Became the Transcendent Monarch of the Corner of the Room - Chapter 3

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Episode 3

“Yawn… Of all days, I have to work the dawn shift again today.”

2 AM.

He was sure he had gotten a good night’s sleep and woken up refreshed.

But it seemed inevitable that yawns would escape him just from standing still.

Han Seung-yun, the guard watching over the dungeon entrance.

He used the long spear he was holding as a support and stretched out fully.

“Who would come to conquer a maze at this hour… Yawn- Why even post guards…”

Maze entrances scattered across the globe.

These places, which looked like ant holes leading underground, had security personnel stationed 24 hours a day.

Although they were places that only those with awakened abilities could enter.

Sometimes there were those who didn’t know their place and recklessly attempted to conquer high floors.

To prevent potential accidents, all maze entrances had people who verified the identity of players.

‘No one’s going to come at this hour anyway… Maybe I’ll catch a quick nap.’

Nod. Nod.

Just as he was standing guard at the maze entrance with half-closed eyes.

-Found it!

-That’s the maze entrance over there!

-Now that we’re about to go in, I’m scared…

-Hurry up and go in, you idiots!

He urgently opened his eyes at the sudden sound of people’s voices.

‘…Did hunters come?’

Occasionally.

Very occasionally, there were those who chose times when no one was around to conquer mazes.

Were these people that type?

The moment he raised his head thinking that.

‘What, what?!’

Han Seung-yun doubted his own eyes.

What appeared at the maze entrance wasn’t hunters but-

Primitive Humans!

And they were people wearing crudely carved wooden spears and animal hides.

“Nice to meet y…”

No, his words came out wrong.

“No, who are you people? Are, are you hunters?”

Their clothing looked suspicious at first glance.

Who would enter a life-threatening maze wearing such ridiculous outfits?

There weren’t just one or two of them either, but what looked like well over ten people.

-Ah… We’re not exactly hunters.

-We need to go in here. Is that not allowed?

“It’s not allowed! You clearly don’t even look like F-rank! If people like you want to go in without proper equipment, I can’t let you through!”

How many years had he been working as a maze entrance guard?

There was no need to even check their identity.

Couldn’t he tell just by looking at their equipment and appearance?

‘At best they’d be E-rank. Or maybe F-rank.’

Hunters who could conquer mazes.

The minimum qualification for that was F-rank.

Even then, eight or nine out of ten could barely take care of themselves.

The government strictly prohibited low-rank hunters from conquering mazes without proper preparation.

But…

These guys were strange.

Very strange indeed.

-Who are you to stop us?

-Come out here, you!

They couldn’t possibly conquer a maze with that kind of equipment.

He had blocked them out of pure concern.

But the Primitive Humans didn’t listen and pushed past his words.

-Let’s go! Brave warriors!

-Woo! Woo! Woo!

-The battlefield is where we belong!

-Woo! Woo! Woo!

The Primitive Humans raised their spears and shouted.

Before the guard could stop them, they disappeared into the maze as if being sucked in.

“…What did I just see?”

Han Seung-yun stared after the Primitive Humans with a dumbfounded expression.

He tried to block them belatedly, but the last one had already been swallowed by the maze entrance.

‘This is driving me crazy… What the hell were those guys doing?’

He had met all kinds of hunters while working here.

But this was the first time he’d seen people come in wearing such ridiculous costumes.

‘Should I report this?’

Han Seung-yun fidgeted with his phone several times.

Soon he sighed and closed his eyes slightly.

“Ah, whatever. Since so many of them went in together… they probably won’t die.”

If those guys had any thinking capacity and reason left.

They’d probably fight monsters on Labyrinth Basement 1st Floor and immediately run away.

If they had even minimal intelligence, that is.

Then the trouble wouldn’t reach Han Seung-yun.

Of course, he didn’t consider the possibility that they could conquer the maze.

Or that they could win fights against monsters.

‘Please… nothing should happen until my shift ends.’

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“Transcendent Lord’s ability?!”

After being flustered by the message notification he’d never seen before.

Choi Hyun-min tilted his head at the unfamiliar term.

‘Is this… my awakening skill?’

Originally, awakening skills were mostly abilities that enhanced the power of their owner.

That is, the hunter.

Things like maximizing physical strength.

Or amplifying magical power and enabling the use of special abilities.

Except for some crafting-type hunters, most fell within that category.

The reason Choi Hyun-min couldn’t give up sword training until now was exactly because of that…

“What is this?”

The skill he obtained was completely different from what he expected.

“Status board…?”

A large screen suddenly appeared before his eyes.

A blue hologram floated in the air.

It looked like a giant wall-mounted TV.

Inside it was…

‘Why are those guys showing up here?’

Primitive Humans.

The figures of the Primitive Humans who had been sucked into the maze toy just moments ago appeared in the hologram.

-Let’s go! Brave warriors!

-Woo! Woo! Woo!

Hans and his minions(?) were shouting loudly.

Then they rushed past the guards and charged into the blue dimensional gate.

‘W-wait a minute. That place is… isn’t that the Dungeon Entrance?!’

The primitive humans that Choi Hyun-min had fed.

Their figures were appearing vividly as if he were watching CCTV.

[Your creations are entering Labyrinth Basement 1st Floor.]

A message appeared simultaneously.

He was startled by the unfamiliar voice for a moment.

