Became the Transcendent Monarch of the Corner of the Room - Chapter 128

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Episode 128

The greatest city on earth?

Alton?

For a moment, his soul was dazedly captivated by the people’s grateful greetings.

Choi Hyun-min’s eyes widened at Ian’s words.

‘What does he mean? Is he talking about the past?’

Ian had said he used to live in Alton before.

Could he be referring to those times when he said this?

Just as Choi Hyun-min tilted his head and was about to ask Ian back.

Rumble.

The ground the people were standing on began to vibrate violently.

“Whoa!”

Choi Hyun-min urgently spread his arms to maintain his balance.

The thousands of people who had gathered to see him were also swaying and struggling to steady themselves.

-Just in case, turn off the engine.

-Got it.

Meanwhile, the vibrations grew even more intense.

In the midst of the chaos, only the tanks standing firm on their tracks remained unaffected.

Rumble rumble.

The vibrations, which he thought might stop after a little time.

Somehow seemed to grow stronger as time went on.

Along with that, yellowish dust began rising from all directions-

‘That is…!’

The spot where Alton Village had been just moments ago.

Around it, massive stone pillars began sprouting up.

No, to be precise.

‘Buildings!!! Buildings are emerging from the ground!’

Stone buildings were rising up like giant trees growing.

And not just one or two.

Hundreds, thousands.

Not only between Alton’s buildings.

But also the outskirts of Alton Village where there had been nothing.

And even the outer areas where monsters had been wandering until just now.

Spire-shaped buildings popped up one after another.

‘What am I looking at right now?’

Certainly, the Alton Village that Choi Hyun-min knew.

Was just a small hamlet where about a few hundred people lived together.

Choi Hyun-min felt as if all the common sense and knowledge he had known was being completely denied.

‘Is this why Ian called it the greatest city on earth?’

Even while staring at Alton’s transformation with dazed eyes.

Buildings continued to emerge from the bottom without rest.

Thanks to that, Alton Village gradually expanded its range, growing large enough to fill more than half of the 40th Floor.

‘This is Alton!’

A city so massive it couldn’t be taken in at a single glance.

With spire-like buildings densely packed together.

It was magnificent enough to make even Choi Hyun-min, who lived in the heart of Seoul, gasp in admiration.

Why Ian had said it was the greatest city on earth.

After seeing it with his own eyes, he could understand it perfectly.

-Thank you. We are truly grateful!

While staring blankly at the new city.

The Village Chief.

No, perhaps the term mayor would be more fitting now.

Todur, the leader of Alton, quietly approached Choi Hyun-min and offered his greetings.

“Is this Alton?”

-That’s right. More precisely… it would be more accurate to say this is the old Alton.

“The old Alton?”

Choi Hyun-min’s eyebrows twitched at Todur’s words.

If what he said was true, those buildings had existed from long ago.

When he asked back, the Village Chief closed his eyes gently and spoke.

-Have you ever heard the name Belmerer?

“Belmerer, you mean that gargoyle from earlier-“

-That’s right. That bat-shaped monster that the Savior defeated. That creature’s name is Belmerer.

Had they already known about Belmerer’s existence?

Todur extended his finger to point at the ground he was standing on.

-Belmerer is an apostle of greed that pursues life force. As you know, it was a being that turned those with strong life force into stone and slowly drained their life force.

This was a story he already knew well.

The thousands of residents who had turned to stone because of Belmerer.

And the hundreds of residents who had escaped its gaze and survived.

Hadn’t Choi Hyun-min seen it with his own eyes?

-On days when it devoured life force, it would turn away without complaint, but on days when it couldn’t… it would swallow the entire ground.

“The ground… you mean the earth?”

Thump thump.

At Choi Hyun-min’s question, Todur lightly stomped his feet.

-That’s right. This ground we’re standing on. It swallowed the earth entirely. That’s how the creature not only turned people to stone, but also devoured Alton Village itself.

Then those buildings that suddenly appeared weren’t really newly created but-

“The old Alton that Belmerer had devoured…”

-Exactly. Those are the old Alton itself, from before that creature swallowed it.

He had heard of monsters that killed or devoured people.

But this was the first time he’d heard of a monster that devoured the land and the labyrinth itself.

Choi Hyun-min nodded his head in amazement.

Meanwhile.

Thud.

Todur stepped forward boldly.

He stared directly at Choi Hyun-min and then knelt down.

“Wh-why are you suddenly doing this?!”

To suddenly kneel without any warning.

Choi Hyun-min unconsciously took a step back.

However, Todur raised his head and stared directly at him.

-I beseech the Savior. Please, allow Alton to be placed under the Savior’s rule.

“What?!”

Todur, who was now calling Choi Hyun-min Savior like Ian did.

He looked around to see if his words were a joke.

But.

Blazing.

There wasn’t a hint of playfulness in his eyes.

Rather, he was practically breathing fire from his eyes as if they might burst into flames at any moment.

‘He… he seems serious.’

Even when the system directly mentioned being the lord of Alton or whatever.

He had just brushed it off thinking it was nothing special.

Could it be that this hidden quest on the 40th Floor.

-Savior, please! Do not abandon us!

-You must not abandon us!

-Please protect us from falling into the devil’s grasp like before!

-We beg of you!!!

The residents of Alton who were watching this scene.

They too lit up their eyes and raised the same voices.

