Taming Master

Chapter 486: Encounter With the Lich King 2

What would be the basic preparation stage for a large-scale siege warfare?

It was to grasp the structure of the castle that was going to be captured.

Of course, it was an impossible task to find out the structure of the enemy camp.

However, in Kailan, there was an air unit, and Ian had a special one called Kaka.

Kaka was an entity that didn’t suffer any damage unless it was from a light attribute.

Ian used Kaka to figure out the approximate structure of the Falcacio Castle.

The first thing Ian did was to escape the dungeon and take a quick look around.

‘Where should I see… I see the trident at the northeast, so this side is closer to the east gate? This is surprising?’

The ‘trident’ Ian was talking about was something that was used to mention a giant steeple towering within the Falcacio Castle.

Ian called it a trident because three spears were raised in an unusual shape.

Ian asked Kaka who was next to him in a low voice,

“Kaka, the position that we are in, do you remember it?”

Kaka nodded with a haughty expression.

“Huhu, who do you think I am, master!?”

“You’re so noisy.”

“I am an ancient legend from the clan of the Karga Phantom…”

“You don’t seem so busy now? Maybe you’ll like getting hit by El once?”

The very same moment Ian said that Elcarix threw away the ball she was playing with and clenched her small fists.

Kaka immediately flew away with a frightened look.

“Hick…! If I get hit by El, I might literally die, master.”

“Then answer the question quickly.”

Kaka pouted her lips and flew into the air due to the threat from Ian.

After looking around for a while, she started to explain to Ian.

“I know where we are, master.”

“Where is it?”

“If you move straight along the wall over there, you’ll be connected to the surface.”

However, when he heard the explanation of Kaka, Ian became puzzled.

It was because Kaka’s answer was different from what he assumed.

“Eh? This definitely looks a lot closer to the gate…”

Ian thought that he was the closest to the East Gate, but was flustered when he heard Kaka mention the surface.

After listening to the words from Kaka, Ian nodded.

“Right, master. This is close to the east gate.”

“But?”

“However, there is a problem. There is no passage going there. If we move to the east from here, our path will only be blocked by a huge wall even before we get to the east gate.”

“Aha…”

“Even if you wish to go to the east gate, you’ll have to approach it from the opposite direction.”

“How to cross the wall?”

“Impossible. If you plan on doing so, I’d recommend going over the wall of the castle.”

“Yeah, I get it Kaka.”

The moment he listened to the explanation of Kaka’s, Ian was able to fully understand the structure of the Falcacio Castle grounds.

‘Indeed, I knew this. Even though it was a secret passage, there was no way for it to get connected to the gate.’

The location where Ian’s party was could be said to be between the castle and the outside.

He did succeed in pushing through the underground without any bloodshed, and they were in a position to attack the castle immediately.

Then, was there nothing between the castle and the outer wall? Were they in the middle of nothing?

Not surprisingly, the last content of the episode was the Falcacio Castle, which meant that it wasn’t going to be that simple.

Between the castle and the outside, various defense towers and walls were densely built.

And Ian’s obsession with the ‘east’ was due to the entrance of the castle.

Unlike the exterior where there was one door to the east and one on the west, the Falcacio’s castle had only one door on the east.

‘They might not even know that we have infiltrated, so the door might be open.’

Ian hoped that the secret passage would be close to the castle’s inner gate.

Nevertheless, Falcacio Castle wasn’t so green.

Before entering the underground prison, Celia had been given the order to pierce through the wall with the help of Thor.

‘Then, in this situation, how are we supposed to move efficiently to capture the castle?’

Ian’s head began to work again.

Now Ian and the other users had some cards they could use.

‘It is a cliché strategy, but… the ‘Sound east hit west’. I need to keep the original strategy. It’s hard to find such strategies.’

Ian turned his head to check the exit of the dungeon.

While Ian was thinking about it, most of the expedition users were done with their maintenance.

Ian issued an order.

“Everyone, follow Kaka. We move to the west.”

Ian finished talking and quickly took a step forward.

At the same time, he was sending a message to somewhere.

* * *

‘Huhu, sweet guys! They haven’t even reached the outer castle.’

After finishing the encounter with Lich King, Limlong was on his way to the outer side of the Falcacio castle.

He came to support the Legion of Darkness of the Lich King.

And he chose to move toward the west side.

“Kay, should we try going there slowly?”

Limlong wasn’t a person that moved without thinking carefully about it.

