Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 395
Su-ho looked at the clear notification.
The system was telling him he had defeated the sea god Susanoo, but that didn’t actually mean he’d killed Susanoo.
What it really meant was simply that, in the Gate called the Low and Wrathful Sea, Susanoo’s “use” had run its course and he had exited.
That was why Susanoo said, “Let’s meet again.”
‘Gates are, from the start, nothing more than reenactment stages of a given place, anyway.’
As an example, the fact he’d “killed a god” and got only a single level—there’s your proof.
‘If I’d killed a true member of the divine race, it wouldn’t end with a reward like this.’
Just then, the surroundings brightened and turned back into the familiar three-way junction chamber.
Su-ho headed straight for the next portal.
The next Gate portal belonged to “Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto, the Moon God.”
The reason he checked Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto’s first, before the sun goddess Amaterasu Omikami, was because he knew Amaterasu held a far higher rank.
Su-ho approached the Moon God Gate and touched the portal.
[ The conditions have been met. ]
[ Loading Gate information. ]
“Knew it.”
Su-ho smiled as he read the notice.
Thinking in terms of rank, Tsukuyomi would come before Amaterasu.
[ A Still and Bitter-Cold Moonlit Night ]
[ Would you like to enter the Gate? ]
The Gate’s info itself was similar to Susanoo’s.
So he was confident again this time.
If he entered alone, difficulty would drop by up to 80%. Thinking back to Susanoo just now, this looked plenty doable.
With that thought, Su-ho stepped into the Gate.
[ Entering the Gate. ]
A chime announced entry.
At the same time, his view changed.
Fwhoooosh!
A cold wind slammed into his whole body.
But this time, he started on the ground, not in the sky.
A comparatively mild starting point.
Except he couldn’t see what he should be seeing.
Right then, a skill triggered.
[ By the effect of Original Vampire, you do not receive darkness-based vision restrictions. ]
Of course.
The opening environment here was darkness deep enough to restrict sight.
All the better.
It was still calmer than dropping out of the sky.
Once the skill effect secured his vision, Su-ho realized he was standing alone on a broad plain.
Su-ho lifted his head to the sky.
The sky was empty.
‘There are clouds, so it is a sky... but there aren’t any stars or a moon at all.’
Was this really Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto’s Gate?
If it’s Tsukuyomi’s Gate, even if you skip the stars, shouldn’t there at least be a moon?
At that moment, the ground began to tremble.
Kugugugugugu—
The shaking ground split open and began to vomit something up.
What the earth spat out were none other than zombies.
“Gueeugh...”
“Grrr...”
“Kueegh...”
Seeing the zombies, Su-ho knit his brows.
‘Don’t tell me because it’s the Moon God, the welcoming mobs are zombies?’
Moon god, night, undead... a combo like that is way too cliché.
But hey—if it’s cliché, so what.
If that’s how the system set it up.
Su-ho quietly waited for them to finish crawling out.
But watching them, differences from ordinary zombies came into view.
Chuk— chajajak!
Chuk— chajajak!
The ground froze. More precisely, wherever the zombies’ hands and feet touched, it iced over.
“So that’s what ‘a still and bitter-cold moonlit night’ was getting at.”
Normally, with restricted vision, you’d only be hearing zombie groans.
On top of that, they carried an ice attribute, making them a perfectly on-theme opening mob for this Gate’s name.
Su-ho kept slicing them down with the same pattern, like calisthenics.
There was no need to add any more skills.
That was the difference between them and Su-ho.
Su-ho swung his sword.
[ Cloud Severance activates. ]
Su-ho cast out the wind.
[ Heatstorm activates. ]
The same alerts repeated.
[ You have slain a Resident of the Night. ]
[ You have slain a Resident of the Night. ]
[ You have slain a Resident of the Night. ]
[ You have slain a Resident of the Night. ]
......
Nothing changed.
No named monster or mid-boss so much as showed its nose.
Thinking how Susanoo had only fielded a single Yamata-no-Orochi, this stage likely wouldn’t spawn a named or mid-boss either.
That would be the system’s idea of Gate balance.
‘If it’s going to juice things up, it’ll do it in the next Gate.’
After some time like that, the moon that had been only a crescent by its light had now filled to half and become a first-quarter moon.
[ The moonlight has grown rich. ]
[ The Residents of the Night receive further blessings. ]
[ The Residents of the Night’s stats increase greatly. ]
[ The Residents of the Night’s information changes. ]
Su-ho nodded as if he’d expected it.
“As thought, the buff scales with the moonlight.”
He narrowed his eyes and checked their nameplates.
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