Published at 20th of November 2019 07:31:17 AM
Chapter 548: 548
After defeating the Guardian Machine, Ian had a questionable item in his hand .
That was the ‘Lesser Machine Summon Blueprint’ item .
When he first got it, he was filled with excitement .
It was the discovery of a new content that could provide him with the new kinds of summons .
However, the excitement was just for a moment .
Kailan wasn’t ready to open the new content for Ian that easily .
It just threw out tow lines of information to Ian who was tying to check for the item information in detail .
[The legacy of Sealed foreign civilization!]
[To unseal it, you need the item ‘Password Decoder’ . ]
For that very reason, Ian had no choice but to put that blueprint back into his inventory .
The information about the so-called ‘decoder’ wasn’t even known to the No . 1 Explorer class user, Lilson .
He utterly had no clue on how to release the seal, and the quest to the spirit dimension was still in progress .
Of course, Gripper might have known it too, but the thought just lasted for a moment .
Since he had many other quests that he had to proceed with, he thought that he might be able to get a clue along the way .
It was all because the episode of the spirit dimension was moving along closely with the Mechanical Civilization .
And Ian’s thoughts were on point .
Like that, he got that item called the ‘password decoder’ from the rock monster .
Although it was a half-sized ‘faulty’ one, he still had it in his possession .
‘Once I clear of the contaminated mine, I need to think about it . ’
Ian took in the items obtained and quickly placed them to the inventory as he had to head towards the iron gate .
The rock monsters were chasing him, but with the agility that they had, it was close to impossible for catching Ian .
And arriving at the iron gate, Ian inserted the Key of Rock into the large keyhole in the corner .
And as the size of the key itself was that of a baseball bat, it wasn’t so hard to place it in .
Grrrr-!
Ian placed the key and turned it clockwise, and the dungeon began to make sounds again .
Creak-!
And the remaining rock monster began to collapse .
Kyahhh-!
‘Done!’
A sigh of relief came from Ian’s mouth as he confirmed that the key was working .
If there were any mishaps like the key not fitting and such, Ian’s heart would have collapsed right there and then .
After a while, came in the system messages .
Tring-!
[You have successfully escaped from the ‘Room of Rock’!]
[The limit of the Summon skill has been released . ]
[The limit of the Return skill has been released . ]
[The first phase has been cleared . ]
‘Nice!’
Ian wiped off the sweat that was flowing down his forehead and released the muscles on his right arm a little .
As the muscles were used way beyond their limit, they wouldn’t open up that quickly nor did the pain go away .
If the combat would have gone for another 10 minutes, Ian would not have made it alive .
‘Well, what is next?’
The space, which had been a large rectangular room had then turned into a long passage .
And Ian stepped in .
The restrictions on both his Summon and Return had been lifted, but it was no longer meaningful for him .
By using the return scroll, he didn’t want to give up on the quest at all, and he had no thoughts of summoning anyone else other than Chirpy and Agbi .
If someone else would have heard the intentions of Ian, they might think that Ian was being foolish .
As he had just passed the first gate, barely, he might have wanted to be stubborn by sticking up with them .
However, Ian wasn’t the kind of person .
Ian was anticipating that the gate that would appear in the future was going to be much easier than the ‘Room of Rock’ that he had just passed .
‘Unless another room with the rock attributes comes up again . ’
The main spirit of Ian, Agbi, was a fire attribute .
And there were just two attributes in the Kailan that went poorly with the fire attribute .
And they were the rock attributes and the water attributes .
However, since he had just passed the rock attribute, it was more likely that it would appear again, and the only remaining paranormality was the water attribute .
If so, would Ian go ahead with a mindset of ‘I don’t think that there would that many water attributes out there, right?’
That wasn’t it either .
Even if the phase of water attribute did come out, Ian was confident about clearing it .
It was because he had a spirit with the ‘lightning’ attribute, the most powerful which went against the water .
Ian had ‘Chirpy’ .
‘Besides, I have the unique ability of Judgment of the Spirit King with a little lightning attribute . ’
And with that kind of thought, Ian entered the dungeon without any hesitation .
In the process, the machine monsters from the beginning had appeared, however dealing with them wasn’t so hard .
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Unlike the guys in the attribute room, the guys in the passage of the mine weren’t much different from the machine monkey’s in terms of power .
Maybe 12 minutes of a walk?
The system messages had come up for Ian, about the second phase .
Tring-!
[The machines installed in the mine are moving . ]
[The second phase has been triggered . ]
[‘Grass Room’ has been opened . ]
‘Bingo!’
Ian who had checked the system messages couldn’t help but smile .
