The Taming Master

Storm .

That was it, it was literally a ‘storm’ that swallowed everything .

A body full of destructive breath, the cold breath from the mouth of the Abyss Dragon, and the destructive breath from the mouth of Karceus .

With all kinds of wide-area spells being released at once, the magnificent dungeon unfolded .

Of course, the undead were all swept away the moment the breath came from Bbookbbook .

Hoonie’s Soul Rust being used against the undead only had 1 percent of vitality left .

There was no way the powerful breath of Abyss Dragon couldn’t cut their vitality down .

Because of the huge wide-area magic, the only monster that was standing was Lacamer .

The vitality of Lacamer did recover, but it was so minimal that the naked eye couldn’t make it .

Ian’s calculation was correct .

“Nice!”

As a result, the vitality of Lacamer quickly dropped to as much as 30 percent .

Lacamer roared in his loud voice .

“You human, thinking you’re so smart!”

Lacamer had no choice but to panic .

Even the best AI couldn’t have predicted such development .

Lacamer was frightened with the enormous damage that he received at once and cast a summon spell .

If he summoned the new undead as a shield, then he wouldn’t have much of a problem to regain his lost vitality through them .

“In the name of I, Lacamer…!”

But, that was it .

Ping-!

A sharp perforation rang from somewhere and an arrow struck into the right shoulder of Lacamer’s .

Shot-!

The damage of the arrow was insignificant, yet it was fatal in another way .

[Damage of 79,480 has been inflicted . ]

[Concentration has been scattered . ]

[The casting of summoning spell has been canceled . ]

Due to a single arrow, Lacamer’s summoning was broken .

And to use the summoning spell again, there was a cooldown of 1 minute .

And it was the sense of Ian’s play and the mistake for Lacamer .

And the mistake was .

‘Lucky! A pattern twist, so now you won’t even have a Black Shield to place!’

He wasn’t able to activate the ‘Black Shield’—a shield that a warlock could instantly place that would put him in an immune state .

Lacamer’s original combat pattern was to do the summoning spell right after the cast of Black Shield .

It wasn’t a state of immunity to all the abnormalities, but because the attacks and motion wouldn’t hinder it .

In other words, if Lacamer would have triggered the Black Shield first, then the summoning spell would’ve been triggered even if Ian’s arrow was hit .

No, even if not the arrow but the meteor was dropped, the casting wouldn’t have broken .

It meant that the damage would’ve not mattered .

However, the AI got twisted in an uncanny and uncalled situation, and Lacamer ends up using the summon spell without triggering the Black Shield .

With that single mistake he had done, the party of Ian’s rushed towards him .

“Kaka, Dreaming Devil!”

Ian’s voice rang throughout the dungeon .

“Darkness… fall upon us . ”

Wind started to move around Kaka who was in the air .

* * *

The computer room of the virtual reality dept was silent .

It wasn’t like it had turned silent all of a sudden .

Kailan’s top-tier party made up of top-ranked players in the Korean server .

Watching the highest level of play in the real-time, it was natural for the words to stop .

More than ten students were gathered in the computer lab, but none of them opened their mouths .

They showed amazing concentration with their eyes fixated on the screen, they didn’t want to miss even a single scene that included rankers .

However, one student in the computer room, Hyung-woo, was the one who had a bit of an upset face .

The reason wasn’t something major .

Hyung-woo’s Kailan character was the ‘Knight’ class, and there was no knight class in the current party of Ian .

Hyung-woo himself being a knight, wanted to see the activity and skills of the ranking knight class .

‘It would’ve been nice if Yoo Hyun senior would’ve been with them…’

Yoo Hyun or Herz wasn’t as good as the members of the party .

However, it was obvious that he was in the top 1 percent of top users, and Hyung-woo was very curious to see how a knight would perform in the party .

And that didn’t mean that the video wasn’t fun to watch .

It was because an unfortunate part and the quality of video were two entirely different concepts .

Since his class had no ranker, his eyes were fixed on Ian .

‘But, by the way, Lacamer boss monster is surely amazing and the rankers raid is no joke . ’

Hyung-woo who was of the level 50, wasn’t still cut out for dungeon hunting .

Block with shield and cut with a sword .

To block more than 90 percent of the damage by a shield was plain ridiculous, and it was possible in a small hunt .

However, in the video of Ian, around 90 percent of the damage was absorbed too, not by a knight class .

The high damage absorption rate had different effects, so it was enough to know from the screen alone .

Also, the shield was lifted and released, and the weapons were being swapped freely—showcasing a thrilling control .

As a beginner knight, Hyung-woo wasn’t that much into control play .

‘I want to be like that too…!’

Hyung-woo swallowed dry spit .

Watching the videos of the rankers, he was very inclined to run towards a capsule right away .

