The Taming Master

Muran suddenly gave out a hidden quest .

Rather than a hidden quest, the quest Muran gave was more like a hidden land mine .

And Ian was the one who would step foot on that land mine .

If Ian decided to take his foot off, that mine would end up making a huge explosion .

Ian read the quest window once again not being able to understand what he had gotten himself into .

"What the h.e.l.l is this crazy penalty…?"

Among the hidden quests which had great rewards, there often were cases that came with penalties for the failures .

However, its penalties were only a cut of experience points, fame loss, or a decline of affinity with the NPC that gave the quest .

The quest"s penalty of being dropped a tier in the hidden cla.s.s for not clearing it was borderline robbery .

No kind of effort could recover that .

A user had to put a lot of effort into gaining that tier . Also, many things were needed in order to succeed in gaining a tier .

Ian was stunned .

On the other hand, Muran—who wasn"t aware of how overwhelmed Ian was—spoke to him with a very satisfied expression .

“I didn"t know my arrangements were fine . If I knew that there was going to be a strong hero as such in the future, I would"ve taken rest with a calm heart . ”

Muran"s encouragement was continuing to burn Ian"s heart furthermore, and Elcarix was about to pour gasoline over it .

“Woah! My dad is so awesome!”

Elcarix was laughing at Ian while hanging on his back .

Even the cute voice of Elcarix couldn"t raise Ian"s spirit

“Heuu…”

Ian took a deep breath to regain his cool .

Due to the sudden outbreak of an insane quest, he was in a situation where he had to revise all the plans he made for the future .

"It looks like I"ll have to put off conquering the Elrika Kingdom as of the moment . I should ask for the understanding of our guild members, and I need to go to the Ulphir Mountains to upgrade the troops as soon as possible . I"ll be needing to make the most out of my ranker friends…"

Ian"s head was working and working .

It was clear that it was a quest with the highest level of difficulty, and it was also clear that it was impossible to avoid such a quest .

The only thing he could do at least was to increase the success rate of the quest as much as he could .

Things like giving up weren"t Ian"s style .

When Ian"s head was going through a trauma of its own, it wasn"t Ian who was in trouble .

Ian shared the quest with his party members too .

The other members of his party were reading the quest window of a weird quest very cautiously .

Their rewards and penalties were all entirely different from Ian, but the rest of the content of the quest was similar .

Ian"s party members suddenly noticed him .

After a while, Remir spoke with a lot of cautiousness .

“Ian-ah, can you not share this quest?”

Levya and Yu s.h.i.+n then said,

“Ian, I will take a break . Thank you very much for sharing the hidden quest, but I don"t think this…”

“I"m sorry bro, Ian . I can"t do it . ”

Three lines of message suddenly emerged before Ian"s eyes .

[Party member "Remir" has refused to accept the shared quest . ]

[Party member "Levya" has refused to accept the shared quest . ]

[Party member "Yu s.h.i.+n" has refused to accept the shared quest . ]

Ian was struck with the feeling of betrayal .

“Noona, Levya, Yu s.h.i.+n!”

However, the three simply avoided eye contact with Ian .

“Keu…”

Ian looked completely devastated .

He suddenly felt a hand that seemed to be comforting him .

Ian then heard a voice saying the thing he needed the most from an unlikely person .

“Hyung, I"ll follow you hyung!”

Everyone"s gaze went in the direction of that person"s voice .

There was Hoonie standing with a confident look .

The other party members were shocked at Hoonie"s att.i.tude .

“Oh, Hoonie…?”

“Hoonie get your mind straight! Aren"t you overwhelmed with the stress of excessive hunting?”

Unlike his party members, Ian wasn"t surprised at all .

Ian knew exactly why Hoonie decided to do such a thing .

“Don"t overdo it, man . You"re in the same boat as me anyway, right?”

He did .

Hoonie was already in a situation where he needed to kill the Lich King for his 4th tier quest to be completed .

Even the time limit of the two was the same .

Unlike Ian though, Hoonie"s quest didn"t have such ridiculously unfair penalty for failing the quest .

“Huu, you don"t know me at all . You"re so mean…”

Hoonie was displaying a sad face, but that wasn"t what he was feeling . His expression changed right away .

“Noisy . Let"s clear the dungeon as quickly as possible . ”

Ian looked at all of his party members while he talked slowly to Hoonie .

Though he spoke calmly, he hadn"t forgotten the terrible thing that they did awhile ago .

“If you guys want to rest early, then go ahead . I"ll somehow manage . ”

Ian"s tone was rather threatening, and his party members were obviously feeling it .

