Became the Transcendent Monarch of the Corner of the Room - Chapter 60
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Episode 60
The first fire?
At the sudden flame that erupted, Choi Hyun-min only blinked his eyes.
‘Why…?’
It was clearly just a wooden stick when he received it through the subspace?
He wondered if it might be fake.
“Ah, hot!”
When he lightly touched it and got burned, it was definitely real fire that was hot.
Even the flickering appearance and color.
When he carefully placed it against the desk, it went out like a lie.
But as soon as he picked it up again, it blazed up instantly.
“…What the hell is this?”
After thinking for a moment, Choi Hyun-min used his appraisal skill on it.
[Wooden stick containing the first fire]
[Contains the energy of fire that drives away cold air. However, the fire energy only dwells in those who are qualified.]
“It drives away cold air?”
What does this mean…
Ah!
Come to think of it, before meeting the White Tiger.
He remembered the lord points he received when he first encountered the snowy plains.
There was definitely an Achievement completion message that mentioned something about the cold air of the snowy plains…
“…”
He quietly stared at the torch in his hand.
Could it be… is this an item related to the snowy plains?
‘Do I need to go there?’
But that place isn’t Aldea Village.
Aldea Village is a place he can travel to with just his will.
But those snowy plains are strictly somewhere inside the labyrinth.
To go there, he would have to go through the dungeon entrance and descend like ordinary Hunters.
‘Can’t I just travel there like the Block Toys do?’
Choi Hyun-min unconsciously approached the desk.
There lay the labyrinth-shaped toy that the Musket Soldiers used every time.
If he could just touch this with his hand and immediately travel to the labyrinth…
Tap.
The moment he touched the maze toy with his hand along with such idle thoughts.
[Would you like to move to the 15th Floor of the Labyrinth, Forgotten Snowfield?]
Huh…?
A message line asking him a question appeared.
At the same time, a voice with the same content echoed in his head.
A voice he’d never heard before.
It was completely different from the usual message notifications – someone else’s voice.
‘Who is it?’
Choi Hyun-min was flustered.
He instinctively gripped the maze toy tightly.
The same voice spoke to him in his head once more.
[Would you like to move to the 15th Floor of the Labyrinth, Forgotten Snowfield?]
“Ah… Yes.”
To the perfectly identical question.
Choi Hyun-min nodded with a bewildered expression.
At that moment.
Whoosh.
His vision completely changed.
-Huh? Master?
-How did you get here?
The snowy plains where the Block Toys had gone ahead.
He landed right in the middle of that place.
‘…How?’
He looked around as if he couldn’t believe it.
The Musket Soldiers and Dehof.
Even the corpse of the White Tiger that had been rampaging like crazy just moments ago.
Everything he had seen on the screen was right before his eyes.
-As expected of Master!
-He ran incredibly fast from the tower!
-Or maybe he flew here!
Was it a coincidence?
Yeah, it must be a coincidence.
Since he could enter and leave Aldea without any restrictions in the first place.
It might be something similar to that.
Choi Hyun-min muttered to himself.
-But why did you come here?
-Master is hungry too! So he came to give us soup!
-Soup? I was just getting hungry!
“No, it’s not because of soup…”
The Block Toys misunderstood on their own and rushed toward him.
Choi Hyun-min barely managed to push them away and looked at his body.
Still in the pajamas he was wearing.
Exactly the same appearance as in his room.
The only difference was…
‘The torch.’
He was still holding the wooden stick with fire on it.
Flicker.
Despite the bitter cold that made his mind dizzy, the torch showed no signs of going out.
Rather, even though the wind was blowing, it burned fiercely as if doused with oil.
[The cold air of the snowy plains is waiting for your fire.]
And a voice heard through that wind.
This time it was the same voice as before.
The difference from before was.
‘Is it from over there?’
It wasn’t heard in his head.
It was a voice coming from across the snowy plains.
Crunch. Crunch.
-Huh? Master, where are you going?
-Are you going to eat soup by yourself?
Leaving the Block Toys behind.
Choi Hyun-min walked slowly as if enchanted by something.
‘I definitely think I heard a voice from over there.’
Without shoes or even socks.
He walked across the pure white snowfield.
It should have been cold enough to be painful.
Was it because of the torch he was holding?
He felt no trace of cold or chill.
How many steps had he taken after leaving the toys behind?
When their figures had shrunk to tiny dots in the distance.
Stop.
Choi Hyun-min halted his steps.
“This is….”
Ice?
Pure white snow.
On top of it stood an ice sculpture, planted firmly in place.
Shaped like a person.
No, this wasn’t a sculpture….
“It’s a person, isn’t it?”
A person standing upright at attention.
Frozen in that exact position, unable to move within the transparent ice.
“Excuse me?”
He tried calling out just in case, but received no response.
It didn’t seem to be a living person to begin with.
Abnormally pale white skin and a bloodless face.
‘Maybe someone who lived here a very long time ago.’
If so, they would already be dead.
Choi Hyun-min looked at him with a strange expression.
He lightly tapped the man’s shoulder with the torch he was holding.
“I wonder if I should bury him somewhere.”
Then.
Crack.
A large fissure suddenly appeared in the shoulder area that had been perfectly fine.
“Wh-what?!”
Did I break it?
He stepped back in confusion.
But that was only the beginning.
Whoosh—
He had definitely only tapped lightly.
The torch he was holding.
The flame attached to it was sucked toward the man as if being absorbed.
Crack. Crackle.
At the same time, the fractures began to accelerate.
