Walkthrough for the Transcendental Hunter's Ruins - Chapter 34

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Episode 34
The basement of the Hunter’s Association building housed a training facility available to all affiliated hunters.
Kim Yu-min came to the training room every day, even on holidays, dedicating herself to rigorous practice.
As an S-rank Hunter, she could use a private training facility prepared by the Hunter’s Association.
The difference today was that she was sparring with Jeon Jae-woo.
Having somehow become a swordsman like her, Jeon Jae-woo had crossed paths with Kim Yu-min several times when coming to train.
“If you’re coming to train, would you care to do some sparring with me?”
“Swordsmanship sparring with me?”
“Yes. I’d appreciate the chance to learn from you, Hunter Jeon.”
So they’d been training together for several days now.
Yet it was always Jeon Jae-woo who seemed to gain something from each session.
In pure swordsmanship alone, he could never defeat Kim Yu-min, who possessed an S-rank Trait.
The Ego Sword suddenly clattered from his grip.
Kim Yu-min’s brow furrowed slightly.
“Hunter Jeon. You’re not going easy on me, are you?”
“How could I? Doesn’t it look like I’m giving it my all?”
He certainly appeared to be trying his hardest.
Which only made it more puzzling.
‘Is the sword really his primary weapon?’
How could someone fight so poorly?
By Kim Yu-min’s assessment, Jeon Jae-woo’s combat ability wasn’t terrible, but it fell distinctly short of what an S-rank Hunter like herself could do.
It was hard to believe this was the capability of a hunter who’d solo-cleared Mythology-tier and Ancient-tier dungeons.
Jeon Jae-woo retrieved his sword and spoke with an apologetic tone.
“Swordsmanship isn’t really my specialty. If I’ve disappointed you, I apologize.”
“I’m not disappointed. Your performance in the Tower of Babel was impressive enough. But why use a sword at all if it’s not your area of expertise?”
“That’s classified. Isn’t it rude to dig into other hunters’ abilities?”
Kim Yu-min’s brow furrowed once more.
“I feel like you know everything about my abilities, but I’m left in the dark. That hardly seems fair.”
“Your abilities, Hunter Kim? There’s probably no Korean who doesn’t know about those. Besides, I didn’t ask you directly, did I?”
Since Jeon Jae-woo kept his secret, she couldn’t figure out what his primary ability was.
‘Maybe it’s support-focused, like what he showed in the Tower of Babel?’
But even impressive support abilities alone wouldn’t be enough to solo high-tier dungeons.
In any case, Jeon Jae-woo was gaining tremendous value from his sparring sessions with Kim Yu-min for his swordsmanship training.
She was a hunter with excellent blade technique, befitting Korea’s representative S-rank.
Thanks to her, he could steadily improve even during the time Myeol-gyeop was unavailable.
But there was something else that had caught Kim Yu-min’s attention.
“That weapon you carry—it’s quite an unusual sword.”
Kim Yu-min spoke while watching the softly trembling Ego Sword.
True to her nature as a swordsman, she’d noticed the weapon’s self-awareness.
“Ah, well. It’s less unusual than it is… disagreeable in nature.”
“I’m sorry?”
“No, nothing.”
The Ego Sword trembled faintly because it had been complaining throughout the entire bout with Kim Yu-min.
Fortunately, the sword’s voice seemed to reach no one but its master.
-I’d far rather serve that woman than waste away like this.
For a moment, Jeon Jae-woo and the Ego Sword were in complete agreement.
Part of him wanted nothing more than to hand off this wretched thing and be rid of it.
Then a notification appeared before Jeon Jae-woo’s eyes.
The moment he read it, his eyes went wide.
“Hunter Kim Yu-min, I’m terribly sorry, but shall we call it a day? Something urgent has come up. My apologies.”
“Oh? Yes, of course.”
Jeon Jae-woo gave Kim Yu-min a quick bow and rushed home.
The notification was finally announcing that Myeol-gyeop’s repair countdown had finished.
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When Jeon Jae-woo arrived home.
The golem Myeol-gyeop, which had emerged from Heaven’s Box, was waiting.
The creature, which had been completely drained and immobilized after expending all its strength in the Ancient-tier dungeon, was now moving smoothly once more.
[Creator. I trust all has been well with you.]
Myeol-gyeop raised a notification window and bowed respectfully to greet its master.

It’s not a true living creature, just a golem, and yet seeing it again after so long makes me oddly glad.
Jeon Jae-woo stepped closer and examined the creature from different angles.
“You’re alright now? No problems moving your body?”
[Heaven’s Box performed remarkably well. I have indeed recovered completely.]
“That’s a real relief.”
Myeol-gyeop asked after its master’s wellbeing, then suddenly posed a question.
[But how have you been training while I was gone?]
The abrupt question caught him off guard.
‘Is he like an elementary school teacher asking about homework?’
Why did he keep feeling intimidated by his own summon?
Still, even though Myeol-gyeop had gone back into Heaven’s Box and come out again, it hadn’t upgraded like the Lich King or Noboom had.
That was only natural—it had been repairs, not an upgrade.
Myeol-gyeop looked over the other summoned creatures, now visibly stronger, and asked.
[Did you put the summoned creatures into the Extra Space for upgrading while I was away?]
“Yeah.”
When Jeon Jae-woo confirmed this, Myeol-gyeop sent a notification window with a slightly sharp edge to it.
[That was reckless. Noboom and Lich must have needed considerable time to upgrade—what would you have done if something happened during that period?]
When it came to his master’s safety, Myeol-gyeop didn’t hesitate to speak plainly.
