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It is said to be the largest portal in the world, and the size is considerable from the entrance.
It is said that it is a special restricted area, and there are quite a few soldiers in military uniforms, probably from the Self-Defense Forces, around the portal.
“Guest, from that point forward, it’s a controlled area, so cars can’t enter.”
“Then go as far as you can and get off.”
After another 2 minutes, the taxi stopped, paid the fare, and got out.
As I approached the barricade, two soldiers came and told me to return to the controlled area, but I showed them the documents I had prepared in advance and passed.
Seen up close, it’s really big.
Before I came, I researched on the Internet, and it is said that only the height is 10 meters and the width is 50 meters.
After taking some pictures to submit to the school, I entered the portal.
Maybe it’s because the entrance is wide, but when you enter the portal, you don’t feel the unique tingling feeling at all… Wow, I did some research and looked at pictures on the internet, but seeing it in person is amazing.
The endless sand desert is spectacular, but there are quite a few buildings and even asphalt roads.
No, now is not the time to appreciate the scenery like this.
I have to catch a flight at 7pm, so I have to be back at the airport by at least 5pm.
I took my phone out of my pocket and checked the time. It was 12:00.
As I checked on my way earlier, the airport isn’t too far from here, but I still don’t have much time.
As the soldier I met at the entrance told me, I moved to the building right in front of me.
Upon entering, the feeling is similar to that of an airport immigration checkpoint.
Except that they’re all in military uniform.
“How did you come?”
“I’m a teacher at the 1st Hunter School in Korea, and I’m here to pre-visit a field trip in June.”
“okay. Could you show me your passport and permit papers?”
I handed over the documents and passport.
Earlier, I was just checking it out, but I’m going to check it out pretty carefully here.
“On paper, three people were supposed to come, but why did you come alone?”
“Ah, the party is not feeling well. I came by bus from Tokyo this morning.”
“A bus? It must have taken quite a while to get from Tokyo to Nagoya by bus.”
“Yes. It took about five and a half hours.”
“It would have been convenient to use the Shinkansen. It’s a bit more expensive, but it’s much faster.”
“I know, but it’s because students are going to travel by bus on a field trip.”
“ah… You are suffering. You have been confirmed.”
I return my passport and documents and give me a ticket.
There was a yellow piece of paper with no writing on it, so when I asked what it was, it said it was a visitor’s pass.
If it’s a visitor’s pass, it’s too sincere.
Inside the portal, they told me that I had to wear it around my neck, so I put it on my neck right away.
“Then where should we go now?”
“Wait. there, yes… Yamada, come over here.”
“What are you doing?”
“This is a teacher from the 1st Hunter School in Korea who has come to visit the Black Temple, so you can give us some guidance. You can follow this friend.”
“Ah yes. i look forward to. This is Kang Shin-hyeok.”
“You speak Japanese quite fluently. My name is Yasuo Yamada.”
Hey Yasuo? It’s a name I don’t want to get close to… .
Come to think of it, what happened was something that gave me a lot of pain in my previous life… .
“Why are you like that?”
“Oh, no.”
I followed Yasuo out of the building.
“Could you wait here for a moment? I will bring tea.”
Did you answer yes and wait 5 minutes?
A small minibus stopped in front of me.
I wondered if he had taken another person to drive this car, but Yasuo was alone on the bus.
When I asked why he brought this car, he said that he brought it on purpose because it was a vehicle that students would use on a field trip.
Thank you for thinking about it, but it was a minibus, so the ride wasn’t very comfortable.
While listening to Mr. Yasuo’s brief explanation, we arrived at the Black Temple after about 40 minutes of driving.
In addition to our bus, we see a few vehicles.
They are supposed to be linguists who study the writings in the temple. In the past, there were so many people, but most of them gave up and said that it has decreased a lot.
“okay.”
“Then I will wait here, so come and see.”
“Aren’t you going with me?”
“I’m a Christian, so I can’t go into places like that.”
“Are you Christian?”
“I’m kidding, I’m actually a little tired. Even though the temple is a bit wide, it is an open structure so you won’t get lost in the way.”
“Yes. Then I’ll be back soon.”
I didn’t recommend it again because I was tired.
It doesn’t matter if we go together, but it will be more comfortable if we go alone.
“no. I have to do other things when I come back anyway, so if you can, please watch it slowly. And if you look at the entrance, you will see a sign. Please take a look.”
I said yes and got off the bus.
I took a few photos from the outside and immediately moved to the temple.
As Mr. Yasuo said, there is a sign at the entrance that guides you through the structure of the Oni Shrine.
I looked through it all the way, and it says that the basement is only open in the morning, but it doesn’t matter.
My destination is the 3rd floor.
As shown in the original work, wherever you go to the left or right, there is a staircase that leads to the third floor.
The one on the left is closer, so we went up the stairs on the left to the third floor.
On the third floor, unlike other places, there are no letters engraved.
Instead, in the very center is a statue so badly damaged that it is impossible to know what it was originally.
The statue sticks to the ground as if it had risen from the ground, and even though it is seriously damaged, there are no access control lines installed.
In the first place, this statue has been like this since it was first discovered.
Of course, even if the statue was already damaged, it was found in the portal, so in principle, it is correct to manage it.
However, like the temple, this statue is also made of black ore, so there is no need to manage it.
The Black Ore of the Black Temple boasts incredible durability.
Black ore could not be destroyed not only by swordsmanship and swordsmanship, but also by an S-rank magician’s Hellfire, which was said to be superior to swordsman in terms of destructive power.
