Became the Transcendent Monarch of the Corner of the Room - Chapter 80

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Episode 80

‘To think the day would come when I’d doubt my own eyes.’

Both eyes 2.0, 2.0.

Ji Min-gi was confident in his eyesight if nothing else.

But today, he couldn’t help but doubt his own eyes several times over.

The large screen that Choi Hyun-min had created.

Inside the situation board that resembled a giant TV—

‘Hunters! The missing Hunters!’

The figures of the Hunters who had left to conquer the Labyrinth Outskirts were displayed.

Ji Min-gi blinked silently.

His pupils rapidly scanned the entire screen.

Hunters belonging to Manwol.

And even Hunters from other guilds.

All the Hunters visible on the screen were connected to the Interdimensional Management Bureau.

‘He really found them… Even the Labyrinth Outskirts where there isn’t even a Gate… He found it!’

Should he believe this?

If someone had just told Ji Min-gi about what was happening now in words alone.

He would have bet his entire fortune that it was a lie.

‘No, just because someone has a high rank, high potential… was it even physically possible to move through space without a Gate?!’

It was confusing.

Even when the toys moved.

His surprised feelings were stronger, so it didn’t really hit him that hard.

But what was happening now was completely different.

Not only the lowest-level Hunters like E and F rank.

Even Hunters who could be called top-tier rankers like S, SS, and SSS rank.

Choi Hyun-min was accomplishing alone what they wouldn’t even dare attempt.

‘This is… EX rank… the gap…’

Ji Min-gi had mountains of questions he wanted to ask Choi Hyun-min.

But he didn’t even open his mouth.

Rather, he couldn’t even take his eyes off the situation in the Labyrinth Outskirts unfolding beyond the screen.

“It looks like those guys have now entered the Labyrinth Outskirts.”

“…”

Choi Hyun-min quietly explained the situation.

But Ji Min-gi.

And Choi Seung-hyun said nothing at all.

They just stared intently at the screen.

Like watching an interesting movie, they had lost their words.

Choi Hyun-min, who was watching those two.

He cautiously gave an order toward the screen.

“Can you hear me?”

-I can hear you, Master.

“What do you mean?”

-Well… It’s too noisy.

Too noisy?

Ah.

Choi Hyun-min tilted his head, then nodded.

Monsters.

The screen was full of monsters.

From Orcs charging with clubs.

To Wyverns and Harpies flying in the sky.

Creatures swarming from all directions like ants clinging to candy.

And in the middle of it all, the figures of Hunters could barely be seen.

Certainly 500 missing people was not a small number.

But caught among those monsters, they looked as few as a handful.

‘It would be best if I could just extract and save those people rather than fighting.’

This place was not the Labyrinth but the Labyrinth Outskirts.

Unlike monsters whose combat power increased as floors got lower.

The monsters within the Labyrinth Outskirts.

Their combat power was fixed from the beginning.

They might look like ordinary Orcs and Trolls.

But they could be dozens of times stronger than those seen in the upper floors of the Labyrinth.

Even so.

There was no better means than fighting on this side.

‘There’s absolutely no way to extract them without fighting. For now… let’s fight.’

Having made that decision, Choi Hyun-min.

He commanded the Block Toys and Dehof through Hans.

“From now on, you guys take care of the monsters.”

-Just the monsters?

“Make sure those people you see there don’t get hurt as much as possible. You can kill all the other monsters.”

-That seems… easy.

As soon as those words ended—

Bang!

Gunshot.

Starting with one shot, thousands of explosive sounds poured out.

Giant machine guns spat fire and poured out bullets.

Hundreds of rounds per second.

With twenty-six such tremendous weapons.

Chairman Choi’s Office was instantly buried in gunfire.

Rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat!

Brrrrrrrrrr!

And the next moment.

The hundreds of monsters that had been charging forward energetically just moments before.

They collapsed like powerless paper dolls.

“Fuck…ing…!”

Ji Min-gi, who had been staring at the screen with his mouth agape.

He unconsciously let out a curse, then hurriedly covered his mouth.

“S-sorry. I couldn’t help myself…”

But no one scolded Ji Min-gi.

Chairman Choi Seung-hyun, a top-tier Hunter.

Even he was saying the same thing internally.

‘I’ve been a Hunter for over several decades… but this is the first time I’ve seen such one-sided combat.’

Usually when facing monsters of similar level to oneself.

It takes several minutes or more to defeat a single entity.

What if it were a high-ranking Hunter?

They could drastically reduce the time, but…

Sweeping away hundreds in a few seconds like this was something no one could do.

Not only Chairman Choi standing here.

Even Eun Ji-hun, the unshakeable number one ranker, couldn’t dream of such a level.

“Keep pushing straight ahead like that.”

-Got it, Master.

Looking at the field of corpses created in an instant.

The Block Toys approached where the Hunters were.

Twenty steps? Thirty steps?

It was a short distance that would take at most a minute to cover.

But even in that time, monsters swarmed in by the hundreds.

‘How vicious. Now I understand why the Hunters had no choice but to be isolated.’

Every time they tried to take a few steps.

They would swarm in like this.

No matter how excellent a Hunter was, they couldn’t help but be held back.

However.

Even in the midst of this, Choi Hyun-min’s toys were on a different level.

Clank! Clank clank!

The moment they thrust their massive machine guns forward and pulled the triggers.

Screech! Screeeeech!

The corpses of wyverns came tumbling down from the air.

The monsters’ attacks couldn’t stop their advance, let alone

even slow them down slightly.

Truly an overwhelming difference in power and strength!

