Walkthrough for the Transcendental Hunter's Ruins - Chapter 65

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Episode 65
News of the Dungeon System’s restructuring sent the world reeling once again.
From now on, the longer a Hunter took to clear an assigned dungeon, the higher the difficulty would climb.
Which meant the monsters dwelling inside would grow stronger and more numerous, making clearance far more grueling.
For Hunters and ordinary people alike, it was a bolt from the blue.
[Dungeon System Overhaul Again… Clearance Difficulty on the Rise]
[Breaks and Rising Difficulty—Why Are Dungeons Driving Humanity to the Brink?]
┗What the hell is this sudden nonsense.
┗Seriously, this is ridiculous. If you were going to add these conditions, why not do it from the start instead of springing it on us like this?
The mood darkened considerably in the face of the unexpected news.
People had heard grim tidings and felt their spirits sink.
More than simple frustration at rising dungeon difficulties, the overall atmosphere had grown distinctly worse.
If you asked people living in this age what a dungeon meant to them, most would answer the same way.
A gift from God to mankind.
No one knew who had created this system.
What mattered was that clearing a dungeon yielded staggering rewards.
Until just months ago, clearing dungeons hadn’t been a forced system at all.
You could leave freely, and once you succeeded at clearance, you could claim vast resources—a veritable treasure trove.
Then came the Dungeon Break.
One could argue the Break was inevitable, given how many dungeons had been left uncleared.
But when word suddenly spread that clearances were becoming harder, a thought began to take root in people’s minds.
‘Were dungeons never a gift from God to us after all?’
Far from a gift—they were making life harder for all of humanity.
In the midst of this turmoil, South America and Asia breathed sighs of relief.
Having already completed their dungeon clearance obligations, they’d at least avoided the burden of tackling rising-difficulty dungeons this quarter.
European nations, however, felt the flames at their feet and scrambled to act.
With no time to spare, they immediately launched clearance operations.
And days later, the Orb upgrade in Heaven’s Box was finally complete.
Jeon Jae-woo examined the Orb as it emerged from the upgrade chamber.
“…? What changed about it?”
“The fragments have partially returned to their original form, Creator.”
“……”
He hadn’t expected it to amount to just this.
“You upgraded it, yet barely anything looks different.”
More than that—he sensed virtually no aura emanating from it at all, which was remarkable in its own troubling way.
Myeol-geop spoke matter-of-factly from beside him.
[Creator. Did you truly believe a car would roll down the street just because its shell looked presentable, even though none of its parts were installed?]
“Fair point—and the shell doesn’t even look all that presentable to begin with.”
Unlike upgrading his summons, this mysterious Orb could not be used at all until it was fully restored.
For now, he’d have to wait until he’d gathered all the materials needed for the next upgrade.
With the Orb upgrade finished, there was one new item left to craft in the remaining capacity of the box.
It was due to a request from Director Yoo Jung-tae.
‘Hunter. I wonder if I could trouble you with another commission?’
‘Yes. If it’s something I can make. What is it?’
‘I’d like to request some throwing stars suitable for assassination-class Hunters.’
Jeon Jae-woo found it odd.
Throwing stars out of nowhere? He wasn’t even an assassination-class Hunter himself.
‘By the way… do you know Na Yu-gyeong, the Hunter who just became S-rank?’
‘Yes. I’ve seen her on TV frequently lately.’
He’d also heard she awakened her S-rank Trait and entered the Hunter Bureau not long after.
‘She’s an assassination-class Hunter, and she’s been searching for a suitable weapon.’
‘I wouldn’t mind making it, but is there really a need to ask me? I hear there are plenty of craftspeople with Master-class titles at the Hunter Bureau.’
‘Ha—well, your skills are renowned among them. To be honest, there aren’t many domestic Masters with experience in assassination-class Hunter equipment.’
Having an overseas S-rank Hunter’s equipment imported domestically would be far too costly.
‘Understood. I’m not sure if it’ll suit her tastes, but I’ll give it a try.’
‘Thank you so much! I’ll pay top price!! Oh, and if you don’t mind—could you make them sword-form rather than wheel-form? Please, Hunter.’
Na Yu-gyeong, the rookie S-rank Hunter.
He’d looked her up online and seen her face; now he found himself curious to meet her in person.
“Why were you interested in meeting her, sir?”
“She’s really beautiful. I only saw her on screen, but the proportions are insane. I thought I was watching a celebrity.”
“……”
Not that it was the reason, but in any case, I’d received a commission to forge a few throwing stars.
Once I’d confirmed the materials by placing them in Heaven’s Box, making usable throwing stars wasn’t particularly difficult.
“Let me see. What I need for the Orb upgrade…”
But gathering the materials required to upgrade the Orb even once more looked like it would take considerable time.
***
A few days later, Jeon Jae-woo began preparing to clear a dungeon with his summons.
He’d accepted a request from France to clear some of the dungeons assigned to their country.
France had no additional Conquest Tokens set aside, and the rewards from the dungeons assigned to France weren’t Conquest Tokens either.
They weren’t Ancient-grade Ruins that would cause a catastrophe the moment a Dungeon Break occurred, so normally he would’ve refused.
But it turned out that France possessed materials needed for an upgrade.
Materials needed for the upgrade of Catsy, his Familiar.
Recently, Jeon Jae-woo had been desperately eager to upgrade his summons.
Specifically Catsy—the only one among his summons lacking a Transcendent-grade Trait.
