The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 403

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Chapter 403
Chapter 403
After contracting summoned beasts for the ship tour.
My daily routine became.
– Using the skill ‘Demon Beast Summoning’.
– Entering the Demon Realm.
I had taken to using the Demon Beast Summoning skill to travel to the Demon Realm.
Unlike the Beast Realm where the creatures approached me affectionately due to high rapport.
“Grrrrowl!”
The demon beasts here attacked me with increasing ferocity the higher my rapport grew.
There was only one method to contract with them.
To fight and subdue them through combat.
While I had confidence in battle, I wondered about the other Demon Beast Summoners, so I searched for information.
[ Is this really how Demon Beast Summoning works? ]
When I summon demon beasts, they just rush at me regardless of contracts or anything else.
Even after barely subduing them, they barely obey my commands.
Especially when I see them occasionally ignoring my orders and looking down on me, I wonder if this is right.
– Getting disrespected by your own summons lol
– Demon beasts are just like that normally
– The only way with demon beasts is to knock them down and subdue them, there’s no other option.
– Wait, a summoner is literally a summoner, but how do you win fighting demon beasts? Isn’t this mechanic broken?
[ Demon Beast Summoner Leveling Tips ]
I’m a second-year Demon Beast Summoner player myself.
Unlike other summoning-type skills, demon beasts can only be subdued by defeating them.
There’s only one method.
When you first change jobs, swing a wooden sword and somehow subdue a lowest-tier demon beast.
Raise your skill level while increasing the number of lowest-tier demon beasts, and hunt to raise their levels.
Then summon one higher-tier demon beast and attack together as a group.
Demon beasts know nothing of honor.
Even if you gang up and beat them down, they’ll submit if you defeat them.
This way, gather more higher-tier demon beasts and level them up, then defeat the next demon beast.
It’s just repetition.
– Is this really it?
– But demon beasts are stronger than other summons, so if you raise them well they become really strong
– Why not just change to Demon Beast Summoner and invest in strength to beat them yourself?
– That’s how you end up with a ruined character
– It’s difficult, demon summoner ㅠㅠ
– I should just start over
As expected.
The evaluation of Demon Beast Summoners was harsh.
It’s said that among Second’s professions, Beast Summoner ranks among the highest difficulty tiers for development.
Well, as an All Master, I can directly fight demons and subdue them myself, but ordinary Beast Summoners cannot do such a thing.
So it’s bound to be difficult.
Anyway, setting that aside.
The reason I’ve returned to the Beast Realm to fight demons despite already completing contracts with them is.
[ Your skill ‘Beast Summon’ has increased in level. ]
Because I haven’t yet maxed out the skill level of Beast Summon.
No, actually there were more reasons than just this.
Since I’d already secured all the demons needed to protect my ship, the Beast Summon skill wasn’t particularly crucial anymore.
There were various reasons, and one of them was.
[ Your level has increased. ]
Leveling.
I noticed it in the Beast Realm too—strangely enough, beasts and demons grant experience points even without killing them.
And more than most hunting grounds at that.
Well, that’s also just a secondary reason.
The real reason is.
“There should be a Demon King here as well.”
To meet the Demon King.
Originally I hadn’t given it much thought, but after meeting the Beast King, my perspective changed.
If I could form a provisional contract with the Demon King just as I gained recognition from the Beast King?
It would certainly be of great benefit to me.
With such thoughts, I entered the Beast Realm.
However, unfortunately, the Demon King, unlike the Beast King, did not reveal itself easily.
Instead.
“Clang! I am one of the Sixteen Demons of the Beast Realm! Takelm!”
As the battles progressed, increasingly stronger demons challenged me, as if in a tournament.
Once I defeated all of the so-called Sixteen Demons, waiting their turn.
“Argh! So it was you who defeated the Sixteen Demons! But you cannot possibly stand against me, Quarn, one of the Eight Great Demon Generals!”
The so-called Eight Great Demon Generals came at me in succession.
And then.
“To have defeated all the Eight Great Demon Generals—impressive! Now I, Jeruru of the Four Heavenly Demons, shall face you!”
The so-called Four Heavenly Demons challenged me.
I thought this would be the end.
“To have come this far. Remarkable. However, as long as I, the right arm of that one, exist, you shall never interfere with them!”
Even a creature claiming to be the right arm appeared.
The Sixteen Demons, the Eight Great Demon Generals, the Four Heavenly Demons, and even the Demon King’s right arm.
The demons came at me in an order reminiscent of a third-rate manga, but their caliber was far from trivial.
If the guardian beasts had been troublesome to face, these demons possessed genuinely formidable combat prowess.
Especially the demon claiming to be the Demon King’s right arm proved far more powerful than I anticipated.
Powerful enough to genuinely catch me off guard.
“Ugh, so incredibly powerful. Haha, yes. I concede. You… you have earned the right to meet him.”
In any case, having thus defeated the so-called right hand of the Demon King,
I finally
“Kahahahahaha!”
stood before the one who ruled the Demon Realm.
The Demon King himself.
“I have been watching you from the start, yet you actually clawed your way up here! You are the first human to reach this place through your own strength!”
The form of the Demon King I faced was
‘a tiger.’
A black tiger’s shape.
However, the Demon King did not bear a black hue.
Whoosh!
Blazing across Barakar’s body—crimson flames of such intensity
that I questioned whether they were truly flames at all.
A tiger that appeared as though molten lava itself burned across its form.
“My name is Barakar! Demon King Barakar!”
Demon King Barakar.
He gazed upon me, his fighting spirit ablaze.
Not metaphorically—the crimson flames erupting from his body burned ever brighter.
