A 25 story glacier spiral structure.

Ian and his party went to the fifth floor at a tremendous speed.

And it was a natural scenario.

The difficulty was significantly different from the first zone, and all of the unique abilities all the items which were removed were opened.

The time it took for Ian and his party to reach the fifth floor was exactly five minutes.

However, Ian wasn’t so satisfied.

No, he wasn’t able to feel satisfied.

‘The time limit is too short…’

It was because the time limit was too short, even though it seemed like it could not break through that quickly.

They were drilling one layer per minute, the problem was that they had to go through 25 floors in just 20 minutes.

Ascending at that rate, the top floor cannot be reached before the time limit expires.

[Passed through the 5th floor of Gate 2 ‘Ice Spire’]

[Entered the 6th floor of ‘Ice Spire’.]

As soon as the 6th floor was entered, the dungeon’s aspect changed.

Ku- Kung-!

New spirits which haven’t been seen from the 1st to 5th floor started to appear.

“They look like higher class spirits, right?”

In response to Sarah, Vanessa nodded.

“Right. There is a guy named ‘Casa’. Lesser fire attribute spirit. I’ve summoned it and used it.”

Listening to Sarah, Ian turned a little firm.

For those of experiences who have to be gathered for evolving Jack, Ian knew how big the difference of the spirits would be.

‘I have to find some way.’

Re positioning the handle of the sword, Ian quickly glanced at the map of the 6th floor.

Kailan’s planning couldn’t have made it impossible to clear.

And with that, Ian’s eyes started to shine.

‘Till the 5th floor it was stopped, but is it open from the 6th floor?’

Till the 5th floor of the spiral, it was a very simple structure.

Breaking through the interior of the tower and moving to the other side, was a way upstairs.

But from the 6th floor, it seemed to be the whole structure of the top floor.

Stairs that rose endlessly in a spiral shape till the top.

And many of the lower spirits were standing of the wide stairs and guarding them.

‘We can’t arrive in time after passing these.’

The vitality of the lesser spirits weren’t known, but they should be at least high.

Ian thought that it would take more than 30 minutes from their current point, no matter how fast they try to kill all those that were blocking their path they’ll have to attack all the spirits in the way.

‘If this is physically possible, we must try to ignore the monsters.’

Ian’s eyes turned forward.

Suddenly, Sarah and Vanessa started to climb upstairs.

In any case, Ian was given a free roll, so the two of them were doing their jobs.

Right then, an unexpected idea came to the mind of Ian.

‘If I break through the gate… wouldn’t at least one person can reach the last section?’

Nowhere in the quest window was it mentioned that the monsters had to be annihilated.

In addition, considering that the case of the first gateway, Ian’s assumptions seemed more plausible.

‘Right. At the first gate, I was the one who arrived first at the last point. And the completion message came to me before the other two arrived.’

Of course, Ian’s first arrival was only of a small difference that took less than a few seconds.

If there was much difference, Ian would have noticed something right away.

‘Fine, let’s go somewhere and try it.’

Ian grabbed the Bloody Revenge and the Dragon Shield with both his hands and gave orders to Undine.

“Undine, you need to catch up with me but stay behind me.”

Scoop- Scoop-!

Undine responded to Ian with a small nod.

At that moment, Ian flew to the sky.

Phaat-!

Bloody Revenge’s unique ability, Blood Split.

“Uh, what?!”

At the bloody colored shadow that was at her side, a surprised voice came out of Sarah’s mouth.

The red shadow exploded in front of the spirits that Sarah and Vanessa were attacking.

Kwang-!

In front of the eyes of the three people, system messages came up.

Tring-!

[Party member Ian has triggered the unique ability ‘Blood Split’.]

[Lethal damage was done to the lesser spirit Casa.]

[You have successfully defeated Casa!]

Sarah who was surprised for a moment touched her chest.

“Oh, I was shocked. I thought my heart was going to fall off for a second there.”

Vanessa looked at that with a pout expression.

“There are so many others in the front, why did you waste your unique skill in this spot?”

But the very next moment, the twins couldn’t help but be more surprised.

Ian’s form was once again in the air after killing the Casa.

But what was shocking, was the spot that Ian had landed. He was at the center of the dungeon.

“Why did you go up and come down?”

“I’d rather pierce through from the front!”

The place where Ian was using the blood split was at the edge of the stairs that would lead them to the seventh floor.

From there he jumped back to the center, which made them think that he would fall back into the 6th floor.

But their expectation was completely off.

Red blood color began to shine around Ian who hadn’t landed yet.

The cooldown reset of Blood Split.

Ian’s eyes began to scan sharper than ever.

‘One guy for now. And two behind.’

With all the equipment stats at zero, it was impossible for killing a spirit with Blood split.

Because of that, Ian was about to hit as many spirits as possible with the blood split.

‘Can’t use weakness capture, so on the safe side, at least five need to be touched.’

If the weakness capture was available, then Ian was likely to hit 100 percent of the critical strike.

But the ability to use other items than the ability was itself a probability of hitting 50/50.

The location of the critical strike couldn’t be accurately identified.

