Taming Master

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The appearance of a man was very profound.

An armor full of black metal helmets and white dust.

Even a cloak that crumpled and tore and almost looked like a splinter.

How badly they rolled up from where and how much dust they were wearing around their bodies, the stranger was extremely curious about Kento.

So Kento slowly approaches the man.

I didn't think he would be the user from the beginning.

There are very few users who can come to the ‘Rutan’ city of machine civilization, and the rankers who can come are also limited to ‘Horse' users.

I couldn't exactly tell by the helmet, but the man was definitely a mortal, and then he wouldn't have been the user.

Occasionally, there are mercenaries coming over from the ‘Mauria Empire’, an ancient civilization, and Kento speculated that this foreigner would be that kind of NPC.

"A mercenary of an ancient civilization would surely be skilled. I need to establish some intimacy. ’

The man paces around at the entrance of Rutan, and Kento opens his mouth as he approaches.

“You look like a stranger. Are you looking for a mercenary guild? ”

And the man who met Kento in the snow responded with a faint voice.

“No, I was resting. ”

“Oh, I see. ”

“I've been farming so much, I feel like I'm going to lose my back. ”

“Farming? ”

“Yes. A polluted area in Tolu to the west.... It's a long way back from hunting all day. ”

“Huff...! ”

Kento didn't know the word Farming.

Since Kailan was new to the game and had never done anything with ordinary users, he had no idea what game terminology they were using.

So Kento was surprised not because of the word Farming.

However, he was embarrassed because of the story, 'I hunted all day in the pollution area of Touloo‘.

"If you want to fight there, you have to be a senior mercenary...!" ’

Then Kento began to understand the look on a man's face.

If he had been hunting all day in the polluted dust winds of Touloo, he would have been covered in armor and cloak.

Kento holds up the hands of a foreigner without knowing it.

“Ho, if you don't mind, may I make a request? ”

“Quest?”

“Old! I'll reward you handsomely. I was just looking for a mercenary to get into that pollution in Touloo. ”

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At first, Ian stepped on the crack's exit and thought of a major city of machine civilizations that would unfold before his eyes.

He would, because the system message came up as follows:

- You have entered the capital city of Lacatorium, Rutan.

But when the first sights of the new dimensional system unfolded before his eyes, Ian was forced to panic.

What appeared to me was a desolate land, not a machine civilization.

The map with the name 'Rutan’ actually refers to all the maps within the metropolitan area of Rutan, and so Ian's first step was a desolate land far from the city.

So Ian had to struggle until he found Rutan.

The wasteland was infested with powerful mechanical monsters, and we had to fight them constantly to uncover the map.

Particularly the most difficult was a map with a formula called 'Contaminated Earth’ around the desolate plains.

The contaminated sandstorm blowing through the map quickly consumed the durability of the equipment and continued to damage its venomous properties at an undeniable level, requiring the hunt with its usual sub-equipment in Spain.

If the main equipment is destroyed, the loss will be too great.

However, while he was wandering around the wilderness for a few days, Ian was very satisfied apart from the hardship.

Ian was the only one hunting on this vast map full of machine monsters, and his hunting experience and drop items paid more than he thought.

In some cases, there was even the first discovery buff, which felt like honey had fallen from the EXP.

"Huh, it doesn't have a high drop rate, but blueprints often drop, and this is a very honey hunting ground, right? ’

In spite of Ian's discovery of the metropolitan ‘Rutan’, the city expedition was postponed a few days later.

He decided to continue hunting until the durability of the spare equipment was completely destroyed.

And about a week later,

- Tyring!

- EXP is full.

- You're level up, you're level 70.

Ian was able to achieve his primary target level of 70 more easily than he expected.

Okay, so the first discovery buff is over, and now we have to go into that city, right? ’

As a result, Ian carefully approached Rutan, the capital city of Lacatorium.

It doesn't appear to be the same battlefield as Horus Outpost, but just in case there's a chance of a battle, stay as nervous as possible.

So while wandering around like that, why is Ian NPC (?).

I met a strange man dressed like Charles, a mechanical engineer, because he looked like a horse.

"Oh, what is it? Are you giving me a breakthrough quest? ’

Even the man approached Ian and spoke first.

