The Player Who Returned From The Apocalypse

Chapter 4

“Patient Seong-Jin Kim, you may be discharged from the hospital. However, you have just recovered, so please rest comfortably at home.”

“Yes, thank you.”

Hearing her doctor’s discharge from the hospital, Sungjin leaned her back slightly, expressed her gratitude, and stood up from her seat.

The doctors were all Awakened, so they could check the opponent’s status with a simple skill, so they knew it was normal.

And there was no place for a normal person here. Especially for an F-class hunter like myself.

Sungjin headed straight home on that road.

In her mind, she wanted to get a taxi and go quickly, but when she checked her wallet, the thought was gone.

A wallet containing one debit card.

When I checked the text messages at the hospital, I didn’t think there was a lot of money in it, considering the text messages that pushed for unpaid bills.

Countless times, she traced back her old memories and used the subway through bus transfers. She didn’t have to worry too much because the debit card had a postpaid transportation card function.

She said, ‘If it’s my old body, I don’t have to worry about this.’

With her old body, it was enough just to run.

In fact, there were many high-ranking hunters flying in the sky and jumping on the roof.

It was late at night when I got home. The house was located in Ansan, quite far from Seoul, where she had been transported.

Ansan is a disaster city among disaster cities, and gates often occurred here. Therefore, the family moved here because the rent was cheap and they needed money to save her mother.

A semi-basement in a dark, corner alley.

– smart.

Sungjin tried to press her doorbell, remembered that it was broken, and knocked. Her heart raced slightly at the thought of seeing her family except for her mother.

And after a while, she squeaked and the front door opened.

“Are you here?”

“Yes, Father.”

A father who greets him with a blunt expression.

It is not at all different from his own memory. The age spots on his face and bloodshot eyes indirectly indicated how tired and troubled he was.

However, in order not to show this and not to cause concern, he immediately turned his back and made his expression and tone heavy.

In the past, I did not understand this and did not treat my father friendly.

‘That left a very deep regret.’

Later, his father could not bear the fatigue of excessive work and died.

After his father’s death, Seong-jin looked at his hidden will and could see what he was thinking, living, and working with.

– Seongjin-ah, live a healthy life. When I die, you will be the father.

– I’m sorry for being an irresponsible and ugly father.

– I’m tired, so I’ll take a break first.

It was written as if he knew he would not live long. The contents of the written text are all sorry, happy.

It was impossible to imagine that the crooked writing was his usual pretty handwriting.

When he was young, he thought that his father was just a patriarch, but as his life did not get better, he felt that he was also feeling a lot of pressure.

Afterwards, his father volunteered to increase his workload, and it was learned that he did it despite the persuasion around him in order to earn more money. He sacrificed himself for his family.

“father.”

“It’s strange, why do you keep calling me? Come on in and eat. I ate first.”

Sungjin took off his shoes and went inside.

Inside, warm miso soup and warm rice were spread out.

“I wanted to cook for you.”

“The person who comes first cooks. Where is that? Eat quickly.”

“It’s not… Daddy eats it too.”

There was nothing to wash dishes in the dry sink that I saw as I entered. My father said he ate, but he couldn’t believe it.

“I ate a lot outside.”

With an obvious lie, the father tried to enter the room.

In fact, he was so tired that he wanted to go to sleep as soon as he got home, but when he heard that Seongjin was coming, he waited tirelessly for the table to be prepared.

My father went straight into the room and closed the door.

“You still do.”

It’s like a fight.

At this time, it could be.

When he just became a Hunter, his father had opposed him becoming a Hunter.

He had his Hunter rating of F. Awakened, but he wasn’t much different from the average person. The only difference was being able to use the system a little and being able to enter dungeons and gates.

They lacked the strength to fight monsters in the dungeon. He almost died this time alone, so he was taken to the Hunter Hospital.

But he couldn’t.

He thought that acting as a hunter was the only way he could help cure his mother’s illness.

The one who can earn the most money in a position like Seongjin is a hunter. Although the number of Awakeneds is gradually increasing, there are not many people who are active as hunters who risk their lives to fight monsters, and by paying that much money, even a low-ranking Awakened like myself could easily be active.

The same goes for putting her mother in the Hunter Hospital. It was because the government reduced the hospitalization fee if there was a hunter in the family.

