Walkthrough for the Transcendental Hunter's Ruins - Chapter 107

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Chapter 107
It was difficult to grasp exactly what the summons were saying.
In any case, they were saying it was closer to infusing the soul into the blade, so I might as well give it a try.
The judgment of the summons was more reliable than Jeon Jae-woo’s personal intuition, after all.
I’d have to shift the direction of my training.
I postponed the practice of drawing mana from my entire body to achieve Divine Sword Unity.
But the notion of infusing my soul into the blade made even less sense than extracting Sword Force from my whole body.
It wasn’t as though a person could actually feel their own soul while living.
Jeon Jae-woo trained alone and sparred with Jeon Ji-woo, struggling to find purchase on the concept.
Starting with receiving Swordsmanship instruction from the doppelgänger.
Stacking various books on swordplay and reading through them.
Later I considered watching online lectures, but they would be useless to someone with an S-rank Trait like myself.
After exploring the Myth-Grade Dungeon, Jeon Jae-woo couldn’t imagine being more passionate than this.
‘If I’d job-hunted this hard, I’d have found work ages ago.’
In any case, studying without noticing time slip away left me feeling oddly disconnected from reality for a moment.
Whenever I checked my phone, there were loads of messages I’d missed over the past few days.
‘…Why are there so many contacts?’
Most of them were from the Hunter Bureau.
“Jeon Ji-woo, what’s going on at the Hunter Bureau?”
“Huh? Why?”
“You got so many messages. Don’t you know anything about it?”
Jeon Ji-woo, who had been thinking for a moment, seemed to remember something as he spoke.
“Ah. The new Hunter Bureau Director just took office.”
Come to think of it, Yoo Jung-tae had stepped down as director.
I think I vaguely saw news about the new director’s appointment.
Because of Jeon Ji-woo, it received less attention, but the news of a new Hunter Bureau Director was as big a story in South Korea as the emergence of a Transcendent Grade Hunter.
“The new director was actually anxious about why you weren’t answering, and asked me to have you contact him when you have time. I forgot to pass it along, though.”
There were other things to forget, but not a request from the Hunter Bureau Director.
That guy had a habit of easily wiping away memories he deemed unnecessary.
“So who is the new director?”
“Um. I haven’t seen him before. You probably don’t know him either? Just search the internet if you’re curious.”
“So what’s his name?”
“Uh… His name?”
“Never mind.”
Even if Jeon Jae-woo wasn’t affiliated with the Hunter Bureau, as he continued working as a hunter, he would inevitably encounter the director.
Since that person wanted to talk first, it seemed wise to contact him again when I had time.
“So what’s the new director like? Does he seem like a decent person?”
Jeon Ji-woo shrugged.
“Just ordinary. He seems to want to do well by the hunters, but since he only just took office, I don’t really know him yet.”
“What’s the atmosphere like at the Hunter Bureau? How are the other S-Rank Hunters reacting?”
“Hmm… The mood did become heavier after Director Yoo Jung-tae stepped down, but it’s not like everyone’s depressed or anything.”
Jeon Ji-woo became a Transcendent Grade Hunter, conquered an Ancient-grade Ruin, and was promoted to raid leader of the Hunter Bureau’s main strategy team.
With the promotion came a surge of confidence that was more pronounced than usual.
“Since you’ve grabbed such a high position, put in the work. And don’t do anything strange.”
“A raid leader? I’d need to be at least Hunter Bureau Director for a really high position.”
The way Jeon Ji-woo said it carried deeper meaning than usual.
‘…Don’t tell me he’s thinking about becoming director later?’
Lich King chimed in from the side as if it were only natural.
“He’s the Hunter Bureau’s only Transcendent Grade Hunter and the strongest—why couldn’t he manage it?”
“But still… Being good at hunting and becoming director are two different things.”
“What makes these other humans so remarkable that they’ve reached high positions? Rather, the doppelgänger has no other obstacles, so he could handle his duties fairly and justly.”
Jeon Jae-woo doesn’t doubt that Jeon Ji-woo has the ability.
From the short time they’d spent together, his character seemed fine.
‘…But still, having my personal doppelgänger become Hunter Bureau Director feels wrong somehow.’
The new Hunter Bureau Director would be a summon who obeyed Jeon Jae-woo’s every personal command.
Jeon Jae-woo wasn’t particularly moral or virtuous, but this felt excessively wrong.
Installing a personal summon as the head of a major state institution.
It was like running a conspiracy straight out of a movie, perpetrating a nationwide fraud.
Even a behind-the-scenes powerbroker didn’t operate like this.
If it were discovered by any chance, the backlash would be catastrophic.
“Why worry so much? Even if we’re discovered, what can they do about it?”
“…Do I really seem like someone trying to conquer the Korean Peninsula?”
“Judging by your forces alone, I’d believe you were aiming to conquer not just the Korean Peninsula, but all of Eurasia—no, the entire world, if I’m honest.”
Hmm. There was no real argument against that.
Jeon Ji-woo stroked the egg on the sofa and shifted the subject.
“Any signs of this egg hatching?”
“If the egg isn’t dead, it’ll hatch eventually. Who knows when, though.”
“Seems like pouring mana into it has some effect?”
“…It’ll hatch eventually. Probably.”
In truth, nothing had changed since he’d first brought the egg home.
If he acquired a Transcendent-grade Trait, would things shift?
‘Wait, I already have a Transcendent-grade Trait.’
If the issue wasn’t a matter of grade, then something else must be needed to wake it.
Jeon Jae-woo accepted the egg and carefully infused mana into it once more.
As he did, perhaps sensing the presence of its master drawing near, the egg trembled ever so slightly.
