Walkthrough for the Transcendental Hunter's Ruins - Chapter 109

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Episode 109
A few days later, Jeon Jae-woo visited the Hunter Bureau.
“Welcome.”
“Hello. Director. I’m Jeon Jae-woo.”
“Thank you for coming. Please, this way.”
The new director of the Hunter Bureau had come down to the first floor in person to greet Jeon Jae-woo.
Of course, in a quiet space where no one else was around.
The tea served in the director’s office was a different variety from what he’d had when meeting Yoo Jung-tae.
The director had changed, and so had the tea.
“I’m Jin Young-soo. I look forward to working with you.”
According to Jeon Ji-woo, he was a veteran elder who had been S-rank and retired from active hunting.
Jeon Jae-woo had never properly heard his name before.
‘Maybe I caught it once on the news when I was a kid?’
As an S-rank, he must have been quite famous in his day, but Jeon Jae-woo knew little about him.
He hadn’t been particularly interested in hunter affairs before awakening anyway.
“Thank you again for making the trip to the Hunter Bureau.”
“You reached out to me several times, and I apologize for the slow response.”
“Please don’t say such things. Everyone knows you’ve been busy, Hunter Jeon. I’m sorry for troubling you with such a trivial matter.”
The man in his sixties seemed to devote all his attention to avoiding offending the young hunter, as if he were a son he’d met late in life.
Director Jin Young-soo opened his mouth with evident impatience.
“But if I may ask you one thing.”
“Of course.”
“A few days ago, you suddenly conquered a Legendary-grade Ruin, and it quite startled me. If I’m not mistaken, you don’t have many Conquest Rights remaining…”
Ah. So that was his concern.
Jin Young-soo’s desire was surely to see Jeon Jae-woo preserve one or two Conquest Rights as South Korea’s last line of defense.
“I still have a few Conquest Rights remaining. And fortunately, I received an additional Conquest Token as a reward from this conquest.”
Director Jin Young-soo’s eyes widened.
“Is that truly the case?”
“I was surprised myself. I never expected to receive another Conquest Token.”
“Heh… it seems fortune follows you as well, Hunter.”
Having a Transcendent-grade Trait from the moment of awakening had been the greatest fortune of all.
The conversation with the new director stretched on considerably.
Yet in substance, it amounted to little more than a simple greeting, as Jin Young-soo had said.
To summarize: he was assuring Jeon Jae-woo that he would do his utmost to cooperate with his future hunter activities and asked for his support.
Though publicly it was known that Jeon Jae-woo had exhausted nearly all his Conquest Rights, his influence seemed to have grown even stronger.
The reason was none other than Jeon Ji-woo’s existence.
Of course, no public official knew that Jeon Ji-woo was actually a summon and a doppelgänger, but as siblings, they inevitably influenced each other.
In any case, when Jeon Jae-woo returned home after this rather unrewarding conversation.
He was startled the moment he opened the door and stepped inside.
Roll, roll, roll.
The Divine Beast Egg was moving on its own.
“Oh. You’re home, Master?”
“……??”
Jeon Jae-woo froze for a moment at this sudden situation.
It was somewhat different from the feeling a parent has watching their child take their first steps.
Several of his summons gazed at the egg with curiosity.
“Hey. What’s going on here? Did it hatch?”
Then where is the Divine Beast that hatched from the egg?
Jeon Ji-woo spoke gently while caressing the egg.
“It hasn’t hatched yet. It seems the egg has developed consciousness.”
Looking closely, the egg hadn’t cracked, and there was no sign of anything being born.
Literally, the egg itself was rolling around on its own.
But how could consciousness develop before it was even born?
And rolling around like that, no less?
‘What’s it so active for?’
It wasn’t just moving slightly, waddling a bit.
In particular, the Lich King muttered as he watched the egg with apparent exasperation.
