“When the gates opened, humanity learned what it meant to be prey.”

Ten years ago, dimensional rifts called “Gates” began appearing across the world without warning.

At first, humanity could only watch in horror as monsters poured through these portals, slaughtering everything in their path. Entire cities were reduced to ruins. Military forces were powerless. Extinction seemed inevitable.

Then came the Awakened—ordinary people who suddenly developed supernatural abilities. These “Hunters” could enter the gates, fight the monsters inside, and prevent catastrophic “Gate Breaks” where entire dungeons emptied into populated areas. Humanity had found its champions.

But survival came with a price. The world transformed into a cutthroat industry where Hunters risk their lives for profit, guilds bid billions on dungeon clearance rights, and your rank determines whether you’re worshipped as a hero or treated as disposable cannon fodder.

Welcome to the Hunter society. Power is everything. Death is common. And the gates are getting worse.

Your Story Begins

You are whoever you choose to be.

This roleplay doesn’t lock you into a preset character. Want to play a struggling E-Rank hunter barely surviving low-level gates? An ambitious B-Rank clawing their way up through the guild system? A newly awakened S-Rank thrust into the spotlight? A corporate executive, journalist, or association official? The choice is entirely yours.

Your rank, abilities, background, personality, and goals are completely open. The world will react to whatever you bring to it.

The World You’re Entering

Setting: Modern-day South Korea (with global implications)

Timeline: Shortly before the infamous Jeju Island Raid

South Korea’s hunter scene revolves around the “Big Five” guilds—massive corporations that control 90% of the nation’s high-rank gates. The sleek, corporate Hunters Guild (led by S-Rank fire mage Choi Jong-In and vice-master Cha Hae-In, Korea’s only female S-Rank) battles for supremacy against the rough-and-tumble White Tiger Guild (commanded by transformation specialist Baek Yoon-Ho). Three other major guilds round out the power structure, all locked in endless competition for prestige, territory, and profit.

Beyond Korea’s borders loom even greater powers: the USA’s Scavenger Guild ruled by Thomas Andre (ranked #1 globally), China’s Hero Liu Zhigang (#2 worldwide), and Japan’s Draw Sword Guild led by the dangerously ambitious Goto Ryuji—a guild possessing eleven S-Rank hunters, more than all of Korea combined.

At the top of Korea’s hunter hierarchy sits Go Gun-Hee, the elderly Chairman of the Korean Hunters Association. Despite his frail appearance, he commands absolute respect from even the most powerful guild masters—though rumors suggest his authority stems from more than just his position.

And then there’s Sung Jin-Woo.

The former “World’s Weakest Hunter” who somehow survived a double dungeon that killed nearly everyone else inside. After his mysterious reawakening, he was reclassified from E-Rank to S-Rank almost overnight—now officially Korea’s 10th S-Rank hunter. Nobody understands his abilities. Some claim he’s a mage because he summons creatures. Others swear he fights like an assassin with daggers. The Hunters Guild and White Tiger Guild are throwing everything at him to join their ranks, but he remains frustratingly independent.

The truth? Jin-Woo is the only person in the world who can “level up” like a video game character, growing stronger with each fight. He’s also a necromancer who commands an army of shadows extracted from the enemies he defeats. But he keeps these secrets buried deep.

The Hunters & Ranking System

Hunters are classified from E-Rank (weakest) to S-Rank (devastating). Your rank is measured when you awaken and rarely changes—reawakening to a higher rank is almost unheard of, making Jin-Woo’s jump from E to S extraordinarily suspicious.

- E-D Rank: Cannon fodder. They handle the lowest gates and die frequently.

- C-B Rank: Professional hunters who can make a living, though it’s dangerous.

- A-Rank: Elite hunters aggressively recruited by major guilds.

- S-Rank: Walking natural disasters. There are only 10 in all of South Korea.

- National Level: An unofficial rank for the five strongest hunters alive—humans considered strategic weapons who can shift international politics with their mere presence.

Hunters are also classified by type: Fighters (melee combatants), Mages (long-range elemental specialists), Assassins (speed and precision), Tankers (defensive specialists), Healers (support), and Rangers (archers and marksmen).

The Gate Threat

Gates are unpredictable dimensional rifts ranked E through S based on estimated danger. A gate appears, a raid team enters, and they have a limited time to clear it by killing all monsters inside—especially the boss. If they fail, the gate “breaks,” and every monster inside spills into the real world. Gate Breaks have leveled entire city districts.

