Became the Transcendent Monarch of the Corner of the Room - Chapter 120

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Episode 120

‘The stone statues… they’re coming back!’

Anton’s village chief, Todur.

He unconsciously widened his eyes at the miracle unfolding before him.

Thousands of stone statues.

Those things that had been sculpted to look exactly like people.

The moment Choi Hyun-min placed his hand on them, weren’t they recovering their color from the top of their heads downward?

“Hm?”

It wasn’t just Todur who was surprised by this.

The person who had placed his hand—

Choi Hyun-min’s eyebrows also shot up as if slightly surprised.

‘Does it react when a person touches it?’

It had been a stone statue just moments before.

After tilting his head briefly in confusion.

He applied slight pressure and gently pressed down on the statue’s crown.

Whooom.

Then the statue that had been entirely gray slowly began to turn yellow.

More precisely, yellow hair.

It was regaining its original color from top to bottom.

-H-how did you do that?!

-Shh! Be quiet. Master is concentrating.

At the miracle witnessed right before their eyes.

Todur asked urgently.

Of course, his question was blocked by Dehof’s restraint as he held his axe.

‘It definitely seems to be changing.’

The color was definitely changing.

The boy’s hair had already turned a bright yellow.

His face was also returning to a sun-tanned brown.

However, the problem was.

‘This… is incredibly slow.’

The recovery speed was extremely slow.

He seemed to have been touching it for over 20 minutes.

And it was only just now passing the shoulders.

-N-no… if you could just tell me how you did it…

-Didn’t I tell you to stay still? He’ll surely explain once everything is finished!

Moreover, as the statue.

No, as the boy’s appearance gradually changed.

Todur’s cries only became more desperate.

Because of this, Choi Hyun-min couldn’t take his hand off the statue.

The village chief’s cries were one reason, but.

‘Could it be… were these really people turned into stone statues?’

If it was a person rather than a statue.

No matter how long it took, shouldn’t he save them first?

That feeling was preventing him from taking his hand off the statue.

Just in case, he tried lifting his hand very slightly.

So imperceptibly that it wouldn’t be noticed.

‘…The moment I take my hand off, it stops like magic.’

Seeing the recovery process stop the moment he lifted his hand.

Choi Hyun-min had no choice but to spend time with his hand placed on it endlessly.

After a full three hours had passed like that.

The boy’s body had regained its color all the way to his toes.

Crack.

Pop.

Along with that came a bursting sound from inside the boy’s body.

A sound like stone breaking could be heard.

Then a yellow light burst forth from his body.

-Uwah!

At the same time, the boy staggered briefly, then collapsed to the floor.

Todur, who had been watching this whole time, pushed Dehof aside and rushed forward.

-Sharin!

-T-Uncle Todur!

-Yes, you rascal! It’s me, me! Uncle Todur! Do you recognize me?!

The two people who recognized each other.

The moment they made eye contact, they embraced each other fiercely and burst into tears.

“Uncle, Uncle! I was so scared…!”

“Yes, In-seok… you’ve been through so much…”

The enormous cavern.

Echoed loudly with the crying of the two people.

Choi Hyun-min roughly understood what the situation was.

But he decided to quietly watch until those two had cried enough.

‘So those stone statues really were people after all.’

He had wondered if it could be.

But who would have thought all of those were actually real people?

-You truly are the Savior!

“Uh, huh?!”

-To restore someone who had been turned completely to stone and had their time stolen back to their original form! I realize once again that my humble magic is far from matching yours, Savior!

“N-no, it’s not like that…”

Although he had directly restored the boy named Sharin.

Since he had no idea what principle made it work.

Mage Ian grabbed Choi Hyun-min’s hands with sparkling eyes.

Choi Hyun-min slightly averted his gaze to avoid the boy’s words.

-Was there some special method?

“I just placed my hand on it. You already saw that, didn’t you?”

-Well, that’s true, but…

“Couldn’t other people come back if they did the same thing?”

Since he didn’t possess any special magical power or magic.

Choi Hyun-min pointed to a statue on the opposite side as if it was nothing special.

A stone statue of a middle-aged woman with a basket at her side.

At his words, Ian shook his head, then placed his hand on top of her head as Choi Hyun-min had done.

However, unlike Choi Hyun-min’s case, the statue showed no reaction at all.

-As you can see, even when I touch it the same way, nothing changes at all.

“What about Dehof?”

He turned his head toward the barbarian warrior.

But the guy was already placing his thick hand on top of a middle-aged man’s head on the opposite side.

-Same here. It seems impossible to restore them like Master does without something special.

“…That’s definitely the case.”

Was it the same for Dehof too?

Choi Hyun-min lowered his gaze to look at his own two hands.

Is there really something in my hands?

While Choi Hyun-min tilted his head in confusion and wondered.

Todur and the boy Sharin had quietly approached from the side.

The two of them bowed toward him.

-Thank you… Truly thank you…

-Thank you…

Sniffle. Sniffle.

The two were still sniffling intermittently, their tears not yet stopped.

Choi Hyun-min asked them in a calm voice.

“Don’t tell me all those statues are real people?”

Though he already had a suspicion.

To the question thrown for confirmation.

Todur nodded with a gloomy face.

-That’s right… As you can see, those are all people turned to stone.

Had he sensed something from Choi Hyun-min’s actions?

