Became the Transcendent Monarch of the Corner of the Room - Chapter 82

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Episode 82

“What on earth is going on?”

“Isn’t this exactly why the government exists?!”

“Over thirty of our guild members are trapped right now!”

“At least give us some news! Or share the progress of the situation!”

From late at night, the Interdimensional Management Bureau building was noisy.

Hunters who had gathered in droves.

They were all people from guilds whose members were trapped in the outskirts.

“We’re sorry, we’re also dispatching personnel to search for the Gate right now, so if you could just wait a little—”

Thanks to that, the Minister of the Interdimensional Management Bureau, Kim Chul-woo.

He had to break out in a cold sweat in the middle of the night.

“Don’t give us that nonsense! It’s not just one or two people missing, roughly 500 people have disappeared! What? Wait a little?!”

“These bastards only know how to run their mouths, they don’t do anything properly! Do you even know how many of our guild members are trapped there?!”

“Are you going to take responsibility? Huh? Are you going to take responsibility?!”

Minister Kim Chul-woo kept bowing his head repeatedly.

Behind him, the government building was still brightly lit.

They knew.

Minister Kim Chul-woo, those people working overtime.

And the Hunters gathered here.

They all knew that no matter how much they talked here, nothing would change.

But that didn’t mean they could just give up and sit still.

“The Gate itself completely disappeared?”

“Yeah. Forget about sending reinforcements, the people who originally went inside can’t even come out!”

“Being trapped in the Labyrinth Outskirts, is that even possible?”

From those shouting with red faces.

To those grabbing the collars of the officials assisting the minister.

There were also those sitting on the floor with tears welling up in their eyes.

“S-sorry, Minister. The urgent meeting just ended…”

A man rushing urgently into that chaos.

The team leader of the Monitoring Team, Park Hyun-chul.

He bowed his head toward the minister with a face full of dark circles.

“No, more importantly, you…”

“I’m Park Hyun-chul, team leader of the Monitoring Team.”

“Right, Manager Park. Any progress? Various guilds have been visiting quite a bit.”

Park Hyun-chul hastily straightened his wrinkled clothes.

He urgently opened his mouth at the minister’s words.

“F-first, we’ve secured an additional 20% of police and military forces to search for the Gate, and we’ve decided to focus all our efforts on searching the area near where the Gate was last seen. Also…”

“No, not that kind of thing.”

“Pardon?”

“I want something definitive, that kind of answer.”

At those words, Manager Park almost let out a curse.

But he quickly composed his expression.

He nodded with an awkward smile.

“Ah, haha! R-right! According to the ‘Monitor’ managed by our Monitoring Team, abnormal reactions are intensifying near the Vicinity of Songsan City Boundary.”

“Oh, really?”

Even though nothing was certain yet.

As if he had finally heard something interesting, the minister’s face brightened.

The other Hunters’ gazes also turned toward Manager Park in unison.

‘I think I’m screwed.’

Though he muttered that to himself.

What the minister wanted right now wasn’t accurate data or results.

Park Hyun-chul continued with a subtle smile.

“So there will probably be good results soon, yes.”

“Really?”

“Are you sure? You’re not just trying to brush this off and dodge the issue, right?”

“Haha, h-how could that be. Our personnel are working day and night on the search, yes.”

There was no precise answer.

Since the minister wanted that right now, Manager Park could only deflect with such rhetoric.

But he knew.

‘Honestly, it’s hopeless.’

0% possibility.

It wasn’t that Gates had never disappeared before.

But he had never heard of survivors when they disappeared like this.

The same went for the current 500 people.

They were essentially people scheduled to die.

Or maybe they were already dead.

But he didn’t have the courage to honestly say that in front of all these people.

So Manager Park just spoke with a kind face.

“Don’t worry! We’ll definitely rescue them!”

No. Absolutely not.

Demanding the impossible would just be a waste of energy.

Many people were still crying and shouting.

Chaos.

In the midst of this confusion, only Manager Park had a subtle smile on his face.

‘No. It’s absolutely impossible, so give up.’

***

A second Interrupter?

The moment he saw the word Interrupter.

Something surfaced in Choi Hyun-min’s memory.

‘This… I think I got a similar Quest when I saw that Mammoth before?’

The day he encountered the first Interrupter.

Choi Hyun-min vividly remembered that day.

The Block Toys who were endlessly strong against other monsters and bosses.

The moment they encountered the Interrupter, they froze like children.

It was the same this time.

-Uh… uh…

-It’s, it’s an Interrupter…

-A-are we okay…?

Just moments ago they had no hesitation in shooting monsters.

But the moment they faced the Mechanical Gorilla, they couldn’t even pull the trigger.

‘Do the Block Toys only get particularly scared of Interrupters?’

He didn’t know the reason.

But if things continued like this, they’d end up like the Hunters.

“You guys fall back!”

Choi Hyun-min urgently gave orders through the screen.

At his words, they began to awkwardly step back one by one.

‘Then… the only one who can fight now is—’

Dehof.

If it’s him…

“Dehof!”

-I’m listening.

“How about it, can you fight?”

The screen zoomed in on the barbarian warrior’s face.

He too seemed a bit tense, unlike usual.

But soon he nodded and raised the adamantium axe he was holding.

-…I’ll give it a try.

