The Taming Master

Surrounding the Rataphel Domain were three rivers flowing on either side of it .

Ian, who reached the halfway point of the ‘Rataphel’s mountain’, summoned all of his summons .

From the moment they had to infiltrate the manor, which was why they were all called .

Ian took out the ‘invisibility cloak’ which he had bought in the village .

[You have equipped the item ‘Invisibility Cloak’ . ]

[The character will disappear from the sight of the others . ]

[When the enemy is attacked or the character attacks, the invisibility effect of the character will be exposed . ]

[After the invisibility effect disappears, the damage is reduced by 50% for 1 minute . ]

The invisibility cloak was a very rare item .

It was an item that was dropped after catching a monster in the Kailan, and the drop rate of the item was close to extreme .

Ian, who had been playing for a very long time, for the first time after all the items he had purchased—this was an expensive item of about 50 million gold, which he bought at the auction house .

Although there were several penalties, it was an item that could be used very effectively, considering the situation it would be used .

The invisibility cloak was an item that could be considered as something that all the rankers had worn at one point or the other .

Ian, wearing his invisibility cloak moved up the mountain boldly .

Did he go around 30 minutes like that?

At last Ian’s eyes could see the walls of the Rataphel Domain .

The magnificent connected walls that went along the mountains .

Ian looked at the scene and moved with a slow pace again .

‘Should I maybe check the location of the Detecting tower first?’

Usually, the detecting towers were placed on the high walls at regular intervals .

The detecting towers were a necessary defense system placed to prevent the invaders from entering .

It was often for the high-level assassin attempts to invade, like the one the Lotus had in the Pyro Domain .

The detecting towers were needed for it, and they were built on the outside of the Rataphel manor .

And for Ian, who turned on the invisibility cloak, it was a matter of fact for getting out of sight from the detecting towers .

Ian’s head started to work rapidly .

‘The Rataphel domain is a marquis… four levels of detecting towers can be built . ’

In Kailan, when the base of the territory moves to the stage of a domain, it will be divided into five grades .

From the very sub-ordinate ones like the Barons and Viscounts .

To the earliest level of the castle, like the Marquis which begins with high levels .

And finally, the stage of a dukedom .

All the types of territories are upgraded along with a one-level upgrade of all their properties .

Till the stage of the ‘Baron’ the grade of the facilities can be raised only till one level at a time, and once a territory reached till ‘Marquis’ it was then possible to raise the level of the facilities till four levels .

In either case, the limit was the same, either basic or advanced .

Therefore, in the case of the Rataphel Domain, a Marquis, all the buildings had grown up four levels starting from the defensive tower .

‘4th level detecting tower, range of 280 meters?’

Ian quickly started to identify the levels of the detecting towers that were outside the Rataphel Domain to find any gaps .

They were mostly of level 4 towers, but it seemed there was a less upgraded one somewhere .

And if he could find any tower below the level of 3, then he was going to search for a blind spot and move between the towers .

‘Oh ho, there! A level three in the middle . ’

As expected, Ian who saw the blind spot couldn’t help but smile .

However, just finding the level 3 wasn’t the end .

After calculating the distance between the towers, the next thing he had to do was to see if there were any blind spots .

And that was the real problem .

In the snow, there was no way Ian could be sure of the exact distance .

Ian thought of a possible idea .

[You have equipped the item ‘Solid Armor’ . ]

He would shoot an arrow for a range of 200 meters to measure the distance and then shoot another .

Put the arrows in for a demonstration .

Ian checked the surroundings many times .

‘If someone spots me, then it’s turning into a huge problem . ’

Even if Ian’s arrow hits a passing monster, Ian’s position could be detected right away .

After taking a stable stance, Ian took a deep breath and put the arrow on the bow, then pulled the bowstring .

Along with the intense feelings in him, the arrow left the bow .

Flying-!

A moment later, the arrow fell on the floor without reaching the wall of the detecting tower .

Thud .

Looking at the position where the arrow had fallen, it seemed like there was still some distance to reach the range of the Detecting Tower .

And Ian’s work wasn’t done yet .

Ping- Piping-!

He changed his position and direction, as soon as it started to hit arrows here and there .

Ian who had already released five arrows stood up and then sat down on the ground after taking out his notebook .

‘The distance between the tower A is about 300 meters, and the distance of the tower B is 400 meters…’

Ian pulled out his pen and began to draw a picture without any hesitation .

His location, the location of the two detecting towers were drawn in the notebook, and he made a triangle with the three points .

The vertex was at a right-angled triangle .

‘Hmm, so… the distance between the two towers is about 500 meters . ’

He was calculating the range the towers had by using his knowledge .

