Walkthrough for the Transcendental Hunter's Ruins - Chapter 4

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Chapter 4
They had entered the General-Grade Dungeon known as the Ancient Golden Palace to conquer it.
The moment Jeon Jae-woo stepped inside, he encountered goblins and handed over the battle to Myeol-geop.
From behind, he watched the creature fight with his mouth hanging open.
Screech! Crack!!
Myeol-geop wandered through the palace, slaughtering every goblin in sight.
‘It’s like he’s flickering in and out of existence.’
What was this, some kind of folk tale?
For a moment Jeon Jae-woo genuinely wondered if the creature possessed a Spatial Movement Trait.
In the span of a single blink.
Whoosh.
Dozens of goblin heads were already rolling at his feet.
He’d come to assess his Golem’s combat strength, but the truth was he couldn’t even track Myeol-geop’s movements with his own eyes.
‘…I should gather the goblin corpses too, though.’
Even low-tier Monsters could be sold to the Hunter Association for a decent price.
Jeon Jae-woo collected the goblin heads one by one, careful not to interfere with Myeol-geop’s battle.
Meanwhile, the remaining goblins, sensing the overwhelming gap in power, abandoned any thought of fighting the Golem and fled en masse.
“Kerrick? Kerrick!”
“Kerrick! Kerrick! Kerrick!!”
With three thousand goblins scattering, hunting them down one by one would be tedious work.
This was precisely why conquering Dungeons typically required considerable time, regardless of their difficulty rating.
But apparently that principle didn’t apply to Myeol-geop.
The creature moved with astonishing speed, hunting down every single goblin without letting a single one escape.
For a moment, Jeon Jae-woo glimpsed a Blade materializing from Myeol-geop’s hand.
Then the creature infused the sword with Mana to create Sword Energy and swung it.
Judging by how Myeol-geop wielded Sword Energy without employing any other combat techniques, that must be the creature’s primary ability.
‘Could the way the Blade manifests itself be what I saw listed as the Annihilation Trait in the Status Window?’
It certainly looked impressive, but if the Annihilation Trait was merely the ability to conjure a Blade, that seemed a bit underwhelming.
According to what he’d heard, most A-rank, even B-rank Hunters possessed Traits that could do the same.
It wasn’t the Trait itself that seemed remarkable—it was Myeol-geop who was genuinely formidable.
Then again, he hadn’t really had a proper chance to showcase his full capabilities yet.
Once they exited the Dungeon, he’d have to ask Myeol-geop in detail about that Trait.
After all, the fact that such an apparently modest Trait could make him so devastatingly powerful spoke volumes about Myeol-geop’s actual strength.
In any case, the moment Myeol-geop swung his Blade once more, another head tumbled.
[‘Ancient Golden Palace’ Conquest Condition: Eliminate all goblins stealing gold from the palace. (2999/3000)]
In less than five minutes—never mind an hour—Myeol-geop slew the final goblin.
[Conquest objective completed.]
[The ‘Ancient Golden Palace’ Dungeon now belongs to Jeon Jae-woo.]
[Dungeons Conquered to Date – Altar of the Apostle of Death, Ancient Golden Palace]
The conquest of the Ancient Golden Palace was complete.
Myeol-geop, finished with battle, approached his master.
[Creator. I have fulfilled all the commands you have given.]
Jeon Jae-woo nodded stiffly, still somewhat dazed.
“Ah… yes. You did well.”
Even with the notification confirming the conquest right before his eyes, none of it felt real.
An entire Dungeon now belonged to him.
“Good grief.”
Jeon Jae-woo felt saliva pooling in his mouth.
Owning a Dungeon meant everything that emerged from this golden palace would be his.
He picked up a Golden Fragment that Myeol-geop had shattered during the fighting.
‘…This is real.’
Without question, Jeon Jae-woo was now wealthy beyond measure.
The kind of wealthy where his descendants could spend lavishly for three generations and still not exhaust the fortune.
He could simply chip away pieces of the palace walls and sell them, and the money would flow in endlessly.
Lost in blissful reverie, a message from Myeol-geop appeared before his eyes.
[Creator. Is there any further command you wish to give?]
“Ah, no. We’ve already finished the conquest anyway. Let’s go back.”
Whoooosh.
The moment he logged out of the Dungeon System, he found himself back in his Rooming House.
Once back, Jeon Jae-woo checked his Status Window once more.
[Dungeons Currently Conquered – Altar of the Apostle of Death, Ancient Golden Palace]
‘It’s really, truly mine.’
Jeon Jae-woo turned on his phone with trembling hands.
‘Ah. Who should I call first?’
He felt the sudden urge to share this joyous news with someone, anyone.
Family? Old friends from school? Or maybe that girl from church, his first crush in elementary school?
‘No, wait. Stay calm. Calm. Deep breath. Inhale… exhale.’
This sort of thing deserved some emotional preparation before announcing it to the world.
‘What am I thinking, calling some church acquaintance? I’m insane.’
There was no point in broadcasting his newfound wealth across the neighborhood.
He’d never be able to hide the fact of his Awakening and dungeon ownership forever anyway, but he’d reveal it to those around him gradually, in due time.
Now that he thought about it, the Legendary-Grade dungeon that Myeol-geop had conquered first—he still hadn’t visited it.
The “Altar of the Apostle of Death” dungeon. What in the world could be waiting there?
Just hearing the name gave him an eerie feeling. Surely the real place wouldn’t be quite that frightening?
Well, it was a dungeon guarded by monsters—none of them were exactly welcoming.
