‘It’s a Battle of Champions.’

Asgard was the secret organization behind Korea. Similarly, there were other secret organizations created behind the scenes by Hunters around the world. They would compete periodically for things such as measuring strength, the right to speak, and the monopolization of gates.

[It was the Battle of Champions. Their will to protect mankind by hunting monsters had already disappeared. Now, they were all only focused on fighting amongst themselves.]

Lee Jun-Kyeong remembered the line in the book of the Demon King. The First Hunters, special Hunters similar in class to the Heroes, and had powers that differed from what mankind knew about the strength of Hunters. They were like the Heroes, but at the same time, something even more so than them…

With the appearance of the first Hero, gate raids became stable, and more Heroes were consistently born. The secret organizations began to forget that they had been created to ensure the salvation of mankind.

Pride and arrogance now permeated them.

They thought they had already saved the world. They had thought that humanity would prosper from that point on, flourishing under their presence.

And all of the prosperity and glory they lauded about themselves had been before the cataclysm.

‘It’s just a delusion.’

After the cataclysm, they had no choice but to admit their own hubris. Numerous secret organizations disappeared, and only a few powerful ones survived. One of them was Asgard.

In any case, the goal of this expedition wasn’t to raid the A-Grade Gate. This daunting A-Grade Gate was just the place where the Battle of Champions would take place. Heroes and Hunters...