Became the Transcendent Monarch of the Corner of the Room - Chapter 27

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Episode 27

Ridim Guild?

Park Gi-han?

Why is that name coming up now?

Choi Hyun-min stared at them with wide eyes.

“Ridim… Guild?”

“Ah, you wouldn’t know. We’re all hunters affiliated with Ridim Guild.”

The hunters wore bitter smiles as they said this.

Kim Jun-woo looked directly at him and continued speaking.

“We originally were hunters who mainly conquered the 10th floor levels. But… recently, Park Gi-han, that bastard, made us a proposal.”

“A proposal, you don’t mean-“

“That’s right. The Secret Room. He proposed whether we could find it for him.”

“…”

He had no idea.

Who would have thought that these people trapped in the Secret Room were hunters affiliated with Ridim Guild.

“Did you happen to see any spiders on the 9th floor or in the Secret Room?”

“No. I’ve never seen spiders in the Secret Room. The white…”

Choi Hyun-min shook his head at the mention of spiders.

He was about to talk about the man in white clothes, but then closed his mouth.

‘…There’s no need for me to bring it up first.’

Fortunately, did he not notice?

Kim Jun-woo shook his head left and right.

“That damn spider. It was almost as big as an elephant, and we ended up like this because of that thing.”

“So the conquest failed?”

“If it was simply a matter of conquest failure, we wouldn’t have reason to resent Park Gi-han. The problem is… that bastard already knew this would happen to us.”

What does this mean?

Park Gi-han already anticipated this outcome?

Then why did he send them?

And… why did he specifically make a request to Manwol to find the Secret Room?

Choi Hyun-min pondered for a moment.

He told the four people about the commission he received from Park Gi-han.

Of course, along with the lie that it wasn’t him who saved them, but an unnamed guild member from Manwol.

“When he commissioned the job, there was no mention of us at all?”

“None. I think the commission was just to discover and investigate the Secret Room.”

Since Choi Hyun-min hadn’t directly received the commission.

He retraced the contents of the contract from his memory.

But nowhere in it was there any mention of trapped hunters.

That means-

“Those garbage bastards! From the beginning, Ridim and Park Gi-han had no intention of finding us!”

Hunter Bae A-hyun, who had been quietly listening from behind.

She clenched her fists and raised her voice.

“You’re saying they deliberately threw you four away?”

“Because… I once heard Park Gi-han, that bastard, talking about the Secret Room and sacrifices.”

“Sacrifices?!”

“What the hell is that supposed to mean? We’re hearing this for the first time!”

The other three hunters also seemed surprised by her words.

The three people jumped up and shouted.

“I thought it wouldn’t be about us and accepted the Secret Room conquest request…”

Sacrifices…

Sacrifices.

‘Then… Ridim pushed these four people in to serve as sacrifices to that spider monster they saw?’

Naturally, from Ridim’s perspective, it was as good as mission accomplished, so there was no need to rescue them.

Now something was finally clicking into place.

“Maybe they commissioned Manwol for similar reasons.”

Either they tried to use us as sacrifices like these people.

Or they waited for us to fail and then report both failures together as a wholesale deal.

‘So that’s how they viewed Manwol.’

Sparks flew in Choi Hyun-min’s eyes.

If they really made the contract to use Manwol for such purposes…

‘I absolutely cannot let this slide.’

Crack.

Choi Hyun-min gritted his teeth tightly.

He left the hunters and walked straight out of the room.

“Y-Young master?!”

Secretary Kim was startled by the sudden appearance.

He tried to check Choi Hyun-min’s condition but stopped.

He unconsciously stepped back from the killing intent flowing from his body.

“Park Gi-han from Ridim Guild. Please call him here now.”

“P-Park Gi-han, you mean the person we contracted with?”

“That’s right, that person.”

“But the contract fulfillment isn’t-“

“It’s all finished, so tell him to come here right now. If he refuses to come…”

Beyond cold, each word carried a chilling frost.

Gulp.

Secretary Kim watched nervously with a tense expression.

Choi Hyun-min muttered coldly as if spitting out the words.

“Tell him I’ll leak everything about the Secret Room to the media.”

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“This crazy bastard! What the hell did he hear?!”

Park Gi-han had been boredly yawning while keeping his position.

The head of Ridim Guild was in a good mood for once.

No, he had been in a good mood.

Until he received that phone call.

“I dumped everything on Manwol, so now all that’s left is to collect the money!”

He was sure Manwol would cancel the Secret Room related contract.

Because of that, he planned to just take a reasonable contract fee and compensation and walk away.

Manwol’s troublesome youngest.

What was his name again.

Choi Hyun-min, thanks to that guy’s naive recklessness, he was able to catch a big fish worth ten times more.

With three days remaining, he thought he’d get tens of billions for free.

That’s what he thought.

“Why all of a sudden?! How long has it been since we made the extension contract, and now they’re fucking telling me to come and go?!”

“W-Well… they said they completed the Secret Room conquest and to come over…”

“Does that make sense?! Not even a full day has passed! Even if all of Manwol’s high-level hunters worked together they couldn’t do it, and that green kid found it in one day? You expect me to believe that?”

Park Gi-han shouted angrily at his secretary’s report.

The secretary, looking troubled by his words, hesitantly brought up the next matter.

“Um… there was a message from them.”

“What is it!!!”

