A loud roar was heard throughout the city of Fukushima, everyone was shocked upon hearing that including myself. The voice sounded from the direction the S-Rank portal was located. All the hunters immediately moved out of the camp to see what was happening.
I also rushed outside to see what was going on there, right after I exited the camp I saw that the S-Rank portal was resonating. The red color of the portal seemed to radiate outward, and around the portal there was a tremendous mana fluctuation.
I'm not sure what's going on since it's my first time seeing an S-Rank portal. The division chief immediately went to report the current situation to the others. I don't know what will happen so I have to be vigilant.
"Activate Necro Eye." I activated the necro eye to see information about the portal.
[Portal 107]
[Type : Demon]
[Mana Density: Very High]
[Amount : ???]
[Damage : High]
[Mana overflowed too much, portal 107 enlarged]
W-what?! The portal is enlarged? No way, doesn't that mean it's going to get even more difficult! I haven't even encountered an S-Rank portal once, and now this S-Rank portal will be enlarged. And also what - fuck the amount of mana around the portal.
The mana density on this portal should only be high. But now that it has increased to very high, it means that the strength of the monster inside is also stronger. I also don't know how strong the level of this information I got is, but at least I know that the power has increased.
Damn, the portal is slowly expanding as I can see with my necro eye.
"Damn what happened to that portal?!"
"Why does the portal look so big?!"
Many hunters around me started to panic after seeing the portal enlarge. It was natural, because fighting S-Rank portals was very difficult and now they were enlarged.
So far, hunters around the world prefer to hold S-Rank break portals rather than complete the portal by entering it, the reason is simple because it is easier to withstand monster attacks that come out in fields we already know. In addition, we can collect a lot of hunters to hold the portal break.
But I'm really curious about what's inside that S-Rank portal. As far as I know, only American hunters have ever entered the S-Rank portal and that has only happened once.
And they need the strength of 17 S-Rank hunters to complete the S-Rank portal. They managed to clear the portal but they also suffered a lot of losses.
If I'm not mistaken, more than 50 A-Rank hunters died and around 80 other hunters were injured. In addition, S-Rank hunters other than Elliot Hart and Dan Gaines were injured. It proved that the S-Rank portal had extremely terrifying power.
Now at this place even though we won't finish this S-Rank portal directly, but to withstand the portal break from this portal we need quite a lot of strength.
Right now I will believe in the abilities of the S-Rank hunters from Japan and Korea. Even though I am an S-Rank hunter, I still have to measure my strength among other S-Rank hunters.
"Lich do you know what happened to this portal?"
"It seems that this portal has become stronger as the power of the monsters within it has increased."
"What do you mean?! How is that possible?!"
"Of course it's very possible, the monsters inside can change or be strengthened due to certain situations."
"What kind of situation do you mean?!"
"I don't know myself, besides can you stop screaming."
"I'm sorry, I'm too confused right now."
Damn, there's a lot I don't know. How can I understand the current situation at this rate.
The portal break should happen in 2 weeks, and we still have time to prepare ourselves for this portal. But I don't know what kind of preparations we should prepare to fight this portal. It makes me very dizzy when I think about it.
Slowly the mana around the portal began to fade and the pressure also weakened, it seemed the portal had stabilized. I'm not sure, but it should be fine for now.
I look around me and it seems my guild members aren't around here, I have to tell them a few things about this.
"Hunter Lee Won Myung!" When I heard that I immediately looked back.
"Ahh.. Pyon Hee-Ra, what's wrong?" It turns out to be Pyon Hee-Ra.
"I just wanted to say hi to you since you're here too."
"That means you've seen what happened to the portal?"
"Of course! To be honest it was really scary but now it's back to normal."
"Yeah that's right, we have to prepare ourselves for what happens next."
"That's right! Let's fight together!"
It relieved me to see he was okay after seeing what happened. After all he was an S-Rank hunter so he must be strong enough to handle this situation.
