Walkthrough for the Transcendental Hunter's Ruins - Chapter 61

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Episode 61
Most Asian nations had wrapped up their Ruin conquests successfully.
The next continent awaiting assignment shifted into the queue.
After Asia came South America.
The order was nothing like the first allocation, which suggested the Ruin assignments truly were random.
And Jeon Jae-woo found himself back at the Hunter Bureau.
Recently, after one more layer of the Heaven’s Box had been unlocked, he’d been testing what it could hold by tossing in various materials.
That’s when a small sphere fragment—the Legendary-grade Ruin reward from before—suddenly came to mind.
His summons had called it the Heart of the Earth, the core of the Ruin system, a precious object.
‘Could this work as a material too?’
He tried inserting it into the box on a whim, and it seemed to work.
Remarkably, it wasn’t simply consumed as a material—instead, the box upgraded itself one tier higher in the process.
The moment he placed the fragment inside, a list of materials needed for the upgrade materialized.
So it appeared that by gradually gathering the required materials, he could reconstruct the small fragment into its complete form, one stage at a time.
It looked like he wouldn’t need to wander through Ruins hunting for fragments to complete the entire sphere.
Jeon Jae-woo checked the information window the box displayed to see what the upgrade required.
According to the list, he would need an enormous variety of Demonic Beast corpses as materials.
High-Purity Leviathan’s Tear, True Alchemy Refined Hybrid Blood, Finely Crushed Dragon Fangs—and more.
……
The box wanted nothing but cursed materials.
More precisely, the prices of those materials were absolutely cursed.
‘How much is all that worth, exactly?’
Even Jeon Jae-woo, who’d already amassed tremendous wealth conquering countless Ruins, felt his mind reeling at the figure.
Combined, it seemed like enough to purchase a global megacorporation and still have plenty left over.
Of course, the wealth Jeon Jae-woo had accumulated from conquering numerous Legendary-grade and Ancient-grade Ruins was substantial by world standards, but surprisingly, it was meager compared to the sheer number of Ruins he’d cleared.
That was because he’d poured the vast majority of all the materials he’d obtained from his Ruin conquests into the Heaven’s Box.
The materials were extremely expensive, but not impossible to procure, so he decided to gather them one by one.
Looking at the material ratio table the unlocked box displayed, he finally grasped something.
Why, all this time, whenever he’d stuffed monster corpses in as “materials,” only bizarre and hard-to-sell Magical Tools had come out.
‘You can’t just shove any and every monster corpse into it, regardless of type.’
Even materials harvested from a single Demonic Beast separated into multiple categories, each with its own field of application.
For instance, blood drawn from an Ogre’s body became potion ingredients, while its flayed hide served as armor crafting material.
‘But I’ve been throwing entire beast corpses in all this time…’
That said, Jeon Jae-woo wasn’t a fool—he had at least sorted similar Demonic Beast corpses together before inserting them.
Had he not even done that much, the entire crafting process would have failed from the start.
If he’d learned this fact earlier, he could have used the Demonic Beast corpses far more efficiently.
‘How much money have I wasted?’
No, never mind—he shouldn’t brood and sink into depression over it.
There was no one to ask about how to use the box anyway.
“I have to say, though—you two claim to be Transcendent-grade, yet you never taught me this? What’ve you been doing?”
At their master’s unreasonable complaint, Myeol-geop and the Lich King both shrugged.
“We’re seeing this mysterious box for the first time ourselves, Master.”
[I don’t have a Crafting-related Trait either, so what would I know?]
Damn.
Well, now that he knew what was needed, he’d gather them piece by piece.
He was genuinely curious what would happen once the sphere was complete.
But given how difficult these materials were to obtain and the large quantities required, it wouldn’t be easy.
So Jeon Jae-woo went to the Hunter Bureau to sound out Yoo Jung-tae about purchasing them.
When Yoo Jung-tae saw the materials Jeon Jae-woo requested, his eyes went wide.
‘All of this you need…?’
‘Yes.’
He’d suspected the Hunter’s Trait might be Crafting-related.
But to have him suddenly appear and request such a vast quantity of rare materials…
‘What exactly are you trying to create?’
‘Less creating than experimenting. I’ll buy it all—I’ll empty every resource the Ruins have yielded if necessary.’
Yoo Jung-tae alternated his gaze between the documents and Jeon Jae-woo’s face, his expression troubled.
‘Hmm. Hunter. I apologize, but I’m afraid this is impossible.’
‘What’s the issue…’
‘Even if we drain our national stores completely, the quantity of materials you’re requesting is absolutely insufficient.’
Ah.
‘Is there no way to obtain these materials in our country?’
‘These are materials that only nations strong enough to have dominated for decades and conquered numerous ruins could possibly provide.’
At any rate, the Hunter Bureau promised to do everything in its power to gather as many of the materials Jeon Jae-woo required.
The only condition was that if he intended to craft something dangerous, he had to disclose what it was.
The Hunter Bureau must have been trembling at the prospect.
The world’s strongest hunter, Korea’s greatest warrior, had suddenly requested vast quantities of perilous and precious magical tool components.
They had no way of knowing what he intended to do, but they had to comply.
Unless they wanted to see him emigrate to America.
He might well abandon the country entirely under the pretext of needing to obtain the materials elsewhere.
Yet fortuitously, a favorable opportunity had arisen for Jeon Jae-woo.
An Ancient-grade Ruin had been assigned to Japan, of all places!
Japan was a superpower by no means, but it had long reigned as a formidable hunter nation.
As compensation for conquering the ruin, he was able to secure materials from Japan’s stockpiles.
