Walkthrough for the Transcendental Hunter's Ruins - Chapter 83

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Episode 83
Kat-si returned after completing her upgrade.
She now possessed a Transcendent-grade Trait, no less.
[Master.]
The moment Kat-si emerged from the box, she nestled into Jeon Jae-woo’s arms.
“There, there. I’m glad to see you again too, Kat-si.”
He was genuinely pleased, but first things first—let’s see what Trait she gained.
Jeon Jae-woo opened Kat-si’s status window.
〈Kat-si〉 – Bound to (Jeon Jae-woo)
Description – A phantasmal creature born when a shaman merged a human’s mental realm with a body borrowed from nature’s power. Once subjugated, it becomes a devoted servant who follows its master faithfully. Capable of wielding exceptionally refined mental-realm Traits.
Type – Familiar
Traits – Word of Command (Transcendent), Illusion Magic (B), Detection (B), Undetectable (S), Spirit Embodiment (S), Telepathy (A)
Kat-si’s newly created Transcendent-grade Trait was Word of Command.
The other Traits appeared unchanged or newly added.
Only the S-rank Trait from before—mental domination—had ascended one tier.
Just from the name, he could guess roughly what the ability did.
Jeon Jae-woo glanced around, then pointed at Lich King.
“Go on, try issuing any command you like to that skeleton over there.”
“Why me…?”
Kat-si’s voice came out not through Telepathy, but as actual sound.
“Kneel.”
With a thunderous crash, Lich King’s knees buckled.
His kneecaps shattered so violently they drove into the ground.
“So it really is a forced-command ability.”
“Ugh. You work an old man awfully hard, Creator.”
“What? The order to kneel came from Kat-si, not me.”
Despite sharing his mind with his familiar, Jeon Jae-woo was already weaseling out of responsibility.
On the surface, it didn’t look dramatically different from the mental-domination Trait before the upgrade.
But the base output had certainly increased, and it could do far more than simply puppeteer a target’s movements.
“Shatter.”
The instant Kat-si spoke the word-infused command, a lifeless stone crumbled to dust.
She could manifest her imagination into reality itself—the apex of what an Illusion Magic Trait could achieve.
The fact that it was a formidable ability went without saying.
‘I’d be lucky to use it three times a day at most.’
Even though the commands weren’t lethal or obliterating, after speaking just two simple words of command, Kat-si was already struggling to keep her mouth open.
The larger the scope of the phenomenon she wished to manifest, the greater the recoil would be.
‘If I get a buff from No-bum, maybe I could use it four times.’
‘Once she gets used to the Trait, she should be able to use it more freely, right?’
Jeon Jae-woo lifted the exhausted Kat-si onto his shoulder and turned to Myeol-geop.
“Myeol-geop. Now that Kat-si’s here, we can start the Ancient-grade Ruin conquest, right?”
[Of course, Creator. Let us depart.]
No matter how high the difficulty of an Ancient-grade Ruin, there was no reason to refuse the conquest.
After all, they had a force of five summoned creatures each bearing a Transcendent-grade Trait.
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Jeon Jae-woo’s party entered the dungeon.
Initially, the United States had proposed conducting the ruin conquest together, but he declined once again.
‘As if I’d let them horn in on the dungeon-conquest credit.’
The ruin was called Twilight, and true to its name, a beautiful red sunset was descending.
The other meaning of the word twilight was apocalypse.
Quite literally, the interior of this ruin resembled the world poised on the brink of the end.
[‘Twilight’ Exploration Objective: Defeat the Fire Giant King (0/1)]
Fire-clad giant Monsters prowled the surrounding area.
To be precise, what engulfed them wasn’t flame so much as continuous explosions occurring within their bodies, like miniature suns.
‘Now that I look at it, the sunset isn’t red because of the glow—the flames are burning so fiercely all around that everything just looks crimson.’
