The Return of the Legendary All-Master - Chapter 87

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Chapter 87

Hoyeong Guild.

“Min Ji disappeared?”

Yeo Soon Woo looked up from his documents with a puzzled expression.

“…Yes.”

“What do you mean by that? Tell me in detail.”

Today, Yeo Soon Woo had confirmed that his daughter entered the capsule before logging in himself.

So saying she disappeared didn’t make sense.

She must have just logged out.

However, as the reporter’s report continued, Yeo Soon Woo’s expression grew increasingly serious.

“…The last place her signal was detected was Früneum.”

Früneum.

Yeo Soon Woo’s expression hardened coldly.

“So… Min Ji went to search for traces of the guild members who went missing, and now Min Ji’s traces have also been cut off there?”

“…Yes.”

Since the traces were cut off inside the dungeon, something must have happened in there.

“Hmm, Min Ji isn’t a child who would struggle in just Früneum.”

Früneum’s level was only 139.

And Yeo Min Ji was a ranker with a level over 300.

There was no way such a daughter would encounter trouble in just Früneum.

“Yes. That’s what makes it even more puzzling.”

The reporter had the same thoughts.

For Yeo Min Ji, who had completed even her 4th job advancement, it was a toy-level dungeon.

“…Could it be a trap?”

“A trap?”

“Yes.”

Trap.

Though rarely discovered now, in the early days of New World on the South Korea Server, various traps were found almost daily.

Since Yeo Soon Woo was also an early user, he had stepped on many traps while exploring dungeons.

Among them were some very vicious traps that gave him quite a hard time escaping.

If she was caught in a trap, it would make sense that his daughter was struggling.

“But would traps still exist now…? Früneum is a dungeon that many users still frequent.”

The problem was that traps don’t activate again once they’ve been triggered.

Literally a pitfall.

If a trap existed in Früneum, it should have been triggered long ago.

The feeling wasn’t good.

Yeo Soon Woo tapped his fingers on the table, lost in thought.

‘Min Ji is at a level where she can take care of herself.’

Though he loved his daughter dearly, he couldn’t always protect her.

As a ranker, Yeo Min Ji also needed to overcome difficulties with her own strength.

However, he couldn’t just sit and watch either.

“One day. I’ll watch for one day and then move.”

“One day…?”

Yeo Soon Woo nodded.

“Yes.”

“Understood. I’ll arrange to send personnel to Früneum after 24 hours.”

The reporter who received the instruction hurriedly tried to leave the guild leader’s office.

Then Yeo Soon Woo tilted his head with a puzzled expression.

“Hmm? What do you mean by that?”

“Pardon?”

“I’m going myself.”

* * *

Jung Hoon hurriedly headed to Rohais Territory.

[Lv.139 Früneum]

“So this is the place.”

They would never dream that this dungeon would become the cause of Hoyeong’s downfall.

[You live such a busy life. What’s wrong with resting a little?]

“I did rest.”

[What? When?]

“Isn’t 8 hours of rest plenty?”

[Master, I’m seriously asking – are you perhaps a former delinquent?]

“What nonsense are you talking?”

[Your behavior is exactly like a delinquent’s. If you make someone work, you should give them proper rest!]

She really never lets things slide easily.

“Fine. Let’s rest for a day after this job is done.”

[Two days.]

“One day. Take it or leave it.”

[Wow, are you really going to be that petty?]

“Yeah. Think it over slowly and choose. I don’t mind moving right away.”

Jung Hoon grinned.

At that leisurely smile, Mukho seemed to fill with anger and clamped his mouth shut.

If he started yelling here, it was obvious he wouldn’t even break even.

‘Now you’re finally using some judgment?’

Jung Hoon crossed the portal and entered the dungeon.

[You have entered Lv.139 Früneum.]

Upon entering the dungeon, monsters roaming the plains caught his scent and began slowly gathering toward Jung Hoon.

Früneum wasn’t particularly difficult to subjugate compared to its level, and the reason was none other than the terrain.

A plain with nothing but weeds and grass, making it impossible for users to hide.

Over 200 Silver Hawk Boars were roaming around on it.

The inability to hide applied to them as well.

So with just one wide-range attack, the number of monsters would quickly decrease.

Just like right now.

[Lightning Bolt]

The powerful Epic-grade electric magic struck the Silver Hawk Boars.

“Kweeeeeeek!”

“Kweeeekeeeeeek!”

The Silver Hawk Boars were instantly electrocuted, seven at a time, by Lightning Bolt.

Because the maximum number of targets that could be attacked with each cast was seven.

Jung Hoon continued casting Lightning Bolt, reducing the number of Silver Hawk Boars.

“Kweeeeekeek!”

“Kweeeeeeek!”

The last remaining Silver Hawk Boar screamed as it was electrocuted.

[Using Intermediate Healing.]

He used Intermediate Healing to recover his depleted health.

“Let’s go.”

[Master! Wait a moment.]

Just as he was about to move straight to the Boss Zone, Mukho stopped Jung Hoon.

“Why? Is there something?”

[Yeah. I think I found it. That grassland over there.]

The place Mukho pointed to was grassland located a bit away.

“Over there, you mean.”

Jung Hoon’s eyes lit up as he entered that grassland.

Mukho reacted very sensitively to the faint energy flowing from traps.

[Keep going in. Left here, right here.]

Thanks to that, finding traps wasn’t difficult.

[Trap is activating.]

Along with the message that a trap had been discovered, Jung Hoon also entered the trap.

* * *

Why?

Why do I keep going in circles on the same path?

‘No matter which way I go, I return to the starting point… Will I really be able to get back?’

Yeo Min Ji was trying hard to suppress her confused feelings, but that too was reaching its limit.

