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n“What… is all this?”

nGriffer was shocked at seeing the pieces of Soul Stones which Ian poured on his desk.

nIan smiled at seeing that, “Well, as you can see…”

nGriffer was right at being shocked.

nThe quest was about gathering the pieces of only one Soul Stone.

nHowever, Ian had brought more than 50 whole Souls Stones, plus many other pieces.

nIn total there were hundreds of pieces.

nThere was a simple reason why Ian had gathered so many Soul Stones.

nHe had worked hard to get the Halican’s Soul Stone, however, as he had to wait after for another

nHalican to appear after killing one, he had hunted all the monsters he saw while he waited.

n“This… this many…”

nGriffer was dumbfounded, but he soon smiled widely, “You have done much more than I asked…

nthere was a reason why Orkley sent you to me!”

nA few system messages announced the end of the quest.

nIan widely grinned at seeing that he got 30% of the EP necessary for the next level-up. The amount of

nEP needed for each level-up had greatly increased as he got close to Lv.100.

n‘Ha, it was worth all that trouble!’

nGriffer also smiled at seeing Ian’s happiness.

n“Follow me. Let us revive the Soul Stones you have brought.”

n“Great!” He was already excited to get the ancient reward as the quest’s reward.

n‘It would be great if I could get a Halican.’

nHe had killed it easily at the end, but it was still a Lv.103 Hero rank monster.

nIt was so powerful that Ian had almost died to it many times when he fought it at first.

n‘Its fighting style would be similar to Ly’s and its battle stats proportion would be something between

nLy’s and Rakes.’

nGriffer took the dreamy Ian to the deepest part of his laboratory.

nThere was a huge complicated magic machine.

n“Now, shall we begin?”

nGriffer started to put the pieces together to make the Soul Stones.

nThen, he carefully picked up one completed Soul Stone and put it in the machine.

nIan glanced at the Soul Stone’s information and muttered quietly, ‘That’s Clopsys’ Soul Stone.’

nThe ancient monster that had bothered Ian with its high Defense Force.

nIan wondered what the revived monster would look like, as it used to be a soul. He looked at Griffer as

nhe worked.

nUnnng-

nGriffer activated the device which started to hum and glow in blue.

n“Oh…” Without realizing it, Ian exclaimed.

nThe Soul Stone in the middle of the machine started to float up in the air.

nThe light in the machine started to be absorbed by the Soul Stone.

nNext, the Soul Stone also started to blow in blue and change shape.

n“Now, what are you?”

nWith great expectation, Griffer watched the light as it took the shape of a large monster.

nA while later…

nThe blue light faded and a large Clopsys appeared in front of them.

n“It worked! It worked!”

nTouched, Griffer stroke the Clopsys while Ian checked the system messages.

n‘Oh! The monster will appear in the fields when revived!’

nIan felt proud of himself.

n‘A new monster appeared in the Kolonar Continent thanks to me… it sure feels good.’

nGriffer continued to work.

n…

n…

nThere were quite a lot of monsters of the same species but, as there were so many Soul Stones, in

ntotal 15 new monsters appeared in the Kolonar Continent.

nAfter reviving various monsters from Regular rank to Unique rank, Ian got 50,000 more Reputation.

n‘Raising Reputation has never been so easy…’

nIan felt strange when checking his Reputation, it was almost 500,000.

n‘The reputation system is a privilege for users who excel.’

nIan could understand why the ranked users of old classes had an insanely high Reputation.

nSoon, as the last reviving started, Ian looked back at the Soul Stone in the machine.

n‘Halican!’

nHe could never forget that.

nHe had spent 3~4 days to get the seventh piece of Halican’s Soul Stone.

nHe could even recognize a piece’s number just by looking at its shape because he had carried them

nfor so long.

nUnng-

nThe revived Halican appeared in front of Ian and Griffer.

n30,000.

nAs a ghost, Halican used to be a cool tiger but, after being revived, it looked even cooler.

n‘Ka! It’s even a white tiger!’

nTo describe it shortly, Halican was a huge tiger with snow-white fur and red stripes.

n“Oh… Halican. I never thought I would get to see this legendary creature!”

nGriffer was fascinated by it and so was Ian.

n‘I want it!’

nGriffer looked at Ian and spoke as if he heard him, “You have done so well, Ian. Thanks to you, this

nold man could see the legendary monsters in the books for real.”

