Hellbents
Chapter 22: The Gate

This time Ava accidentally left River, her morning sport was replaced. Hitching a ride on a merchant train that wanted to get out of Englerock, Ava reached the gate she had seen three days ago. There were only about a dozen people there, minus two guards who prevented someone from entering accidentally or observing the state of the gate so that there was no outbreak.

Ava signed up with a fake identity that she still holds. One of the staff looked at him long ago, doubtful. Perhaps deciding not to care, finally a piece of affidavit was given for him to sign.

Party A is not responsible for anything that occurs within the gate.

Party B agrees to give 10 coins as admission to party A as an administrative fee.

If party B decides to surrender and return before the closed gate access, coins received by party A can not be returned.

Three short statements. Ava was fixated for a moment on the first clause. That is, even if there is a murder in the gate, if there is no evidence then only the statement of the survivor will be taken by the authorities. Given every time the conquest succeeded the gate, the existing one would be reset by itself, so the corpse or trace that could be evidence was erased without remainder.

The perfect place to commit crime.

Very practical. Ava smiled inwardly, her black eyes glittering at the glowing writing on the transparent screen above the three-meter-high yellow gate.

Suddenly a man poked his shoulder, but turned to see that he did not know the man. Yellow teeth with thin-haired heads, "Alone, Miss?" his eyebrows that were as thick as caterpillars wriggled as he asked. Ava did not like the greasy voice of the stranger.

Name: Brady Harding

Race : Human

Level 9

Coins :143

Power :3

Speed: 2

Duration : 2

Where :5

"My friends will join." Ava lied easily as if breathing air. He wanted to be alone this time. After all, from the look of the man's eyes that always aimed at his chest, Ava was sure that his intentions were not good, plus this person's lousy status would not help him in the least.

"Oh, then accompany Brother first." Your jealous brother. He's the type who doesn't understand the subtle code turns out.

"Please don't bother me, I'm busy preparing myself." Just in case, Ava had been wearing blond wigs and makeup that changed her sweet face to be sharper, so even if her opponent was an important figure who was petty, she would not be able to recognize him anymore.

As expected, the man's face instantly flushed red, his frail ego hurt by a girl he considered weaker than him. "******! How dare!" He almost floated a hand, but it didn't, probably because the two guards known to be higher level than the gate being guarded looked intensely at them. "See you, be careful at the gate later, 'cause I'm gonna go after you." Then he left after saying what he wanted.

"Come by, but make sure you won't regret it later," Ava whispered lowly, even if she yelled that she would only add to the attention that was on her, that person would not obey either.

"Okay, the registration process is complete. Please enter the gate one by one!" The time has come.

Ava chose a position almost behind herself. The surrounding people gossiped to each other while glancing stealthily at Ava, probably thinking that she was afraid of the man from the incident, but let them speculate.

He still did not know if the existence of a bug like himself could enter or not in the gate. Will he be rejected, rejected? Or did he manage to enter but the existing gate would change? Then even if nothing happens, will his name be censored like his status window on the contribution board? Ava crossed her fingers.

Turn's coming. He took out a knife from his inventory to get ready. The girl tried to put her hand in first, could. His sensation was familiar, just like the first time he came to this fantasy world. Numbness.

Ava jumped in. A blinding light struck him, but a moment later he rested on solid ground, surrounding a dense forest.

It's succeeding.

All players could only come out if it had killed a total of 100 blue slimes.

Now, based on the information sheet that was spread earlier, the blue slime is a type of slime that relies on water attacks to fight, the average level is 7. If the total to be hunted was 100, then each of the people who had entered had at least killed 8 monsters.

Blaques! Blaques!

It just so happened that a hunk of live solid mucus was jumping up and down towards Ava along with her muddled voice.

Time hunting.

Still not half an hour, Ava had already gotten 11 blue slime balls. At this point, what Ava did was more worthy of being called a massacre.

His clothes were half wet due to the attack of water that over time made him itchy. But he still intends to continue, because with so many more materials that he can use or sell.

Tens of minutes passed, his inventory dominated by the color blue. After checking, he can still open a system store, because he had heard there are gates that do not allow access to any system, even inventory. Maybe because low-level gates do not require too tight restrictions so it makes no difference when Ava is inside the gate or outside.

Suddenly, Ava heard a greasy voice that she had not long remembered. "Oh, we meet again" said the man, his bad intentions clearly displayed on his dirty face.

"[Fire ball]!" Even without waiting for a reply from Ava, the flame formed as big as a ping pong ball in her right hand. But Ava lightly dodged, the man's throw was too pitiful, even the blue slime was more reliable to aim at than him.

Now, replace Ava who attacked. He ran, just a few steps long the distance between him and his opponent was thinning. One blink he had in front of his eyes.

The man widened, shocked at the speed Ava showed. "You-you-!" Before even forming a sentence, he was slapped hard.

Plaque!

This time her cheeks were reddened not by anger, Ava's slap even tore the corners of her lips. Unknowingly, he retreated backwards. Conscious. Realize that he is bothering the wrong people.

"What did you call me? ******?"

Plaque!

"Then, after me? Are you sure you want to do that?"

"Ma-maa-"

Plaque!

His legs soon lost strength, the man fell down, trembling at the girl who was now looming like the specter of his nightmare.

Logically, this gate has a level 10 limit, meaning that there is only one level difference if Ava is stronger than him. But ... is this strong?

Does the status of the points only exist on strength?

But that girl was also very fast earlier.

"Pardon me!" Throwing away all self-esteem, he prostrated. The most important thing is to be safe first. To hell with dignity!

Ava stared at the sleepy man flatly with her forehead to the ground. Actually he did not receive any injuries from the man, so he could just let go now.

But the itching bothered him from earlier, fostering his sense of regret.

Plaque!