“…Whether it’s been influenced by someone or if it’s naturally this way, I don’t know, but it’s quite a troublesome creature.”
Only then did Jeon Jae-woo look around his home.
The Death Knights summoned by the Lich King were busily moving about, cleaning.
A few flower pots and dishes lay shattered, and the ceiling, floor, and walls—all reinforced with mana barriers—were scored with gouges.
One glance was enough to tell that this creature had thrown a violent tantrum.
“What happened?”
“When the creator isn’t around, it flies about like a shell.”
Now that he looked closely, the bones around the Lich King’s face were slightly compressed.
It must have headbutted the egg directly at some point.
Rolling around aimlessly seemed to be the calmer phase it went through.
Jeon Jae-woo had never heard that a Divine Beast’s egg could move on its own before being born.
At this rate, he wasn’t even sure the thing was really an egg.
What if it wasn’t an egg awaiting birth at all, but rather a Divine Beast wearing the form of an egg?
The egg, spotting Jeon Jae-woo, rolled toward him and began whining as it tried to climb his leg.
It rubbed against him, struggling to work its way up.
‘…It’s adorable.’
Even though it hadn’t hatched yet, watching it move filled him with an unexpected tenderness.
Or perhaps it seemed all the more endearing because of its egg form?
Jeon Jae-woo picked up the egg and sat on the sofa, beginning to lecture it.
Though he doubted his words would register in its current state.
“From now on, you can’t go wandering around breaking things indiscriminately.”
……
The egg showed no particular response.
It seemed his words hadn’t gotten through after all.
Maybe if its energy overflowed, he’d need to take it outside for a walk.
Though he couldn’t exactly put a leash on it like he would a dog or cat.
‘What if I’m holding it and it suddenly breaks free and flies at someone?’
If it collided with an ordinary person, they’d sustain at least serious injuries.
Jeon Jae-woo gently stroked the egg as he usually did, infusing it with mana.
In that instant, as his soul’s essence flowed into the egg—
〈???〉 – Bound to (Jeon Jae-woo)
Description – An egg of a Divine Beast not yet hatched.
Type – Egg
Trait – None
A new Status Window appeared before Jeon Jae-woo’s eyes.
‘What is this?’
It had the exact same form as the Status Window that displayed his other summons’ conditions.
Could this actually be a Status Window for this creature?
A Hunter’s contract with a Divine Beast didn’t typically create a Status Window for that beast.
Status Windows were, at their core, Status Windows created by the Heaven’s Box that displayed the conditions of summons bound to Jeon Jae-woo.
Strictly speaking, it was an ability manifested through the Heaven’s Box’s trait.
Yet this egg wasn’t even a summon created by the Heaven’s Box to begin with.
And the fact that it was doing this before even being born—he’d never imagined such a thing.
Of course, since it hadn’t been born yet, a question mark sat where its name should appear.
‘It looks like it’ll hatch soon. Should I decide on a name beforehand?’
But Myeol-geop opposed the idea of deciding on a name in advance.
[A Divine Beast’s name should be given after it’s born.]
“Why?”
[If you gave it a name like Drake beforehand and a new type of Divine Beast is born, it might seem strange.]
That was a fair point.
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After the egg gained the ability to move on its own, though it still hadn’t hatched,
Jeon Jae-woo poured nearly all his spare time into caring for it.
He’d often stroked it before, but that had been merely the level of caring for a pet.
Now he behaved almost like a parent watching over his own child.
When he’d first seen it, bewilderment had been his initial feeling.
But spending time with it proved far more rewarding than he’d expected.
“Come here, our little one.”
“Now, now. Didn’t Dad tell you not to touch things carelessly?”
He coaxed it, scolded it—acted in every way like its genuine parent.
The egg, in turn, seemed to follow Jeon Jae-woo as if he were its parent.
Whether it actually heard what was said outside remained its own secret.
The Lich King and the other summons stared at the Divine Beast’s egg and shared a common thought.