Or had his heart been moved by the miracle he created?

Todur’s tone had become extremely respectful.

“Could you tell me why such a place exists? Why people ended up in that state?”

If the Village Chief’s words were truly correct.

Since he was standing in the middle of a horrific scene.

Choi Hyun-min also asked as politely as possible.

-Actually, our Anton… wasn’t originally this kind of village. It was a much larger metropolis where many people lived.

Is that so?

Though Choi Hyun-min knew the inside of the maze like an encyclopedia.

What Todur was saying now was completely new to him.

-But… one day [that thing] appeared in Anton.

“That thing?”

-A vicious creature with bat wings… It started turning the villagers into stone one by one…

The moment he heard the words “bat wings.”

One being came to Choi Hyun-min’s mind.

‘If it has bat wings… among monsters, only gargoyles come to mind.’

It was also a monster that often appeared around the 40th floor.

After thinking about something, he carefully spoke.

“Are you talking about a Gargoyle?”

-Gasp! If you call [that thing] by that name…!

“Ah, I’m sorry.”

The Village Chief jumped back the moment he heard the word gargoyle.

Choi Hyun-min bowed his head slightly toward him.

But a gargoyle?

Though gargoyles were indeed troublesome monsters for Hunters.

The ability to turn people into statues was completely unheard of.

-Anyway, from the day [that thing] appeared, the villagers began turning into statues like that one by one. Moreover…

“Moreover?”

-The day after they became statues, even the space where the statues were created completely disappeared.

“The space disappeared?”

-People who turned into statues inside houses would… by the next day, the entire house would disappear along with the statue, and those who became statues in the fields… the entire field would be erased without a trace.

As if he was seeing those events again.

Todur’s words were trembling.

Perhaps he was forcing himself to hold back to avoid showing it to Choi Hyun-min.

He kept biting his lips and pausing mid-sentence.

-Since we couldn’t send everyone away like that, I started bringing the people turned to stone and hiding them underground… I created this space with my own hands, and when I put these people inside, the space itself stopped disappearing, but…

Sniffle.

His tears still hadn’t stopped.

The Village Chief continued sniffling even while speaking.

Only after hearing his words could Choi Hyun-min roughly understand why this space existed.

And what the identity of those statues was.

‘First, I need to restore those people and then find information about the gargoyle…’

Choi Hyun-min was thinking of solutions in his head for this tragic situation.

Thud.

“Why, why are you doing this?!”

He was startled and stepped back at the sight of Todur suddenly kneeling before him.

But the Village Chief must have been quite desperate.

Grabbing Choi Hyun-min’s ankle, he began banging his head on the ground.

-Like this… I beg you like this… Please, restore us to our original forms… I beg you…

Thud. Thud. Thoom.

Each time Todur hit his head on the floor.

A dull sound shook the stifling air.

“P-please get up! Let’s talk after you get up first…”

-Please, I beg you! You’re the only one who has ever restored our village people to their original state! Please…

“If you don’t let go of this, I won’t help.”

…

A brief silence at the completely unexpected words.

Then, understanding his words.

Pop.

Todur’s hand that had been gripping his ankle disappeared like magic.

Then he lifted his head slightly to look this way.

“…I don’t know the exact method either, so I’ll try to find a way first.”

-A-are you serious?

“I might not have known before, but I’m not heartless enough to just pass by after seeing this.”

-Thank you, thank you…!

“There’s nothing I can do here right now, so I’ll find a method and come back to help.”

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Todur had been shedding tears in all directions trying to hold onto Choi Hyun-min.

Only after barely convincing him.

Could Choi Hyun-min return to his room.

‘First, I need to gather information about the gargoyles on the 40th floor.’

Before leaving the basement, he was able to hear several more pieces of information about the gargoyle from Todur.

Compiling those together.

‘It definitely wasn’t talking about an ordinary monster gargoyle.’

The gargoyle Todur mentioned.

Was certainly talking about something that resembled a gargoyle, not a regular monster.

And he had also said it specifically targeted only living beings to petrify them.

Then there might be a need to investigate a completely different entity-

Knock knock knock.

“Young master? May I come in for a moment?”

Choi Hyun-min had been reasoning through the information the Village Chief gave him in his head.

He opened his room door at the sudden knocking sound.

Secretary Kim.

The one who always took care of him spoke with a somewhat urgent expression.

“Um… Young master? I’ll prepare clothes for you, so I think it would be best if you get dressed first.”

“Um… Young master? I’ll prepare your clothes, so I think it would be best if you get dressed first.”

“…Clothes?”

As soon as the door opened, he was told to get dressed right away.

Of course, since he spent most of his days in light blue pajamas.

Secretary Kim would often prepare clothes for him whenever something came up.

But there had never been a case where she nagged about clothes the moment the door opened.

Did she notice his confusion?

Secretary Kim spoke quietly with a serious expression.

“An urgent meeting has been scheduled, and Chairman Choi has urgently summoned you, young master.”

“The family head? Who is he meeting with that…”

Even Chairman Choi had never conveyed messages this urgently before.

As Choi Hyun-min tilted his head in confusion.

Secretary Kim slightly raised her hand toward him as if telling him not to be surprised.

“Well… It’s the chairman of the Chinese Interdimensional Committee.”

“…What?!”

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