Walkthrough for the Transcendental Hunter's Ruins - Chapter 106

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Episode 106
A Myth-Grade Dungeon. Its name: Traces of All Things.
[Exploration Condition for ‘Traces of All Things’: Defeat ??? (0/1)]
Jeon Jae-woo had entered a Myth-Grade Dungeon.
It was for information gathering before attempting a proper Ruin Conquest.
He wasn’t aiming for a complete clear—just a simple exploration—but his preparations were more thorough than ever.
He didn’t send No-bum in alone; instead, he mobilized all his summons except Jeon Ji-woo.
The Myth-Grade Dungeon—said to be the pinnacle of all ruins encountered thus far.
After walking through the ruin for a moment, a Divine Temple came into view.
The architectural style evoked a Greek temple, though the details diverged subtly here and there.
The difference was that it dwarfed any ruin museum piece by an incomparable margin—towering in scale.
The mana saturating the entire temple was equally formidable.
Jeon Jae-woo lowered his voice and stepped deeper into the temple.
Despite its vast proportions, the path to the center didn’t take long to traverse.
Upon reaching what appeared to be the temple’s heart:
……
A throne—no, a divine seat. Someone was sitting upon it.
A pristine white robe, trailing so long it nearly pooled on the ground.
And contrasting sharply against the robe’s pallor—violet hair.
It appeared to be a humanoid beast, though its face remained obscured in the robe’s shadow, barely discernible.
Its gaze was fixed in their direction, yet it showed no overt reaction.
“Oh. It’s really here.”
“Well, it’s a ruin. Why would a fake one be here?”
The appearance and position of the beast inhabiting the Myth-Grade Dungeon matched the advance intelligence perfectly.
Jeon Jae-woo remained silent on the matter, though internally he was terrified.
An overwhelming sense of pressure emanated from the unknown entity before him.
Was this what a human who had witnessed a true god might feel?
It was like becoming a believer forced to kneel before witnessing a miracle unfold.
His casual words just now had been deliberate—a mask to conceal his mounting dread.
In an instant, the creature’s eyes began to glow violet.
It seemed to have recognized Jeon Jae-woo’s party as enemies.
Jeon Jae-woo hurriedly turned to Myeol-geop.
“Myeol-geop, can you tell anything? What is that thing?”
[I’m afraid not. I can’t quite grasp it. A Divine Race, perhaps? Something along those lines?]
Even Myeol-geop’s Detection Ability couldn’t penetrate it fully. That only made it more terrifying.
He’d have to ask the Mutant—the one who knew everything about such entities—about the creature’s true nature.
In that moment, the unknown ruin’s master rose from its seat.
-Shiiiing…
A piercing chill swept through the entire temple, as if flaying flesh from bone.
“Danger—!”
Before Jeon Jae-woo could even finish his desperate cry,
-Crack-crack-crack!!
Jeon Jae-woo and his summons were frozen solid in an instant.
They weren’t simply trapped inside ice—they were in a state of complete cryogenic suspension.
Fortunately, despite their bodies being frozen, thought seemed possible.
‘What is this?’
His body was frozen, but it wasn’t merely a surface freeze.
The moment the cold touched him, the flow of mana through his body began to cease.
If this continued, he would die from his mana cutting off before he could freeze to death.
Next, the ruin’s master flicked a finger.
-Rumble-rumble-rumble!!
Storm clouds formed near the high ceiling.
Violet Lightning writhed down toward Jeon Jae-woo and his party below.
-Thunder-crack!
It was then that Myeol-geop broke free of the frozen state first,
“Master is in danger!”
No-bum used his Nature-Type Trait to escape the cryogenic suspension, and Catsy similarly shed the constraints of her physical form through Spirit Manifestation.
The violet lightning descended rapidly toward the ground.
No matter how agile Myeol-geop was, there was no way to save his master and escape before that lightning struck.
Myeol-geop activated the Absolute Defense trait to meet the descending lightning head-on.
—Crack-crack-crack-bang!!
The lightning struck, and the detonation erupted in a deafening roar.
[……]
Myeol-geop had blocked the lightning perfectly, shielding his master.
The summons freed Jeon Jae-woo and the Lich King from their frozen state.
[Creator. Let us depart. Since this is our first encounter, this much should suffice.]
“Very well.”
The group escaped the Ruin safely.
“Phew.”
The moment they stepped outside, the breath he’d been holding escaped in a long sigh.
Of course fleeing made sense—they were only here to gather intelligence and gain experience—but.
The opponent they’d faced was so overwhelmingly powerful that doubt gnawed at him now.
‘Can I really win against that?’
For the first time, he was seized by the fear that conquering this Ruin might be utterly impossible.
The Lich King, who had been frozen alongside Jeon Jae-woo, wiped the moisture from his body and spoke.
“It is difficult, but not impossible. With proper combination of our forces, victory is well within reach.”
Easy to say—but how exactly was he supposed to achieve that combination?
“For that, it is essential that the Creator obtain a Transcendent-grade Trait.”
In the past, Myeol-geop had refused to enter combat at all, fearing his master might be harmed.
Now his stance had shifted entirely—Jeon Jae-woo had to fight alongside them, no exceptions.
Jeon Jae-woo exhaled again.
“If I could just acquire a Transcendent-grade Trait, I would’ve done it already.”
No matter how much he trained, he made no progress. What was he supposed to do?
Maybe once Jeon Ji-woo joined them, or if something extraordinary emerged from the egg, he’d have more options.
Still, Jeon Jae-woo continued to train.
It was already difficult to raise his summons’ levels further in their current state.
The best way to improve his odds was to grow stronger himself.
The first thing he encountered upon entering the Ruin was the enemy’s Freezing Ability.