‘Somehow, it feels like he understands everything.’
Playing the parent role didn’t demand much of me.
The egg doesn’t eat or relieve itself.
All I do is pet it and pour mana into it.
Really, the most important task is keeping it from doing anything reckless.
Sometimes it misbehaves and needs discipline, but every time my summons punished it instead.
Whenever it was being scolded, the egg would always stare straight at Jeon Jae-woo.
Even though the egg has no eyes being an egg, whenever it turns its body this way and stays still, I can feel its gaze.
Eventually, giving in to that gaze several times over, Jeon Jae-woo would scoop the punished egg from the summons’ care and bring it into his own arms.
Naturally, the summons only looked at Jeon Jae-woo with bewildered expressions.
My heart aches, but I know this isn’t right.
After making the same mistake multiple times, the next time it needed punishment, I forced myself to leave it with the summons.
Watching it receive a harsh scolding, all its spirit drained as it stared at the wall—my heart couldn’t have hurt more.
It seemed to feel betrayed by Jeon Jae-woo for not helping it this time.
I worry: will it resent the summons after being scolded so many times before it’s even born?
In any case, since the egg became mobile, it has clung to Jeon Jae-woo with unmistakable devotion.
Enough to earn the jealousy (?) of the other summons.
Myeol-geop and the Lich King didn’t mind how much favor the egg received.
But Catsy and No-bum often watched the egg being petted with evident longing.
As if to say: why does he fawn over that child—technically someone else’s offspring (?)—so much?
Jeon Ji-woo seemed merely interested in watching the egg move; she didn’t appear to find it cute at all.
“Wow, there’s actually a Divine Beast that moves like this?”
“Divine Beasts exist, so why would it be strange for an egg to have a sense of self?”
“What are you talking about now? … Do you actually find it cute?”
“Yeah. It’s really cute.”
“It’s not even a chick, and it hasn’t even been born yet—why is it cute?”
Probably because it charged at her on sight and headbutted her, she treats it like a troublemaker.
The egg’s movements grew more vigorous with each passing day.
It was undoubtedly a sign that hatching wasn’t far off.
Just thinking about what kind of Divine Beast would be born made Jeon Jae-woo’s heart race.
‘What Divine Beast will be born?’
I really have no idea what kind of Divine Beast it will be.
Even the Hunter Bureau said they don’t know what species the egg is.
‘But how can they have kept a powerful Divine Beast’s egg for so long and still not know what species it is?’
The aura emanating from the egg told me nothing.
The Status Window also wouldn’t reveal what species the unborn creature was.
The summons had no way of determining it either.
“If you broke off a piece of the shell and had the Mutant verify it, we might be able to figure it out.”
“…That’s fine.”
“Well then, after the Divine Beast hatches, could I have the leftover eggshell?”
Now that I think about it, the shell after a Divine Beast hatches might be usable as material.
After spending several days together, Jeon Ji-woo seemed confident about the creature’s species.
“Judging by how extremely active it is, it’s definitely a canine-type Divine Beast.”
At Jeon Ji-woo’s words, Jeon Jae-woo let out a hollow laugh as if the idea were absurd.
“A canine? What kind of canine is born from an egg?”
“Divine Beasts aren’t bound by species—some are born from eggs regardless of their kind.”
Oh. Is that so?
Then it must be an incredibly powerful Divine Beast, so maybe a legendary canine, or something like Fenrir.
Jeon Jae-woo wasn’t thinking that far—he simply wanted to pour his affection into it.
But the egg and Jeon Jae-woo were helping each other.
Frequent contact with the master’s soul stimulated the Divine Beast’s egg more intensely.
And with each exchange of resonance, Jeon Jae-woo’s sensitivity to the soul grew keener.
And before long, the egg—which seemed like it would never break—developed its first crack.
How to Conquer Legendary-grade Ruins as a Transcendent-grade Hunter
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