Walkthrough for the Transcendental Hunter's Ruins - Chapter 68

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Episode 68
‘I should probably take the Minotaur’s corpse with me.’
The Minotaur’s horns were especially renowned as useful magical artifacts materials.
It was a rare and powerful beast, and even Jeon Jae-woo, who controlled many dungeons, had to admit he coveted it.
As he hefted the bull-like creature’s entire body and stuffed it into No-bum’s interior,
‘Wait. Can I just take this for myself?’
True, Jeon Jae-woo’s summon had landed the killing blow.
But the Hunter Bureau personnel had lured the Minotaur here, and he had no way of knowing how much damage they’d inflicted on the beast during that process.
“Are you Hunter Jeon Jae-woo?”
“Yes. I’m Jeon Jae-woo.”
The hunters approached casually once the beast hunt was finished.
“Thank you for your cooperation. We’re alive because of you.”
“Your skill is truly impressive.”
“I’m honored to meet you like this. Ha ha.”
Phew. Thankfully, they said nothing about the Minotaur’s corpse.
After all, the Hunter Bureau—for whom the relationship with Jeon Jae-woo was paramount—wouldn’t kick up a fuss over a single cadaver.
But what if his face got exposed to the public like this? What then?
He didn’t know the names of these high-ranking hunters, but he’d seen them before in passing.
He’d come to the Hunter Bureau so often that he’d caught glimpses of them around the headquarters a few times.
As elite hunters counted among the Bureau’s finest, they would naturally know Jeon Jae-woo’s face.
It seemed none of them had taken serious injuries, which was fortunate.
Jeon Jae-woo produced Potion bottles from somewhere and offered them around.
“You look wounded. Would you like to use a Potion?”
“Ah, thank you very much, Hunter.”
He distributed premium-grade Potions—one bottle per person.
It was a courtesy to the hunters who had engaged the Minotaur, however briefly.
The hunters were deeply grateful for his generosity.
The hunters who had seen their share of hardship at the Bureau knew the value of such a Potion better than anyone.
A couple of them, despite having wounds, didn’t use the Potion immediately but slipped it quietly into their back pockets instead.
“Thank you…”
As he handed a Potion bottle to the last hunter, her hand trembled noticeably.
Had she been terrified luring the Minotaur?
Yet her movements had been the sharpest among all the hunters there.
There was something about her face—unfamiliar yet somehow familiar.
‘She looks younger than me. Where have I seen her? Doesn’t seem like the Bureau, though.’
Jeon Jae-woo, searching his memory, suddenly blurted out,
“…Could you be Hunter Na Yu-gyeong?”
The female hunter whose name had been called looked startled.
“You know who I am?”
“Yes. I’ve seen you on television quite often.”
“Oh…”
Na Yu-gyeong was aware that she had become a hot topic as a prodigy hunter.
Yet she found the public’s attention burdensome.
Not only did she dislike being scrutinized, but her experience as a hunter was still limited, and her work remained unfamiliar.
“Thank you for recognizing me. I’ve heard a lot about you too, Hunter Jeon.”
Rather than delight at being recognized, her expression was subdued.
‘According to Bureau Chief Yoo Jung-tae, she’s a once-in-a-decade talent—maybe once in a lifetime.’
Among the hunters present, her rank was the highest, yet she wasn’t playing the leader.
Regrettably, her temperament seemed at odds with what you’d expect of a hunter, despite her talent.
“Yes, Deputy Chief. We’ve just finished eliminating the Minotaur. And… I met Hunter Jeon Jae-woo here.”
One of the hunters finished his phone call and turned to Jeon Jae-woo.
“Thank you for your assistance with the Minotaur hunt, Hunter. Deputy Chief Gwak Tae-won asked me to give you his gratitude.”
“Oh, don’t mention it. I’m just glad I could be of help.”
“We’re heading back to headquarters now. What about you, Hunter?”
“I should head home too. I think I need some rest.”
The hunter bowed with a slightly disappointed expression.
“Then I’ll relay that to the Bureau Chief. Thank you again, sincerely, for your help.”
“Yes. Take care.”
Just before parting ways with them, a thought he’d nearly forgotten suddenly came to mind.
‘Oh right.’
Jeon Jae-woo called out to Na Yu-gyeong, who was about to leave with her colleagues.
“One moment, please. Hunter Na Yu-gyeong?”
“Yes?”
“Take this.”
Since they’d crossed paths here anyway, it made more sense to hand it over directly to the person it was meant for.
Jeon Jae-woo retrieved something from what appeared to others as a gelatinous mass.
What emerged from the slime was a small box of indeterminate origin.
Na Yu-gyeong tilted her head, bewildered.
“What is this? Why are you giving it to me…?”
“It’s a weapon I’d like you to use, Hunter Na.”
“A weapon?”
Still puzzled, Na Yu-gyeong opened the box.
The moment she glimpsed the contents, her eyes went wide.
Inside lay a perfectly crafted set of shuriken.
“Are these… shuriken?”
“Yes. They were specifically forged for you, Hunter Na.”
……
After conquering the dungeon, the shuriken had been completed.
They’d turned out exactly as he’d envisioned—a relief.
Na Yu-gyeong carefully picked up one shuriken, and surprise washed across her face.
Even from just holding it, she could sense the quality—this was an exceptional piece.
As an S-Rank Hunter working for the Hunter Bureau, she’d handled several premium shuriken before, but compared to this, they all seemed like cheap, mass-produced supplies.
