Walkthrough for the Transcendental Hunter's Ruins - Chapter 85

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Episode 85
“Screeeee!!”
The troll, now a puppet of the Magic Sword, proved far more tenacious than expected.
A single cannon blast from Myeol-geop melted its body to nothing in an instant.
Yet even after its upper half—head, chest, and abdomen—flew clean away, the lower body still moved like a zombie’s.
It even regenerated the severed upper half with a frenzied healing power.
The troll rose again with monstrous regeneration, shrieking madly as it charged once more.
“Even if the troll’s regeneration got stronger, can something like that actually happen?”
“There’s no way. It’s just the Magic Sword that’s twisted that pig into something wrong.”
[……]
Myeol-geop paused for a moment, then shifted the cannon’s configuration.
The form he used when hunting powerful beasts in Ancient-grade Ruins.
He’d held back in the dungeon because drawing too much attention would’ve become a headache.
[No-bum. Shield the surrounding area so the shockwave doesn’t spread.]
“Got it! Leave it to me!”
No-bum merged into the North Korean Dungeon’s vicinity using his natural element trait.
Moments later, a blast of tremendous force erupted from Myeol-geop’s arm.
With a single attack, the troll’s body was obliterated completely—not a fragment remained.
‘Hm… really not a single bone left.’
Even now, he found himself thinking it a shame—troll corpses made decent materials.
If even the smallest piece of flesh had survived, it would’ve regenerated again, so there was no choice.
But anyone who used Heaven’s Box suffered from constant material shortages, so the thought came naturally.
Jeon Jae-woo carefully picked up the Demonic Sword where it had fallen, still hot, and froze.
‘What? There’s no demonic energy in it at all?’
Had the Hunter Bureau made some kind of mistake?
Maybe the creature that took the Demonic Sword hadn’t been this troll after all?
‘No. This is definitely the Demonic Sword that Mutant created.’
The mana wavelength he’d felt when facing the troll was mana he recognized—he’d encountered it before.
Yet now that the troll was dead, why couldn’t he sense any demonic energy from the blade at all?
The troll’s corpse had vanished, leaving no trace to examine. What was he supposed to do with this?
[Creator. Look ahead.]
“Hm?”
A small, dark mass of mana floated at the spot where the troll had been standing.
Jeon Jae-woo stared at it in confusion, then a thought suddenly struck him.
‘Ah… I think I understand now.’
The demonic energy clinging to the Demonic Sword possessed the ability to invade and dominate whatever it touched.
Once the Demonic Sword passed into the troll’s hands, that demonic energy had migrated to the troll’s body—a far superior host than the blade itself.
That’s why the Demonic Sword, or rather this blade, had been completely drained of its demonic energy.
And the troll, having become one with the demonic energy, used that power to drain the mana and life force of other monsters it fought and made contact with.
It seemed the troll had hunted other beasts this way, absorbing their strength and growing rapidly in power.
Because the host’s body had been obliterated without leaving a trace, all that remained in its place was a dark mass of mana, homeless and adrift.
The demonic energy, as if alive, drifted back and forth trying to escape—
“Where do you think you’re going?”
A vortex opened at the mouth of Mutant’s beaker, sucking the demonic energy fragment in entirely.
The troll was eliminated. The blade and demonic energy were recovered.
That settled the troll extermination problem.
“Let’s fall back. Before more monsters swarm in. And don’t forget to stay hidden, all of you.”
[Understood, Creator.]
Jeon Jae-woo retrieved the blade and approached the hunters who’d fallen back earlier.
When he reached them, he found their expressions had grown considerably tense since the initial encounter.
Or rather, fear would be the better word.
A high-ranking official called the unit commander cautiously asked him a question.
“Did you… hunt down the troll?”
Instead of answering, Jeon Jae-woo showed them the recovered blade.
“What happened to the troll’s body?”