“Ah, no, that’s…”

-Do you truly intend to abandon us?

“That’s not it…”

Getting the village itself wasn’t really a problem.

But having so many people staring at him all at once was still something he couldn’t get used to.

Mage Ian, who noticed this.

He had been quietly observing the situation and stepped forward in front of the people.

-Now, please return to your homes. The Savior finds the gaze of so many people burdensome, so he might not want to take charge of Alton.

-Th, that’s…

-Leave the rest to me. I am from Alton after all, so I know what you all desire.

True to Ian’s perceptive nature.

He quickly began sending the people away in place of the troubled Choi Hyun-min.

Fortunately, the mage’s persuasion seemed to work.

The people who had gathered like clouds disappeared like a lie, leaving only a few behind.

Of course, from far away-

Glance. Glance.

He could still feel gazes watching from behind buildings.

‘But since there are no people visible…’

At least he felt like he could survive.

After letting out a small sigh

After sending the people away and thinking for a moment.

He gave a positive answer to Todur.

“I understand. If that’s truly what you wish… I’ll take charge of Alton village.”

Ding!

[Full authority of the city Alton is completely transferred from Todur to Choi Hyun-min.]

[By obtaining full authority, you have acquired all rights regarding the city’s operational direction, construction, demolition, mobilization of village residents, etc.]

Ooh!

A system notification rang as soon as he gave his consent.

It was a message that all authority over Alton was being transferred to him.

‘With this… the 40th Floor of the Labyrinth is practically mine?’

He already had several villages.

But Alton was different.

Not only was it on a lower floor.

It was also a large city incomparable to his previous villages.

Moreover, the new system notification that appeared afterward.

Was enough to shock Choi Hyun-min.

[Due to the Transcendent Lord’s influence, resident productivity increases by 200%.]

[Additionally, the Transcendent Lord now holds both the right to determine and ownership of all items that can be produced in Alton.]

So…

All products from Alton become mine?!

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-What the hell is this supposed to mean?!

-This is crazy. Wait, all my items suddenly became trash?

-What kind of nonsense is this overnight?

-Forget the items I have, the market has completely run dry of items too?

While Choi Hyun-min was dealing with the residents of the 40th floor.

Outside.

That is, outside the labyrinth was in complete chaos.

After Belmerer’s death, a message that appeared uniformly to all hunters.

It was only a few lines.

But its impact was shocking enough to shake all of Korea.

[The labyrinth develops resistance to the existing item system.]

[Consumable items used within the labyrinth can no longer be used inside the labyrinth.]

“What?!”

“What does this mean? We can’t use items anymore?!”

The notification that consumable items could no longer be used.

The hunters who first received the notification brushed it off thinking it wouldn’t be much.

But when they actually entered the labyrinth, the problem turned out to be bigger than expected.

“Hey, what’s wrong with this potion?”

“What do you mean?”

“The healing potion, it’s not healing wounds at all?”

“I’ve drunk several antidote potions now but the poison won’t be cured!!”

For hunters, items were as important as their innate abilities.

Especially hunters who spent long hours hunting in the labyrinth to make money.

They used consumable items that restored their condition or healed wounds very frequently.

Those had overnight become useless items.

“Look at this. When you appraise the item, it shows up like this.”

[Healing Potion]

[Recovers the user when applied to wounds or consumed directly.]

[Due to the labyrinth’s acquired resistance, no effect occurs even when used.]

It definitely wasn’t there before.

A sentence that suddenly appeared at the very end of the item description.

Because of that, hunters fell into complete confusion.

“This is crazy. I can’t even go hunting now.”

“Should I go down to those lower floors where I don’t need potions?”

“Then even if I hunt hard for an hour, would I even make a thousand won?”

“What about other people?”

“It seems like all potion types have become unusable. High-level hunters seem to be in similar situations.”

With the situation completely flipped overnight.

It wasn’t just hunters who were in trouble.

The guilds that did business with hunters and made and sold items.

They too had suddenly taken a direct hit.

And among them was a representative guild-

The Black Wind Guild was also there.

“The recipes themselves seem to have changed too. Even when we mix items in the prescribed order, completely different items are coming out.”

“We conducted a full investigation of the items we had in stock. They’ve all become useless items with the labyrinth’s resistance applied.”

Beyond simply lacking items or having problems.

Something like this happening to the entire labyrinth was the first time since the labyrinth opened.

Heukpung’s leadership couldn’t hide their bewilderment at this unprecedented situation.

“At this rate, we might not just fail to make money but the guild itself could be shaken…”

“How… about seeking advice from other guilds?”

Then, Im Ye-seo-

The promising member of Heukpung made a suggestion to the executives.

“Wouldn’t other guilds be in the same situation?”

“I’ve already reached out to contacts, but other places seem to be in the same situation as us. Even places like the exchange have already run dry of consumable items.”

“Manwol.”

“Huh?”

“Maybe… if it’s Manwol, don’t you think he might know some kind of solution?”

Manwol.

No, to be precise, not Manwol but Choi Hyun-min.

He might know the solution to the current situation.

Though she had no information to go on, and had no idea where he was.

Im Ye-seo somehow had that feeling.

A kind of ‘intuition’.

“I’ll be back soon.”

“W-where are you going?!”

“To Manwol!”

The moment that intuition shot through her entire body.

She immediately headed toward the Manwol Guild.

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