Became the Transcendent Monarch of the Corner of the Room - Chapter 89

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Episode 89

It was definitely true.

An overwhelmingly powerful force that couldn’t be resisted.

Hundreds, thousands of monsters that could crush a person with one punch.

Those things were swarming in like an ocean.

But….

‘These people…. What exactly are they?’

The strangers he had brought to Lennon just a day ago.

They had completely changed Lennon’s fate.

Rat-a-tat-tat!

Gordon instinctively raised both hands to cover his ears at the deafeningly loud noise.

Where those strange chunks of scrap metal they were holding were aimed.

When he turned his head in that direction.

He almost screamed like a child.

“Are they all…. dead…?”

The collapsed city wall and the shattered gate.

Monster corpses hanging there like laundry on a line.

Chunks of flesh scattered in all directions.

Sticky liquid oozing from the monster corpses.

Countless monsters had become crushed lumps of meat in just a few seconds.

“You, you people are….”

He couldn’t even speak properly at the unbelievable sight.

He could only look back and forth between the monsters and the strangers with a dazed expression.

However, the stranger in sky-blue pajamas—

Choi Hyun-min opened his mouth calmly, as if it was nothing.

“Fortunately, they were nothing special.”

The moment he heard those words, Gordon gaped in shock.

Nothing special?

This?

Did this person even know what he was saying?

The soldiers standing behind him felt the same way.

At the miracle they had witnessed, their jaws dropped so wide.

They couldn’t even think of closing them.

Though it was only a brief moment.

The momentum and overwhelming presence they emanated was.

‘…A war god!’

It felt like watching a god of war leading his forces to annihilate the enemy.

That’s how it seemed.

“Well done, guys.”

-This much is easy.

-Just give us chicken when we get back, and we’ll do this ten more times!

-Should we go look for other ones?

Nevertheless, the strangers—

Choi Hyun-min and the Block Toys didn’t care at all.

As if they thought of it as just a post-meal walk.

They were shrugging their shoulders and making trivial jokes.

“Village Chief.”

-….

“Village Chief?”

-Ah, yes…! Yes…!

Gordon had been staring at Choi Hyun-min with an entranced expression.

After being called several times.

He finally snapped to attention and opened his mouth.

“For now, I’d like to go to the collapsed wall area and check if there are any remaining monsters. How about it? We might be able to help if there are people who couldn’t escape.”

-Let’s, let’s do that….

Did he finally come to his senses at Choi Hyun-min’s words?

Gordon shook his head vigorously.

Only after hearing Choi Hyun-min’s words did he give orders to the soldiers behind him.

-You guys check if there are any injured people and make sure they can receive treatment.

-What about you, Village Chief….

-I’ll go outside with these people to check if there are any survivors and come back.

-Understood!

Going outside where the monsters had swarmed.

Normally, this would be something to stop at all costs.

-‘If I go with those people…. it might be as safe as being inside the castle.’

The force shown by the strangers was so overwhelming that it made even such worries melt away like snow.

“Please lead the way. I’ll follow.”

-Understood.

So Gordon and Choi Hyun-min.

And the Block Toys crossed over the collapsed wall and went outside Lennon.

‘This is what old Lennon looked like…. No wonder Gordon talked about it so much.’

Choi Hyun-min looked back as soon as they stepped outside over the monster corpses.

Though it was broken and collapsed into a mess.

Seeing the grandeur of the massive city that finally came into full view.

He could understand why Gordon had talked so much about ‘old Lennon.’

‘The newly built Lennon was less than 1/10th the size of the original city.’

Gordon, who had been looking at that sight.

Soon turned forward and began moving ahead without hesitation.

-First, let’s sweep through the barracks that were in front of the gate. There were many people there, after all.

Step by step.

The Village Chief leaped over scattered debris and chunks of flesh.

Choi Hyun-min followed him.

‘More importantly, where exactly is this Mage that I can’t even catch a glimpse of them?’

For now, he had succeeded in protecting Gordon and Lennon as a first priority.

But the primary objective mentioned by the Quest was about the existence of the ‘Mage.’

Strictly speaking, regardless of what happened to Lennon and Gordon.

All he needed to do was find traces of the ‘Mage.’

Choi Hyun-min pondered for a moment.

He casually threw a question at Gordon’s back ahead of him.

“Um…. Are there no people like mages here?”

-Hmm?

When he asked, Gordon stopped walking forward and turned toward him.

“In a situation like just now, it would have been good to have a mage who could handle area magic….”

How should he approach the Quest?

At Choi Hyun-min’s cautious words, Gordon clicked his tongue.

-Who wouldn’t know that would be good?

“Pardon?”

-If we had a mage, we naturally wouldn’t be in this state now.

“But why….”

-Where are mages so common? To hire even a mage who’s one-half of one-half of one-half as good as you, we’d have to pay the salary of hundreds of people. How could we afford that?

Was that the reason?

To think that even a city as large as Lennon couldn’t properly employ a single mage.

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

“I, I see…”

-That’s why I’m so grateful to you all. People of your caliber must be worth several years’ worth of our city’s gold. Not only are you readily helping us, but you even volunteered yourselves.

Glance.

At Gordon’s words, Choi Hyun-min instinctively turned around.

Behind him were the Block Toys who couldn’t care less about gold coins or rewards-

He could see them chattering about whether fried or seasoned chicken was better.

