Taming Master

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- Oh, what's going on here, Mr. Hines?

- One moment, please. Otherwise, YTBC employees are running all over the place to find out what's going on.

- What is Ian's summoned voracious portal?

- I'm not sure yet, but my guess is Ian's ingenious strategy using portal overlap.

- Overlapping portals...?

- Yes, it opens another portal on top of which hordes of soldiers will come, sending those who came in through the portal elsewhere.

- Oh, I can't...!

-Check out who's coming from the horse system and where they've been sent, but Ian Gad's ability to respond is immense!

- Yeah, I think I know what's going on, thanks to Hines. Hines' understanding of the game is also remarkable.

- Haha, thank you.

- Mr. Hines, by the way.

- Speak, Lucia.

- So, how did the users of some of Ian's unsuccessful portals evade the trap?

- Luck.

- Yes?

- Just got lucky, fell at coordinates a little off the portal.

- Aha!

- But come to think of it, it's a little ambiguous to call it luck. Maybe it's worse luck.

- Why not?

- The users who were moved through the portal, they might have survived, right? Whereas all the players left in this battlefield will not be exempt from death penalty.

- Hoho, that, too. So you're saying, I'm really curious what's inside that portal?

- Hahaha, I'm with you too, Lucia. You'll see soon enough.

Boom!

Job-supporting-!

With a loud crash, the screen of the TV burst black enough to fill one wall in the living room.

It was because the man watching TV could not overcome his anger and threw a remote control at the screen.

“Ian, Inohm...! ”

That's what men are.

He died without even knowing it. As soon as he logged out, he called Kylan's headquarters.

Since he died of a bug, he called to ask for his penalties to be restored.

I have to reconnect and do something, so I need you to recover your character for at least a second.

Without a doubt, Iran, who thought it was bug-induced death, went to his counselor, but the voice that came over the phone was consistent.

-Customer, this is a game over during normal game play. We're sorry we couldn't be of more help.

It was an unbelievable, completely unreliable answer.

The next thing Irahan, who could not overcome his rage, did was turn on the TV.

To find out what happened, I turned on the YTBC broadcast.

And right now, the truth that I saw on the broadcast was truly shocking.

It was only after realizing that he was dead because of Ian's cowardly and despicable scheme.

“Ah, Ian, I can't eat this and it won't cool off! ”

Irahan, filled with anger, cried out in an elongated voice.

But there was nothing I could do.

All Irahan can do is wait for the death penalty to end.

And after a while, I suddenly remembered something.

- This time I want you to kick Ian's ass.

- Huhu, are you confident?

If we can't catch him in the best of circumstances, we should delete the character and turn over Kailan.

- Why don't you just make me a promise that I can keep?

I remembered the conversation I had with Samuel Jinn, the parasite, when I remembered his white face.

“Ah, damn it. ”

Now Irahan, who had lost even the power to be angry, settled down on the couch.

If you fail to capture Ian again, you have your word that you will remove the character and terminate Kailan.

It was because Samuel Gene, who was a cunning man, could not remember that promise.

“No, this wasn't a fair fight. I have no reason to delete the character. ”

As if he was mesmerized by something, he shakes his head and mutters eloquently.

Irahan began to self-rationalize as best he could.

“Yes, I didn't even confront Ian once.... You don't have to keep your promises when you're being mean. ”

Even he knew it was irrational rationalization.

Anyway, Irahan said, "If I don't catch Ian again, I'm going to fold the character. It was’.

But instinct continued to deny it.

“Yes, once the Death penalty is over, I'll have to go after him somehow. Then Samuel Jean will have something to say to that prick. ”

Irahan, who had already lost his mind, had also forgotten that the chaos gate had been destroyed and the way to the human world had disappeared.

* * *

"Stop the secret passageway bombing..."? ’

After reading the full text of the quest, Ian felt a bell ringing in his head.

‘This is really dangerous. We have to stop them! ’

The dungeon where the expedition's users are now was a secret passageway deep underground.

If this place falls, there is literally no way to live.

‘We don't have time for that, but getting a 24-hour Death Penalty makes it too difficult. ’

Ian grips his teeth and quickly climbs on top of Harley.

“Guys, we're running out of time! We need to get in there as fast as we can! ”

And like Ian, rankers who were aware of the situation started to move quickly.

Though Ian may not be as judgmental as the situation, they are also among Kailan's top rankers.

Once you have checked the quest window, you will realize what is happening now.

“Wizard, Haist! ”

“Assassins run first! ”

Ian, who even triggered Harley's unique ability, rushed through the dungeon and dug inward.

Several undead monsters blocked the way ahead, but Ian ignored most and infiltrated the interior.

Because we didn't have time to attack them.

‘Ugh, I thought I killed them all……. ’

Users of the horse system that remained in the dungeon, without entering the portal, were hunted by the expedition's users, not long enough.

Ian didn't even think there would be any surviving users.

