Taming Master

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Ian's original style of fighting was very stable.

Hunting at the highest level of hunting ground you can always hunt, you might think you enjoy the high risk, but you don't.

In one example, what Ian thinks is most important is the damage calculation.

General users use an approximate sense of the damage I will suffer when engaged in combat when attacked by an opponent.

I wonder if I can survive that technique or how much life I have left.

It was largely dependent on a sense of these things.

The rankers with outstanding skills such as Shakran, Remir, and Irahan were almost the same.

They were just a few times superior to regular users.

But Ian was different.

He plays extremely tense and cautious at the Hunting Ground for the first time.

Ian remembers thoroughly the amount of damage he suffered when he was hit by enemy monsters, and utilizes all of that information in actual combat.

Also attracts individuals to swap workshops, and identifies and analyzes their combat patterns and combat stats.

And this meticulous and perverted tendency to play has also allowed Ian to take his place.

When the tiny gains in small combat efficiency start to grow like snowflakes, it becomes a huge difference.

But now Ian had to give up his original style of play.

The ‘Time Attack’ dungeon without any prior information forced Ian to play aggressively and dangerously.

“Kaka, you keep moving about 20 meters ahead. At a constant rate. Never stop. Okay?"

“Understood, master. ”

Ian's current combat power was nothing but Finn and Carseus.

Even Carseus was struggling in a relatively weak human form because the space was too narrow for the body to contain, and the fins were also struggling to perform properly because of the narrow space.

But ironically, this narrow combat environment did Ian good.

‘It only goes through the front. Don't worry about the back. ’

The passageway is narrow enough for a pin to spread its wings.

That way, Finn's damage accumulates quickly, and Ian dismantles the pin as well.

If you fight while defending Finn, you can fight more reliably, but if you do so, you'll only have to delay your movement time.

‘As soon as possible, we need to get Carseus through. ’

Boo-hoo-hoo!

Ian bludgeoned toward the fishermen who were rushing towards him with a trident.

Fortunately, the level of enemies inside the dungeon was much lower than Ian thought.

‘I thought of a minimum level in my late 300s…. ’

Monsters have a level of 270 to 300.

Ian guessed that the level of dungeon monsters was lower compared to the field difficulty because it was a 'Time Attack Dungeon’ that needed to be cleared in time.

“Carseus, if the path is just right, go straight ahead. We don't have time to kill everyone and move. ”

Carlos nods at Ian's words.

“Understood, master. I thought we should move faster if we didn't. I can feel the Guardians' energy getting closer. ”

Ian has set all of his attack skills to focus on 'abnormal’ skills.

Started with a current-proliferation skill that I hadn't used in a while, I also switched on equipment with options that were abnormal.

Ian's goal was not to kill his enemies, but to keep them from following him.

Ian reaches the entrance to the lower floor, lying down the door and dumping the car as fast as he could.

[You have entered the Dragon's Altar on the ninth floor.]

[Time Left - 00: 09: 28]

Ian grips his teeth.

‘Even if you fail the quest, you must get as much as the female owner. ’

When Ian first entered the dungeon, it was on the 25th floor of the Dragon's Altar.

Ian started to move when he had 19 minutes left, so if you calculate the approximate time, he broke through one layer in about 40 seconds.

There were nine floors left to get to the bottom, so it seemed that there was enough time to think about it.

But it wasn't like that.

The Dragon's Altar was a structure that expanded gradually as we descended to the lower floors.

That is, the more time it takes for the breakthrough to go down.

‘I like it. It's not Quadras difficulty for no reason. ’

Ian breathes, but moves desperately.

It was because I couldn't give up on one last piece of the puzzle to win the Dimensional War.

* * *

20 minutes feels too short.

The 20 minutes that broke through the Time Attack Dungeon could have been as short and as long as it was short, but the time was too short for Ian to complete the quest.

On the contrary, there was one person whose 20 minutes felt like 20 hours.

LB headquarters at 4am, when almost all employees leave.

Sitting alone in the monitoring room, I watched the footage, even in cold sweat.

He had a very nervous look on his face and was focusing on the screen, removing his neck as if it were almost sucked into the screen.

“Shit, that's not it. This is really bad. ”

Najchan always, relaxed (?) I was watching Ian's video.

And until a little while ago, I was watching Ian's video like I was watching a movie.

But even then, I couldn't keep my composure this time.

It was not for any other reason.

How could you do this? A quest that I did not know, the planning team, was triggered. ’

Ian almost moved according to Nazchan's prediction.