“It didn’t melt metaphorically—it melted completely. So we couldn’t recover the corpse. I apologize.”
“No, no. You’ve done well. Thank you, Hunter.”
While Jeon Jae-woo had been fighting, the hunters couldn’t help but marvel.
While they’d retreated at his request, they’d witnessed with their own eyes the deafening roar and burst of flame erupting from the forward position.
The force of it was powerful enough to shake the entire dungeon.
‘That’s a Transcendent-grade hunter…’
He’d wondered why they kept harping on about Transcendent-grade this, Transcendent-grade that, as if the words had worn grooves into their tongues.
Honestly, had he not witnessed it firsthand, he’d have found it hard to believe anyone possessed that much power.
Jeon Jae-woo returned to the Hunter Bureau and explained the situation directly to Yoo Jung-tae.
He’d eliminated the troll and recovered the sword.
Once Yoo Jung-tae heard the full account—including how the Magic Sword had been the source of the rampage—he nodded slowly.
“I see. So that’s what happened.”
“Which is why I’d recommend against taking it into a dungeon going forward. No matter how strong a hunter might be, strong enough to fully control a Magic Sword.”
The environment of a dungeon is different from an Ancient Ruin.
The Magic Swords Jeon Jae-woo had crafted were, by their very existence, colossal aggro-drawing magical artifacts that pulled in any living creature within range.
In Ancient Ruins, the monsters swarm toward humans to kill them anyway, but in a dungeon, bringing one along unless you intend to summon every monster in that dungeon to your location would be foolish.
“I truly owe you my gratitude, hunter. Without you, this could have ended very badly.”
“Not at all. It was nothing, really.”
Yoo Jung-tae bowed multiple times in thanks.
Still in stealth, Kat-si perched on his shoulder and spoke to Jeon Jae-woo with clear dissatisfaction.
[Master, wouldn’t it be better to take all the Magic Swords with us?]
[I said no. They’re already sold—it’s not my concern anymore.]
Finally, Yoo Jung-tae placed a steel briefcase on the table and opened it.
“This is…”
“An Additional Clearing Voucher that just arrived from the United States.”
At the welcome news, Jeon Jae-woo smiled and picked up the Additional Clearing Voucher.
‘It’s been a while since I’ve seen you, old friend.’
The Additional Clearing Voucher had been safely kept inside No-bum’s body ever since he’d left the Hunter Bureau.
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The Eternal Flame—a reward from clearing this Ancient-grade Ruin.
The flame entered Mutant’s beaker.
He hadn’t used a box to upgrade it; it had simply gone in, literally.
“Mutant. Are you alright?”
Setting aside the demonic energy fragments, the mere thought of that scorching flame sitting inside the beaker with them gave him pause.
He’d worried that an ordinary flame might shatter the glass itself.
But Mutant nodded without concern from inside the beaker.
After the Eternal Flame entered the beaker, Mutant showed no apparent change.
If anything had shifted, it was that the alcohol lamp’s flame heating the bottom of the beaker now burned more fiercely than before.
‘But why would the external flame grow stronger after the fire went inside the beaker?’
And Mutant had gained one more Transcendent-grade Trait.
〈Mutant〉 – Bonded to (Jeon Jae-woo)
Description – A Chimera possessed of the highest mana knowledge. An artificial lifeform created by its deity for the purpose of storing its accumulated wisdom.
Classification – Chimera
Traits – Sage’s Wisdom (Transcendent). Myeol-geop Fire (Transcendent).
Myeol-geop Fire—such a formidable name it carried.
‘To look at the name alone, you’d think it belonged on a combat-class summon.’
How he might use this ability on Mutant, a specialist in crafting and disassembly, remained to be seen.
In any case, Mutant now became the sole summon among Jeon Jae-woo’s servants to possess two Transcendent-grade Traits.
Mutant seemed quite satisfied with the change in the flame heating its beaker.
“Jae-woo. Aren’t you going to train today?”
