The Taming Master

Chapter 77: Ancient Summoner (2)

TL: Haku

Editor: Hungry Panda

“Herz, buy me 15 more seconds!”

Whooong-!

Fiolan started casting ‘Frozen Hell’, the highest-ranking ice magic skill amongst the skills she was mastering .

As she did so, with her staff as the centre, a bright blue chill drew a large arc and began to be sucked in .

And Herz blocked the dungeon’s boss monster, the ‘Forlan Giant’, which was headed towards her .

Bang-!

Along with a boom, the giant’s club struck Herz’s shield .

And although he succeeded in blocking it properly, Herz’s body was pushed back 1 meter .

Even from looking at it, it was a tremendous destructive power .

After checking his Vitality gauge, Herz’s complexion slightly darkened .

“Euh, that might be pushing it a little . ”

He clenched his teeth as he watched his blinking Vitality .

If he allowed just one more hit like this, his Vitality would hit the floor .

Fiolan shouted with an urgent voice .

“Just 7 more seconds now . If this attack just explodes properly, I think we’ll be able to catch it!”

Herz was momentarily conflicted .

‘If I dodge this attack here right now, Fiolan’s magic will be cancelled, and then clearing the dungeon would have gone down the drain anyways…’

The time limit was the problem .

If it was a normal situation, it would have been right to back off one tempo, but because there wasn’t even 1 minute left until the time limit was over, they would have failed to clear the dungeon anyways if they missed this chance .

‘Let’s try to hold out . If I die, well, then I’ll have 24 hours to rest . ’

And at that moment, the giant’s club rushed towards Herz once again .

Swaaeeek-!

A blow accompanied by a sound that was terrifying just from what could be heard exploded .

Herz calmly checked the route of the club that was flying towards him and lined his shield up .

Users who didn’t know much about Kailran often said that the ‘Knight’ class didn’t need a lot of control, but that wasn’t the truth .

To calculate the angle of which the opponent’s attack was rushing at, its destructive power, etc . and minimize the amount of damage was a high degree of skill that demanded an incredibly detailed control .

And depending on the level of that control, the amount of damage received was different by the thousands even if it was the same attack .

Because of that, Herz focused all of his mind for this moment unlike any other time before .

Baang-!

Along with another large boom, Herz’s body was pushed back .

And Herz’s expression brightened shortly after .

‘I survived!’

He survived with barely 1500 Vitality, but his leftover Vitality didn’t matter anyways .

After Herz threw his body and escaped the giant’s attack range, he turned his gaze towards Fiolan . As he predicted, a large chilly whirlpool was beginning to erupt from Fiolan’s staff .

While Herz was blocking the giant’s attack, the casting for the magic skill was completed .

And her magic attack spread forward .

Ba- Ba- Bang-!

“Okay!”

The chilly beam that shot out lodged exactly into the giant’s body .

The giant wavered and within that time, Fiolan quickly shot out low-rank magic attacks that had a short casting time continuously .

Pung-!

Fiolan held her breath .

It was an attack done with her whole body, as she had poured out all of her Mana .

If this monster died with this attack, then they finally would have cleared the dungeon . And it seemed as though the two people’s desperation went through, as the body of the boss monster, the ‘Forlan Giant’, slowly started to collapse .

They had succeeded in cutting down all of the monster’s Vitality .

Thu- Thu- Thu- Thud-

As the gigantic monster collapsed, the whole dungeon vibrated greatly .

And in front of it, Herz and Fiolan breathed heavily .

“Whew, we finally cleared it, Fiolan . ”

“No kidding . How much time did we have left before the time limit was up?”

“I wonder . Won’t we know if we check the result window?”

And shortly after, the result window that notified the two that the dungeon was cleared popped up in front of their eyes .

Ring- .

Grave of the Forlan Hero

Time Limit – 00:50:00

Clear Time – 00:49:43

Clear Rank – D

Obtained EXP – 3,356,000

Obtained Gold – 35,250 gold

Obtained Items – Piece of the Forlan Hero’s Armor x2

After checking the result window, a cold sweat broke out on Herz’s forehead .