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Time flowed like waves.
Six weeks passed, and the Ruin allocation began anew.
Now only Legend-rank Ruins that had remained unconquered for ages remained.
While Ancient-tier Ruins still appeared almost every month during allocation, none that had gone unconquered for long remained.
Perhaps because all remaining unconquered Ancient-tier Ruins had vanished.
The Ruin System underwent yet another transformation.
“What is this??”
Every Hunter worldwide waiting for Ruin allocation was bewildered.
This time, Ruins were not divided by continent.
They were simply allocated at random to any nation on any continent.
‘God, this insane system is acting up again.’
All the Hunters frowned in frustration.
Couldn’t the system just follow the original rules it created?
It was absurd enough that Ruins silent for decades suddenly went haywire, but now there was the penalty that failure to conquer quickly meant higher difficulty, and now it was random on top of that.
Why did the rules keep changing like this, confusing everyone?
‘If it works like this, there’s no point in whether we conquer Ancient-tier Ruins or not…’
Jeon Jae-woo tilted his head in confusion.
“Why does the system keep changing?”
[Because the Hunters conquering the Ruins bring change, the system continues to change as well.]
“Change? What kind of change did we bring?”
Myeol-geop stared directly at his master without answering.
“…Surely you don’t mean because of me?”
Myeol-geop shrugged his shoulders and gave an oddly vague answer.
[I’m not saying it’s definitely because of that, so please don’t misunderstand. It’s just that the Creator recently conquered all the remaining Ancient-tier Ruins in one go.]
……
Originally, one Ancient-tier Ruin should have been allocated per continent each quarter, but since that was no longer necessary, was the system now dispensing Legend-rank Ruins at random?
‘So it all comes back to me, then.’
Well, random Ruin allocation was what it was.
Jeon Jae-woo paid no mind to the allocation and prepared for his own Ruin Conquest.
Having helped this much, the nations could handle Legend-rank Ruin Conquests on their own from here on.
With the experience accumulated so far, most would find a way to manage.
South Korea had no Ruin allocation this time, so things were relaxed.
Even if there were one, Jeon Ji-woo, a Transcendent-grade Hunter, was firmly in place, so there’d be no problem.
He’d heard that some minor nations had come seeking Jeon Ji-woo’s help with Ruin Conquests.
The South Korean Hunter Bureau flatly refused, calling it absurd.
Jeon Jae-woo, being unaffiliated, could only watch the Hunter Bureau scramble if foreign aid requests came his way, but Jeon Ji-woo was officially registered with the Hunter Bureau, so they protected him unconditionally.
In any case, Jeon Jae-woo had completed meticulous preparations for the Ruin Conquest.
He was supposed to focus solely on training for the time being—so why undertake a Ruin Conquest?
It was because among the new Ruins released with this allocation, one Legend-rank Ruin had appeared whose reward was an additional Conquest Token.
When No-bum found out what the reward was, Jeon Jae-woo was genuinely startled.
‘It’s been forever since a Conquest Token was a reward.’
Ruins offering additional Conquest Tokens as rewards were truly rare.
Of course, since it was a Legend-rank Ruin, the reward was only one Token, but it was essentially an opportunity to obtain premium materials without depleting his uses, so the Conquest was essential.
Of course, even if it was “merely” a Legend-rank Ruin, he had to prepare thoroughly.
“Then let’s go.”
Jeon Jae-woo entered the Ruin with his summons.
[‘Temptation of Nightmares’ Conquest Condition: Eliminate all Monsters within the Ruin (0/52)]
True to its name, this Ruin was populated by Monsters whose specialty was seduction.
Succubi—the creatures that came to mind first when one thought of fantasy novels.
They were humanoid Monsters in the shape of demons, flying through the air half-naked.
An ordinary man would probably stand dumbfounded, entranced by their beautiful appearances soaring bare through the sky.
But once inside, he’d have nothing but curses spilling from his lips.
‘Damn it, what even are those things?’
The Succubi were grotesque beyond measure.
They were humanoid, certainly, but their appearance and aura defied any single gender—leaning heavily toward an unsettling neutrality.
More than that, their bodily structure was simply constructed so that one couldn’t determine their sex by physical form alone.
It was impossible to tell whether they should be called Succubi or Incubi.
Rather than being captivated by their appearance, one felt only revulsion and an inexplicable sense of unease welling up from within.
“I had some expectations when I heard this Ruin had Succubi, but…”
Jeon Jae-woo’s mood had soured considerably.
“You didn’t ask to come here just for that reason, did you?”
“I was joking. Just a joke.”
What was particularly grating was how faithfully the Ruin’s name—Temptation—held true in every bitter way.
The moment the Succubi recognized their enemy and released Mana from their bodies, mist poured in from all around.
The instant his body touched the mist the Succubi had exhaled, his mind became hazy and clouded.
He had no experience with it, but if there were a hallucinogenic state, it might feel something like this.
In crude terms, this was probably what “getting knocked out” felt like.
[Master. Come to your senses.]
Thanks to Catsy’s voice from beside him, he barely managed to pull himself back.
“Ugh.”
He’d almost fallen under the spell of those inhuman creatures.
Now that he was clear, the thought made his skin crawl.
Meanwhile, Myeol-geop spoke with apparent interest.
[How fortunate.]
“What suddenly became fortunate?”
[Their ability is to seize and shake the souls of their opponents.]
Myeol-geop gestured toward the Succubi and continued.
[Try resisting them well. Perhaps it may become a clue to enhancing the Creator’s abilities.]
……
It seemed his summons had no intention of helping him while he grew here.
How S-Rank Hunters Conquer Ruins
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