1 stack of critical hit stacked in the first kill of Casa.

And 3 critical strikes will return the cooldown of the Blood Split.

With the blood split, he was needed to deal with critical damage to two or more spirits.

The whole body of Ian who was shining with red light moved.

‘Now…!’

Pang-!

At the same time, Ian’s form who lost the strength in the air fell down and then went to the top again.

A bloody flash cut through the air.

An intense flash glanced through the spirts that were gathered on the steps.

[Lethal damage done to the lesser fire spirit Casa.]

[Damage done to the lesser land spirit ‘Noes’.]

[Lethal damage done to the lesser wind spirit ‘Silap’.]

Ian, who held onto the Bloody Revenge, jumped to the group of spirits.

And undoubtedly, a red blood fog rose.

“How is that possible?”

Seeing Ian jump up to the eighth floor in a moment, Vanessa couldn’t get her mind clear.

She didn’t know the unique ability of blood split.

Looking at the blank face of Vanessa, Sarah explained,

“It is a unique ability with a conditional cooldown reset option.”

“Tha, that one?”

“but the initial conditions are so easy to do…”

While the two sisters were talking, Ian’s form jumped to the upper level again.

And then continued more times.

[You have met the conditions.]

[Reset cooldown on ‘Blood Split’ unique ability.]

Ian quickly climbed to the 10th floor.

Pang-!

However, the successive use of such skills like blood split wasn’t possible.

Unfortunately, less stacks of critical hits would eventually shorten it. The skill linkage would fall.

Ian climbed to the eleventh floor, and sighed looking at the gathering spirits.

“I cut faster than I thought.”

It wasn’t an entirely unexpected situation.

Ian raised the shield and moved to the spirits.

“Kay, should I get exactly five of them?”

Ian’s mouth went into a smile.

* * *

Ian was surrounded by numerous spirits.

Sarah and Vanessa were both worried and started to shout for Ian.

“If you feel like you’re going to die, just jump down!”

“Yeah, we’ll try to save you somehow.”

It was natural for having such a concern.

Ian’s skills were excellent, but the situation he was in was dangerous.

For them, more than a dozen low-level spirits, which they were collectively gathered were supposed to aim at Ian.

However, Ian looked rather relaxed.

‘Should I take out the second card?’

Ian’s second card was a unique ability granted by the dragon shield.

The shield’s unique ability, ‘Dragon Soul’ and the ‘Wrath of Dragon’ were as good as the Blood Split.

‘The option of 8 percent transcendence is a bonus.’

These two abilities would help Ian stand tall.

*Dragon Soul

Communicates with the Dragon Soul, allowing to instantly summon a shield in any wanted location.

The summoned summon absorbs all the projectiles for 3 seconds and remains unshattered for 15 seconds.

-It can be summoned in three places at the same time.

-Can be used even when not equipped. (But must be in the inventory.)

-While the Dragon’s soul is in process, all the familiars are healed for 1% per second.

Cooldown: 10 minutes

*Wrath of Dragon

If succeeded in defending an enemy attack, there is a 15% chance to return 50% of the absorbed damage.

In addition, each time you block an enemy attack, you gain 0.5% buff and if you accumulate 100 times, you become invincible for 5 seconds.

-Buffs can be accumulated up to 100 times and last for 15 seconds.

-If the attack is successful before the buff expires, the duration is reset.

The ‘Wrath of Dragon’ was the strongest buff skill and the most survival skill.

‘Till the blood split come back, let’s catch just five.’

Tat-!

Ian set the new target and jumped forward.

The first thing that tried to stop him was a ‘Silap’, a low spirit.

Kakang-!

The spear in the hand of Silap and the sword in the hand of Ian hit each other, creating a rumbling sound.

‘This guy seems to be a physical attacking type like Silpid.’

The lesser fire spirit Casa and the wind spirit Silap.

They were the two kinds of enemies that were surrounding Ian.

‘In order to take a lead of the battle, I need to know the unique ability of Casa.’

Silap’s unique ability was already known to a rough extent.

As he ascended to the top, he saw a few scenes of the unique ability of Silap.

A short-range damage deal skill that swings the spear rapidly and pokes forward.

On the other hand, the unique ability of casa wasn’t known yet.

‘Should I draw the aggro?’

Ka-gang-!

Ian pushed the rushing Silap as hard as he could and used the reaction to jump to the other side.

And began to observe Casas in detail.

‘If the unique ability is a non-targeting range skill, I will start casting it by now…’

The faster the target moves and the better the skill, the more difficult it becomes to hit with the non-target-able skill.

But somehow, the non-target-able skills were inevitable, it was time to jump to the air.

Unless it had a unique ability, there was no way it could change the direction of the attack.

And predicting the drop point of a target wasn’t so difficult once the target jumped, and the projectile could be released in advance to that point.

As monsters with a certain level of AI were designed to activate the skill aimed at that drop point.

Ian was aiming at that system.

‘Surely…!’

And the expectations of Ian were on point.

Woong-!

Red flames began to rise all around the five Casas that were near Ian.