Became the Weapon Monopolist of the Gods-Chapter 13: Yi Sun-sin’s Three Gates (1)
Gates are classified into six levels from E to S based on their danger.
E-rank hunters target E-rank gates, D-rank hunters target D-rank gates, and so on.
If you get into the details, each level is subdivided from 1 to 10, based on the level of danger.
However, just because it's a D-1 gate doesn’t mean you can take it lightly.
Anything can happen inside a gate, and the world inside is no exception.
C-rank hunter Yoo Cheol-min was paying the price for underestimating the danger.
“Damn it! Why are warrior goblins here...!”
“Eek! Eek!”
Yoo Cheol-min, who had entered a D-1 gate by himself thinking it would be easy, was now facing a horde of mutated goblins, which shouldn’t have appeared in this level of gate.
“Eek!”
Kkaang!
Yoo Cheol-min scowled as he blocked the goblin’s swinging sledgehammer with his sword.
‘This bastard, a hardware store sledgehammer...!’
When you think of goblins, you usually imagine cowardly ones that shoot poison darts from a distance, but that was an old-fashioned stereotype.
The monsters occupying the area north of the Han River had taken modern tools from the world outside and were using them as weapons.
The goblin horde Yoo Cheol-min encountered was armed with tools, likely from a hardware store.
Moreover, these weren’t just regular goblins; they were warrior goblins.
Warrior goblins, usually appearing in D-8 gates, had shown up in a D-1 gate.
Strange things sometimes happened inside gates, but Yoo Cheol-min was unlucky.
It was very rare to see a warrior goblin horde armed with tools in a D-1 gate.
“Eek!”
At the command of the goblin leader, four warrior goblins charged at Yoo Cheol-min.
“Tch!”
Yoo Cheol-min, wielding a chainsaw, blocked a goblin’s attack but was forced to retreat.
Although he was a C-rank hunter, facing four warrior goblins at once was a tough challenge.
‘I really underestimated this D-1 gate.’
Deciding to abandon the fight, Yoo Cheol-min made his way to the safety zone.
To leave the gate, he had to head to the safety zone.
Just as he was about to turn around, he heard something scraping on the ground near him.
‘Scraping?’
While trying to figure out what the noise was, Yoo Cheol-min was startled by a young man walking past him, dragging a giant sword along the floor.
The scraping sound was coming from the sword being dragged across the ground.
‘What kind of sword is that...?’
The sword, °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° at least 3 meters long, seemed impossible for an average hunter to wield.
The proof was that the man was dragging the sword instead of lifting it, like a broom.
As Yoo Cheol-min gawked at the man, the warrior goblins came charging.
“Danger!”
“Eek!”
Weeeing─!
A warrior goblin swung a running chainsaw at the man.
The man belatedly swung his giant sword, but it was less of a swing and more of a feeble, limp motion.
‘What the hell!’
Yoo Cheol-min squinted his eyes, watching the man’s sword swing like a worm.
It seemed like the man was about to be cut by the goblin’s chainsaw at any moment.
Puh-wack!
A loud sound of flesh being cleaved rang out.
Yoo Cheol-min was stunned.
“...What, what’s going on?”
The warrior goblin’s upper body disappeared in one limp swing of the man’s sword.
And as if that wasn’t enough, the sword’s momentum shattered the tree behind the goblin.
Kuuung─!
“Ugh, that’s tough.”
Wiping his forehead like he had just worked out, the man made Yoo Cheol-min freeze in disbelief.
“Yah!”
Despite the man’s energetic shout, his swordplay was limp, like a jellyfish.
Buaaaaang─!
The sweeping sword wind sent Yoo Cheol-min’s head spinning, and the goblins were sliced apart.
“...A... a high-rank hunter?”
Yoo Cheol-min’s voice lacked confidence.
It was impressive, but there was something... off about it.
‘Why is he using a sword like that?’
As a hunter with expertise in swordsmanship, Yoo Cheol-min was familiar with many styles of sword fighting.
But he had never seen a hunter wield a sword like that.
‘Is it a new sword technique?’
Maybe something like swordplay that focuses on reducing force to increase speed...?
While Yoo Cheol-min was trying to figure out the man’s technique, the man, having dealt with the goblin horde, dragged his sword and made his way toward the boss room.
Driven by curiosity, Yoo Cheol-min followed the man into the boss room. What he saw made him swallow hard.
“Ugh!”
─Kiaa... Puh-wack!
The boss of the D-1 gate.
A Hobgoblin.
It was cleaved in half by the man’s weak sword swing.
That day, Yoo Cheol-min posted the story of his experience on the large hunter community HuntWeb.
[Today, I saw a strange ranker dragging a sword at Olympic Park.]
└Why was he dragging a sword?
└I think it was too heavy? But damn, he was strong. He was swinging it limply, and goblins just vanished.
└How can goblins vanish from a limp swing?
└That’s bullshit, I saw it too at Han River Park yesterday.
└Really? Is it a concept?
The rumors about the “man dragging a sword” began to spread on HuntWeb.
“Ugh, my arm’s gonna fall off.”
I placed the Twin Dragon Sword on the counter and rubbed my exhausted arm.