It was exactly how the landscape might appear if Norse mythology’s Ragnarök became real.
Behind the giants loomed one far larger than the rest.
It sat upon a throne-like formation of roaring flame, one hand resting upon the Sword of Fire.
“That one looks just like Surtr.”
He leaned forward to get a better look at the boss, then quickly pulled back.
“Ow, hot!”
The heat radiating from hundreds of flame giants all at once was overwhelming.
Because of it, most hunters couldn’t even approach the beasts.
[Please don’t say such things, Creator. If that giant were truly Surtr, we’d all just die here.]
“Hm? That’s all?”
[If it were Surtr, he could shatter not just a planet, but entire star clusters or galaxies at once.]
“……??”
Soon the giants noticed Jeon Jae-woo and his group and began to approach.
‘It’s too hot. I can’t get close.’
Since their bodies are made of fire, Myeol-geop’s shells probably wouldn’t be very effective.
In that case, the only way is to handle them with freezing—the opposing attribute.
In an instant, the oppressive heat around them shifted to bitter cold.
Snowflakes forming in the empty air gathered together and soon became an ice spear, which Myeol-geop gripped in his hand.
“You can handle ice too?”
[Annihilation is a characteristic that creates the optimal solution to overwhelmingly suppress its target. There aren’t really any limitations based on attribute.]
Truly befitting a Transcendent-grade Trait.
Crack-crack-crack!!
As Myeol-geop hurled the spear forward, a howling blizzard swept across where it had passed.
The flame giants nearby froze in an instant under the fierce winds.
A few giants not completely frozen tried to resist, but their flames were eventually extinguished and they fell.
Myeol-geop charged through the gap that had opened.
And Lich King began chanting with a delighted voice.
“Excellent! Now this is what I need to properly use Necromancy!”
With Lich King’s incantation, the dead beasts rose again.
In the resurrected giants’ bodies, red flames gave way to purple fire burning bright.
The zombie giants joined our side and charged forward.
No-bum used his Nature Attribute and became one with the dungeon.
Moments later, torrential rain began to fall from the dungeon itself.
The worst weather for flame giants whose very life essence depends on the fire surrounding their bodies.
Meanwhile, Jeon Jae-woo watched Jeon Ji-woo fighting the beasts head-on with something like amazement.
“Doesn’t the heat from those things bother you?”
“Of course it’s hot. But it’s bearable enough, isn’t it?”
“I couldn’t bear it.”
“If you fight bare-handed, naturally you can’t endure it. But you can roughly block it with mana.”
“I’ve never learned a technique like that.”
Why do you keep pulling out techniques the original doesn’t have?
“No, but this kind of workaround isn’t even a passive characteristic like resistance. At the top tier of S-rank, shouldn’t this be something you can do as a matter of course?”
Ah, I see.
Most hunters, as they accumulate experience and train, end up learning at least the basics outside their specialty.
Even without defensive characteristics, they can wrap mana around their bodies to withstand external attacks to some degree, or enhance physical abilities to improve close combat—things like that.
But Jeon Jae-woo had only been a hunter for a year, and he’d poured all his effort into raising his sword technique grade.
As a result, in aspects other than swordsmanship, he honestly felt embarrassed to call himself a proper S-rank Hunter.
“Master, I’ll cast buffs on you, so please be careful when fighting.”
“…Thanks.”
Growing up while receiving doting care from summons was rather humiliating.
Jeon Jae-woo rushed into battle, wanting to grow even a little more.
Jeon Jae-woo’s side quickly overwhelmed the beasts.
No matter how many they killed, the resurrected forces kept growing in number, gradually overpowering the enemy.
And Myeol-geop had somehow arrived before the largest flame giant.
The leader of the giants rose from its throne.
A cold wind rushed forth again from Myeol-geop’s hand, and weapons of all kinds formed from ice appeared.
The flame giant showed displeasure at that chill and spewed fire from its mouth.
