Became the Transcendent Monarch of the Corner of the Room - Chapter 65
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Episode 65
“So this is the 16th floor.”
Hunter Ji Seung-yun.
He was originally one of the hunters who had been stuck on the 14th floor of the labyrinth.
But a few days ago, the 15th floor was suddenly completely conquered.
From then on, he was able to go straight up to the 16th floor.
“It seems I’m not the only one like this here.”
The 16th floor of the labyrinth, which he had come down to for the first time in his life.
That place was much more crowded than any other floor of the usual labyrinth.
“Well, I suppose there aren’t just one or two people like me who were blocked on the 14th floor and finally had a breakthrough this time.”
Because of that, the key to defeating the boss of the 16th floor.
Its supply was also becoming extremely difficult.
Moreover, the real problem was something else.
“You bastards. Who told you to hunt monsters here?”
“Our Phoenix Union has been holding this spot since before you guys came over!”
“Doesn’t this make sense?! Damn it, if you want to hunt here, you should pay a usage fee, a usage fee!”
It was the tyranny of the Phoenix Union.
Of course, their antics weren’t something that started just yesterday.
But as people suddenly flocked to one floor, their crazy behavior inevitably drew a lot of complaints.
“Crazy bastards. Do they think the labyrinth belongs to them…”
“Exactly. They should know when to stop. Even without that, people are crowding the 16th floor so we can’t even see any monsters.”
“Where would we get money to pay those bastards? We don’t even have enough to eat and survive.”
Though complaints grew louder.
No one thought to fight back against them.
Behind them stood the giant called the Phoenix Union.
The moment you got into trouble with even one of them.
You might have to give up your hunter life altogether.
Their influence was that absolute.
“Damn it. Today’s hunt was a bust.”
“You too? Ah, damn bastards.”
The other hunters were the same.
Whether they heard Ji Seung-yun’s muttering, hunters began gathering around him one by one.
Glare.
“What, you bastards.”
“What are you looking at. If you want to hunt, pay up!”
Though quite a number of hunters had gathered.
They couldn’t budge under the glares shot by the Phoenix Union hunters.
And for good reason.
“Those guys look like they’re at least level 30.”
“That’s right, isn’t it?”
“If someone went down past the 30th floor… even if all of us attacked that one guy, it wouldn’t work…”
An overwhelming difference in power.
Just because they were all hunters didn’t mean their combat abilities were equal.
Especially since level was a symbol of labyrinth conquest.
The gap between those guys and the controlled hunters.
Would be more than the difference between humans and ants.
“Hey, hey! There! You’re new to the 16th floor?”
“If you’re new, pay the usage fee first! We were here first.”
The hunters were cornered to one side as if quarantined.
While they were grumbling.
The Phoenix Union hunters found new prey.
“Another poor person got caught.”
At Ji Seung-yun’s muttering.
The hunters beside him all looked across in unison.
“That’s right.”
“That person is even alone.”
A bald man who wasn’t even properly wearing armor.
In his right hand, he held a yellowish axe as big as his body.
“He doesn’t seem to have much either.”
“That’s right. He’s not even wearing proper armor.”
“That person doesn’t look like he has money to pay usage fees or whatever…”
The hunters had a gut feeling.
That man holding that ridiculously large axe would also.
End up standing next to them lamenting his situation.
-Usage fee? Was there such a thing in the labyrinth?
“Of course. Don’t you know about spot fees? If someone was here first, you need permission to use it. Whose spot do you think this is.”
-Whose spot was it?
“Our spot! Hey, don’t you know the Phoenix Union? Huh?!”
-I’m not sure what that is. But I need to go up to the 17th floor for now. I’ll hunt for a bit.
There was no way a hunter wouldn’t have heard of the Phoenix Union.
Was that bald man acting stupid?
Or did he think he could get away with playing dumb?
He ignored the Phoenix hunters and tried to hunt monsters.
“What’s with this guy.”
“He’s crazy. Can’t he see us?”
“Hey, mister. Let’s resolve this nicely. Your life is more important than a few coins, isn’t it? Huh?”
-I don’t have human money.
“Haa- This bastard. He’s one who won’t listen to words.”
Had the conflict properly started?
The Phoenix hunters who were managing other areas.
They also began gathering one by one.
The bald man was instantly surrounded by more than ten people.
“He’s screwed.”
“This… That person’s going to lose an arm, isn’t he?”
“Shouldn’t we stop this?”
“If we do that, we’ll get dragged into it and marked too?”
Ji Seung-yun and the other hunters knew how this fight would end.
But they couldn’t rashly try to stop it.
Outside the labyrinth would be one thing.
Inside the labyrinth was a place that was practically extraterritorial.
Might makes right, and fists make the rules-
“Oh!”
“The Phoenix guys. They’re finally doing crazy shit again.”
A Phoenix Union hunter who was furious.
One of them swung his sword at the bald man.
A precise strike aimed at the right shoulder.
Clang!
Fortunately, the attack was blocked by the axe the man lifted up.
“This bastard?”
Clang! Clang!
It was clearly a defensive action.
But to the Firebird Union Hunters, it must have looked like an act of defiance.
Over ten Hunters simultaneously drew their swords.
However, the bald man’s face remained calm.
-May I move now?
He just muttered as if talking to someone while staring into empty space.
Perhaps that looked like he was ignoring them.
The Phoenix Hunters’ faces turned red with anger at the sight.
“This won’t do. Fuck, even if I get a warning today, I’m going to mess you up.”
