577 Path of the Warrior (4)

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-System: Due to excessive simultaneous connections, your connection is temporarily delayed.

-System: One moment, please.

-System: Queue 178,490

-System: Estimated wait time: 95 seconds

…… approximate……

-System: Queue 7

-System: Estimated wait time: 1 second

- Iris identified.

- Ian, welcome to Kailan's world.

Oops!

Ian's vision, which had been dark with countless familiar machine sounds, became white.

And after a while, Ian's vision was an invisible blue sky with a single cloud.

“Phew, I must have clicked right on time……. The queue is not 100,000 units. ”

Ian groaned once, lying on the ground, and stood up with a sudden bend, as if by some miracle.

Blame-!

Ian logged out at the last moment, one of the seven peaks of the Euphir Mountains.

Ian hurriedly looked around.

With all the large-scale update patches complete, there should be an entrance somewhere around here that leads to the "Path of the Warrior."

‘Now, where are you? ’

Ian's two eyes looked around him for a while, and he was young.

Before the update, it was filled between the peaks.

It's unclear, but perhaps it has something to do with the advent of the Road of the Warrior.

Ian immediately summons Finn and climbs up and flies toward the sky.

It was because of the white carriage that the naked eye could not find the 'Path of the Warrior'.

You little...!

After a long time, the summoned fin quickly flies through the fog like a water bump.

‘We have to find it soon...! ’

Ian realized that there is only Ian in the Euphire Mountains.

Perhaps in a daze, Ian must have been the first among the Korean server humanitarian users to step into the path of warriors.

However, the problem is that this is not just a competition between ‘human' users of 'Korean server’.

If the Uffir Mountains exist in the human world, there is Pacario Canyon, which opens the way of the warriors of the horse system, and the server is also a competition between servers all over the world as well as Korean servers.

Since all rankers from more than twenty different country servers will rush to new content, vigilance is forbidden.

That's why the Finn who burned Ian flew around swinging the Uffir peaks without rest.

And it's been about 15 minutes?

“ ……! ”

Ian finds something and suddenly stops the pin.

What caught Ian's eye was a huge statue the size of which he had never seen before, scouring through the Uffir Mountains for days.

‘No, I feel like I carved a whole rock peak rather than a statue...' ’

A large statue of a Giant, tall, tall, tall, tall statue, tall enough to be tens of meters tall.

What was interesting was that the giant was holding something up, one arm high in the sky.

It was in the shape of a large oval, with white energy pouring down around it as if it were running down water.

And the continuous pouring of white energy seemed to have broken out of the air, creating a burden that covered the Uffir Mountains now.

Ian pulls his belt and quickly flies over it.

His instincts were telling me there was a way to be a warrior.

In fact, I was embarrassed to say that it was Ian's intuition.

Maybe whoever saw it did the same thing to Ian.

You little...!

Ian and Finn rose vertically up tens of meters through the wind.

Ian, who rose to the top of the oval, naturally lowered his gaze and checked on it, then jumped off the back of the pin.

And the next moment, Ian's shadow was caught in a white light and disappeared somewhere.

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Ian's jump was one giant portal.

And as soon as I entered, I was able to enter the path of the warrior as expected.

- Tyring!

- You have entered the path of the warrior.

- Due to Dimensional Movement, Summoned ‘Pin’ has been reversed.

- You are the first Korean server to enter the 'Path of the Warrior’.

- 200,000 Reputation.

Upon entering, Ian noticed a simple message that came to his mind, and it became an interesting face.

‘What is it? It's the first server in Korea... …. ’

I have never received a reward for my first discovery with the modifier 'Korean server’.

This modifier means that it is already a space in an integrated server, and Ian may not be the first time in the world that Korea has served.

It's fun from the start. ’

Ian smiled and shifted his gaze forward.

And the landscape that opened in front of Ian's eyes was very mysterious.

A cloudy path that leads endlessly to the blue sky.

A gentle golden azure that rises along the path.

Ian stepped forward without hesitation.

There was only one way, and I had to hurry to get there.

But the next moment, Ian had to stop again.

Whoo-hoo!

With a great resonance, someone stood in Ian's way.

- You who set foot in the path of transcendence…….

A deep voice in your head.

And a warrior with white wings in front of Ian.

Surprisingly, Ian remembered one thing as soon as he saw this man.

“The Celestial Dragon Army"? ”

The heavenly dragon army, a force of nature , called by Ian during the war with the Horse Clan in the past.

Except that the color of the armor was white and not golden, the man looked almost like the heavenly dragon army he saw at the time.

And the man who heard Ian's muttering stopped for a moment and approached Ian.

Ian was nervous and swallowed a dry dip, and the man's words continued again.

- How do you know about the Celestial Dragons?

In response to the man's question, Ian immediately replied.

