2 – Astaroth Class Gate [EPISODE – 0]
The world is now buzzing about the downfall of S-rank hunter Eunha Yoo.
A gate of Astaroth level of difficulty, which is said to be the highest level of difficulty that a Hunter can challenge.
This gate that appears irregularly is a gate that can only be challenged by one person, and the difficulty level is said to be very extreme.
This gate has been challenged by countless hunters in the past, but it is like a gate that gave nightmares to those hunters.
So, when ordinary people say that they will challenge this gate, they usually do not expect it at all, but when Yoo Eun-ha said that she would challenge it, people would say, ‘Certainly?’ I was looking forward to it with a heart.
This is because Yoo Eun-ha is a hunter with the highest level of skill among hunters, and she is called a rare genius among hunters.
However, it failed. It also failed miserably.
What process did Eunha Yoo go through to fail the Astaroth Dungeon, only she herself would know, but Eunha Yoo failed anyway.
And, it collapsed.
[Hunter Association decides to collect additional fines from Yoo Eun-ha]
[Yoo Eun-ha, a pile of debt]
[Yoo Eun-ha turns out to have been evading taxes…]
[Yoo Eun-ha, personality controversy in the past]
[Hunter Yoo Eun-ha said, ‘I almost succeeded in attacking the Astaroth-class gate.’ However, the authenticity cannot be confirmed.]
…
After this Astaroth-class gate failure, Eun-ha Yoo lost all of her abilities.
And that incident was enough to destroy the kingdom that Yoo Eun-ha had built up so far.
downfall of the queen.
Eunha Yoo’s karma is deeper than I thought.
Whenever she appeared on a TV program, she always talked rudely.
She was the one who talked as if she was the best in the world.
In addition, it was she who always looked down on hunters and ordinary people of a lower rank than herself.
She was never nice to other people. He continued his arrogant and cheeky personality.
But even so, people liked Yoo Eun-ha.
So some people hated Yoo Eun-ha, but
The majority of people deified Eun-ha Yoo, and since she was so deified, people still liked Eun-ha Yoo, saying that she was a ‘proud goddess’.
But now it’s reversed.
With Yoo Eun-ha losing all her powers, there was no longer any reason to deify her.
Her era had come to an end.
“…”
I looked through all the news related to Yoo Eun-ha on my smartphone.
I am Eunha Yoo’s ex-boyfriend, Siwoo Lee, who dumped her a month ago.
He is a retired A-class hunter and a man who also served as Yu Eun-ha’s manager.
Of course, I couldn’t have good feelings for Yoo Eun-ha, and honestly, I was the one who should be most amused by her downfall.
However, the emotion I feel now is pity.
Of course, there are some exhilarating feelings, but since he dumped me like that and ended up like this, I felt more sad than happy.
It’s not that I want my ex-girlfriend to do well after we broke up.
But do I have to express how bitter it feels to be completely ruined like this? Anyway, the emotions are complicated.
“Ehyo. Who cares about whom?”
But I’m not in a position to worry about Yoo Eun-ha.
I sighed as I turned off my phone.
I was worried about Yoo Eun-ha, but now my head hurts even with my own problems.
Now I am also faced with a pretty serious situation.
Originally, I was supposed to receive severance pay from Yoo Eun-ha’s company, as a manager of an S-class hunter.
It is a situation where her company may not be able to receive severance pay because her company is now going bankrupt.
No, it is definitely not possible.
Now I have some debt.
Originally, after receiving severance pay and paying off the debt, I was going to live a comfortable life doing a little safe work, but…
It seemed that I would not be able to.
In the end, the problem was money.
“Hunter Lee Siu. Hunter return request has been completed.”
“thank you.”
I came to the Hunter Association office and submitted a request to return to the Hunters.
I was a hunter who was quite active as an A-class hunter before, but I had accidents like this and I ended up retiring because I was working as Yoo Eun-ha’s manager.
I guess I’ll have to start my Hunter job again.
Of course, if I could, I would like to continue to be the manager of S-rank hunters, but not everyone can be the manager of S-rank hunters.
“Then can I go in and out of the gate right away?”
“Yes. It is possible.”
My Hunter return has been approved.
Now I can step into the gate again.
If you work as a manager, of course you enter the gate, but that was the situation when you were a non-combatant.
Now I can enter the gate as a single hunter.
