The oneshot was an error my apologiesoneshot? Feels like it is very much not a standalone work, and rather depends on your having read ~78 prior chapters
Between that, and the distribution. Considering that most of the fighting that's happened over the course of the story (that I binged in two days), including two higher-level dungeon bosses, has just been him and Luce.Oof, only two levels gained. You can feel the high level exp grind showing.
This is also the first time they've been a party of 4 instead of a party of 2, so the XP would be halved compared to normal (and some games are even more punishing than that, having an XP penalty for larger party sizes).I got used to this story using bloated numbers on the purchase value of items that 2000 XP sounds a tad too little for the difficulty they just faced. Then again, I forgot how much XP they usually get.