This was because the second phase has begun with the ‘grass’ attribute, which was vulnerable for Ian’s fire attribute but strong for the lightning attribute .
Kkung-!
The mine started to work again, and the chamber which was similar to that of the first phase had been created .
And subsequently, huge monsters of tree sizes had been summoned throughout the space .
“Ohohoh . ”
Ian immediately summoned his longbow with a wicked smile .
This was the time to release the stress that he had piled up from the rock monsters .
Kiik-!
The door opened with audible friction .
Harin’s head turned in the direction of the sound .
In the place where the door had opened, no one could be seen .
Whenever a door opened, someone had to come in, but the door had opened as if a ghost had entered .
That was creepy enough, but Harin smiled .
“Hut . ”
It was because even without seeing who had come in, she knew just who was there .
Looking back into the kitchen, Harin continued to do what she was doing .
Bubble bubble .
Swirl swirl .
The kitchen was filled with delicious smells that would make anyone drool .
And between that noise, came another weird sound .
BbubBbook-!
And Harin opened her mouth with a smile .
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“You come here often, Bbookbbook-ah?”
The ghost which had come into the room was Bbookbbook .
The door opened and no one could be seen because Bbookbbook was short .
And as the kitchen table was covered with the utensils, the end of the door wasn’t visible .
As he walked up to Harin’s side, Bbookbbook opened his mouth and said,
“I’m hungry Bbook . I want to eat the creamy meatballs like the ones in the last time, Bbook . ”
Like a five-year-old kid asking his mom for food, Harin, and her kid .
Harin stroked the head of Bbookbbook with a gentle voice and spoke,
“Hold on a second . I will make them soon . ”
“Bbook! Harin is the best!”
With a satisfactory smile, he leaned next to Harin and began to wait for the food that she would make .
And Harin was making the ‘cream meatballs’ he asked .
“But Bbookbbook-ah . ”
“BBook?”
“Why are the vacation so long these days?”
“Master is raising the spirit friends these days, so busy . ”
“Ahha . ”
“You have been very busy for a while . So it is good to have a long vacation . ”
Harin and BBookbbook were having a daily talk .
At first glance, the conversation would seem very absurd for anyone else .
However, if one looked at it a little more, it could be seen that BBookbbook was in a very different situation right now .
Bbookbbook wasn’t summoned by Ian, however, he seemed to be stalking the human world .
Ian, of course, had a special skill that came from raising the Taming Master to the Top tier .
A sympathetic skill .
Even if the summoner wasn’t present, the summons could still be present without being called by the summoner, and can even keep them while staying logged-out .
And now, Bbookbbook was moving around with no skill in place .
If Bbookbbook had been summoned under the sympathetic skills, he would have been in the kitchen of Harin .
If Ian had connected with the skill, he could see everything that Bbookbbook would be doing .
And Ian had no idea where Bbookbbook was .
“Bbook- Bbook-!”
Bbookbbook was scratching the neck of his with his short legs .
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He was walking around the human world like an anime character searching for his past self .
Bbookbbook was currently stalking the human world as if he was searching for a Hero, and sweet Harin kept BBookbbook happy as he was deviant from Ian .
“Hungry Bbook! It is like my stomach is attached to my shell bbook!”
“Wait up boy . I’m almost done . ”
“Boy huh… I’m hurt Bbook . Don’t speak like master BBook . ”
“Noisy . ”
“Bbok- Bbook-”
The two were soon done and sat down at the table to start eating .
The creamy meatballs were the favorite of BBookbbook, and the favorite snack of Harin too .
Harin who saw BBookbbook take in the meatballs, asked with a concerned voice,
“BBookbbook-ah . ”
“What is it Bbook?”
“Maybe, are you worried about something these days?”
“BBook?”
“Like feeling a bit depressed . Just the words… don’t you miss hunting?”
At the question from Harin, Bbookbbook shook his head .
“BBook! Now way BBook!”
“Well, then why is your expression so dark…? If there is something that is worrying you, talk to me . Who knows? Maybe I can help?”
“Bbook?”
Harin’s subtle words made the eyes of Bbookbbook shake .
And Harin noticed that .
“Come on, say it . What is the problem? Are you getting fat so your shell is getting tighter?”
Bbookbbook shook his head .
And looked at Harin’s face .
“I’m just talking with Harin right, bbook . ”
Harin heard BBookbbook’s words and started to get excited .
Seeing the expression of Bbookbbook, Harin thought that something very interesting would come out .
“Okay . I won’t let anyone else know about it, tell me . ”
“Bbook…”
As if thinking about how it was supposed to be put, BBookbbook closed his eyes .
And after a while, Bbookbbook opened his mouth and the excitement started to flow for Harin .