Walkthrough for the Transcendental Hunter's Ruins - Chapter 7

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Episode 7
“Did you happen to conquer the Altar of the Apostle of Death, one of the Legendary Dungeons that appeared this time?”
……
As expected. Yu Jeong-tae, the Association Director, was asking about the Legendary Dungeon.
Just as Jeon Jae-woo had suspected before coming to the Hunter Association.
There was no need to rack his brain—it was something anyone could guess.
A Korean citizen had obtained ownership of a Legendary Dungeon; naturally, the Hunter Association had to verify it.
And from the Hunter Association’s perspective, it was honestly difficult to believe.
‘A newly awakened individual, not an established Hunter?’
Was such a thing possible, even with a Transcendent Trait?
To use a martial arts novel as an example, it would be like an exceptionally talented prodigy—someone with bones and frame befitting heaven itself—a young master emerging from nowhere who single-handedly brought down world-class powerhouses, or at least prestigious martial clans like the Namkoong or Jegal families, without aid.
But doubts aside, such details hardly mattered now.
A newly awakened individual with a Transcendent Trait, appearing abruptly after news of a Legendary Dungeon conquest.
This meant the probability that this person was the conqueror was highest by far.
Director Yu Jeong-tae was all but certain that the young man before him had conquered the Legendary Dungeon.
‘This is awkward.’
Jeon Jae-woo avoided Yu Jeong-tae’s gaze as best he could before carefully opening his mouth.
“A Legendary Dungeon, you said?”
“The Dungeon System has announced it, and it’s become a topic of worldwide discussion. I believe the figure at the center of that discussion is you, Hunter Jeon Jae-woo.”
……
Honestly, when the Hunter Association asked, he’d planned to deny it at least once.
He’d thought he might get away with it if he played his cards right.
But the Association Director was now staring at him with an intensity that seemed ready to bore straight through him.
……
This won’t work. There’s no way to deny this credibly.
“Yes… it appears that was me.”
In the end, Jeon Jae-woo nodded and admitted it.
At that moment, Director Yu Jeong-tae and the other staff members swallowed hard.
‘It was real.’
At least they’d confirmed who had conquered the Legendary Dungeon.
‘Now we move to the next phase.’
Yu Jeong-tae gestured to a subordinate behind him.
The employee immediately placed a document on the desk.
??
Seeing the paper before him, Jeon Jae-woo’s eyes widened.
‘A contract?’
His Hunter registration certificate hadn’t even been issued yet, and this was already coming out.
“Hunter. As the Director of the Hunter Association representing all Korean Hunters, I must speak with you.”
“Yes?”
“We would very much like to work with you, Hunter Jeon Jae-woo. Whatever treatment, whatever convenience you desire—please, just ask. And if you have any criminal history, tell us. Even if it’s serial murder, we can clean it up for you, neat and tidy.”
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For a moment, Jeon Jae-woo doubted his own ears.
‘Is a national administrative official really allowed to say things like that?’
The Hunter Association staff behind him wore expressions of bewilderment as they looked at their superior.
It wasn’t entirely unexpected, but it was still somewhat startling.
Glancing through the contract, it was top-tier—the highest level.
Of course, all the terms were presented in his favor.
He couldn’t deny that he was a somewhat(?) exceptional talent.
‘I didn’t expect him to come at me this openly on my first day of registration.’
Director Yu Jeong-tae’s eyes burned with intensity.
It was the fierce gaze of someone determined never to lose a outstanding talent to an outsider.
‘But I’m not exactly an object to be stolen or kept, am I.’
Jeon Jae-woo pushed the paper back toward Director Yu Jeong-tae and spoke.
“Ah, I’m very grateful for the offer, but I’m going to have to decline for now.”
At those words, Director Yu Jeong-tae’s expression seemed to crumble.
“What? No, wait. Please don’t do that. If you’d just think about it a bit more deeply.”
“I only recently awakened, and my mind is still in disarray. I don’t have the capacity to think deeply about it. As you said, I’ll head home today, give it more thought, and contact you later.”
He’d thought this much would be enough to end things on good terms and defer to another day.
But suddenly Yu Jeong-tae stood up and clasped both of Jeon Jae-woo’s hands firmly.
“Hunter! Our Hunter Association—no, the Republic of Korea desperately needs the strength of talented individuals like yourself! Please, for the sake of your nation, make a decision to save our country!!”
We’re not in the middle of a war. Why is he talking like this is some grand patriotic decision?
Jeon Jae-woo gently extracted his hands and replied.
“I understand the offer is attractive, and I’m truly sorry. To be honest, it feels like too much pressure. I’d prefer not to join the Hunter Association.”
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The moment Yu Jeong-tae heard those words, his eyes nearly bulged from their sockets.
Here he was trying to build a good relationship, and yet Jeon Jae-woo was flatly refusing to join the Hunter Association.
‘No, no. Don’t waver. I can’t give up!’
Whether or not he cleared a Legendary Dungeon, this was the nation’s first Hunter with a Transcendent Trait.
It hardly needed explaining that he was indispensable talent for the Republic of Korea.
If this man would just agree, the nation could sweep up every Legendary Dungeon that appeared each month going forward.
‘It’s a shame, but I can’t rely on patriotism to persuade him.’
He hadn’t failed to anticipate the refusal.
It was possible the man was playing hard to get to drive up his asking price.
Most young people these days were individualistic anyway, and this sort of appeal rarely worked on them.
‘Then I’ll have to try a different angle.’
The tactic was to dangle the most visible currency: wealth, fame, or power.
