Became the Transcendent Monarch of the Corner of the Room - Chapter 98

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Episode 98

-Did you just see that?

-What’s the Past Labyrinth?

-I guess I wasn’t the only one who saw it?

-Does anyone know what the Past Labyrinth is?

….

When the first message appeared.

Countless Hunters were thrown into confusion.

Not targeting any specific someone.

A message that appeared to all Hunters who had awakened abilities.

Suddenly offering a chance to enter a labyrinth without any hints.

Hunters began to be suspicious first.

But that was only for a moment.

-Hey, don’t tell me that’s a 10,000 person limit?

-Huh? The number keeps going up?

-Don’t tell me once it hits ten thousand, no one else can enter?

-Then that means it’s first-come, first-served for ten thousand people?

-I’m going in first~

Hunters who saw the number that was presumably a personnel limit gradually rising.

The fact that the number was increasing in real-time meant the opportunities for those remaining were decreasing.

That instead made the remaining Hunters feel rushed.

-We have to go in first! In the end, this seems similar to the Labyrinth Outskirts too.

-Then the rewards would be even better, right?

-I don’t know, let’s just go in for now.

-Rather than not going in and regretting it, I’d rather go in and regret it!

Like that, without even knowing where they were going.

The number of Hunters choosing to participate seemed to surge rapidly.

Thud.

In an instant, the maximum number of people was completely filled.

9999/10000

A number that left exactly one spot remaining.

Strangely, it seemed like it would end if just one more person joined.

Right before reaching ten thousand, the number stopped.

-Only one spot left?

-I should go in.

-Give up. I’ve been trying several times now, but it won’t let me in.

-That’s right. It shows one spot remaining, but why won’t it let us in?

Was there something hidden?

Or was it simply that the reflection of the already full capacity was delayed?

The message notification about the Past Labyrinth.

Only a few hours had passed since it spread.

Already not only Hunters.

The media and press began talking about the ‘Past Labyrinth.’

-Past Labyrinth, is it real?

-First-come, first-served 10,000 people, can you become one of the chosen?

-The reason the number stopped at 9,999, analyzed with system experts.

-Predicting the interior of the Past Labyrinth with labyrinth experts.

All sorts of stories were pouring out like bamboo shoots after rain.

But none of them were accurately known.

Just random talk from those who couldn’t enter the labyrinth.

And even as nearly half a day passed like that.

The number still remained stopped at 9999.

-Isn’t this fake?

-Right. It doesn’t seem like it has any intention of moving at all.

-I have an acquaintance who succeeded in that, and they’re still fine?

-They weren’t forcibly summoned to the labyrinth or anything?

-They just posted on social media that they went down to the 11th Floor of the labyrinth.

Just as people’s interest was beginning to fade.

10000/10000

[The number of people who can enter the Past Labyrinth has been completely filled.]

Ten thousand Hunters in Korea disappeared without a trace as if by magic.

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‘I should go in, right?’

From the moment the message about the Past Labyrinth appeared.

Choi Hyun-min had been quietly observing the situation.

Even while watching the number rise rapidly, he pondered for a long time.

“It’s a 10,000 person limit, but it’s filling up this quickly.”

They don’t even know what kind of place that is inside.

And they’re applying that quickly?

Let’s watch for now.

How much time had passed since he made up his mind like that?

“It stopped at 9999.”

The number had stopped.

Exactly one spot remained.

The moment he saw that, Choi Hyun-min had an intuition.

‘Don’t tell me this spot is for me?’

If people were gathering this quickly.

There was no way it would stop leaving just one spot.

He even often saw people in the Hunter Club who said they tried hundreds of times for that one spot.

That means….

‘It seems like a system that closes when I enter.’

Choi Hyun-min continued pondering like that for a while.

Only after seeing the message still showing the same number even after several hours passed.

He was certain.

“It was waiting for me.”

Then I should go in.

Making the creator of this Quest wait for several hours was one thing.

But above all, the reward from this place.

Being able to receive the EX-grade reward that the system had confirmed.

If he didn’t know like other Hunters, it would be different.

For Choi Hyun-min who already knew from using the scroll, it was a temptation difficult to refuse.

-Are you really going in?

-Something doesn’t feel right.

-Wherever Master goes, we will follow.

-That’s obvious. If the Savior goes, we will follow without question.

The toys seemed a little afraid too.

But how different could it be from the labyrinth.

Choi Hyun-min, having made his decision.

He muttered toward the empty midair as if speaking.

“I participate.”

The moment those words fell.

Click.

10000/10000

The last digit that seemed like it would never go up changed, filling the 10,000 spots.

The closing message that appeared afterward.

“It’s… closed.”

At that moment.

Flash!

Red light bursting out in all directions.

Crimson light from an unknown source completely blocked his vision.

Choi Hyun-min unconsciously frowned and closed his eyes.

Along with the feeling that his entire body was being twisted around randomly.

He clutched his head.

‘What is this, exactly… It feels like my body is being crumpled like paper…’

Unpleasant light.

Unpleasant sensation.

The feeling of them mixing together haphazardly almost made him vomit right there.

But that was only for a moment.

Fortunately, that hellish time didn’t last long.

Whoooosh.

The moment the red light disappeared and the bizarre sensation vanished as if washed away.

Choi Hyun-min’s vision slowly recovered and his surroundings began to appear one by one.

“Where is this?”

What he saw as soon as he opened his eyes.

It wasn’t the gloomy darkness of the maze, but a vast grassland.

Above, he could see blue sky.

Below, he could see green grass fields spread out widely.

