Shiro: The Secret Hero
33. The Gate

Perhaps because this was the first time for Shiro and the others to enter the Gate. The three of them were silent for quite a while, they were busy looking around the surroundings inside the Gate. They were busy admiring the view.

"Senpai, is this really the Gate that is under the responsibility of the Yuki Family ?" tanya Shiro was quite alarming.

"Right, beautiful isn't it ?"

Facing Shiryuu-senpai's question, Shiro could not help but nod. He nodded followed by a nod of Denshu and Brendy.

"Senpai, please tell me more details about this Gate! " ask Shiro back.

"Okay, but on the way. We look for a place to put up a tent first in the middle of the forest" Shiryuu-senpai said, pointing to the forest area that only the tip of the shoot could be seen.

"Yes, senpai"

They set out for the forest, for there they will spend the night and search for medicinal plants.

On the way, they were unceasingly admiring the scenery inside the Gate. The journey was slow because it often stopped to see the scenery around.

Shiryuu-senpai also did not forget his promise to explain more details about the Gate.

Shiryuu-senpai explained that this Gate has an area of almost 100,000 Km².

They were surprised, it turned out that the area of this Gate was very large, they did not expect that this Gate would be that big.

Inside the Gate, there are mountains, caves, forests, rivers, and lakes. Of course everything is covered by a layer of Snow. And there's no settlement inside this gate.

From Shiryuu-senpai's explanation, this Gate used to contain a lot of Snow belemn monsters, such as polar bears measuring 5-7 meters, deer as high as 3 meters, Snow tigers, Snow otters, snow bull, saju, and so on, and some other monsters. There were no monsters or humanoid races in it.

By the time the Gate appeared, it was fairly easy for Heroes to explore the Gate and fight the monsters. But because it has a very large area, it took quite a long time for the heroes to explore the Gate.

Not yet fully explored, the Gate turned white. The heroes stopped exploring, because that meant there was no more danger in the Gate.

Many heroes moved tasks to other still active Gate. But the White Gate does not mean to be left alone until it disappears.

The Hero Association assigned several families to supervise this Gate. And the Yuki Family was chosen. This was because the Yuki Family was in City A and had a good reputation at that time. In addition, the current Head of the Yuki Family had a high affinity with the Ice Element, so the Yuki Family was more trusted to take care of this Gate until it disappeared.

Yuki's family also accepted the task with pleasure, this Gate they can use to find medicinal plants and look for monsters for their cultivation.

Of course the Yuki Family could not arbitrarily use the Resources in the Gate. The Yuki Family needed to give the benefits to the City and Hero Association. All actions within the Gate need to be reported. Heroes who want to enter are also allowed, but with complete permission and conditions.

But strangely enough, almost 100 years passed, this Gate that the Yuki Family managed never disappeared. Make the other party worried, because the other Gate that is as close to the Gate has all disappeared. The Yuki family did not know anything about this matter either.

In addition, the Yuki Family had more and more members of the ice and Snow element type families. This made the other party envious.

Many tried to figure out why this happened, but they returned empty-handed.

Some even reported this to the Hero Association party, which led to the examination of the Yuki Family.

But all of them were successful nil, no abnormalities were found either within the Gate, nor from the Yuki Family.

After that happened, many people thought that the Yuki Family got a blessing from the Gate they guarded, so the Yuki Family was exposed to the Aura of ice element which made them have a great ratio of having an ice or Snow element type talent.

Since then, many families have tried to accept and want to have a certain type of Gate for them. Even in a bad way.

They hoped that what happened in the Yuki Family, would happen to their Families as well.

The Hero Association was confused about this, so the Association set strict terms about the Gate's ownership requirements. There are many conditions for the ownership of the Gate, many parties fail to qualify and only a few parties succeed in owning a private Gate, the rest of the Gate is spread under the jurisdiction of the Hero Association.

The three only nodded at Shiryuu-senpai's long explanation. How many of them can be simultaneous from the story.

In contrast to Shiro, he originally had a prejudice against Shiryuu-senpai. But from Shiryuu-senpai's explanation, Shiro's worries diminished.

' It seems that my prejudice all this time was just my thoughts that were too excessive ' Shiro sighed in his eyes.

The aura that Unseen feels towards Shiryuu-senpai may be due to the hereditary Genes or the many Auras from this Gate attached to Shiryuu-senpai.

"Senpai, can I kill the monster that's here ?" suddenly Brendy asked Shiryuu-senpai a question.

"Of course, as long as you can kill him" Shiryuu-senpai replied.

Hearing Shiryuu-senpai's reply, Brendy immediately smiled and walked in one direction. And Start entering Camouflage state.

Shiro focused his attention on Brendy's movements.

Through his perception, Shiro felt a Snake-shaped Aura. It looks like the snake is Brendy's target. Shiro ignores her, as the snake's aura is too ordinary for Shiro. There was no challenge at all for Shiro.

Sure enough, shortly after Brendy entered the state of Camouflage, he carried the dead snake in his hand.

"It looks like you're lucky enough, the snake's bile can be used as a medicinal ingredient, but unfortunately the snake is not yet mature, veins, keel and skin can not be fully utilized at this time." shiryuu-senpai said when she saw the Snake Brendy had brought.

Brendy smiled bitterly when he heard Shiryuu-senpai's words, after which he entered the corpse of the snake into his space ring.

After the episode, they continued their journey.

3 Hours passed.

The conditions inside the Gate had already started to darken. They started looking for a nearby place to camp.

Before long, they had finally found a suitable place to camp.

The surroundings were quite spacious, not far from the water source, and there were no monster nests near them. They decided to spend the night there.

They began to take out their necessary items from the items of the storage room. Including Shiro, although he actually kept it inside the System Inventory Room.

After simply removing the necessary items, they began to install the tent and arrange the necessary items in the tent.

After everything was done, they gathered in the middle and began to burn a small superior fire in the middle of the four tents.

They started preparing the groceries after the campfire was ready.

Tonight, they enjoy their first camping inside the Gate.

Their laughter resounded in the forest. A cheerful atmosphere enveloped them.

The night is getting late, 8 hours until sunrise.

They also decided to take turns on guard, everyone has a guard time of about 2 hours.

Everyone agreed, and they started doing lotteries to decide on the patching order.

The first one to come out was Shiro.