So one hidden quest for each gate… Where were the other gates then? Come on, lead me to them right away!

Of course I knew this would take much time for now. After all this gate didn’t appear until I cleared a fixed number of zones.

Or was it depending on the number of monsters killed? I couldn’t tell without testing.

I estimated that it took almost twelve hours for the gate to appear. If that continued, then I’d be able to get four gates per apocalyptic forty-eight hours a day.

Hopefully that wouldn’t affect things outside. I planned to not consider leaving here before getting as much skills as I could.

I used one glaive and got three skills, then what about the other two glaives I got. Would using these affect the skills I’d get or what?

I just hoped that the time difference would be high enough to let me have my fun here without worrying about anything else.

But I didn’t know that later on I’d laugh over myself here. Thinking like this was logical, but in time I realised it wasn’t right.

And the main reason behind this was one word; the dungeon.

As I couldn’t get any skill out of this gate, it was time to try and open it. I tried to push the doors open using my strength, thinking that by unlocking the hidden quest things would be much easier here.

But the doors didn’t even budge an inch. I took back my heavy glaive and tried to hit the gate with no effect.

“Let’s test the new skills over you then,” I looked up at the gate and felt more intrigued and excited to try the skills over it.

If this failed, then I’d have to forget about the gate for now and head towards another zone to clear it.

“Heavy Blow!” The first skill I decided to use was the one that would turn my glaive into a wrecking ball. As I said it, I felt my glaive burning with red gas and its weight raised slightly.

But I was already waving it when I activated the skill. The moment it touched the gate, a loud bang occured and for the first time… That gate shook.

But it was all this. The gate shook and that was enough to wipe clean the dust stuck over its doors.

And in the next moment, I looked at the drawings with surprise.

“This…” the drawings over the two doors were telling a story. I could see lots of small beings drawn, fighting among each other.

After scanning the drawings for a few minutes, I finally saw something familiar.

“Aren’t those… Bulltors?” I came closer to the side where a bulltor similar to one of mine was there. He held a sledgehammer, just like my bulltors.

It seemed using this weapon ran through their veins. I smiled when I saw this, and soon enough I saw more familiar races.

Even humans were there. The most noticeable thing here was that each race was described by just one drawing. And all races were fighting among each other.

In the middle of all this mess, I saw a big sphere releasing rays all around. I stepped back for a few metres to be able to see the full mural.

“So… The system is described as this big star, releasing its rays and driving everyone to fight?” The rays all ended up linked to one race. So I got this idea before noticing something else.

This sphere wasn’t in the middle of the gate, but at the top zone of it. Half of it was engraved over one door, giving me an idea.

“To enter the gate, I have to crush the system?” I muttered before returning backward for extra ten metres, held my glaive with both hands and took a deep breath.

Then I ran.

As I crossed half the distance, I jumped. It was a distance of twenty metres, but I was able to cross only half of it.

Then my glaive crossed the remaining distance while I shouted:

“Heavy Blow!”

*Boom!*

*Creak!*

Just as I thought, the doors of this gate finally showed a movement. Yet it seemed I had to wait for another minute before hitting it again.

The doors only moved a few inches apart, not enough for me to squeeze myself inside. So I started hitting it and waited, kept doing this for five more times before the gate was fully opened.

“At last,” I looked at the pitch black inside of this gate. I tried to see through this darkness with my hawk eye skill, yet failed to see anything at all.

“Well… I’m already here and I have nothing to fear,” I said to myself, making up my mind about what to do now.

Just as I stepped inside that darkness, I felt like entering into a new world.

“Damn! Isn’t this…” I looked back but found no sign of that gate.

What lay in front of me was a hexagonal vast basin, with many bull monsters looking at me in vigilance.

Wait… Did that mean that… the previous zones belonged to one of the gates? So each gate is held inside a group of such basins and tree border zones?

Interesting… but I couldn’t be sure until I’d give it a go first.

Armed with my previous experience, I started my killing spree here. The first zone was wiped out easily in half an hour. Then I started to claim all my loot.

“These monsters… They felt a little stronger than the previous ones.”

Despite killing them fast and without any challenge, it felt weird. These monsters were slightly stronger than the ones I killed before.

But the difference wasn’t that much for me to worry about. As I ended collecting the loot, I stopped in front of the tree zone, thinking about summoning monsters.

“I didn’t need to waste my soul points for now,,” I muttered to myself while inwardly sighing.