Became the Transcendent Monarch of the Corner of the Room - Chapter 72
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Episode 72
Dehof jumps to the left with only 2 seconds remaining.
A few of them noticed and followed his movement.
Right after that, the voice was heard again.
[Time’s up.]
Fortunately, blue light burst forth from the stone tablet they had moved to at the last moment.
‘I was right!’
[Those who selected the wrong answer, please leave this place immediately.]
The second elimination.
There had only been two missions so far.
Yet the number of Hunters was disappearing as quickly as a receding tide.
Now it was possible to count them with the naked eye.
‘Let me see… At this rate… maybe around 40 or 50 people.’
The second mission’s eliminated participants were more compliant than before.
Of course, there was still about one person grumbling this time too.
“Argh!!!”
Only after losing an arm instead of their head.
Did they quickly accept it and leave the maze.
The people who remained.
While all of them were breathing sighs of relief at their luck and quick reflexes.
Choi Hyun-min beyond the screen was captivated by an inexplicable thrill.
‘I was right! This was the correct answer!’
At first he had been half-doubtful.
The unknown word written on the pendant.
That was indeed the correct answer!
‘Clockwise from the top! The written characters are the answer!’
The unknown characters engraved on the back of the pendant.
Those letters were appearing as the correct answers on the stone tablets.
Then the third question would be…
[Please select the third character to be used.]
This time he was confident.
Choi Hyun-min informed Dehof inside the maze of the correct answer.
Glance.
Then one of the men standing nearby stole a look at Dehof.
As if they had conspired, he moved together with him.
The other people scattered in different directions.
On the very first stone tablet.
Only Dehof and the man who had followed him.
Just the two of them stood there alone.
[20 seconds remaining.]
This time, since he had deduced the correct answer quite quickly, there was some time left.
Dehof naturally looked at the man across from him.
Choi Hyun-min’s screen also turned in that direction.
‘…Somehow he seems like someone I’ve seen somewhere before.’
Since Choi Hyun-min had been in his room for 10 years.
There was no way he could know who that man was.
Yet Choi Hyun-min somehow thought he had seen him before…
“Ah! That, that person! That’s Park Dae-yun!”
Park Dae-yun, the 9th ranked Hunter.
A genius with the sword and an unprecedented talent who had once reached 3rd place.
Now his hair had turned somewhat gray due to his considerable age.
But in the past, he had been quite famous as a handsome Hunter too.
‘Did this person come here too? Because of the EX grade reward?’
Rank 9 meant he was among the highest tier of rankers.
For even such a person to come here.
He could now understand how much Hunters were coveting this place.
[10 seconds remaining.]
The countdown gradually decreasing.
When Dehof’s gaze turned toward Park Dae-yun.
Did he feel the gaze?
He too looked this way and met their eyes.
Grin.
‘Hmm?’
Did he know something?
Park Dae-yun smiled slightly instead of saying anything.
Before his smile could even fade.
[Time’s up.]
The third correct answer was revealed.
“I was right. As expected… this was the correct answer.”
This time too, Choi Hyun-min was correct.
The stone tablet below where Dehof was standing emitted a blue light.
Park Dae-yun quietly watched this scene.
He slightly nodded his head toward Choi Hyun-min-
No, toward Dehof.
“Thank you.”
What did he mean?
Could it be that he could hear the conversation between me and Dehof?
“Somehow I had a feeling you knew the correct answer, so I followed you… It seems I was definitely right.”
-You followed me?
“That’s right. Thanks to you, I somehow managed to save my life.”
That wasn’t it.
Thank goodness.
He let out a small sigh and patted his chest in relief.
‘I thought he could hear us.’
He had wondered if Park Dae-yun had noticed Choi Hyun-min’s presence on the other side of the maze.
Fortunately, that didn’t seem to be the case.
More importantly, ranker Park Dae-yun.
Choi Hyun-min unconsciously turned his head to look at one wall.
The wall covered with posters of rankers.
Among the pictures with various people gathered, Park Dae-yun’s figure was also there.
“Dehof. No matter what anyone says, you can’t say anything. You must only follow exactly what I tell you to do. Understand?”
-I understand.
After the third group of eliminated participants disappeared.
What remained in this vast land were just two people.
He could feel the gazes of several Hunters glaring at Dehof and Park Dae-yun.
“You’re quite a stiff-spoken fellow. More than that… your outfit is quite unusual. May I ask which guild you belong to?”
Had he gained some leisure now that people had disappeared?
Or was it pure curiosity?
Maybe it’s because people disappeared that there’s more room to breathe.
Or maybe it’s pure curiosity.
Park Dae-yun approached with sparkling eyes.
‘This… if I answer wrong, it could get troublesome.’
Choi Hyun-min still didn’t want to reveal his existence to the outside world.
Though there were now people who knew about him.
At most, it was Chairman Choi.
And a few people from the government, that was all.
“There’s… no such thing.”
-There’s no such thing.
“No guild? Hmm… He seems like a somewhat unusual fellow, but he doesn’t look weak enough for guilds to reject him.”
Curious eyes scanned Dehof’s entire body, but.
He didn’t answer any further.
‘If I keep talking carelessly… it might cause harm to Manwol.’
If this had appeared before Choi Hyun-min, he would have immediately grabbed his hand.
And asked for an autograph or to take a photo together.
But this place was a maze.
And just a few minutes ago, someone’s head had exploded here.
‘For now… let’s focus on the Quest.’
Even though only two people remained.
The Quest continued to proceed.
Fourth, fifth, sixth.
Each time it continued, he pulled the characters from the back of the pendant.
And got the correct answer every time.