Several days had already passed.

Since she had crossed into another dimension, even if time flowed differently, quite a lot of time might have passed outside as well.

‘Father must be worried too…’

She was worried about her father.

He must already be busy with guild matters, and she bit her lips until they bled at the fact that she had become a burden.

“Miss… this doesn’t seem like a path either.”

“Sigh, what should we really do…?”

Three guild members were following behind her.

The emergency rations and water they had stored in their inventory.

The emergency rations that had been full were now running low, and only two 2-liter bottles of water remained.

If only logout were possible…

“Hah… I think I’m really going to die now…”

One guild member collapsed on the spot.

He had long since exceeded his limits both physically and mentally.

He needed to logout to rest his body, but being trapped in the trap prevented him from doing so, causing an overload.

At this rate, his physical body in the capsule wouldn’t be able to endure, and eventually the guild member here would also collapse and never get up again.

“Get up! You can’t give up here!”

Yeo Min Ji forcibly helped the guild member to his feet.

The moment they gave up, everything would be over.

She didn’t want to collapse in this damn maze.

“…Miss, can we really make it out alive?”

“It doesn’t seem possible anymore…”

Everything around them was completely white.

Even after walking for days, the scenery never changed, driving them to the brink of madness.

“We can definitely get out. I’ll make sure of it.”

Yeo Min Ji didn’t want to crush their hope.

The only thing she could do now was escape this maze with her own power.

However, they continued to wander around the same places afterward.

Eventually, Yeo Min Ji and the guild members found themselves back at the starting point of the maze.

‘Why on earth?’

Yeo Min Ji slowly retraced the path she had taken.

No matter how much she thought about it, she couldn’t see the answer.

Could it be a maze with no solution…?

Just as her thoughts reached that point.

Bang!

A small explosion sound occurred from a short distance away.

Since it was such a quiet place, the explosion sound was heard very vividly.

“Huh? It seems like there’s someone else here besides us.”

“That’s right. Who could it be?”

“Breaking through these walls would be impossible though…”

The guild members had also tried destroying the maze walls.

However, the walls were so solid that they couldn’t even scratch them.

“Let’s go check out the situation first.”

Yeo Min Ji hurriedly headed toward that location.

And before long, she was able to spot the person standing there.

“Who is that person?”

One of the guild members recognized him.

“Jung Hoon!”

Yeo Min Ji ran toward Jung Hoon.

“Min Ji, are you okay?”

Jung Hoon smiled brightly as he checked on her well-being.

At that sight, Yeo Min Ji felt a slight surge of emotion.

The whisper message she had sent in haste was quite clumsy, but Jung Hoon had come all this way just from seeing that.

“…Thank you for coming.”

“It was something I naturally had to do.”

He had to save Ho Young so that the shield needed for Mother’s growth wouldn’t disappear.

And there was one more thing he wanted to ask for help with regarding this incident.

Jung Hoon had already finished all the calculations in his head.

“Naturally…”

Yeo Min Ji smiled brightly.

[Oh my, look at this guy flirting? This is making me cringe.]

‘Are you talking to me?’

[Oh my, look at this master? His pickup game is quite artistic. If he went to high society, he might have been famous as a playboy?]

‘Wait. If you do that one more time, I’ll get rid of you?’

[…I was just joking around a bit. How was it? Was it fun?]

He could somewhat understand why Siegfried had sealed Mukho.

Jung Hoon pointed with his hand to the wall he had just broken through.

“Then let’s quickly get out of here.”

“What?”

The wall had a hole in it.

“No way, how did you break through that…?”

“That’s impossible…”

The guild members were shocked at seeing the broken wall.

“How did you do it?”

Yeo Min Ji was equally surprised.

She had also tried to break through the maze with force, but had failed.

Jung Hoon had broken through those solid walls.

“Feel the mana flowing through the wall slowly. Then you’ll sense that one particular spot is completely empty.”

“…You’re saying you can sense that?”

“Yes.”

Though he said it like this, it actually wasn’t a simple task.

To sense the constructed mana circuits, one’s senses had to be extremely sharp.

Jung Hoon had experience from before his regression, and was additionally enhanced by Sharp Senses.

Moreover, to break through this wall, it required not just mana, but divine power as well.

It was set up so that the wall would only crumble when struck with energy that fused mana and divine power.

‘No wonder even that Yeo Soon Woo couldn’t break through the wall.’

The worst trap that had driven Ho Young to death.

That trap was now being dismantled by Jung Hoon’s hands.

“…Wow.”

Yeo Min Ji, who didn’t know this, looked at Jung Hoon as if he were a monster.

In New World, level was absolute, but Jung Hoon was defying that rule.

“That’s the young lady’s disciple….”

“I think I understand why she brought him to Hoyeong.”

“He even has a Hidden Class… This is really amazing.”

The guild members kept exclaiming in admiration.

Yeo Min Ji had mentioned him as a disciple because the guild members were nearby.

“Right? Then shall we continue?”

Jung Hoon moved toward the broken wall.

Then a different path from before appeared.

“…So this was the method of breaking through while advancing.”

“Yes. That’s right.”

Jung Hoon continued to break through walls and advance from then on.

[Right! Left!]

The reason he could advance without hesitation was because Mukho’s orders kept coming.

When 5 hours had passed like this, Jung Hoon reached the end of the maze with unstoppable momentum.

“You can’t pass through here.”

[Lv.156 Clone A]

It was Jung Hoon’s clone made of a black form.

That wasn’t the end of it.

[Lv.352 Clone B]

A clone that copied Yeo Min Ji.

And three additional clones that copied the guild members behind them.

Five clones were created like this, blocking the path.

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