“You look like a stranger... Are you looking for a mercenary guild? ”

And as Ian predicted, this peculiar NPC gave him a quest.

“Ho, if you don't mind, may I make a request? ”

“Quest?”

“Old! I'll reward you handsomely. I was just looking for a mercenary to get into that pollution in Touloo. ”

"Quest," this strange friend said, asked you to kill the machine monster in the Touloo Pollution Zone, which Ian had robbed for several days.

It was a quest to defeat an Epic Monster called Lucolos and bring his corpse, which was not that difficult for Ian.

Lucas' combat strength was similar to that of the Greater Giant Generals of the 80th transcendental rank, but Ian has already dealt with many.

And this particular breakthrough quest wasn't just for Ian.

“Well, if there's enough reward, it's not that hard. ”

“Oh, really? ”

Ian looks up and down at Kento's movements and opens his mouth in a gentle voice.

“Of course. Well, the blueprints of a good mechanical robot……. ”

Kento appeared to be an unstoppable mechanical engineer, so Ian assumed that he might be able to build a blueprint like Charles.

I was lucky once.

But Kento's reaction was more than Ian expected.

“Clothes, mechanical robotic blueprints……. What kind of robot blueprints do you need? ”

“ ……? ”

“If you have robotic blueprints that are under four tiers, I think I can make most of them. ”

Ian, who heard Kento, doubted both ears.

‘Robotic blueprints of 4 tiers or less...... Will you just make them?' ’

No matter how much I think about it, I don't think Sujita Mountain would be a good fit for Kento.

Although Lucas is said to be an Epic Monster, it was much easier to retrieve one of his cadavers than to obtain a blueprint, even if it was four tiers or less.

Not two or three.

Ian shakes his head and asks Kento again.

With a Tier 4 blueprint, you could have acquired any blueprint for a long time, but there was one last question.

“By any chance... can you design a production robot?" ”

Ian opens his mouth carefully to make NPC feel bad.

However, Ian was only worried about the snow.

Kento replied with a rather unorthodox expression.

“Of course, but we can only build robotic blueprints for up to three tiers. ”

“ ……! ”

Ian grabs Kento's two hands.

There was something funny about going on another mechanical engineer's quest in the backyard to catch Charles, but it didn't matter.

I'm sorry for the many people who are resting in the subspace right now, but I was thinking of postponing finding charles if I could get more schematics of the production robots.

‘The larger the number of production robots, the faster the machine factory will develop. This is a must have quest! ’

And this NPC called Kento (?) would be a great help in interfering with the contents of the machine civilization.

“Okay, Joe, if this is a three-tier robotic blueprint, it doesn't matter what the blueprint is. ”

“Then, my quest...? ”

“I'll be on my way. I'll have Lucas' body back in three hours." ”

“Oooh!”

Ian's cool reply made Kento look satisfied.

He had a urgent personality that needed to be made right away, so he liked Ian's motivational attitude.

“If you're looking for Lucas' body, come to Toraaf." ”

“Well……. Where is it?"

“This is the satellite city of Rutan in the southeast. It's not far from here, so you should be able to find it easily. ”

“I understand!”

As a result, Ian, who finished his deal with Kento, began to roar his nostrils and move back into the wilderness.

I was already exhausted by Nogada for a long time, but I felt powerless thinking about the design of the production robot.

‘Khh. I've had a good feeling about the Lakatorium from the start. ’

But Ian, who was riding the Iron to the pollution in Touloo, soon felt something strange.

“Wait. But then I thought.... ”

I was sure that I had received a breakthrough quest from a special NPC, but I realized that I had never come across a quest window or system message.

“What? How could you do this? ”

I opened the quest window to check, but the newly created quest was nowhere to be seen, and Ian was somewhat embarrassed.

“Well, what is it? Is this a new concept quest? ”

However, Ian, who was momentarily embarrassed, began to move toward his destination, pulling back the iron spike.

The quest window did not open, but I felt that this was a clear quest, and I understood that this was a new type of quest giveaway that I had never experienced before.

“Just go, Boz! Well, we'll find out when we get Lucas' body back to Torav. ”

Kento and Ian, who gave each other quests, began to make busy moves to complete them.