Chapter 76: East Sea Gate
-Kwarrung! Bang bang!
The loud thunder, the high waves and the rainstorm hit together but Ha-ri was not so strong-hearted that she wouldn’t be bothered by this situation.
“Kyaahhh! Up! Up!”
The rainstorm hit and Ha-ri couldn’t open her eyes.
“Save meeeeee…!”
What happens if the waves hit like this? If lightning strikes? Doesn’t lightning usually hit the lightning rod first?
Leon’s voice was heard in her ears, which were covered by anxiety and typhoon noise.
“Hehe, you lack faith. But, it seems that Poma likes you, so he forgives some of your disbelief.”
“Don’t forgive me! Please, let me down!”
“Calm down. Entrust your body to the sea. Then the endless nature will embrace you.”
“Your, Your Majesty! I am …!”
I want to live right now!
The words she was about to spit out were blocked by the rainstorm.
“Calm down. We are in the middle of a typhoon right now. But then, isn’t it strange? Why doesn’t a single wave hit you.”
“Huh?”
At that, Ha-ri slowly opened her eyes and blinked them at the sight that unfolded.
“The waves are …”
The fierce whirlwind that hit from afar, the huge waves that did not invade the ship at all.
“Poma is calming the waves with the power of the sea through the goddess of the masthead.”
“Is that true?”
That’s such a deep meaning. I thought it was because he was a racist.
“Ah!”
Snap! The rope came loose as Ha-ri broke the knot because she was shaking and struggling.
“Ack!”
Ha-ri fell on the deck, grabbed her sore butt and made a sour expression. And right at that moment──
-Kwarrung! Bang bang!
-Kwaaaaaaah!
-Kwaaaaaaah!
As Ha-ri fell from the masthead the ship began to shake and even a dull person would know that this change was due to Ha-ri falling.
-…
-…
Everyone’s eyes turned to Ha-ri.
-Not going?
Ha-ri twisted his face in tears.
“You can tie me again…”
In the end, Ha-ri hung on the masthead again with Leon’s help and the waves calmed down.
-Kwaaaaaa!
The waves hit the Arleigh Burke ship along with thunder strikes.
“Kee … Great being. The ship will flip over at this rate!”
[It’s a mess!]
It was too much to break through this typhoon and head to the gate. But there was no choice.
To quickly close the gate, he had to leave at the same time as the Korean attack team that left first.
“Damn, why do those bastards look fine?”
“Holy shit! Those crazy Koreans. They hung people!”
The US Navy sailors looked incredulously at Gwanggaeto the Great, who was sailing without shaking even in this storm.
The Wisdom Jewel shouted.
[Tell the captain to chase that ship’s tail right now!]
“What?”
[If you don’t want to see the ship sink, do as I say!]
Reynald listened to the wisdom jewel and ordered the captain to chase after Kwanggaeto.
Even though he was an admiral of an Aegis ship in the U.S. Navy, he couldn’t oppose Reynald, and the ship stabilized surprisingly well as he chased after Kwanggaeto.
“My God…what is this…….?”
[He’s using the power of the god of the sea and waves! Ships protected by that god reap bountiful catches and don’t sink in stormy seas!]
“I see…”
Reynald swallowed his next words.
“Well, with this kind of cruising in this typhoon, we should be there in no time.”
[Remember, what you have to do is very important!]
The ships sailed through the typhoon and arrived at their target coordinates, where they heard the message.
[Here is Arleigh Burke and we have unfortunate news. It seems that the Murasame-class Haejae who sailed from Sasebo has been overturned by a storm and is being rescued.]
Haejae failed to break through the typhoon and sank. In other words, it meant that one-third of the power had evaporated before the raid started.
[This is Gwanggaeto the Great. We will proceed with the operation. We will enter the gate from now on and board the attack team on a boat.]
The two ships boarded hunters on rubber boats and their goal was the gate towering in the middle of the vast sea.
“We are now entering the gate.”
The black boats rowed in unison toward the gate and light wrapped them up.
My arm hurts.
Kwaa, kwaa~ The water rushing in wet my clothes.
“Hmm …”
Ha-ri licked her mouth, which kept flicking with water … The saltiness of the sea hits her taste buds.
“Eek! Salty!”
Ha-ri got up in a hurry and shook off the sand that stuck wetly and opened her eyes that had been submerged and saw a red sunset over the horizon.
‘What, half a day has passed?’
Ha-ri grabbed her head with a throbbing headache and recalled her memory before fainting.
“As soon as I entered the gate, a whirlwind …”
The rubber boats of Korea and America that entered were all overturned and swept away.
Ha-ri’s complexion turned pale.
“Where are they all?”
Ha-ri looked at the other hunters lying on the sandy beach. Most of them were familiar faces.
“Soo-ho! Wake up!”
“Hmm …”
“Sister?”
As Ha-ri shook him, he gradually opened his eyes. The students and soldiers were here but there were more people who were not visible.
‘Where is His Majesty? Where is Yappy? Where did the American hunters go ?!’
Ha-ri hurriedly asked the people around her.
[Calm down. Everyone will be safe.]
“Who!”
She was startled by a voice and turned around, but all she saw were fallen students.
“Ghost?”
[Here.]
She cautiously approached where the voice was heard but there was only one small turtle.
[Here.]
“Tu, turtle?”
The turtle, which was small enough to be placed on Ha-ri’s shoulder, looked at her with a blank expression and Ha-ri asked cautiously.
