Became the Transcendent Monarch of the Corner of the Room - Chapter 43

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Episode 43

 

-It’s finally opening!

 

-Even though they’ve been a bit quiet lately, Manwol is still Manwol. A 10 billion won raid.

 

-Wow… Damn… I don’t know who’ll take down the boss, but I’m jealous…

 

-If a guild of that scale put in 10 billion, they must be able to get more than that in rewards, right?

 

-At least 20 billion! If it wasn’t that much, there’d be no reason for five guilds to team up for a raid.

 

A joint raid led by Manwol.

 

This raid, combining the forces of five guilds total, was receiving unprecedented attention from hunters.

 

The material costs alone for summoning the boss monster were about 10 billion won.

 

The probability of failure.

 

And the danger of the raid on top of that.

 

It was something major guilds rarely did these days.

 

But Korea’s top guild, Manwol, planned a large-scale raid?

 

If you’re a hunter.

 

No, if you’re human, wouldn’t this naturally draw your attention?

 

-This is crazy… Even the terrestrial broadcasters showed up.

 

-How many cameras are there…

 

-Looks like there are over 50 drone cameras?

 

-Looks like there are more reporters than hunters gathered here ㄷㄷ

 

Even Korea’s major media outlets were focusing on the results of this raid!

 

It was truly a matter of utmost interest.

 

And at the very center of it all.

 

There was Choi Seung-hyun, the Master of Manwol.

 

‘…Cheongnok, these damn bastards.’

 

The spacious training ground.

 

Standing in the middle of it, Chairman Choi faced countless cameras.

 

He held up the key item for all to see.

 

A purple gemstone key.

 

The key, about two finger joints long, sparkled in the sunlight.

 

“In 30 seconds from now, I will open the gate!”

 

Click. Click. Click.

 

The incessant sound of shutters.

 

Though his face captured by the camera lenses was certainly calm and expressionless.

 

Inside, he was boiling like an active volcano.

 

‘Boycotting the day before the raid? These bastards… Are they planning to ruin everything?!’

 

He had thought the preparations were perfect.

 

Unlike the other guilds that had finished their raid preparations long ago.

 

Cheongnok’s personnel, who were supposed to send thirty people, numbered only two.

 

And even Baek Sang-hyeon, who could be called the core of cores.

 

He had his right arm crudely wrapped in bandages.

 

‘That bastard was perfectly fine until the day before yesterday…!’

 

Grind.

 

Whose orders was he following?

 

Or did he have complaints about Manwol?

 

He couldn’t confirm it now, but.

 

He would definitely find out the reason and make them pay for their crimes.

 

Choi Seung-hyun made that vow to himself.

 

“Then… From now on…”

 

Though rage was boiling inside him.

 

The Master maintained a calm expression as he raised the purple key.

 

People’s gazes.

 

And the camera focus all turned to his right hand at once.

 

“I will open the gate!”

 

The key raised high toward the sky.

 

After Choi Seung-hyun injected mana into it, he poked the air as if marking a point.

 

At that moment.

 

Boom!

 

With a dull impact sound, space distorted.

 

A massive gate rippling with purple light revealed itself.

 

“It’s open!”

 

“The raid begins!”

 

“Hurry! What are you doing not departing immediately!”

 

The gate that rose like a triumphal arch.

 

The moment they saw it, the waiting hunters rushed into it without hesitation.

 

Dozens of hunters disappearing from sight in an instant.

 

Not only Manwol’s people.

 

But also people from Heukpung, Radiant, and Veil.

 

They all rushed forward as if they had never been standing guard.

 

The only one not moving while everyone ran toward the gate was.

 

“….”

 

Baek Sang-hyeon, with a cast on his arm and wearing a bitter smile.

 

Just one person.

 

“Drone! Send the drone quickly!”

 

“Will three be enough? That broadcasting company over there already launched five!”

 

“Us too! Hurry, let’s launch ours too!”

 

Right after the hunters entered.

 

The broadcasting companies also became busy.

 

Though non-players were forbidden from entering.

