Chapter 546: The Attribute Room 1
'Somehow I thought that I solved it easily.'
Ian squeezed his lower lip with his fingers and began to think again.
No matter how flustering it was, he wasn't going to kill himself rushing into it.
Ian bounced back into the air.
Tatt-!
Where Ian stood prior, a huge stone got struck.
Thud-!
Ian escaped through the scattering rocks and moved back and forth while trying to avoid the rock monsters.
He needed much more accurate information about the situation.
'The key surely didn't drop from the monster I just killed.'
There were two possible scenarios.
One, the guy Ian killed wasn't wearing a key necklace around him at all, or maybe the drop didn't happen as the guy was wearing one.
If the latter was the right one, then the situation turned rather difficult.
To hunt one who had a key on his neck meant that no key would drop.
Ian's expression, which had confirmed the body of the fallen monster, was slightly distorted.
'Dammit. This is difficult...'
The first guy Ian took down had a necklace hanging around his head.
'If so, I need to check it for sure...'
Ian moved quickly.
The eight rock attribute monsters were still on the battlefield. It was necessary to figure out how many of them even had the keys.
As a result, all those who had a necklace of a key on their necks had to be killed.
Kung-! Thud-!
Massive fists made of rocks fell one after the other in succession toward Ian.
However, due to the agile movements of Ian, those attacks didn't even touch him.
Ian looked around the battlefield.
Kung-!
An additional rock monster had been summoned.
Ian quickly looked over at the neck of that guy.
"...!"
There was no key.
Ian, who saw it, smiled.
'Nice. There is a chance then...!'
The number of rock monsters that were summoned when the room had been built was eight.
Despite killing one, the number of rock monsters currently summoned was nine.
Six minutes after opening the room, one more monster started to grow. However, Ian's expression got a bit dark.
It was because he still seemed to have a good chance of winning.
'The remaining time is approximately 24 minutes...'
In Ian's head, the information so far had been summarized into three.
First, two additional monsters have been summoned since Ian had entered the room, and neither of them had any key around their neck.
Second, all eight existing monsters had the keys around their necks.
Third, Ian took about 4 to 5 minutes to kill just one. On the other hand, it took around two to three minutes for the rocks to regenerate.
An information that could be considered as nothing special, but Ian was able to think of a few alternatives with that information.
It allowed him to write some scenarios and come up with the most efficient strategy.
'I don't want to touch those guys who are going to regenerate again in the future. As soon as possible, I'll have to kill eight of them.'
Ian already killed one of them and seven rock monsters remained.
Ian took four to five minutes to kill just one, so killing all seven of them would take 30 minutes.
By the time only two golems remained, the regeneration speed of the monsters would increase rapidly.
'By the time only one of them remains, almost fifteen new golems will be created.'
After completing his calculations, Ian bit his lip.
If he was lucky and the key drops, there wouldn't be much difference, but if it was the last one which had the key, then the fight wouldn't be easy.
Ian didn't intend to leave the quest in the hands of luck.
Due to the nature of Ian, he already assumed the worst-case scenario.
'I shouldn't go behind one. Somehow I need to shorten the kill time.'
Piping-!
With the longbow in his hands, arrows began to hit the targets.
Surprisingly, however, the arrows were going toward different targets.
Puck-!
Seven arrows were shot, and seven golems had been hit by those arrows.
* * *
The 'fire' attribute couldn't damage the 'rock' attribute.
It was because it would lose half of the power in the relation.
Then why did Ian continue to use the fire spirit magic despite being able to swing his spear with normal type attacks?
The answer was simple.
Despite the loss of power, the magic DPS was slightly higher.
In addition, the weapon had to be used in a close range, but the fire arrows were ranged ones.
If Ian used the arrows, the risk of getting hit would be lower.
Nevertheless, there was a specific situation for which weapon had to be used.
And that was when all of the spirit power got exhausted.
'I can't help it. To push the DPS to the limit...!'
Currently, Ian's transcendence spirit magic was just over a thousand.
And the Infernal Fire magic spell consumed 100 transcendence spirit magic each time it got triggered.
Assuming that Ian's arrows wouldn't miss, a total of 200 shots would consume all of his spirit magic.
Of course, the spirit magic would continue to rise over time, but even after considering that, it meant that magic couldn't be used indefinitely.
Ian had been using spirit magic as efficiently as possible.
Once the ten marks exploded, the Infernal Fire's cooldown would be finished, and the spirit magic would be reactivated only after the remaining arrows were used.
When he built up a mark with Agbi, he actually shot five arrows with marks, and the marks carefully stacked up. He tried to shoot the remaining 20 arrows without missing.
'However, this is the only way for me to change the strategy.'
Ian relentlessly shot his arrows and began to drive the rock monsters into a corner.
Until now, his strategy was to cut down one monster after the other, but he now decided to randomly hit one.