He wanted to recreate the great play that they just witnessed in the game right away .

It was like going to a karaoke right after watching a music contest .

Of course, seeing it up close, not doing it made it much more frustrating .

However, at that time, exclamations came out of the room which was silent a moment back .

“Oh, sh*t!”

“Wow, what was that? How did that happen?”

“Wow…!”

Kyahhh!

Kwang- Kwakwang-!

Loud sounds were coming in from the speakers, a simultaneously large number of wide-area skills were sweeping the battlefield .

In fact, when watching a large-scale battle video, seeing wide-area skills used on the battlefield wasn’t so rare .

But this was the first time to see so many wide-area magic being used at the exact same time .

“PMG, awesome! How did they set the timing of the wide-area skills exactly like that?”

“Awesome! The vitality of a boss of level 470 being cut at once!”

“Woahh!”

What was interesting was that the reaction differed depending upon the understanding of the people who saw the scene .

For those who didn’t spend a lot of time in Kailan as they just started, it was all destruction and nothing more…

“Wow, the wide-area skills are really cool! Should I give up the knight and become a wizard class?”

Hayoung who was a wizard of level 200, was much more admired at the fact of how the spells of different time-release burst at the same time .

“Oh my, awesome . Those skills have different casting times, so how did they make use of them at the same time? Was it a coincidence or an order?”

But for Semi or So Jin, the most understandable of them, were no words to say .

The only thing they could do was to admire with their mouths open .

Semi wanted to explain to her classmates about the creepy design of Ian, but couldn’t put them to words .

She couldn’t take her eyes off the video, so there was no time to explain .

* * *

After a wide-range magic storm swept through, the reaming vitality of Lacamer was just 30 percent .

According to the calculation of Ian, the current vitality could be cut down in three minutes by a high concentration of their attack .

Lacamer’s last resistance, however, was much intense than assumed, and it seemed like they had to put a bit more effort .

Lacamer’s vitality was still left, and he continued to summon undead to restore vitality .

Lacamer had resisted for another 3 minutes .

In the end, however, Lacamer had to kneel .

The firepower of Ian’s party, and the ever strong swords of Muran .

Besides, Muran’s ‘light’ attribute could be a great damage nuker to the ‘dark’ attribute .

“The swords of judgment…!”

Grrrrng-!

Subsequently, his three terrifying swords went into the air and dropped into the head of Lacamer with a speed of lightning .

Kwang- Kwang-!

That was the end of Lacamer .

“Keuk, to be defeated by trivial humans…”

Lacamer fell with cliché words .

Hoonie who was very immersed in the situation .

“Huhu, That’s right, you are on the wrong side of darkness! Chalian’s servant . ”

But Ian who was next to Hoonie broke the flow .

“If we raise the tier, even the Lich Mage is nothing great…”

Seeing Ian stole his moment, Hoonie pouted .

“Ugh . ”

The last attacks of Muran took away the vitality of Lacamer .

Swahh-!

With a creepy sound, Lacamer turned into smoke and scattered into the air .

System messages came in front of the party of Ian .

Tring-!

[You have successfully defeated the minions of Chalian, the Lich Wizard Lacamer!]

[Obtained the experience points of 109,789,092 . ]

[Acquire the fame of 700,000 . ]

[Affinity with Muran and the Heroes increased by 20 . ]

Including the system messages that usually appeared when the boss monster was killed…

[You have successfully completed the quest, ‘Rage of Lacamer’ . ]

[Remaining Time: 9 minutes 27 seconds . ]

[Clear rank: SSS]

[Obtained the item ‘Archmage’s corrupted skull necklace (Legendary)’]

[Obtained the item ‘Death Knight’s Sword of Doom (Legendary)’]

Quest success messages .

Ian was proud and happy, but after confirming the items he had obtained, he couldn’t hide his disappointment .

“Hmm, the reward is a bit lacking…”

He got two legendary items, but the level of difficulty of the quest was very stressful so it wasn’t satisfactory .

Also, as the items weren’t so useful to him, so .

‘It is a sword, so a retainer could hold onto it… I need to sell the necklace to the auction house . ’

And of course, it wasn’t just Ian who was feeling bad .

Other party members were looking at the reward too .

They got different rewards, but the grade was similar to them .

“Ah, I thought I’d get a myth grade . ”

“Right . I thought I got a great monster price, but I guess LB has no conscience . ”

The expectations were high, but each of them was throwing out words of regret .

The time, however, additional system messages came, the thoughts of the party which thought the tough time was far over from continuing .

Tring-!

[You have met the Hidden Clear conditions for the quest ‘Rage of Lacamer’!]

[The quest ‘Rage of Lacamer II (Hidden) (Epic)’ will be played now . ]

Seeing that, the bright eyes of happiness went away from the reward and shone again for the party of Ian .