Right after you flee the returners hideout, you have the river part where you have the infinite loop.....being the crazy rpg kids that we were/are lol, we got to level 20 (one hit kills against every enemy at that point) and then taped down the A button on a turbo controller...for 3 straight nights lol. Saban bum-rush or Terra ultima on Ultros ftw!

Just FYI: Our other go-to area for leveling up was on the Floating Continent....in addition to the ninja enemies, there's a monster-in-a-box fight (it's Hades Gigas, dude looks like a yoked Charlie Villanueva with a receding mullet and diamond in his forehead) where if you kill off all of your own characters except one (Celes because she's the first character you get afterwards and so every character will be at her level), you get ridiculous experience points. Also, unlike the ensuing iterations on PS and GBA, you actually keep all your earned experience points while keeping all the items you had at the save so you can rinse and repeat. We have a level 50 and a level 85 save here.

Lastly, best area to level up espers....the desert right outside Miranda (where you also get the Shadow-Realm dreams so you can level up while potentially dreaming while you recover at the inn.) 10 MP from Cactrot and 5 MP from the ugly, hoover vac looking monster(vanish -> x-zone works every time on this thing).

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<--The drought is over

"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS

"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left."
-Kobe speaking to investigators

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