Walkthrough for the Transcendental Hunter's Ruins - Chapter 113

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Chapter 113
Jeon Jae-woo didn’t leave the Ruin right away; instead, he spoke with the Ego Sword.
He’d intended to leave once the Trait bloomed, but one thing led to another, and before he knew it, the opportunity to depart had slipped away.
The blade seemed chattier than usual now that it could manifest itself into physical form.
“So what can you actually do? Do you have any new abilities or something?”
“No. Unless my Trait blooms, there’s nothing I can really give you.”
‘Then why show up wearing someone else’s face if you’re not going to be helpful?’
Embedding a sword within a soul was indeed a formidable technique.
But the Ego Sword’s manifestation through the soul’s power was just that—manifestation—and it didn’t translate into direct combat capability.
‘Fine blade or not, I’m not sure it’s worth keeping this thing around.’
The master’s irreverent thought made the Ego Sword bristle with indignation.
“If only I could extract my own soul, there’d be so much more I could accomplish!”
“Yeah, well, that still comes down to your Realm improving, doesn’t it?”
In his Status Window, the next Trait after Divine Sword Unity was listed: Sword Spirit.
Jeon Jae-woo had assumed the Trait would bloom once he embedded his own soul into the blade.
But the Sword Spirit wasn’t about that—it was about awakening the blade’s spirit, the sword’s own soul, not the user’s.
According to the Ego Sword, once he could awaken the Sword Spirit, it would grant him an ally of Elemental Lord rank.
“Hmm. But there’s one more important ability you should know about.”
“An important ability? What is it?”
Jeon Jae-woo’s curiosity piqued, and the Ego Sword seemed pleased, shrugging as if harboring some grand secret.
“Now that your soul resides in me, you’re completely immune to mental attacks.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“Your body remains unchanged, but your soul is now housed within me—within this blade.”
The moment Jeon Jae-woo reached out and touched it with a fingertip, his entire body convulsed as if struck by electricity.
It was like that sensation when you wake suddenly from deep sleep, consciousness rushing back all at once.
“What did you just do?”
“By stimulating your five senses this way, even if you fall victim to mental attacks like hallucinations or enchantment, I can always be there beside you to snap you awake.”
Now that was impressive.
Complete immunity to all forms of mental assault.
Or, more precisely, not immunity but the certainty that the Ego Sword would wake him whenever needed.
‘It is genuinely a formidable ability, I’ll grant that…’
But would it help in conquering a Myth-Grade Dungeon?
From what he’d gathered, the boss of a Myth-Grade Dungeon didn’t seem to rely on mental abilities.
Things might have been different if he were still clearing ordinary Ruins like before.
So Jeon Jae-woo’s conclusion was that the blade itself wouldn’t be of much use to him.
A while later, Jeon Jae-woo emerged from the Ruin.
His Summons came rushing toward him in a crowd.
They recognized immediately that their master’s Realm had advanced.
[Creator. Congratulations on obtaining the Transcendent-grade Trait.]
“Ha ha. To think this is the second Transcendent-grade Trait—surely an unprecedented feat among humankind.”
“Congratulations, Master!”
[Congratulations to you, Master.]
Memories of all the hardship he’d endured until now came flooding back, and his eyes grew warm.
“Thank you all.”
Though strictly speaking, the Summons had borne the brunt of the trials far more than he had.
In any case, obtaining a Transcendent-grade Trait was certainly worthy of celebration.
Jeon Ji-woo, seeing her prototype reach Transcendent-grade status, let her competitive spirit show.
“How about it, big brother? Want to spar right now?”
“Sorry. Let’s do it another time.”
Jeon Jae-woo was just as eager to test himself against a fellow Transcendent-grade Hunter.
But right now, exhaustion made it impossible.
He’d spent a month without eating or sleeping, doing nothing but training.
If he hadn’t been inside the Dawn Ruin, he would have collapsed long ago.
