Became the Transcendent Monarch of the Corner of the Room - Chapter 9

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

Episode 9

Chairman Choi Seung-hyun emerged from Choi Hyun-min’s room with a stern expression.

As soon as he returned to his office, the secretary standing beside him spoke up.

“Fortunately, Chairman. Since we’ve secured the goblin leather supply, we should be able to begin production immediately.”

“Ahem, hmm. Yes, that’s right. Very fortunate indeed, very fortunate.”

Chairman Choi cleared his throat as he responded.

But his expression was strange.

Normally, he would have responded curtly like someone devoid of emotion.

Twitch.

Twitch twitch.

The corners of his mouth were strangely twitching.

“Who could have imagined that none other than the fifth young master would have the solution to this… Chairman?”

Grab.

Unable to bear listening to the secretary’s continued words, Choi Seung-hyun grasped his hand.

“That’s exactly what I’m saying.”

“Eh… Yes? What do you mean by that…”

“My son! Choi Hyun-min, who would have known that boy had such talent!”

Though he was clearly someone who never revealed his emotions.

Choi Seung-hyun’s raised mouth corners couldn’t be hidden no matter how hard he tried.

“Ch-Chairman?”

“That boy’s talent was in a different area, Secretary Kim. Though he couldn’t awaken and has no talent as a Hunter… he has the skills of a businessman! How else could he have secured so much goblin leather? Right?”

Chairman Choi’s eyes sparkled as he spoke passionately.

Like a dragon breathing fire, his words were hot and intense.

“I-Is that so…?”

“Right? Actually, when you have about five children, there’s no need to make them all follow the same path, is there? Four became Hunters, so it would be fine to educate one in business and commerce.”

“The fifth young master… you mean?”

“Didn’t you see? He produced an item that so many guilds searched for, that we deployed people everywhere to find but couldn’t obtain! That boy already knew this situation would come.”

Though Choi Hyun-min had actually obtained the goblin leather directly through his awakened ability.

Chairman Choi, who couldn’t possibly know this fact.

He thought of the current situation as Choi Hyun-min’s business talent blooming.

That’s what he believed.

‘Was he always this honest with his emotions? This is the first time I’ve seen the Chairman like this since the previous chairman passed away.’

Chairman Choi still had an excited expression and couldn’t contain his laughter.

After grinning for a while, he gestured lightly toward his secretary.

“Come here for a moment.”

“Yes, Chairman.”

“Contact the secretary assigned to the youngest and ask if he needs any funds for business separately.”

“Funds…”

“Yes. Since he has talent for business, tell him I’ll support him as much as he needs in that direction. The youngest would be happy about that, wouldn’t he?”

“…Understood.”

Chairman Choi was a doting father despite appearances.

He remained completely unaware that Choi Hyun-min had awakened.

He was simply delighted that his child had gained a new talent.

***

“Lee Jung-woon, come out and explain yourself!”

“You hogged the Golden Goblin all to yourself, didn’t you!”

“You planned this from the beginning and collected money from the union, didn’t you!”

“Golden Heart, you swallowed it, didn’t you?!”

The voices of guild masters could be heard from outside the office.

Even from a distance, their voices sounded furious, making Lee Jung-woon furrow his brow.

“Damn it, damn it, damn it!!!”

Lee Jung-woon, chairman of the Phoenix Union.

He was being interrogated by other guilds because the Golden Goblin had been snatched away right before his eyes.

The materials needed to summon the Golden Goblin.

To purchase those, dozens of guilds had pooled thousands—

Or even hundreds of millions of units of money.

Since that entire project had gone awry, they all flocked to Lee Jung-woon, who was like their leader.

‘Who the hell snatched it? No, we didn’t even deploy hunters powerful enough to easily take down a Golden Goblin in the first place.’

According to his research.

The Golden Goblin was a monster so powerful that one or two players at level 20-30 couldn’t handle it.

That’s why he had deployed multiple mid-to-low level hunters to monitor it.

‘Shit… Where did things go wrong? Is there an internal spy? Or did one of the hunters devour it and wipe their mouth clean?’

Things were twisted.

Twisted beyond repair.

Setting aside the money, the suspicions from other guilds within the union.

That was shaking Lee Jung-woon’s position as leader.

“From the auction house to each guild member’s subspace… I’ll have to search everything to find it.”

Lee Jung-woon bit his lips tightly.

He had been in a good mood until he got one over on the Manwol guys with the goblin leather issue…

‘Or is this also the work of the Manwol guys?’

Those guys who always claimed to be the number one guild and interfered with everything he did.

Maybe this incident was also their doing.

‘Right. They’re worried I’ll take the number one spot by obtaining the golden heart. So they made the first move and the Manwol side snatched it away.’

Despite having no evidence or traces whatsoever.

Lee Jung-woon’s mind was already filled with rage.

“Just wait and see, Manwol. If you think I’ll just sit here and take this… you’re mistaken.”

Crack.

The voices of guild masters coming from outside.

And the sound of grinding teeth mixed together in a strange harmony.

‘Let’s see whether you die or I die.’

***

“A new ability?!”

The Golden Heart left by the Golden Goblin.

This notification appeared as soon as he swallowed the gem.

The moment Choi Hyun-min tilted his head in confusion,

[Entering Creature Management Window.]

A management window appeared before his eyes like before.

The Primitive Humans were still resting around a small campfire.

The only difference from before was that their weapons had changed to bows, thanks to the science advancement.

And…

“Huh? Territory Development?”

A new function had been unlocked!

