Hunter × Hunter: The Seven Deadly Sins

"how?"

Ilumi's voice came from the coast.

"It's difficult to judge if the gatekeeper doesn't take action." Enwei crossed his arms in front of his chest, raised the corners of his mouth and said, "But what is certain is that the guide is not a natural creature."

"Yeah."

Ilumi stepped forward, past Envi, and followed the gatekeeper's footsteps, Envi following closely behind.

After walking for thirty minutes in the rain, Ilumi and Enwei, led by the gatekeeper, finally stopped in front of a gate.

Yilumi looked up and saw that it was a heavy wooden door twelve meters high. There were many strange symbols and patterns on the door. On both sides of the door, there was a high wall that stretched as far as the eye could see.

"Bang!"

The huge guide pressed his hand on the wooden door.

"Rumble..."

Along with a vibration, a gap appeared in the middle of the thick wooden door, slowly opening like a city wall.

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, the door opened completely, and the gatekeeper stepped inside, while the guide stood guard by the door, waiting for Ilumi and Envi to enter the door.

"Um!?"

Just as Ilumi was about to take a step forward, he suddenly looked up and looked at the guide guarding the door. He saw that the huge blood hole on its chest had healed to only a fist-sized blood hole.

"Automatic healing?"

Enwei also frowned and looked at the guide with surprise in his eyes.

"come in."

Inside the door, the gatekeeper's hoarse voice came out, and Ilumi and Enwei retracted their gazes from the guide and raised their legs to cross the generous threshold.

"What material is this door made of?"

When he crossed the threshold, Yilumi paused, looked at the dense wrinkles on the wooden door, and suddenly asked.

But he wasn't asking the gatekeepers.

"Just wait for me to take a look."

"Wow~ According to the comparison between the data transmitted from the image and the data in the central database, this door is made of World Tree."

"It's the legendary giant tree that takes root in the mountains, absorbs magma, and can continue to grow even though it penetrates the atmosphere."

After a long absence, Riley Gates' energetic voice sounded in the Illumi headset.

"world Tree?"

Yilumi frowned when he heard this, and then followed the footsteps of the gatekeeper.

"Crack~Boom!"

After Ilumi and Enwei stepped into the door, the heavy World Tree door closed with a deafening bang.

"Let's talk here, our lair is in front of us." The gatekeeper turned around, looked directly at Ilumi, and said, "Actually, I'm surprised that you dare to step into the gate."

"But even so, you don't want to step into our lair, right?"

The gatekeeper raised his right hand, pointed his sharp black nails behind him, and said hoarsely.

Ilumi and Enwei looked past the figure of the gatekeeper, through the heavy rain and fog, and saw clearly the thing crawling under the dark sky.

A huge black mountain, the shape of the mountain is like a giant beast crawling on the ground, with its back covered with huge cylindrical rocks that look like black spikes.

At the end of the black spikes, there are a large number of "blood vessels" visible to the naked eye, ranging from white, golden, orange, dark red, and red.

Like rivers of magma, flowing from the bottom of the mountain to the end of the black spikes, they finally converge and merge into the huge black spikes on the back of the mountain.

And at the top of these huge black spikes, billowing black smoke is spitting out. They are basically volcanic craters.

A large amount of black smoke spewed from the craters of the volcano, like a towering tree, straight into the sky.

"This is... a volcano!?"

Yilumi looked surprised. The gatekeeper's lair turned out to be a huge volcano, and it was a peculiar volcano with multiple craters.

The weather today was the same as when he arrived at this island four years ago. It was extremely bad and stormy weather. As a result, he had no idea that there was a huge volcano on this island.

And it’s an active volcano!

"And...the Gatekeeper is not a creature, but a race?"

Yilumi frowned and looked at the bottom of the huge volcano, where a large amount of black emotional smoke was floating in the air. He had already guessed what it was.

"Yes, the gatekeeper is a race." Perhaps in response to the question in Yilumi's tone, the gatekeeper said in his hoarse voice: "A race that has relied on the World Tree for survival for generations."

"world Tree?"

Yilumi frowned when he heard this, and looked at the big mountain behind him through the gray rain and fog, but did not see any World Tree.

"No need to look, there is no World Tree here."

The gatekeeper knew what he was looking at. He turned sideways and looked back at the black volcano, raised his right arm, pointed at the huge black spikes on the back of the volcano, and said:

"see it?"

"Those huge cylindrical rocks."

"What is that?" Yilumi asked with a frown. He didn't think those things were craters. After all, how could a volcano have more than ten craters at once?

"Those...are all dead World Trees..."

There was a hint of silence in the gatekeeper's hoarse voice, and a hint of grief in the huge black pupils like copper bells.

"We tried to transplant World Tree seedlings from our hometown here, but we failed."

"Your hometown..." When Yilumi heard the word "hometown", a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, "Does it mean the Dark Continent?"

"As you have guessed, our [Gatekeeper] family is a wandering race from the Dark Continent." The Gatekeeper turned around, focused his attention on Ilumi again, and said, "Your subordinates said that you want to negotiate. , You actually want to get information about the Dark Continent from me, right?"

"good!"

"I have long guessed that you are creatures from the Dark Continent, so I want to get some accurate information from you."

Yilumi got straight to the point, reached out and took out a stack of brown envelopes from his arms, shook his right hand, and turned into a black shadow and flew towards the gatekeeper.

"Snapped!"

The gatekeeper raised his left arm and easily caught the brown envelope thrown by Ilumi with four fingers. With a shake of the same arm, a small cluster of flames ignited on the envelope.

"Crackling..."

The flames burned away the surface of the envelope, revealing high-definition paper photos inside. Inside the photos were a large number of strange words.

The gatekeeper took out a photo and looked at it carefully.

"I wonder if you recognize the words above." When Yilumi saw the gatekeeper picking up his photo and checking it, he said, "These are ancient words obtained from the ruins of the Dark Continent."

"It took our experts years to get even a tiny bit of information out of it."

"And from this trivial information, the word [gatekeeper] was mentioned."

"Is there anything you want to say?"

Yilumi stared at the gatekeeper and asked in a deep voice.

But the gatekeeper just looked at the photos Yilumi gave him one by one in silence.