The Taming Master

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 "Pa.s.sword 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 cla.s.s 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 "pa.s.sword 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 s.p.a.ce, which had been a large rectangular room had then turned into a long pa.s.sage .

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 pa.s.sed 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 antic.i.p.ating that the gate that would appear in the future was going to be much easier than the "Room of Rock" that he had just pa.s.sed .

"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 pa.s.sed 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 .

Unlike the guys in the attribute room, the guys in the pa.s.sage 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 . ]

["Gra.s.s 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 "gra.s.s" 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 s.p.a.ce .

“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 .

“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 meatb.a.l.l.s like the ones in the last time, Bbook . ”

Like a five-year-old kid asking his mom for food, Harin, and his 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 meatb.a.l.l.s" 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 .

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 sh.e.l.l 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 meatb.a.l.l.s were the favorite of BBookbbook, and the favorite snack of Harin too .

Harin who saw BBookbbook take in the meatb.a.l.l.s, 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 sh.e.l.l 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 .