Breaking Up With the Number 1 S-Class

3 – EX level skill [EPISODE – 0]

Gates have several levels of gates.

It is common to classify gates according to the degree of risk in English alphabets.

However, not all gates are like that, but there are special gates that are not alphabetized.

And those gates have one thing in common.

It’s just that they’re both filthy and dangerous.

Astaroth-class gate.

The above gate is also one of those special gates.

It is said to be the gate that was created at the very beginning when gates and hunters appeared in our world.

It is such a gate that countless hunters challenged this gate and saw fear and despair.

It is a gate for 1 person and the difficulty level is atrocious. If there is a little peculiarity, you will not lose your life even if you fail.

It is such a kind(?) gate that you can return to the original world even if you die here.

However, the fear of this dungeon is not that it takes lives.

If you die at this gate, that hunter will surely lose something.

it might be a memory

It could be your feelings.

It may be your own ability.

It can be your own body.

It is a gate where you will always lose something, and it is a gate that ordinary hunters will never challenge.

However, even so, people who challenge this gate appear every year.

The reason was the rumor that clearing this gate would give you an ‘EX-class skill’.

No one knows where the rumors come from, but there is definitely some truth to them.

It’s an EX-level skill that no one in the world has ever had, but if I clear the Astaroth-level dungeon, I think I can give you that kind of reward.

Besides, just clearing the Astaroth-level gate was the highest honor a Hunter could achieve.

But, that’s when you clear it…

“f*ck. What am I really doing?”

I continued to lament.

Now I feel like I’m burning up inside.

Because the gate I entered now was an Astaroth-class gate, and it was clear that I would never clear this gate.

In the first place, even Eunha Yoo, who was revered as the greatest genius hunter in the history of hunters with a long history, failed because of this Astaroth-class gate.

How can I, who is only A-rank, clear such a gate, and a hunter who retired once…

It was such a gate that it was so obvious that it would fail.

what do i do

f*ck. can’t be so lucky

I couldn’t help but blame myself for having such damn luck.

I just wanted to challenge the C-level gate.

Who would have known that I would enter the Astaroth-class gate, not even B-class or A-class…

It must have been a truly hopeless situation.

It’s unfair that I was kicked by my girlfriend, but why this happens to me is really bleak.

‘Haa… I have no choice but to go out and receive a penalty.’

In a sigh, I had no choice but to come to a quick, rational conclusion.

Obviously, if you leave the Astaroth-class gate, you will have a penalty of losing something, but you can’t help it.

There is no possibility of me clearing this, and I am in a situation where I have to give up quickly anyway.

It was obvious that I would lose something as a penalty, but I just hoped that I would lose something insignificant.

“I’m leaving.”

So I walked back to the gate I came from.

Because there was no point in being here anymore.

“Eh? Why aren’t you going out?”

But, strangely, it didn’t come out.

I walked out through the gate I came in, but it just went through, and it didn’t return me to the original world.

“I’m sure… you wouldn’t have said that…”

I felt puzzled now.

As a hunter, I also read about Astaroth-class gates in books.

Because of this, I knew some information about the Astaroth-level gate, but it was common to go out.

Although there is a penalty, it is such a gate that you can exit right away.

but it doesn’t go out

why the hell

Tring!

[You cannot leave the boss battle before the battle is over.]

While I was questioning that, I heard something like a message.

“No, what kind of boss fight is this? I didn’t catch a single mob?”

My doubts continued.

Certainly, there was a saying that you couldn’t get out of the boss fight in the Astaroth-class dungeon.

I remembered that.

But that’s what comes out when you catch all the demons of hell that number in the thousands.

These are the words that come out when you defeat thousands or tens of thousands of demon legions, each one with B- or A-level strength.

However, now I haven’t caught even a single ant, let alone a trash mob.

Why does the word “boss battle” appear to me?

The tone of the words didn’t fit at all.

I will turn

This is how I feel right now.

‘Nope. Is something strange?’

Thinking about that and making up questions, I looked around with a strange feeling.

“Are there any rubbish mobs?”

And I was embarrassed and found out one thing I hadn’t seen before.

It was because originally, thousands or tens of thousands of demon corps did not appear.

Usually, the first thing to do when entering an Astaroth-level dungeon is to catch it.

And the second thing to do is to defeat the 4 mid-bosses called the Four Heavenly Kings.

Defeating the boss called the Demon King was the last thing to do.

Now I’ve been skipping the first as well as the second.

Originally, this wide world should have been filled with demon corps, but now it was so quiet.

In this wide world, only I remained silent.

No, not alone.

“What is that?…”

Looking around, I discovered one more thing.

It was a creature in black armor, bleeding and lying on the ground.

When I got closer and checked, I couldn’t help but be surprised.

The figure of a gigantic demon with the head of a goat with black horns.

I know the identity of this I saw in the book.

‘Isn’t he the demon king?’

It was definitely a boss monster called the ‘Demon King’ who was in charge of the boss at the Astaroth-level gate that I had seen in the book.

That boss monster had fallen.

It was also lying on the verge of death.

The condition looked very serious. The wound was very severe.

The armor was already shattered, and blood was pouring through the shattered armor.

“Is it the wound you received from Eunha Yoo?”

But it was a familiar wound.

I recognized it at a glance. That those were the wounds that Eunha Yoo had inflicted.

When Yoo Eun-ha attacked the gate, it was a method that was mainly used against the boss, but it was a method of using the ice ability to break it and inflict undefensible damage.

It was almost identical to the wound that the body froze and cracked.

‘Couldn’t it be… did I enter the gate right at the point where Yoo Eun-ha failed to attack?’

I could have guessed it vaguely by this point.

What situation am I in right now?

I don’t know why this happened to me, but it didn’t make sense from the point of view that a C-class gate would become an Astaroth-class gate in the first place.

I really feel it, but it seems that hunters are always faced with sudden danger.

Looking at that demon king, I have a vague idea that Yoo Eun-ha was a monster.

I also think that saying that I have killed almost all the bosses I saw briefly on the news is not an empty word.

However, it didn’t seem to matter now.

wiggle!

“…”

I guess it just moved anyway?

I thought it was an illusion, but it was absolutely not an illusion.

As I was appreciating the demon lord, the demon lord began to move.

And there are signs that something is about to recover.

I couldn’t help but cool down.

“… Shall I kill you first?”

I bumped into the thought that if I left something alone, it would shovel.

Did you recover and suddenly try to kill me…?

I was faced with such a thought.

So I had to kill this demon king.

Conversely, before I get hit.

hooked

I took out the sword I had.

Then, I went close to the demon king and dealt the final blow to the demon king.

Fortunately, the demon king disappeared as black ash within a short time.

[The Demon King has been destroyed.]

once you catch your breath

And I started to hear a bunch of messages.

[You defeated the demon king of another world.]

[The goddess gives you thanks.]

[The goddess grants you an EX-level skill for defeating the demon king Astaroth.]

EX level skill?

oh Come to think of it, I said that attacking Astaroth-class dungeons will give you EX-class skills, right?

I listened to the message with excitement.

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[Peak of Humanity: Hero]

Rank: EX

Effect: As a hero who defeated the demon lord, the following abilities are granted to the owner of the skill.

1. All physical abilities are greatly increased overall.

2. Immune to all status ailments.

3. Immune to all diseases.

4. All growth rates are tripled.

5. All growth limits are removed.

6. A goddess watches over you.

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“What is this. What is this cheating skill?”

I could tell at a glance.

That the skill I had is a ridiculous scam skill.