‘This is troublesome from the very start.’
Human, Golem, Undead, Spirit—it froze everything indiscriminately, wholesale.
He had no idea how to counter it.
Myeol-geop had escaped through his own defensive ability.
No-bum had overcome the frozen state with his Nature-Type Trait.
Catsy had shifted into spirit form, escaping the shackles of her physical body entirely.
But Jeon Jae-woo had no suitable Trait to rely on in such situations.
“Can’t I learn a decent Trait of my own?”
“You speak as if obtaining even one S-rank Trait were simple.”
“But if I start practicing now, couldn’t we make it work somehow?”
Given Jeon Jae-woo’s talent, his acquisition speed was extraordinarily fast; it seemed possible to learn something before the Myth-Grade Dungeon Break occurred.
Alternatively, he could ask Catsy to grant him Spirit Manifestation before the battle began.
That would at least prevent him from being frozen.
But the problem was that in spirit form, he couldn’t attack the enemy either.
And there was nothing stopping it from being used repeatedly.
He couldn’t toggle Spirit Manifestation on and off each time the enemy deployed Freezing Ability.
The enemy’s ability activation was also startlingly fast.
While Jeon Jae-woo was brooding over this, Catsy spoke up.
[Instead of manifesting your entire body as spirit, what if you infused only the sword with your soul?]
Jeon Jae-woo looked puzzled.
“What do you mean by that?”
[Exactly as I said. If you can infuse soul into it, then the phenomenon won’t affect you, and regardless of the opponent’s rank, you can still deliver direct damage.]
“How does that help with overcoming being frozen?”
[I mentioned this before—the soul isn’t bound by the laws of the physical world.]
That was why Catsy had escaped the frozen state unscathed.
“…But how am I suddenly supposed to infuse my soul into a sword?”
He’d been training all this time to develop the Divine Sword Unity Trait. Now Catsy was suddenly telling him to infuse his soul into the blade?
Myeol-geop added a word from beside him.
[You need not worry about that. From what I can see, Creator, you have already nearly reached that Realm.]
“What are you talking about now?”
He’d never actually trained in infusing his soul into a sword.
No one had ever taught him how.
However, Catsy nodded in agreement with Myeol-geop’s assessment.
[Your master was closer to the realm of housing his soul in the blade rather than achieving perfect unity of body and sword. Ever since he began imprinting afterimages upon the blade.]
“……??”
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Jeon Jae-woo entered the Ruin several more times after that, each time confronting its master.
He gathered information methodically, and thanks to Mutant’s omniscience, he was able to discern the enemy’s abilities with remarkable speed.
First, there was the Freezing Ability and Violet Lightning that the Ruin’s master had displayed from the outset.
The Freezing Ability was not merely about wielding cold.
It froze the very structure of its target, bringing it to a halt.
The freeze showed no discrimination.
It worked just as effectively on the living Jeon Jae-woo as it did on the non-living Myeol-geop.
Myeol-geop reported feeling his body collapse while frozen in place.
The violet lightning was formidable in its own right, but it harbored a hidden effect as well.
The more times it struck the same target, the greater its power multiplied.
Beyond that, it appeared the master could also control gravity to some degree, in addition to Psychokinesis.
[Creator. Mutant has discovered one more fact about the Ruin’s master.]
“What is it?”
[Conventional Mana attacks prove ineffective against that creature.]
Jeon Jae-woo’s eyes widened in disbelief.
“What? Attacks don’t work?”
[It appears that one of its abilities is to absorb energy.]
“Energy… you mean it drains life force?”
[That as well. Essentially, anything composed solely of Mana can be absorbed.]
“……”
Jeon Jae-woo found himself at a loss.
So it was nullifying all manner of magical attacks conjured by Hunters—flames, ice, lightning, all of it.
What had been recounted thus far was already utterly absurd, and now this ridiculous ability on top of it all.
‘Is this really a Ruin designed to be conquered?’
He felt like grabbing whoever created this Ruin by the collar and pummeling them just to vent his frustration.
Hunters were called Awakened Ones precisely because they could harness Mana, yet Mana-based attacks proved useless—it was nonsensical.
The cannon fire that Myeol-geop produced was also composed of Mana, so it would have no effect whatsoever.
“How the hell am I supposed to damage it then?”
The Lich King answered Jeon Jae-woo’s exasperated question.
“Attacks not composed of Mana would work. So if you conjure flames with magic and fire them, they’ll be absorbed—but if you summon lightning or kindle fire by striking flint, it can’t absorb those. Naturally, a punch would hurt too.”
But you couldn’t exactly make fire inside the Ruin.
Rubbing sticks together wouldn’t produce anything of real power anyway.
‘Should I bring some ancient weapon like a nuke and fire it?’
Even taking a direct nuclear strike, a Transcendent-grade Hunter wouldn’t blink.
Myeol-geop produced a multitude of weapons from the equipment affixed to his body.
[Do not worry yourself, Creator. The Annihilation Trait is far more than mere cannon fire—there are many methods by which we can inflict damage.]
“I too am capable of it. Death Knights fundamentally wield weapons through physical enhancement, after all, are we not?”
Since the ability absorbed Mana itself, it couldn’t absorb physical attacks where Mana merely reinforced the body or weapon beforehand.
“And I shall continue to support you from beside you!”
Buffs and debuffs, after all, were magical effects that had no tangible form, so they wouldn’t be absorbed either.
Of course, all of Jeon Jae-woo’s Summons were trustworthy and formidable.
Yet that alone would not suffice.
To vanquish the Ruin’s master, he needed something more powerful.
“Then it would indeed be best if the Creator devoted himself to further training in the art of housing his soul within the blade.”
“……”
Transcendent-grade Hunter’s Guide to Ruin Conquest
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