Walkthrough for the Transcendental Hunter's Ruins - Chapter 79

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Chapter 79
The moment the Garden of God was marked as cleared, Yoo Jung-tae called.
His voice carried more concern than usual.
[Hunter, are you alright?]
“What do you mean?”
[That ruin is famous for those angels blinding people. Surely you know that.]
“Oh. That…”
Jeon Jae-woo glanced at the doppelgänger lying on the bed.
Right now, Mutant was absorbing the eye salve that Mutant had made from the World Tree’s Elixir, and No-bum was administering it directly into Jeon Ji-woo’s eyes.
“Yes. I’m fine. There’s nothing to worry about.”
[Honestly, I wish you hadn’t gone to the Garden of God. There are other Ancient-tier Ruins left. Was there really a need to venture into such a perilous place?]
“I cleared it successfully, so that’s what matters.”
[That’s true, but…]
Besides, without clearing the Garden of God, he never would have obtained the Tear of God—that precious eye crystal.
Jeon Jae-woo reviewed the materials he’d been saving and hoarding for this orb upgrade.
‘Let’s see. What I need…’
When he pulled them one by one from No-bum’s storage, only truly rare materials remained.
He couldn’t help but wonder if using these for an orb upgrade was really the right call.
If he’d combined these properly, he might have summoned one more phenomenal minion.
Was completing this orb supposed to turn him into a god capable of intervening in the dungeon system itself?
“Mutant. Do you have what we prepared?”
Mutant brought over the materials, combining what he already had with the shortfall items he’d crafted.
“Good work. Now put everything in the box…”
All that remained was to place the eye crystal inside.
Jeon Jae-woo withdrew the Tear of God from No-bum’s body.
Lich King stared at the eye crystal intently from the side.
“Do you wish to have it?”
“Truthfully, yes. But it’s something the creator should use. I shan’t trouble myself over it.”
The Tear of God—a name befitting its grandeur—was coveted even by Lich King, master of both Alchemy and Necromancy.
‘Apart from putting it in Heaven’s Box, what else could I possibly use this for?’
Yet he couldn’t very well fragment it and hand pieces out.
Jeon Jae-woo looked at the Nimbus Cloud hovering near him.
‘…This is a cloud, but could I somehow make it rain?’
If so, perhaps making it rain and sleet, or even summoning thunder and lightning, might be possible.
If he managed it well, it could serve not just as a means of transport but as a weapon in combat.
But without further upgrades, such things were impossible for now.
“If you just need an eye crystal, you could go to the highlands and gather one. The Tear of God is special because of what it is.”
“Ah.”
In any case, Jeon Jae-woo placed all the materials into the box along with the orb fragments.
The moment the Heaven’s Box upgrade countdown began,
Jeon Jae-woo doubted his own eyes.
‘Huh? What’s this?’
He rubbed his eyes and opened them wide, but it wasn’t a mistake.
“…What the hell. One year?”
It was like opening a single item box in a game.
Even the longest upgrades took days, not a year. One year?
“…And I can’t even cancel it midway.”
[It’s not ten or a hundred years, so isn’t that manageable?]
“What are you talking about?”
[If Heaven’s Box hadn’t been liberated twice, the upgrade would have taken that long, I’m saying.]
……
There was no choice. For the next year, he’d have to make do with one less storage slot in Heaven’s Box.
“Besides, we’ve run out of materials now anyway, haven’t we?”
“That’s true.”
Given how long this would take, he hoped this would be the final upgrade.
Soon enough, the uncleared ruins would be redistributed again.
Which Ancient-tier Ruins would be assigned this quarter?
“Brother.”
“Yeah?”
“I can see now. Let’s go train.”
It was Jeon Ji-woo, who had recovered her blinded eyes in an instant.
Jeon Jae-woo was startled.
‘She’s already healed?’
He’d heard that many Hunters who went blind from exposure to the angel’s light had not yet recovered their vision.
Even with treatment, he understood the aftereffects were severe and the recovery period extraordinarily long.
“Thank goodness. Is there anything that feels uncomfortable?”
“No. Once I put in the eye drops, my vision seems even better than before?”
The World Tree’s Elixir and Mutant were truly peerless.
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The distribution of uncleared Ruins by continent had resumed.
This quarter would begin with the African continent.
[Legendary-tier Ruins distributed across Africa in large numbers.]
[Speed Clear Competition continues this quarter. Which nation will successfully clear?]
[Hunter Jeon Jae-woo has no plans to aid Africa. Official Hunter Bureau statement.]
Africa had one stroke of luck: only Legendary-tier Ruins had been distributed.
The fact that Ancient-tier Ruins had been spared was enough to put the African people’s minds at ease for now.
Truthfully, even among African nations, there weren’t many that could properly clear Legendary-tier Ruins.
Moreover, as time passed with each successive distribution, the difficulty of assigned Ruins only climbed higher.
Yet after going through three rounds of Ruin assignment, they had accumulated considerable experience in dealing with Breaks—something they’d previously neglected.
As long as they didn’t face an Ancient-tier Ruin, they could manage to avert existential crisis and respond appropriately.
By contrast, what made other continents nervous—unlike Europe and Asia, which had already received Ancient-tier Ruins—was the uncertainty of their own turn.
Though many were running optimistic calculations that Jeon Jae-woo would somehow resolve it, they couldn’t help considering the worst case scenario.
Given the pattern, it seemed every continent would eventually face an uncleared Ancient-tier Ruin at least once.
Meanwhile, far from Africa, South Korea’s Hunter Bureau remained focused on routine operations while preparing for when Ruins would be assigned to Asia.
