Planet: Earth
Life begins in various ways, grows, evolves and flourishes. Earth birthed many spawns, but the most splendid of them were the humans.
Not only were they the unrivalled Apex predators, but they were also a beacon, a flag post for Earth's conquest. As they reached Mars Earth couldn't help but smile with glee, her spawns were conquering the universe in her name.
What could be better?
However, its happiness did not last long, an extinction event occurred, Earth knew it was due, had prepared for it, however was she truly ready? She could only hold her head down.
As rifts opened to the other dimensions, and other civilization connected to itself, Earth understood, the biggest test of its life had begun, this was not a solo extinction event instead it was a joint one! With her at its Centre! How could the universe be so unfair!?
As quickly as she could, she started siphoning power from her core, distributing it among her children. Systems, all and every kind. She had mass produced the "Hunter" system in the hundreds of millions. But the one's she'd made with her own hands were only few. She would have to carefully choose who to give them to.
Her children were not prepared yet, but her enemies were. Orc, goblins, kobolds, skeletons, trolls, demons and all manner of beings burst through the gates and massacred her precious seedlings, poisoning her soil in iron.
However, the worst was not over yet, A Venom Dragon descended after a SS rank gate break. It wilted her crops and ruined her wishes, poisoned her lungs and melted her skin. What could she do? She had held onto her strongest system, the culmination of her desire to live, not with invaders, but her own spawn.
However, the target of her hopes was but a child, a sweet child named Roma, she saw the potential that seedling had, she wished to nurture it bloom it into a dazzling crop. But she couldn't wait, time was against her, so with a bitter heart she requested help from her twin.
She took the best potential from her twin's, she chose a being who couldn't see the world except through his hospital window and anime, a useless potential for her twin but his soul could be used by herself. She hadn't manually reincarnated anyone before, but she had to do it now.
She gave the soul the courtesy by speaking to it, calming it and allowing it to make changes to its system. What did she get in return? Attitude, the soul cursed the gods and her, she hadn't even seen any gods, why did he drag her into it? The soul even promised to kill the gods and become supreme ruler of the heavenly realm, wasn't he delusional!?
With a sullen face and sour heart, she reincarnated him.
However, disappointed as she was at using a foreign seedling, she persevered, at least the boy killed the dragon and brought peace. She had thought that boy would truly be her salvation.
But she was wrong, soon enough he started growing his harem, with constant infighting in his women and his constant job as a hunter he became lax, irregular and impassionate. He had her precious system but wouldn't put it to rightful use. Wasn't he wronging her!?
When everything seemed stable, a new violet gate appeared, her children didn't know what to make of it, but she did. A violet gate...A dying planet. A probably a horde of desperate invaders.
It was given the X difficulty, as there wasn't anything known about it. However, hunter guilds that went inside, came out with a flat negative. There wasn't much danger inside other than chitinous bugs and underground creatures, the bugs were wolf sized monsters while all the big ones remained underground, coming out on rare occasions. Unlike the weak goblins, these monsters didn't even use traps or anything, making them easy pickings.
Burrowing monsters are not dangerous during dungeon break. As they don't cross over to Earth, so without them the violet gate would be barely considered E-Ranked instead of a C or X. It soon became a precious resource, because of its low difficulty and ample enemies, it was one of the best farming gates after slimes.
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After I turned 18, I left my family and joined the hunter association's American Branch, it was a once in a lifetime opportunity and I had to take it. Working for them for the last 4 years was tough, they had tougher expectations from a foreigner.
After realizing I had sacrificed my happiness and saved up enough, I resigned from the American branch, choosing to form parties locally in my own country. Korea lagged behind the other countries in number of gates. It only had 3 different kinds. But with a recent violet gate, Koreas popularity had boomed, it became one of the farming hubs in Asia. I as a Korean native couldn't miss this opportunity now, could I?
Thats why, I'm at the hunter association's recruitment section, searching for party members. It was an open field with multiple food stands, the atmosphere was buzzing with excitement.
Waving my hand to a couple of adventurers, I tried recruiting them, "Hello, would you like to be in a party with me?"
"No sorry, we already joined one" came a generic reply.
The whole day was similar, no one was willing to join. Joining a party was a big deal, you were putting your life in the hands of a stranger, it was a given people would be picky and with her European looks, courtesy of her father, Korean hunters were more suspicious of her.
After an unfruitful day, Roma went home, she wasn't too rich, but had made a substantial income and could afford her own house and 3 warm meals daily.
Lying on her bed, Roma thought about the events of today. She was used to discrimination at the American branch, but seeing the same in her own country was disheartening. Not only was she a woman but also a suspicious foreigner in her own country.
Scrolling through her phone on the hunter's forum, she saw an interesting conversation.
[Chillybug2421]: Hey did you hear about the Ruins in that C-Ranked farm gate?
[Avatar00001]: O you mean tht E-Ranked one hahaha, Tht gate is L, only good for farming. Ruins prolly gonna have trash aswell.
[User1111111]: I heard the Association will open up recruitment tomorrow, its gonna be a big raid, something like...90-100 hunters.
[Avatar00001]: That many!?!?!? Bruh, how will they divide the profit, profit gonna be measly for 100 hunter. Wow a government funded scam.
[Chillybu2421]: I just searched, the reward has a minimum cap...of....get ready u gonna be shocked.
[Chillybuh2421]: 500,000 American Dollars!!!!!!! and they aren't paying in yen or won, instead in USD to encourage international participation!
[Avatar00001]: Bruh, how did our government get this much money? My streetlamp hasn't been fixed for a year...they sure like to waste money.
