Tring-!

[You are the first to discover the 'World of Sun'!]

[Earned additional fame of 100,000 . ]

['Affinity' stat has been permanently increased by 15% . ]

['Fire Resistance' permanently increased by 10!]

[You've met the conditions to enter the 'Sun Obelisk' dungeon!]

[The Sun Elves are starting to appear on the planet . ]

A lot of system messages came in front of Ian's sight along with the white light in front of him .

And Ian, who confirmed the messages seemed surprised .

'World of Sun? I thought that the Phoenix just lived on a big tree, isn't this a lot bigger than what I was expecting?'

From the Sun Obelisk to the Sun Elves .

Unprecedented terminologies popped up, suggesting the emergence of a new content .

Just when he was sneaking into the castle of Elrika he came across stuff that he couldn't have foreseen .

But the biggest one he got among those rewards was the rise in the 'affinity', the first reward .

For Ian, who was a summoner, the best stats for his career had been rewarded,

“Keu!”

The sound of excitement came out of Ian's mouth .

But it wasn't just because of the affinity stat rise .

If one found a landscape belonging to the 'land' while traveling the continent, it was often known to reward with affinity stat .

So, why was Ian that excited?

The reason was the affinity . It was because its in percentage and not a fixed number .

'Oh, crazy . How much affinity will I gain?'

Ian was the number one ranking user among all the existing summoners .

In addition, as he was very preoccupied with Kailan's content and swept his career aside, his affinity was high .

Before receiving the reward, Ian's affinity stat was close to 2,700 excluding the ones he got from his items .

Considering that the affinity for an average ranking Summoner needed to be between 1,500 to 2,000, Ian's affinity stat was tremendous .

But because of the reward he got, 15% was added to his affinity .

And that was permanent .

'400? For just finding a tree, I got 400 affinity points?'

To be precise, 403 affinity points were added to Ian's affinity .

The amount of affinity he got from the hidden quest would normally be obtained by clearing a quest .

Which was why Ian couldn't handle his happiness and let out a laugh .

“Haha, thank you, Remus . ”

“What… why?”

“For everything or something like that . ”

“Hmm…”

While Ian was being excited the light from the tree began to fade .

Subsequently, in the field view of Ian, the overview of the map was formed .

'The pa.s.sage is over now, and it is like a coliseum in the air . '

The structure in front of Ian was truly spectacular .

A myriad of pillars stretching in all directions, and a giant tree that rose magnificently among them .

It was the most sensational landscape of all the ones that Ian had seen .

As the light began to fade away, a new message came into the sight of Ian .

Tring-!

[You have entered the new section of 'Phoenix' . ]

[The 'Phoenix' has found you . ]

[The 'Phoenix' has shown hostility towards you . ]

Kiyahh-!

In a huge hall surrounded by numerous pillars, the cries of Phoenix rang out .

Ian heard the cry and began to prepare for its attack with a tensed expression .

According to Remus, the Phoenix was still young, but he couldn't rest until he confirmed it .

After a while, huge flames came down from the air .

Hrrrk-!

A wide-area fire attack covered the entire party of Ian .

That was their first time experiencing something like that . Ian reflexively triggered El's Dragonic Barrier .

“El, Dragonic Barrier…!”

“Okay, Dad!”

Hweeing-!

Once the white film got created around Ian's party members, the fire of the phoenix slid through the surface of the s.h.i.+eld .

However, the fire's power wasn't as powerful as it looked, and the barrier didn't get damaged that much .

'This seems to be weaker than the magic of a level 300 fire mage…'

Ian tried to guess the level of Phoenix which hadn't appeared yet .

Ian was shocked when he saw the Phoenix .

Phoenix (G.o.d Bird): Lv . 95

“What was that?”

Ian thought that he was just seeing things . He rubbed his eyes roughly and once again looked at the number hanging on the head of the Phoenix .

But the Phoenix's level was still 95 .

Ian who was panicking asked Remus,

“Remus, was the Phoenix normally a beast?”

Remus who didn't understand the question replied with a puzzled look,

“What do you mean by a beast?”

With an irritated expression, Ian explained,

“The flame attack that that animal just fired . Do you think that was something a level 95 could do?”

Remus who listened to the question of Ian nodded his head and answered,

“Ah, this guy . You're surprised because you don't know much about this guy . ”

“The flame attack was surely powerful . It sure is tough to think of it as a young Phoenix when it attacks like that . ”

“But?”

“Of course, the damage of the new Phoenix is very good, but the power in that flame attack is because of the World of Sun—the tree out there . ”

“The World of Sun in the sense… that tree?”

“Yes . The only tree where the Phoenix nest can be built on . The tree of World of Sun . With the influence of the World tree, the power of a Phoenix doubles . ”

“Ah…”

After listening to the explanation of Remus, Ian nodded .

'So that's why its attack is powerful, huh?'

But considering that its damage was doubled, it was still strong for something who wasn't level 100 yet .