“Why would you give me something like this…?”
Faced with Na Yu-gyeong’s bewildered reaction, Jeon Jae-woo found himself flustered instead.
‘Did the director not mention anything?’
From her perspective, it made sense to be confused—a stranger on first meeting was suddenly pressing an expensive gift into her hands.
“There’s no need to feel obligated. Director Yoo Jung-tae commissioned me to make these.”
“The director did?”
“Yes. He asked me to craft shuriken suited to your style, Hunter Na. I was paid for the work—that’s all this is.”
Since they’d met here anyway, it only made sense to deliver them in person.
“Thank you so much…”
Na Yu-gyeong’s expression softened with gratitude, and she bowed her head deeply.
Her complexion brightened noticeably at the sight of such fine weaponry.
‘So she’s not as fearful as I thought—she lights up when she sees good weapons. I suppose hunters are hunters, after all.’
The hunters returned to headquarters, and Jeon Jae-woo headed home, where he slept through the entire day.
He’d spent days in that sensory-deprived darkness without sleep or food, and the accumulated fatigue dragged him under.
***
Days had passed since Jeon Jae-woo conquered France’s “Sleepless Night” dungeon.
Europe’s second dungeon break had come and gone.
Apart from France, which had benefited from Jeon Jae-woo’s intervention, only a handful of European nations managed to conquer their dungeons through various means.
The rest suffered dungeon breaks, with countless casualties.
Still, unlike before when they couldn’t touch the dungeons at all, it seemed progress was being made now.
Even if it did mean burning through most of their hunters in the process.
Conquer a dungeon and reap the benefits; suffer a break and pay the price.
Nations hit by breaks found themselves crippled for some time afterward, powerless to act.
It almost seemed cheaper to just let the dungeons sit idle and let the breaks happen naturally.
After Europe, the focus shifted to North America.
South Korea had successfully managed a dungeon break in North Korea—not a relic, but a dungeon.
Yet the shockwaves from the break lingered.
The fact that they couldn’t control a single dungeon on their own soil, resulting in a break that made them a laughingstock in the international community, was bad enough.
‘Director Yoo really has been on TV a lot lately.’
Specifically, he kept appearing at National Assembly hearings.
Several lawmakers had grilled Yoo Jung-tae intensely over dungeon management failures and inadequate break response measures.
—How exactly were you managing the dungeon that a break occurred?!
—Monsters didn’t just slip past the containment—they poured all the way into Seoul!!
—Into the heart of South Korea’s capital, no less!
—……
Opposition and ruling party lawmakers alike descended on Yoo Jung-tae in perfect unison.
It wasn’t merely a chance to score political points and tear into an opponent.
This incident had put the lawmakers themselves in physical danger.
The upper-class residents of Seoul had monsters bursting into their own homes.
Their anger was partly a rebuke of the security forces for failing to properly protect their safety.
Honestly, who could have predicted this? Seeing monsters in Seoul in this day and age.
It was the sort of thing you’d only expect from the apocalypse in the early days of the Great Cataclysm—yet it was happening right before their eyes.
Of course, only a handful of representatives actually voiced proper criticism.
What good would it do to antagonize the Hunter Bureau that protects them?
The veterans of political life watched the first-term and second-term representatives spouting off and sighed.
Jeon Jae-woo, who had been lying on the sofa watching television, turned it off and lay flat, lost in thought.
‘I wonder if she’s used the shuriken yet.’
As a weapon crafter, he hoped it would suit the user’s hand.
But that an S-Rank Hunter like Na Yu-gyeong would be positioned for Dungeon Break suppression was quite unexpected.
Deploying an active Dungeon Conquest hunter to handle a Dungeon Break—that was unusual.
They probably called in Kim Yu-min and other active hunters as well.
If they were mobilizing all available active hunters, the Dungeon Break situation must have been urgent.
Or perhaps they wanted to give them extensive real combat experience before entering the Dungeon.
‘Well, that’s not my concern anyway.’
Jeon Jae-woo checked the remaining countdown on Heaven’s Box.
[Time until creation complete: 23 : 59 : 57]
Two weeks were nearly up, and the Doppelgänger creation was almost finished.
In the old days, two weeks would have passed without him even noticing.
“When you want something, time always feels long.”
“That’s true for everyone, whether they’re children or adults.”
“But once the Doppelgänger is created, what do you plan to do with it?”
“I’m not sure yet. Haven’t really thought about it.”
Seeing a clone that is completely identical to himself would certainly be fascinating.
‘But it’s just a copy of me—how impressive can that really be?’
It’s not like it would have the tremendous power of Myeol-geop or my other summons, so it wouldn’t significantly change my overall strength.
…Now that he thought about it, he felt a little sad.
He wished he’d tried grafting parts of his summons’ bodies into it instead.
But one thing did occur to him.
A clone created through Heaven’s Box is, after all, still human.
And there’s a good chance it would be a human who has awakened to mana.
And the dungeon system on Earth opens itself to all humans awakened to mana.
So what if the newly created Doppelgänger were granted additional Conquest Rights?
‘Even if I can’t enter, I could always leave it to my clone.’
If he could delegate dungeon conquests to it, Jeon Jae-woo would gain a whopping twelve extra Conquest Rights for free!
Seeing his master’s face break into a broad grin, Lich King added a remark.
“Aren’t you running your happiness circuits a bit too hard?”
“…I suppose I am.”
He found himself anticipating what the clone emerging from the box would look like.
Transcendent-Grade Dungeon Conquest Methods
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