A sensation of floating filled her body.

It was as if she had jumped off the veranda, but this place seemed to be neither a ground floor garden nor a pedestrian path.

The only thing visible in the pitchblack darkness was a violet aurora. The translucent aurora looked like a thin curtain fluttering in the wind.

It felt as if she had escaped gravity and was floating in the middle of space, or perhaps gently swept away on calm waves.

She didn’t dislike that strange and mystical sensation, and Eunha closed her eyes, yielding her body to the floating sensation.

Behind her closed eyelids, her mother’s smile seemed to wait to surface.

‘Our daughter becoming a college student was my wish. Of course, I’m happy.’

She didn’t think ‘it’ was really her mother.

However, she thought it fortunate to meet her like that, to hear her like that. She was glad that the last image she remembered of her mother was not buried in the rubble but a smiling one.

Eunha repeated her mother’s last smile in her eyelids several times to ensure she would never forget it for the rest of her life.

How much time had passed?

Tat─

The moment her floating legs touched the ground,

[Entering the Gate interior.]

A blue system window appeared before her eyes. And then afterwards…….

[System Error = 21387 볷?¶□뚭긆깂깒?긽¶‡귻깛긐긘긚긡?] [System Error = 21387 볷?¶□뚭긆깂깒?긽¶‡귻깛긐긘긚긡?] [System Error = 21388 걁퉹뷠뾴?벍밙¶딯땝끯□궕뚷‡궻귘] [System Error = 21388 걁퉹뷠뾴?벍밙¶딯땝끯□궕뚷‡궻귘]

With an unusual vibration, the error messages went wild. Eunha had had a similar experience.

‘Unknown Gate.’

She vividly recalled memories of the place where she had been trapped for a long time. She couldn’t forget it even if she tried. She had almost died there several times.

But the atmosphere of the Unknown Gate that Eunha remembered and this place was completely different. Although both were cavelike, this place felt like…

‘It looks like an underwater landscape.’

It felt like a cave hidden deep in the ocean. Thankfully, she could breathe.

Slap─

A step forward, and the sound of water was heard. The ground surface was filled with water about 3cm deep.

That was not all. Seaweed, starfish, shells, and other sea products were scattered about. And above all, what caught her eye was…

“…….”

The pink coral enveloping the entire cave.

Glistening like jewels, they filled the floor and walls of the cave, looking like a scene straight out of a fairy tale.

However, no matter how beautiful the sight, this place was a Gate, an Unknown Gate at that. It shouldn’t be regarded as the majority of Gates that had been easily conquered so far.

Click, click.

Eunha advanced along the cave wall.

The scenery didn’t change for a long time. There was no exit to be found, no matter how far she walked.

Eunha approached the wall to mark the trail she had passed. While marking an X on the wall with the sharp end of her umbrella,

“…This is.”

Eunha stopped short, noticing something in the coral next to her.

“A hand?”

Under the pink coral, she saw a human male’s hand. Was someone buried under the coral? After a close examination of the coral, it didn’t seem that way.

So what was this hand? The moment Eunha tilted her head in confusion,

‘Maybe.’

A bad premonition struck her.

Eunha had a similar experience before. There had been a boss monster that turned an attacking hunter into slime.

If the boss here was of the same type, then these corals were…

[……♪]

A song was heard from somewhere, a melody without lyrics.

It was a woman’s voice.

Ding.

[The mythical beast ‘Cat Wandering the Darkness’ warns you not to heed the song.]

A yellow message window appeared.

With the cat’s warning, Eunha finally became certain. Indeed, the clues to this Unknown Gate were undoubtedly in this song.

[……♬♪]

The song seemed to come from the front, then from the back. Eunha quickly turned her head.

Northeast.
The sound was coming from that direction. Eun Ha intuitively decided she had to follow that song.

She couldn’t waste time finding the way. Eun Ha stretched out her right hand towards the inner wall with a pop!

The pink corals that suddenly came into view at that moment.

“…….”

Frozen in that state, Eun Ha stared blankly at the corals for a while.

And one by one, she carefully began to lay them on the floor.

These individuals who had already completely changed could not return to being human. If she had been just a bit faster… No, even if she had been, Eun Ha didn’t have the skill or item to remove the abnormal status.

Finally, after gently laying down the last coral, Eun Ha slowly stretched her palm toward the inner wall of the gate again.

Even at this moment, a faint song was coming from the northeast. Something terrible might be happening somewhere in this gate. She had no time to explore inside the cave to go northeast.

Then.

Kwagwagwakwang!

She would have to break through the way.

(This is a time separator.)