Korea bore the heavy burden of the North Korean Dungeon above it, so there was never a moment for relief even without a Ruin Break.
Not long ago, a Dungeon Break there had resulted in Monsters spilling out as far as the Seoul metropolitan area.
At the entrance of the North Korean Dungeon, a group of Hunter Bureau personnel gathered.
“Be careful then. Come back safely.”
“You too.”
Two B-rank Hunters from the Hunter Bureau exchanged farewells with their colleagues and entered the North Korean Dungeon.
It was a routine Dungeon reconnaissance for intelligence gathering.
As the two of them patrolled the outer region of the Dungeon, adjacent to Gangwon Province, as usual—
The man, noticing his colleague’s expression seemed off, spoke up.
“What’s wrong? You don’t look well.”
“Hmm? No, nothing’s wrong. It’s the Director who has something on his mind.”
“Why do you say that?”
Though no one else was around in the Dungeon, the man glanced about cautiously and spoke in a whisper.
“Those Magical Tools that Hunter Jeon Jae-woo brought last time?”
“Yeah.”
“The Company was caught trying to embezzle a few of them.”
The man’s eyes widened in shock as he repeated back, “Seriously? Really?”
“Yeah. So the atmosphere at the Hunter Bureau right now is no joke. You didn’t know because you were out on regional assignment for a mission not long ago.”
The B-rank Hunter clicked his tongue in disbelief.
“What were they thinking, trying to steal from equipment that came into the Hunter Bureau—”
“Hunter Jeon Jae-woo is just that exceptional, right? And we cleared this Legendary-tier Ruin in no time thanks to the Magical Tools he provided. People must be desperate to get their hands on them.”
“Still, that’s bold even for them.”
“Fortunately, it was caught and stopped quickly, but they’d prepared the theft pretty meticulously, it seems. The Director was furious.”
“So that’s why the Director’s been in a bad mood lately.”
Even though the Hunter Bureau had successfully cleared the Legendary-tier Ruin, the atmosphere had been oddly tense.
“I bet there’ll be sweeping disciplinary action soon.”
“…Really? Even though major Companies are involved?”
“When it involves Hunter Jeon Jae-woo, there’s no backing down, that’s for sure.”
“True enough.”
The B-rank Hunter’s gaze shifted to his colleague’s side.
“Now that you mention it, that sword is also a weapon from Hunter Jeon Jae-woo, isn’t it?”
Even a simple reconnaissance of the North Korean Dungeon was a treacherous place.
Normally it would be too dangerous, but for situations like this, such equipment was necessary.
To prepare for a worst-case scenario, Jeon Jae-woo had supplied Hunters with blades as contingency weapons.
Though he’d given stern instructions that they must abandon the weapon the moment danger passed.

“Yeah. Weapons like this especially need to be kept out of the wrong hands…”
But the hunter’s words never reached their end.
—Crack!
The sudden violence left him unable to process what was happening.
The hunter stared down at his own body, pierced through by claws, his eyes wide and vacant.
“What…?”
He’d been caught off guard, attacked in a moment of carelessness.
Even in the North Korean Dungeon, the outer reaches were nearly barren of monsters.
Encountering one at all was rare, and running into a beast capable of assassinating a veteran hunter like himself was about as likely as being struck by lightning.
‘Damn it. I let my guard down…!’
The hunter retreated without even checking on his fallen colleague, trying to regain his stance.
What on earth was a high-tier beast like a Werewolf doing so deep in the dungeon?
But there was no time left to do anything about it.
“Grrrrr…”
Werewolves were approaching from all sides.
Drool streaming from their mouths as they advanced on the humans.
“Ah, ah…”
The pack of Werewolves tore the despairing hunter to shreds with teeth and claws.
But their true target wasn’t human.
Under normal circumstances it would have been, but not this time.
The hunter had been right to find it strange—so many Werewolves venturing this close to the dungeon’s outer edge was unusual.
Beasts learned through experience that approaching human settlements grew dangerous.
That’s why, except in special circumstances like a Break, they kept their distance as a rule.
One Werewolf flipped over the corpse of the fallen human.
That’s when the blade the hunter had been carrying on his back came into view.
The Demon Blade—a weapon that stirred the primal instincts of living things and drew them in.
Beasts were no exception to its call.
The Werewolf, being a wolf-man, looked no less natural wielding a blade.
The foremost Werewolf bared its fangs in a hungry grin and reached for the blade.
But in that instant, another Werewolf held it back.
One hand grasping for the sword, the other restraining.
Werewolves weren’t creatures of such dim intellect that they’d wound their own kind or sow discord without cause.
Yet now, with no clear reason, neither wolf showed any inclination to back down.
If it came to it, they’d both shed each other’s blood just to claim the human’s weapon.
Even though beasts were creatures with little interest in what humans called precious things.
But the blade’s appeal wasn’t limited to just these two.
The other Werewolves nearby began closing in.
They too were staring not to break up their companions’ quarrel, but fixated solely on the blade.
The Demon Blade’s pull extended beyond the Werewolves.
Beasts with keen enough senses to detect the blade’s aura from a distance were already moving toward this place.
Soon the Werewolf pack seemed to argue over the blade’s ownership, but then—
They began tearing at and clawing each other, fighting with savage intensity.
They didn’t stop until a single owner of the one and only blade was decided.
One thing both Jeon Jae-woo, who forged the Demon Blade, and the Hunter Bureau, who entrusted it to the hunter, had overlooked.
The Demon Blade didn’t draw in humans alone.
Dungeon Clearance Methods of the Transcendent-rank Hunter
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