Walkthrough for the Transcendental Hunter's Ruins - Chapter 77

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Episode 77
Childhood memories flicker across her mind.
Kim Yu-min was born into a deeply prosperous household.
The faces of her mother, father, and older brother in those earliest years had always glowed with happiness.
But that façade of familial bliss shattered quickly enough.
The world surrounding Kim Yu-min remained not merely comfortable but lavish.
Yet her father had stopped visiting her almost entirely at some point.
Her mother became increasingly sharp-tongued, volatile in a way she hadn’t been before.
And she hammered the same message into her children dozens of times each day.
They had to work at everything with singular devotion, turn their father’s wealth into their own inheritance.
Under no circumstances could they allow other siblings to snatch it away.
More precisely, she seemed to hope that whatever power and capital her children acquired would flow directly into her own hands.
From childhood, Kim Yu-min had absorbed considerable psychological pressure.
Even her brother, who had once seemed ordinary, began to change.
As a child, like any child, Kim Yu-min had tried her best not to provoke her irritable parents’ displeasure.
But around the middle of her teenage years—after she awakened as a Hunter—there was no longer any need.
Suddenly her eyes snapped open.
An alarm was shrieking from the nightstand.
She scrambled out of bed and began preparing for work.
Today she needed to hurry more than usual.
The Hunter Bureau was preparing to attempt a newly discovered Legendary-grade Ruin.
She had to get to the office early and run through all the inspections and verifications.
As she arrived at the Bureau building, Yoo Jung-tae greeted her.
“Ah, there you are.”
“Yes, Director.”
“Your expression looks troubled. Is something wrong? Are you feeling all right?”
“No, I just didn’t sleep well.”
“Are you absolutely certain you’re fine? If something seems off—”
“I’m absolutely fine. How are the preparations coming along?”
Yoo Jung-tae, unlike Kim Yu-min, was grinning widely about something.
“Right. Anyway, take a look at this.”
Kim Yu-min’s eyes widened as she looked at the object the Director handed her.
“A sword…?”
“That’s right. It’s something Jeon Jae-woo recently made.”
Even to an expert like Kim Yu-min, it was clearly a magnificent blade.
‘Of course it’s Jeon Jae-woo.’
On pure performance alone, it matched the sword she had gifted to him.
She found herself embarrassed that she’d given him a sword as thanks for saving her.
Maybe she should have thanked him with something else entirely.
And beyond that, a black aura swirled mysteriously around the blade, emanating an otherworldly glow.
The moment she fell into a daze and unknowingly reached out her hand—
Yoo Jung-tae started and quickly pulled the sword back.
“Director?”
“Be careful not to lose yourself to it. This is a Demonic Sword.”
“Ah.”
Kim Yu-min felt a jolt of realization.
For just a moment of carelessness, her focus had wavered.
A Demonic Sword is a blanket term for weapons imbued with mana that can plunge the wielder into danger.
It refers to blades where the mana embedded in the weapon is so overwhelmingly powerful that the user cannot control it, or where it possesses such specialized properties that the wielder falls into uncontrollable states.
Of course, the weapon isn’t limited to swords—it could be a bow, spear, wand, shield, or anything else that carries mana.
But because their use alone can cause numerous problems, most nations officially prohibit the use of Demonic Swords.
Only those who pass a stringent review can receive permission to wield them as an exception, for power enhancement purposes.
Kim Yu-min had almost never seen a Demonic Sword in person.
‘That’s an incredibly dangerous object.’
Kim Yu-min swallowed hard.
Even an S-rank Hunter like herself had nearly lost her grip on consciousness for a moment.
Then she was startled all over again to hear that Jeon Jae-woo had brought over more than ten of these blades.
“In any case, be careful when you use them inside the Ruin.”
“I will. I’ll be cautious.”
Kim Yu-min accepted the Demonic Sword and held it.
Now that he held it properly in his palm, he could sense it clearly.
If he held it for too long, he too might be swept up by the demonic energy and become something unrecognizable.
A few moments later, the Hunters gathered at the Hunter Bureau finished their preparations.
Led by the S-rank Hunters, they entered the newly discovered Legendary-grade Ruin.
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Meanwhile, Jeon Jae-woo used most of the materials he’d stockpiled to craft Magical Artifacts.
Then, over the following weeks, he continued production of Heaven’s Box using the remaining materials.
Once materials went into the box, the crafting alone took a minimum of a full day, consuming considerable time.
Add to that the hours needed to identify the required combinations, separate the original materials with Mutant’s help, and synthesize them anew — the total was staggering.
The box yielded numerous excellent Magical Artifacts.
Staffs that doubled or tripled a user’s magical firepower, shields that redirected an opponent’s force back at them, precious gems that granted immunity to all manner of status afflictions, and more.
Yet even after depleting his stockpile completely, not a single new Summoned Creature emerged.
‘Damn it.’
Jeon Jae-woo cursed inwardly.
Even if not something entirely new, shouldn’t at least duplicate creatures like Undead or Golems, ones that had already appeared before, come out again?
He found himself missing that time when he’d tossed a pile of dirt from home into the box and pulled out Myeol-geop.
So he loaded the last remaining materials and ran the production with a fatalistic attitude.
Had Jeon Jae-woo’s final wish come true?
Not a Summoned Creature exactly, but something truly extraordinary emerged.
Though now he wondered if calling it an item was even correct.
“……?”
Jeon Jae-woo stared in bewilderment at what had come out of Heaven’s Box.
Something resembling a massive white puff of cotton floated gently in the middle of the room.
‘What is this? A Summoned Creature?’
Jeon Jae-woo waved his hand to see if it would recognize him, but it showed no reaction.