“If you don’t come… they’ll leak everything about the Secret Room to the media-“

“That fucking bastard!!!”

What kind of nonsense is this?!

As soon as he heard the secretary’s words, Park Gi-han spat out curses.

‘That bastard Choi Hyun-min… Could he have found out something?’

He fidgeted with the small stone tablet fragment he had placed in his pocket.

The secret room that appears on the 9th floor.

Originally, that place wasn’t a room that could be conquered.

The stone tablet fragment he had obtained by chance.

Following what was written on it, Park Gi-han had sent an expedition team to offer human sacrifices.

‘If I just throw about 10 people in there, real treasure would come out.’

So he had thrown in the hunters from Ridim, including Kim Jun-woo.

Since they hadn’t returned, he thought the plan was half accomplished.

That’s what he thought…

‘No, that can’t be. There’s no way those bastards could have survived. And there’s no way that idiot Choi Hyun-min could have found out about the secret room. That’s impossible.’

While grumbling, Park Gi-han hurriedly put on his clothes just in case.

He immediately drove his car toward Manwol Guild.

“You came quite quickly.”

There, Secretary Kim and Choi Hyun-min, whom he had seen before, were already seated.

But…

Something was strange.

‘…Did they find the secret room?’

Clearly, if things had gone through the normal process, it would have been an absolutely impossible contract to fulfill.

So by now, they should have been frantically sending people to investigate the maze.

Or they should have declared defeat early on.

‘It was a contract with a 100% failure rate. Why do they look so relaxed?’

While he was gauging the situation.

Choi Hyun-min stepped forward.

“Please sit down. This conversation seems like it will be long.”

“…I don’t know what you’re scheming, but coming to me now asking to waive the penalty fee won’t work.”

He casually threw out those words, but Choi Hyun-min’s expression remained relaxed.

He even snorted dismissively as if it was ridiculous.

“I have no such intention, so please sit down first.”

Creak.

At those words, Park Gi-han felt an inexplicable sense of unease rushing over him.

But what could he do.

Following Choi Hyun-min’s guidance, he carefully sat down on the sofa.

“…Why did you call me here so early? Don’t tell me you’re going to say you’ve already found the secret room?”

That can’t be possible.

Park Gi-han muttered to himself inwardly as he spoke.

At his words, the corners of Choi Hyun-min’s mouth twitched.

It was probably meant to be a smile.

But his eyes weren’t smiling at all, with only the corners of his mouth raised high, making it eerily grotesque.

“What do you think?”

“Well… It’s been less than a full day, so I don’t think you could have found it already. Aren’t you going to suggest modifying the contract terms or something?”

Unless Choi Hyun-min had really found the secret room.

According to the contract, Ridim Guild and Park Gi-han were still the dominant party.

So speaking so arrogantly like that was unforgivable-

“I’ll ask you directly. You’re hiding something about the secret room, aren’t you?”

“…W-wait. What do you mean by that.”

“If that weren’t the case, you wouldn’t have mentioned 10 times compensation while hoping for our failure.”

Ah, so that was why?

In the end, it meant they couldn’t fulfill the contract.

Relieved by those words, Park Gi-han.

He chuckled and waved his hand dismissively.

“So you arranged this meeting just to say that? But what can I do. Unfortunately, a contract is a contract. It can’t be nullified.”

Park Gi-han pointed to the watch he was wearing.

Tick tick tick.

The gold watch on his wrist glinted.

“Right now… roughly 48 hours? Is that about how much time is left? If it were me, I’d be frantically searching the maze for the secret room by now. Oh, that’s right. You haven’t awakened yet, have you?”

Park Gi-han stared at him with a sneer.

Unlike his earlier cautious demeanor.

The guy seemed to have already sensed his victory.

However.

“I think you’re misunderstanding something.”

“Excuse me?”

“I- no, our people have already discovered the secret room.”

“Wh-what did you say?!”

“When I said that earlier, I was trying to give you one last chance if you would speak honestly… As expected.”

What does this mean?

They’ve already discovered the secret room?

That’s impossible.

At those words, Park Gi-han’s pupils moved rapidly.

“That’s complete nonsense-“

“Please come out. It seems this person doesn’t understand what went wrong, just as you all said.”

Choi Hyun-min looked at him with a stern face.

He turned around and shouted toward the back.

Then.

Step. Step.

Footsteps could be heard from beyond the reception room.

Along with that, people began entering one by one.

“Master.”

“How shameless of you to call yourself Master.”

“You piece of trash.”

“How dare you try to use us as sacrifices?!”

Kim Jun-woo, Bae A-hyun, Park Jung-min, Moon Seong-jun.

Hunters belonging to Ridim Guild.

The people who had been betrayed by Park Gi-han and nearly became sacrifices for the secret room.

The moment they appeared alive and well before his eyes.

Park Gi-han’s face turned deathly pale.

“You guys… You were alive?!”

“What? Were we alive?!”

“Is that what someone who calls himself a guild master should say!!!”

These were people who definitely hadn’t returned for several days.

Why were they appearing before his eyes?

Park Gi-han’s pupils shook violently.

“This… This… You con artist bastards! You’re all in this together, aren’t you?! This is all a setup!”

Even so, he brazenly shouted at them.

At that sight, Choi Hyun-min let out a small sigh.

He spoke quietly toward Park Gi-han, almost like a murmur.

“This is my final offer. Please tell us everything you’re hiding about the secret room.”

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