Then I went straight back to the camp to look for my guild members. And it looks like they are gathering there.
I don't know what they're talking about but their faces all look worried, I wonder what's going on. I went straight to them.
"What happened?" I asked curiously.
"Hyungnim didn't you see what happened to the portal earlier?" Ji-Hae answered me in a weak voice.
"Of course, everyone goes there. I didn't know you guys were there too."
"We were walking around the portal and suddenly there was a loud noise, and after seeing that we went straight back." Ji Won replied.
"Ohh so that's why I couldn't find you guys earlier. Then why do your faces look like that?"
"Isn't that obvious, the portal looks scary." Jae Yun replied.
"Relax, the portal has stabilized and I'm sure we can deal with it together. And you guys were also very excited when you came here, so you can do it!" I tried to encourage them.
But it didn't seem to work completely, the only ones that looked calm were Ji-Eun and Gabriel. Apart from the two of them the other members look scared and worried, I think I'll leave them alone for the time being.
Now what should I do, I don't know what kind of preparation I can make. I also don't know how to increase my abilities in such a short amount of time, but so far I've been able to gain a lot of information thanks to Necro Eye.
Will my skeleton army be able to withstand the monsters that will come out of the portal later. Now the number of skeletons I have is 61, this is quite a number. But against very strong monsters I'm not sure they can survive.
At least there's Luck, Diar, and Minos. I think they will be strong enough to fight strong monsters. But I'm not sure how long they can last, and I'm also a little curious if they can rank up again.
[Skeleton Status]
Name : Diar
Race: Trolls (Commander)
HP : 1000
MP : 50
Stats :
Constitution = 60
Strength = 55
Dexterity = 20
Intelligence = 15
Magic = 1
Endurance = 40
Skills:
None
Looking at Diar's current status it seemed that she had not undergone any changes. I'm not sure if anyone is higher than the commander or not because I've never had a skeleton stronger than them.
However they should be of great help in holding off that S-Rank portal later. Because the number of hunters here is only around 200 and it looks like there will be more monsters coming out of this portal after what happened to this portal just now.
At least I have to keep my guild members safe, since I brought them here I also have to protect them. I wish I could talk to the King of Darkness now, but it looks like the black orb still has a few weeks of cooldown left.
Now that I really can only rely on myself, at least I can use black aura to strengthen my abilities. And there is also S-Rank hunter Akiya Junzo who will participate in resisting this S-Rank portal attack.
I've never seen its power in person, but to be able to reach no. 12 in the order of the world's strongest hunters should have extraordinary abilities. In addition, Pyon Hee-Ra and Ryu Young Soo are also here to help.
Then I decided to walk to the area around the portal to have a look at the situation and conditions in this area. But nothing seems strange around here, everything looks normal and the city is very quiet because the residents have been evacuated to other places.
The only ones here are hunters and the Japanese national army, I don't know if bullet and bomb attacks will be able to hurt the monsters from the portal but it's worth a try.
In addition, their presence is also quite helpful because we are short of numbers.
Suddenly there was a commotion in front, it seemed there was a commotion between a hunter and a soldier. Why is this happening now, when the situation is bad and they are making it worse.
I tried to approach them to see what was going on, and I saw another soldier trying to separate them both.
"Soldiers like you are useless against monsters!"
"You are too arrogant young man, watch your words!"
"Let me show you!"
The Hunter was trying to attack the soldier, I rushed forward to stop it. And I held the hunter, because it was like this I immediately intervened to stop this mess.
"Stop this, there's no need to make any unnecessary fuss. You return to camp quickly!"
I spoke while letting out a bit of my aura to apply pressure so they wouldn't mess up again. After that they immediately disbanded and did not make a fuss about it anymore.
The Hunter has gone a bit too far but I won't care too much about it because at least for now the problem is solved. I hope this doesn't happen when the portal breaks later, they will mess things up.