Chapter 403 – At the Gate (6)
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It was a monster I had never seen before.
A mantis-like monster of the same size as a human. Actually, I didn’t like insects.
I thought the existing insects were gross, but since they were about the size of a person, the visuals were no joke.
“What…What is so hard!!”
“Damage!!”
In addition, the shell of a guy that does not fit even the blade using the aura.
The black shell shimmering in the light was so hard that the sword could not penetrate it at all.
In addition, even though the magic that was completed from behind hit him directly, he swung his forelimbs intact.
A sharp pain in the right arm with the feeling of something splitting, a cut so deep that the bone could be seen how deep the wound was.
If I had avoided it a little later, my arm would probably have fallen off like this.
‘In a place like this… Are you going to die?’
I came to this position after a lot of hard work to become a Hunter.
It is also true that she is not at the level of an outsider like Yoon Seo and Lee Da-eun, but she is proud of being at the top of the Daehan Academy.
Just like any other, I’ll just suffer again. It was true that she came in with such a light heart.
Whatever monsters she encountered, she thought that she would be able to catch them at her current level.
I was just thinking that the hot weather would make it difficult, but where did I go wrong?
While holding his right arm in pain so that he couldn’t even scream, the creature had reached his eyes before he knew it using his own wings.
And the same overwhelming force as before attacking.
‘Ah… Here. Are you going to die?’
How much effort did he put in to get to this position, how many trials did he endure.
“Wake!!”
__Kikii Iik!!!!
A protective shield appeared in front of him with an unpleasant sound, once blocking his attack.
If it hadn’t been for the defense that looked like it was going to break at any moment, my breath would have been cut off.
Shouted Oh Na-mi, whom she had been with as her partner since first grade.
“Poem..They set off a flare!! If you hold out, someone will come to rescue you!!”
Yes, I couldn’t die from an unknown monster here.
He seemed to know why the instructors at the academy emphasized calmness every time.
The moment I was swallowed up by fear, my head turned white and I couldn’t do anything.
“Calm down!!!”
“Ah Okay!! Thanks Namiya!!!”
The moment he stood up, the protective shield in front of him was shattered by his front leg.
His right arm was disabled until he recovered, and he raised the sword with his left hand.
‘There’s no need to win.. If I wait, someone will come to save me!!’
The moment he swung his sword to counter the attack, another mantis that looked exactly like him appeared.
“Uh?”
“Hye-miya!!!!”
“Aaaaa!!!!”
A blow that would have cut his body in half if he hadn’t raised his mana reflexively, he wasn’t a monster to be hunted.
In a situation where even one is hopeless, two?
In addition, a situation where fatal injuries were allowed, is there a difference between training and actual combat?
Had I known this would happen, I would have acted more carefully.
I’ve always heard that an accident might happen inside the gate, but I had no idea that it would be now.
Watching the guys approaching with an unpleasant wind noise, I felt my fighting spirit weaken.
“I..Namiya..Run away..”
I shouted so loudly that I could catch any monster that appeared.
Seeing myself helplessly broken without being able to do anything like this made me angry, resentful, and afraid.
Perhaps it was because he had lost so much blood, he could feel his body getting heavier.
She promised to graduate together, but in the end, she couldn’t keep her promise.
“Hye-miya!!!!!!!!!!”
Ah. It ends here.
The moment I thought so.
__Geeeeeing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A purple laser flew with great momentum.
“Uh?”
A railgun that passes through the head of a single black mantis before it can react.
At the same time, someone appeared along with the blue moon that suddenly rose.
“If I was a little late, I could have been in big trouble.”
The sword, which moved naturally like flowing water, drew a strange movement, then evaded the mantis’ front legs and rushed straight to its neck.
It moved as if a snake was moving, and easily cut off the mantis’s skin, which did not even move with its own sword.
I only blinked once, but the sword aimed at the mantis’ joints and blew off the mantis’ neck as if it were cutting off the tofu.
The brightly shining male cadet’s sword boasted a density that was on a different level from the aura he created.
‘Kim Si-woo… ? And at the back, Lee Da-eun… “
Those are the named cadets of Daehan Academy, as rumored to be.
The sight of him slicing down a monster he thought he couldn’t defeat, as if he were dealing with lower-level monsters, was so awe-inspiring that it made me forget the pain.
Seeing the people running behind him later, Siwoo Kim shouted.
“Jung Soo-ah! This guy’s condition is serious!!”
“I… I can see you, stupid!!”