It doesn’t even get damaged, let alone destroyed, and absorbs everything.
As a last resort, the Japanese government tried to borrow the power of scientific tools such as the plasma cutter, but it also failed.
Thanks to that, the name of this statue is also an invincible punching bag that does not look like a statue at all.
The notice written on the sign also says that it is okay to attack as much as you like, and that if you bring only powder, not crumbs, you will be rewarded with a reward of 10 billion yen, or over 100 billion won.
In the original work, Ji-seong Lee reads the notice and challenges enthusiastically, but fails, and Do-hyun Kim fails as well.
However, Lee Ji-seong suggests to Kim Do-hyeon to join forces and attack, and the joint attack of the two does not destroy the statue, but succeeds in making a very small scratch.
I’m alone, not two, but I’m confident.
Although the 2nd year protagonists are quite strong, I can’t say they’re the strongest.
It gets stronger as you go backwards, but the level of the 2nd year protagonists is only at the top of A rank, or at least the beginning of S rank.
However, even among the S-rank hunters, they failed to reach a fairly high level of rapport, and the two of them joined forces?
This is a complete configuration error.
Actually, when I read the original work, I tried to write a comment saying that this doesn’t seem right, but the author had already explained and the situation had been sorted out.
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[hogupig: Hello. I am Hogu Pig, a writer who is serializing ‘I became an idiot and an inferior student at Hunter School’. There are many readers who point out that Kim Do-hyun and Lee Ji-sung worked together to damage the black ore in the episode and pointed out that it was a setup error, but that part is not a setup error. Unlike other hunters, Dohyeoni and Jiseong use energy rather than mana. Also, black ore is strong in mana, but slightly weak in internal energy.]
[Seonwoo: If that’s the case, why don’t Kim Do-hyun or Lee Ji-seong try alone? I’ll apologize gracefully and make amends. Since you grit your teeth and don’t acknowledge the setting error, do you keep getting the setting error?]
[Dumpling ghost: Even I, a big pig, can’t side with the writer. It is much more logical than the writer.]
[Blame for losing the game: ㅇㅋ]
[hogupig: It’s because the kids are still weak. If you were at the level of an S-rank hunter, you could have succeeded alone, but if you keep watching, you will find related information.]
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To be honest, it wasn’t a clear explanation.
But I also had quite a few times like that while writing, so it’s not that I don’t understand.
Anyway, according to the author’s setting, I can do it alone.
Because I’m an S-rank hunter, a master of transcendence.
Still, without being vigilant, he raised his inner strength to the fullest, made a river, and hit the statue as it was.
thud-!
As soon as I felt the heavy taste, my vision changed.
Of course I wasn’t upset.
It was a fact that I already knew from the original work that this would happen if a statue was scratched.
The purple sun is shining in the sky and the fields are dense with black grass that I have never seen before.
And on top of the hill in the front, there is a tree so huge that you can’t see the end.
Demon number.
If you look at fantasy novels, sometimes a tree called the world tree appears.
It is slightly different in each novel, but it is generally called the hometown of elves or the mother of elves, and is cherished by elves. There are cases in which trees are conscious like humans, and they are usually expressed as good beings who support the middle world.
In most fantasy novels, there are many ways in which the world tree is poisoned by evil spirits or a problem arises and the main characters solve it.
That’s why there is a joke that says, ‘The World Tree Passive is contaminated by demons’, but the Demonic World Tree you see right now is not made because the World Tree is polluted.
In this novel, the demon tree is a tree that originally existed in the demon world… .
Suddenly the ground started to shake.
Is it finally starting?
Destroying the statue was only a condition for coming here, but the real ordeal is separate.
The shaking intensified, and soon the ground split in half.
Lava erupted between the cracks, revealing the creature.
thud-!
Its muscular body is similar to that of an ogre, but its color and size are completely different.
If you look roughly at its body, it seems to easily exceed 20M, and it has three large heads.
It reminded me of Cerberus, the guardian of Hell in Greek mythology, but considering the human-like head shape and size, it seems to be closer to the Sphinx in Egypt.
In reality, this guy is like a sphinx… . I hear a muffled voice in my head.
―I am Kainakhan, the Guardian of the Demonic Beast. Anyone who has not received my permission cannot go to the Demon Valley.
I already knew about it through the original work, but a talking monster… no, it’s not a word
A monster that communicates its thoughts directly in your head is truly amazing.
“How can I get permission?”
―If you get all three of my questions right, I won’t block you. But if you’re wrong, you’ll have to give up your life… Will you challenge me?
“Challenge.”
In the original story, the main characters fight with this guy because they can’t get the problem right.
He suffers quite a bit, but of course the main character wins.
So it’s a problem and it’s a nabal thing and you can fight from the beginning, but you don’t have to buy it and suffer.
‘Cause I know the answer
-I’ll give you the first question. It swallows everything. It turns hard stone into powder, and no metal can resist it. What is this that kills mighty emperors, destroys hearts, and cuts down even high mountains?
“hour.”
-You are a smart person. I’ll give you the second question. It brings the dead back to life and can make you laugh or cry. What is this that is born in an instant, but lives forever?
“memory.”
―No, this is the last question. Some people are afraid of this and try to hide, and some people try to run away, but as time passes, they are the existences that must eventually be met. You guys will someday… .
“death.”
―Uh, how could I not listen to the explanation… .
I feel quite perplexed.
Did you think I would have listened to all the explanations?
The writer did not reveal the answer separately, but readers wrote all the correct answers in the comments.
Time is a very famous problem, so I knew it from the beginning.
“Can we go now?”