“Wow… We made it with just 20 seconds left . ”

Fiolan smirked and corrected his words .

“There was 17 seconds left, to be exact . ”

Herz smirked .

“Keu, still, we did pretty good since we made it in five tries . ”

“No kidding . From what I saw outside, there was a party that came out after already failing their tenth try . ”

Fiolan, who thoroughly read through the dungeon clear result window, opened her mouth again with a slightly surprised expression .

“Oh, but this EXP is nicer than I thought . ”

Herz, who also was checking the EXP part at that moment as well, was surprised over the EXP that was higher than expected .

“No kidding . I was just thinking of the same thing . If it’s 3 million EXP for about a 50-minute investment, then it’s effectiveness is similar to hunting . ”

Fiolan nodded her head .

“That’s right .   As our clear rank was the lowest rank, if we get a little more used to the dungeon and clear with a high rank, then it might be more effective than hunting . ”

“If we collect the pieces and make a set item, then we’ll be able to obtain a decent item that must for sure be at least a Heroic-rank as well . ”

However, the problem was that the clear success chance was not 100% .

The monsters that appeared in the time attack dungeon didn’t give anything when hunted, whether it be EXP or items .

That meant, if they failed to clear, then they would be throwing away all of their 50 minutes without any reward .

If they failed in clearing even once, then the hunting effectiveness of the dungeon would drop remarkably .

“Fiolan . I think it would be best if first you and I together finish our attack perfectly before we call over our other guildmates . ”

“I agree . After the two of us are completely familiar with the dungeon, we should take one person each and attack separately, then our other guildmates will probably be able to clear a little easier . ”

After making up their minds, the two left the dungeon quickly .

Once the dungeon was cleared, they could challenge it again after 10 minutes .

Until then, they needed to finish all of their maintenance .

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“Hoo…”

A short sigh passed through Ian’s mouth .

It was already almost a week since he had come down to the lowland of the ‘Arnovil Plateau’ field .

Including the 5 days that he spent hunting in the hilly section, Ian hadn’t left the field for 12 days already .

Two days had already passed since the first discoverer’s buff had ended as well .

‘I want to leave here now!’

Ian ground his teeth while looking at the large tiger-like monster that growled in front of him .

‘How many have I hunted now? Let’s be humane this time and drop it!’

The reason why Ian wasn’t able to leave the field yet was because of the Heroic-rank monster, ‘Hallikan’s Spirit’, which he was in a fierce battle for a while with now .

‘7th piece… Please!’

In the previous quest, the 4th piece was a troublemaker, but this time, the 7th piece was testing Ian’s patience .

A bundle of electricity filled with Ian’s anger shot out towards the Hallikan .

“Current Proliferation!”

Za-Za-Zap-!

Ian was facing the Hallikan easily as if he was basically playing with it .

His opponent was a strong monster, but because he had already gone through a countless amount of battles against it, he had memorized all of its attack patterns .

Using the surrounding terrain features and monsters, Ian reset his Current Proliferation’s cooldown time multiple times and shot out Current Proliferation and Magic Spheres .

It seemed he had worn down the Hallikan’s Vitality quite a bit, as its name was flickering quickly .

‘I should be able to catch it any minute now . ’

However, just then, a completely unexpected situation appeared in front of Ian’s eyes .

Ba- Ba- Bang-!

Along with the sound of a large explosion, the currents that Ian had shot out exploded altogether .

And a flash that was so strong it caused his vision to turn all-white filled up in front of his eyes .

“What the hell?”

Ian, who was taken aback, instinctively threw his body and widened the gap between the Hallikan and him .

It was so that he wouldn’t be attacked while he lost his vision .

However, far from the Hallikan’s attack being continued, an unexpected system message rang out .

You have killed the Hallikan’s Spirit . You have obtained 128, 500 EXP .

Ian was flustered .

‘What the hell? It was time for it to die, but it wasn’t enough for all of its Vitality to disappear with this attack . And what the hell was that sudden flash as well?’