The alien feeling left Choi Hyun-min confused instead.

‘Is this not inside the maze?’

While Choi Hyun-min tilted his head in puzzlement.

Something came pouring down behind him.

-Uuuugh!

-Ugh, I’m dizzy…

-Bleeech!

Block Toys.

Like fish that had been contained in a bucket and were just spilled out.

They were falling from midair onto the grass field.

As soon as they appeared in this place, they grabbed the ground and kept retching.

-M-Master… we came…

-Tsk, how vulgar. [Recovery].

Mage Ian watched that scene with displeasure.

When he lightly cast a spell, green light swept over Choi Hyun-min and the toys.

Then like a lie, the unpleasant mood and disgusting sensations from before were washed away.

“Thank you.”

-Wow! What a relief!

-Mage! As expected of a mage!

-Not at all. I simply didn’t want to show an unsightly appearance to the Savior.

Ian slightly bowed his waist.

Choi Hyun-min expressed his gratitude to him and took a step forward.

“By the way, where is this? It’s definitely not inside the maze we know.”

He had studied and researched the maze like crazy for several years.

But he had never seen or heard of a place like this.

‘If it’s a maze, there should naturally be monsters.’

For now, he couldn’t see anything.

While Choi Hyun-min looked around his surroundings.

One Rocket Artilleryman who had gone somewhere first approached this way.

-Master, over there! I see something strange over there!

“Something strange?”

-Can you see over there?

He turned his head at the guy’s words.

Can he see something?

He narrowed his eyes and frowned deeply, staring in the direction the toy was pointing.

-Over there! There are tent-like things gathered together!

“You’re right?”

Just as the guy said.

At the end of the direction the Rocket Artilleryman pointed, several brown triangular shapes protruding upward were visible.

Certainly if they were that shape, tent-like things seemed likely.

“Should we go take a look?”

-I’ll take the lead.

“I’ll ask you to, Dehof.”

-This kind of thing is nothing.

The barbarian warrior stepped forward boldly at Choi Hyun-min’s signal.

Following his guidance, Choi Hyun-min and Ian.

And the Rocket Artillerymen began moving toward where the tents were.

“It does seem to be tents.”

Vision becoming clearer as the distance got closer.

When they approached within 200-300 meters, he could finally see clearly what that was.

“But it’s strange. Why did they make tents so crudely like that?”

If they were house-shaped objects rising in triangles, they should naturally be tents.

But that was quite different from what Choi Hyun-min knew.

For example… it looked like primitive humans had crudely arranged things in tent form?

The feeling of roughly covering with some unknown hide in a triangular shape.

‘How strange. Who made them so messily like that?’

He’d have to ask when he found other people.

Fortunately, although the distance was quite far.

He could see silhouettes that appeared to be human shapes scattered here and there.

They seemed to be hunters who came in together, so if he asked those people-

Kyaaaaaaak!!!

“Wh-what was that sound?!”

Choi Hyun-min unconsciously turned around at the sudden scream.

The Block Toys that had followed him opened their eyes wide and looked at each other.

-Was that you?

-Not me. My screaming sounds better than that.

-Don’t talk nonsense. I heard it and that doesn’t seem right.

-It seemed to come from the tent direction, Master.

“The tent direction?”

When he turned his body to look toward the tents, indeed.

Someone who appeared to be human-shaped was collapsed on the ground there.

And in front of them-

‘A monster?’

An object that seemed to be three or four times the size of a person was standing there.

It seemed like that bastard had killed the fallen person.

“Let’s go.”

If he hadn’t seen it, that would be one thing.

But he couldn’t just stand by and watch like this.

At Choi Hyun-min’s words, the Block Toys including Dehof quickened their pace.

Clatter clatter!

As they approached the place where the scream had been heard, Choi Hyun-min could finally understand the situation clearly.

‘An Orc! It’s an Orc!’

A massive green-skinned bulk that looked easily over 2 meters tall.

Holding a blood-stained axe in its hand, it was unmistakably an Orc itself.

Moreover, the person lying collapsed and bleeding in front of it was…

‘Judging by the outfit, it looks like a Hunter. Seems like someone with a low level though.’

Grrrrrowl!

Had it changed targets?

The Orc standing nearby suddenly twisted its head and glared in this direction.

“It’s looking this way.”

Crimson eyes.

An eerie gaze that couldn’t be found in ordinary Orcs swept over them.

A moment of silence.

The moment Choi Hyun-min and the Orc’s gazes clashed in midair.

Krrraaahhh!

This time it changed direction and came charging straight toward them.

The Orc ran forward, swinging its massive muscular arms back and forth.

While Choi Hyun-min was flustered, Hans gestured toward the back.

-Master, fall back. We’ll handle this.

Then the Rocket Artillerymen took positions in a semicircle formation as if they had been waiting.

-Fire!

Bang! Pop pop pop bang!

As Hans’s signal dropped.

The cannons of the waiting Rocket Artillerymen simultaneously spat fire.

Flames instantly engulfed the creature.

And explosive sounds.

Kwiiiiek!

It seemed to be quite a strong creature, but as expected, it couldn’t overcome the concentrated bombardment.

The Orc’s screaming was swept away and disappeared in the sound of the shells.

-That’s done, Master. It was nothing special.

Hans shrugged his shoulders while looking at the Orc that had become minced meat.

However, Choi Hyun-min gave no response.

No, he couldn’t.

Because-

[A hidden Quest is provided exclusively to you.]

The moment the Orc died.

A message that absolutely couldn’t be ignored appeared before his eyes.

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