I Am Not the First Gate Hunter

Chaewon was still polishing stones when his hidden gate finally woke up, and the power inside it made no sense to the hunters who had passed him by for ten years. He could read people the way he read gems, seeing stress lines, weak points, and lies in a single glance. That gift made him useful, but it also made him hard to control. When his old company tried to claim his late awakening for itself, he found himself dragged back into the same dungeon he had cleared over a hundred times, where every run had always changed just enough to keep him alive. Chaewon wanted a place in a world that had already closed its doors. The people who knew his name wanted him to stay useful and quiet. He had hi...