“Still, I could only put one in at a time, so either Lich or Noboom was always at my side.”
[Even if you upgrade one, it’s safer to always have at least two summoned creatures with you. Noboom’s abilities are excellent, but that doesn’t mean its combat strength is, does it?]
“You’re right. Well, now that you’re back, it doesn’t matter what happens.”
Even with Myeol-gyeop returned and both Noboom and the Lich King evolved with higher trait grades, they still weren’t at a level where they could attempt Mythology-tier Dungeons.
“Want to go back into the box one more time? If I upgrade you, we might actually be able to clear Mythology-tier Dungeons.”
[I have no objection, but I’d be gone for quite a long time.]
“How long are we talking?”
[Probably around six months?]
Hmm. He’d put Myeol-gyeop’s upgrade on hold for now.
With two Transcendent-rank Traits, that creature’s upgrade time was in a league of its own.
It would still be more efficient to keep feeding Noboom and the Lich King to the box for greater growth.
Though now that they had Transcendent-rank Traits too, their upgrades would take longer as well.
‘I really wish a new creature would show up soon.’
While Myeol-gyeop was being repaired, he’d kept putting materials into the Extra Space, but all that came out were magic tools.
Whatever finished creation emerged shortly would probably be a magic tool as well.
By now, Jeon Jae-woo had lost hope—he went through the motions expecting nothing but another magic tool.
[Time remaining until completion: 00:00:01]
And the moment Heaven’s Box finished its creation.
〈Homunculus〉 – Bound to (Jeon Jae-woo)
Description – A chimera possessing the greatest magical knowledge. An artificial life form created by its deity for the purpose of storing its own knowledge.
Type – Chimera
Traits – Alchemy (S). Body Transformation (S).
The unexpected arrival made Jeon Jae-woo jump.
At last—a new summoned creature he’d been waiting for had been created from the box.
A status window also appeared, shown only when a new summoned creature was created.
‘…Is it possible that not expecting anything increases the chance of getting a new creature?’
Setting aside his joy for the moment, Jeon Jae-woo carefully examined the new creature’s information.
First, the creature’s name was Homunculus.
It sounded like something from a bizarre medieval Western experiment.
And its appearance was quite bizarre indeed.
Being undead—having nothing but bones—somehow made it feel even stranger.
The Homunculus was essentially a flask the size of a human head, floating suspended in the air.
Inside the flask, something resembling a tiny human figure was faintly visible.
Watching it move, that small creature was apparently the main body.
Jeon Jae-woo awkwardly waved his hand at this unfamiliar summon.
“Well… nice to meet you.”
Surprisingly, the tiny figure inside the flask waved back.
But the Homunculus seemed incapable of expressing itself beyond that.
Unlike Noboom or Elder Lich, it couldn’t speak, and unlike Myeol-gyeop, it appeared completely unable to communicate through notification windows.
‘…And who exactly is this deity it mentions?’
If it was created for the purpose of storing knowledge, then this creature was essentially like a living, high-capacity computer?
In any case, this creature, like Noboom, appeared to be a life form created by someone else.
And the peculiarity was that Homunculus possessed only two S-rank Traits.
Its specs were lower than Myeol-gyeop, Noboom, and even the Elder Lich before its evolution into the Lich King.
Jeon Jae-woo, who had felt a flicker of disappointment at the emergence of the lowest-spec individual, soon shook his head.
‘I’m getting picky myself.’
How rare were Hunters in this world who possessed even one S-rank Trait, let alone two apiece?
Meanwhile, the Lich King seemed deeply intrigued by the appearance of this new entity.
“Now this is an interesting specimen we’ve got here.”
“Do you know what a Homunculus is, sir?”
“I know it well. Alchemy, the Homunculus’s ability, shares certain similarities with Sorcery that I practice, so I’ve dabbled in Alchemy research myself.”
In truth, whether it was the Lich’s Sorcery or the Homunculus’s Alchemy, from Jeon Jae-woo’s perspective—lacking any relevant knowledge—he could only imagine them as something like the magic Hunters used.
He had no precise understanding of what the abilities actually were.
As for the Lich King’s Sorcery, he’d never even had the chance to observe it in action.
“Hmm… You still have those elixirs from the Ruin of the Never-Setting Sun, don’t you?”
“Of course. I’ve kept the ones I didn’t consume.”
“Good. Give a few of those elixirs to the Homunculus. It’ll show you something quite remarkable.”
What ability could possibly interest the Lich King so much?
Jeon Jae-woo entered the Ruin, picked a World Tree Fruit, and brought it to the Homunculus.
[World Tree Fruit: Imposes a high-level constraint, permanently restoring a body damaged by wear to match its biological age. Note: Does not change biological age itself.]
Among the various fruits the World Tree bore, this elixir possessed the effect of permanently restoring a damaged body.
If Myeol-gyeop had been human and able to consume the elixir, there would have been no need to wait a month in Heaven’s Box—this would have sufficed.
The Homunculus received the elixir from Jeon Jae-woo.
More precisely, he placed the elixir inside a flask.
A soft hiss escaped.
Moments later, white smoke began pouring from the flask.
As the vapor thickened, the silhouette of the figure inside the flask vanished.
‘What’s happening? What went wrong?’
But soon the smoke dissipated, and from within the flask emerged a single vial containing a liquid with an odd, ethereal quality.
He’d placed an elixir inside, yet somehow a transparent vial and its liquid had emerged instead.
And as Jeon Jae-woo examined what had come out, he started in shock.
The Homunculus had perfectly refined the World Tree Elixir—no easy substance to handle—into a single Potion.
S-rank Hunter’s Dungeon Conquest Strategy
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