Became the Transcendent Monarch of the Corner of the Room - Chapter 79

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Episode 79

 

[Skill: Radar Mode is activated.]

 

Radar Mode!

 

An EX-grade skill that activates the moment he looks at the tablet.

 

At the same time, only Choi Hyun-min began to see one side of the map glowing golden.

 

“Do you see something?”

 

Did he notice?

 

Ji Min-gi approaches closer.

 

He looked back and forth between the tablet and Choi Hyun-min.

 

“…It seems like it.”

 

Choi Hyun-min speaks cautiously.

 

At his words, Chairman Choi and Ji Min-gi.

 

Both men’s eyes widened.

 

They can’t see anything…

 

But he says he sees something?

 

The two men frantically examine the map.

 

The map still showed nothing at all.

 

However.

 

“Here, it seems to be around this area.”

 

Choi Hyun-min was definitely pointing to one side of the map.

 

And very clearly at that.

 

“If it’s this way… it’s the point where Songsan City and Cheongun City meet.”

 

“That’s how it looks to me.”

 

“We do have police officers deployed in that vicinity, but I received reports that they couldn’t find any significant traces…”

 

Ji Min-gi tilts his head and pulls out his phone.

 

He soon exchanged texts with someone.

 

Then connected a video call.

 

-Yes, Director Ji.

 

“Thank you for your hard work. Is the search operation still continuing in the outskirts of Songsan City?”

 

-We’re doing it, but it’s really sluggish. As you can see, it’s really the middle of a mountain with absolutely nothing…

 

Then the police officer on the other side of the screen seemed to grumble.

 

He turned his phone around to show the surroundings.

 

The completely darkened surroundings.

 

It was late dawn.

 

And since it was halfway up a mountain, there was no way anything noteworthy would be visible.

 

No, to begin with, the only lights were the flashlights the police forces had brought.

 

Ji Min-gi knew this too, so he was about to end the call-

 

“I understand. It seems there were no significant results after all. Then I’ll hang-”

 

“Wait! Wait a moment!”

 

Choi Hyun-min stopped him.

 

He urgently reached out his hand and stopped Ji Min-gi.

 

“Why, why are you doing that?”

 

“There… I can see it.”

 

“You can… see it? What?”

 

A Gate!

 

Choi Hyun-min was about to speak but closed his mouth.

 

Instead, he glared at the screen with a frown as if thinking deeply about something.

 

Then.

 

“That’s enough now.”

 

“Yes…?”

 

“You can hang up.”

 

What’s his intention?

 

Question marks appeared in Ji Min-gi’s eyes.

 

However, Choi Hyun-min seemed to have something in mind.

 

He suddenly stood up from his seat.

 

“Follow me.”

 

He headed straight to his room instead.

 

“Follow you?”

 

“L-let’s go for now, Chairman.”

 

Thanks to that, Chairman Choi and Ji Min-gi looked at each other with bewildered faces.

 

The two men inadvertently followed Choi Hyun-min to his room.

 

“…”

 

The dimly lit room.

 

In that place where only a single mood lamp was turned on.

 

Choi Hyun-min and the two men stood looking at each other.

 

“Did you find some kind of method?”

 

Ji Min-gi’s question.

 

At those words, Choi Hyun-min nodded slightly.

 

“I’m not certain, but… I’m going to try to see.”

 

With those words, he directed his gaze toward the floor.

 

On the floor were boxes containing uncleared chicken bones.

 

And toys were scattered around carelessly.

 

“Get up.”

 

“…”

 

“Get up.”

 

Choi Hyun-min suddenly speaks toward the floor.

 

Watching him, Ji Min-gi grabbed his shoulder.

 

“W-why are you suddenly acting like this? Do you see something here?”

 

Did he see a ghost or something?

 

Why is he suddenly talking to the floor?

 

On the floor, let alone people.

 

Not even animals like dogs or cats were visible.

 

At most, there were only toys shaped like people.

 

But he’s talking like someone possessed by something.

