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nMuran, capital of the Luspell Empire.

nAt Flinor Square, east side of Muran.

nAmong users, this square was called the Square of Classes. Many people had gathered there.

nThey talked among themselves as they stood on one side of the Square while looking at something.

n“What? Is this real?”

n“Of course it’s real. Or what? Would it be Fake?”

n“Does it even make sense? The Summoner’s Tower was the first to be built among the three new

nclasses!”

nThe users were there for a reason.

nFlinor Square was called Square of Classes because the towers of all classes were there. Currently,

nthere was a new building being built in there.

nWhen the construction first started, everyone started to watch with joy, thinking ‘one of the users from

nthe new classes has finally reached Lv. 50.’

nHowever, an hour later, the later parts of the Tower were finished. It turned out to be the Tower of

nSummoners.

nEveryone had believed that it would be the Tower of Dark Sorcerers. However, it wasn’t. No, it wasn’t

neven the Tower of Assassins. It was the Tower of Summoners. Summoners who were known to be

nslow at gaining levels. Therefore, everyone was surprised.

nMost of them were shocked, but some were happy.

n“Wow, I never imagined that the Tower of Summoners would be the first one to be built!”

n“Yes, I should wait here and get a class quest as soon as it is finished!!”

n“I only wished for the Tower of Summoners to be built earlier than the one from the Kaimon Empire…

nto think that it was built first among all the new classes…”

nOf course, the ones making the comments were Summoner players.

nWhen the Tower of class was built, players from the class could get useful information at the Tower

nand receive class quests.

nIn addition, if they completed many quests and received a huge Contribution, they would be able to

nreceive books of the class’ Advanced skills and items, so the Summoner users were very excited.

nWhile these users talked, the Tower was rapidly being built.

nAbout three hours later.

nAll uses from the Luspell Empire saw a system message.

nDing-

nThen, players started to talk, not only at Flinor Square but everywhere in the Empire.

n“What? The Tower of Summoners’ has been built!”

n“Great!! Let’s stop hunting and go to Muran!!”

nThese were the Summoners who were delighted.

n“Have you seen the system message?”

n“I just got it. What is this? Is this even possible?”

n“Ha, I am Lv. 20 now… and there’s already someone at Lv. 50? That’s crazy!”

n“This has to be an error. It makes no sense. There isn’t even a Lv. 50 Dark Sorcerer yet.”

n“It’s a bug. I’m sure. We should report it on the bug page of the LBsoft’s homepage.”

nThere were still some who couldn’t believe reality and denied it, “Who is it?”

n“It must be a user who was helped by a huge guild.”

n“Hu, how are common users like us supposed to live?”

nSome users were jealous.

nMost of them were players with other new classes.

nSummoners.

nHowever, after the last message came up, most users in Luspell Empire were glad.

nAnyway, it was good for the players from the Luspell Empire to get the Tower before the Kaimon

nEmpire did.

nThat day, the official community of Kailan was very crowded.

n…

n“Ahh.”

nJinsung woke up after 10 a.m. He stretched and went to the kitchen.

nAs usual, he was going to eat corn flakes with milk…

nHowever, differently from what he used to, he had slept for almost 12 hours. He was feeling very

nrefreshed.

nIt was all because he had become the first Summoner to reach Lv. 50.

n“Hamm.”

nJinsung repeatedly yawned as he took the bowl of corn flakes. He then went to his computer desk.

nToday, he was going to research for information at the official community before logging in.

n“Huh? What’s this? Why are there so many posts today?”

nJinsung was surprised when he opened the Summoner’s page.

nThere were dozens of pages where each post was marked with a red ‘N’, which meant the article had

nbeen posted less than 24 hours ago.

nThe page which was normally very active had never seen such a large amount of posts.

nSoon, Jinsung found out why.

n‘Hhh… everyone has been moved by my achievement.’

nMost of the posts were about the Tower of Summoners, which had been built because of Jinsung.

nHe got excited and started to read the posts.

nOriginally, he was going to go into his capsule as soon as he finished his bowl of corn flakes, but now

nhe was being sucked into the monitor.

n‘Huh? What is this article?’

nJinsung read pages of posts and finally found one with an interesting title.

nThis post had 20 times more clicks than any other.

n‘What? You know me?’

nJinsung knew that most of the posts like this one were useless fakes or jokes, but he got so curious.

nHe couldn’t help clicking on it.

nClick-

nHowever, he was so surprised when he saw the post.

n‘Huk!’

nWhen Jinsung clicked on the posting, the first thing he saw on the screen was none other than a

nscreenshot photo of Ian, Jinsung’s character.

nJinsung hurried to scroll down and read.

nHello, I am a Lv.60 user from the Knight page.

nYou all have seen the screenshot photo on top, right?’

nMany of you must think that I’m lying, but you are wrong.

nI am not lying.

nI am sure that the Summoner who appeared on the screenshot is the first Summoner to reach Lv. 50.

nWhy am I so sure about it?

n…

nGulp-

nIan swallowed hard and kept reading.

n…

nWhere do you think the photo was taken?

nThose who have been there would immediately recognize it. It’s the North Continent that had been

nopened recently.