Only after taming it could its information be known for sure, but perhaps it had the same amount of damage as Karceus when it came to attacking .

Ian gradually began to think .

'Though I'm not using that beast for entering the castle, I need to catch that beast . '

It had been a long time since a beast had instigated Ian's desire to catch and tame it .

And in a place, no one would think of .

While smiling, Ian looked above him .

A beautiful bird was overlooking Ian .

It reminded Ian of the 'Phoenix' of the oriental mythology; the bird whose body was covered with flames .

He was looking down on Ian's party seeing whether his attacks went through or not .

'In order to tame it, I need to cut down its vitality . '

The most important thing when it came to capturing a summon in Kailan was to reduce the vitality of a summon's physical body .

The term 'physical' here didn't mean the vitality only .

Though the vitality played a pivotal role, he had to hara.s.s the summon for a long time until it exhausted itself .

Once the summon was exhausted and couldn't move anymore, they could bribe it with special food and items that the familiar might like .

That was the secret when it came to taming .

There were some familiars which could be caught very easily; that was the unchanging truth about the familiars of Kailan .

'Should I start by taking down its vitality?'

Although it showed unexpected strong damage, the level of the guy was mere two digits .

Anyone from Ian's party could probably one-shot the Phoenix .

Ian acted as carefully as possible .

If it got killed by mistake, then that would be a big loss for him .

“Remus, give me some information about the Phoenix . ”

“What do you mean by information?”

“I want to know if there's anything unusual about it; like the buff from the world tree that I just told you about . ”

“Hmm…”

The Phoenix attempted to attack several times while Ian and Remus were talking .

But it wasn't enough to get past the Dragonic Barrier of Elcarix, so Ian was able to listen to Remus .

“Let's talk a bit more about the buff from the world tree . The buff effects aren't limited to increasing the Phoenix's damage . ”

“Then?”

“Rather than its offensive power, it has a much greater impact on the sustainability of the guy . ”

Ian waited for Remus to continue, and Remus extended his hand and pointed at something .

“See that red beam over there?”

At the question from Remus, Ian's gaze reflexively went in the direction Remus was pointing at . He then saw a mysterious red energy connecting the Phoenix and the world tree .

“I see it . What is that?”

The words from Remus followed,

“That is like the lifeline of that guy . ”

“The huge life force created by the world tree is shared with the Phoenix . ”

“Well? Do you mean to say that the life force is shared between the phoenix and the world tree?”

“Not really . If the vitality of the world tree is shared, then he will be immortal . The World tree has infinite vitality . ”

“Then what?”

“It can be simply regarded as the tree giving the phoenix some vitality and then constantly fills it . I don't know if you can see it, but there is a red sphere that is spinning inside the branches of the world tree . ”

Ian focused his eyes on the red sphere floating inside the trees .

And he saw the small print on the red sphere .

Vitality: 5,000,000/ 5,000,000

Once Ian confirmed it, Ian was able to understand the explanation of Remus .

'So I will have to do enough damage to destroy that sphere, and that should exhaust the Phoenix, right?'

That made capturing the Phoenix much easier .

In that way, he wouldn't have to worry about accidentally killing it .

All that was left was to reduce the Phoenix's vitality and leaving just enough to keep it from dying .

“Nice . Anything else?”

As Ian asked Remus, Remus gave him more information .

“The Phoenix will turn into a flame egg when its vitality runs out . And it will be reborn after some time . ”

“Oh, yeah?”

That eliminated the need to be more careful . Even if the sphere of vitality bursts with uncoordinated attacks, it didn't mean that the beast would die .

Remus continued again,

“But if you break the flame egg, then it will die . And if it wakes up from the flame egg and dies once again before it regains its strength, then it won't become an egg again . ”

“How do I know if it already regained its strength?”

“You can tell by looking at its tail . If three tails are fully sprouting, then it means that it already had its strength back . ”

“Ah ha, is that so?”

For Ian who was practically living in Kailan, he was able to guess the Phoenix's mechanics .

'There must be a cooldown for the unique ability to resurrect the egg . '

Remus then continued giving more information about the Phoenix .

“I don't know much about summoning, but I recommend that you catch it when it is in its flame egg form . ”

“Huh? Try to capture it when it is in its flame egg state?”

“Yeah . That is when he is the least resistant . ”

“That's a nice tip . ”

The information given by Remus was much more useful than Ian had imagined .

And with that information, the capture of the Phoenix seemed a lot easier than expected .

“Kay, that's enough then . Let's start catching him now . ”

Ian smiled and had a confident look .

Towards such a cheerful Ian, Remus spoke .

“I'm not sure, but catching that guy won't be easy, Ian . Only a few summoners had been successful in capturing the Phoenix in the entire history of Colonnare . ”

Ian shook his head to get rid of his worry and ran towards the direction of the Phoenix .

Ian—the 'Taming Master'—thought that capturing the Phoenix wasn't going to be hard .

But it didn't take him long to realize that he was wrong .