Walkthrough for the Transcendental Hunter's Ruins - Chapter 39

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Episode 39
After Jeon Jae-woo’s departure for Brazil was confirmed.
The news spread to people quickly.
[Breaking: Hunter Jeon Jae-woo Decides to Conquer Legendary Dungeon Assigned to Brazil.]
[Lucas, Brazilian Minister. Emotional Gratitude.]
[Hunter Association Respects Hunter Jeon Jae-woo’s Decision Based on Humanitarian Grounds. Contract Finalized Through Amicable Agreement Between South Korean Government and Brazil.]
Of course, when the news broke, the backlash was fierce.
First, countries in South America other than Brazil voiced their discontent strongly.
[Official Statement from Argentine Government: It’s Unjust to Help Only Brazil.]
[South American Union: Support Must Come at the South American Level, Not for a Specific Country.]
[Venezuela Attempts Back-Channel Contact with Hunter Jeon Jae-woo.]
In short, they were all saying the same thing—we don’t want to die either, so help us all.
Of course, they couldn’t mount a proper challenge against Brazil, South America’s strongest power.
Brazil simply countered that if they were unhappy, they could hire Jeon Jae-woo themselves by promising equally generous compensation.
Naturally, it was impossible for Jeon Jae-woo to conquer all the dungeons assigned to South America as a whole.
No other South American country besides Brazil held Additional Conquest Rights.
Without Additional Conquest Rights to fill the conquest quota, there was nothing Jeon Jae-woo could do to help.
There were only so many countries on the South American continent.
Meanwhile, Jeon Jae-woo’s conquest capacity was merely twelve attempts.
Had there been no limit on attempts, he would have already conquered every remaining Legendary Dungeon before this situation ever arose.
Naturally, when the news reached South Korea, opposition was far from negligible.
[Opposition Party: Unified Concern Over National Brain Drain.]
[Minister Lee Chul-soo: I Will Take Full Responsibility If This Goes Wrong. I Apologize for the Anxiety Caused to the People…]
[Additional Dungeon Conquest Rights? What Compensation Did Brazil Offer Hunter Jeon Jae-woo?]
┗We have plenty of uncleared dungeons in our own country, so why help Brazil.
┗Did they not block Brazil’s request, or couldn’t they?
┗At this rate, even if Hunter Jeon Jae-woo just immigrated abroad, they’d probably just let it happen.
┗We’re not even sure how many unconquered dungeons will be allocated to our country, but we’re making decisions like this?
┗But Brazil is giving Jeon Jae-woo Additional Conquest Rights? Then his quota won’t run out anyway.
Despite all the noise from everyone around him, Jeon Jae-woo set out the very next day to conquer the Legendary Dungeon assigned to Brazil.
Half of the limited week had already passed—there was no time to dally.
The name of the Legendary Dungeon assigned to Brazil was “Biting Frost.”
True to its name, it was a dungeon where tremendous cold cut through with vicious force.
Before entering, he’d heard the basic information about the dungeon from the Brazilian side.
“Then I’ll go in now.”
“Please, save Brazil from this crisis.”
The minister clasped Jeon Jae-woo’s hand and bowed his head repeatedly.
And with a rather stiff expression, Hunter Association Director Yoo Jung-tae also offered a word.
“Hunter. Your safety is our highest priority, so please take care of yourself.”
That was something Jeon Jae-woo would prioritize without being told.
Jeon Jae-woo entered the dungeon in full view of the Republic of Korea and all its government officials inside the Hunter Association Building.
The moment Jeon Jae-woo’s figure vanished, the Brazilian officials exchanged worried words in Portuguese.
Minister Lucas let out a shallow sigh and whispered.
“Will it really be all right?”
“He’s that Hunter Jeon Jae-woo—what could go wrong? He’ll surely conquer the dungeon.”
“This dungeon is very different from others, you see. It’s not a problem that can be solved just by hunting monsters well…”
Minister Lucas’s concern proved justified.
The moment Jeon Jae-woo entered the dungeon, he thought he was going to die.
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[Exploration Condition for “Biting Frost”: Remain in the dungeon for the designated time limit (0/0)]
‘This is insane.’
The dungeon’s interior was a snowy mountain ravaged by blizzard.
It wasn’t that rare for a dungeon to have a snowy mountain as its setting.
The blizzard was so severe that visibility was nearly zero.
But the problem now wasn’t obscured vision—his body was freezing from the overwhelming cold.
Jeon Jae-woo had no idea how to describe the intensity of the cold he was feeling.
When one thought of the coldest places on Earth, the Arctic and Antarctic came to mind—but this was colder still.
If he had to make a comparison, it was like being cast naked onto the Moon or Uranus, places so cold that life itself couldn’t possibly exist.
In any case, this dungeon required no monster hunting—he just had to endure this cold for the designated time limit, and the conquest would be complete.
In itself, this wouldn’t be considered a particularly difficult Legendary Dungeon.
Unlike other dungeons, it didn’t require risking your life to hunt powerful monsters.
As a Hunter who had entered a Legendary Dungeon, he wouldn’t freeze to death from mere cold, and all he had to do was endure, no matter what.
Yet humanity had never conquered this Legendary Dungeon in all the time since it had been discovered.
The reason was obvious: the cold.
‘Damn it—at this point, being a Hunter doesn’t matter one bit.’
Even Jeon Jae-woo, who had awakened an S-rank Characteristic, was trembling violently all over like a resonating tuning fork.
This was something that couldn’t be endured, regardless of power.
A Physical Enhancement Characteristic using mana? A magic attribute that summoned flames?
What good was any of it, no matter how high the rank?
Strengthening the body and raising a barrier didn’t regulate temperature.