But…
‘When will this end?’
It seemed like it wouldn’t end until one side was finished.
Whenever Dehof, following Choi Hyun-min’s commands, was about to move.
Park Dae-yun would notice and follow along.
Thanks to him ghostly following and selecting the correct answers.
Even by the ninth question, two survivors were still maintained.
[Please select the character to be used tenth.]
The tenth one.
The moment the same type of problem appeared again without fail.
Choi Hyun-min instinctively flipped the pendant.
But.
“Huh…?”
It wasn’t there.
There was no tenth character.
He had been finding the correct answers in clockwise order.
But there were no remaining characters.
‘What? This wasn’t the answer?’
He thought it would end around this time.
Choi Hyun-min frantically flipped the pendant.
But no other characters were visible anywhere.
‘This is driving me crazy…’
If he had been eliminated from the beginning, it would be one thing.
But he didn’t want to give up now when the EX-grade reward was right in front of him.
[20 seconds remaining.]
“What are you doing? Not choosing the correct answer.”
-…
I want to choose an answer, but there is no answer!
Choi Hyun-min bit his lips in frustration.
Even during this, time kept flowing.
[10 seconds remaining.]
9, 8, 7…
Time flowing helplessly.
‘This won’t work. If it comes to this… do I have to guess one in the end?’
I guess this is as far as it goes.
The probability was 1/9.
But this was far too low.
That’s when it happened.
Just as he was about to give the command to jump anywhere randomly.
‘That person…’
The man in white clothes revealed himself on the stone tablet.
When there was trouble with Ridim Guild.
He looked exactly the same as back then.
Pure white trench coat.
White hair and snow-white skin.
It was definitely not an appearance you could forget after seeing once or twice.
-Here.
Instead of saying anything else, the man.
Extended his finger downward and pointed to the second stone tablet.
“Here… you say?”
-That’s the correct answer.
[3… 2… 1…]
Why that man appeared again.
Whether that was the correct answer or not didn’t matter.
For now… jump.
“Dehof! To the second space!”
The barbarian warrior who had been waiting for orders with an anxious face.
As soon as Choi Hyun-min gave the command, he leaped over two stone tablets.
And Park Dae-yun, who had been watching from the side.
With the quick reflexes befitting a ranker, in less than a second.
He caught up to Dehof and moved to the second space together.
Thud.
[Correct answer.]
“Phew… Thank goodness.”
Could there possibly be an eleventh one too?
The two people waited for what came next with tense expressions.
Fortunately, the problems from the mysterious voice seemed to end here.
[As a result of investigating XXX, we narrow down the candidates to a total of two people.]
Candidates?
What could that mean?
Just as Choi Hyun-min was pondering.
Rumble!
Once again, the entire 25th floor shook lightly.
Then, the stone tablets they had been standing on disappeared like a lie.
[Result: Failed to select one clear final candidate.]
“Failed?!”
“Don’t tell me the Quest failed?”
No.
The Quest failure notification still hadn’t appeared for Choi Hyun-min.
Instead.
[For a confirmed result, both candidates will be eliminated.]
“What the hell is that supposed to mean?!”
In the distance, a black cloud suddenly burst forth with a puff.
Then it began to shape itself into some kind of form.
“What is that?!”
It was easily 4 or 5 meters in size.
At first it was just simple black smoke.
But the moment it transformed into a single shape.
Dehof and Park Dae-yun.
No, both Choi Hyun-min and Park Dae-yun.
They seemed to know exactly what it had become.
“…A witch?!”
A pointed, wide-brimmed hat.
A long robe wrapped around the entire body.
The figure of a woman holding a large staff in her hand.
The black smoke had transformed into the commonly imagined form of a witch.
“Damn it… Could this have been a trap?”
Park Dae-yun, who had been calmly observing the situation from nearby.
Even while furrowing his brow deeply.
Like a veteran, he drew his sword from his waist.
“Do you know how to fight?”
-….
“Well, I suppose it’s rude to ask someone carrying such an axe.”
Park Dae-yun glanced at Dehof and shook his head.
“I’ll be back in a moment… Try to hold out as best you can. I don’t think I’ll be able to protect your body as well.”
Had he sensed some kind of crisis?
Even though only the witch’s form had been shaped.
Park Dae-yun seemed to have already finished preparing for battle.
Before Dehof could even respond.
Whoosh!
Park Dae-yun launched his body straight toward the witch.
‘He’s fast!’
Up until that moment.
Choi Hyun-min wasn’t particularly worried.
Although a strange witch had appeared.
Since his opponent was Park Dae-yun, ranked 9th, he doubted anything dangerous would happen.
And his prediction was almost spot on.
Though the distance was easily 100 meters.
The ranker closed that gap in the blink of an eye.
The moment the giant witch raised her staff.
“Now all sorts of things just pop out to startle people.”
Park Dae-yun’s flashing sword.
His silver blade shot upward in an instant.
Slash.
It cleanly severed the witch’s neck at 4 meters high.
A silver sword light cutting horizontally.
“Got it!”
At that moment, Choi Hyun-min unconsciously clenched his fist.
A ranker is indeed a ranker.
Just as he was muttering while watching his overwhelming prowess.
The black smoke witch-
A purple light flashed from the monster’s body.
Then it struck downward with the staff it was holding.
CRASH!
-Ugh!
A tremendous shockwave!
Dehof’s body swayed as if about to collapse from the impact that seemed to crush the entire ground.
Dust clouds rose along with it.
When those hazy particles had completely dispersed over time.
The 9th-ranked Hunter, Park Dae-yun.
His figure had completely vanished without a trace.
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