And whether pickled radish was absolutely necessary with chicken.

‘That doesn’t seem entirely accurate though.’

Of course, Gordon had no way of knowing what those guys were really thinking.

“Then there isn’t a single mage- or anyone mage-like in this area?”

Though he had heard there were no mages.

Since the Quest was still ongoing.

He asked again, planning to extract information from Gordon.

Gordon frowned slightly and pondered for a moment.

Then he opened his mouth with a displeased expression.

-If I had to look for one… there is one person.

There is one?

At those words, Choi Hyun-min’s eyebrows shot up.

“Who is it?”

-A guy named Ian… He’s completely useless though.

Ian!

The moment he heard that name, Choi Hyun-min’s heart raced.

Certainly before coming here.

That is, among the names that the current Gordon had mentioned.

‘Ian’.

He remembered talking about him.

“Ian?!”

-What’s wrong? Do you know him?

When he called out Ian’s name as if startled, Gordon tilted his head.

Choi Hyun-min frantically shook his head.

“N, no. I know someone with a similar name.”

-How anticlimactic.

“What does he do?”

-He’s a mage.

“A mage?!”

-Well, even though he calls himself a mage… He just goes around bragging that he’s a mage, but I’ve never seen him cast proper magic.

Gordon clicked his tongue and waved his hand dismissively.

Was he someone with a bad reputation?

“Then that person isn’t here right now?”

-Normally he should be around this area… but after that horde of monsters came through… I don’t know.

Was he dead?

From the way he spoke, Gordon didn’t seem certain either.

Though he had asked Gordon about the mage.

Aside from learning that the ‘mage’ was Ian, there wasn’t much to gain.

‘Still, if I can just find Ian… I should be able to get a clue.’

Just as he was thinking that and moving forward with Gordon.

-Master.

Choi Hyun-min turned his head at Hans calling from behind.

“What?”

-Here… there’s something.

The one who spoke was Hans.

He pointed at the ground with the hand not holding his gun.

A pile of stones stacked like a mountain and an orc’s corpse fallen on top.

And underneath that…

“Huh?”

A human hand was sticking out between the rubble.

If it had been an ordinary corpse, he might have just passed by.

Twitch.

Twitch.

The pile of stones was moving very slowly.

“Wait… this person seems to be alive.”

-Alive?

Had Gordon heard Choi Hyun-min’s muttering?

Gordon, who had been walking ahead, came back.

“Could you help move this?”

-I’ll do it, Master.

It seemed they needed to clear the corpse and stone pile first.

At Choi Hyun-min’s command, Dehof put down his axe.

He grabbed the fallen orc’s corpse with one hand and threw it backward.

Thud.

-In, incredible strength…

-This much is nothing.

Then at the position where the person was likely to be.

He began carefully removing the stones placed on top, one by one.

Thunk. Thud.

-In, incredible strength…

Just moments ago there had been rocks several times the size of a person.

Yet he was casually moving them aside with one hand as if playing with marbles.

Leaving behind Gordon, who was unconsciously stepping backward in surprise.

Choi Hyun-min quietly stepped forward.

It was around then.

“I can see him!”

The figure of a person half-buried in the stone pile began to appear.

A man wearing pure white robes.

No, they were originally white.

But they were a mess, covered in stone dust and blood.

-Ugh…

-Ian!

As soon as Gordon spotted the man lying exhausted and collapsed, he cried out.

At his call, Choi Hyun-min’s eyebrows twitched.

‘That person is… Ian!’

He was both the Quest target and the person Village Chief Gordon had mentioned.

“Are you okay?”

-Are you alright?

Choi Hyun-min and Gordon simultaneously rushed toward him.

-V, Village Chief…

Fortunately, he wasn’t dead.

Seeing him collapsed and speaking with difficulty, he seemed to still be conscious.

For now, I should take this person back to recover, then complete the Quest.

Thinking this, Choi Hyun-min fidgeted with the necklace in his chest.

Whooooosh.

Suddenly, a wind blew toward him, making him lift his head to face forward.

‘What is it?’

Something was strange.

An ominous feeling.

There was nothing around except monster corpses and building debris.

Certainly that was the case.

But what was this ominous premonition that kept washing over him?

‘For now… it should be fine to hand over the necklace right now, shouldn’t it?’

Though there was an order to things.

Feeling inexplicably anxious.

Choi Hyun-min pulled out Gordon’s necklace that he had brought.

Clink.

“Ian, please take this.”

-Huh…?

Even though he hadn’t gotten up yet.

Choi Hyun-min placed the necklace on his dust-covered hand.

At that moment.

Time froze.

No, it felt like it did.

Tssssst.

The space in front of him that had definitely been empty just moments before.

That space seemed to distort randomly-

The Orc’s corpse that had been thrown far away.

It suddenly stood up, emitting red light from its eyes as it approached.

-Found you, bastard… I wondered where you were hiding like a rat… so you were here!

It was definitely a perfectly dead Orc!

Yet it shouted at Choi Hyun-min as if it had become human.

Then it raised the axe it was holding high into the sky-

Swoosh!

And brought it straight down on Choi Hyun-min’s head.

There was no time to dodge.

There was no chance for the other Block Toys to protect him.

Everything happened in just an instant.

The moment the creature’s axe embedded in his skull.

Crack!

Along with the sound of something breaking, Choi Hyun-min’s vision went black.

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