Magic-type Hunters could resort to desperate measures like conjuring fire, but even that had limits.
The moment they created flames, the overwhelmingly low temperature would prevent the fire from reaching ignition point, and it would extinguish in an instant.
This dungeon seemed to have concentrated all the difficulty of a Legendary Dungeon not into monsters, but entirely into the cold.
If there existed an S-rank Hunter with a Characteristic that specialized exclusively in controlling body temperature and ambient heat, they might have been able to conquer this dungeon.
Of course, no Hunter existed who could regulate temperature so specifically.
Now he understood why so many renowned Hunters had passed through here without any of them ever succeeding.
Not death—but the unbearable agony of the cold left them unable to endure.
And there was one more factor that made the dungeon’s challengers despair.
The dungeon said that if you survived for the allotted time, conquest would end—but the time when the dungeon cleared wasn’t displayed anywhere.
So Hunters had to survive this hellish cold without even knowing how much time had passed or when it would end.
A Hunter could substitute mana for heat to some degree.
But this was a problem that couldn’t possibly be solved at that level.
As his vision began to blur, the thought of giving up flickered through his mind.
Yet Jeon Jae-woo barely pulled himself together and shook his head.
‘No. No way. If I just quit now, what kind of pathetic figure would I cut?’
Since he’d already taken on the request and committed to the conquest, he had to succeed on the first attempt.
Jeon Jae-woo summoned his minions first.
He couldn’t show his full power before people, so he had no choice but to summon them once inside the tower.
‘If I’d known it would be like this, I wouldn’t have needed to come in person at all—could’ve just left it to the minions…’
Then he wouldn’t have had to suffer through this miserable cold.
As the Lich King manifested, he glanced around and spoke with evident surprise.
“Oh. Quite the intense cold, this.”
……
“Master, you don’t look well.”
Understandably, Myeol-geop, the Lich King, and Nobum were all perfectly fine in this bitter cold.
Being a skeleton, a golem, and a spirit respectively, they felt no pain from cold whatsoever.
Myeol-geop was mechanical, so prolonged exposure to extreme cold might cause some physical degradation.
But Myeol-geop could shed all harm inflicted upon him thanks to the Transcendent-rank Characteristic, Absolute Defense.
Jeon Jae-woo spoke in a voice that was barely audible.
“If you don’t want to watch your master die, help me stay alive, will you?”
The loyal Myeol-geop immediately rushed over and took appropriate action.
[Please wear me, Creator.]
…What was that supposed to mean?
Jeon Jae-woo was bewildered, then suddenly startled.
In an instant, sections of Myeol-geop’s body opened up, creating a space large enough for a person to enter.
‘What the—I thought he was like an Iron Man suit.’
He could do that too?
Well, he was a golem with two Transcendent-rank Characteristics—what couldn’t he do?
[Come here at once and entrust yourself to me.]
Fearing he’d literally freeze to death if things continued, Jeon Jae-woo immediately nestled into Myeol-geop’s embrace (?).
As Jeon Jae-woo entered, the openings in Myeol-geop’s body closed with a metallic clang.
‘So wearing a golem like this was possible too.’
Absolutely remarkable.
The title “supreme battle machine” was well-deserved.
Felt exactly like being Iron Man.
Of course, normally Jeon Jae-woo didn’t need to wear a suit and fight monsters like a certain billionaire.
Myeol-geop fighting alone was hundreds of times more capable than Jeon Jae-woo in a suit.
In any case, once Myeol-geop’s mana began circulating while wrapped around him, warmth rose up, and Jeon Jae-woo felt like he might actually survive.
“Ahhhh…”
Jeon Jae-woo exhaled a long breath, savoring the warmth.
“If I’d stayed in there much longer, I really thought I was going to die.”
“Exaggeration. An ordinary human, perhaps—but a Hunter won’t perish from cold in this place.”
“If you built yourself a body and felt the cold directly, you wouldn’t say such things.”
“I would welcome experiencing cold enough to approach death. I only wish I could regain sensation for even a moment.”
Hmm. I think I just said something that might have been rude to say to an undead.
Myeol-geop had taken measures, but the cold remained as relentless as ever.
We’d escaped the moon or Neptune or wherever, but it still felt like standing naked in the Antarctic or Arctic.
“Say, Lich King—couldn’t we build a fire somewhere around here?”
But a fire in this place would be snuffed out in an instant.
“Creator. You have Nobum, who can become one with the dungeon itself. What is there to worry about?”
Ah, that’s right.
My brain must have frozen for a moment from being in such bitter cold.
Jeon Jae-woo ordered Nobum to unite with the dungeon using the Nature Element Characteristic.
The moment Nobum obeyed and became one with the dungeon.
The howling blizzard gradually subsided, clouds parted, and sunlight began pouring into the dungeon’s interior.
As warmth began rising from the ground thanks to the sunlight, Jeon Jae-woo had to step out of his suit shortly after.
When he stepped outside, clear weather had settled in and all the snow had melted away.
Jeon Jae-woo gazed down at the tranquil landscape from the mountain peak—one that hardly seemed like a Legendary Dungeon.
“My summons really are the best.”
And so Jeon Jae-woo stayed comfortably in the transformed dungeon and was able to complete the conquest with ease.
The total time spent on conquering the dungeon was exactly twenty-four hours.
[Exploration mission complete.]
[The “Dungeon of Bitter Cold” is now yours, Jeon Jae-woo.]
After completing the conquest, Jeon Jae-woo received an Additional Conquest Right and exited the dungeon.
When the Brazilian officials saw Jeon Jae-woo emerge, they erupted in cheers of joy.
Transcendent-Rank Hunters’ Dungeon Conquest Methods
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