Even though the quest was going so fast, the process to reach the Dragon's Altar was exactly as Nazi predicted.

Even when he climbed on Finn's back and found the hidden entrance to the bottom, it was somewhat within Najchan's prediction range.

‘But the Time Attack Dungeon... doesn't exist in my memory at all. ’

The hidden entrance at the bottom was originally a ‘shortcut’ when you complete the Summoner Quest related to the female owner.

It was a place designed for users to find information from NPCs.

But Ian found his shortcut with intuition, reasoning and ‘luck’ as a gamer, without a series of processes.

Najchan, who has seen so far, loved applauding.

He was a fan of Ian's, and his ability to know Ian, as long as he found a shortcut, would be handed to him without a crowd.

Work will increase if content is consumed quickly, but Nazchan was happy to work.

However, the moment I entered the hidden ‘shortcut', an event I did not even know was triggered.

‘No events should be triggered... until they are discovered by the Guardians...' ’

And intelligent Nazi Chan was able to guess what had happened a few minutes later.

‘This is a prescription for herbal medicine to prevent Ian from getting a female owner. Maybe some executives single-handedly instructed the development team to create a temporary event. So you must have done something crazy. And I didn't get a good look at Ian's abilities. ’

But that wasn't a problem.

I understand enough about the development team that would have wanted to stop Ian even if he rushed a new event.

The problem was that this time attack dungeon had been rapidly escalated, so it had a fatal problem.

‘Ian wouldn't be able to move like that, and he wouldn't be able to... If only one of us had succeeded in destroying the barrier and entered through a dimensional door.... ’

The moment the Dimensional Gate opens, the balance inside Kailan will collapse.

It was never supposed to be open right now.

However, the development team or supervisor does not fully understand the content of accurate planning.

They just wanted to make Ian unable to proceed with the quest.

That's why I had to prevent Ian from approaching the women.

However, it would be difficult to completely change the structure of a system that had already been developed in a short amount of time, and the development team would have chosen to increase the difficulty by slightly twisting the existing system.

It would have been a choice because he did not know the risks it had.

Najchan was restless in front of the screen, like a poop dog.

‘Please, Ian. Pay attention to the dimensional door and find the female owner. Please.'

Najchan continued to contrast Ian's pace of progress with the time remaining in the corner of the screen.

And when you have two minutes left.

Kung-kung!

The stone gate, which was blocking the bottom floor, opened with a heavy sound.

* * *

You have two minutes and 20 seconds. ’

Ian quickly examines the structure of the map, entering the lower level.

Unlike the endlessly winding passageway, the bottom floor was a structure in which many rooms were divided into tiles.

Ian had not yet fully illuminated the map, but some reasoning was possible with the information in front of him.

“Damn, which way do I go? ”

In Ian's first room, there were two doors leading to the next.

One door was to the left, and the other door was to the front.

Kaká, who was flying over Ian's shoulder, suddenly leaps forward.

“Master, I can feel the dark energy over there. ”

“Dark Energy? ”

“Yes. It's the most intense darkness I've ever felt in my life. ”

Ian's head begins to spin fiercely.

"Darkness? Darkness..." The female owner has nothing to do with the Dark Energy... ’

Ian assumed it would be related to the 'Dimensional Gate’, a clearing condition for the Time Attack Dungeon.

Ian asks for Carseus.

“Carseus, don't you still feel the power of feminism? ”

Carseus replies with a slight frown.

“I don't know, Master. I think I can feel the energy from the west... The energy between us is too strong to know for sure. ”

The energy of intimacy is the dark energy Kaká talked about.

Ian had no time to think.

“Then move west first. ”

Kaka asked with a puzzled expression.

“You feel the dark energy in the north, my lord. Perhaps there will be a seal there, and if we don't destroy it, the master will not be able to survive. ”

Ian quickly moves back and forth.

“Even if I die once, the mistress is more important now, Kaka. Don't be silly. Follow me. ”

The NPCs within Kylan's worldview know that the death of users does not mean complete extinction.

Even when summoners and wizards died, it was a system that was resurrected again, so it was even stranger not knowing it.

“Tsk, but I don't want to die... ”

Kaka grunts and follows Ian, while Carseus quietly clears the way in front of Ian.

But then...

Boom, boom, boom!

In front of Ian's eyes, the ground began to crack.

“Move!”

Ian and Carseus split to the sides, avoiding the rocky splinters, and a gigantic creature that had never been seen crawling out of them before.

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