Chapter 546: 546

‘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 .