Hunting Together RPG Unlock Areas: Which Boss Blocks the Next Territory?

The boss standing between you and the next territory is the Gorilla King, at the Level 25 Boss Gate. If you have reached that gate zone and the Gorilla King is still undefeated, it is what blocks the way forward. Defeat it and the gate is cleared, letting you enter the town and its surrounding fields.

Quick answer

Defeat the Gorilla King at the Level 25 Boss Gate to clear the block on the next territory.

• The gate blocks the next territory once you have reached the Level 25 Boss Gate zone and the Gorilla King is still undefeated.
• Beating the Gorilla King is what clears the gate.
• The territory it opens is the town and its surrounding fields.

What getting past the gate requires

The progression ties the gate to the boss encounter itself. The blocked state is described by two conditions: you have reached the Level 25 Boss Gate zone, and the Gorilla King has not been defeated. Change the second condition by defeating the boss, and the gate is described as cleared. The encounter that stops you is the same one that opens the route, so the Gorilla King is both the obstacle and the key to it.

The result to look for when you succeed is access. Once the Gorilla King falls, the gate no longer keeps you out of the next territory, and the town with its surrounding fields is where you can go. That is the difference between being stopped at the gate and having cleared it: the route beyond it stops being blocked.

The zones leading up to the gate

You do not walk into the Gorilla King straight from the starting area. Progression runs through level-tiered zones, and the stretch before the gate passes through three of them, each with its own level range and its own population of monsters.

Zone progression up to and beyond the Level 25 Boss Gate

Level range

1–8

Zone

Initial starting forest

What's there

Rabbits and low-level beasts

Level range

9–16

Zone

Second wilderness zone

What's there

Boars and lizards

Level range

17–24

Zone

Transition zone

What's there

Leads toward the first major town

Level range

25

Zone

Boss Gate

What's there

The Gorilla King blocks progress to the next territory

Level range

34, 42 and 50+

Zone

Intermediate elemental maps

What's there

Lead into the desert city, where monster affinities change

Zone progression up to and beyond the Level 25 Boss Gate

Level range	Zone	What's there
1–8	Initial starting forest	Rabbits and low-level beasts
9–16	Second wilderness zone	Boars and lizards
17–24	Transition zone	Leads toward the first major town
25	Boss Gate	The Gorilla King blocks progress to the next territory
34, 42 and 50+	Intermediate elemental maps	Lead into the desert city, where monster affinities change

Read the table as a route through those bands. The level numbers make the structure easy to follow: the transition zone ends at 24 and the gate is placed at 25, right where the next band would begin. Once the forest and the second wilderness zone are behind you, working through the Levels 17 to 24 stretch is the practical sign that you are close to the Gorilla King and the town it holds shut.

What changes once the Gorilla King is beaten

Clearing the gate changes what the gate is doing. It stops blocking progress to the next territory, and you can enter the town and its surrounding fields. It helps to keep the pieces separate: the gate is the blocking element, the Gorilla King is what holds it shut, and the territory on the other side is identified as the town plus the fields around it. In the sequence, getting past the gate and reaching the first major town are the same step rather than two different unlocks.

That distinction is also how the gate differs from the zones before it. The forest, the second wilderness and the transition zone are places you move through at their own level bands. The Boss Gate is not a new hunting area in the same sense — it is the point where the next territory is held closed until the Gorilla King is dealt with.

The wider pattern behind the Gorilla King gate

The Gorilla King is a concrete example of a broader structure rather than an isolated fight. Progression through the game advances through level-tiered zones separated by gatekeeper bosses. The Level 25 gate is the one this progression names outright, and it shows the shape of the system: a zone carries a level band, you work through it, and a boss marks the boundary before the next area.

Because of that, the Gorilla King is worth reading as a template. The level band tells you which zone you are in. The gatekeeper tells you where the band ends. The fight is what changes your status from blocked to admitted, which is why reaching the gate and clearing it are two different moments even though they happen in the same place.

The territory beyond the first town

The progression does not stop at the town. After the first major town come intermediate elemental maps at Levels 34, 42 and 50+, which lead into the desert city. The desert city is also where monster affinities change, so the areas past the town are not simply more forest and wilderness at a higher level: the maps become elemental, and the affinity situation shifts once you reach the desert city.

That makes the town more than a reward for beating the Gorilla King. It is the area that sits between the first gate and the higher-level elemental maps, and it is the last point in the sequence before the game starts naming elemental regions and a place where affinities behave differently.

Keeping your bearings

A short way to hold the whole sequence together:

• Use the level band to tell which zone you are in — 1 to 8, 9 to 16, 17 to 24, and the Level 25 gate after them.
• Treat the gate as a boundary rather than a detour: the Gorilla King is what stands between the transition zone and the town.
• Confirm your progress by access rather than by guesswork: the gate is cleared when you can enter the town and its surrounding fields.

For the wider route, the beginner guide covers the opening progression this gate belongs to, the leveling guide explains what the level bands mean for your character, and the locations guide and bosses guide cover the areas and encounters along the way. The forest guide and desert guide cover the two ends of that route in more detail.