When Korean diplomats negotiated with Japan, they had requested vast quantities of monster corpse materials as a reward for the ruin conquest—for precisely this reason.
Some time later, when Jeon Jae-woo learned that the promised quantities had arrived in Korea, he visited the Hunter Bureau to collect them.
“Ah. Hunter Jeon Jae-woo. You’ve arrived.”
In the lobby, Vice-Director Gwak Tae-won came rushing over in haste.
“Hello, Vice-Director. Where are they?”
“I’ll show you the way. This way, please.”
“Thank you.”
Jeon Jae-woo followed Vice-Director Gwak Tae-won down into the basement of the Hunter Bureau building.
A warehouse existed in the deepest reaches of the basement, concealed as if deliberately hidden.
Upon entering the warehouse, Jeon Jae-woo cast curious glances about.
‘I’ve never ventured this deep before.’
This was likely where the Hunter Bureau kept its most precious possessions.
Expanding his Energy Sensing throughout the descent, he perceived high-level defensive barriers and sealing systems woven as densely as a dragnet along the entire passage.
Even Jeon Jae-woo, who had awakened the Blade Master Trait, could not have escaped from this place alone with stolen goods.
If it were Myeol-geop… he’d simply obliterate the barriers and seals with firepower.
[Should any problem arise, I shall see you safely out, Creator.]
Myeol-geop was concealing himself right beside him even now, yet Gwak Tae-won detected nothing, and the security system remained utterly unresponsive.
The level of defense here was insufficient to restrain Myeol-geop, equipped as he was with the Absolute Defense Trait.
Gwak Tae-won performed a biometric authentication and proceeded inside, then opened one of tens of thousands of drawers in the warehouse and produced a single bag.
“Here are the materials we received from Japan.”
It was a moderate-sized black metal briefcase of the sort office workers carried.
“May I examine them now?”
“Of course. Please feel free.”
Jeon Jae-woo immediately opened the bag on the spot and paused, momentarily bewildered.
“…Vice-Director. Is this truly everything?”
“Yes, it is, but… is there some problem?”
It was considerably less than he had anticipated, leaving him quite taken aback.
‘This is all? That’s it?’
The materials Jeon Jae-woo had requested were contained in the bag as liquids and powdered solids held in small vials the size of a clenched fist.
Yet the quantity the Heaven’s Box had demanded for its upgrade was far more extensive.
Jeon Jae-woo tore his gaze from the box and fixed a steady stare on the vice-director.
“Did the Hunter Bureau perhaps withhold some for itself, leaving only this?”
Gwak Tae-won started in alarm, hastily waving both hands in denial.
“That, that couldn’t possibly be! Every single material received from Japan has been brought here without exception.”
“Then this is truly all they provided?”
“Sir. Hunter. I apologize, but we actually received quite a substantial amount. I would appreciate your understanding.”
……
At those words, Jeon Jae-woo found himself with nothing more to say.
It was true—the monsters one had to hunt to obtain materials were typically neither common nor weak.
Beyond the difficulty of obtaining the materials themselves, processing them to Jeon Jae-woo’s specifications was an even greater ordeal.
Even Jeon Jae-woo, who had traversed many ruins and hunted countless beasts, had rarely seen such creatures.
“I apologize. I spoke out of turn.”
“No, not at all.”
Relieved that the misunderstanding had cleared, Gwak Tae-won released a breath of relief.
And Jeon Jae-woo exhaled in frustration.
‘The upgrade surely won’t be completed in a single attempt.’
If the first upgrade alone demanded this much, how many more materials would he need to reach completion?
I should’ve known better than to start thinking about completing the orb and all that nonsense.
Getting ahead of myself, dreaming about what great achievement I’d pull off once I had access…
That’s when it happened.
—Woop-woop-woop!!
Emergency alarms blazed to life across the Hunter Bureau building, red lights spinning in every corridor.
Though Jeon Jae-woo was deep underground where no alarm sounded, his improved Energy Sensing let him hear it clearly from above.
Jeon Jae-woo’s eyes went wide as he tilted his head toward the ceiling.
‘What the—? What’s happening up there?’
A fire? Or an intruder?
But the Deputy Director of the Hunter Bureau showed no particular concern.
“Ah, it’s nothing to worry about, Jeon. No need to be alarmed.”
“But the alarm’s going off. Isn’t something happening outside?”
“This alarm triggers automatically throughout the entire Hunter Bureau building whenever monsters are detected breaking out of a domestic dungeon. There’s likely a large-scale hunting operation underway in the North Korea Dungeon right now.”
“In the North Korea Dungeon?”
A large-scale operation—he’d never heard of that before.
It hadn’t made the news either, as far as he knew.
Gwak Tae-won nodded and sighed softly.
“Yes. Lately monsters have been appearing frequently in the North Korea Dungeon, so we’ve been stretched thin. Between the ruin expeditions and everything else…”
Now that he thought about it, emergency alerts had been coming through quite often recently.
He’d always swiped past them without reading, but glancing back, they seemed to be warnings related to the North Korea Dungeon.
Dungeon Breaks had become fairly frequent in recent times—unlike Ruin Breaks, they’re so common that some people don’t even react anymore—but Dungeon Breaks are actually the bigger problem.
If you don’t hunt them periodically, you never know when monsters will burst out and attack civilians.
And the North Korea Dungeon was supposedly one of the worst on the Korean Peninsula, if not all of Asia.
‘I wonder if the other S-rank Hunters are in the dungeon right now?’
Transcendent-Grade Hunters’ Guide to Ruin Expedition
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