[Chillybug2421]: Do you think our government would spit out that much money? It's the Americans, they like to throw money. I heard they will also get most of the loot from this Raid.
[Avatar00001]: Doesn't that mean it's a loss for us? We will lose our national resources!
[Chillybug2421]: What do I care, that's the governments problem.
[Avatar00001]: True, were just peasants, but hey how will they select the hunters?
[User1111111]: Honestly don't know, prolly gonna do a competition or something?
[Chillybug2421]: No high-level hunter would participate in such competitions we'll have to see what the government comes up with next.
Reading the conversation, Roma searched through the internet on information about the Violet Gate Raid.
She could only find theory's, possible strategies and members, but nothing fruitful. Deciding to give up, she turned to sleep, drifting of as soon as she closed her eyes.
The next day, the Violet Gate Raid turned out to be true, the hunter Association's American branch and the Korean Branch would be leading a joint Raid into the Violet Gate, the first ever large Raid. It was expected that participation would be crowded but...the conditions were too rough.
The Raiders would have to stay inside the Gate for at least 1 year, while their reward would be based on their findings, every relevant discovery would give a bonus on the 500k minimum cap. The bonus money method was a good way to make the Raiders search thoroughly.
Money was good but a year inside of a gate was unheard of, the most anyone ever stayed inside was 7 months. Not many were willing to risk it, even if it was a C-Ranked one. Especially because you can't put stat points into stats when your outside Earth, they could only level up but could not get stronger without visiting Earth to increase stats.
After the competition became unexpectedly small, Roma was able to easily join, it wasn't that she was not intimidated about staying a year, but what was she to do? she was a hunter not because of money but as a passion. And what could be a grander adventure other than staying a full year inside a gate. It was a once in a lifetime experience which she could even tell her grandkids.
When the D-day arrived, Roma came equipped with all her hunter gear. She had a Great Axe in one hand and a Battle Axe in another. Her armor was non-existent, as a Barbarian the less she wore the stronger she got, it was a tradeoff in armor for strength thanks to having [Barbarian's Courage]. In only her bra covering her B cups and a spartan skirt she would've look kind of slutty if not for her muscled body. She was not your average beauty, her body had been trained through extreme exercise, she was a rare female with a strength build, looking like a gym bro.
With a good height of 5'10 and her muscled body, she looked intimidating. However, her beauty was not lost, she still had her father's electric blue eyes Aswell as her mother's silky black hair and beautiful face. Her body still looked like a female and didn't lose its natural shape, but every possible muscle was defined as much as it could be, in some way or another.
Upon arrival she drew many glances some filled with lust and others with curiosity. After socializing with a few hunters, she opened her status screen and added all her saved up stat points, as it wouldn't be possible for a year later.
[Name]: Roma Sinclair
[Title]: Chiseled Warrior(old)
Raged Warrior(new!) <+100 Rage>
[Age]: 22
[Level]: 228
[Class]: Barbarian
[Skills]: Barbarian's Courage(passive)-Fearless(passive)-Barbarian's Rage(Passive)-Disease Immunity(Passive)-Berserk-Rage Aura-Axe Throw- Overhead Slam-Daughter of the Dane Axe(Passive-Active)
Str: 160(+40) =200
Agi: 80
Dex: 100(+20) = 120
Mana: 40
[Exclusive Stat] RAGE:100(+200) =300
She had been saving up for this day, saving stats for the Rage warrior title, to get it you need to put 200 stats in rage to unlock Raged warrior which give 100 rage stats for free!
" Welcome hunters! This is the first ever gate exploration that will be held for a whole year, all of you standing here are champions of humanity who will make history" Boomed a voice from the speakers, turning about Roma focused on the LED screen which showed the speaker talking, he was the chairman of the Korean Branch, Minjoon.
Focusing the camera on the projection behind him, he started briefing the operation, nothing was told to the raiders before the D-day, all information was kept strictly in lock and key. So, Roma was obviously excited to hear the specifics.
"As all you probably know, a Ruin was discovered inside our Violet Gate, the hunters that discovered it tried to infiltrate but couldn't, we think the Ruin has the Dungeon gem, as all the monsters concentrated to that location, and attacked the hunters, no one here is green enough to not understand how precious a Dungeon Gem is"
Dungeon Gem also called the World Gem, there was only one in a world, its value was utterly priceless, even a trillion dollars wouldn't make anyone give it up. It had the power to create cities and skyscrapers in days. It had the gift of creation, power to make your own world. But the side effect is...the world which it belongs to loses it vitality.
The humans only acquired the Plaje Gem, and the disgusting planet has already lost millions of years of life. No one cares what happens to Plaje after all its home to Rats and Slimes.
Hearing the news about the World Gem, the hunters present couldn't believe it, how is this possible? A world Gem! How fortunate! Even if they only helped acquire a world gem...forget about 500k dollars...they'll be Billionaires!!! No wonder this wasn't told to anyone!
"The monster inside the gate are the same E-Ranked Zerglings, however be careful inside the ruins, we do not know what might be hiding" continued the chairman as he showed a picture of Zerglings, such...disgusting dog like creatures.
"Now then, prepare to go inside, we have sent 12 months of supplies for 200 people, food should not be a problem when your inside, we will send a monthly supervisor to assess your supply situation, remember your success is our success, the American Korean governments and their people are within your struggles, you will not be forgotten". Announced the Chairman solemnly, he knew it was a risk, 1 year inside a dungeon was a risky move, who know what kind of terror finally decides to attack, while the violet gate was easy...it was still a big planet who know what lives there? What could be living in the tar-colored Ocean? or the rocky ground beneath.
After preparing themselves mentally, the 100 hunters marched through the violet gate, it glowed brightly welcoming the visitors.