 

Drones that went through special manufacturing processes could pass through gates.

 

So the broadcasting stations launched dozens of drones to begin live coverage of their raid.

 

-Ah! While the hunters entered incredibly quickly, our filming drones are also being deployed one after another!

 

-Indeed, which guild will be able to obtain the kill reward in this raid!

 

The voices of the broadcasting station announcers echoed throughout the training ground.

 

Along with the massive screen prepared in advance.

 

The moment the field inside the gate was displayed on it.

 

“….”

 

“….”

 

The expressions of people who had been watching comfortably hardened.

 

Choi Seung-hyun was the same.

 

He had been having an ominous feeling from the start of the raid.

 

The field displayed on the screen.

 

And the hunters.

 

The moment he saw them, he bit his lips tightly.

 

-Ah… Will this be okay?

 

-Chairman Choi, the organizer, doesn’t look good.

 

The camera lens captured Chairman Choi’s distorted face.

 

Perhaps because of that.

 

Not only the personnel from guilds that weren’t deployed.

 

But even the faces of officials including the filming crew became serious.

 

“Hehe, idiots… See… I knew this would happen…”

 

Was something wrong?

 

While everyone waited fearfully for Chairman Choi’s instructions.

 

Only Baek Sang-hyeon-

 

He alone covered his mouth with one hand, chuckling quietly.

 

***

 

KBC, the nation’s largest broadcasting company.

 

They had been putting all their efforts into covering Manwol’s raid since morning.

 

“Good morning, Hunter An Seung-woon.”

 

“Nice to meet you, Announcer Kim Jung-soo.”

 

Not only did they deploy their top-tier announcer for ratings.

 

They also invited a top 100 ranked Hunter to sit beside the massive table, having him handle commentary for this raid.

 

“This time, a boss monster raid has been planned under Manwol’s leadership.”

 

“That’s right. And I heard that 5 Guilds spent an astronomical amount of 10 billion won on it.”

 

“I’m not a Hunter so I don’t know well, but is there a relationship between the cost and the raid’s quality?”

 

“Of course! Do you see that key over there?”

 

The clueless announcer.

 

At Kim Jung-soo’s question, An Seung-woon’s bottom shifted restlessly on his chair.

 

“The key… Are you referring to that key Chairman Choi Seung-hyun of Manwol is holding?”

 

“Yes, that’s right. That key isn’t something you can just obtain casually – it’s made by combining various materials.”

 

“For instance?”

 

“At minimum, magic stones worth billions and materials that only drop from special boss monsters. And they would have commissioned top-level craftsmen to create that.”

 

Unlike Kim Jung-soo, who was a civilian.

 

Could he tell its value just by looking?

 

An Seung-woon repeatedly clenched and unclenched his fists, as if he wanted to rush over and snatch the key right away.

 

“Ah, just as I’m speaking! Chairman Choi Seung-hyun has opened the Gate!”

 

“From now on, we’ll be providing realistic coverage of the situation inside and outside the Gate using our specially dispatched reporters and unmanned filming drones!”

 

The two people raising their voices with enthusiasm.

 

Then they paused.

 

The moment the scene inside the Gate was broadcast live.

 

One of them-

 

That is, Hunter An Seung-woon suddenly clamped his mouth shut.

 

“The field has finally opened, how do you see it, Hunter? No one could have known until the Gate was opened, but randomly… Hunter?”

 

“…”

 

“Hunter?”

 

“Ah… I’m sorry…”

 

Had he forgotten this was a broadcast?

 

An Seung-woon, who had been staring blankly at the screen, let out a deep sigh.

 

There was no boss monster on the screen.

 

No magnificent natural environment or field either.

 

What lay there was a maze connected by towering gray walls, sitting there brazenly.

 

And at an impossibly massive size too.

 

“This is… the worst.”

 

“The worst?”

 

“That’s right. Do you know that when a Gate opens, the terrain and monsters that appear are all randomly assigned?”

 

“Y-yes! I heard that’s not something humans can decide.”

 

“Plains could appear, or mountainous terrain could appear, but… I’ve never seen such an absurd form of field in my entire life.”