 

For Ji Min-gi, it was beyond bizarre and almost scary.

 

“It’s okay, you can get up.”

 

“N-no… Choi Hyun-min, why are you looking at the floor and saying such things-”

 

Flinch.

 

“Ahhh!!”

 

It moved!

 

Something definitely moved?!

 

Ji Min-gi, who was trying to stop Choi Hyun-min.

 

He heard something flinch on the floor and quickly stepped back.

 

Ji Min-gi stuck to the wall, glaring at the floor.

 

‘Was it my imagination?’

 

Please let it have been his imagination.

 

However, unfortunately, what Ji Min-gi heard was neither imagination nor hallucination.

 

Clatter. Clank.

 

Strange sounds coming from the floor again.

 

More precisely, not from the floor but-

 

“The toys… are moving…?!”

 

The Block Toys that had been scattered carelessly around.

 

They began to rise as if they had gained consciousness from Choi Hyun-min’s words.

 

‘What… is this…?!’

 

His eyes widened so much it seemed they might tear if opened any further.

 

Ji Min-gi opened his eyes wide.

 

He looked at Chairman Choi with a confused expression.

 

However, Chairman Choi simply wore a subtle smile, as if he already knew about this.

 

“This seems to be this guy’s ability.”

 

This… is a Hunter ability?

 

Ji Min-gi kept his mouth agape as he turned his gaze to the floor.

 

There, dozens of Block Toys could be seen.

 

They were struggling to get up while carrying machine guns as big as their bodies.

 

-Master, are you okay?

 

-There are other people here…

 

-Master told us to get up, so it must be fine.

 

They even talk!

 

Ji Min-gi was confused about how to accept the current situation.

 

However, not only Choi Hyun-min.

 

Chairman Choi also seemed familiar with the current situation and didn’t add any words.

 

“There’s a place we need to go urgently right now.”

 

-Are you talking about the Maze?

 

“Similar… but it’s a bit different from the Maze we usually go to.”

 

At those words, the one who was at the front among the Gatling Gunners spoke up.

 

-We can move anywhere that exists in Master’s memory.

 

“Really? Then… it’s a place I just saw…”

 

Choi Hyun-min told the Block Toy about the area he had just seen on the map.

 

If what it said was true.

 

Since he had definitely confirmed that area through the map and video call, it meant they could move there…

 

-Hmm… It’s a Gate, but it looks like it’s outside the Maze.

 

“That’s right. It’s a Gate that appeared outside, called the Labyrinth Outskirts. How about it, is it possible?”

 

-We’ll try for now. We can’t guarantee it either…

 

The one who had been tilting its head.

 

It shouted loudly for the other Block Toys to hear.

 

-You all heard, right?! Let’s go!

 

-It’s a bit late though.

 

-Master ordered it. What are you doing, not getting up!

 

Then nearly thirty Block Toys.

 

As if they had will, they all got up in a rush and climbed onto the desk.

 

Just as Ji Min-gi was looking at them with curious eyes.

 

Flash.

 

They disappeared.

 

“It worked.”

 

“Uh… they disappeared…?”

 

“I was half-doubtful too, but it seems I succeeded in sending those guys using just memory.”

 

“Sent… you mean… where did you send them?”

 

He couldn’t understand it at all.

 

Tens of thousands of question marks appeared and disappeared in Ji Min-gi’s head.

 

To begin with, the events that had unfolded before his eyes until now were already hard to understand.

 

After the moving toys disappeared somewhere, what he was saying was-

 

Sent them?

 

Chairman Choi felt the same way.

 

It wasn’t that he was doubting Choi Hyun-min.

 

He too had only seen the Block Toys moving.

 

How Choi Hyun-min had used them as a Hunter.

 

He couldn’t understand it at all.

 

“I don’t really understand what you mean either… Can you explain?”

 

At those words, the corners of Choi Hyun-min’s mouth curled up slightly.

 

Instead of answering the two men’s questions.

 

Swoosh.

 

He pointed to the Situation Board unfolding before their eyes.

