Became the Transcendent Monarch of the Corner of the Room - Chapter 2

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Episode 2

The ‘Mazes’ that appeared in South Korea and various other countries.

An underground world in the form of massive caves, a space that extended infinitely downward.

At the same time, people with strange abilities suddenly emerged.

Some possessed transcendent physical capabilities.

Others gained magical powers to control fire and ice.

Those called ‘Hunters’ became able to enter and exit the Mazes using these powers.

At first, it might have been due to someone’s sense of adventure.

But the countless treasures and materials that came from within.

Items that could change the course of human history and tremendous amounts of ore.

The moment it became known that the Mazes weren’t underground lairs of monsters, but infinite treasure vaults.

The entire world began developing the Mazes using Hunters without exception.

That was exactly 30 years ago.

***

Kim Yun-hyun, a secretary belonging to the Manwol Guild.

Unlike other guild members who were always busy moving around, his mission was just one thing.

‘Today as well, is the young master… going to spend all day training in his room?’

Specifically, monitoring and reporting every move of Choi Hyun-min.

For several years now, he had been holed up in his room, only swinging his sword.

Watching over and caring for Choi Hyun-min, who wouldn’t even come outside, was his only job.

‘Or maybe… he’s playing with his toy blocks as usual.’

Actually, the job itself wasn’t difficult.

Choi Hyun-min had been holed up in his room for years now.

He just had to focus on the sounds coming from beyond the door, observe his movements, and report them.

‘Today will be… the same as always, I suppose.’

Yesterday was like that, and the day before was too.

Today would probably be the same.

The time was 11 PM.

By now, he should have finished his evening sword training and be about to fall asleep.

-Or so it should be.

“Young mas-… Gasp!”

The door opened!

5 years? 6 years?

For many long years, Choi Hyun-min’s door, which had been like an impregnable fortress, opened.

Creeeeak.

The corridor had become pitch dark with all the lights turned off.

Light leaked through the slightly opened gap, and at the same time.

Choi Hyun-min quietly slipped his body outside.

‘The young master… came outside!’

Secretary Kim almost screamed at the unbelievable sight.

He hastily covered his mouth and urgently hid behind the wall.

Stealthily.

‘Is he trying to go outside?’

Choi Hyun-min tiptoed out like a cat.

Kim Yun-hyun’s eyes naturally followed him.

‘Where is he going?’

Certainly, the sword training in his room hadn’t been in vain.

Step by step, his movements were swift yet made not a single sound.

Movements reminiscent of an espionage operation.

The place Choi Hyun-min arrived at with such movements was.

‘The kitchen…?’

Does he need something to eat?

If so, there would be no need for him to come out himself; he could just ask him to do it.

Just this evening, hadn’t he not eaten the meal he had prepared for him?

But why…

Choi Hyun-min entered the kitchen like a thieving cat.

He approached the refrigerator without even turning on the lights.

Then he pulled out several eggs and some uncooked chunks of meat.

And a few pieces of sausage.

Thud.

The refrigerator closed again.

Choi Hyun-min looked around as if he were stealing from someone else’s house.

Creeak.

Thud.

As if nothing had happened, he took the food and slipped back into his room.

‘Phew… I don’t think the young master noticed me…’

Secretary Kim, who had been watching Choi Hyun-min without even breathing.

He bit his lips tightly, his heart pounding as if it would burst.

‘Finally… has the young master’s heart finally started to move?’

How many years had it been since he failed to awaken and holed himself up in that room?

During that time, he hadn’t spoken a single word even to his family, so even his father Choi Seung-hyun had half given up on him.

But… the situation had changed.

‘I can’t just stay here. I need to report this right away.’

Kim Yun-hyun’s eyes sparkled as if it were his own business.

He hastily picked up his phone.

Then he concentrated all his strength in his fingers and began pressing the phone screen repeatedly.

***

Thud thud.

“I brought them for now… but will this work?”

Sigh.

This was clearly his own house, so why did he feel like he had to be careful?

Choi Hyun-min, who had grabbed food from the refrigerator when no one was watching.

He spilled the food he had been carrying onto the desk.

Long sausages, uncooked Korean beef, and eggs.

“I need to know what you guys actually eat.”

The reason he had raided the refrigerator in the middle of the night was purely because of those block toy guys.

Suddenly waking up a sleeping person and demanding food out of nowhere.

It must be a dream.

He tried to dismiss it as a dream, but…

‘If I can really awaken… even if it’s a dream…’

The message he had seen before leaving his room.

That was definitely a notification about ‘awakening,’ the qualification to become a Hunter.

‘Even if it’s really a dream, I absolutely have to try it.’

With that, Choi Hyun-min approached the Primitive Tribe toys.

At his appearance, Hans rushed over urgently.

-Food! Is there food?!

“I don’t know what you guys eat, but… would something like this be okay?”

He knew well enough what humans or animals would eat.

But what on earth should he feed block toys?

What on earth are you supposed to feed block toys anyway.

Choi Hyun-min tilted his head while offering the chunk of meat he had brought.

The moment he held up the fist-sized piece of meat and offered it to Hans.

-Me, meat! Meat! Everyone! It’s meat!

Hans cried out with a startled expression.

At his shout, the other block creatures that had been collapsed on the floor slowly raised themselves up.

-Me… meat…?

-Yes! It’s real meat!

-Really…? No lie… meat…?

Thud.

As soon as Choi Hyun-min placed the meat on the desk, the creatures gathered around.

For a moment their eyes seemed to sparkle.

-Waah!!!

-We eat! It’s meat!

-Food! Food!

They rushed forward like a school of piranhas.

Chomp. Chomp. Chomp.

‘They’re really… eating this?’

About ten toys surrounded the meat.

The creatures stretched out their tiny hands and began tearing off pieces of meat to eat.

