Became the Transcendent Monarch of the Corner of the Room - Chapter 70
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Episode 70
“This is driving me crazy. A sudden global Quest? What the hell does this mean?!”
“I, I received it too, Team Leader!”
“Me too…”
A Quest that appeared out of nowhere.
The mysterious notification that swept through wasn’t limited to just ordinary Hunters.
Interdimensional Management Bureau.
Even in that place filled with numerous former Hunters, people who had received the Quest began appearing one after another.
“Don’t move recklessly, got it? I hope there’s no idiot who abandons their work and runs to the Maze just because they received a Quest, please!”
“For now, the higher-ups want us to guide civilian Hunters toward clearing it. Let’s focus on watching and providing support for now.”
The department had already become complete chaos.
Was it because suddenly too many Hunters had gathered on one floor?
Noisy incidents and accidents were pouring in like a flood.
“Ah, yes… We’ll dispatch personnel from our side to establish control…”
“I’m sorry. That kind of matter doesn’t seem to be something the Interdimensional Management Bureau can resolve…”
Employees processing work like machines.
Ironically, those who had become the most idle in return.
Were the employees belonging to the Awakening Management Agency who managed people.
“Other places are exploding from civil complaints, but we’re free.”
Since the Personnel Management Team’s main job was managing Hunters.
In this kind of situation, there wasn’t much for them to do.
“That’s right.”
“Still, we should do the minimum required work.”
Team Leader Lee Hyung-jun and Officer Ji Min-gi, who had slipped away and rushed to the smoking area.
The two sat on a bench and exhaled white clouds from their mouths.
Haah-
“How is it, on your end.”
“My end?”
“Manwol. Did you forget I told you to handle Manwol exclusively?”
Ah-
“Not ‘ah,’ you bastard. Contact them right now and ask if they can send their aces to the 25th Floor immediately.”
“They probably already issued a statement, right? About pushing people in there.”
“You think I don’t know that? Have you been watching these guild bastards just run their mouths for a day or two? If you don’t want to call, go check it out in person.”
Once again, haah-
For a moment, their faces became invisible to each other, hidden by cigarette smoke.
“Team Leader.”
“What.”
“About this Quest…”
“You want to go too? Write your resignation letter and will before you leave.”
“No! That’s not it, can this Quest actually be cleared?”
“It should be clearable. It’s the 25th Floor, so no matter how strong the monsters are, they’d be manageable for rankers, right?”
“That’s true but… Seeing how it came with a time limit, it feels like some kind of time bomb.”
“…”
This time he didn’t deny Ji Min-gi’s words.
Team Leader Lee Hyung-jun frowned and, thud.
Threw the cigarette he was holding to the ground and crushed it with his foot.
“It is a time bomb.”
“What?!”
“About 15 years ago, you know? The Neungsong County explosion incident in Gangwon Province.”
“Neungsong County… You mean the place where the entire region suddenly exploded and disappeared one day?”
“Back then there was a similar situation to now. I heard one of the rankers received a Quest with a time limit.”
“They failed it and…”
“Right. The entire region was blown away completely.”
At the Team Leader’s words, Ji Min-gi’s jaw dropped.
Just from failing one Quest, an entire region burned down.
“How could such a thing…”
“You know what’s even more surprising? That Quest’s reward was A-grade.”
Failing a Quest that gave an A-grade reward resulted in that level of consequence.
Then right now…
“Right now it’s EX grade though?”
“That’s why the entire Interdimensional Management Bureau has been turned upside down. They’re saying ministers and vice-ministers will all mobilize this afternoon, it’s chaos.”
“If we fail, this time…”
Officer Ji Min-gi started to imagine something in his head, then stopped.
If they failed, how far would burn and disappear?
If it’s EX grade.
Perhaps it might not end with just the Korean Peninsula-
Ji Min-gi thought so.
“We’ll die. A huge hole will be blown right through the map.”
At the Team Leader’s words, Ji Min-gi kept his mouth firmly shut.
Then, as if something suddenly occurred to him, he bolted upright.
“What’s wrong? Need to use the bathroom?”
“Team Leader.”
“What is it.”
“That… that person, you know.”
“That person?”
Swoosh swoosh.
Ji Min-gi stopped mid-sentence and urgently looked around.
Was it because of the busy situation?
Fortunately, no one else besides the two of them was visible nearby.
“That person from Manwol…”
“Ah, Choi Hyun-min?”
“Couldn’t that person clear this Quest?”
Others might not know.
But these two had already concluded that Choi Hyun-min was definitely an EX-grade Hunter.
Perhaps he could easily clear the current Quest.
“Don’t be ridiculous. That person isn’t even level 20 yet. He can’t even go up to the 25th Floor.”
“Is, is that so?”
“Don’t worry, you bastard. If all the rankers stick together, it’ll be resolved within today.”
“But what if they really can’t clear it?”
“Then? Then we’ll have to run to Choi Hyun-min’s house, get on our knees and beg. Pleading with tears and snot for him to please solve it.”
“…”
“Absolutely! I’m betting my entire career that won’t happen! Stop worrying about useless things and let’s go in. If we slack off too much, other teams will give us looks.”
“Yes…”
Until then, the two didn’t know.
How much the given 5-day time limit would make them sweat blood.