Ian, who had been pulling his right hand with a lot of thought, now began to pull the string of the bow without hesitation.
Piping-!
With unbelievable speed, the arrows began to scatter into the air.
[Fatal damage has been done to 'Reprobot'!]
[The vitality of 'Reprobot' has been reduced by 77.]
[The mark 'Hellfire' reached its MAX.]
[The mark caused a powerful explosion.]
[Fatal damage was done to 'Reprobot'!]
[The vitality of 'Reprobot' has been reduced by 669.]
Ian's rate of shooting arrows had been excellent until now.
He was shooting almost two arrows per second with a tremendous accuracy rate of 100%.
It was just a blood bath now.
If anyone could see it, they would probably think that Ian was just throwing the arrows at an insane speed.
[The mark of hellfire reached its MAX.]
[The mark caused a powerful explosion.]
[The mark of hellfire reached its MAX.]
[The mark caused a powerful explosion.]
Kwang-!
Once every two to three seconds, the mark exploded.
It was only possible because Ian drove the rock monsters at a corner and was shooting them randomly.
It didn't matter what was right, and it didn't matter if he missed a shot.
If he could focus on the mark until it accumulated, it was bound to cooldown.
After the mark was done, ten to fifteen arrows were left for use.
Kwakwag-!
Ian's spirit magic began to build up rapidly.
['Infernal Fire' the spirit magic has consumed 100 spirit power.]
['Infernal Fire' the spirit magic has consumed 100 spirit power.]
In less than two minutes, all the spirit power had been exhausted.
['Infernal Fire' the spirit magic has consumed 100 spirit power.]
[Spirit power is lacking; hence the spirit magic cannot be used.]
Ian's eyes confirmed the system message.
Ian's gaze quickly shifted to the vitality gauge of the rock monsters.
'While the spirit power is still full, one of them has to be killed.'
The vitality of the rock monster he continued to mark was currently less than half, and the rest of them had been evenly cut by 5%.
It would take a minute or two for the spirit power to be regained. In the meantime, he planned to remove the lowest vitality one.
"Hmph!"
All of a sudden, Ian brought out the Judgment of the Spirit King and stretched his arms.
Swak-!
Subsequently, the Judgment of the Spirit King shot intense lightning strikes on the chest of a rock monster.
Kwakwa-!
[The monster 'Reprobot' has been fatally damaged.]
[The vitality of 'Reprobot' has been reduced by 395.]
It didn't end there.
Immediately after throwing the spear, Ian equipped the Bloody Revenge and began to pump blood mist.
Woong-!
With an intensified resonance, Ian's color turned red.
Ian's body was shining red. He then rushed toward the monsters.
Swack-!
[Activated the unique ability 'Blood Split'.]
[The monster 'Reprobot' has been fatally damaged!]
[The monster 'Reprobot' has been fatally damaged!]
[The monster 'Reprobot' has been fatally damaged!]
[The conditions have been met.]
['Blood Split's' cooldown has been reset.]
The rock attribute monsters were very dull.
So it was very easy to hit a critical hit.
Ian pierced three rock monsters with the Blood Split.
Ian's new form was once again engulfed into the bloody mist.
Swark-!
[Activated the Unique ability 'Blood Split'.]
Flashing red lights hit the monsters in succession from one monster to the other.
Of course, it was possible to activate the blood split indefinitely.
Anyhow, the probability of a critical hit was not 100%, and the skill linkage would be broken if Ian didn't land three consecutive critical hits.
However, the DPS of Ian was unreal.
Kwang-!
[The monster 'Reprobot' has been fatally damaged!]
[The vitality of 'Reprobot' has been exhausted.]
[You have successfully defeated Reprobot!]
[Gained 109 transcendence experience.]
[Obtained 17 aster.]
A red light was flashing every time Ian moved his sword, and another rock monster had collapsed.
The time it took to kill a rock monster wasn't much faster than before, but the situation was completely different.
The remaining monsters' vitality were damaged evenly by 10%.
Thud-!
The rock monsters fell, and massive tremors occurred around the vacant lot.
The key wasn't obtained again, but Ian wasn't disappointed at all.
He was going to kill the eight ones with the keys.
Tat-!
Ian stepped onto the body of the monster and pushed in his sword.
The spirit magic came back, and it was time to start over.
Suddenly...
[Master, it is dangerous!]
Agbi, who was flying in the air, shouted toward Ian with concern.
Behind Ian, a huge fist was flying.
Kwaah-!
Ian didn't panic.
Ian already saw the attack coming.
Thud -!
From the back of Ian, a shield appeared and blocked the huge rocky fist.
[Successfully blocked with a Shield!]
[Absorbed 91.95% of damage.]
[Vitality reduced by 198.]
In that duration, Ian jumped away from the monsters.
"You pigs! Stop now, please!"
Once again, fire started raining from above.