Became the Transcendent Monarch of the Corner of the Room - Chapter 95

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Episode 95

A sudden explosive sound erupted.

Along with the heat spreading in all directions, Lee Mu-chil instinctively felt it.

‘This… I need to dodge it!’

This wasn’t something he could endure.

Thinking that, Lee Mu-chil quickly stepped back.

The massive flame pillar that suddenly appeared swept through exactly where he had been standing and disappeared.

‘That was close. If I hadn’t dodged, I would have been caught in it.’

Was that attack aimed at him?

The spot where Lee Mu-chil had been standing just moments ago was completely destroyed and burning black.

“Cough! Cough!”

Thanks to that, Jeon Woo-jin was freed from the attack.

He stepped back and kept coughing repeatedly.

And between the two of them.

A mysterious man appeared through the distorted space.

No…

Was it just one person?

One, two, three…

Dozens of people suddenly poured out.

They had an appearance reminiscent of soldiers, carrying long metal rods on their shoulders.

In addition, there was a Bald Barbarian Warrior and a Man in White Robe.

Nearly thirty people appeared, cutting through space.

And at the end of them…

“Phew, thank goodness. Thanks to the item, we arrived on time.”

“Im Ye-seo!!!”

It was Im Ye-seo, Heukpung’s rear guard.

As soon as she came out of the dimensional gate, she turned around and ran to Jeon Woo-jin.

“Master, are you alright?”

“Cough! I, I’m fine. But why did you come back…?”

“I brought people who will help us.”

“People who will help…?”

At Im Ye-seo’s calm explanation.

Jeon Woo-jin lifted his head and looked straight ahead.

‘Soldiers…?’

Did she bring state-affiliated Hunters?

The Awakening Management Agency.

If not that, it would be about the mobile unit level.

Calling them wouldn’t be able to stop the Phoenix Union.

No, even they would try to side with Phoenix rather than Heukpung in the first place.

Such a useless act…

Had even the last remaining hope disappeared despite his expectations?

“You should have at least run away.”

Jeon Woo-jin spoke bitterly.

She couldn’t have failed to see this desperate situation.

To foolishly come back again.

However, Im Ye-seo’s expression was completely different from before.

“Don’t worry, Master. We can win as long as they help us.”

Im Ye-seo spoke with unusual confidence, unlike her usual self.

While she spoke, the rocket troopers took their positions one by one in a long line.

“What, what are these bastards? Don’t tell me they’re people sent by the Awakening Management Agency?”

Lee Mu-chil sensed something ominous.

He glared at them with sharp eyes.

It looked as if they were surrounding him.

But even then, Lee Mu-chil wasn’t particularly frightened.

‘Looking at their faces, they’re at least not rankers.’

He already knew all the faces of rankers within the top 100.

If they were faces he didn’t recognize, they would naturally be Hunters below that level.

He could cut down such worthless trash whether a hundred or a thousand came.

These guys would be the same.

Finally feeling a bit relieved, Lee Mu-chil’s expression relaxed slightly.

“Well, obviously they’re guys that the Heukpung bastards dragged over by throwing them a few coins. How foolish that choice was…”

Lee Mu-chil regained his composure.

He provoked the soldiers with his usual sneering tone.

But that was as far as it went.

Half-listening to Lee Mu-chil’s words.

Instead of getting angry, the mysterious soldiers.

Aimed the ends of the metal clubs they were holding toward him.

‘Could it be…?’

An ominous premonition rushed over him at that moment.

“W, wait!”

Lee Mu-chil urgently reached out his hand to try to stop them.

Boom!

A dizzying explosive sound erupted from the metal rod of the soldier standing closest.

At the same time, scorching heat rushed toward him.

Only then did he realize.

“Th… Crazy!!!”

That wasn’t a simple metal club.

It was a rocket launcher used in wars.

Lee Mu-chil unconsciously spat out curses.