 

“Even Hunter An Seung-woon, who’s ranked 100th, is seeing this for the first time?!”

 

Announcer Kim Jung-soo’s eyes widened at the Hunter’s bombshell statement.

 

In contrast, An Seung-woon shook his head vigorously.

 

“This… seems like it’s going to be difficult.”

 

“Wh-what do you mean? The raid has just started and you’re already saying such things-”

 

[An Abnormal Dimension XII raid has begun somewhere.]

 

[Time Limit: 1 hour 30 minutes]

 

The announcer who was trying to provide heated commentary.

 

He froze solid at the system notification that was deeply imprinted in his mind.

 

“You saw it too, didn’t you, Announcer?”

 

“The… time limit is… an hour and a half…”

 

“This is a… very malicious case.”

 

“Usually raids take at least three hours, and up to five or six hours at most… But the system has presented an absurdly short time!”

 

“That’s not the problem right now. Can the unmanned drone at the scene rise to the maximum altitude possible?”

 

Whirrrr-

 

At Hunter An Seung-woon’s instruction, the filming drone that was transmitting the screen rose high.

 

From human height upward, and further up.

 

After climbing for a while, when the deployed Hunters looked as small as pinky fingernails.

 

The drone stopped in mid-air.

 

“Can you see it now, the entire field?”

 

Then the view inside the Gate filled the screen.

 

An impossibly massive Gray Maze filled the screen completely.

 

And in an incredibly complex form too.

 

“Ah…”

 

“We can understand the situation because we’re watching comfortably from outside with a drone. But the Hunters inside are probably wasting time trying to find their way right now.”

 

“That’s certainly true…”

 

“Moreover, if the boss monster is right there in the center, smack in the middle of the maze, it’ll probably take hours just to find it.”

 

The moment pessimistic words flowed from the experienced Hunter’s mouth.

 

The atmosphere in the broadcasting station became gloomy as well.

 

They had spent enormous costs to bring in filming crews and professional commentators.

 

But instead of capturing footage of rookie Hunters fighting magnificently.

 

They had to broadcast an hour and a half of them stupidly wandering around lost in a maze.

 

“Ah… This raid will probably be difficult to succeed…”

 

“Hunter An Seung-woon. Making such definitive statements already is a bit…”

 

“Didn’t you already see it? Finding the path is one thing, but there in the center. You can see the boss monster, can’t you?”

 

“Uh… I can see an incredibly hideous-looking Troll…”

 

At the announcer’s words, An Seung-woon, unable to bear it anymore, shot up from his seat.

 

“H-Hunter?”

 

Then he ran toward the screen and pointed at the center.

 

“Here, here. This guy isn’t just any Troll. It’s boss monster class. And it’s a Brutal Chief Troll, the highest tier species!”

 

“A Brutal Chief Troll means…”

 

“It has superior regenerative abilities compared to any other monster… From the Hunters’ perspective, it’s the worst boss monster.”

 

A monster that regrows its arm within a minute if you cut it off.

 

If you slice its flesh, new flesh grows within 10 seconds.

 

The moment that creature’s form appeared on screen.

 

Ah-

 

The broadcasting station staff forgot they were filming and let out deep sighs.

 

“Even if we brought the Hunters right in front of it right now, clearing it within 1 hour 30 minutes would be impossible.”

 

“That can’t be…!”

 

“Moreover, I heard that the five guilds including Manwol agreed not to have top-tier rankers intervene, for the sake of nurturing junior members.”

 

“In that case…”

 

“It’s over. Literally over.”

 

On a public broadcast that countless people were watching.

 

Had an experienced ranker ever given such definitively negative opinions before?

 

The word “end” spread across the nation through the microphone placed in front of him.

 

And at that moment.

 

[Abnormal Dimension XII Raid has been completed.]

 

[Clearing Guild: Manwol]

 

[Rewards will be given to the first killer and the Hunter who opened the Gate.]

 

“What… did you say?”

 

“Just now this… What is this?”

 

A message that no one had expected appeared.

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