Yet he could feel a definite connection to it as its creator.
-Whoooosh…
Whatever it was drifted through the air exactly as Jeon Jae-woo thought and willed it to move.
“It really does look just like a cloud.”
The Lich King, watching alongside him, spoke up.
“I’d say it looks less like a cloud and more like it actually is one?”
“No way.”
No matter how extraordinary Heaven’s Box was, where would a cloud suddenly come from?
Besides, all the materials he’d put in had nothing whatsoever to do with clouds.
Well, nothing was a hundred percent certain with the box; there was technically a non-zero chance it could produce something completely unrelated to the input materials.
‘But still, why would a cloud just pop out of nowhere?’
Yet when he checked the status window.
The name was indeed Kindhun Cloud, with the character for cloud clearly written there.
‘Wait, it really is an actual cloud?’
Could it possibly be the same cloud that the Monkey King rode?
And of all things, it even had the same name — Kindhun Cloud.
Though strictly speaking, Kindhun Cloud wasn’t supposed to mean the cloud itself but rather the ability to lighten one’s body and ride a cloud.
Jeon Jae-woo reached his hand toward the Kindhun Cloud, which felt cool like mist, and asked.
“What am I supposed to use this for? Are you telling me to bake cloud bread with it?”
If he threw this thing back into Heaven’s Box with flour, milk, eggs, sugar, and other ingredients, he might actually end up with cloud bread.
“Well, if it’s called Kindhun Cloud, naturally you’d ride it directly, wouldn’t you? Flying about on a cloud does sound rather elegant, like an immortal sage. Perhaps you should purchase a traditional robe to match the aesthetic?”
Ignoring the Lich King’s teasing chuckle.
The idea of a Hunter riding a cloud felt rather unreal.
Even in an age where magic and aura are everyday occurrences, while there are those with flight abilities, he’d never heard of a Hunter with the ability to ride clouds.
There might be researchers creating something that looked like a cloud for experimental purposes, but there wouldn’t be any Hunters riding actual clouds like Eastern immortal sages.
If someone wanted to fly, wouldn’t they just learn a flight skill instead of going through the trouble of making a cloud first?
It would probably dissipate the moment someone climbed on it anyway.
But when Jeon Jae-woo cautiously rose onto his toes and stepped onto the cloud.
He could actually ride it.
‘Wow, this actually works.’
Flying on the cloud was genuinely possible.
The cloud’s surface was wide enough that it could easily support three adult men.
After moving about the house riding the cloud, testing it here and there.
‘Oh. This is actually pretty fun.’
Jeon Jae-woo opened the window and shot upward into the sky.
Jeon Jae-woo rode the cloud across the empty sky of the city, weaving through the air without restraint.
Of course, he did so while cloaked in No-bum’s concealment Characteristic.
Originally, Jeon Jae-woo could ride his sword through the sky using the Ego Sword Characteristic.
But the Kindhun Cloud was incomparable in speed, comfort, and countless other aspects.
Riding the sword was less a choice and more a necessity—surrounded by ocean on all sides, he’d need flight capability whether he liked it or not.
The Kindhun Cloud, on the other hand, was unmistakably a dedicated mount.
Its maneuverability and stability in flight were genuinely superb.
So should he classify this creature as a Summoned Creature, or a Magical Artifact?
Given the absence of any sense of self, it leaned more toward Magical Artifact.
Other Summoned Creatures—and even Mutant—respond to their master’s will, but the Kindhun Cloud has none of that.
‘I’m not selling this thing to anyone. I’m keeping it for myself.’
He was deeply satisfied to have obtained something so exceptional, no less valuable than a Summoned Creature.
Meanwhile, Jeon Ji-woo gazed up at the cloud from below, her eyes sparkling with excitement.
“Jae-woo! Let me ride the cloud just once!”
“What are you talking about? You’ve got the sword. There’s one left—use that.”
“No! I want to ride the cloud!!”
Jeon Jae-woo, indifferent to sharing with his sister, continued riding the cloud like a child on a carnival attraction before finally descending.
‘Ah. The stress just melts away.’
All the negative emotions he’d accumulated during his recent activities seemed to evaporate at once.
Had flying ever felt this refreshing?
Moments after Jeon Jae-woo descended from the cloud, Jeon Ji-woo climbed aboard and soared into the sky.
Myeol-geop seemed quite impressed by the Kindhun Cloud’s existence.
[An exceptionally fine item has appeared, Creator.]
“Right?”
At first glance, it was clearly a Magical Artifact of extraordinary rarity—the sort of which few, if any, existed in the world.
Flight was the obvious ability on display, but he’d find many other uses for it.
Since it was a cloud, he could probably make it rain or snow, or even strike down lightning.
[That seems a bit far-fetched, Creator.]
“…Is it?”
Shortly after, Jeon Jae-woo called out toward the sky.
“Jeon Ji-woo! Stop playing with that cloud and get down here!”
“But I want to ride it more! You got way more turns than me!!”
“If you want to ride it, do it while we’re fighting in a Dungeon.”
Jeon Jae-woo forcibly recalled the cloud from the sky.
The cloud was bound to its master—him—and moved only according to his will.
Jeon Ji-woo descended from the cloud with visible reluctance.
He’d finished all the crafting with the materials he’d accumulated so far, and now he thought it time to tackle an uncleared Ancient-grade Ruin.
Jeon Jae-woo entered a new Ancient-grade Ruin alongside his Summoned Creatures.
“Since we’re going to clear a Dungeon after a while, everyone stay sharp.”
[The one I’m most concerned about losing focus, Creator, is you.]
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Dungeon-Clearing Methods for Transcendent-rank Hunters
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