Like tossing coins in order, they set the directions in an orderly fashion.

He was heading to the surface and was accompanied with calculations of his own.

‘Surely the expedition would have put some troops to the east gate. The most important strategic point is the east gate after all.’

As mentioned, the Falcacio’s entry existed in the east only.

In other words, it was easiest to attack there and enter the east gate.

Limlong was thinking that most of the expedition users would be concentrated there, and therefore he came to the west.

“Ian surely would have chosen the ‘Sound east, hit west’ strategy. Most of them are against the AI based defense forces, so no other strategy will work well. No, would it be an upheaval?”

Limlong had no doubt that the expedition that was attacking the surface of the Falcacio Castle were walking toward their demise.

The expedition strategy would move to the west side, which was the insignificant one and make the Legion of Darkness move to the east side—the most notable side.

Because of that very reason, he thought that the east gate would fall, and the strategy he took was the best for him to play.

He had no intention of just going along with the Legion of Darkness.

For Limlong, an assassin class, the castle fight gave him very little opportunity to fight.

Then, was he going to fight against the expedition users?

It was a warfare where the strength of the assassin class was at its peak.

And to go outside the guerrilla warfare was the most efficient and stable to deal with the west side.

“Nice picture!”

Having identified the forces outside as the human world’s users, Limlong was convinced that his guess was indeed right.

The number of troops seemed quite a lot, but they seemed to be approaching the west side so far.

The number of troops was never meaningful.

A dozen powerful rankers like Ian were much stronger than hundreds of normal rankers.

‘Huhu, humans… this time I’ll let you experience hell.’

While looking down at the humans from the wall, Limlong couldn’t help but smile.

He was smiling so much that his white teeth could be seen; that was how big his smile was.

* * *

Limlong was smart.

And Ian was well aware of that fact.

‘He must have figured out the strategy of this team. The ‘Sound East hit West’ is an obvious one, but it is the most efficient strategy we can use.’

Ian determined that Limlong would’ve predicted their strategy.

Even then, he decided to move along with that plan.

It was because he couldn’t abandon the most efficient strategy just because of Limlong.

‘We have a card Limlong doesn’t know.’

As Limlong predicted, the expedition users’ strategy was indeed to hit the west.

Shaking the west and attacking the east, from all sides; it was a simple strategy.

There were two reasons why the strategy was considered simple.

First, the users of the human dimension knew that there were no ‘users’ in the troops of the Falcacio Castle, and second, they thought that they had a hidden card called the ‘Underground secret passage’.

To shake the west side and pretend to attack from the east was their plan, but their actual plan was to pierce through the secret passage.

However, that strategy was a failed strategy.

Both of the reasons for using that strategy were wrong.

The Lich King managed to get help from the Asmodians of the Devildom and use the underground secret passage as a trap, so both the reasons for using it were wrong.

However, Ian managed to save them from that strategy.

The Asmodian users who came were all out of the game, and Ian and the others survived through the explosion of the secret passage.

One variable was still out there—Limlong. However, it didn’t seem to matter to him.

Even when Ian and the party were passing through the secret passage, Limlong wasn’t considered to be anything much different from an NPC.

Which was why Ian came up with a strategy in accordance with the orders that he had given to the troops that were on the other side of the castle.

A strategy that would allow them to poke the hull of Chalian and Limlong.

Ian was even able to predict how Limlong would decide to move.

‘Limlong will be looking out to the west. That jerk had really great eyes for this sort of thing.’

Ian started to move swiftly to the west while commanding the elite troops of the Titan and the Lotus guilds.

His lips were showing a pleasant smile, and so did Limlong.

‘I want to pay the debt even though I don’t need to… to find you this quick.’

When he was still a level 50 novice summoner.

Ian still hadn’t forgotten the defeat he had suffered in the Rookie league.

The fatal betrayal that took place during the siege war of the Pyro Domain.

Honestly, Ian wasn’t as bad-mannered as Limlong.

“This isn’t the end, this is merely a part of my revenge.”

Hoonie was closely following Ian when he heard Ian’s murmuring. What Hoonie heard surprised him.

“Ho, hyung, what was that? Revenge on whom?”

Ian smiled and responded after seeing Hoonie who didn’t seem to understand what he just heard,

“There was a person. The only one that I hate in Kailan.”

As soon as he saw Ian’s smile, Hoonie felt the urge to log out momentarily.