I had spent the past week traveling around Seoul’s gates to get used to the Twin Dragon Sword.
The result?
It was still heavy, but I had managed to swing the Twin Dragon Sword to some extent.
Whether it was swinging or flailing, the standards varied from person to person...
‘Am I getting the hang of it?’
It wasn’t baseless confidence.
I had managed to clear gates from D-1 to D-7 all at SSS rank.
It sounds easy, but it was an extremely difficult task.
When clearing gates, a ranking is displayed, and the highest, SSS, doesn’t appear easily even for lower-level gates.
The sword was still heavy, and I couldn’t freely swing it yet.
‘Well, I can always use Napoleon’s Rifle if needed.’
Since I didn’t only have the Twin Dragon Sword as an artifact, I felt a bit more secure.
Still, safety was the priority, so I avoided gates above D-rank.
I only had one life, and if I messed up swinging the sword, it could end badly.
Cautious hunting was the most important trait for a hunter.
“The rewards are decent enough.”
The low-level mana stones from D-rank gates wouldn’t make much money if sold.
But collecting them from Zone 1 to Zone 7 had added up to a nice amount.
In just a week, I had gathered 2 million won worth of low-level mana stones.
However, I couldn’t keep doing D-rank gates forever.
Twin Dragon Sword’s Quest (1)
Special Gate: Myeongnyang
─Free the Joseon navy.
[Difficulty: D]
[Status: Stable]
[Clear Condition: Twin Dragon Sword]
[Clear Time: 168:28]
[Reward: Yi Sun-sin related artifact]
“I guess I have to clear it.”
When I returned to the present, the status window showed a quest related to the Twin Dragon Sword.
There were several gates on the Korean Peninsula related to Yi Sun-sin.
‘Noryang,’ ‘Myeongnyang,’ and ‘Hansan.’
These were known as Yi Sun-sin’s three gates.
Hansan had been cleared, and Noryang was an unstable gate that needed to be cleared periodically.
But ‘Myeongnyang’ was a “non-clearable gate” that no one had been able to clear yet.
It was no wonder that even the top three guilds, Samdocheon, Yeomyeong’s Constellation Guild, and Cheonmu Moon, had given up on clearing it, and the country had also abandoned it.
Inside the gate, there were skeleton soldiers believed to have died during the Imjin War, and the surrounding seas had even formed whirlpools.
The Myeongnyang Strait had become a death zone for anyone trying to approach, all because of this Myeongnyang Gate.
That was why I had been hesitating to challenge it.
How could I clear a gate that even the country had given up on?
Still, the reason I was wavering was because of the quest difficulty.
[Difficulty: D]
D? Does that even make sense? ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com
D-rank gates are free pass areas where you just need to swing your sword to clear them.
Yet, the difficulty of Myeongnyang was D.
And the reward was an artifact related to Yi Sun-sin.
I wanted to challenge it after getting stronger, but the quest time seemed to be limited, so I felt pressured.
“Guess I have no reason not to go.”
Just one small step in, and if it’s too dangerous, I can always leave.
After some long thinking, I made a quick decision.
‘Let’s just try it out.’
Kim Ha-yoon, who passed the Trial Crown in second place, didn’t look happy.
‘Seolhwa Stone...’
She had missed the Seolhwa Stone, which was the reward for first place.
If this were just Kim Ha-yoon’s personal issue, she wouldn’t be holding onto the regret so strongly.
But the Seolhwa Stone wasn’t just important for her—it was something vital for South Korea.
Yeomyeong’s Constellation Guild needed Kim Ha-yoon to become stronger to clear the “Noryang” gate they were currently attempting.
Or at least, they needed an artifact that would help with the clear...
“Yoon-ha, calm down. I’ll find a way to get an Imjin War artifact.”
Yeomyeong’s Constellation Guild’s team leader, Hajinwoo, tried to comfort Kim Ha-yoon, but his expression wasn’t any better either.
That was because of the fact that Noryang was an ‘unstable’ gate.
Unstable gates were those that would “break down” after a certain period, causing monsters inside to spill out.
This phenomenon was known as Gate Break.
When Noryang broke down in the past, the disaster it caused was beyond A-rank gate-level.
The problem was that Noryang was a special gate only accessible to water attribute hunters, and Kim Ha-yoon was the core member of the expedition.
However, Kim Ha-yoon had failed every time she entered Noryang’s gate.
She had entered three times and failed every time.
Already, the media was full of criticism towards Yeomyeong’s Constellation Guild for failing to clear Noryang.
‘I need to find a water-attribute artifact somehow.’
If not, Yeomyeong’s Constellation Guild would be held accountable for the potential Gate Break at Noryang.
Special Gate: Noryang
Status: Highly Unstable
[Difficulty: A]
[Clear Time: 76:28]
There were only three days left before the gate broke down.
While Hajinwoo was nervously searching for artifacts on the market, a soldier burst in.
“Team leader! The Myeongnyang gate has been cleared!”
“What?! Myeongnyang?!”
Surprised, Hajinwoo opened his status window.
His eyes widened.
[Myeongnyang Gate Cleared]
[Clear Rank: SSS]
‘Who the hell...!?’