[Science Advancement 2: Required Points 200]

[Territory Development: Required Points 100]

Originally, this function should have been blocked by level restrictions.

But since it opened before reaching the required level, it was probably thanks to the Golden Heart.

[Achievement: Owner of the Golden Heart]

[The Golden Heart possesses magic more precious than gold. Only one person in all dimensions can be its owner. Since you have become that owner, you deserve a fitting reward.]

[Reward: Lord Points 300]

300 points?!

The reward notification that appeared next.

Choi Hyun-min’s eyes widened.

‘They’re giving me 300 points?’

Since it had only been a few days since awakening the Transcendent Lord’s power, he didn’t know much about how to earn points.

For him, 300 points was an incredibly huge score.

‘With this much, wouldn’t it be okay to invest about 100 points in a new ability?’

Choi Hyun-min pondered for a moment.

He carefully pressed the [Territory Development] button.

[Developing your creatures’ territory.]

[Consuming 100 Lord Points.]

Then something amazing happened.

The campfire the creatures had been surrounding.

Its size grew larger, and small huts began appearing around it.

“Houses appeared?!”

He had been feeling sorry for them sleeping pitifully on the ground.

-Ugh! Ugh! Master gave us houses!

-Houses! Finally we can sleep inside houses too!

-As expected of Master! He gives us sausages and houses too!

When the huts appeared, the Primitive Humans went inside to sleep.

This… is really amazing.

‘So… I’ve become something like the creator god of block toy humanity.’

Now Choi Hyun-min felt like he completely understood his awakened ability.

Right now they’re just crude huts like real primitive era ‘Primitive Humans’.

But later, I could make them use iron weapons and live in concrete houses like we do now, right?

‘And these guys getting stronger… also means I can go deeper into the maze.’

I want to go deeper down.

Just like the Hunters who made their names in history, and like the other people from Manwol.

‘How far could I go?’

Underground 5th floor? 10th floor?

Right now I can’t even estimate.

But this newly acquired Transcendent Lord ability.

Now that I’ve gotten a feel for how to use it.

‘Maybe… becoming a ranker isn’t just a dream.’

Choi Hyun-min was lost in thought watching the Primitive Humans going in and out of their new huts.

He doubted his own eyes at the new message notification that appeared.

[The era has advanced, and your creatures feel comfort.]

[A new descendant has been born.]

Des…cendant?

What does this mean?

Choi Hyun-min tried to understand the meaning for a moment.

He turned his eyes and began counting the number of Primitive Humans.

One, two, three…

Ten, eleven.

Eleven?

“What? There really is one more?”

There were definitely ten originally, right?

Including Hans, there were a total of ten Primitive Humans.

Come to think of it, there was one additional Primitive Human between the huts who looked a bit younger.

A youthful face that looked about twenty years old.

This one was also armed with a bow and leather clothes like the other Primitive Humans.

“Interesting… When I build houses, their numbers increase?”

-Master! A new child has been born!

-We should celebrate! We have a new friend too!

-If we had sausages at times like this, we could celebrate even more!

Sausages.

That’s not difficult.

“I’ll give you as many as you want.”

-Really?

“But I can’t just give them for free.”

-A new friend appeared!

-The new friend likes sausages too!

Of course they would.

But I need to ingrain the fact that sausages only come from conquering the maze, don’t I?

“This time the goal is to go to the 2nd floor. Do you understand what I mean?”

-Maze! Are you talking about underground in the maze?

“Right. If you defeat the master of the 1st floor, you can move to the next floor.”

The maze was largely divided into two areas.

Areas where ordinary monsters appeared.

And special rooms where boss monsters appeared.

Usually people hunted in general areas to obtain items or materials.

And special rooms were where you gained access rights to go down to the next floor.

‘To get better rewards and meet stronger monsters… you absolutely must defeat the boss.’

The boss monster of the 1st floor was the Goblin Lord.

It was an existence like the chief of goblins.

‘Since their numbers increased, they should be physically stronger. But can they defeat the Goblin Lord?’

The worrying point was the Goblin Lord’s power.

The 1st floor boss Goblin Lord wasn’t just a slightly stronger goblin.

Its size alone was two or three times bigger, and its strength and durability were correspondingly stronger.

There were countless cases of novice Hunters getting seriously injured when they rashly challenged the Goblin Lord, thinking they could easily catch goblins.

No matter how easily the Primitive Humans defeated goblins.

Sending them with just a single bow like before seemed quite worrying.

-Ugh! Ugh! Let’s go, warriors! For sausages and our new friend!

-Which comes first, sausages or friend?

-Obviously sausa… friend!

“Wait! Wait just a moment.”

As soon as they received the sausage promise(?), the guys energetically got up.

Hans also came out breathing hot air and picking up his bow.

But to Choi Hyun-min’s eyes, the bow just looked weak.

It was questionable whether crude wooden bows alone could pierce through the Goblin Lord’s thick hide.

-Master, we’re in a hurry!

-We need to go fight quickly!

The guys were urging him.

But…

Since I got points, it would be better to give them new weapons first.

300 Lord Points earned from achieving the Achievement.

And 300 points earned from the golden heart, for a total of 600 points.

Since 500 points remained out of those…

Click.

Choi Hyun-min poured 200 points into increasing science power.

[Increasing your creatures’ science power.]

[200 Lord Points will be consumed.]

Then, as if a familiar light burst forth—

Whoooosh!

“Huh…?”

A dramatic transformation occurred in the appearance of the Primitive Humans.

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————