But he couldn’t close his mouth at what was happening on the screen.

‘That’s… a goblin!’

Kyaaaak!

The representative monster that appeared on the 1st floor of the maze, goblins.

They were short monsters with green skin.

Although they appeared on the 1st floor, they weren’t monsters with particularly strong combat power.

But they were one of the very threatening existences to beginners conquering the maze.

‘They look dangerous. Will they be okay?’

Although there were many of them, the primitive humans were literally toy figures.

On the other hand, goblins were beings that could kill even official Hunters in battle.

Even though they had numbers, could they win?

While he was blankly watching the screen.

The voices of the primitive humans began to be heard from the screen.

-Is this the maze?

-That’s right. Master wanted to enter here!

-That’s nonsense! Coming here is dangerous! We must prevent him from coming!

-Let’s sweep away all the monsters instead! Then Master won’t need to come here directly!

-You’re the smartest!

The primitive humans were whispering among themselves.

Soon they nodded their heads and began surrounding the goblin with sinister smiles.

Kya, kyaak?

Clearly the attacker was the goblin.

The victims should have been the primitive humans.

-Hehehe, you’re finished now.

-Where are you going to run?

-You look delicious!

The goblin was instantly surrounded by a dozen primitive humans.

In this situation it had never experienced before, it rolled its bead-like eyes around.

Kyaak… kyek…

-Woo! Woo! Woo!

-Kill it! Fight for Master!

-For Master who gave us food!

-For the meat Master gave us… no, for Master!

Did it sense an ominous aura?

The goblin raised the dagger it was holding and took a threatening stance.

However.

“Huh?”

The situation flowed in a completely different direction from Choi Hyun-min’s expectations.

-Hyaaaaat!

The primitive humans surrounding the goblin.

One of them seemed to charge toward the monster-

Paaat!

He thrust his wooden spear straight at it.

A sharp strike.

The spear tip that shot out in an instant touched the goblin’s back without any hesitation.

And then.

Puook-

Kwiiiik!

‘One… hit…!’

This can’t be!

Choi Hyun-min gaped at the goblin falling forward with a thud.

The goblin in one hit?

Even though he saw it with his own eyes.

He shook his head as if he couldn’t believe it.

The goblin is the monster that all Hunters face when they first conquer a maze.

Naturally, there’s no Hunter who hasn’t encountered a goblin.

But among them, there wasn’t a single Hunter who had taken down a goblin in one hit from the start.

-What, that’s nothing special?

-Aw. I wanted to try too.

-Why are you being stingy and doing it alone?

-Me too! I should try it too.

The guys were bickering over killing the goblin.

Hans, who was watching them, opened his mouth with a solemn voice.

-Idiots.

-Huh? No, Boss! That guy took the goblin I had dibs on first…

-If you don’t want to share monsters, just catch and kill more of them!

…Is that how they solve it?

It was clearly almost nonsensical talk.

But at Hans’s words, the primitive humans nodded as if they had heard a great solution.

And then-

-Woo! Woo! Woo!

-This time I’ll kill first!

-No! I’m first!

-Woo! Woo! I’ll just kill them all!

As if planned, they scattered in all directions simultaneously.

-Found one!

Kyaaaak?

-Got one!

Puook!

-Here too!

Puook!

-I found one too!

The primitive humans scattered everywhere.

They literally began exterminating the goblins inside the maze.

The maze, a space where monsters are infinitely generated.

Surely it should be crawling with monsters since it wasn’t a time when many Hunters were active.

-It’s mine!

-Hmph, I got here first!

Kyaak…

Puak!

Primitive Humans competing with each other as they rushed to hunt down the goblins.

With a single thrust of their spears, the creatures would vanish without even managing to let out a proper scream.

It was complete devastation.

They had hunted the monsters of an entire floor to the point of extinction.

‘Th-this is…’

The Primitive Humans unilaterally massacring the monsters.

And Choi Hyun-min, who had been watching this scene from beginning to end.

He stared at the situation on the screen with a dumbfounded expression.

‘This is… my ability?’

How much time had passed?

5 minutes? 10 minutes?

In such a short time that other Hunters would have managed to hunt at most four or five goblins.

The number of goblins those Primitive Humans had killed already far exceeded several hundred that Choi Hyun-min had personally counted.

‘This is the power of the Transcendent Lord…’

Even when he first awakened, he had been skeptical about his ability.

Why his ability was [Transcendent Lord].

Why he received such an absurdly high grade as EX rank.

Now he felt like he could understand it a little.

As he stared blankly at the screen, lost in thought.

[Your creations wish to return. Will you permit it?]

A new message appeared before his eyes.

At those words, Choi Hyun-min unconsciously nodded his head.

“If they want to come back, well… by all means.”

It wasn’t like he had intentionally thrown them into the Maze in the first place.

This had been more than enough as a testing ground for them.

As he waited for the Primitive Humans to return.

[Your creations have returned.]

[Maze conquest complete. Calculating obtained spoils of war.]

A new message appeared.

Along with it, a shadow fell over Choi Hyun-min’s head.

Huh?

Wait, this is My Room though?

The moment he looked up after receiving the message.

“What is this… Ugh, aaaahhh!”

Thud.

Thud thud thud thud thud.

Goblin hides that the Primitive Humans had obtained as spoils of war in the Maze.

Hundreds of heavy hides began pouring down onto his head.

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