〈Catsy〉 – Bound to (Jeon Jae-woo)
Description – A fantastical creature crafted by a shaman who fused the human spirit realm with a borrowed corporeal form drawn from nature’s power. Once subjugated, it becomes a faithful retainer devoted to its master. It possesses exceptionally refined control over spirit-realm traits.
Type – Familiar
Traits – Grooming (A), Illusion Magic (B), Detection (B), Undetectable (S)
‘Among all my summons, only Catsy lacks a Transcendent-grade Trait…’
Catsy’s abilities were far from weak, but surrounded by such formidable companions, she seemed woefully outclassed.
“Creator. Haven’t you said before that being cute is enough?”
“Well, that’s true, but if we can boost her abilities as well, that’s all the better, isn’t it?”
So I’d tried placing her in Heaven’s Box to attempt an upgrade, but the required materials were far too rare.
Since she still possessed only a single S-rank Trait, the quantity of materials needed wasn’t excessive.
But in terms of rarity, they surpassed even the materials required to upgrade Myeol-geop, Lich King, No-bum, and the other summons.
That’s why, despite considerable time having passed since Catsy’s summoning, I’d been leaving her unupgraded.
When I heard the French government possessed the resources I needed, I’d immediately made the trade.
Surprisingly, the moment Jeon Jae-woo accepted the commission, France beamed with delight.
Meanwhile, the neighboring nations hemorrhaging hunters to dungeon clearance cursed France out of sheer spite.
They said he was being selfish, wasting his precious clearance attempts on saving only themselves when those should be reserved for Ancient-grade Ruins.
Regardless, Jeon Jae-woo completed his preparations to enter the dungeon.
“Creator. You don’t need to prepare quite so thoroughly, do you?”
It was just (?) one Legendary-grade Ruin.
“Of course a Legendary-grade Ruin is an extraordinary dungeon, but we—your summons—are overwhelmingly more formidable than that.”
“That’s true enough, but somehow it doesn’t sit right with me. And in movies, the person who says something like that always dies first, don’t they?”
[The Creator’s words are correct. There’s no harm in thorough preparation for any fight.]
“Honestly, I don’t think we even need to bring all the summons here…”
“We usually leave Mutant behind anyway.”
Jeon Jae-woo entered the dungeon, leading all his summons with him.
“Then let’s begin.”
[‘Sleepless Night’ Subjugation Condition: Hunt the Black Dragon Lord (0/1)]
Upon entering the dungeon, the scenery was Karst Terrain.
In the sky, an enormous black dragon soared, its wings beating powerfully.
Judging by its grand stature and imposing presence, it had to be the Black Dragon Lord.
But its entire body was such a deep black that at first glance it looked like some massive shadow hovering in the air.
‘Why is the dungeon named Sleepless Night if a Dragon Lord is the target?’
He’d received information about the dungeon from the French side.
Apparently the black reptile could use a powerful Illusion Magic that darkened one’s vision completely.
‘Just like last time, Illusion Magic won’t work on golems like Myeol-geop.’
“Grrrrr…?”
But something about the beast’s demeanor felt odd.
Despite the overwhelming presence emanating from its massive frame, it seemed somewhat intimidated.
Myeol-geop stared at the beast for a moment, then, sensing something amiss, spoke abruptly.
[We should cut off its escape route so it can’t flee. Lich King.]
“Leave it to me.”
Beasts that use Mana possess fundamentally higher intelligence than ordinary animals.
The baseline intellect of superior creatures like dragons easily eclipses that of humans.
Of course, that doesn’t mean humans have ever successfully communicated with beasts—except through Grooming—which is to say never.
Beasts are lifeforms that express unconditional hostility toward humanity.
In any case, this reptile seemed to have instinctively grasped that its Illusion Magic wouldn’t accomplish anything against Myeol-geop.
But Myeol-geop had already cut off the escape route ahead, trapping the target and preparing to strike.
A deep, resonant hum rolled through the air.
As mana coalesced from the staff he pulled from his arm, the creature’s body flinched.
It had clearly registered that we intended to attack it.
The Dragon Lord thrashed in response, gathering mana along its jaws.
A thunderous roar shattered the silence.
Unexpectedly, the dragon struck first.
The Black Dragon unleashed Dragon’s Breath from its maw toward Myeol-geop.
But Myeol-geop, equipped with his Absolute Defense Trait, dodged the incoming breath with ease.
Blessed by No-bum’s buffs, he darted in all directions, unleashing a barrage of staff blasts.
The Dragon Lord, struck directly by dozens of Myeol-geop’s blasts, crumbled to ash in an instant.
With the hunt concluded, Myeol-geop returned and made his report to his master.
[The hunt is complete, Creator.]
“Uh… yeah…”
Jeon Jae-woo stared blankly at the Dragon Lord’s corpse.
‘But that ended way too fast.’
I’d known Myeol-geop was powerful, but this… this was something else.
Almost excessive, really.
“At this rate, people won’t believe us when we tell them about it.”
“The system logs everything anyway. They’ll have to believe it. What else can they do?”
“Fair point.”
Just as we were about to leave the dungeon and head out—
“…??”
Jeon Jae-woo’s body lurched; he nearly stumbled.
Suddenly, pitch-black darkness flooded his vision without a gap.
“What the hell is this?”
He tried calling out to his other familiars, but no one answered.
‘Come to think of it, we just hunted the Dragon Lord, but the clearance notification never appeared.’
Maybe I need to get out of the dungeon first?
But Jeon Jae-woo’s vision was utterly dark.
When he tried to access the system, no notification window appeared to let him leave the dungeon.
Transcendent-Grade Hunter’s Dungeon Subjugation Tactics
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