‘Honestly, those wuxia novels make no sense—hermits just sitting in some pointless cave doing closed cultivation.’
They’d probably stock up on Grain Avoidance pills, eat, sleep, and do everything else in those caves.
It had to be just an exaggerated training trope unique to fiction.
The truth was, even in peak condition, his Realm’s ascension didn’t increase his raw power—he’d lose to Jeon Ji-woo no matter what.
Of course, Jeon Ji-woo risked grave damage to her soul and essence if she took his blade wrong now.
‘Ugh, I’m dead on my feet.’
Jeon Jae-woo washed off hastily and crawled into bed.
[Heaven’s Box (Fully Liberated) – ???]
A notification window concerning Heaven’s Box had seemed to appear for a moment.
‘…I’ll check it after I wake up.’
Sleep took priority now.
Jeon Jae-woo, lying in bed, soon drifted into slumber.
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Jeon Jae-woo woke after sleeping for four days straight.
Even with training at the Dawn Ruin, which provided constant recovery, it had taken this long.
It seemed he’d expended far more stamina than he’d anticipated.
Still, now that his original condition had returned and he was up and about, he could sense it clearly.
‘Is this really a Transcendent-grade Trait?’
Ever since becoming a Transcendent-grade Hunter, his perspective had unmistakably shifted.
A sensation of awakening new senses he hadn’t possessed when he only had S-rank Traits?
When he’d first bloomed his S-rank Trait, he’d felt a similar sense of transformation back then too.
Heaven’s Box, a Transcendent-grade Trait, he’d already possessed, but that was an ability entirely separate from his own Realm.
‘The Lich King said that only Earthlings and Hunters suddenly awaken and gain power without any training.’
Even in fantasy novels or martial arts stories, you never see an ordinary human suddenly awaken, draw out the Sword of a Grandmaster, and become a Ninth-Circle Archmage.
‘When you think about it, the modern setting is probably the only genre where you can get away with suddenly having nonsensical powers and still call it plausible.’
Regardless, by the time he woke, an entire quarter of the Ruin Assignment had already passed.
Since there were no Ancient-grade Ruins, the world had proceeded through the assignment cycle without incident.
It seemed the South Korean Hunter Bureau had successfully cleared a Legend-rank Ruin without needing Jeon Ji-woo’s assistance.
Someone from the Bureau had retired after this latest Ruin Conquest, apparently.
There had been various reports, but now Jeon Jae-woo faced a problem more pressing than the Ruin Assignment itself.
It was the Status Window for Heaven’s Box displayed right before his eyes.
[Heaven’s Box (Fully Liberated) – ???]
The modifier “Fully Liberated” had been affixed to Heaven’s Box.
He’d anticipated to some degree that obtaining a Transcendent-grade Trait would trigger further liberation.
Every time his Realm rose, the box had gradually unlocked bit by bit, gaining new functions.
Perhaps the box moved in tandem with his own progression, scaling to whatever level he could handle?
This time, upon achieving a Transcendent-grade Trait, Heaven’s Box had finally achieved complete liberation.
And with the box’s full liberation came an even more significant change.
[Time remaining until crafting completion: 2188 : 59 : 59]
The time required to craft the Pearl had been drastically reduced.
As the box’s performance increased, it seemed to affect the item already being crafted.
The time that had originally counted down from a year had suddenly been shortened to three months.
‘Wow, that’s amazing.’
The time reduction felt like more welcome news than acquiring the Transcendent-grade Trait itself.
As Jeon Jae-woo sat alone, grinning to himself, Catsy approached and spoke.
[Why that expression?]
“Heaven’s Box just liberated itself. The Pearl will be ready in just three more months.”
[Oh. That’s quite remarkable.]
Three months was still a long time, admittedly,
but having expected to wait a full year, it now felt relatively short by comparison.
[But what exactly comes out of that Pearl that makes you wait so eagerly?]
