Walkthrough for the Transcendental Hunter's Ruins - Chapter 49

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Episode 49
Jeon Jae-woo and his companions had just entered the Legendary Dungeon.
[Rainy Night Exploration Condition: Defeat Vampire Bats (0/200)]
True to its name, the dungeon’s baseline setting was a rainy night.
‘Man, it’s really pitch black.’
Jeon Jae-woo had heard about it beforehand, but he hadn’t expected it to be quite this dark until he actually stepped inside.
The summoned creatures right beside him were completely invisible—no exaggeration.
“Master, are you there?”
“I need to confirm my position first.”
[If possible, please stay close and maintain your positions. Once you drift too far apart, it becomes difficult to recognize each other.]
The confusion of seeing nothing seemed to affect the summoned creatures just as much.
Jeon Jae-woo pressed his back directly against theirs, confirming their positions through touch.
The darkness was absolute, and rain poured down from every direction as if the heavens themselves had gone mad—hardly the sort of place that inspired confidence.
Then again, dungeons weren’t meant to be pleasant.
‘And of all things, I have to deal with vampire bats.’
Though he couldn’t possibly see anyone’s expression in this darkness, the Lich King chuckled.
“Our creator fears quite a lot, doesn’t he? Surely once humans reach adulthood, they get over being afraid of the dark?”
“It’s not fear. It’s just… unsettling.”
“That’s fear, plain and simple.”
……
He was genuinely frightened, if he was being honest, but his pride wouldn’t let him admit it so readily.
And surely the solution was simple—just light a fire, right?
Unfortunately, that was impossible inside this dungeon.
The rain falling from above was saturated with mana and descended like a deluge—could you realistically light a fire under such conditions?
Well then, what if they just created light itself without fire?
Even without a light-producing trait, if they’d brought a luminescent orb, clearing the dungeon would have been far easier.
But this space was peculiar in ways other dungeons were not.
The moment they attempted to generate light of any kind within it, that light was sucked into the darkness and extinguished.
Many hunters who had come before to clear this dungeon had tried various methods, only to fail.
‘Just because the darkness is thick doesn’t mean light is impossible to create.’
It seemed the dungeon itself was a strange space where light simply could not exist.
Even Myeol-gyeop had attempted to create light using his trait.
[It doesn’t work, as expected. I’m more surprised than I anticipated.]
Even Myeol-gyeop, who possessed two Transcendent-tier Traits, couldn’t produce light here.
Of course, Jeon Jae-woo didn’t think this environment presented any real obstacle to clearing the dungeon.
From the moment he’d received advance information about the dungeon, he’d believed it wouldn’t be particularly difficult.
“Nobum, I’m counting on you again.”
“Yes, Master!”
Nobum responded to his master’s call immediately.
Using the Nature-tier Trait, Nobum began to harmonize with the dungeon itself.
The moment Nobum became one with the space, the raindrops began to taper off.
Shortly after, the torrential downpour ceased entirely.
Jeon Jae-woo nodded with a satisfied smile.
‘Nobum really is the best for this.’
By becoming a single entity with the dungeon through the Nature-tier Trait, Nobum had regulated the rain away.
Now all they had to do was let the sun that illuminated the dungeon brighten their surroundings.
But a moment later, Nobum spoke again.
“Um, Master.”
“Yes?”
“I don’t think I can brighten the dungeon.”
Startled by this unexpected statement, Jeon Jae-woo asked with a bewildered expression.
“You can’t brighten it? But there should be a sun. How can there be no light?”
“It’s just… there’s no star or anything to shine light on the planetary surface. I can’t see one anywhere.”
??
Jeon Jae-woo’s expression became even more dumbfounded.
How could such a thing even be possible?
Then how did the monsters in this dungeon even come into existence?
Wasn’t sunlight one of the essential conditions for life to form?
“And I don’t see any other stars that could serve as suns either.”
……
Did this dungeon’s universe simply lack luminescent objects altogether, which was why everything around him lay in such darkness?
The Lich King spoke.
“The absence of light poses no problem. Now that the rain has stopped, detection becomes far easier—that alone suffices.”
“So we can clear it within the time limit?”
[Set your mind at ease. I identified the location of every blood bat the moment the rain ceased.]
Myeol-gyeop, as expected. His detection ability was formidable to the point of being unsettling.
Though sight was lost, at least the torrential rain had stopped, making mana-based detection far more manageable.
Creatures of Myeol-gyeop and the Lich King’s caliber barely suffered from the handicap of blindness in combat.
Soon both Myeol-gyeop and the Lich King released their mana and prepared for battle.
“Shriek?!”
The summoned creatures used their detection abilities to pinpoint the blood bats and began their extermination.
In the absolute darkness, the sound of bat wings cutting through air, their cries, and the thud of their bodies hitting the ground blended together.
Jeon Jae-woo, sensing he’d be utterly useless in that fight, stood idly at the back like he was munching popcorn—when Myeol-gyeop suddenly called to his master.
[Creator. Come here.]
“Hm?”
[This environment is ideal. Rather than having us hunt everything, it would be better if you trained while we’re here.]
……
Myeol-gyeop, whose singular obsession was making his master stronger, seized the training opportunity without hesitation.
***
Myeol-gyeop worked Jeon Jae-woo relentlessly.
With the Dungeon Break approaching, he regretted they couldn’t stay longer to maximize the training time.
“Listen, Myeol-gyeop.”
[Yes?]
“Once we clear this dungeon, we can return whenever we want. Do we really need to do this on our first run?”