It felt somewhat like feeding fish in an aquarium.

“How is it? Does it taste good?”

Crunch. Crunch. Crunch.

Choi Hyun-min asked with a subtle look in his eyes.

But there was no answer.

Only monsters devouring the meat as if possessed remained.

The creatures quickly finished off the entire chunk of meat.

Worried the momentum might break.

This time he peeled the casing off a sausage and threw it to them.

-Oh, what’s this?!

-I’ve never seen this before…

-Sniff sniff, isn’t this meat too?

-Should be okay to eat, right?

The block toys stared at the sausage with curious eyes as if looking at an alien.

The creatures had a brief staring contest with the sausage-

Lick.

They brought their mouths to it and then devoured it like crazy.

How much time had passed like this?

The toys had quickly eaten all the food(?) that Choi Hyun-min had brought.

As if they had finally come to their senses, they turned their bodies toward him.

-Thank you!

-You gave us food! We know gratitude!

-Food giver, good person!

-Thank you, master! Master seems to be a good person after all!

The creatures knelt down as if bowing like humans.

Of course, since they weren’t as precise as humans, some of them toppled forward while trying to kneel…

“It’s nothing much.”

-Food is important! Master shared something important with us. You guys, can’t you bow properly?!

The creatures all prostrated themselves in unison.

Hans stepped forward and kicked the clumsily prostrating primitives with his foot.

Then sneakily.

-Um…

“Hm? What?”

-I have something to say to master.

“What is it?”

-Sorry about this… I want to ask master for a favor.

A favor?

What was he trying to say?

Don’t tell me he’s saying the meat I brought wasn’t enough?

“Do you need more meat? Or do you want to eat something else?”

It seemed like the refrigerator was out of meat.

Maybe I should bring them other food.

While he was pondering alone.

Hans’s eyebrows furrowed with determination.

-If master would just permit it… our entire clan wants to be completely subordinate to master…

“Subordinate? To me?”

-Food! Just give us food! That’s enough.

Completely subordinate?

When he tilted his head, Hans frantically waved his hands.

Wait, weren’t you guys my toys to begin with?

Choi Hyun-min tilted his head briefly at the incomprehensible words.

Then he paused.

‘…For now, whatever the case, I should listen to what these guys want.’

The content of the message he had seen earlier came to mind.

Surely the conditions for the awakening Quest stated that he should fulfill what the creations desired.

If those ‘creations’ referred to these creatures…

‘It’s not a difficult task. There’s nothing I can’t do.’

If I can really awaken, that is.

Choi Hyun-min stared intently at the creatures for a moment.

He slowly nodded his head.

“By all means.”

The moment that brief answer flowed from his mouth.

Rumble.

‘What, what is this?!’

A momentary vibration passed through Choi Hyun-min’s body.

Along with it, pure white light began bursting from his entire body.

‘Could this be…?!’

Awakening!

It’s awakening!

He already knew all too well what happened when one awakened.

Because…

He had looked it up and researched it dozens, hundreds of times.

‘They definitely said that when you awaken, light comes from your entire body!’

At the same time, a tingling sensation rose from his fingertips to his head.

Then.

Ding.

[You have fulfilled what your creations desired.]

[Since creations that serve you have emerged, you have satisfied the Quest conditions for awakening.]

It, it worked!

[You have awakened.]

[You have awakened.]

[You have gained a new ability.]

[Trait: Transcendent Lord]

[Grade: EX]

…Really?!

I awakened?

I rubbed my eyes.

Did I see it wrong?

Or was it a hallucination?

But the message before my eyes wasn’t an illusion.

‘Can I finally enter the Maze now?’

All this time as a member of Manwol Guild.

As a member of a Hunter Family, how long had I been bowing my head?

Now I don’t have to do that anymore.

Though my level is low, if I challenge myself step by step from now on.

He too could live with his shoulders straight as a Hunter.

Choi Hyun-min unconsciously clenched both fists tight.

Clap clap clap clap!

-Master has become a real Hunter too!

-It’s dangerous but something to celebrate.

-I knew Master would become an excellent Hunter.

-Hunter? Master became a Hunter?

What, this guy knows about Hunters too?

I thought he was just a simple block toy.

The guys who had been watching him all clapped and cheered in unison.

Choi Hyun-min wore a bewildered expression at the unfamiliar sight.

He raised his hand slightly with an embarrassed face.

“Thanks.”

The guys who had been clapping with their tiny toy hands.

Among them, the leader of those who had been quietly listening, Hans.

He alone asked slowly with a serious face.

-Wait. Then since Master became a Hunter too, does he have to enter the Maze?

“Of course. Hunters exist for that purpose in the first place.”

A Hunter who doesn’t conquer Mazes?

That’s no different from a car that doesn’t move.

Of course there’s the risk of dying or getting hurt.

But that wasn’t a problem for Choi Hyun-min at all.

Born into a Hunter Family, how long had he dreamed of this moment?

He could endure that much easily.

Just as he was about to say that.

-You idiots! Master is trying to dangerously enter the Maze!

-What? That won’t do!

-We’ll go instead!

-Let’s go! Brothers! We’re going to the Maze instead of Master!

Huh…?

What?

Did I hear wrong?

The block toys raised their wooden spears in unison and shouted.

They yelled like soldiers departing for battle.

Then toward the Maze-shaped toy block set up on the side.

They began rushing toward it in a crowd.

“What are you doing?”

The guys who had been whispering among themselves.

The moment their tiny bodies touched the Maze-shaped toy.

They disappeared.

As if they had entered inside the Maze, they vanished in an instant.

Like that, about ten primitive people.

And even Hans completely entered the Maze-

[The ability of Trait: Transcendent Lord is manifesting.]

The system whispered to him in a dry voice.

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