What sweeter bait could one offer a young man burning with passion than the promise of riches, renown, and influence?
“If you’ll just join the Hunter Association, I promise you compensation unlike anything available elsewhere. I can even hand over entire dungeons of your choosing to you personally. I stake my position as Director on this promise.”
The staff members behind him stared wide-eyed at those words.
This was more shocking than offering to cover up a murder.
Turning over state-owned dungeons wholesale to a private individual?
That was effectively transferring a portion of the national treasury to someone in perpetuity.
Yet Jeon Jae-woo’s response remained unchanged.
“There’s no need. I’ve already made enough money to live comfortably for a lifetime.”
……
Clearing even a single ordinary dungeon would yield more wealth than he could spend.
Jeon Jae-woo appreciated money, but he wasn’t obsessive about it.
He’d cleared an ordinary dungeon containing the Golden Palace and earned roughly the equivalent of a major conglomerate chairman’s entire fortune—more than enough. There seemed no point in accumulating further wealth he didn’t need.
“If you join us, you could become the greatest Hunter in the nation and essentially place this country under your influence!”
“I appreciate the offer, but I’d rather not live so conspicuously.”
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Now there was only one card left to play: an appeal to conscience.
Yu Jeong-tae clasped his hands respectfully and bowed his head.
“Hunter Jeon Jae-woo.”
“Yes?”
“Please. If it comes to it, I will kneel.”
“What are you suddenly saying…”
“The Republic of Korea is in a perilous position right now. Our national strength has been severely depleted, and our dungeon-clearing record has been lackluster.”
“Ah. Is that so?”
“Yes! The entire nation of Korea is looking to you, Hunter…!”
As Yu Jeong-tae spoke, sniffling sounds kept breaking through.
The staff exchanged bewildered glances at their superior’s unexpected display.
The top figure in the domestic Hunter world—actually weeping and clinging to someone’s pant leg.
But the forced tears were so transparent that his act was painfully obvious.
Jeon Jae-woo and the staff members had to endure the agony of suppressing laughter in front of the Director.
“I’m sorry. My position hasn’t changed.”
……
And Yu Jeong-tae’s desperate gambit fell completely flat.
After that, the Director tried hard to convince Jeon Jae-woo with all manner of arguments.
But in the end, Jeon Jae-woo didn’t bite at any of the bait.
Anxiety and unease crept back into Yu Jeong-tae’s mind.
At this point, an unwelcome new hypothesis began to form—one he’d rather not consider.
‘Could it be… that he’s planning to go abroad?’
From the Director’s perspective, joining the Hunter Association was ideal, but joining a domestic company would also suffice.
A domestic company was still a national enterprise, after all, making it easier to ask favors when needed.
But if he signed with a foreign organization and left the country, that would be a different story entirely.
The fact that he was refusing so adamantly even after the best offer possible suggested he couldn’t be ruled out as having connections abroad.
‘If a Hunter with a Transcendent Trait were to announce he was emigrating…’
Yu Jeong-tae’s body trembled suddenly.
If such a catastrophe were to occur, everything truly would be finished.
Whether it’s the future of the Republic of Korea or Director Yu’s neck on the line.
Yu Jeong-tae suppressed the tremor in his voice as he addressed Jeon Jae-woo.
“Look, I don’t mean anything by this—please don’t misunderstand—but have you ever been contacted by hunters from China, Japan, or the United States?”
“No. I haven’t told anyone that I’ve undergone an Awakening.”
Yet Director Yu’s eyes betrayed his anxiety, suggesting he found the claim difficult to accept.
But even if it was hard to believe, what could a Hunter Association director actually do about it?
Yu Jeong-tae made his choice: he would set his doubts aside and respond with composure.
The mere fact that Jeon Jae-woo had conquered a Legendary Dungeon alone was more than enough to justify calling him the strongest hunter in the entire Republic of Korea.
The Hunter Association was well aware of this reality.
Because even those blessed with higher-tier Traits required growth, and challenging a dungeon demanded collective strength from everyone working together.
Looking across the entire world, hunters capable of overwhelming a Legendary Dungeon single-handedly like Jeon Jae-woo were truly counted on one’s fingers.
‘But this man is different.’
So he could conquer even a Legendary Dungeon alone, without any help from those around him.
What was he supposed to do now?
He couldn’t simply let a Transcendent Trait possessor leave without achieving anything concrete, and as Yu Jeong-tae found himself backed into a corner, his pupils trembled violently.
“Ah, come to think of it, I had a question I wanted to ask as well.”
“?”
“Do you buy things?”
“Yes, we do, but…”
Jeon Jae-woo suddenly produced Armor from somewhere.
An item obtained from conquering a Legendary Dungeon—the Armor that the Skeleton Knight King had worn.
All the Hunter Association staff members who laid eyes on the Armor widened their eyes in astonishment.
Yu Jeong-tae’s eyes shook far more violently than they had moments before.
“Surely… Hunter, this is…?”
It seemed one could tell its nature without calling in an appraiser.
‘An aura among the most exceptional I’ve ever sensed from a Magical Artifact!’
Could it possibly be…?
“I received it as a reward for clearing the Legendary Dungeon. Since I have no use for it, I was planning to sell it to the Hunter Association.”
Snap!
In an instant, Yu Jeong-tae seized both of Jeon Jae-woo’s hands once more, firmly.
“Thank you sincerely for coming. Hunter Jeon Jae-woo. We will offer you our highest price.”
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A Transcendent-Tier Hunter’s Dungeon Conquest Manual
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