The Block Toys cutting through the sea of monsters like this.

They were soon able to face the isolated Hunters.

“What, what are you people?!”

“Could you be reinforcements?”

“Guns…? No, even if this is the outskirts, how can you use guns inside the maze?”

Hunters quickly gathering around.

Even so, they couldn’t hide their suspicious looks while watching the Block Toys.

“You guys don’t need to answer. Just ask them to tell us the direction to the exit.”

Since those guys aren’t ordinary Hunters anyway.

Trying to have a conversation might just complicate things further.

At Choi Hyun-min’s command, Hans stepped forward.

-Came to rescue. Guide us toward the exit.

“Who are you people?”

Sure enough.

Did he sense something strange in Hans’s blunt manner of speaking?

S-rank Hunter Park In-hun stepped forward boldly.

-Will tell you later. First, show us the way out.

Hans’s words were still stiff.

The expressions of Park In-hun and the other Hunters were still full of suspicion.

This was clearly a space that only Hunters could enter.

Yet these people who didn’t look like Hunters at all—

Moreover, people dressed similarly to soldiers from a past era came rushing over and suddenly said such things.

To the Hunters who were exhausted both physically and mentally, they didn’t seem very trustworthy.

“Those people… Who exactly are they?”

“Judging by their clothes, are they trustworthy people?”

“They don’t seem to be Hunters in the first place.”

“Are they soldiers? No, soldiers can’t even pass through Gates, can they?”

The Hunters looking at the Block Toys with such suspicious eyes.

Their suspicions were resolved before too long.

Screeeeech!

Could they not tolerate even a moment’s rest?

Already hundreds of Trolls were charging toward the Hunters again.

Just as the Hunters were about to raise the swords they had briefly set down.

Bang!

Rat-a-tat-tat!

Twenty-six machine guns simultaneously spewed flames.

“Ugh! My ears!”

A thunderous roar echoed simultaneously.

They briefly covered their ears from the gunshots that seemed to tear their eardrums.

The moment they saw the mountain of corpses created in just a few seconds.

“What, what…”

“Was it… real?”

“Those people, are they really Hunters?”

“This has to be a dream, right?”

They thought they were seeing things because they were exhausted.

Even the group of Hunters that included those approaching ranker level.

They had been struggling against the endlessly swarming monster hordes.

But to sweep away monsters instantly with massive machine guns.

Hunters staring at them with blank faces.

In the meantime, once more.

Rat-a-tat-tat-tat!

They disintegrated the giant golems charging again into small stone fragments.

-Guide us quickly! I was promised a meal after this is over!

Meanwhile, Hans had reached the limit of his patience.

The moment he spoke with an irritated voice.

Only then did Park In-hun and the other Hunters come to their senses.

‘For now… let’s trust them and follow.’

If they don’t trust these people anyway.

It’s certain they’ll just waste away here fighting only monsters.

The Hunters’ gazes all turned to Park In-hun at once.

Then Park In-hun, who had been hesitating.

He opened his mouth with an embarrassed expression.

“The exit… we haven’t found it yet.”

-What?

“We’re not even certain if an exit exists. But… we did find something like a strange egg…”

An egg?

At those words, Choi Hyun-min, who was listening from beyond the screen, asked.

“Ask what that egg is, Hans.”

-What is the egg?

“It seems to be something like a device that summons those monsters… We couldn’t break it with our strength.”

At those words, Choi Hyun-min’s eyes sparkled as he listened.

‘If there really is something that summons monsters… the exit is probably very close to that location.’

Although his maze exploration experience wasn’t long.

Choi Hyun-min had read and studied countless materials.

In the case of mazes that weren’t simple forms but had special devices.

In most cases, exits were placed near such special devices.

“That’s right. If not that, it might be designed so that the exit appears when you destroy the ‘device’.”

At those words, Chairman Choi also nodded.

If someone with his experience was saying this, there was no reason to hesitate.

-Guide us.

“Ah, understood.”

When Hans spoke, Park In-hun urgently took the lead.

Hunters began gathering around him one by one.

Some carried injured people on their backs.

Others dragged the bodies of dead Hunters as they followed behind Park In-hun.

“C-can we really trust them?”

“Well, they’re definitely stronger than us, that’s for sure.”

Even while following behind Hans and the Gatling Gunners.

Some Hunters couldn’t completely let go of their suspicions.

Nevertheless, the power and destructive force they had displayed.

Was something they absolutely couldn’t deny or ignore.

“Don’t bunch up together, spread out around the Hunters. Make sure the monsters don’t get close to the Hunters.”

-Understood, Master.

Hans and the Block Toys who had been acting particularly sharp.

They moved like obedient puppies at Choi Hyun-min’s commands from beyond the screen.

As soon as the order came down, they scattered in all directions.

The Hunters’ eyes widened.

“Are they real soldiers? Like special forces or something…”

“Right. Maybe there are military Hunters we don’t know about?”

“Even so… those people seem to be way beyond human level, don’t they?”

The procession of crouched Hunters.

Monsters that couldn’t miss such an opportunity swarmed after them.

But the result was the same.

Kieek! Keeek!

With heads pierced through by single bullets, they collapsed.

No matter how much they pushed with numbers, they were no match.

The Hunters walked like this for quite a while.

Park In-hun, the Hunter at the very front, pointed straight ahead.

A Mechanical Device?

Or perhaps there was some magical equipment for summoning creatures.

Just as he turned his gaze with such thoughts.

“Over there.”

At the spot he pointed to with his index finger, he witnessed something completely unexpected.

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