[Even if we could return and train afterward, we cannot replicate real combat experience.]
Damn. It looked like he wouldn’t get off so easily this time either.
“Still, since there’s a Dungeon Break looming, we can’t just clear it at our own pace…”
[I am monitoring the time. If you keep getting distracted like this, your outdoor training will become far harsher.]
What kind of golem threatens its own master?
This training was, compared to his previous sessions, uniquely grueling.
He had to fight with his eyes open yet effectively blind—sight completely stripped away, forced to rely on other senses alone.
This was his first time facing combat with vision entirely severed.
Though he’d acquired an S-rank Trait and grown considerably stronger, Jeon Jae-woo still lacked the hunter experience to feel at home in this style of fighting.
He concentrated on his remaining senses as best he could and swung his blade with all his might at the blood bat.
The forceful swing passed through empty air with equal force.
He felt no impact of blade striking flesh.
‘Damn it.’
The Ego Sword spoke with palpable disdain.
-Tsk, tsk. With an S-rank Trait to your name, you collapse the moment a single sense is taken. It’s almost embarrassing.
[Creator. Concentrate your mind further.]
……
Even Myeol-gyeop chimed in to scold him, which somehow made his chest ache with a pathetic sting.
The monsters inhabiting the dungeon were blood bats.
They weren’t exceptionally durable creatures—a single clean hit would kill them—yet they remained extraordinarily dangerous.
Their flight speed exceeded what most hunters could track, and once they closed in, they drained the life force of their prey in mere moments.
Myeol-gyeop carefully regulated the number of beasts to let his master engage in actual combat.
If matters threatened to become critical, he stepped in himself to dispatch them instead.
Through this live combat training under Myeol-gyeop’s guidance,
three days had quietly passed since Jeon Jae-woo entered the Rainy Night dungeon.
“Haah… haah…”
Jeon Jae-woo caught his breath, utterly exhausted.
Save for his rest and sleep periods, it felt as though he’d done nothing but swing his sword the entire time.
Yet Myeol-gyeop’s teaching method was undeniably extraordinary.
In less than four days, his every sense except sight had grown sharper and far more acute.
Even ordinary hunters trained to maximize their senses through mana.
‘But surely improvement doesn’t just happen like this for any hunter…’
Perhaps the best teacher wasn’t another human after all, but an AI.
“Anyway, Myeol-gyeop. I think we really do need to leave now.”
If they lingered much longer, the Dungeon Break might actually trigger.
Come to think of it, they’d been inside for three days without emerging—the Hunter Association was probably fretting again.
Jeon Jae-woo had planned to clear the dungeon as quickly as possible, but unexpected training from Myeol-gyeop had made him considerably late.
“Hm? Myeol-gyeop. There aren’t that many monsters left anyway.”
[Yes. It’s unfortunate, but time is running short, so I shall conclude the training.]
Myeol-gyeop, surprisingly aware that time was nearly up, acquiesced at once.
But what was there to be sorry about?
From his perspective, the three days of training had felt like three hundred.
Myeol-gyeop took to the air to finish clearing the dungeon, systematically exterminating the vampire bats.
[Rainy Night — Exploration Condition: Vampire Bat Elimination (200/200)]
Dozens of remaining vampire bats fell in an instant.
Watching the notification window fill in the blink of an eye, Jeon Jae-woo felt an odd sense of emptiness wash over him.
[Exploration mission complete.]
[Rainy Night dungeon is now your property.]
In any case, this marked the completion of South Korea’s allocated Legendary Dungeon clearing.
‘Well. That’s done.’
Jeon Jae-woo opened his dungeon system window and reviewed the list of dungeons he had conquered so far.
[Dungeons Conquered — Apostle of Death’s Altar, Ancient Golden Palace, Tomb of Swords, the Eternal Sun, the Underground Labyrinth, Silver Mine, Hired Palace, Wall of the Void, Heavenly Citadel, Tower of Babel, Divine Arrangement, Grand Cross, Rainy Night]
[Remaining Clearable Dungeons (10)]
He had ten dungeon-clearing runs left.
With three additional clearing permits in hand, that made thirteen total.
It struck him anew how many dungeons he had actually conquered.
Only five months had passed since Jeon Jae-woo awakened as a hunter and began clearing dungeons.
Yet the total number of dungeons he’d conquered came to thirteen.
Hunters who had exhausted their quotas typically had twelve dungeons on record; he had already surpassed established hunters and still had ten runs remaining.
Among all of them, no one had cleared such monumentally high-tier dungeons alone.
‘The Ancient Golden Palace… there’s just one Normal-tier dungeon wedged between them, so it feels like a blemish on my portfolio.’
Jeon Jae-woo suddenly wondered if he really needed to push so hard clearing dungeons.
He’d earned enormous sums of money from dungeon clearing, and every summoned creature under his command possessed a Transcendent-tier Trait.
Perhaps he no longer needed to clear dungeons; wouldn’t personal training for growth be enough?
Jeon Jae-woo shook his head and dismissed the idle thought.
‘Let me just collect the reward and leave.’
After gathering all the vampire bat corpses, Jeon Jae-woo checked his rewards.
The dungeon reward wasn’t an additional clearing permit, which was disappointing, but since this was a Legendary Dungeon, something noteworthy should appear.
The clearing reward turned out to be a single item.
Jeon Jae-woo’s eyes widened slightly in surprise when he saw it.
Transcendent-tier Hunter’s Dungeon Conquest Method
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