There had definitely been only one large crack in the shoulder.
But they spread throughout his entire body.
Crash!
With a loud noise, it all came crumbling down.
Cough! Cough!
“What? You were alive?!”
The man collapsed to the ground as soon as he escaped from his ice prison.
He remained in that prone position, coughing violently for quite a while.
“Are you okay?”
As he coughed as if he might die at any moment, Choi Hyun-min asked cautiously.
The man waved his hand while still coughing.
—Cough! I’m f-fine…. Cough! Other people…. Cough!
“Other people?”
Other people….
Don’t tell me there are others here besides this person?
—Master! There’s a person here!
—Found one here too!
—You need to come quickly!
While he was confused.
The voices of Block Toys could be heard from various places.
When he ran over to look, someone else was frozen solid there as well.
‘This person too?’
Having had the previous experience.
Choi Hyun-min carefully brought the torch close.
Then the ice broke in the same way, and the person inside popped out.
One by one, like that.
He began rescuing the people trapped in the snowfield.
“Got it, wait just a moment. I’ll be right there.”
“Let me rescue this person here first and then I’ll come over.”
“I’m coming! Just wait!”
How many had he rescued?
When the Block Toys found people.
He repeatedly ran to where their voices came from and brought the torch.
100 times? 200 times?
It seemed like at least several hundred times.
“Are you okay?”
By the time his body was soaked with sweat and he was out of breath.
Finally, the last girl to awaken nodded her head.
—I’m fine…. Thank you….
“Are there no other people now?”
—We don’t think there are any more people we can see.
—Sniff, I couldn’t find any more either, sniff.
The Block Toys shook their heads at Choi Hyun-min’s question.
Dehof, who had approached while sniffling with tears, also shook his head.
By the way, why are you crying again?
—Thank you, truly thank you!
—Thanks to you, we saved our lives….
While briefly exchanging a few words with the toys.
The people Choi Hyun-min had rescued began gathering around one by one.
‘At least they don’t seem to be Korean.’
He hadn’t noticed well when they were trapped in ice.
But the moment hundreds of people gathered around him in one place.
Choi Hyun-min felt something familiar.
‘Come to think of it, they seem to look similar to the people of Aldea Village.’
—Oh, finally someone has appeared to rescue us….
—We’ve been waiting so long….
—Oh God….
Choi Hyun-min surrounded by hundreds of people.
He tried to leave with an embarrassed expression.
Then.
Grab.
One of them seized Choi Hyun-min’s wrist.
“Why, why are you doing that?”
Choi Hyun-min flinched in surprise.
Then one man emerged from the group and bowed his head.
-I apologize. I was in such haste that I committed a discourtesy…
Gray hair that reached down to his waist.
Ice fragments that hadn’t been cleared away yet were settled white upon it.
“More than that… Why did you suddenly stop me?”
Was there something left to discuss?
At his question, the man brushed off the ice fragments stuck in his beard.
-If it’s alright with you… Could you lend me that fire for a moment?
“You want to borrow the fire?”
-That’s right.
Completely sunken cheeks.
Hollow eyes.
But the light contained in those black pupils shining between them.
Was something that absolutely could not be refused.
“The fire won’t stay lit unless it’s me.”
This torch was not an ordinary object.
For reasons unknown.
When Choi Hyun-min let go of it, the fire would simply go out.
Even so, the man simply nodded calmly.
-That’s fine.
Well then.
Though he didn’t know what it would be used for.
Choi Hyun-min carefully handed over the torch he had been holding.
“Huh?”
It had clearly left his hands and passed to the man.
But unlike before, the torch was still burning hotly.
-….
The man who received it and stared at it silently.
Not only that, but the hundreds of people Choi Hyun-min had saved.
They too gazed at the torch as if it were some great treasure.
Then the man raised the torch high into the sky-
Thunk!
And drove it straight down into the snow-covered ground.
“Whoa?”
Then something amazing happened.
‘The snow… is melting?’
This place had clearly been a snow-covered plain.
But the moment the torch touched the ground, the snow began melting away like a lie.
That wasn’t all.
Grass and sprouts gradually emerging from the muddy ground.
Plants began growing rapidly as if their speed had been increased tens of thousands of times.
‘H-how is this happening?’
Beside it, the frozen river began to flow.
Animals that had been lying somewhere began moving one by one.
It felt like witnessing the creation of heaven and earth.
How much more time had passed like this?
The snow he had seen earlier had completely disappeared without a trace.
Instead, the 15th floor was left with only green grass and rivers.
Only vast grasslands remained.
“Wow…”
A sight that naturally drew admiration.
Choi Hyun-min couldn’t close his mouth.
It had clearly been land with nothing but snow.
Could it really change this much?
While he was admiring the surrounding scenery.
Thud.
Thud.
The people who had just been crowding around him.
They began prostrating themselves toward him.
“Why, why are you doing this?”
Being bowed to by hundreds of people.
Choi Hyun-min stepped back in confusion.
But somehow, people were prostrating behind him too.
‘W-why are these people suddenly acting like this?’
But there was no answer.
No one said anything to Choi Hyun-min.
Instead, the man standing at the very front.
The gray-haired man who had first received the torch opened his mouth while prostrated.
-We have been waiting…
“Pardon?”
-We have been waiting, O Savior.
Along with that, the system left a brief notification.
[Quest: Recovery of the Forgotten Snowfield]
[You have perfectly completed the Quest.]
[The 15th Floor of the Labyrinth has been completely conquered and will be restored.]
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