‘I was so unemployed. I should have been more precise... ’

Ian blames himself, but in fact, there was nothing wrong with him.

He had no reason to care about the survivors of the Horse System unless he had known something like the Dungeon Blast Quest would be created.

After all, Ian and the expedition users were struck by lightning, penetrating the undead with all their breastfeeding power.

Has it been like 20 minutes?

- Tyring!

In front of the expedition's users, a gloomy system message came to mind.

- The Dark Crystals are starting to react to Margie.

- It awakens the dark forces that used to sleep.

- After a while, the Dark Crystal erupts sequentially.

- Time until detonation: 00: 04: 59

“Ha……. ”

As soon as I checked the message, a short sigh came out of Ian's mouth.

It was because the thought of 50,000 moments had gone through my mind.

‘Dammit, I wish I'd known...' We shouldn't have broken through the Chaos Gate. We should have gone through the Dimensional Gate. ’

The dimensional door that Ian summoned will close after a certain time.

And it wasn't that long.

In other words, at the moment when the dungeon explosion was predetermined, the way to open the portal disappeared.

I tried using the comeback stone, but the message that came to mind was exactly as I expected.

- This area cannot use the 'Return Stone’ item.

- You must clear the dungeon before you can return to save points.

Such a desperate situation.

The expedition's users were almost determined, and time was running out.

But Ian had no intention of giving up.

‘If you think about it, there must be something else. That was desperate enough, but you got over it, right? ’

Ian raised his voice to the expedition's users as he stood before the Spirit King's judgment.

“Let's go a little deeper! ”

In Ian's cry, one user asked in a desperate voice.

“Ian, is there something you can do? ”

“No, but we have to find out. ”

“Ugh... ”

“Can't we wait for the dungeon to collapse? ”

After speaking, Ian turns around and heads inside the dungeon.

“Yeah, he's right. Wake up, everyone! Giving up is the stupidest thing I've ever done! ”

Shakran then moves along Ian's steps.

And the expedition users began to follow behind them into powerless steps.

* * *

“Hahaha, hahaha! ”

The three spheres of darkness lit up by the fire of Sackáman.

There was a pleasant smile on Lim Long's face watching it.

“Humans, have you given up completely now? ”

Behind the three Dark Crystals, a black portal is opened.

The portal is the exit the Rich King opened to allow Lim Long to escape the dungeon.

As soon as Lim Long entered it, the portal would disappear, and the human users would be completely trapped inside this exploding dungeon.

There was not a single hole in the way out.

‘Well, if I had half an hour, I could have broken through a secret passageway. ’

If you travel beyond this section to the depths of the dungeon, an iron gate through the fortress will appear.

But I can only explain in this situation that finding the iron gate and destroying it in less than five minutes is really impossible.

“Ian, there's no way this guy would give up.... Come over here and show me how frustrated you are. ”

It was the users of Ian and the human race that were waiting in the dungeon, not riding the portal.

He wanted to enjoy the fact that he had won, watching human users despair.

Lim Long's gaze shifts toward the system message that rises in one corner of his gaze.

- Time until detonation: 00: 00: 47

‘Hehe, 47 seconds.... There's no way the operator's gonna make it out of here alive, even if he's possessed. ’

Lim Long's mouth dried up.

It was because I saw Ian and Shakran rushing from inside the dungeon.

“Hehehe, the protagonists are finally here! ”

The time left for the explosion has fallen by 20 invitations.

As he sighs, toward Ian and Shakran, arriving in front of the Dark Crystal, Lim Long lets out a sneer.

“Ian, your strategy was ingenious enough. I almost got myself killed. ”

Ian frowns slightly.

“Someone survived and did this to me.... Lim Long, it's you. ”

“Hehe, I've had a hard time coming here. Now get ready to log out. ”

When the dungeon collapsed, it was a singular number.

Even if you use invincible or resurrective artifacts, you cannot escape death.

The dungeon itself was not killed by the damage caused by the explosion, but by the collapse.

Lim Long glances at Ian's face to see his crumpled face.

However, it was Lim Long who had crumpled his face.

It was because Ian's face was completely different from what Lim Long had imagined.

“Now, if you're done talking, why don't you run away? ”

“ ……? ”

“Weren't you planning on running into that hole? ”

Rather, it was Ian who was laughing at Lim Long.

Lim Long wanted to ask Ian a lot of questions, but he had to rush to the portal.

It was because there were less than 10 seconds until the dungeon exploded.

“I don't know what you believe and brag about, but you're good at beating. ”

“Well, won't you find out in a minute? ”

Lim Long's gaze was again on Ian.

The look on Ian's face that came into his eyes was not a lie.

"Son of a bitch, is there really a way out of this? ’

Eventually, Lim Long entered the portal without holding his heart.

We didn't have to risk our lives to find out what Ian believed in.

And after a while, the darker crystals that were merely fisting began to swell.