After a while, I felt relieved by the warm energy that wrapped around my whole body.
Oh I survived Maybe it was because the tension was released at once, but the eyelids were too heavy.
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“If it wasn’t for you, there would have been more damage. Thank you.”
Kim Si-young bowed her head to the top cadets who dealt with the wart that suddenly appeared.
The estimated rank of the black mantis was B rank, and it was not a monster that ordinary cadets could handle.
Cadets at the top ranks were abnormal, in fact, even if they were at the B rank level, mid-level guilds welcomed them with open arms.
Anyway, the gate where B-rank monsters live is correct, but the higher the rank, the more they protect their territory.
It could be said that it was an abnormal situation for such a powerful monster to cross over to the entry area.
“I just did what I had to do.”
“That…Yes, good job.”
“No!!”
Yang Ji-seok, who actively helped others out of harmony with his usual image, took the lead in answering.
Kim Si-woo, who saved the most people, just looked at Yang Ji-seok in silence.
Although the number of people actually saved is not that many compared to the active ones, isn’t it important that they were saved anyway?
“I’ve been coming to this gate for years, but I’ve never heard of a guy like this living there.”
Seeing the black praying mantis, Siyoung Kim muttered. A small monster with fast mobility, high durability, and cutting power beyond imagination.
If a monster like this lived, it should have been known long ago.
No matter how much she is a monster, depending on the ecosystem, the habitat where she is mainly active is fixed, but this guy did not have such a thing.
The places where they appeared were also irregular, so it felt as if they had suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
“For a moment… Appeared suddenly?”
Instructor Siyoung Kim had an ominous thought. There was only one case where a monster that did not originally exist in the gate suddenly appeared.
“Gated mixing… However, as far as I know, such a phenomenon has never occurred with a large gate like the Andong Gate.”
At that time, another instructor came running from afar in a hurry.
The moment she saw the instructor’s face with a look of urgency, she could feel that her prediction was correct.
“Instructor Siyoung Kim! It’s a big deal!!”
“What… Is it work?”
“This..Entrance..The entrance has disappeared!!”
Gate mixing.
A phenomenon that occurs when a new gate is opened on an existing gate, and two different gates are mixed.
Cadets in urgent need of treatment were scattered all over the place, and they seemed to be stranded until the gate was stabilized.
‘There are some guys who are in a hurry… But I don’t know if they can hold on.’
Seeing the cadets knocked down by a new monster that suddenly appeared, I felt sorry for them.
Fortunately, with the help of Jung Soo-ah, he was able to take first aid. It would be nice to be able to recover them all, but it seemed difficult because there were so many wounded.
A few of the instructors were also injured, but what if it was a cadet?
At least, it ended like this because only the top cadets entered the Andong Gate.
‘It feels like incidents are constantly happening this year.’
It was not a headache to see if the incident was constantly happening like this every time.
Since Kang Min-ah went to check the entrance, she can roughly know how long it will take for it to stabilize.
Then, she herself must stop the monsters from attacking so that no more damage is done here.
“For now, wait here until it stabilizes!! Stay alert to see if there are any monsters approaching this way!”
I never thought I would be able to experience gate mixing that others have never experienced before.
‘Well… But it’s a relief that no one died.’
I was surprised by the sudden appearance of a strange monster, but wouldn’t it be a problem that could be solved by just holding out until the gate stabilized?
She was the one who was so reassured. That is until Kang Min-ah appeared with a serious expression.
“Why are you looking so serious? Will it take a long time to stabilize?”
“It’s not that kind of problem.”
“Then?”
“The properties of Andong Gate have changed.”
“What do you mean the properties have changed?”
“The Andong Gate was originally an open gate.. But now it has changed to a closed gate.”
Unlike an open gate that allows entry and exit at will, a closed gate that cannot be exited once entered.
So that meant that the people here were locked up.
“That… I’ve never heard of that!”
“Keep your voice down. Cadets can be agitated.”
Kim Si-young checked her surroundings and answered in a small voice.
“What are the escape conditions?”
“I don’t know… I don’t know the conditions at all… I can’t guarantee how long it will take…”
The moment I heard Kang Min-ah’s answer, I felt her head pounding.
In addition to the gate mixing that is said to be difficult to experience, even the closed gate that is said to be rare.
Wouldn’t it be easier to win the lottery simply by looking at the odds?
There are no men in this life, and it seems that there is no luck.
“Haa.. Fuck.”
