Grinding to the Max Level in the Tutorial of Dark Souls 

Edit: There's a typo where I wrote 249 months instead of 219. You don't have to tell me about it. If this does well maybe I'll do similar videos for the other games...

That’s some nice tutorial of how turn yourself into a IRL Hollow

Imagine. You’re a high schooler at the end of your high school graduation. This is the proudest day of your father’s life. You walk up, take your diploma, and look to the audience for your dad. Except, he’s not there. This IS the proudest day of his life, but thats because he’s finishing up his Undead Asylum level 713 run he started the same day you were born. He’s not your dad anymore. He’s a Giant Dad.

Ironically....this challenge will land you in an asylum.

18.29 years non stop of gameplay... Call me crazy, but I think someone in the future will dedicate their whole life in doing this

I hope no one throws their life away by attempting this.

Did this for 54 years, is now 72 years old... Dies from falling off the edge trying to get back to Undead Asylum

Imagine doing this and then discovering you can get max level by abusing soul-duplication bugs

The real challenge is to keep your console or PC on for 18+ years at a time without it dying on you.

Plot Twist: Gael did this and that's why you see him Hollow at the end of the Ringed City

Imagine someone uploading a timelapse where they do this and you can see them aging

The thought of leaving that many souls lying around gives me anxiety

Just so we’re clear, you’d be killing yourself 10 years into this run to store half of the Souls you’d need in a bloodstain, grind for another 10 years, finally level up, collect your 10 year old blood stain, and then level up again. That’s. Insane.

That's how much time I spent on character creation

This what a gamer gets when he reaches hell, he is forced to do runs like this forever

"why do we need Humanity" Asking the real question here

"we simply need to calculate what it'll take" - a virginity, mental health, and physical health.

Please don't do it. The idea of it is traumatising

The actual jail time for the undead in the asylum is determined by how fast they can reach max level

I can just imagine someone having a kid and going "son, for the next 18 years, you're gonna be grinding me out" and when the kid turns 19 he finally realizes there was an entire game besides that level...

Dude, I thought to myself years ago, " What if I just killed hollows in the Asylum, how long would it take to get op?" Thank you for this because I forgot about that thought till being recommended this.

Imagine. Somewhere in the future, a man sit's alone in his apartment. Being, in his mind, the last survivor of the 2021 apocalypse. Still continuing the challenge he set himself to do before the world ended, for what was left to do but that? He's almost done it, max leveling a character in the undead asylum, as he's acquiring the last souls from the knight, he breaths a sigh if relief. Returning to bonfire by dropping of the asylum ledge, he forgets to realise that his health is low. As he drops, the pure bliss of this challenge comes to its end. He hits the battle room floor. "YOU DIED"

Imagine getting maxed souls by this method, then dying when trying to get back to your blood stain.

This hidden challenge unlocks Dark Souls eternal night playthrough. Total game is as dark as catacombs and the moon is constantly up. All bosses roam freely like regular mobs in their respective areas.

Imagine dedicating your life to this, only to find out someone completes it a month before you do...

Legends say, after this is done you get access to elden ring Edit: well well well looks like someone has done it, because elden ring is coming out soon ! Edit 2: IT HAS ARRIVED

I appreciate the extra effort in adding all of the souls and noticing the soul limit. I feel like if I did this video, I may have missed that.

You can greatly increase the amount of souls by starting with the hunter and using a soul glitch with his 30 arrows and the soul you collect. Turning those 200 souls into 6000 souls. While it won't reduce the amount of time by any significant amount, it is still a good bit of info for someone trying to get a good pvp or pve build early as you can use ~2000 of those souls to get to 999 arrows and then you can power level that way. You can get to SL 99+ before the Taurus demon and even use a master key to be able to upgrade a chosen weapon to +5 before the Taurus demon. I plan on using this for building an Artorias Build.

This was VERY well made. Hats off to you friend.

im good...

“Who’s up for the challenge?” Literally nobody:

Imagine being one of the hollows being farmed for 18 years

Imagine doing this then leaving the asylum to pursue the undead quest

i imagine this as a new circle of damnation in hell

This is totally what the pendant is for and afterwards you will talk to the new character near firelink that sets you towards that secret third ending. It's the only thing people havent tried.

Can’t wait to see the full run

A tutorial on how to go hollow in the Undead Asylum. Pretty lore friendly actually

So basically, whoever started doing this has approximately 7 years left, and whatever amount of meth it takes to finish this challenge.

Imagine doing this After 18.29 Years You're now literally a Skeletal Hollow.

The fact someone out there might be attempting this at this moment in time ...

3 hours of being on RU-vid yet only around 300 views? TREASON!

Just enough time before elden ring releases

I’ve teach my newborn son this strat. I was so happy when he successfully finished his first attempt! Now he’s 21 years old, 713 level in DSR and it’s time to show him what an alcohol is.

Keep in mind a few things tho. Firstly) If you level strengh, your damage goes (probably higher) and after a certain point, high enough to get the 20% of the one hollow. Secondly) The more stamina you have, the faster you can clear a run, so leveling strengh and stamina is important.

100k views! That's insane. Thank you so much everyone, the response to both videos overall has been lovely and I'm extremely excited to be making more videos. Maybe we should do more stuff, too... Hey what are you doing Friday? You should come over...

This was an amazing video for the amount of the subscribers you have. You deserve more attention

Tbh ive always wondered this for all souls games, kinda cool its being covered

This dude is literally me but more insane. You have no idea how much patience I have when I grind. Once I start, I can't really stop.

I can barely stand grinding the same spot for 30 minutes and this mad lad spent 700 hours grinding the tutorial levels of all 3 Kingdom Hearts? Fuck. That. Noise.

