"Let's go" Steve said before returning back to the main living area.
"Make yourself at home, there is a room down that hall to your left, it's yours. I'll be heading to bed" Steve said as a loud yawn escaped him
Ensuring that she was settled in, Steve finally went up to his room to sleep.
Today was too much on him, thankfully he had survived everything the time-dilated gate threw at him but God knew he wasn't stepping foot into another dungeon again.
Minus the time dilation and he had been in this world for only about a month and a few weeks but he had faced not one but two disastrous gate incidents.
It wasn't much but considering that those were life-threatening situations, it was weird and excessive that he had faced two of them in just a month.
After a brief moment of thinking, he soon fell asleep. The knowledge that he was now back within his own home made him feel safe.
….
Back in the Association building, the light still shone as various news vans could be seen parked outside it as more joined.
The event of today was too newsworthy to let it be as it was, the Chairman may have taken the victim of the gate away from them but the Chairman himself couldn't escape it.
"... I am in no place to reveal anything about him to you all until he states otherwise," Mr Go Gunhee said as the cameras flashed
As soon as he stopped speaking, all the journalists immediately began speaking as the place became noisy
"You" he pointed one of them out.
"Thank you, sir, we all understand that it is not your position to speak on behalf of this person but is there a possibility that they could be Korea's second and third National Level Hunters?... It is common knowledge that only National level hunters are able to clear S-rank gates alone but the two were able to clear an S-rank red gate which is dramatically worse than a normal S-rank gate"
"As much as I would love to just tell you that they are but unfortunately we still have no idea if they cleared it or if the gate was on some weird timer or they just needed to solve the puzzle of the gate to be let out so until a Re-evaluation is made possible, I refuse to comment on that," The chairman said shutting down all thoughts of it.
This was the best he could do for now until he was actually sure of Steve's situation.
Declaring him a National level Hunter was the only logical option because they had seen the monsters within that Gate through the images and videos Steve provided.
They had records that showed just how powerful they were, Mana measurements that declared them S-rank and above. Those were enough to go by but that was what he was afraid of.
The Gate recorded monsters with mana records that were beyond most National Level Hunters, the Tree monsters were all within the same parameters as him or above him.