Published at 24th of August 2019 04:15:24 PM
Chapter 453
Tring-!
[You are the first to discover the ‘World of Sun’!]
[Earned additional fame of 100,000 . ]
[‘Affinity’ stat has been permanently increased by 15% . ]
[‘Fire Resistance’ permanently increased by 10!]
[You’ve met the conditions to enter the ‘Sun Obelisk’ dungeon!]
[The Sun Elves are starting to appear on the planet . ]
A lot of system messages came in front of Ian’s sight along with the white light in front of him .
And Ian, who confirmed the messages seemed surprised .
‘World of Sun? I thought that the Phoenix just lived on a big tree, isn’t this a lot bigger than what I was expecting?’
From the Sun Obelisk to the Sun Elves .
Unprecedented terminologies popped up, suggesting the emergence of a new content .
Just when he was sneaking into the castle of Elrika he came across stuff that he couldn’t have foreseen .
But the biggest one he got among those rewards was the rise in the ‘affinity’, the first reward .
For Ian, who was a summoner, the best stats for his career had been rewarded,
“Keu!”
The sound of excitement came out of Ian’s mouth .
But it wasn’t just because of the affinity stat rise .
If one found a landscape belonging to the ‘land’ while traveling the continent, it was often known to reward with affinity stat .
So, why was Ian that excited?
The reason was the affinity . It was because its in percentage and not a fixed number .
‘Oh, crazy . How much affinity will I gain?’
Ian was the number one ranking user among all the existing summoners .
In addition, as he was very preoccupied with Kailan’s content and swept his career aside, his affinity was high .
Before receiving the reward, Ian’s affinity stat was close to 2,700 excluding the ones he got from his items .
Considering that the affinity for an average ranking Summoner needed to be between 1,500 to 2,000, Ian’s affinity stat was tremendous .
But because of the reward he got, 15% was added to his affinity .
And that was permanent .
‘400? For just finding a tree, I got 400 affinity points?’
To be precise, 403 affinity points were added to Ian’s affinity .
The amount of affinity he got from the hidden quest would normally be obtained by clearing a quest .
Which was why Ian couldn’t handle his happiness and let out a laugh .
“Haha, thank you, Remus . ”
“What… why?”
“For everything or something like that . ”
“Hmm…”
While Ian was being excited the light from the tree began to fade .
Subsequently, in the field view of Ian, the overview of the map was formed .
‘The passage is over now, and it is like a coliseum in the air . ’
The structure in front of Ian was truly spectacular .
A myriad of pillars stretching in all directions, and a giant tree that rose magnificently among them .
It was the most sensational landscape of all the ones that Ian had seen .
As the light began to fade away, a new message came into the sight of Ian .
Tring-!
[You have entered the new section of ‘Phoenix’ . ]
[The ‘Phoenix’ has found you . ]
[The ‘Phoenix’ has shown hostility towards you . ]
Kiyahh-!
In a huge hall surrounded by numerous pillars, the cries of Phoenix rang out .
Ian heard the cry and began to prepare for its attack with a tensed expression .
According to Remus, the Phoenix was still young, but he couldn’t rest until he confirmed it .
After a while, huge flames came down from the air .
Hrrrk-!
A wide-area fire attack covered the entire party of Ian .
That was their first time experiencing something like that . Ian reflexively triggered El’s Dragonic Barrier .
“El, Dragonic Barrier…!”
“Okay, Dad!”
Hweeing-!
Once the white film got created around Ian’s party members, the fire of the phoenix slid through the surface of the shield .
However, the fire’s power wasn’t as powerful as it looked, and the barrier didn’t get damaged that much .
‘This seems to be weaker than the magic of a level 300 fire mage…’
Ian tried to guess the level of Phoenix which hadn’t appeared yet .
Ian was shocked when he saw the Phoenix .
Phoenix (God Bird): Lv . 95
“What was that?”
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Ian thought that he was just seeing things . He rubbed his eyes roughly and once again looked at the number hanging on the head of the Phoenix .
But the Phoenix’s level was still 95 .
Ian who was panicking asked Remus,
“Remus, was the Phoenix normally a beast?”
Remus who didn’t understand the question replied with a puzzled look,
“What do you mean by a beast?”
With an irritated expression, Ian explained,
“The flame attack that that animal just fired . Do you think that was something a level 95 could do?”
Remus who listened to the question of Ian nodded his head and answered,
“Ah, this guy . You’re surprised because you don’t know much about this guy . ”
“The flame attack was surely powerful . It sure is tough to think of it as a young Phoenix when it attacks like that . ”
“But?”
“Of course, the damage of the new Phoenix is very good, but the power in that flame attack is because of the World of Sun—the tree out there . ”
“The World of Sun in the sense… that tree?”
“Yes . The only tree where the Phoenix nest can be built on . The tree of World of Sun . With the influence of the World tree, the power of a Phoenix doubles . ”
“Ah…”
After listening to the explanation of Remus, Ian nodded .
‘So that’s why its attack is powerful, huh?’
But considering that its damage was doubled, it was still strong for something who wasn’t level 100 yet .