This is absolutely brilliant! Quality stuff This video also made me want to check out the rest of your channel, and was pleasantly surprised to see another video about Walking Simulators where you talked about some obscure games I'm interested in. Needless to say, you just earned a sub!

Thank you for doing the mathematics and time stamping much appreciated ✌️

I can only imagine how torturous this would be if this was the all Gwyn run but with regular enemy soul drops

I already spend 18 years regretting life, I have nothing to lose.

But what if you kill the Asylum Demon repeatedly (for those who don't know, it will spawn again if you quit out immediately after it dies)

Love these types of videos.

What a sick video! Bravo!

Broken sword deals little damage( laughs in zero Lenny )

Yes sure spend 18 years to make a vid about this so that people would say "Wtf is that old game" :)

That parry sound effect for the result was gold.

I thought you were going to do this challenge but after hearing the time needed it's understandable

I truly hope he makes videos on the other souls games. Since DS2’s world design leads you straight to Majula (the level up area) I’m hoping the challenge would be faster. DS3 on the other hand, oh boy looks like the 999999999 bloodstain trick will be needed again

Just watching this left me exausted

Imagine programming an AI to do this task for you in 18 years

I’m excited to revisit this video in 18years after you’ve completed the challenge at hand

GrindGod sounds like he needs some serious help....

inb4 5 million views

lol that descripion. Thanks for the video,very interesting.I cant imagine someone doin this even tho theres allways one outhere who may attempt it.Hopefully he or she doesnt die after dies to recollect the rest of them souls.That would be something else.lol This is literaly the most accurate definition of been Hollow if someone does this. Insane.

Soo.. When I was a kid I did the same thing to kingdom hearts. Maxed out my level on tutorial island. The game was really hard for me at that point so I planned to benefit from all of the "easy" levels I could get. I remember the in game timer read over 100 hours before I left the island level. This intro sparked a fond childhood memory. Thanks!

Sounds good. I'ma have to try this. See you all in 18 years

Yeah, this challenge definitely can depict hell. Imagine being forced to do this and be free when its done. I really got scared.

That's chilling when you say "who's up for the challenge?." 🥶

This has the same energy as doing all the side quests before the final boss

so reasonably to do this your looking at 25 years, pretty sure u could convince prisoners on a life sentence to do that

Grindgod be like: finally a worthy opponent. our battle will be legendary! His twitch chat: *starts sweating*

First you had my curiosity. Now you have my sub.

That’s insane dude!!!

this challenge would take more time than i have been alive at the time of writing this comment.

Bonus fun fact: by the time you finish doing this, some new Elden Ring news might come out.

Thanks, I'll put this on my list of challenge runs to do once we upload our brains to computers.

One thing: In the example you used to set the optimal time per run, you were using the dagger. Starting as a sorcerer, can you still kill the shield hollow while using the longsword with one backstab, or is the higher crit damage of the dagger what allows the one-backstab kill in the first place? Given that you're gonna be using longswords for the vast majority of the run, if it were the case that it took more than one backstab to kill that shield hollow with it, that would relatively significantly increase the average run time. Anyway, regardless of that little tidbit/realization/question/curiosity, this was an amazing video. Stumbled across & watched the DS2 one first and enjoyed them both greatly. Great work, you've certainly gained a subscriber in me! 😊 Edit: Spelling.

I tried this and I unfortunately only got to level 46 before I gave up

Yeah I done it I just wasn’t recording

I first saw this video like two weeks ago and man I still can’t believe this

I'm so glad you just did the math

Would you want to find out how long it would take if you duplication glitched that soul item? That sounds interesting as well

You are not a sane person if you attempt to do this for any more than 1 hour, and even that amount of time is questionable and super boring Good vid btw

There is a nice trick with the soul item, its a nice glitch and if your doing it by area technically you could do stray demon and the black knight too.

This series is underrated!

I was like: ye i can prob put myself to do such a stupid thing but then i heard the 18 years

The grind god dude should try getting all 99s on a HCIM in OSRS lmao

i played and finished this game 3 times 5 months ago.. now this feels so nostalgic to me like this game was part of my childhood lmao

If someone wanted to do an actually possible run, I would suggest hitting the softcap on all stats Soul level: 248 Vitality:49 Attunement: 50 Endurance: 40 Strength: 40 Dexterity: 40 Intelligence: 50 Faith: 50 Souls required, 37,326,487 You'll notice that resistance is absent and that is because it has no softcap and would be 99 which would triple the soul requirement to 103,103,173. Based on the math in the video this would take 3,535 hours or about 150 days, which while entirely unreasonable would technically be possible. Alas, it would appear this run is not meant to be.

Me and the boys waiting for elden ring be like...

I watched your video with great pleasure, but I must say that the mathematics and logic of such a wound are imperfect. Your starting class is Sorcerer. Why don't you use your farming spells? This will at least nihilate the factor of weapon durability. I can assume that at the start of the game 1 Soul Arrow does not kill Hollow in one cast, but do not forget that the character will sooner or later raise Dexterity and Intelligence to a sufficient height and spells will do much more damage. The same goes for Strength and Dexterity, which scale weapon damage. At some point in the game, you will be a one-shot of any enemy in the location, regardless of the luck or failure of the backstab. Yes, the backstab brings more souls - but the need to do it successfully also takes 2-3 seconds, which in total increases the time of one run.

Hey! I really love Dark Souls and actually thought about trying something like this before. Now I know not to. :D Really great video!

Lovely video. Thank you for not making it 10 minutes or longer long

I rather do some glitches that will take a few minutes or hours.

so basically it's not impossible?

This reminds me of a manwha I read where the main character gets transported to another world and gets trapped in the "tutorial" area. He then proceeds to master the tutorial area before getting sent to the "main" area massively OP.

I‘ll come back in 20 years in the hope that someone managed to do it