For the same reason, my father forced me to become a hunter.

However, since parents always think of their children first, they tried to make them quit.

Seongjin sat down and drank soybean paste soup with a spoon.

“Big. Squeeze.”

He frowned and said.

Contrary to her hospital meal, the soup her father made was too salty to eat. It was my father’s tasteless soup that I ate in a long time. So he said he wanted to cook.

Even though Sungjin thought so, she continued to eat the soup. This was also a nostalgic fragrance.

She emptied the bowl so slowly and cleanly.

She picked up her smartphone to check the time. The time was approaching 10 in the evening.

“Should I prepare soon? There was a time when I was cleaning up at the hospital…”

Sungjin thinks so, and she takes an item from her inventory.

It was a very basic item, a ‘manastone’.

When you catch a monster, the monster’s corpse disappears slowly, dropping an item with a certain probability, and definitely dropping a manastone that matches the level of the monster.

Using manastones, it was possible to create new items, and it was also possible to use them as new energy.

So the Manastones were being sold at a high price.

Of course, depending on the grade of the Manastone, its value is tens of thousands of stars.

In the case of the manastone that Seongjin is holding now, it is the lowest level of F-grade manastone.

Judging from what was in the inventory, it appeared to be one of the spoils of the previous hunt.

And,

This manastone was not yet known at this time, but it was possible to use it for other purposes.

‘Gate open.’

Clap!

I didn’t even hold the magic stone strongly, but the magic stone was broken. And the space was distorted around it.

this is the gate.

It was the door leading to the space where the monster was.

It was possible to make a gate if there were manastones. That is also a gate that matches the level of the Manastone.

– I have to get stronger faster than before.

I had to catch a boss monster to break the curse placed on my mother, and I had to earn more money so that my father wouldn’t overdo it.

And more than anything else, when I think about the end of the future, I finally had to become stronger.

In your inventory, you wear an item that appears to have been worn by you in the past. The clothes you were wearing disappeared and items were worn.

Simple clothes and iron swords with no stats.

It was the cheapest item offered by the Hunter system.

If you enter a dungeon or a gate with a non-item item, the item will be shattered, so even if it is cumbersome, there is nothing you can do.

Sungjin finished all preparations and threw himself into the gate.

shoot-

Gate swallowed Seongjin’s body and disappeared as if it had ever happened.

***

As I entered the gate, my vision was full of darkness.

It wasn’t that he was blind or anything like that, but that his surroundings were completely unified in black. All she sees is her own self.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

By the time I was aware of everything, a familiar system message appeared in front of me.

[ You have entered the F-grade gate. Please select a quest. ][ 1. Survival (requires 0 Manastones of the corresponding gate grade) ][ 2. Return (requires 10 Manastones of the corresponding gate grade) ][ 3. Escape (Requires Quest Survival Clear and 100 Manastones of the corresponding Gate Grade) ]

‘There is no difference from before.’

Seongjin remembered the time when he opened the gate and entered this place the other day.

This is not the first time the gate has been opened. In the future, in order to distinguish this gate from the gate that appears in reality, this gate is called Hunter Gate, and the real side is called Monster Gate.

The method of opening the Hunter Gate was known when Seongjin belonged to the B rank, and although it was groundbreaking, it spread very slowly.

In order to open the Hunter Gate, you have to do the crazy thing of breaking the manastones of your level or higher with your own hands, and you have to do this quest, because dying while completing this quest was a lot of money.

There is also the option of returning, but for this you have to sacrifice 10 mana stones.

At that time, there were not many people who carried multiple manastones in the environment, and they had to use manastones higher than their level, so the value of the manastones they owned was very high.

There weren’t many hunters who could easily choose this.

Escape is out of the question.

So, there was only one choice in the first place.

“To survive.”

[ You have accepted the survival quest. ][ The field changes. ][ Survive inside the gate for 2 hours. ]

The place where the whole world was black has completely changed. To the lush green forest.

“It’s a little better this time. I used to be locked up for days.”

As the difficulty level is different, the time also seems to be different.

Still, they had something in common.

Aww- kunk kung! With the howl of the wolf, the monster began to appear from behind the tree.

not one or two At first glance, there seemed to be more than ten, and the number continued to grow.

“After all, one quantity is to be killed.”