Walkthrough for the Transcendental Hunter's Ruins - Chapter 111

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Chapter 111
A week had passed since the Ruins were distributed.
Each nation had spared no effort in attempting to conquer them.
‘…Quite a lot of failures, though.’
A significant number had failed.
These weren’t even Ancient-grade Ruins—they were Legendary-grade.
Jeon Jae-woo was rather startled to see the results come in.
No matter how long a Ruin had gone unconquered, if a single nation threw its full strength at it, failure shouldn’t have been an option.
Was the phenomenon of difficulty increasing with time becoming more pronounced?
In any case, the first wave had passed, and the next set of Legendary-grade Ruins were assigned.
This time, South Korea was included.
The Hunter Bureau immediately mobilized a Ruin Conquest team.
Yet surprisingly, Jeon Ji-woo was not among them.
Having heard this from his doppelgänger, Jeon Jae-woo tilted his head in confusion.
“You’re not going in?”
“Right. They’re saying only S-Rank Hunters will enter and conduct the conquest. Of course, if worst comes to worst, I’d be deployed.”
They seemed to think the Hunter Bureau’s current forces could manage it one way or another.
He understood their desire to conserve Jeon Ji-woo’s remaining Ruin Conquest attempts.
But soon enough, the other S-Rank Hunters’ remaining attempts would be exhausted.
‘That person named Hee-sung… and Lee Su-ho, wasn’t he a Hunter?’
Those two would need to retire from active duty after entering just one or two more Ruins.
Kim Yu-min’s remaining conquest attempts weren’t much better off.
When that happened, the Hunter Bureau’s remaining S-Rank and above forces would be just Na Yu-gyeong and Jeon Ji-woo.
As for Jeon Ji-woo, well—but Na Yu-gyeong hadn’t even shed her rookie status yet.
Still, once their allotted attempts were spent, they’d have no choice but to deploy Jeon Ji-woo.
‘The Hunter Bureau must be getting a headache about now.’
Eventually they’d have to unearth new S-Rank Hunters to replenish their forces, but that was hardly simple.
Truth be told, wherever you looked in the world, the Hunter Bureau never escaped a shortage of personnel.
South Korea, too, had only become slightly less strained thanks to Jeon Jae-woo’s recent support.
‘Well, they’ll figure it out.’
Whether a Legendary-grade Ruin had been assigned to South Korea was of little concern to Jeon Jae-woo.
Instead, he immersed himself in rigorous Swordsmanship training within the Ruins.
His Summons marveled at the Mana flowing through his blade.
Jeon Ji-woo observed the strange Mana infused in the sword with fascination.
“Wow. Incredible.”
“If you can generate Blade Aura Release from your entire body like that, you’re incredible enough yourself.”
At last he’d managed to infuse his soul into the blade, though he hadn’t acquired a new Trait yet.
Just as Jeon Ji-woo could generate Blade Aura Release from parts of his body without immediately obtaining the Divine Sword Unity Trait.
‘It must be a matter of insufficient mastery.’
Only with complete awakening could he truly be called a fully-fledged Transcendent-Grade Hunter.
Each time he grasped the sword, he felt this peculiar sensation.
It wasn’t so much that the energy itself was strange—rather, it felt like his body was sensing something that shouldn’t exist in reality.
‘Is this the energy of my own soul?’
The definition of the soul had always been unclear to begin with, and the sensation was simply too bizarre.
“Isn’t this Divine Sword Unity in a way? My soul transferred and attached to the blade.”
[That is distinctly different.]
“How is it different?”
[Divine Sword Unity is when the body becomes one with the weapon. This is the soul separating from the body and attaching to an external object instead.]
He didn’t fully understand, but decided not to press for details.
“But what exactly can you do by infusing a soul into the blade?”
He grasped that infusing one’s soul into a sword was no ordinary technique.
But did it actually change anything in practical terms?
The sword’s destructive power hadn’t noticeably increased.
[Simply put, it’s like this.]
Myeol-geop glanced around, then picked up No-bum and brought him forward to Jeon Jae-woo.
[Try piercing him with your sword.]
“?”
Without much thought, Jeon Jae-woo thrust his blade deeply into No-bum.
No-bum was an artificial spirit, but a spirit nonetheless.
Physical strikes had no effect on him whatsoever, so one could swing a sword at him freely without concern.
But this time, the moment Jeon Jae-woo’s blade touched No-bum.
Whoosh—
“What?”
The spot he’d been aiming for caved inward.
Jeon Jae-woo jerked backward in alarm.
He’d nearly inflicted a serious wound on No-bum.
“W-what just happened?”
[That’s the difference between attacking with a soul infused in the blade and manipulating ordinary Mana.]
……
So he could deal direct damage even to incorporeal beings like spirits?
Jeon Jae-woo pushed aside his shock and quickly checked No-bum’s condition.
“No-bum. You all right? I should have been more careful. I’m sorry.”
“Did you forget what my ability is? I can heal this on my own.”
Yet even with No-bum’s S-rank Trait healing power, the wound didn’t mend quickly.
The damage had struck not the body but the essence itself—if you could call it that.
It wasn’t a mortal wound, but No-bum had no choice but to wait for it to heal naturally.
And Myeol-geop told Jeon Jae-woo to swing his blade at the Skeleton Knight as well.
The Skeleton Knight that took Jeon Jae-woo’s strike shattered into fragments.
But the broken Skeleton didn’t rise again—it was utterly destroyed.
The Death Mana at the core of its body had vanished.
Undead summoned by a Summon sometimes fall when attacked, but as undead, they hold no concept of death.
As long as the Lich King—their creator—sustains them with Mana, they are continuously restored.