“In the past, the Holy Father's army helped the human race. ”

- Oh, I see you've been in a dimensional war.

“That's right.”

- Well... That's how you got up on this warrior's path.

Ian asks again, looking at the man nodding his head.

“Are you a Celestial Dragons, too? ”

The man shakes his head and smiles bloody.

- No, I'm not the Celestial Dragons. Well, there is a little connection.

He pauses and looks up and down at Ian.

And then again, I said,

- But I need you to follow me.

“Yes?”

- At the end of this road, there's someone waiting for you.

“Why me…? ”

- Yeah, I don't know. I'm just his servant.

After speaking, the man stretches out his hand to Ian, and Ian grips his hand as if he was attracted to something.

Then the next moment…….

Whoo-hoo!

The white aura of light begins to spread around the grasped hand.

- Tyring!

- The conditions are met.

- Go to the Room of Decisions.

A short, two-line message to Ian's vision.

At the same time, Ian and his new brother evaporated somewhere.

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The 'Path of the Warrior’, which serves as a ‘Gateway’ to the Valley of the Warrior.

Originally, there were seven gates.

The qualities of the users who arrived at the "Chamber of Crystals" through the seven gateways are judged by the seven ancient heroes to determine the draw.

Funny thing is, if you don't make it through this gate at once, you won't be eligible for a month's challenge.

If you fail to qualify by making a mistake on the way through the gate, you have to wait a month.

“Of course, Ian's been through a lot, but seeing him free-pass like that makes my stomach ache.... ”

Immediately after the large-scale update was over and the server was open, Nancy's expression, which immediately began to monitor Ian's personal footage, was frozen from the start.

It was because Ian's direction of play had fallen out of expectation even less than 20 minutes before the monitoring began.

Of course, Najchan expected Ian to be the first user to arrive at the warrior village on the Korean server.

That's why we started monitoring Ian.

But apart from that, it's frustrating (?) I had no choice.

Since the planning team had been planning the hero's path all night, Ian walked through it without taking a few steps.

“Phew.”

Taking a short sigh, Najchan turns his head toward Kim Delay who was sitting next to him.

“Mr. Delay, please bring up the scoreboard. ”

“Yes, sir. ”

As she then lightly manipulated the tablet, a small table appeared in one corner of the screen where Ian's video was floating.

-System Table

Server name: The Brave Road 001

Server class: World

Condition: Well

Map: Path of the Warrior

Number of simultaneous contacts: 27

Maximum progress: 99.25 percent

Bug Report: 0

…… approximate……

And after checking the situation board, Najchan's face changed again.

“Huh? More than a dozen in the meantime? ”

“I know. I just added another one. ”

The number of simultaneous contacts, literally written in small letters, was the number of users in the path of this warrior.

Of course, the number of twenty-seven people was the number of users in the world, but Najchan was surprised.

When Ian first entered, there were only five simultaneous contacts, and only 30 seconds ago, there were only more than ten.

Then why didn't Ian meet just one user?

The reason is simple.

The "Path of the Warrior" map was designed to be non-user friendly.

In the path of the warrior, the "Chamber of Decisions" was the only place we could face each other.

“How many people are on the Korean server? ”

“Well……. Ian, Lim Long, Shakran. That's three. It's pretty straightforward. ”

“Oh.”

Najchan's face was brightened again when she heard Kim's report.

Apart from Ian's clumsiness, it was as strong as expected from Korean servers.

‘If I had heard three people in twenty-seven days.... Definitely great.'

At the next moment, the pupils of two people who had identified something were sharply enlarged.

“ ……! ”

“Huh?"

- Number of simultaneous contacts: 24

Once you enter, you are unable to leave until you reach the end of the gate.

However, until just now, the number of simultaneous contacts that were ‘27’ suddenly decreased to ‘24.’

What does this mean?

At the same time, a scream or elasticity leaked from Najchan and Kim's mouth.

“How could this happen? ”

“Did you pass three already? ”

From Najchan's mouth, who double-checked the number of contacts, a small murmur leaked out.

“Hmmm……. ”

Things started moving more rapidly than the planning team expected.

Kim Delay, who confirmed the Buriah data, once again opened his mouth in an urgent voice.

“That's right, sir. The town of the warrior... So far, three people have entered. ”

Then Najchan slightly clenched his lower lip and directed toward Kim Delay.

“Tell all monitoring teams to stand by. ”

“Already?”

“You know Mr. Delay. The first team is the most important. ”

“Oh, yes, sir. ”

Kim Delay nodded urgently, he took out his smartphone and called somewhere, and Najchan's gaze was fixed on the chart in the corner of the screen and did not move.

There is no change in the number ‘23' yet.

“Two people in the future……. How long will it take?”

If you cross the path of two more warriors, there will be five people in the village.

And the number 'five’ was very important in a warrior village.

That was the first condition for generating a quest.