drove the lizard and silently sneaked past under the cover of the terrain.