While Ian was in confusion, his vision that turned all-white returned to normal, and system messages continuously appeared in front of his eyes .

The Spirit Capacity of Lightning Spirit ‘Jjaekee’ has been completely filled .Lightning Spirit ‘Jjaekee’ has evolved from a low-level spirit to an intermediate-level spirit .

‘Oh, Jjaekee evolved . Was the explosion that happened just a moment ago generated while Jjaekee evolved?’

Ian, who understood it as an explosion that occurred during the evolution process, only then nodded his head .

Jjaekee’s outer appearance, which was small in size and looked like a sparrow, transformed into the form of a quite cool-looking rapacious bird .

However, before Ian opened up the evolved Jjaekee’s information, he wanted to check the corpse of the Hallikan that was collapsed in front of him first .

‘Jjaekee also evolved… Now, if just the 7th piece drops from this monster, I feel like I’ll be able to leave this place without any regret…’

Once hunted, the Hallikan was a monster that took at least an hour before it appeared again .

The drop rate of the Soul Stone piece was around 30% from experience .

Even if he was to gather all ten pieces at once without any overlapping, he would have had to hunt around 30-35 Hallikans .

However, there was no way that Ian’s item luck would be that good, and because of the countless overlapping pieces, he had already caught over 50 Hallikan’s Spirits .

It was a situation that even Ian, who enjoyed grinding, would be tired enough of .

Ian closed both his eyes tightly and placed his hand on top of the Hallikan’s corpse .

And he didn’t forget to chant a meaningless incantation .

“7th piece!”

And a system message popped up .

You have obtained 13,845 gold from the Heroic monster ‘Hallikan’s Spirit’ .You have obtained ‘Piece (9) of the Hallikan’s Spirit’ .You have obtained ‘Piece (7) of the Hallikan’s Spirit’ .

Ian, who checked the system message, let out a shout without him realizing .

“Done! It finally came out!”

This was the first time two pieces came out at once .

‘I might have cried if I didn’t get the 7th piece this time as well . ’

With an even lighter heart, Ian plopped down onto the ground .

As he had achieved his goal, his knees gave in .

‘Shall we check Jjaekee’s information now?’

Ian called over Jjaekee, who had become quite cool after evolving .

“Jjaekee, come over here . ”

Chir- Chirp-!

However, at the unchanged cry, he burst out laughing without realizing it .

‘Why is his cry just as is?’

And Ian opened Jjaekee’s information window .

Jjaekee (Lightning Spirit)

Spirit Capacity: 0/5000

Type: Lightning

Rank: Intermediate-level Spirit

Summoning Duration: 525 minutes . (Cooldown time: 800 minutes)

*Once Spirit Capacity reaches its max, it evolves into a higher-ranking spirit .

(Whenever a Summoning Magic that requires Lightning-type is used, a fixed quantity of Spirit Capacity is filled . )

*The higher the Summoner’s Summoning Magic, the longer the Summoning Duration becomes .

Inherent Ability – Charge

*10% of the damage dealt by Lightning-type Spirit Magic will be taken as Vitality .

‘Ooh… It developed an inherent ability as it became an Intermediate-rank . On top of that, isn’t this the same as Health Absorption?’

Jjaekee, a spirit, didn’t have a notion of ‘Vitality’ . In that case, the ‘recovered Vitality from taking it away’ definitely had to mean the character’s Vitality .

‘It’s a little disappointing that Current Proliferation doesn’t have a strong Offensive Power since it’s not a damage-dealing skill . ’

Still, by roughly calculating, he thought that it was quite a decent recovery skill .

‘Since it’s like this already, if I have a reason to stop by Myuran, I should go to the Tower of Summoners and buy a lightning-type Spirit Magic attack that is a little more offensive . ’

Ian, who was excited over the thought of using the newly developed inherent ability, abruptly stood up and called Ly over .

“Ly, let’s go back!”

Grr-!

Ian, who Summon Released all of his Familiars excluding Ly, got on Ly’s back .

Without a moment’s delay, he wanted to restore the Hallikan’s Soul Stone that he had such difficulty collecting .