Chapter 37

Inside the monitoring room of Atlas Corps, a heavy atmosphere filled the air as all people who were seated across the room has grave expressions on their faces. After a moment of silence, Kevin Lewis spoke.

"This is bad!"

Dan and all other people nodded their head in agreement as they can't say anything else. As Zephyr has broken their previous expectations, they decided to thoroughly monitor him. But the more they monitor him, the more their surprises grew.

At first, they were surprised on his performance on the defense quest as he was able to utilize the potential and efficiency of his classes and items. He also made his Kyuubi partner debut on the battlefield.

But their surprises didn't end there. They were even more shocked as he was able to get 2 soulstones which has 0.00000001% probability of getting no matter how high your performance is. However, things were different due to Zephyr's high luck which helps him bypass that probability.

At the appearance of the soulstone, the developers of Tensura gritted their teeth as they were frustrated that Zephyr already have many good things at the early phase of the game. As they were the one who developed Tensura, they knew what would be the worldwide effect of the soulstones in Tensura.

However, their surprise didn't end there. Some of them even fainted after seeing Zephyr obtained both Hero's Egg and Demon Lord's Seed. It might be just unique rated but if the conditions were fulfilled, it's value is even greater than a legendary item.

Their frustration only grew as Zephyr was only playing the game half- heartedly and not taking Tensura seriously at all. And so, they even began to doubt what happened next, Zephyr was able to meet the sealed Arcane Dragon Hyrkan and was able to befriend it.

Some of them even passed out as they designed the dragons to be very prideful. To see races other than them to be insignificant like an ant. However, Hyrkan was an exemption. As he was sealed for 500 years, he endured the boredom he felt during that time.

Having the opportunity to talk to someone, Hyrkan didn't let his pride get the better of him resulting for Zephyr having a conversation to a dragon in equal standing. At first, they were touched in their conversation as the developer thought that it was a 'Great Loners Encounter'. However their shock continued...

Zephyr was able to establish a contract with Hyrkan as the dragon's equal resulting him becoming a Dragon's Contractor which none of them thought it existed as they didn't design it in the first place. The developers designed the game that it was impossible for a player to encounter a dragon throughout the game much less becoming contracted to it.

However, due to the unexpected happening, The supercomputer Uriel concluded it was Zephyr's achievement and rewarded him for it. Uriel also added some limitations to it as possessing a dragon's power in early stage of the game will ruin the balance.

They were also surprised that Zephyr was able to figure out how to utilize the soulstones, allowing Zephyr to absorb the barrier along with Hyrkan. They admired how clever he is for utilizing everything he had just to let the predation succeed even it has 0.3% success rate.

They were able to see the rare scene of him for being serious about doing something. But what shocked them all was him being a dragon slayer. All of his previous feats can already be treated as impossible however, being a dragon slayer is a different matter.

It's impossible to raid a dragon. In the first place, dragons weren't created for players to raid as dragons weren't targets for raids. This was clearly stated in Tensura's default setting. However, the system judged Zephyr's devouring of the barrier and Hyrkan as a dragon slaying.

"No, how did this happen?"

Dan muttered as then he blaimed the Abyssal Beast for sending Zephyr randomly to where Hyrkan was sealed. If not for it, none of this would happen in the first place.

As he was a head in Atlas Corps, he was responsible for preventing errors and bugs from appearing in the server in real time. Therefore, Zephyr's existence was very troublesome for him. Every time Zephyr created a variable that was beyond a player's category, he would have to work overtime.

Kwang!

Dan Santiago couldn't control his boiling rage and hit the table. His face was green and he was gritting his teeth.

"This situation is very interesting."

"Chairman...!"

A gentleman had entered the office of the operations team. He was the father of Supercomputer Uriel and the creator of Tensura. The founder and chairman of the Atlas Corps, Cedric Felix. After a simple greeting and encouraging the employees to go back to work, he sat down in front of Dan.

"I-I'm sorry."

This incident wasn't Dan Santiago's fault. It was the fault of the Zephyr himself for being so unpredictable but he still apologized. Dan Santiago was the head of the Tensura's Operations Team.

He didn't give any excuses and apologized for ruining the designed structure of the game.

Cedric Felix grinned at him.

"I don't think this is a situation where you need to apologize."

"...?"

Dan Santiago was confused. The Arcane Dragon Hyrkan. The transcendents who had sealed him would know that the seal and Hyrkan disappeared. The Atlas Corps executives who knew that the world view of Tensura would know that Hyrkan's seal had recently disappeared.

"I-Isn't this a big deal?"

A player twisted the world view of the game that billions of people were playing. It was a serious problem. It must be restored. These were Dan Santiago's thoughts. However, Chairman Cedric Felix thought the opposite.

"No, it can't be reversed. Have you forgotten that our policy is to absolutely not intervene in Tensura?"

In Tensura, the management team should not intervene. The reason for this rule was to keep Tensura's 'another reality' setting. Could it truly be deemed another reality if the management team intervened in Tensura and its users?

Users in Tensura must have the same level of freedom as in reality. Users might become aware that Tensura was a game if the development team intervened, and their immersion would be broken. It would be a contradiction of Cedric Felix's purpose for creating Tensura.

