Walkthrough for the Transcendental Hunter's Ruins - Chapter 14

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Episode 14
Indeed, the ruin was called The Undying Sun—the name alone was extraordinary.
The moment Jeon Jae-woo entered the ruin, intense sunlight seared his eyes.
It wasn’t merely dazzling—a little longer and he felt he might melt away.
‘I hope Myeol-geop and Lich are alright…’
Pointless worry. A golem and the undead wouldn’t be affected by temperature.
Yet what truly demanded his attention wasn’t the solar heat—it was the colossal tree looming before him.
Jeon Jae-woo gazed upward at the towering colossus and wondered aloud.
‘…Is it even physically possible for a tree to grow this large?’
And it wasn’t hyperbole—one tree alone was the size of a small village.
Moreover, an uncanny aura emanated from it in waves.
The dread he’d felt from undead like Elderitch had always carried a certain naturalness to it; this was different. The aura itself felt alien, fundamentally at odds with human existence.
[Exploration Objective – ‘The Undying Sun’: Eliminate the Corrupted World Tree before it drives all surface life to death (0/1)]
The notification confirmed it—that monstrous tree was the target of this Ancient-Grade Ruin.
Jeon Jae-woo turned to Myeol-geop with a question.
“What exactly is that?”
[A World Tree, one that aids in the cycle and flow of life, sir. Though at present, it appears unable to fulfill its proper function.]
Ah, so that’s why the objective was to eliminate a corrupted World Tree.
Yet even so, Jeon Jae-woo found himself underestimating the tree before him.
However massive it might be, it was still just wood—surely something like Myeol-geop could handle it without difficulty.
“But no matter how enormous a tree grows, it’s still just a tree, isn’t it?”
At that, Elderitch chuckled softly and murmured in response.
“That’s where you’re mistaken, Creator. Watch carefully now—you’ll soon understand why this ruin bears the name ‘The Undying Sun.'”
One of the most vital elements for any plant’s growth is sunlight itself.
Beneath that endless sun, the tree—far larger than the mulberry tree that once stood in Yu-bi’s yard—drew in the light with its entire being and channeled it into growth.
And this sun, it seemed, never set within these ruins.
“So you’re saying the tree can’t be defeated as long as that sun remains in the sky?”
“Logically, there’s no way around it.”
What kind of unreasonable condition was this? Were these ruins even meant to be cleared?
‘So this is why only the hunters from the great hunter nations tackle Ancient-Grade Ruins.’
—Crack-crack-crack!!
The earth split open, and hundreds upon thousands of roots erupted upward while branches descended from above, encircling Jeon Jae-woo and his party.
‘…Take back that thought about it not being so strong.’
Individually, they were nothing more than the colossal stems of a massive tree.
The problem was their sheer scale and overwhelming numbers.
The instant a root lashed out toward Jeon Jae-woo—
—Crack-snap-snap!!
Myeol-geop drew a Wrist Blade and severed the strands in a single stroke.
But the tree’s branches weren’t finished after a single cut.
Possessed of a monstrous regenerative power, they regrew instantaneously and renewed their assault on Jeon Jae-woo.
‘This is insane.’
As long as that sun hung in the sky, the tree could recover infinitely.
And it wasn’t drawing energy from the heavens alone—its roots were also siphoning strength from the earth beneath.
Lich deployed a skill akin to Teleportation, pulling Jeon Jae-woo to a safe distance.
Myeol-geop, left behind, fought the World Tree alone.
A few branches still reached for Jeon Jae-woo, but Elderitch—bearing three S-Grade Characteristics—intercepted them without fail.
‘How reassuring.’
With Elderitch’s protection, someone who possessed three S-Grade Characteristics, his confidence never wavered.
But Myeol-geop’s situation looked increasingly dire.
Several branches coiled around the golem’s arm.
Of course, mere wood couldn’t harm Myeol-geop’s stone body.