Whoooosh!!!
Myeol-geop enlarged an ice shield to block the flames, then
grabbed an ice spear and hurled it at the giant.
The frozen spear struck the flame giant’s chest directly.
The fire giant, apparently not expecting its chest to be pierced by a single throw, panicked and grabbed the spear to pull it out.
But the spear froze the surrounding area the moment it pierced the chest, locking itself firmly in place.
Even the hand grasping the spear began to freeze over.
The enraged flame giant raised a greatsword and swung it down.
Myeol-geop donned ice gauntlets and caught the falling blade with his hands.
—Crackle, crackle, crackle…
The bitter cold that Myeol-geop conjured flowed into the giant’s sword, and simultaneously the Fire Giant’s body began to cool beneath the encroaching frost.
The Sword of Fire was no mere weapon—it was the very wellspring of the Fire Giant’s life.
The king realized the danger and his subordinate giants surged forward to shield their master.
Myeol-geop turned and fired a barrage of frost arrows, piercing through every enemy body in its path.
The Fire Giant thrashed, desperate not to fall, but Myeol-geop had already scaled its body and was moving upward.
In that final moment, Myeol-geop swung the Frozen Blade.
The Fire Giant King, their leader, offered no real resistance and lost his head.
[‘Twilight’ Exploration Quest: Defeat the Fire Giant King (1/1)]
From a distance, Jeon Jae-woo watched Myeol-geop’s brilliant display and thought.
‘He’s the real master here, not me.’
Jeon Jae-woo and the other summons were merely his flunkies.
After eliminating their leader, the remaining Fire Giants were swiftly put down.
Jeon Jae-woo’s party claimed victory not long after.
[The Exploration Quest is complete.]
[From this moment forward, the ‘Twilight’ Dungeon belongs to Jeon Jae-woo.]
The spoil for clearing the dungeon was the Eternal Flame.
Literally, a flame.
Burning brightly in the palm of Jeon Jae-woo’s hand, a spark of fire danced.
‘Strange—it’s not hot at all.’
Maybe that’s because it was an item.
He had no idea where he could use such a thing.
Jeon Jae-woo inserted the spark into No-bum’s body.
“Good work, everyone. Any injuries?”
[None.]
“Clean and efficient. I like it.”
The zombie giants he’d controlled with Necromancy suddenly came into view.
Once the battle ended and he released his control, the giants reverted to ordinary monster corpses.
“Lich King. Couldn’t we keep using them as zombie soldiers?”
“The mana cost to maintain Necromancy is substantial. Do you think the undead have infinite mana?”
He was stingy for a Transcendent-grade Trait holder.
“…Still, so long as we have corpses, we can always return and reanimate them as needed.”
The moment Jeon Jae-woo returned, he contacted Director Yoo Jung-tae.
‘I should ask him to bring the Additional Conquest Rights right away.’
For the first time in a while, he found himself looking forward to seeing the Conquest Tokens again.
“Hello? Director?”
[Yes, Hunter Jeon Jae-woo. What brings this on?]
“I’ve just cleared the Twilight Dungeon. I’d like you to inform the Americans.”
[Already? That was fast.]
Yoo Jung-tae’s voice carried surprise as he continued carefully.
[Actually, Hunter, there’s something I need to ask of you. Would you be willing to hear me out?]
“A request?”
His tone was awfully apologetic.
There always seemed to be something the Hunter Bureau needed from him.
Honestly, if Jeon Jae-woo didn’t exist, they’d find a way to manage on their own.
But with such a useful asset at hand, it would be harder not to use him.
Still, this request involved him directly.
[It’s about the Mysterious Daggers you provided us.]
“Yes.”
[Due to an oversight on our end, we lost one inside the North Korean Dungeon, and we’ve since confirmed that a monster inside is now carrying it.]
That was troublesome.
How a Transcendent-rank Hunter Clears Dungeons
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