***
[The record for Labyrinth Dungeon 19th Floor has been updated.]
[The record for Labyrinth Dungeon 20th Floor has been updated.]
While the world was noisy with the global Quest.
Choi Hyun-min silently continued breaking through the Maze.
In the meantime, the inside of Manwol had become quite noisy.
Well, he was just holed up in his room.
But he couldn’t help hearing the sounds from outside.
“Call in everyone who can depart for the 25th Floor immediately!”
“You guys buy up as many consumable items and repair parts as possible.”
“First, get the equipment of those being deployed checked, got it?”
Was Manwol also jumping into the Quest?
‘Well, if it’s an EX-grade reward, it’s worth risking your life for.’
Even Choi Hyun-min, who received the Quest first, was drooling over it.
At the guild level, reacting like this was perhaps normal.
‘But something’s strange. It seems other people’s Quests are a bit different from mine.’
After the Quest appeared.
He had been going in and out of the Hunter Club.
Since it was a place with so much information, he wondered if there might be some intel.
The Quests that countless people had received.
Clearly, they were all exactly the same.
But they were slightly different from Choi Hyun-min’s, who had received the Quest first.
‘No, those people can’t see the Quest content completely, can they?’
Other people even had a time limit that he didn’t have.
120 hours meant…
In terms of days, 5 days.
‘Since I can only break through at most two floors per day… by the time I reach the 25th Floor, there’ll be about a day left.’
Should he call this fortunate?
Or should he call it regrettable?
In 4 days, there was a high possibility the Quest would be cleared before Choi Hyun-min reached the 25th Floor.
“Let’s see… Huh? Even rankers are going to the 25th Floor to do the Quest?”
The world was already full of talk about the Quest.
Even hunters whose names you’d recognize immediately.
Even hunters with single-digit rankings had rushed to the 25th Floor.
Perhaps he wouldn’t even get to see the EX-grade reward.
“That’s a shame. Still, I was the one who discovered the Quest first.”
[The record for Labyrinth Basement 21st Floor has been updated.]
[The record for Labyrinth Basement 22nd Floor has been updated.]
…
As the second day since the Quest appeared came.
And even as the third day arrived.
Choi Hyun-min’s Quest notification remained the same.
‘Strange. Has no one cleared it yet?’
He had definitely heard that even rankers were mobilized.
If even such top-tier hunters couldn’t solve it.
Just how difficult was this Quest?
“It’s already the fourth day…”
On the fourth day when Choi Hyun-min successfully climbed to the 24th Floor.
Even until then, the news and media were full of Quest stories.
Of course, not a single place among them was telling positive stories.
All assumptions about strategy failures.
And they just kept chattering among themselves about the remaining time.
“They still haven’t cleared it?”
As time passed to the fifth day.
When less than 24 hours remained.
Only then did Choi Hyun-min gain the qualification to enter the 25th Floor.
“Got it!”
To secure as much time as possible.
Choi Hyun-min had been waiting for midnight without even sleeping.
As soon as the time came, he called Dehof.
“Dehof.”
-What is it, Master?
“You’ll go up to the 25th Floor alone.”
-Why? Is there not enough soup?
“It’s not that… The 25th Floor will be very different from the places we’ve climbed so far.”
It would probably be incredibly crowded.
There might even be more people than monsters.
-What has happened?
“No, there will be a lot of other hunters.”
-Other hunters?
“Yes. Even if you bump into those people, you absolutely must not get angry or lay a hand on them. You understand what I mean, right?”
-As long as I don’t cut off their hands?
“No! No! No! I mean you can’t fight at all.”
This was worrying.
Since there was already a precedent of cutting off the hands of ten hunters when told to “lay a hand on them.”
Choi Hyun-min’s heart was nothing but anxious about sending Dehof.
‘I wonder if it’ll be okay.’
He had considered sending other Block Toys together.
But sending twenty-six more to a place crawling with hunters.
‘It would obviously just be cumbersome.’
It would obviously just increase the population density.
-Understood. I will do my best.
This was worrying.
Since there was already a precedent, his trust was about to disappear.
But what could he do?
Dehof was the strongest single entity in Choi Hyun-min’s forces.
In cases like now where numbers were limited, there was no fighter better than this guy.
-Before the soup gets cold… I’ll be back.
“Go quickly!”
The moment Dehof disappeared beyond the Maze Toys.
At the same time, the Situation Board appeared before Choi Hyun-min’s eyes.
“Huh…?”
The moment the screen was transmitted.
He froze in place.
Swarming people.
He had expected that hunters would be bustling around with no room to step…
‘Is this… really the 25th Floor?’
An incredibly massive crowd.
And the terrain visible between them…
It wasn’t the 25th Floor that Choi Hyun-min knew well.
“Is this even inside the maze to begin with?”
A pitch-black basalt floor.
And the maze walls that should have been there were nowhere to be found, replaced by a vast stone floor.
And…
A pure white snowfield that divided exactly half of it.
The 15th floor before it was completely conquered.
It was a scene reminiscent of Lennon Village’s past.
Thud.
The moment Dehof’s right foot left a footprint on the snow above.
That no one else could hear.
A message appeared that only Choi Hyun-min could hear.
[Welcome to reaching Kora’s Boundary.]
[The Quest will now begin.]
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