He used Pythagoras theorem to find the distance between the towers .

‘Tower A is of level 4, and tower B is of level 3 . There needs to be a blind spot of about 10 meters . ’

The range of the 4th level tower came out to be 280 meters and the range of the 3rd level tower came to be 210 meters .

If so, then the distance between the two towers was 500 meters, and there will be a gap of 10 meters in the middle .

Ian picked up a few more arrows .

It was the last arrow that would be hit in the 10-meter blind spot .

Ping-!

‘From the shortest point of the distance, 180 meters from the tower b… going a little further to the left will allow the entry of the blind spot . ’

His calculations were complete .

Inside the notebook of Ian, the numbers of 180, 320 and 240 were staggered .

Ian, who found out the distance with three arrows began to move away slowly .

Ian moved as he was convinced .

Arriving safely at the front of the wall, Ian climbed the wall abruptly .

While Ian was climbing the wall, the soldiers who were guarding the wall didn’t figure out Ian .

* * *

[Iris recognition completed . Welcome to Kailan ‘Remir’ . ]

A familiar scene with a familiar message .

The Red Flame Magician . No, now she was the Monarch of Red Flame, nicknamed by the server of the Koreans, the strongest wizard user—Remir .

She was connecting to Kailan as soon as she got up for leveling up .

“Hmm, should I maybe try the party after a long time? The solo play is getting a little boring…”

Remir opened the list of friends that she had while sticking out her tongue .

She looked at the most natural person who would’ve been on, connected with a blue light on top of her friends list .

That person was Ian .

“Doesn’t he ever get tired, right from morning? Let’s see… hmm, today’s playtime seems to be a little human-like . It’s only been three hours since he logged on . ”

Remir sometime checked the playtime of Ian on her friends list, and there were times where she was scared .

Ten to twenty hours were his basic, and many times she had seen 40 hours on his playtime .

The current time was till, at 5 o’clock in the morning .

Since there was just one person in her friends list, Remir decided to message him .

“Yeah well, it will be nice to run Spartan after a long time . ”

Even when not in a party the ‘party offer’ to him made Remir a bit nervous .

Remir who was able to decide sent a message to Ian .

No, tried to .

“Uh?”

Right when she was about to .

Ian’s message came to her first .

Ian: Remir noona, party play, it has been a while right?

Remir who was shocked for a second rubbed her hands while thinking again .

“Ah, he isn’t a ghost right?”

Remir was scared of Ian whenever he asked for a party play .

* * *

A small ground on the outskirts of Rataphel .

Wheeing-!

A portal opened with a small resonance and around four to five people moved out from him .

But they were all very gorgeous to be generalized as ‘four or five users’ .

Starting with the Monarch of the Red Flame till the 1st ranked Black Magician Hoonie .

And with Yu Shin the warrior class user in the top 5, and the 1st ranker priest class user Levya .

And at last, when Ian came out of the portal, the door of the portal went shut and disappeared .

“Woah . ”

Ian looked around at all the party members who were gathered and laughed .

“I’m sure you all had a hard time coming here right from the dawn . He he . ”

Remir opened her mouth with a blank expression,

“No, I’m actually surprised that you contacted all the people at this time . Other than me, Ian directly contacted all of you?”

Levya nodded her head and replied,

“Tha… that so? I was sleeping when I answered the call from Ian and connected right away . ”

Yu Shin added to it,

“It was the same for me . ”

Hoonie whined along with them .

“I wanted to sleep a little more, hump…”

Ian suddenly disconnected after sending Remir a message and quickly went to wake up those people who currently joined the party .

Moreover, he said to come to the castle right away, and after opening the portal, he bought them all to an unknown place .

Though they were called to connect into the game at dawn, these people actually connected and joined the party .

It was sure that these people were indeed the esteemed rankers .

Levya looked around and asked Ian a questioned face .

“By the way Ian . What is this place?”

“Inside the Rataphel Domain . ”

“Rataphel Domain in the sense…”

“A Marquis in the Elrika kingdom . ”

“…?”

It was a fact which everyone knew, that the Elrika Kingdom was the home of the Lich King .

And to be said, it was the center of the dark force .

But before they could be curious about why they were brought into there, they were much curious about how Ian had managed to actually enter that place .

“Just a second, how in the hell did you get here?”

At the question of Remir, Ian shook his head .

“No comment on that . I’ll explain another thing . ”

“Sh*t…”

And this time it was Yu Shin who asked the question .

“Then why are you here?”

“That’s an obvious one…”

Ian’s lip corners went up when he answered with a weird grin,

“To actually play and have fun . ”