nIt’s the Crupia Mountains in the North Continent.

nCan you see the monster the Summoner user is capturing in the photo?

nSurprisingly, it’s an Ice Troll, whose average level is about 57.

nThen, how high is that Summoner’s level?

nWhat is the minimum level required to capture a Lv. 57 Ice Troll alone?

nEven if he had great gears and powerful pets, his level must be in the late 40s.

nThe user had closed all his personal information, so I couldn’t find out his ID, guild or level, but I was

nsure.

nI even saw him hunting and he hunted even faster than me, a Lv. 60 user, as if his items were all Hero

nrank items.

nWhat do you think?

nI will let you Summoners decide.

n…

nThe post was very logical and the Summoner in the photo was clearly Ian himself. He was greatly

nstartled.

nSoon, he acknowledged the reality and nodded, ‘Hu, I didn’t want to be bothered so I kept my

ninformation closed and moved quietly… but now I have been exposed.’

nIan also felt pride, ‘I will be famous soon. Shall I check the comments?’

nIan scrolled down to see them.

nHowever, his expression soon turned strange.

nbelieve that he could hunt there but, even if he could, it would be very inefficient.

nIan started to get angry.

n‘What are they talking about? That place is a great hunting ground, it’s very efficient to hunt there!’

nIf you want to draw attention, at least spend some time on photoshop-ing.

nIan was really mad now.

n‘You idiots!! I am so shocked!! Oh-!’

nIan huffed as he turned off the computer and got up.

nHe looked somewhat frustrated.

nIan was still huffing when he logged into Kailan.

n‘Do kids these days all have some kind of suspicion disease? It’s a perfectly fine photo! It wasn’t

nedited!’

nIan continued to complain, sad that he couldn’t become a ‘celebrity’. Then, he summoned Ly to use

nthe Training skill.

n“Ly, summon!”

nGrowl-!

nIt had been only 10 hours after the hard five-day-long hunting, however, Ly growled and rubbed his

nbody against Ian’s to say that it was glad to see him.

nIan stroked Ly.

n“I wish Bukbuk was a good pet as much as Ly is.”

nHe summoned Bukbuk as he remembered it.

n“Bukbuk, summon!”

nBuk-!

nBukbuk looked very angry.

n“Bukbuk, didn’t you miss me?”

nBukbuk turned its head away. Ian sighed.

n“You like me only when I give you meatballs, right? You want a meatball?”

nBuk-!

nHowever, Bukbuk looked very determined, as if saying meatballs weren’t enough.

nIan was surprised, ‘What? Is Bukbuk finally fed up with the meatballs?’

nIan glanced at Bukbuk.

n‘That can’t happen. There’s got to be another reason…’

nIan thought about it and he recalled something.

n‘Oh, maybe… is it because I carried him on my back to use him as a shield?’

nThat would be enough to make it feel bad.

nIan was a little sorry, too.

n‘But it is so great. I cannot stop it!’

nIan crouched down in front of Bukbuk.

n“Bukbuk.”

nBuk-

n“Are you mad at me because I carried you on my back?”

nAt this, Bukbuk turned its head to look at him.

nIts expression told him that he was right.

nIan felt the necessity to soothe Bukbuk.

n“I survived many times thanks to you.”

nBuk-!

nAs if it didn’t want to hear it, Bukbuk turned its head away again.

nIan started to convince Bukbuk.

n“Bukbuk, listen. It would be the loss of the Luspell Empire to not use a great pet like you. Don’t you

nthink so?”

nTo Bukbuk, that made sense.

nBukbuk looked at Ian again.

nIan spoke with a pleading expression.

n“I had nothing to fear with you on my back. Can’t you protect me again?”

nBukbuk’s big eyes started to shake.

nBuk-?

nBukbuk, the turtle, had a tender heart.

nThen, Ian proposed an attractive offer that Bukbuk couldn’t resist.

n“If you keep protecting me, I will give you three meatballs in the morning and four in the evening every

nday. This will be your wage. How is that?”

nBuk!

nBukbuk thought about it.

nIt was a sweet offer. It would be able to eat delicious meatballs regularly.

nHowever, it soon shook its head.

nIt had become quite immune to the temptation of meatballs. Ian sighed.

nSo, as if he was backing down, he changed his offer, “Fine, then I will give you four meatballs in the

nmorning and three in the evening! How’s that?”

nBukbuk thought about Ian’s new offer and slowly nodded.

nIt meant it would accept the deal.

n“Bukbuk, you are a smart, great turtle.”

nBukbuk arrogantly looked up at Ian, as if saying, ‘You realized that only now?’.

n‘Huhu, he is so cute.’

nIan succeeded on persuading Bukbuk by using a well-devised ‘strategy’. He tossed a meatball to

nBukbuk and sat down on a rock.

n‘Hu, what should I do with this arrogant turtle?’

nIan muttered quietly, looking at Bukbuk enjoying the meatball.

n‘But he is cute. Plus, he is useful in battles now.’

nIan sat for a while to watch Bukbuk eat. Then he checked on the blinking message icon.

nSomeone had sent him a message while he was logged out.

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