Karutan

Karutan sits in the east of the MU Continent. High mountain ranges ring it in, which makes it a shut-off, barren region that is hard to travel in or out of. Its north-west was the Ashen Tower, crowded with monsters, until the nomads of Karutan joined strangers who landed from an unknown continent, drove the monsters out and founded a new civilization.

The older community map list puts Karutan above level 160 and links it to the Master Level quests; its exit leads to Aida. The map has a second part, Karutan 2. Monsters: Poisonous Scorpion, Bone Scorpion, Orkus, Golog, Crypta, Crypos, Condra and Nacondra.

• Classes: the Rage Fighter is described as a rightful heir of the Karutan Royal Knights, and the Grow Lancer's Alacran Lance, made mostly from Karutan scorpions, was used by the temple's royal guard knights there.
• Quests: monsters here (Venomous Chain Scorpion, Bone Scorpion, Orcus, Gollock) drop items for Marlon's quest (see 2nd & 3rd Class Quests).
• NPC: Weapons Merchant Bolo in Karutan sells the Pandora Pick (two-handed) for 100,000 Zen, used to mine Jewels of Pandora.
• Underground: Emperor Muren Rexmillon built the Kardamahal Underground Temple in a cave in the south of Karutan, using relics of the wizard Etramu Renos.

The peace did not last. While the monsters were being subdued, the magic circle of Kardamahal that kept powerful creatures sealed under Karutan cracked more and more until it blew apart. The freed monsters rushed to the surface, the mountains around the central stronghold twisted into new terrain, and the creatures from Kardamahal took over this Distorted Karutan, attacking every adventurer. It opened in the second phase of Season 19 Part 2 (February 18, 2025).

• It is an elemental hunting ground: the monsters that appear there carry an element (see the Elemental System).
• The monsters have excellent and critical damage rate resistance, elemental critical damage rate resistance, damage absorption and debuff resistance.
• MU Helper Plus can take you straight to the main or sub-main spot of the element you pick.
• The map has a Safe Zone; if your character dies or the connection drops, you come back there.

Main drops: Excellent Lightning Armor and the Excellent Socket Necklace. The monsters are the Twisted Crypta, Twisted Gollock and Twisted Condra, all level 900 and all close-range fighters.

An Elite Zone Flag stands at the entrance of the Elite Zone inside Distorted Karutan. The Elite monsters there use an Elite Skill and an Elite Debuff option: whenever they damage you, the debuff lands every time (100%) and hurts you. Like bosses, they cannot be affected by things such as Divine Punishment, and a Guardian with the Elite resistance option softens their debuffs.

Besides the normal loot of the map, Elite monsters have drops of their own. A few of them have a weekly cap that resets every week.