 

“If you look at this… you’ll understand everything.”

 

***

 

“Over there! They’re swarming from the right!”

 

“Block them for now! Injured people fall back, and relatively unharmed people stand in front!”

 

“They’re coming from the opposite side!”

 

The newly formed Labyrinth Outskirts.

 

The 500 or so Hunters trapped inside were going out of their minds.

 

They had definitely been dispatched to clean up the outskirts Gate.

 

But inside wasn’t like a simple Maze floor.

 

A Battlefield.

 

It was a warzone where monsters endlessly swarmed in.

 

‘This is why the Hunters who entered first couldn’t get out.’

 

Since Hunters had gone missing.

 

The Hunters who had volunteered to come rescue them.

 

They perfectly understood why the Hunters who entered before couldn’t escape.

 

Rugged Sandy Land.

 

Thousands of monsters swarming over the cracked, dry earth.

 

On the ground were fierce creatures including Orcs, Trolls, and goblins.

 

In the air, those who prey on humans like wyverns and harpies gathered like clouds.

 

If it were just one or two, the Hunters had the ability to handle them without much difficulty.

 

“Fuck… why are there so many?!”

 

“It seems like there are more than a swarm of locusts.”

 

The Hunters were gradually getting exhausted.

 

No matter how high their level was.

 

There was a limit to facing all the endlessly swarming monsters.

 

“If you’re wearing thick armor, move forward!”

 

“Injured people to the back! Unharmed people to the front! Is that so difficult?!”

 

“Stop acting selfishly! Damn it, why do you keep trying to retreat!”

 

Above all, the biggest problem was unity.

 

The 500 or so Hunters weren’t all from the same Guild.

 

Starting from unaffiliated Hunters.

 

Since people from Various Guilds were mixed together.

 

There was no proper focal point, and everyone was busy moving on their own.

 

Naturally, it couldn’t become proper combat.

 

Moreover, most of them had never experienced large-scale battles.

 

Even if each individual was stronger than the monsters.

 

Before long, the number of those who got injured and became unable to fight increased.

 

“It’s over… it’s over.”

 

“It’s over…. It’s over.”

 

“We’re all going to die here.”

 

“Still can’t get out?”

 

“The Gate itself disappeared. Probably can’t even enter from outside anymore, right?”

 

At first, they focused on using their abilities to take down monsters.

 

Someday reinforcements would come and deal with all the monsters.

 

They fought with that hope.

 

But after waiting so long for follow-up support that never came.

 

The Hunters were almost in a state of giving up.

 

“Damn it… If it’s going to be like this, might as well not waste energy. Going forward and dying would be more comfortable.”

 

“Right… There’s no hope, so what are we desperately fighting for?”

 

“We’re finished…”

 

Not only the injured ones.

 

Even the unharmed ones retreated and refused to fight.

 

Kruooooo!

 

On the contrary, the number of monsters only kept increasing.

 

They thought they had killed many.

 

Where were so many of these creatures coming from?

 

Just as the Hunters were giving up one by one.

 

Bang!

 

“…Did you hear that just now?”

 

“What was that sound?”

 

“Thunder?”

 

“No… It sounded like gunshots?”

 

“That doesn’t make sense. We’re inside a Gate, talking about gun sounds.”

 

A strange sound coming from far away.

 

At first, they tilted their heads, thinking their ears were playing tricks on them.

 

But.

 

Bang! Bang! Bang!

 

With the sounds coming consecutively.

 

The Hunters got up and began searching for the source of the sound.

 

“Magic…?”

 

“No. If my ears aren’t wrong… This is definitely gunfire!”

 

“Guns? In a Gate?”

 

“I’m certain.”

 

The group of Hunters became noisy.

 

Among those still half-doubting.

 

Bang! Ratatatatatatata!

 

A sound they had never heard even once inside a Gate.

 

Gunshots sharp enough to tear their ears began shaking the surroundings.

 

“It’s gunfire!”

 

“This is real gunfire!”

 

“Reinforcements! Reinforcements have come!”

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