Walkthrough for the Transcendental Hunter's Ruins - Chapter 50

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Episode 50
True to form, the Hunter Association of South Korea was trembling.
It had been three days since Jeon Jae-woo entered the Dungeon of the Rainy Night to clear it.
What was he doing in there that he still hadn’t come out after all this time?
Now there was barely a day left before the Time Limit expired.
The moment Lee Chul-su, the Minister, learned that only twenty-four hours remained, he rushed to the Hunter Association and pressed Yu Jung-tae with barely contained accusation.
“Director Yu. Why is it taking this long? Where is Hunter Jeon Jae-woo?!”
But Yu Jung-tae, as the Association’s director, simply shook his head with helpless irresponsibility.
“How would I know? Hunter Jeon Jae-woo entered the Dungeon alone.”
“Damn it all. If an actual Dungeon Break happens because of this, what then?!”
The chief secretary of the Disaster and Safety Administration dared to speak plainly to his anxious superior.
“Minister, Hunter Jeon also needed four days to clear the Turkish Dungeon, so perhaps we should wait a bit longer.”
“Hey! You keep your mouth shut! And if he doesn’t come out after four days, you’ll be taking responsibility, won’t you?!”
The secretary could only accept the rebuke and retreat.
“Ugh, really. We should have insisted on having someone enter with him no matter what. What am I supposed to report to the President…”
Yu Jung-tae found himself in fierce agreement with that sentiment.
If they’d at least brought along one Hunter to serve as a liaison, they could have received progress reports on the clearing operation at intermediate checkpoints.
But if they’d pressed him to bring someone along from the start, Jeon Jae-woo would never have accepted the request at all.
One of his conditions for clearing Dungeons was absolute—he would enter alone, no exceptions.
And truly, it made sense.
Jeon Jae-woo had no intention of revealing the existence of his Summoned Creatures to anyone.
The Hunter Association had tried every angle at first, offering to forgo all compensation and agreeing to his every demand.
They said they’d concede everything else—just let a few Hunters from the Association enter with him.
But Jeon Jae-woo held firm to his position: he would enter alone.
When they kept pushing, he boldly threatened them, declaring that he would refuse to trade any future Dungeon rewards with the Korean government.
As a result, with no news forthcoming, not only the Hunter Association but the entire population of South Korea had fallen into deep anxiety.
[Day 3 of Hunter Jeon Jae-woo’s Legendary-tier Dungeon Entry… Still No Word?]
[Turkey took four days too. It’s too early to draw conclusions.]
[Dungeon Clearance Failure Must Be Considered… Both Ruling and Opposition Parties Intensify Criticism of Hunter Association
└Why is Hunter Jeon really taking this long?
└Did he actually die in the Dungeon? Where should we evacuate to?
└He cleared all the other uncleared Dungeons so easily—why is he bleeding us dry like this?
└The Turkish Dungeon also took about four days. Just wait a bit longer.
└I already got my passport ready and I’m prepared to flee. Why aren’t you escaping the peninsula?
└Yeah, I live out in the countryside so I’m not at risk even if a Break happens. Good luck to those living in Seoul Metropolitan Area.
While all of South Korea trembled in impatient dread,
Jeon Jae-woo emerged from the Dungeon before the night of the third day had fully passed.
The moment he was summoned back to the Hunter Association building, people with eyes ablaze came surging toward him.
“H-Hunter Jeon!”
“Are you unharmed? Are you injured anywhere?”
“What’s the status of clearing the Rainy Night Dungeon?!”
……
Jeon Jae-woo waited until everyone pressing him with noise had fallen silent before he spoke.
“The Dungeon clearance is complete. There won’t be any Dungeon Breaks on the Korean Peninsula, so you can rest assured.”
At those words, the people immediately logged into the Dungeon System and hastily checked whether the Dungeon had been cleared.
Only after confirming that Jeon Jae-woo’s statement was true did everyone finally release a collective sigh of relief.
This news was immediately relayed to Director Yu Jung-tae and Minister Lee Chul-su.
“As expected of Hunter Jeon Jae-woo!! I’ll report this to the President at once!”
Minister Lee Chul-su, as if he’d never been anxious at all, rushed off toward Cheong Wa Dae.
And Director Yu Jung-tae spoke with Jeon Jae-woo privately, the two of them alone.
“You must have worked very hard, Hunter.”
“Not at all.”
“But was this Dungeon really so difficult in its Challenge Rating? Of course, we ourselves couldn’t lend a hand…”
“Ha. Given that it had remained uncleared until now, it was quite demanding.”
Though the difficulty came not from hunting monsters, but from his own cultivation.
“In any case, beyond the Dungeon being cleared, we’re truly grateful that you’ve returned safely, Hunter.”
“Did you worry much? I apologize for taking longer than expected.”
“Think nothing of it. As a fellow citizen of South Korea, I can only express my sincere gratitude to you.”
Though he still hoped that if such situations arose again, Jeon Jae-woo might consider entering alongside Hunters from the Association, so their people wouldn’t be driven to such distress.
“Ah. By the way, regarding requests that have come in from other countries—what do you plan to do? There’s less than a day until the Time Limit expires, but if it’s you, Hunter Jeon…”
“No, please decline them all. I think I need to rest today.”
‘Was the dungeon really that difficult to clear?’
Jeon Jae-woo offered his regards and headed home.
Truth be told, rest wasn’t strictly necessary, but there was something else he needed to attend to.
He had to examine the items rewarded from clearing this Legendary-tier dungeon in detail.
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Another day passed, and the time allocated to Asia expired.
The dungeons that failed to be cleared all triggered Dungeon Breaks simultaneously.