“Wow! That"s crazy . Why didn"t he do the play in a normal way?”

Seeing the decision that Ian took, Na Ji-chan couldn"t help but feel ridiculous .

Ian who was playing very well took a decision that no one would have even chose to opt for .

"I"m going to "give up" a 4th tier hidden cla.s.s . " was what Ian said .

No one including Na Ji-chan would have guessed that .

“Not that… this is…”

Na Ji-chan was pacing back and forth in the monitoring room restlessly .

The unprecedented choice of Ian was going to bring in heaps of work for the planning team .

Honestly, since they wanted to delay users from exhausting the new episode"s content as much as possible, Ian"s choice would greatly benefit them .

Apart from being a 4th tier hidden cla.s.s, the "Summoner Knight" contained a very important piece of the puzzle in dealing with the Richie King .

Without that piece, it would be hard to get rid of Richie King even if it was Ian .

That being said, the Richie King episode was going to last longer .

However, there was another problem .

The problem was the "Hero"s Responsibility", the hidden quest that Ian got from the unexpected choice that he made .

It wasn"t a quest that the planning team had even designed .

The quest didn"t even exist in the first place .

"Hu, I knew that we were going to have a problem…"

As Ian had taken a choice that the planning team wasn"t even considering to be in the option, a random quest got activated .

Kailan"s system was designed to cope with situations by judging its own algorithm if the situation wasn"t designed by the planning team .

So Muran used his own AI to make his own decision, and the quest was the result of his judgment .

"Hu, if you"re going to make quests that you wish, at least make some sensible ones…"

Na Ji-chan held his head as it was beginning to hurt .

The quest had fatal problems in it .

The most lethal problem was the "Unique Dual Cla.s.s" .

The reward that Muran"s quest offered was the "Unique Dual Cla.s.s" .

It was as if the quest was giving out a cla.s.s that never existed .

"This is going to hurt us a lot . Just because of Ian, we will now have to make this unique dual-cla.s.s thing?"

Adding a new cla.s.s wasn"t an easy task .

A new hidden cla.s.s always called for the addition of a few new skills and a special trait to the existing planned base .

“Hu…”

Na Ji-chan had already been working for Kailan"s planning team for 5 years now .

Na Ji-chan who had worked long before the opening of Kailan was always confident that his mind was as strong as a diamond .

However, all thanks to Ian, he was having his second mental breakdown in the middle of the night .

The first one was when Ian was close to clearing the Dragon"s Altar time attack dungeon and almost opened the Door of Dimension . The current one was this crisis Ian just brought in .

“Phew… let"s just hold that thought, maybe Ian will fail the quest?”

According to what Na Ji-chan was thinking, without the Summoner Knight cla.s.s, the possibility of Ian clearing the quest was below 10% .

Which was why it could be seen as a good gamble .

If Ian failed the quest, then they could go back to the point where nothing had happened .

Taking off a tier from the Taming Master cla.s.s was a bit too much of a penalty .

However, they could just give Ian an opportunity in the future to raise his tier again .

Na Ji-chan knew very well that Ian would fail this quest .

If Ian"s chances of success were even at 10% and he did finish the quest successfully, it was the end of the story .

Without taking his eyes off the monitor, Na Ji-chan mumbled and mumbled,

“10% success rate… I"ll have to spend the night here to see what"s gonna happen . ”

Ian"s quest was limited to 30 days, but the time limit for the planning team was much shorter .

Ian wasn"t going to complete the quest right away, but he would surely challenge the Richie King in the days that were going to come .

"27 days, no, maybe 25 days…? We"ll have to make a thorough plan within those days . "

Even though Na Ji-chan enjoyed working in the night s.h.i.+ft, he was now at a point where he couldn"t work happily at all .

Rather than the night s.h.i.+ft, it was now a torture s.h.i.+ft .

His cup ramen turned soggy and could now be mistaken for udon .

Hrrr-!

Na Ji-chan immediately dug into his cup ramen, but he couldn"t taste anything from it .

His eyes just kept moving .

“The Dual Cla.s.s shouldn"t overlap with the planning… I need to think of how I"m going to connect it to the main cla.s.s…”

The moment Ian refused the hidden cla.s.s, Na Ji-chan felt like he aged for 10 years .

Na Ji-chan opened the door of the monitoring room and stared at the monitors one last time before leaving the room .

Ian"s figure that was on the screen came into his mind .

“Keu, does Ian G.o.d even know what he is doing now?”

At this very moment, at least for today, Na Ji-chan was an anti of Ian G.o.d