But the instant they made contact, the branches began draining Mana from whatever they touched.
Myeol-geop severed the branches at once and rushed straight toward the World Tree’s core.
From a distance, Jeon Jae-woo watched the battle unfold, his lip caught between his teeth.
“Will Myeol-geop be alright alone?”
The fight looked impossibly brutal and lopsided.
Even if they won, what if Myeol-geop took critical damage in the process?
Yet Elderitch’s response remained unwavering.
The skeleton, tongueless as it was, chuckled continuously.
“Our Creator, you still don’t understand why Transcendent-Grade Characteristics are called transcendent, do you?”
“?”
“If all you could do was forge a blade and swing it about, could you really call that a Transcendent-Grade Characteristic?”
So the Annihilation Characteristic had other functions too?
Myeol-geop seemed to find breaking through the World Tree’s encircling roots no easy task, and fell back a step.
Jeon Jae-woo flinched in surprise.
Myeol-geop’s body structure began to shift and reconfigure itself, pieces clicking into place in different arrangements.
—Whiiing. Clank. Clank.
For a moment, Jeon Jae-woo thought he was watching a real-world Transformer.
Panels opened across Myeol-geop’s body like doors swinging wide.
Myeol-geop’s frame was no larger than an adult man’s, yet from within erupted an arsenal of what looked to be powerful weapons.
—Whooom!
The World Tree seemed to sense something amiss, and roots surged forward in great numbers.
—Screeeee…!!
Myeol-geop compressed Mana into the energy cannon that had emerged from its body.
“This is dangerous.”
Elderitch’s voice had taken on an uncharacteristic gravity.
‘Who’s in danger?’ Jeon Jae-woo wondered.
—Uuuummmgh!
Despite being quite far from the battlefield, Elderitch immediately began layering barrier upon barrier.
The next instant, the compressed Mana shot forward toward the mass of wooden roots ahead.
—Ku-crash-crash-crash-boom!!
Jeon Jae-woo squinted against the brilliant light.
The omnidirectional energy cannon met the roots in a cascade of explosions.
The roots tried to hold their ground through sheer numbers and regenerative power, but were pushed back inch by inch.
From that small frame, where such tremendous energy poured forth was a mystery—and whenever Myeol-geop sensed any give, it simply pushed harder, forcing the roots back with overwhelming firepower.
Through this relentless barrage, the creature managed to drive the roots back until they were just before the World Tree’s main body.
Yet the World Tree—sole guardian of this Ancient-Grade Ruin—was no pushover.
It fought desperately to layer and interweave its roots, using its stubborn vitality to keep the attacks from reaching its core.
They reached a stalemate with no breakthrough in sight, but Myeol-geop did not relent.
This time, the golem’s crown opened, and something like a solar panel jutted out.
—Kuuuuu!!
Powerful energy began to focus on the golem from above.
‘Is that thing also drawing power from sunlight, like the World Tree?’
The Undying Sun’s condition must have been designed to make the ruin harder to conquer.
‘But it’s turning that against the tree instead.’
The energy of sunlight, pouring down more fiercely than a midsummer noon, was formidable indeed.
—Kuuuuuuumgh!!
Tremendous Mana gathered and concentrated throughout Myeol-geop’s entire body.
Even Jeon Jae-woo, recently awakened and still fledgling as a Hunter, could sense how much power was flowing into Myeol-geop at this moment.
‘How is it even possible to hold that much Mana in the body so stably?’
The mighty energy accumulated within Myeol-geop then surged into its left arm, which had taken the form of a cannon.
—Kuwaaaaaang!!
It discharged with full force toward the front.
Light blazed from Myeol-geop’s eyes as a laser beam shot forward in a concentrated beam.
No amount of layered roots could withstand this.
When the beam struck the World Tree’s body head-on,
—Shrieeeeek!!
“Ugh!”
Jeon Jae-woo clapped his hands over his ears.