Dan Santiago can only shake his head. It was a basic policy that management couldn't intervene in Tensura and he had to follow this if he wanted to be kept by the board of directors. In addition, there was no real impact on Tensura's development if an episode designed by Uriel didn't proceed normally.

Uriel's role was to encourage players to have fun in a pleasant environment. Uriel provided new fun by inducing players to create more diverse forces, not just the current development but to let the players to eventually pioneer the way themselves.

Zephyr was the one who showed the possibility of destroying a storyline and creating a new one. Then, all of Tensura's GM continued to monitor Zephyr if he would create an another anomaly.

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Zephyr opened his map icon and saw that he was currently at the center in the Great Jura Forest which was very far away on the White Tiger City. He ran around as he explored the area.

Zephyr wasn't careless at all as he traveled around the forest as he occasionally saw many gigantic monsters around. Many were seen flying around at the sky and Zephyr inspected some of them.

[Fire Wyvren]

Rating: Unique Boss

Level: 220

Tier: 4

HP: 3,350,895,600

MP: 2,922,080,870

Summary: Wyverns are a race created by Dragons. They are considerably weaker and less intelligent compared to dragons, but their draconian blood grants them good abilities, making them strong among monsters.]

[Fire Wyvren]

Rating: Unique Boss

Level: 220

Tier: 4

HP: 3,335,895,600

MP: 1,722,080,870

[Fire Wyvren]

Rating: Unique Boss

Level: 220

Tier: 4

HP: 3,385,895,600

MP: 2,322,080,870

[Fire Wyvren]

Rating: Unique Boss

Level: 220

Tier: 4

HP: 3,435,895,600

MP: 2,222,080,870

The wyvren were big enough to ride, but small compared to the massive and collosal size of Hyrkan , having only roughly three meters of length.

Zephyr was a little amazed seing the stats of the wyvern that completely overwhelmed him. Not that it was almost 200 level higher than him, it is also a Tier 4 which can be considered as strong as an emperor of an empire.

Zephyr now understood why no humans dared to claim the Great Jura Forest as their territory as there wasn't only a single Tier 4 entities here as all wyverns on the flock were all Tier 4.

Zephyr then inspected the bigger one that is leading which has the appearance different than the others.

[Fire Drake]

Rating: Legendary Boss

Level: 240

Tier: 4

HP: 7,945,956,600

MP: 4,232,280,870

Summary: A flying monster with a small amount of dragon's blood. Their intelligence is high compared to wyverns, and their combat power and power of the breath is overwhelmingly superior.]

Zephyr decided to ignore them as he won't be able to defeat a single one of them as he was only a Tier 1 while the monsters around were Tier 3 and Tier 4. Zephyr stealthily traveled as he ran swiftly because if he was moving slowly, he would only be spotted as the high tier monsters possesses sensitive senses.

Zephyr also occasionally saw other high tier monsters but ignored them as he wasn't interested in them as he didn't want to have a sense to underestimate the low tier monsters if he get used in seing the stats of the high tiers.

If a monster spotted Zephyr, he made use of his blink and agility even the monsters were faster than him. But for him who could cast blink with no cooldown, it was easy to escape from the monsters.

After running for several days and nights, Zephyr decided to climb a hill to have a better vision to decide which course of action he would choose when he find the route back to the White Tiger City.

Zephyr then arrived at the summit of the high hill and suddenly saw something that pique his interest. Zephyr then approach it and saw a cave in the summit. Zephyr was once again reminded of his encounters with caves as he gained lots of things so far.

His super sensitivity was also ringing signs to him that he should enter the cave. Without much thought, Zephyr followed his instinct and went to the cave.

Zephyr stopped at an area just a little bit away from the summit. It was a hilly spot covered with grass, and he would've passed it without a second thought if he didn't pay enough attention and his super sensitivity. However, an unfamiliar energy flowed around the hill as though something were being blocked by an invisible barrier.

'I never expected anything like this.' He thought that he'd sense everything now that his Super Sensitivity has risen tremendously, but that was clearly just arrogance. Zephyr walked into the hill slowly and soon saw the entrance of a cave.

'It looks like an ordinary cave.'

[You have entered the dungeon, Monkey King's Palace.]

[You have discovered the hidden dungeon, 'Monkey King's Palace'.]

[You are the first to make this discovery.]

[You have made an achievement that is not easily accomplished. Additional karma will be provided.]

[You have acquired 100 karma.]

[You have acquired 150 additional karma.]

[All experience gained inside the dungeon will be double for the next 5 days.]

[The item drop rate inside the dungeon is also doubled for the next 5 days.]

[The hidden quest (Monkey King's Palace) is being revealed.]

[Monkey King's Palace]

Difficulty: SSS

There is a legend that the Monkey King was sealed in the mountains in the Great Jura Forest after his rage led him to cause trouble in the heavens.

However, throughout the many years that passed, the people have forgotten that the Monkey King was once sealed there.

Quest Clear Conditions: Find traces of the Monkey King, and you will gain his legacy.

Quest Clear Rewards: Title 'Monkey King's Successor', clues about the Ruyi Jingu Bang and Sage Arts.

Quest Failure: None.]