I Don't Want This Reincarnation [1]

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It was definitely the rest section, so the team atmosphere was full of energy that had never been seen before. The guild members, who settled near the river where the blue water flowed, rested and seemed happy as if they had come on a trip.

"Yi-gyeol-ssi! They're making curry over there. Let's go eat together!"

"Curry? In here?"

"Yes. Because there's water here. It's been a while since we've eaten properly. Let's take this opportunity to eat!"

...I didn't expect you to enjoy this so much. I took a step back and said to Min Ah-rin, who was about to drag me right away, "Alright, you go first. I'll find Kim Woo-jin and go with you."

"Okay. If you're late, there'll be nothing to eat, so come quickly!"

As if Min Ah-rin's words were true, the delicious smell wafted over here. Min Ah-rin, who hadn't had a proper meal in four days, was so excited that she urged me to come too.

"Don't worry. I'll be right there."

But I won't go.

After sending Min Ah-rin off with a smile, I entered the forest in the midst of the energetic atmosphere. Unlike the riverside, the inside of the forest was full of large trees and was heavy and humid.

'It would be better to look for it from above.'

It would be much faster to find it by flying than from under the bulging roots that were the size of an adult male's thigh. I floated my body up with my abilities and thought of the items I had to get.

First, the wings of the 'sapphire-tailed butterfly' (사파이어 꼬리나비), an insect that could only be found in the Rest section.

It was called sapphire-tailed because it had a similar colour to a sapphire gem. This butterfly had wings that were a beautiful mix of blue and purple. It was an insect that no one paid any attention to because it was simply pretty-nothing else special about it.

Second, the horn-shaped branch of the 'bluish bighorn tree' (큰뿔푸르스름나무) that grew only in a forest gate or the Rest section.

This tree was engraved with a unique pattern that was not commonly seen elsewhere. It was a tree that grew only in a forest gate or the Rest section, but what I needed was a horn branch obtained from an A or higher grade gate, so I had to get it this time.

Neither of them were easy to find, so I would have to search around for a while. I sat on a thick branch and looked around.

Jjireureuk, jjireuk. (찌르륵, 찌륵)

A bright light shone through the dense leaves, illuminating the interior of the rainforest. An unidentified strange-looking bird flew around, and the soil wriggled as if something was crawling on the ground.

Here, various creatures that could not be found outside the gate, such as the butterflies I had to look for, were alive and breathing. When the gate was created and the Rest section became known, various biologists showed interest, but it was a place that could not be entered except by the few who had awakened as ability users.

'Besides, even biologists who had awakened as ability users focused more on monsters than on the Rest sections.'

When you looked at it like this, it was not much different from the rainforest you saw on TV. It was so peaceful without the monsters.

What exactly were gates? Why did they appear all over the world and spit out ferocious monsters?

The research was still underway to find out. Five years after the first gate appeared, guilds were established and zones were divided, and in the tenth year, facilities that researched monsters and items were established. The world barely regained stability in the fifteenth year. However, the world still did not know why gates existed.