“Are you … Poma?”
[Yes, my goddess. I sent my avatar for your salvation.]
“Avatar…?”
Ha-ri had seen the avatars of the beast gods at the Jeju Island gate.
A huge iron monkey. That beast god was truly a giant worthy of being called a god, but the god of the sea and waves in front of her was…
“Small.”
[Oh, this! You can’t even bow down when you see the divine body, let alone!]
Ha-ri was stunned by the small turtle’s anger, and didn’t know whether to be afraid or not.
“By the way, you said everyone would be safe, do you know what happened?”
[As soon as you entered here, I pushed them to land safely with the power of the waves. I couldn’t stop them from scattering, though.]
Ha-ri marveled at Poma’s power that protected everyone from dying there.
“Wow, you’re amazing.”
[But it’s inconvenient to move with this body. Put me on your shoulder.]
“Uh, yes …”
Ha-ri put Poma’s avatar on her shoulder. The small turtle yawned and pushed his head into his shell.
“Poma?”
[…]
No response. Ha-ri didn’t bother to wake Poma, wondering if she was sleepy, and…….
-Dadak dadak!
A strange sound of footsteps was coming from the inside of the island and Ha-ri, who witnessed it, shouted with a pale face.
“Everyone get up! Get up quickly! Monsters!”
Huge crab-shaped monsters that reached 1.6m rushed in with their huge claws clanging.
“Uh, why now when I’m out of my mind …!”
Ha-ri immediately took a stance and drew her sword. Not everyone who was shipwrecked had woken up yet so she needed to buy some time.
-Tadak!
Sparks flew from Ha-ri’s sword. She intended to block the monsters with her maximum firepower, a unique skill called Fire Blessing, but …
“Huh?”
Something impure got into the flow of magic that she squeezed out of her body.
-Splash!
A stream of water poured over the flames and the fire went out.
“Huh?”
What’s wrong with this? Poma looked at Ha-ri’s bewildered face and said.
[The goddess who … receives the blessing of … the sea and … the waves … why does she need … fire …]
“Huh?”
What does that mean?
She couldn’t use her fire magic anymore because of the blessing she received from Poma.
“I can’t use fire?! Oh, no! Give it back! I don’t want to be Poma’s goddess!”
[No. I don’t intend to give it back….]
Ha-ri’s scream echoed widely on the sandy beach.
The US attack team was also swept away by the whirlwind that occurred as soon as they entered the gate.
“Phew … It was bad luck to have this at the entrance.”
[But thanks to that, we got away from that monstrosity.]
While Reynold and Wisdom Jewel voice were relieved, the US hunters who were part of the attack team approached.
“Thirty-eight people confirmed, sir.”
Minitman, ranked 8th in Maverick, a super-large guild representing North America. He was a 2m tall giant S-class hunter picked by Reynold for this job.
“Do you have any idea how many people are left?”
“This is my first time doing this but I’m sure they’re holding their own.”
“And the ‘natives’?”
“There’s been a commotion, so they’ll be approaching. Oh, there they are.”
-Dadak dadak!
-Dadak dadak!
As Minitman said, giant crab-shaped monsters were pouring out of the forest but the Maverick guild members quickly took up combat positions considering they were stranded on an island.
“It’s time to work, bastards. Let’s clean up quickly and start constructing the base.”
Reynold didn’t have to bother them and under Minitman command, the Maverick guild members slaughtered monsters like killing machines.
“Then build a base and rest. I’ll go inside the island for a while.”
“Do you need an escort?”
“I’m fine.”
Reynold left the Maverick guild members on the coast and headed inland.
He is a powerful magician representing North America. He is not a weakling who will die in such a gate without a hunter’s escort.
In fact, some crab monsters attacked him in the middle, but they died by Reynold magic.
“Wake up.”
Reynold poured evil magic into the monsters. Then they wriggled as they became undead and got up.
“Guide me to the statue.”
The crab monsters took the lead at Reynold’s words and because the island was quite small, he was able to get to where he wanted in no time.
“This is …”
[It’s the statue I was looking for. You have to find more of these!]
The statue Reynold found was a huge statue with an alien shape.
An artifact that feels like something that would come out when excavating ancient civilizations ruins.
An ordinary person would have sensed traces of civilization here, but Reynold sensed a tremendous power from the statue.
“Then──”
At the moment Reynold reached out to the statue──
“Wait …!”
A voice that stopped him echoed.
* * * *
Yappy, which had been swept away by the whirlwind, could barely function due to the seawater that entered his body.
Although Yappy is an ultra-high-performance, multi-role vehicle, it was not designed to be used in the sea, so it was not saltwater-treated.
However, thanks to the waterproofing of critical components and a self-diagnostic program that triggered when the system went down and decontaminated it, he was able to get it back up and running quickly.
-What?
The first thing Yakt Spinner sees after booting up is a bunch of monsters.
-Yuck! Yuck, yuck, yuck!
-Squeak!
When Yappy opens his eyes, he sees a group of claws pacing back and forth in a cheerful manner, their paws raised high in the air, rejoicing in his every move.
-What?
He couldn’t tell at first but Yappy realized he was being held in a primitive cocoon nest, piled high.
He must have been rescued by these crabs.
-Ugh!
Yappy scratched his head and spoke up, and the crabs cheered.
-Squeak, squeak, squeak!
-Giggle!