Jeon Jae-woo asked Myeol-geop cautiously.
“Can I go visit the dungeon with the altar?”
[Of course. There is no place within the dungeons I have conquered that the Creator cannot enter.]
“That said… what happened to the monsters inside the Legendary-Grade dungeon?”
[They have already been eliminated without exception.]
Right. If the dungeon had been fully conquered, of course they would be.
Jeon Jae-woo released a small sigh of relief.
A Legendary-Grade dungeon, no less—he felt his nerves coiling even before stepping inside.
“All right. While I’m at it, should I take a look around?”
Not long after leaving the Ancient Golden Palace, Jeon Jae-woo transferred directly into the Legendary-Grade dungeon.
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Meanwhile, at the South Korea Hunter Association.
The Association’s staff moved about with considerably more urgency than usual.
Though admittedly, employees of South Korea’s most powerful government institution were never exactly idle.
Today they were simply busier than normal for a rather extraordinary reason.
The reason was simple.
Two days ago, a mysterious hunter had conquered a Legendary-Grade dungeon in just one hour after the month’s new dungeons were announced.
Hunter Association Director Yu Jeong-tae returned to his office after finishing external duties and sank wearily into his chair.
“Sigh…”
“You must be exhausted, Director.”
He turned to the Secretary-General who had entered with him and asked:
“More importantly, have we still not identified the one who conquered the Legendary-Grade dungeon?”
The Secretary-General lowered his head sheepishly before answering.
“My apologies, Director. We are doing our utmost to locate them. Please grant us a bit more time.”
“No, it’s fine. Finding someone who appeared out of nowhere in just two days was probably unrealistic anyway. I suppose I’m just feeling impatient.”
The Blue House and National Assembly had been in an uproar since two days prior.
Have you found that hunter yet? When will you find them? The questions came relentlessly.
The level of public interest had grown astronomical on top of everything else.
“Please do not worry. By any means necessary, we will identify them within a week.”
………
A week.
The Secretary-General spoke with grim determination, but Director Yu Jeong-tae found the answer far from satisfactory.
A week felt far too distant. He wanted to demand that they bring that hunter to the Association immediately.
Until four days ago, the Hunter Association had been operating normally enough.
Like always, their full attention was focused on the new dungeons the Dungeon System would announce the following day.
They debated how many new dungeons would appear, and strategized intensely on how to secure as many of them as possible under South Korean ownership.
Then, in the midst of all that focus on conquest, an unprecedented incident erupted.
Some unknown Korean had conquered one of the Legendary-Grade dungeons—of which only about twenty had ever appeared.
A single person, no less, and they’d done it merely an hour after the new dungeon manifested.
When a dungeon conquest was completed, the Dungeon System displayed the conqueror’s name and their current nationality, so it became immediately clear.
Which meant not only the South Korea Hunter Association, but every hunter organization across the entire world, had learned of it at once.
It wasn’t inherently a problem for a domestic hunter to conquer a Legendary-Grade dungeon.
In fact, it was an excellent development—South Korea’s national power had just grown considerably with a Legendary-Grade dungeon now under Korean ownership.
The issue was that they couldn’t identify his identity right now.
The South Korea Hunter Association had been mobilizing all resources since two days prior to secure the mystery hunter’s identity.
However, the investigation confirmed that they weren’t affiliated with the Hunter Association.
Even the major hunter companies supporting Korea’s hunter industry seem unaware of them.
We don’t know who they are, but they’re likely a newly Awakened hunter despite possessing tremendous power.
As I said, if a Korean hunter conquered a Legendary-Grade Dungeon, that’s a good thing—not a problem.
‘But we absolutely must secure that hunter’s identity first.’
This is an individual who privately owns a Legendary-Grade Dungeon—not even General-Grade or Rare-Grade.
For a hunter to monopolize ownership of a Legendary-Grade or higher Dungeon is extraordinarily rare, possible only for the world’s elite hunters.
In short, from now on, if the Hunter Association wants to extract Mana resources from that Legendary-Grade Dungeon, we must obtain their permission.
Moreover, since they conquered the Dungeon in just one hour, they possess overwhelming martial power on top of everything else.
Therefore, we must do everything in our power to ensure that hunter maintains a positive relationship with South Korea.
What? They’re already Korean, so can’t the Hunter Association enter the Legendary-Grade Dungeon whenever we want?
No. That’s not how it works.
Who can enter a conquered Dungeon is determined solely by the permission of the hunter who first conquered it.
Without the first conqueror’s consent, no one can enter—that’s how the Dungeon System is set up.
But if they turn their back on South Korea and make a contract with another nation to hand over the Dungeon…
‘…As long as I’m Association Director, that can never be allowed to happen.’
Yu Jeong-tae, the Director, had grown anxious from his past experiences being burned by Dungeon disputes.
Regardless of the resources that could be extracted from the Dungeon, this was someone who had conquered a Legendary-Grade Dungeon single-handedly in one go.
It meant they possessed overwhelming martial strength that was difficult to believe for a newly Awakened hunter.
If we could only secure their allegiance, there’s no telling how much it would benefit national strength.
“We absolutely must find them first. Especially faster than China, Japan, or the United States.”
“I understand, Director.”
The Secretary-General, having received Yu Jeong-tae’s orders, bowed and left.
Yet even if the Hunter Association searched with every resource, they wouldn’t find him immediately.
Jeon Jae-woo was in a newly conquered Legendary-Grade Dungeon alone with his Golem.
A Transcendent-Grade Hunter’s Guide to Dungeon Conquest
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