And now that I’m in this situation, I’m a little excited.
When I started working as a hunter at the young age of 20, I used to dream of becoming the strongest hunter.
Of course, I compromised with reality and abandoned that dream, and I still don’t have that dream, but for some reason, I felt like my current image overlapped when I just started working as a hunter.
So I was about to leave the Hunter Association office with high expectations.
“Oh right. Hunter Lee Siu. Please be a little careful now.”
“Yes? What’s going on?”
“Because the system might get a little weird in the aftermath of the failure of the Astaroth-class gate this time.”
“How specifically?”
“Umm… The gate that I thought was a C-level dungeon turned out to be a grade-A gate. Ah. Of course, the possibility of that is extremely slim, but I’m just in case.”
“okay.”
In the meantime, the guide who helped me return to the Hunter spoke to me.
It was something I said with a little bit of concern.
Certainly, the larger the gate, the greater the aftermath when it fails.
Even at the level of the Abyss, such situations may occur, such as changing the status of dungeons.
But if it was Astaroth-class, it would be much worse.
Of course, the chances of that happening are very slim. It is said that people who are really unlucky suffer.
“But what’s the matter?”
However, that doesn’t happen once or twice, and in the first place, a hunter is a job where you have to risk your life for money.
I left after smiling at the guide who was worried about me.
“Hmm… First of all, this is probably the most suitable place.”
If you belong to the Hunter Association, gates near where you are now can be received through a mobile phone application.
After returning as a Hunter, I was standing in front of a gate to do my first job.
The difficulty level was C, and the number of people allowed to enter was a gate.
And the mobs that came out were also very ugly, so it was a gate that barely covered the cost of the potion.
To be honest, this gate has no meaning at all for normal hunters.
Even if you clear it, you won’t get any benefit.
It is such a gate called the ‘shit gate’ among so-called hunters.
So, it is common for these gates to be attacked by officials of the Hunter Association when the time is running out.
“Returning Hunters aren’t popular, so… I have no choice but to prove myself.”
However, if such a gate is useful, it is useful for a returning hunter like me.
In fact, returning hunters are very, very unpopular. That’s why parties and guilds, as well as gongpots, don’t fit well.
The reason returning hunters are not popular is because their skills cannot be evaluated.
To put it bluntly, there is no guarantee that a person who was A-class a few years ago is still A-class even if she returns.
So is my situation now.
I was a Class A Hunter before I retired, but that was three years ago.
I still have an A-rank, but I don’t know exactly how good it is, let alone other people, so it’s first to know your own level.
So, these gates are quite useful.
Whenever I work as a hunter, I belong to a party and try to join a guild.
You can join a party called Gongpot without going into that, but I also feel that it’s on a different level in terms of stability.
Usually, in order to join a guild or party, you have to submit a recently cleared dungeon.
First of all, I’m going to clear this dungeon I’m facing now and join any party or guild.
And I plan to play an active part there and enter a guild or party that suits my level.
“Let’s clear things up quickly.”
I stretched out and relaxed my shoulders.
And I stepped into the gate.
Inside the shimmering dimension, I was transported to another dimension.
Now I have entered the C-class gate.
“Huh…? Class C… right?”
And when the moment flashed and the dimension changed, I couldn’t help but feel the ominous feeling.
The scene unfolding in front of my eyes now was a hell-like place with an ocean of lava and a pitch-black sky.
Obviously, when I checked in the Hunter Association’s gate app, there was no such information. It was completely different from what I saw in the image.
“Huh? That’s Yoo Eun-ha’s equipment?”
I looked around with an ominous mind, and came across an object that gave off a faint light.
And when I approached the object and inspected it, it was a very familiar object to me.
property brooch.
It was an item that raised her own attributes that she always wore.
As a person who was her boyfriend and manager, I recognized at a glance that it was Yoo Eun-ha’s property.
“Why is this here?
But why is the attribute brooch here?
I wondered if Yoo Eun-ha had challenged the C-level gate, but the thought that it was not filled my head.
“Stop… can’t you?”
A scene popped into my head.
In the appearance of Yoo Eun-ha, who failed to attack the Astaroth-class gate in the news article, she was not wearing a brooch.
An ominous feeling passed through me.
“Ha ha… crazy.”
I had an ominous feeling that the gate I had just entered might be an Astaroth-class gate.
Oh sh*t on sh*t!
Fuking fuked up