Only after taming it could its information be known for sure, but perhaps it had the same amount of damage as Karceus when it came to attacking .
Ian gradually began to think .
‘Though I’m not using that beast for entering the castle, I need to catch that beast . ’
It had been a long time since a beast had instigated Ian’s desire to catch and tame it .
And in a place, no one would think of .
While smiling, Ian looked above him .
A beautiful bird was overlooking Ian .
It reminded Ian of the ‘Phoenix’ of the oriental mythology; the bird whose body was covered with flames .
He was looking down on Ian’s party seeing whether his attacks went through or not .
‘In order to tame it, I need to cut down its vitality . ’
The most important thing when it came to capturing a summon in Kailan was to reduce the vitality of a summon’s physical body .
The term ‘physical’ here didn’t mean the vitality only .
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Though the vitality played a pivotal role, he had to harass the summon for a long time until it exhausted itself .
Once the summon was exhausted and couldn’t move anymore, they could bribe it with special food and items that the familiar might like .
That was the secret when it came to taming .
There were some familiars which could be caught very easily; that was the unchanging truth about the familiars of Kailan .
‘Should I start by taking down its vitality?’
Although it showed unexpected strong damage, the level of the guy was mere two digits .
Anyone from Ian’s party could probably one-shot the Phoenix .
Ian acted as carefully as possible .
If it got killed by mistake, then that would be a big loss for him .
“Remus, give me some information about the Phoenix . ”
“What do you mean by information?”
“I want to know if there’s anything unusual about it; like the buff from the world tree that I just told you about . ”
“Hmm…”
The Phoenix attempted to attack several times while Ian and Remus were talking .
But it wasn’t enough to get past the Dragonic Barrier of Elcarix, so Ian was able to listen to Remus .
“Let’s talk a bit more about the buff from the world tree . The buff effects aren’t limited to increasing the Phoenix’s damage . ”
“Then?”
“Rather than its offensive power, it has a much greater impact on the sustainability of the guy . ”
Ian waited for Remus to continue, and Remus extended his hand and pointed at something .
“See that red beam over there?”
At the question from Remus, Ian’s gaze reflexively went in the direction Remus was pointing at . He then saw a mysterious red energy connecting the Phoenix and the world tree .
“I see it . What is that?”
The words from Remus followed,
“That is like the lifeline of that guy . ”
“The huge life force created by the world tree is shared with the Phoenix . ”
“Well? Do you mean to say that the life force is shared between the phoenix and the world tree?”
“Not really . If the vitality of the world tree is shared, then he will be immortal . The World tree has infinite vitality . ”
“Then what?”
“It can be simply regarded as the tree giving the phoenix some vitality and then constantly fills it . I don’t know if you can see it, but there is a red sphere that is spinning inside the branches of the world tree . ”
Ian focused his eyes on the red sphere floating inside the trees .
And he saw the small print on the red sphere .
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Vitality: 5,000,000/ 5,000,000
Once Ian confirmed it, Ian was able to understand the explanation of Remus .
‘So I will have to do enough damage to destroy that sphere, and that should exhaust the Phoenix, right?’
That made capturing the Phoenix much easier .
In that way, he wouldn’t have to worry about accidentally killing it .
All that was left was to reduce the Phoenix’s vitality and leaving just enough to keep it from dying .
“Nice . Anything else?”
As Ian asked Remus, Remus gave him more information .
“The Phoenix will turn into a flame egg when its vitality runs out . And it will be reborn after some time . ”
“Oh, yeah?”
That eliminated the need to be more careful . Even if the sphere of vitality bursts with uncoordinated attacks, it didn’t mean that the beast would die .
Remus continued again,
“But if you break the flame egg, then it will die . And if it wakes up from the flame egg and dies once again before it regains its strength, then it won’t become an egg again . ”
“How do I know if it already regained its strength?”
“You can tell by looking at its tail . If three tails are fully sprouting, then it means that it already had its strength back . ”
“Ah ha, is that so?”
For Ian who was practically living in Kailan, he was able to guess the Phoenix’s mechanics .
‘There must be a cooldown for the unique ability to resurrect the egg . ’
Remus then continued giving more information about the Phoenix .
“I don’t know much about summoning, but I recommend that you catch it when it is in its flame egg form . ”
“Huh? Try to capture it when it is in its flame egg state?”
“Yeah . That is when he is the least resistant . ”
“That’s a nice tip . ”
The information given by Remus was much more useful than Ian had imagined .
And with that information, the capture of the Phoenix seemed a lot easier than expected .
“Kay, that’s enough then . Let’s start catching him now . ”
Ian smiled and had a confident look .
Towards such a cheerful Ian, Remus spoke .
“I’m not sure, but catching that guy won’t be easy, Ian . Only a few summoners had been successful in capturing the Phoenix in the entire history of Colonnare . ”
Ian shook his head to get rid of his worry and ran towards the direction of the Phoenix .
Ian—the ‘Taming Master’—thought that capturing the Phoenix wasn’t going to be hard .
But it didn’t take him long to realize that he was wrong .