“I’m not sure. Whatever it is, it should be something extraordinary.”
No one knew precisely how to use the Pearl. There wasn’t an instruction manual, after all.
Even the Lich King and the Mutant, for all they knew, didn’t have the answer.
All that had been explained was that it was something like a key that could interfere with a Ruin’s system, and that was that.
If it really could interfere with a Ruin’s system, perhaps it could even make him a god of Ruins? Who knew?
‘But why would I want to be something like a god of Ruins anyway?’
Jeon Jae-woo’s life purpose had always been comfort and ease.
Somehow he’d ended up with overwhelming power, and whenever crises threatened the world, he’d often stepped in to resolve them instead.
‘Come to think of it, I haven’t lived comfortably at all—I’ve been working far too hard.’
He was no dark mastermind seeking to rule the world, nor did he have any desire to become a god-like being controlling a Ruin’s system.
Possessing something too precious only meant accumulating greater responsibility later.
So should he reveal the Pearl’s identity to the international community and ask for joint management?
Or he could keep it hidden from everyone and store it permanently within No-bum’s body.
‘Two quarters of the Ruin Assignment remain.’
Thanks to the drastically shortened timeline, the Pearl would likely be completed by the time the fifth quarter ended and the final Ruin Assignment began.
There were several newly emerged Ancient-grade Ruins, but as expected, only uncleared ruins that had remained hidden for ages were included in the assignment.
At this point, even if Jeon Jae-woo weren’t there, he didn’t think much would change.
‘The real problem is the Myth-Grade Dungeon.’
Since the Myth-Grade Dungeon had also remained unconquered for so long, it was certain to be assigned once all the other unclaimed Ruins had been conquered.
The international community already seemed to be anticipating as much.
As time drew closer, the dread surrounding the Myth-Grade Dungeon was beginning to feel all too real.
From the way things were progressing, it seemed the Myth-Grade Dungeon would be assigned after all the remaining Legend-rank Ruins had been conquered.
Given its Myth-Grade status, it would likely be assigned on a global scale rather than to any single continent or nation.
Even if it weren’t global, the entire world would have to pool its strength to conquer it.
Since becoming a Transcendent-grade Hunter, Jeon Jae-woo had attempted the Myth-Grade Dungeon Conquest several more times.
He’d never harbored the illusion that a single additional Transcendent-grade Hunter would shift the balance of the conquest in any meaningful way.
Even with a Transcendent-grade Trait, the Myth-Grade Dungeon remained an impossibly steep wall.
No—now that he’d become a Transcendent-grade Hunter, he felt its overwhelming power far more acutely than before.
The moment he faced the master of the Myth-Grade Dungeon, that gnawing sense returned—the certainty that he could never truly defeat it, the overwhelming urge to surrender.
Even if he mobilized all his summons and fought as a unified force.
Even in victory, wouldn’t most of the summons he’d gathered over the years be destroyed in the process?
Yet Jeon Jae-woo soon shook his head, dispelling the worry.
‘Well, we’ll figure it out somehow.’
It wasn’t as though he lacked confidence simply because the Myth-Grade Dungeon would be assigned and a break had been scheduled.
Even if tackling it alone was beyond his strength, there was no rule that said a Ruin Conquest had to be done in solitude.
If necessary, pooling efforts with the world’s mightiest Hunters was an option.
There was no strict personnel limit on Ruin Conquests anyway.
If all the powerful Hunters combined their strength, it seemed more than possible.
Of course, Jeon Jae-woo had refrained from revealing his summons and worked alone on every Ruin Conquest until now.
‘But that’s what they say—even lone-wolf heroes band together when facing a truly formidable enemy.’
For the sake of conquering a Myth-Grade Dungeon, joining forces with other Hunters once wouldn’t be the worst idea.
How a Transcendent-Grade Hunter Conquers Ruins
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: Autumn
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: August 7, 2026
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