One of Us
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Although the experience and silver rewarded for each [Minor Tentacle Plant Demon] was quite high, thanks to its high level and ability to regenerate, it took their team a long time to take it down.
But Emilia obviously knew that the forest surrounding the capital of Fire Kingdom wasn't an ideal place for newbies to farm experience, and even if they ventured deeper and searched for some other 'prey', their experience wouldn't be any better.
After forming a party, they could obviously pick any one of the remote cities that they'd originally come from and have a much easier time.
The reason Emilia led them here, though, was simple.
Grinding small mobs might be easy and efficient, but only taking on more challenging foes would prepare her team for tougher fights.
Of course, the fact that the drops from these monsters would help increase their reputation in the capital when sold to the right place also helped.