I had wanted to discuss matters of salvation and reincarnation with Barakar as I had with the Celestial Fantasy Dragon, but
“From this moment, I shall tear you to shreds! Kahahahahaha!”
he was entirely different from her.
Or rather, thinking about it, perhaps not so different.
The Celestial Fantasy Dragon too had unleashed mist the moment she revealed herself, attacking me with illusions.
In any case, it seemed I had no choice but to face him now.
However.
Boom!!
“Kahahahahaha!”
Demon King Barakar.
As I had felt when facing the Celestial Fantasy Dragon, his power far exceeded my expectations.
“Luke, let’s go.”
– Yes, Master.
[ Activating Black Flame Transformation. ]
[ Borrowing the power of the Black Flame Dragon, Luknir Desperato Ignockton. ]
[ Entering Black Flame Rampage state. ]
I immediately activated Black Flame Rampage and drew forth a Mythic-grade weapon.
* * *
Development in the Eastern Region was proceeding vigorously.
With investment funds from the Kalbera Territory—which had already consumed the Empire’s entire labor force—increasing further, it was perhaps inevitable.
“We shall pay compensation to you explorers based on the grade of the mines you discover. We have also assessed compensation for ordinary Dungeons, which may not match the mines themselves, so we appreciate your cooperation.”
“I heard they pay for mapmaking, not just dungeon discovery.”
“Ah, if you’re interested in cartography, I can assign you to the mapmaking team.”
Renowned explorer users from Second, along with NPC explorers, had flocked en masse to discover the Eastern Region’s mines.
“We request that the Taegeuk Guild undertake the conquest of the Dark Amethyst Mine. Please report immediately once the conquest is complete, and we’ll deploy miners.”
“Finally!”
“Parcheon Guild—is it just you, Jeok-hwa?”
“I sent the other guild members elsewhere. I can clear most dungeons solo, so leave this to me. I’m eager to wield this weapon your guild master crafted.”
“Understood. Then we’ll request that you, Jeok-hwa, undertake the conquest of the Iron Tomb.”
“Excellent!”
Combat personnel were tasked with mine conquest for extraction and securing safety.
This had originally been the work of the Black Flame Guild’s combat division, but as development expanded daily, the Black Flame Guild alone could no longer manage it.
In such cases, we typically hired combat personnel by offering wages.
“Please, assign mines to us as well!”
“We don’t need payment—just let us do it!”
“We’ll pay you! We’ll pay, so please!”
The Black Flame Guild’s situation was entirely different.
After all, mines were ultimately dungeons.
Upon first entering a dungeon, the initial discovery bonus granted significantly increased experience and item drop rates.
Moreover, popular dungeons were already so crowded that finding a hunting spot was difficult.
With a mine assignment, one could hunt without such concerns.
Rather than accept wages, people were willing to pay the Black Flame Guild to secure mine assignments.
And finally.
“I heard there were jobs here.”
“Welcome. Shall we begin with your registration form? And what was your previous occupation?”
“I was a farmer.”
“Excellent, welcome. Farmers adapt to mining work the fastest. I believe you’d be well-suited as a miner.”
“A miner? That… doesn’t pay well, does it?”
“It varies by skill, but let me share the earnings of a farmer-turned-miner who was deployed early and now works in the gold mine.”
“Gasp! Is that… truly possible? A farmer becoming a miner and earning such gold?”
“Yes, though considerable effort would be required to reach that level.”
“I can do it! Whatever you ask, I’ll do anything!”
“That’s an excellent attitude.”
Even miners.
All skilled miners had already gathered, and even non-miners—ordinary citizens—came and participated in the work.
Users were no exception.
Many without the miner profession learned mining skills and participated as miners.
This caused mining skill books to skyrocket in price.
Fortunately, mining wasn’t a primary profession; the skill naturally emerged from diligent pickaxe work.
“Your Majesty, here is the current status of Eastern Region development.”
“It exceeds expectations.”
“If this continues, the Caldera Territory will develop most of the Eastern Region’s mines. Would it not be prudent to impose some restraint?”
“Restraint? Is that necessary? Thanks to the Eastern Region’s development, vast quantities of ore are flowing to the Northern Region as we speak.”
“That may be so, but….”
“Moreover, you are aware that the Empire’s development rate has reached its zenith recently, are you not? The Baltika Empire is currently experiencing a golden age thanks to the Caldera Territory.”
This was a pace even the Emperor had not anticipated.
Who would have thought the Eastern Region would develop so rapidly?
In such circumstances.
There was one mine the Heukryeom Guild desperately sought.
“Has a mana stone mine not yet been discovered?”
“No, not yet. Mana stone mines are exceedingly rare, after all.”
“Oh! A mana stone mine has been discovered near Steel Hill!”
“What is its grade?”
“The Expedition Party is currently clearing it… Ah, my apologies. Based on its classification as a B-rank Dungeon, it appears the limit would be intermediate-grade mana stones.”
“Sigh, it is the only item the Guild Master seeks. Yet obtaining it proves so difficult.”
It was, precisely, a mana stone mine.
One that produced at minimum the highest-grade mana stones.
No, truthfully, even that fell short.
What Mir truly desired was not mere highest-grade mana stones, but rather ‘supreme-grade mana stones.’
However, supreme-grade mana stones were extraordinarily difficult to obtain across the entire Continent.
They occurred only rarely in a handful of places where mana was extremely concentrated across the land.
Still, while searching diligently through the Eastern Region’s mines in hopes of finding even one mine yielding supreme-grade mana stones.
“W-We found it!”
“Truly?”
At last.
A location presumed to contain supreme-grade mana stones had been discovered.

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