Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 422

Fwhooo!

Smoke rose.

Inside it, Su-ho had his arms crossed to cover his face.

“Wow.”

Su-ho slowly lowered his arms and let out an exclamation.

A portal explosion, of all things.

So this kind of situation exists.

It was baffling since he’d never experienced it once.

Still, the fortunate part was that even though it was an unexpected explosion, his body endured it.

‘Good thing my stats are high.’

If not, he would’ve been seriously hurt.

‘By the way.......’

Will it explode again if I touch it?

Su-ho narrowed his eyes and cast a few of his own buffs.

[ Blessing is activated. ]

[ Endurance is activated. ]

The explosion wasn’t small damage, but he thought if he raised his stats a bit more to reduce the damage received, he could endure without having to block with his arms.

So he decided to run an experiment.

It was right after Su-ho reached his hand toward the portal again.

Boooom!!

The portal exploded once more.

It hurts.

It seemed the damage had increased.

But with his inflated stats, it was sufficiently bearable.

Su-ho’s hand was still inside the portal.

But that was all.

‘There’s no notification like entering a Gate or anything.’

Could this be the end of it?

This time he stuck in his other hand as well.

Booom!!

A bigger, stronger explosion.

But again, there was no change.

This time he shoved in his whole body.

Seeing even Origin Severance didn’t work, it seemed this was under the system’s protection.

‘An absolute rule for the sake of progression, is it.’

If he pre-destroyed the portal with something like Origin Severance here, the picture the system wanted would be ruined.

‘It really clings to its self-imposed rules in a creepy way.’

Can’t be helped.

Then in the end there’s only one option.

‘Weaken the candidate Gate according to the plan I originally set.’

If he couldn’t enter the Gate portal or destroy it, then he had no choice but to raid it slowly by the known common sense.

The time it takes for a candidate Gate to become a Big Gate is about a month.

A candidate Gate absorbs the monsters scattered around and other Gates during that time and ultimately becomes a Big Gate, and unfortunately, even if there are no monsters or Gates around to absorb, the sequence of becoming a Big Gate couldn’t be stopped.

‘But I can weaken the Big Gate once it’s finally completed.’

After putting away the Blood Sword, Su-ho began a full-fledged search of the surroundings.

Because he had to know how many monsters and other Gates were around the candidate Gate.

‘Before that, first.......’

Su-ho took a phone out of his inner pocket.