The Omega Hunter (Solo Leveling)

chapter 25

Winter ended and it is now February. Jin-Woo didn't see Jin-Chul at all since their date- OUTING! He meant their outing! Nothing much happened after that other than the gates' lesser appearance.

It's just that Jin-Ho keeps whining at him that bouquets of roses keep arriving in front of Ahjin Guild's office ever since the three Hunters came there.

Therefore he just let Jin-Ho throw it out. It's suffocating.
(A/N: i feel bad for the person that sent the flowers. Poor them😂)

Suddenly, Jin-Woo felt an ominous sensation that brushes past his backside. It comes from the sky, Jin-Woo walks to the window of his room and looks out.

Jin-Woo spat out a gasp. Just how could a thing like that appear in the middle of the sky?!

He stares at the massive gate floating up high in the sky. Even the gate that spat out Kamish wasn't that huge.

Jin-Woo had seen a gate with a similar dimension before, within the 'data' the stone angel statue played for him back then. The massive size of the gate covering the sky above the city of Seoul was almost the exact match to the gate he saw within the data. Jin-Woo felt this shudder, a jolt, buzzing from the back of his neck.

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The emcee listened to the scientist's explanations with a gloomy, heavy expression, before asking him.

"Doctor, you have been researching the gates and monsters for a very long time, am io correct?"

"You're correct"

"In that case, can you tell us your opinion on what would be the smartest response we can come up with in this situation?"

The viewers watching their TV sets, leaned forward to pay closer attention to the good scientist's next words.

Unfortunately for them, what he said was something everyone could say too.

"We can only pray that this unprecedented event doesn't end in tragedy.
However, there is this one thing. One piece of news that can't be considered bad"

"What could that new be, doctor?"

"It's rather fortunate that the location of the gate just so happens to be South Korea where it is the home of one of the greatest Hunters. Someone who already stopped a couple of world-ending calamities all by himself.

Yes, I'm talking about Hunter Sung Jin-Woo, who has removed every single ant monsters from Jeju Island and killed all the Giants in Japan. He may be an Omega, but he had shown us his capabilities that even exceed the Alpha Hunters.

If he can't stop that Gate, then no Hunter alive will be able to do so either. And that is why, when viewed from the world's perspective, we should be thankful that the first gate to open up is in South Korea.

What I'm saying might come across as cold-hearted and callous, especially when Korea is facing a grave crisis, but the truth is, the world doesn't need to feel pity for the Korean people"

That speech alone has made people put their fate on Sung Jin-Woo in hope he can clear the gate. And that hope too has put a burden on Jin-Woo's shoulders.

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Jin-Woo riding on the back of his shadow dragon, Kaisel, flies closer to the gate. Once he got near its bottom, the damn thing look more like an endlessly-stretching lake rather than an actual gate.

What an overwhelming size it was.

Above his head, in the distance where his hand could reach the gate, with its maws wide open towards the ground below, floated in eerie silence. The portal's surface was still blocked off by the black screen so he couldn't see what its inside looks like.