"…Changing imagination into reality. You're a monster."

Sirwen smiled, even with her arms and legs that had been penetrated. It was done. Gravity turned back to normal and the snakes were destroyed.

"You should surrender."

He had no intention to kill her. He knew she wasn't trying to kill him. And besides, she was a [Nightmare]. If he could take her alive, she might be a valuable a.s.set on the way to the .

Yet Sirwen's expression looked strange..

"Surrender?"

Sirwen wasn't surprised. Before Jaehwan realized something was wrong, Sirwen disappeared and warped behind Jaehwan, hugging him strongly. Then she melted away, altering the surrounding environment. Something had started from that hug.

'….Unique world? No. It's a hallucination.'

Jaehwan then realized he had faced this before.

Eight Gates of h.e.l.l

It was the hallucination skill he had faced before. He calmly took a step into the world. It was a world that felt real, but it wasn't much to Jaehwan as he had cleared this place before. All he needed to do was to kill those who approached and destroy all the gates until it ended.

Jaehwan quickly destroyed all the gates up to the fifth one.

-Whoa, you know about this skill?

There was surprise in her voice, but she laughed before she spoke.

-But it will be different from the fake one you know.

Her next sentence faded away as it echoed.

…Eight Gates of h.e.l.l made by a [Nightmare].

Jaehwan was now at the 7th gate. However, the 7th gate was actually the last in the skill. The 8th gate remained as a kind of reward for the one who managed to go through everything. So if the 7th gate was completed, the skill would terminate automatically. Jaehwan did not know that after this skill had been created, no one had gone past the 7th gate.

The 7th Gate – h.e.l.l of Self Reflection

As he walked in, he saw the backs of many figures. It looked familiar and strange at the same time. But when they turned around, he realized why he felt it that way.

Thousands of 'Jaehwans' were looking at him.