Yet this time, struck by a blade carrying soul, it was completely annihilated.
This entity had been erased from the world; it would have to be created anew.
[This is what becomes possible.]
“…It’s certainly impressive.”
While not a direct increase in destructive power compared to Divine Sword Unity, it was an ability that made the Transcendent-Grade classification feel anything but wasteful.
Meanwhile, the Lich King, watching his destroyed Summon, wore an expression of consternation.
“And I worked so hard to craft this one…”
Each Death Knight rivaled an S-Rank Hunter, so summoning them again would cost him considerable effort.
‘So that’s what he meant—that I could hold my own against the boss of a Myth-Grade Dungeon?’
Jeon Jae-woo’s grip tightened on the hilt.
“I’ll need to work harder from here on.”
[A sound resolve.]
As Jeon Jae-woo swung the blade again, something occurred to him, and he asked Myeol-geop a question.
“But what happens if the blade gets damaged?”
The soul contained in the blade was, after all, Jeon Jae-woo’s own soul—if it clashed with something, couldn’t it be damaged instead?
To this reasonable concern, the Lich King merely shrugged.
[Well then, the creator’s soul would take damage too. So do swing it carefully, won’t you?]
……??
At the Lich King’s somewhat (?) irresponsible answer, Jeon Jae-woo was left speechless.
“You absolute madman.”
You taught your own master a dangerous technique like this?
And since it’s the soul, there’s no way regular healing can fix it.
It wasn’t an omnipotent ability either.
Even briefly channeling a soul drained stamina and Mana at an extraordinary rate.
Far from being something to use casually, it was a technique he couldn’t employ unless absolutely necessary.
‘…But I’ve already trained this far, so I can’t just abandon it.’
Jeon Jae-woo found himself genuinely worried that he’d need to acquire a Transcendent-Grade Trait.
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The Ruin System—or rather, the entity clinging to Earth and manipulating the Ruin System—thought.
Or rather, the entity clinging to Earth and manipulating the Ruin System was thinking.
‘This won’t do.’
The Ruins are no longer a threat to humankind.
There is no strength left to interfere with the Ruins further.
Decades of intervening in the Ruins had consumed so much of him.
As it stood, his decades-long effort had come to naught.
The Ruins were only ever meant to be a gift handed to Earth’s inhabitants without any price attached.
They were meant to belong entirely to humans from the very beginning.
Which meant that the Hunters entering the Ruins, fighting Monsters, and seizing treasures should never have been possible in the first place.
Just take it as pleasantly as if you’d found an unowned treasure trove, or discovered money lying on the ground as you walked past.
Of course, in the process of fighting over possession of the treasure, they might well have stirred up another storm of bloodshed among themselves.
But the manipulator of the system did not wish for those tremendous resources within the Ruin to simply pass into human hands.
So it planted obstacles to prevent humans from easily claiming their inheritance.
It summoned monsters from another world and threw them into the Ruin, making them fight the humans.
It tempted them, saying that if they guarded the treasure well and prevented humans from taking it, it would make those riches theirs.
But an external entity’s interference in another planet’s system is no trivial matter.
Even as it expended enormous power trying by sheer force to prevent humans from claiming their inheritance, the humans nonetheless seized the fruits of the Ruins, accepting only minor casualties in their battles with the monsters.
No matter how much the system wanted to blindly station only strong beasts in every Ruin, it could not transcend the laws of causality.
Moreover, the speed at which humans conquered Ruins suddenly accelerated at some point.
‘Of all things, Heaven’s Box had to fall into the hands of an Earthling.’
Worse still, one human who could attempt Ruin Conquests far more frequently than other humans.
The spoils of lower-tier Ruins were one thing, but the inheritance of Ancient-grade Ruins was another.
And Myth-Grade Dungeons were absolutely unacceptable.
At this point, there was no other choice.
If merely blocking the Ruins wouldn’t work, direct assault was the only option left.
The manipulator added a Break System to the Ruins.
If the Ruin was not conquered within the time limit, the monsters within would pour out and lay waste to that land.
The inheritance remaining in the Ruin would neither be touched by the manipulator nor vanish by itself, but there was no help for it.
The rules were adjusted so that difficulty increased the longer the conquest took.
Yet even the manipulator’s new efforts came to nothing but failure.
A single human bearing Heaven’s Box conquered even all the Ancient-grade Ruins.
‘At this rate, the Myth-Grade Dungeons are in danger too.’
Of course, the entity guarding a Myth-Grade Dungeon was no ordinary being.
He was not an entity summoned from outside by the manipulator, but rather a cosmic manifestation of a past existence.
Yet the arsenal of the Box’s owner had already grown far beyond the manipulator’s imagination.
The final war-golem of the High Deity—Myeol-geop—once a terror of ancient battles.
And beyond that, an artificial spirit, No-bum, who though not born of nature wields nature’s dominion at a level rivaling the Elemental Kings themselves.
Furthermore, all other summons had acquired Transcendent-Grade Traits through use of the Box.
The human who was the Box’s owner possessed a talent that defied belief for any human.
He had come to the very threshold of acquiring Transcendent-Grade Swordsmanship.
If matters reached this point, even if conflict erupted immediately, victory against a Myth-Grade Dungeon would be highly probable.
If this human joined forces with others, the odds of success would rise even further.
‘This cannot be allowed.’
Setting aside other Ruins, the inheritance of a Myth-Grade Dungeon was a treasure among treasures that could never be surrendered to humans, abandoned, or lost.
Intervention was necessary—no matter the cost—to claim at least the Myth-Grade Dungeon’s spoils.
Even if it meant exhausting all remaining power and life force.
Transcendent-Grade Hunters’ Ruin Conquest Methods
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