Then he stepped forward boldly-

-You damn monkey! Here comes a warrior of Araya!

He leaped up and threw his body toward the gorilla.

Whoosh!

Dehof stomped the ground and jumped into the air.

At the same time, he raised his axe above his head-

Swoosh!

He brought it down as if to split the mechanical gorilla’s head.

Clang!

“Ugh! My ears!”

A sharp grinding sound erupted the moment the two metals met.

Sparks flew in all directions like a fountain.

‘Got it!’

Dehof, who had jumped as if flying.

His strike hit the gorilla’s crown precisely.

In that moment.

Grooooooo!

The gorilla, which had been focused on crushing the Hunters.

It grabbed its head and dropped to one knee.

Stagger.

The silver head that seemed like it would never break.

A clear vertical axe mark was carved into it.

Grooo!

The mechanical gorilla writhed in pain.

It swung its arms wildly, unleashing attacks toward Dehof.

However.

Due to already taking a critical hit, its attacks only cut through empty air.

It couldn’t deal even the slightest damage to the barbarian warrior.

Whooom!

The gorilla’s mechanical arm fell from sky to ground.

The moment the heavy metal-equipped arm fell like a club.

Crash!

It crushed the ground and sent up a cloud of dust.

The force behind it was so strong.

Its fist was buried halfway into the ground.

Seeing this, Dehof.

The barbarian warrior’s eyes flashed.

Dehof climbed up using the arm stuck in the ground as a stepping stone.

If it had been before.

It would have been a steel arm he couldn’t help but fear.

But now it had simply become the fastest shortcut to reach the giant gorilla’s shoulder.

Tap tap tap!

Dehof ran as fast as a leopard.

While the gorilla struggled desperately to pull its arm out of the ground.

He climbed all the way up to its shoulder in an instant.

-Let’s see if you can endure this time too!

The mechanical gorilla’s head turned toward its right shoulder.

The moment its gaze met with Dehof standing on top.

The wrinkles carved on the barbarian warrior’s face became distinct.

Along with that, he put all his strength into the arm holding the axe-

-Try to endure this one too!!!

This time he swung the axe horizontally to strike the gorilla’s neck.

Whoooom!

The barbarian warrior’s waist spun in a circle, putting all his strength into the axe.

From left to right.

The axe blade, carrying the tremendous strength to crush rocks, struck its nape.

Then.

The gorilla that had been crushing people-

Its expression became completely distorted for the first time.

A vulnerable area with no steel reinforcement.

The moment the axe blade pierced what could be called one of its few weak points, its neck.

Slice!

The sharp axe blade that had entered the nape.

Passed through the soft flesh and protruded out the front.

At the same time, thick green liquid burst out from the gap.

Dehof’s attack didn’t end there.

This time from right to left.

On the shoulder of the staggering gorilla.

The moment he swung the axe in the opposite direction.

Thunk.

With the sound of a rope snapping.

The giant chunk of scrap metal attached to the shoulder fell with a thud.

Roll.

Something slid down the left shoulder powerlessly.

That heavy metal mass crashed straight to the floor without any resistance.

Crash!

Dust rose from the ground with a thunderous sound.

Along with that, the gorilla’s body that had been standing firmly just moments before.

Lost its balance, staggered, and fell backward.

Thoom!

Fortunately, Dehof, who had been standing on top, had already thrown his body to avoid the impact.

“….”

The interior of the labyrinth outskirts that had been noisy just moments before.

The place instantly became quieter than a library.

Not only the Hunters who had been screaming and running around.

But even the Hunters who had been gritting their teeth to fight back.

They could only look back and forth between Dehof and the fallen gorilla’s corpse.

“It’s… dead…”

“D-did you just see that…?!”

“It just… cut off the neck…”

Hundreds of Hunters.

And these were veterans who had already been thoroughly tested.

It was a gorilla that had been toying with them like a human playing with ants.

To think it would behead such a creature with just two axe strikes.

Even though they had clearly been watching Dehof’s appearance from beginning to end.

The Hunters doubted their own eyes-

No, they even doubted their own brains that held their memories.

“Uh… I’m seeing this correctly right now, right?”

“I, I’m seeing the same thing too…”

“Did we all get hit with some kind of group hallucination? Otherwise, there’s no way such an absurd person could exist…”

[The Transcendent Lord has eliminated the second Interrupter.]

At the same time, a single line of message appeared before all the Hunters’ eyes.

The Hunters’ eyes widened to the size of marbles upon seeing it.

“Tr, Transcendent Lord?”

“What the hell is an Interrupter?”

“Are they talking about that guy just now?!”

The Hunters fell into confusion.

It wasn’t just the Hunters inside the perimeter who were surprised.

“Transcendent Lord…?”

“Don’t tell me this… Mr. Choi Hyun-min… is that right?”

Chairman Choi and Ji Min-gi beyond the screen.

The two looked over here as if they had planned it.

Even if the other Hunters didn’t know.

Since these two had been together through eliminating the Interrupter in this place.

There was no point in lying since it wouldn’t work.

“Uh… Um… Well, that’s true but…”

What should he say.

Choi Hyun-min scratched his head with an embarrassed face.

In his eyes, invisible to the other Hunters.

A second message appeared that only Choi Hyun-min could see.

[You acquire Distorted DNA as a reward.]

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