“Yeah. I should. Just give me a moment.”
At Jeon Ji-woo’s urging, Jeon Jae-woo rose immediately from his seat.
The technique for creating the Sword Afterimage was nearly within his grasp, so he hurried.
With a bit more training, he felt he could refine it to match the level Jeon Ji-woo had demonstrated.
Jeon Jae-woo and Jeon Ji-woo faced off inside an already-cleared Ruin.
Their eyes met and held in wariness, then in the next instant they lunged at each other, blades clashing.
At first the sound of their swords meeting was light, but it quickly turned vicious.
The summons who had entered the Ruin alongside their master watched the training unfold.
Though the others didn’t pay attention, the Ego Sword alone created a message and displayed it in the air.
[…You’re becoming quite respectable now.]
Being a Doppelgänger, Jeon Ji-woo’s sword style mirrored Jeon Jae-woo’s closely.
Attacks descending in sequence—head, chest, abdomen, legs.
Jeon Jae-woo parried every strike from Jeon Ji-woo.
But deflecting an attack once was not the end of it.
At the point where he’d struck the blade away, a Sword Afterimage formed in real time.
The materialized afterimage flew toward Jeon Jae-woo at close range.
Crash-crash-crash-bang!!
Jeon Jae-woo retreated, taking light wounds to his ribs and right arm.
The sensation was unmistakable—a single swing from his opponent produced not one slash, but multiple overlapping blade strikes.
This technique was impossible to track with the eyes alone.
‘Then I have no choice but to counter with the same method.’
Though not quite at Jeon Ji-woo’s level, he could now create the Sword Afterimage technique to some degree.
Jeon Jae-woo traced the sword’s trajectory through that infinitesimal moment, spawning afterimages as he launched his counterattack.
Crash!!
The force far exceeding what it had been before drove Jeon Ji-woo backward.
Caught off guard by the sudden push, she wore an expression of genuine surprise.
“You’re… getting pretty good, huh?”
“You’re my doppelgänger. It’s only natural the original can do at least this much.”
Myeol-geop observed Jeon Jae-woo’s training from a distance, turning something over in his mind.
His master had praised him repeatedly as the greatest teacher, elevating him countless times over.
But Myeol-geop, being a golem, maintained objectivity even about himself.
‘I am not suited to be an educator.’
His teaching methods might be appropriate for instructing inanimate intelligences like golems, but they were poorly matched to guiding living creatures such as humans.
It was true that Myeol-geop had always guided Jeon Jae-woo to make optimal choices for growth within the bounds of what he could accomplish.
Yet humans who faithfully follow every optimal choice given to them are extraordinarily rare.
It was not a matter of weak will or lack of stamina.
To use an analogy: one can instruct someone to memorize a formula to solve a mathematical problem, but understanding the formula’s underlying principle is the student’s burden alone.
Simple visible problems can be solved by memorization alone, but when one ventures into applications, memorization alone inevitably reaches its limit.
The mediocre cannot grasp a formula in an instant; they require time spent in experience and practice to build understanding—that is the way of things.
Yet Jeon Jae-woo had bypassed all those steps and grasped Myeol-geop’s teachings with clarity.
‘Though, admittedly, his relative lack of experience as a hunter compared to his peers is something of a shortcoming.’
Several of the summoned creatures watching the match let out soft exclamations.
“Ah…!”
Jeon Ji-woo, locked in sparring, wore an expression of amazement.
Whoooosh.
Jeon Jae-woo’s sword lifted into the air.
The blade traced a circle in the void, spinning, and from that trajectory hundreds and thousands of afterimages cascaded into being.
Watching thousands of swords blazing brilliant in the sunlight, Jeon Jae-woo felt a smile bloom on his lips.
‘It’s complete!’
Then the Sword Heaven descended, blanketing the sky, and poured down in a unified torrent.
Transcendent-Rank Hunter Dungeon Strategy
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