nIan replied with compliments that he really didn’t mean so he could get a better reward, “No, Griffer. I

nwas glad to go on special adventures thanks to you.”

nGriffer stretched out his hand. Halican was then drawn to his hand and turned into a white Binding

nStone.

nIan’s eyes widened.

n‘He can do that?! Is it because he is an NPC?’

nGriffer spoke again, “I have never seen such a great Summoner like you. So… I would like you to take

nthis child with you. Will you do that?”

nThat was what Ian had been waiting for!

nAs soon as Griffer finished talking, Ian quickly nodded, “Yes, Griffer!”

nGriffer smiled and gave the Stone to Ian.

n“Here, take it.”

nIan grinned widely. He then immediately opened Halican’s information window.

nHalican

nLevel: 1

nType: Ancient Monster

nRank: Hero

nCharacter: Violent

nEvolution Impossible

nAttack Force: 20

nDefense Force: 10

nSpeed: 16

nIntelligence: 5

nHealth: 376

/376

nMagic: 125

/125

nUnique Ability

nStuns the enemy for 1 second with a 10% probability when using a basic attack.

nSpeed increases counting the amount of Attack Force, Defense Force, and Intelligence put together

nfor 2 minutes.

n(Cooldown time: 20 minutes)

nWhen Strike is activated and the enemy is stunned, all abnormal condition effects are deactivated and

nmoving speed increases by 50% for 10 seconds.

nMonster that appeared in the ancient legend of Arnobil Empire.

nBorn with the wind, it has a nimble and brave nature.

nIt has white fur and red stripes. It is also called Blood Tiger because its red stripes resemble blood.

n…

n‘Huh… Lv.1?’

nThe level was written on the top, so Ian saw that first.

nHowever, Ian wasn’t disappointed about the low level. Rather, his eyes were sparkling.

n‘I will finally get to raise it according to the method I have come up with!’

nFor Ian, the most ideal way of raising a pet was to make the pet gain a level only when its Potential

nwas 100.

nHe had known that the pet’s stats would rise more when doing level-ups if its Potential is high.

nIt would not be possible with a monster that already had a high level when Ian got it, but it could be

napplied to the Lv.1 Halican.

n‘I will let it stay as Lv.1 until the Training skill raises its potential to 100.’

nIan checked the Halican’s current Potential.

n‘Oh, it’s already 70.’

nIan decided to start right away and summoned Halican to use the Advanced Training on it.

n“Halican, Summon!”

n‘Oh, right. I have to think of another name…’

nThe painful naming time came again.

nIan thought for a while and gave it the name ‘Hali’ as it was easy to call.

n“Hali, your name is Hali.”

nGrowl-

nIt was a little ‘unexpected’, but Hali liked its name.

nIan used the Advanced Training on Hali and continued to read the rest of the information.

n‘How much strong his stats would be… I can only find out by raising it…’

nHe also loved all three Unique Abilities.

n‘Now I have a Stun skill, although it’s just for a second.’

nActivating the Stun skill at the right time could affect the battle by a lot.

nIf it is used at the exact moment the opponent uses a skill, it could cancel that skill.

nStopping the opponent from using a skill and canceling a skill were different.

nIn Kailan, a skill was counted as used the moment you did the motion to activate it, whether it was

ncanceled or not.

nThat meant the cooldown time would be applied.

nWith skills that had a long cooldown time, canceling with the Stun skill would be critical.

n‘Good, I will raise it properly.’

nIan smiled with satisfaction.

nHe had somewhat expected that he would get a Hero rank ancient monster since he worked so hard

nto gather the pieces of Halican’s Soul Stone.

nBut he had never thought that he would get a Lv.1 Hero rank monster.

n‘I should take extreme care of him and raise his Potential. I must not summon him on any hunting

ngrounds or he might accidentally gain a level.’

nIt would require a lot of effort to raise it from a low level without being able to use it, but if it could

nreally grow up to Ian’s expectations, all that trouble would be worth it.

n‘If I summon only Rake and Hali and slaughter some Lv.80s monsters, Hali would soon reach Lv.70…’

nIan had great hopes about Hali. Griffer then came to Ian.

n“Haha, I guess as a Summoner, you are happy to get a great pet.”

n“Yes. I think he is very cool, fitting for an ancient monster.”

nIan stroked Hali.

nGriffer looked at him and reminded him of something he had forgotten.

n“Then could you take out the God Dragon’s Soul Stone, our original goal?”

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