He urgently swung his hand to deploy his spirit blade.

Swoosh.

A purple diagonal line drawn as powerful magic unfolded.

At his gesture, the rocket fired by the soldier exploded in midair.

Seeing this, Lee Mu-chil secretly let out a small sigh.

‘Th… thank goodness. I almost got hit directly.’

If it was at a level that could be cut with a spirit blade.

Dealing with those guys wouldn’t be too difficult.

Besides, such crude rocket launchers would take a very long time to fire the next shot after firing one.

Couldn’t he just reach out and cut their throats with his spirit blade?

“These idiotic Heukpung bastards. They were hoping for help by calling such guys… Huh?”

Lee Mu-chil was thinking that way.

He urgently turned his head at the ominous sensation felt from all directions.

The remaining twenty-five rocket troopers.

The rocket launchers they were holding all simultaneously spat fire toward Lee Mu-chil.

Bang! Kwaaaaang!

“Damn bastards… Kragh!!”

He tried swinging his hand to deploy his spirit blade.

But it was far insufficient to block the rocket launchers firing simultaneously.

“Krrgh…”

Still, was a ranker a ranker after all?

Despite the continuous bombardment, he had only sustained injuries here and there.

They hadn’t managed to deal him a fatal blow.

“Where… did they bring these bastards from…”

Stagger.

Lee Mu-chil swayed from the massive firepower.

He slowly pressed his hands against the ground and got back up.

A smile that had never been seen before was spread across his face.

“Is this… all you’ve got, you bastards?”

Already from that single attack.

Lee Mu-chil had grasped their weakness.

The fact that no follow-up attack came.

It clearly meant they couldn’t immediately launch consecutive attacks.

It was obvious that reloading would take at least several seconds.

For a ranker like Lee Mu-chil, that was an eternity of time.

More than enough time to cut down those measly less-than-thirty bastards.

“Now it’s over.”

What could these rat bastards possibly accomplish with their struggling anyway.

Unless they were going to charge at him swinging those massive iron clubs.

There was nothing they could do…

-Berserker system activated.

“What, what did it say?!”

Whirrrrr!

Lee Mu-chil had raised his hands, ready to gleefully cut them down.

He paused momentarily at the sudden mechanical sound that struck his eardrums.

Along with that, the iron clubs the soldiers were holding.

The moment he faced that sight.

Lee Mu-chil’s instincts warned him.

Dangerous.

This time was different from before.

Irresistible fear dominated his entire body.

It wasn’t simply that they were strong.

It was a sense of defeat and helplessness that he could only lose completely.

‘No…!’

But Lee Mu-chil couldn’t do anything.

The front of the iron clubs began to glow bright red.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

They began spewing fire continuously like mad.

“You damn…!!!”

Wasn’t that previous attack supposed to be the end?

He struggled to swing his spirit sword to block the shells.

But that was only possible for one or two shots.

Bang! Kaboom!

The rocket launchers kept firing as if they were pistols.

Blocking the tremendous bombardment from twenty-six rocket troopers was completely impossible.

“Kraaaagh!”

Flames instantly engulfed his body.

An explosion loud enough to deafen surrounded the area.

And then it swallowed Lee Mu-chil’s body whole.

“Im, impossible… Big, big brother… is dead?!”

At the unbelievable sight before their eyes.

The Phoenix Union Hunters who had trusted and followed behind.

They froze in place like blocks of ice.

Whir.

As if noticing their state.

The soldiers’ rocket launchers rotated.

Bang! Kaboom!

They poured fire once again toward the remaining Phoenix Union Hunters.

Another dizzying explosion erupted!

Though their numbers were much greater.

When even Lee Mu-chil, a top-tier ranker, couldn’t properly block it.

There was no way Hunters far below his level could withstand it.

“Hyaaaagh!”

“Kugh!!”

Hunters disappearing with single screams.

The Phoenix Union members who had just been threatening Heukpung.