As Legendary-tier dungeon monsters poured into the most populous cities of each nation all at once, Asia descended into chaos.
Oddly enough, on the surface it seemed manageable.
Most of the nations occupying the largest territories in Asia had succeeded in clearing their dungeons.
China and India, both super-power Hunter nations, cleared their dungeons without major complications through their own efforts.
Russia and Japan somehow managed to scrape by with assistance.
Besides them, only South Korea and Turkey succeeded in clearing their dungeons.
Most of the remaining nations experienced Dungeon Breaks.
Nations with extremely high population density in specific cities fared particularly badly.
Cities in the Middle East and West Asia became absolute war zones.
No matter how well prepared, the sudden emergence of monsters made it impossible to prevent at least hundreds of casualties.
Of course, Jeon Jae-woo had no reason to concern himself with the affairs of foreign nations.
He paid no attention to the noisy news broadcasts as he examined the items.
The reward from the “Rainy Night” dungeon was just a stone.
Though it looked less like an ordinary pebble and more like a broken Orb Fragment.
It appeared to be a piece chipped from a much larger sphere.
When it first appeared as a clearing reward, he hadn’t thought much of it.
He’d simply assumed it was a fitting reward for clearing a Legendary-tier dungeon, whatever it was.
But the reactions of his Summoned Creatures upon seeing the Orb Fragment had been quite pronounced.
They reacted with particular sensitivity compared to rewards from other Legendary-tier dungeons.
“Heh heh. I can scarcely believe it.”
“Lich, what is this? It feels strange.”
Jeon Jae-woo, equally curious, posed the question to Lich King.
“What exactly is this? Such a remarkable treasure?”
“Remarkable hardly captures it. How should I put it… the planet’s heart, perhaps? Even I don’t know the details.”
What on earth was he talking about?
Mutant, who had been created to store all the knowledge in the world, apparently knew about this fragment as well, and Myeol-geop relayed the information in his stead.
Since Mutant couldn’t speak, Myeol-geop received the information and shared it.
‘But how are they communicating with each other? Are they using Telepathy?’
[This is not merely an ordinary Orb Fragment.]
“Well, it’s a Legendary-tier dungeon reward, so it wouldn’t be an ordinary object.”
Judging from its appearance, the original massive sphere must have been an energy mass with immense power condensed within it.
Myeol-geop’s explanation didn’t deviate greatly from Jeon Jae-woo’s assumption.
[If this fragment were restored to its original state, it would possess tremendous power.]
“What could be done with such tremendous power? Does it just hold a lot of energy?”
[According to Mutant’s knowledge, it might become possible to directly interfere with the Dungeon System’s operations.]
For a moment, Jeon Jae-woo’s eyes widened.
Interfere with the Dungeon System?
“If I could interfere with the Dungeon System… what would happen?”
[Literally, comprehensive adjustments to dungeons would become possible. You could even prevent Dungeon Breaks from occurring.]
After hearing Myeol-geop’s explanation, Jeon Jae-woo was astonished.
‘Such a thing is possible?’
If you had to name the biggest issue facing the world right now, it would undoubtedly be Dungeon Breaks.
Even the global wars of ages past couldn’t compare in scale.
And it might be possible to prevent such things from happening.
[Stopping Dungeon Breaks would likely be possible, and given any system-level approach related to dungeons, adjustments might be possible for virtually anything.]
People commonly liken dungeons, where all manner of treasures lie buried, to a blessing bestowed by the divine.
If one could control such dungeons as one wished, wouldn’t that person become a god?
Yet he couldn’t fathom why a fragment of such a powerful Magical Artifact had appeared as a clearing reward right before his eyes.
‘Are they expecting me to collect all these fragments and complete the sphere?’
As if he were some kind of Monkey King gathering Dragon Balls.
And there was also the possibility that other Hunters had received fragments of this same Orb as clearing rewards and now possessed them.
Handing him just one fragment without explanation—what was he supposed to do with it?
Did they expect him to go around collecting Orb Fragments and assemble them into a complete whole?
Of course, stopping Dungeon Breaks was an extremely important task.
But looking at it pragmatically, while the creatures that invaded through Dungeon Breaks posed a real danger, they weren’t an extinction-level threat to Earth.
Not unless it was a Mythic-tier or Ancient-tier Dungeon Break.
Even if a Legendary-tier Dungeon Break occurred in South Korea and killed hundreds in a massive catastrophe, the national system would continue functioning without issue.
Dungeon Breaks could be handled at a level where civilization and society wouldn’t collapse.
There was no reason for Jeon Jae-woo to go out of his way to work for world peace.
“Ah, no Dungeon Clearance Token either. Useless thing.”
“What are you saying, Creator? You just heard that it’s a fragment of an object possessing tremendous power, yet you speak like that?”
“In any case, I can’t use it right now anyway.”
Jeon Jae-woo casually tossed the Orb Fragment into Nobum’s body.
It might be useful somewhere else, even without the Dungeon System’s involvement.
Still, he had no intention of deliberately searching for other Dungeon fragments.
In any case, the Asia Dungeon Break had ended, so it was time for the next one.
North America, South America, Oceania, and Asia had each experienced a Dungeon Break in that order.
Now only Africa and Europe remained.
The next Dungeon Break target was decided to be Europe.
However, the Dungeon Break in Europe had one crucial difference from all the previous ones.
All the nations within the European Union were treated as a single bundle.
The Dungeon allocated to the European Union, bundled together as one, was an Ancient-tier that had remained uncleared for over ten years.
After the announcement of the Dungeon System, the European Union was thrown into absolute chaos.
Dungeon Clearing Methods for Transcendent-tier Hunters
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