The sound of the beam colliding with the World Tree’s core felt like it would split his eardrums.
—Uuuumgh
But Elderitch, watching Jeon Jae-woo wince in pain, muttered something to himself.
Soon, an additional layer of Sorcery was applied to the barrier, and at last Jeon Jae-woo was freed from the noise.
‘An S-Grade Characteristic, as expected.’
Elderitch was indeed versatile across multiple disciplines, making him quite useful.
Elderitch gestured toward Myeol-geop, who was pushing the World Tree back one-sidedly, and chuckled.
“You see? No problems whatsoever on its own, eh?”
“…You’re right about that.”
Compared to a Legendary-Grade Ruin, this was certainly harder, that much was true.
To put it simply—and yet, more than three hours had already passed since the battle began after entering the ruin.
If Myeol-geop had tried to protect his master while fighting alone, it would have taken far longer.
Once Myeol-geop released all the energy he had accumulated.
—Screeeee…
A massive hole appeared in the trunk of the enormous tree.
‘That’s genuinely incredible.’
To be honest, until now he’d thought of Myeol-geop as merely a golem with reasonably impressive abilities.
‘But he’s not just reasonably impressive—he’s absolutely devastating.’
Now it was perfectly clear why the golem possessed three Transcendent-Grade Characteristics.
He simply hadn’t had the opportunity to demonstrate his true power until now.
But the most spectacular display was yet to come.
—Groooowwwl.
Jeon Jae-woo gasped sharply.
He’d thought it was over, but the World Tree was slowly regenerating the massive wound in its body.
It was like witnessing a regenerating monstrosity straight out of Lovecraft.
‘It’s regenerating even from that state? Is that thing actually a tree?’
So as long as it received sunlight, its recovery truly was nearly infinite.
[…]…
Myeol-geop stared intently at the recovering World Tree.
—Kuwuwuwu!!
Suddenly he spun his body in circles and burrowed into the earth, disappearing underground.
Jeon Jae-woo looked bewildered and turned to Elderitch.
“What’s Myeol-geop trying to do now?”
“Nothing complicated. If the opponent’s regeneration is troublesome, you simply eliminate that ability.”
After Myeol-geop disappeared underground.
The World Tree trembled violently, as if shrieking in agony.
At the same moment, Myeol-geop burst back out through the ground.
He had been burrowing beneath the earth, severing all of the World Tree’s massive roots and bringing them up.
“But wouldn’t the World Tree simply regenerate those roots again with its recovery power?”
“You still haven’t noticed. It seems the Creator requires a bit more training in sensing Mana.”
“?”
“Throughout the entire fight, I’ve been channeling death essence into the ground beneath your feet, and you didn’t even realize it.”
The source of the Sorcery that Elderitch wielded was the essence of death.
It stood in stark opposition to the World Tree’s ability, which embodied living existence.
—Kuwuwuwu!!
Once more, Myeol-geop deployed the Solar Panel and absorbed the solar heat.
Even more formidable solar energy than before surged into Myeol-geop’s frame.
One energy cannon wasn’t enough—four more manifested on both shoulders.
‘…Don’t tell me all those beams are going to fire at once?’
—Kuwaaaaaang!!!
In that instant, Jeon Jae-woo felt as though the world itself had come to an end.
When Myeol-geop released all the accumulated Mana at once, the beams that erupted completely obliterated several mountain peaks behind the blast.
[Exploration mission complete.]
[The Undying Sun ruin now belongs to you, Jeon Jae-woo.]
Only then did the notification appear before Jeon Jae-woo’s eyes, confirming that the Ancient-Grade Ruin had been conquered.
The aftereffects of the explosion had not yet cleared; his vision was still hazy.
Jeon Jae-woo watched a massive mushroom cloud rise in the distance and wondered.
‘…Myeol-geop wouldn’t suddenly stop listening or go berserk, would he?’
A Transcendent-Grade Hunter’s Guide to Ruin Conquest
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