“Get him!!”
At the signal, the Hunters rushed toward the bald man.
Even then, the bald man continued his conversation with empty space with a blank expression.
-Just go easy on their hands… I understand. I’ll do that.
He nodded at nothing as if he understood, then.
Pop!
He disappeared completely.
“What, what?! Where did this bastard go?”
“He was just here a moment ago?”
The bald man vanished like a lie.
He disappeared from sight without a trace or sound, as if erased.
And when he reappeared-
“Aaahhh!”
It was behind the Phoenix Hunters.
The moment someone’s scream was heard, they all turned around in unison.
There, one Hunter was screaming with his right hand severed.
-You said to go easy on their hands… so I’ll go easy on their hands.
“Cra, crazy! When did you get there…”
The Hunters frantically tried to regain their stance.
At that moment, the bald man seemed to leap forward.
“Aaahhh!”
He swung his axe down, striking another guy’s right hand.
Blood spurted up like a fountain.
The Hunter’s right hand that had been gripping the sword.
Fell limply like a dead squid.
“Kill him! Kill that bastard!”
Two men down in an instant.
The leader Hunter desperately shouted.
But the remaining Hunters didn’t respond.
No, they couldn’t.
‘Damn it! Why is he so fast?!’
When they tried to swing their swords, he immediately disappeared from sight.
Then somehow appeared behind another guy and cut off his hand.
And with that ridiculously large axe too.
They were clearly watching with both eyes wide open.
The moment golden light flashed before their eyes.
A comrade’s wrist went flying.
That was the only sight these level 30+ Hunters could see.
“Ugh!”
“My hand! Fuck, my haaand!”
“Aaahhh!”
Moreover, while wielding such a brutish axe, how precise he was.
It could have easily gone off target.
But the Bald Warrior was cutting off exactly the right wrists.
Watching him sever hands in less than a minute.
The Hunters observing had this thought.
Should this even be called a fight?
This was more like acrobatics.
The Bald Warrior’s martial prowess was that overwhelming.
“This is insane…”
“Is it even possible to move like that with such a brutish axe…”
“Wow… shit… is that even human?”
“I didn’t blink once but I can’t follow that person…”
“Me neither… he’s so fast I can’t even tell where he’s going…”
When those guys were berating the Bald Warrior.
It was embarrassing how much they had worried about that man.
“Isn’t that… a Mage Hunter? It looks like he’s moving with spatial magic or something…”
“No way. If he was really a mage, he would have burned them all instead of using that axe.”
“He’s definitely crazy. Those Phoenix guys all look like they’re over level 30… and he’s chopping up their wrists like nothing.”
The man who severed ten wrists in the blink of an eye.
He muttered to himself with an awkward expression.
-Ah… going easy on hands didn’t mean just cutting off wrists? Sorry. Did I misunderstand?
Then he turned-
“Eek!”
He turned his head toward where Ji Seung-yun and the other Hunters were.
-I need to hunt briefly to get a key. Are you folks planning to charge a usage fee too?
“What?! No! Not at all!”
“We, we’re not with those people!”
“Please, please hunt as much as you want! Yes, yes…!”
At the question of whether they were with the Phoenix Union.
The Hunters frantically waved their hands.
If they said anything that could cause a misunderstanding.
They had seen all too clearly what would happen.
They had no choice but to wave their hands desperately.
‘If I jokingly said yes, I’d end up just like those Phoenix guys.’
Just watching made their wrists ache.
Whether he knew their inner thoughts or not.
The Bald Warrior smiled and bowed silently toward them.
-Thank you. If that were the case, it might have gotten a bit troublesome.
Troublesome.
Facing ten level 30+ Hunters and calling it troublesome.
It was spine-chilling just to hear.
While the spectating Hunters stared at him with dumbfounded faces.
The Bald Warrior’s real hunt began.
To be precise-
“This isn’t hunting, it’s a massacre.”
It might be more appropriate to call it one-sided slaughter.
One axe strike toward a fiercely charging Troll.
When he lightly swung that heavy axe with just his right hand.
Thunk.
That massive Troll’s head was severed like a toothpick.
All of that took 2 seconds.
Maybe it could have been even faster.
In the brief moment it takes to rub your eyes, he had already severed the necks of two or three monsters.
In less than a minute.
He had single-handedly massacred dozens of monsters.
“That person… He’s a ranker, right?”
“Come to think of it, I feel like I’ve seen him somewhere before…”
“Right. I’m sure this is my first time seeing him. But why does he look so familiar?”
While the Hunters exchanged a few words like that.
The Bald Warrior finished his hunt and entered the Special Room by himself.
“It takes me at least ten minutes just to deal with one Troll…”
“Just how many did he kill?”
“He must be at least level 50, right? Otherwise, how could it be possible to slice through Trolls that easily?”
Just who was he to toy with the Phoenix Guys so easily.
And on top of that, to be able to unilaterally slaughter monsters like that.
The Hunters stared at the Bald Warrior’s retreating figure with dumbfounded faces.
They watched as the Bald Warrior came back out of the Special Room-
The moment they made direct eye contact with him.
“I, I figured it out!”
“What are you talking about?”
“That, that person! I figured out where I saw him!”
One of the Hunters shouted as if he had realized something.
Along with that single cry.
The Hunters on the 16th Floor.
No, all Hunters in Korea simultaneously received the same message.
[The record for the 16th Floor of the Labyrinth has been broken.]
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