Vanished without a trace in less than a few minutes.

Clatter.

All that remained were weapons like swords and daggers the Hunters had dropped.

“This… this is…”

And Jeon Woo-jin, the master of Heukpung who had watched from beginning to end.

He couldn’t close his mouth at the shocking scene.

‘Wh, what are these people?!’

Their attire was completely different from ordinary Hunters to begin with.

If they were typical Hunters.

Even top-tier rankers would normally wear basic armor and equipment.

But these people were civilians-

And wearing old-fashioned military uniforms at that.

And what were those rocket launchers slung over their shoulders?

Using firearms meant for war made them seem far from being Hunters.

Their equipment and clothing were so bizarre that they couldn’t even be considered Hunters.

‘Those people swept away Lee Mu-chil. And in an instant…’

Those strange people.

Had literally erased the great Lee Mu-chil from this world.

Thud. Thunk.

Ashes rolling messily across the floor.

Just moments ago, that had been the very bastard who was ranting about annihilating Jeon Woo-jin and Heukpung.

“…Who are you people?”

The surprise was brief.

Jeon Woo-jin barely calmed his heart.

He managed to get up and approached the soldiers.

-Are you asking us?

“That’s right.”

-Don’t want to tell you.

“…Excuse me?”

-I said we can’t tell you.

What kind of response is this?

Whatever the reason, he did owe them his life, so he was trying to at least exchange names.

But the soldiers with rocket launchers shook their heads like children at Jeon Woo-jin’s question.

Jeon Woo-jin stood there dumbfounded at the unexpected answer.

“Ma, Master!”

He turned his eyes to Im Ye-seo’s call, who had been watching the situation from beside him.

“Don’t tell me, are these people from Manwol?”

Before Im Ye-seo left Heukpung.

He remembered the fact that she had said she would ask Manwol for help.

However, to his question.

“Uh… Um… Well…”

Her expression became ambiguous.

“Didn’t you say you would go directly to Manwol?”

“Y-yes, that’s right. It is, but…”

Jeon Woo-jin wouldn’t know.

But those soldiers-

That is, for Im Ye-seo who knew the identity of the rocket artillery troops.

It was quite a dilemma how she should answer.

“Um… Choi Hyun-min from Manwol helped us.”

“Choi Hyun-min… You mean Chairman Choi’s youngest son?”

“That’s right.”

That person?

But he’s not even a Hunter?

‘Ah, I see. That person must have used his influence to send these people.’

Jeon Woo-jin, who had been puzzled for a moment.

He soon nodded as if he understood.

Of course, the two were saying the same thing but understanding it in different ways.

But what did it matter as long as the result was good.

“More importantly, Master, are you alright?”

“I don’t have any injuries, but…”

Sting.

“Ugh!”

Jeon Woo-jin, who had been answering Im Ye-seo’s question calmly.

He involuntarily let out a groan at the pain rising from his entire body.

Pain severe enough to make his brow furrow deeply.

At that sight, Im Ye-seo let out a small sigh.

“Is it… because of the poison?”

“Yes. Looking at your face, you must be in quite a bit of pain too. Are you okay?”

The poison that Phoenix Union had fed them.

Heukpung was second to none when it came to making medicine.

But they hadn’t been able to identify the name or components of the poison those people used.

The skin all over their bodies was turning dark blue.

They were gradually losing strength, and their mana was being depleted.

Im Ye-seo, who had seemed relatively fine, already had about half her face changed.

“Master. Even now, we should find someone who can detoxify the poison-“

“It’s too late. If we can’t do it, then no one else in this country can either.”

“How can that be…!”

Im Ye-seo, trying to grasp at straws.

And Jeon Woo-jin shaking his head at that sight.

He had already given up.

That’s when it happened.

-If it’s poison, I believe I can resolve it for you. What do you think?

Before the two people who had reached death’s door.

A man in white robes suddenly appeared.

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