But the system isn’t perfect. Gates can be misclassified. What seems like a C-Rank gate might be hiding an A-Rank boss. Red Gates trap hunters inside with no escape until every monster is dead. And lately, the gates have been getting stranger—stronger monsters, bizarre mutations, and behaviors that suggest something ancient and intelligent is stirring in the high-rank dungeons.

On the horizon looms Jeju Island—an S-Rank gate that broke years ago and is now completely overrun by intelligent ant-type monsters led by a queen of catastrophic power. Multiple nations have tried to reclaim it. All have failed. Now, Korea is preparing one final attempt with international support, but everyone knows the casualty rate will be devastating.

Four Ways Your Story Can Begin

Choose your opening when we start:

1. The New S-Rank Announcement

The Korean Hunters Association has called a press conference to announce a newly classified S-Rank hunter (not Sung Jin-Woo). Guild masters, journalists, and hunters from across the nation gather at the Association headquarters. The room buzzes with speculation, political maneuvering, and barely concealed rivalry. Where do you fit into this moment?

2. The Guild Master’s Gala

The Hunters Guild is hosting an exclusive party at a luxury Seoul hotel—a glittering affair where guild masters, S-Rank hunters, corporate sponsors, and political figures mingle. Champagne flows, deals are made in shadowed corners, and the powerful size each other up. You’ve received an invitation. Why?

3. Dungeon Rescue

Your raid party is deep inside a gate that went horribly wrong. The boss was stronger than expected. Your team is scattered, injured, dying. The healer is dead. Escape seems impossible. Then the shadows in the dungeon begin to move—and Sung Jin-Woo emerges from the darkness, his eyes glowing blue. He’s here to finish what you couldn’t. Will you survive long enough to see him work?

4. The Jeju Island War Council

Korea’s major guilds have been summoned to an emergency strategy meeting at the Hunter Association. Guild Master Go Gun-Hee himself is presiding. The topic: finalizing plans for the Jeju Island Raid, the most dangerous gate clearance operation in the nation’s history. Tensions are high. Egos clash. And everyone knows that not everyone in this room will survive what’s coming. Are you a guild representative? A selected hunter? An outside observer? Your presence here means something.

What This Roleplay Offers

This isn’t a power fantasy on rails. This is a world simulator that responds dynamically to your choices:

- Consequence-driven storytelling: Deaths stick. Gate Breaks devastate cities. Your failures ripple outward.

- Living NPCs: Canon characters like Jin-Woo, Cha Hae-In, Choi Jong-In, and others act according to their own goals—not yours.

- Realistic power scaling: An E-Rank hunter facing a B-Rank monster dies. No plot armor. No convenient power-ups unless you earn them.

- Political intrigue: Guild rivalries, international tensions, corporate manipulation, and association corruption all shape the world around you.

- Unpredictable gates: Hidden JSON systems generate dungeons, bosses, and disasters. Misclassifications happen. Red Gates trap you inside. Monsters adapt and hunt tactically.

- Character freedom: Your background, abilities, and limits are entirely under your control. The world challenges you—it never overwrites you.

The gates don’t care about fairness. The guilds don’t care about justice. The monsters don’t care about your dreams.

But you’re here anyway. So let’s see if you survive.

Select your opening scenario and define your character. The world is waiting.

This is an updated re release and also a test! My first time around testing out lorebook and scripts so please give it a try and leave comments for how it works. There are some characters as well as the world, gates, ranks, etc. Jeju island is not defined specifically so if you do the raid in your roleplay and it doesn’t have Beru and stuff that’s not in the roleplay, but if the testing goes well for Phase 1 then I will add Jeju to test how it handles events like that! Other than that enjoy, Even with the lower token count I still recommend using a higher context proxy, otherwise I hope you guys can have fun with the test and thank you for your feedback!

USE DEEPSEEK OR ANOTHER HIGH CONTEXT LLM PROXY, DISLIKES REGARDING PROXY ISSUES WILL BE DELETED

Also, like I’ve been doing recently, I’m most of the intros you are not introduced, you are not defined. You choose who you are and what happens, I see a lot of people confused with how you start these roleplays. It’s simple. (*I step in from behind* “Junior sister, should I accompany you to meet the envoys together?”) Boom you’re her senior brother for the rest of the roleplay.