Chapter 1 - Prologue (1) (1/2)

Prologue (1)

“It’s finally here.”

The man with the sword murmured with a wet voice.

“The Tower of Choice, the last 100 floors.”

The five gathered here responded to each. Tens of thousands of emotions that cannot be expressed in words pass through everyone’s faces and eyes. Passion, regret, sorrow, and joy were there.

“Nate put all the skulls in now! Then… Assistant, please. “

When the man speaks, everyone’s eyes were caught on me—most of my colleagues have been together for decades.

Apart from knowing each other for a long time, they all had something in common.

Since the first time they all met, none of them changed in physical appearance. They didn’t age a single day.

I moved as if to live up to their expectations.

A large door closed in the front.

It said that the ordeal prepared on the 100th floor of choice was only that gold door. If it only has one, it is. I glanced.

Lady Angelica Heard.

I met her eyes and smiled slightly.

Thousands or tens of thousands of times? She smiled countless times, but I feel relieved every time I see it.

Angelica, too, didn’t age. Her appearance was that of a woman in her 20s. During the years, no worn or faded parts were found on her body. Both eyes are full of bright light. Redness that slightly stained both cheeks.

“It’s finally this moment.”

She came to me. Lips open.

Even on the day we first met, she walked and laughed like that.

Regardless if in the past or now, she was still pure, noble, and beautiful.

“Thank you, Seongjin. Our guide. Thanks to you, I was able to come here.”

Angelica put both hands on my shoulder and kissed my wrinkled forehead lightly.

I respond in a slightly trembling voice.

“No, mankind would have been destroyed without your [Future Foresight].”

Her advice was always correct.

Hunters are given a ‘seal’ to the body at the moment of awakening.

Each seal has a ‘unique skill,’ and no hunter has received more than one seal so far, so of course, all hunters have only one unique skill.

Angelica announced her skill to humankind early and proved her ability several times.

‘Foretelling the collapse of the most important SSS-rated dungeon.’

Without her, humanity would have collapsed to the point where it was considered extravagant.

It was Angelica’s achievement that persuaded the high-ranking hunters and leaders of each country. The prophecy stating that conquering the 100 floors of the Tower of Choice could end the tutorial was also her prophecy.

I spoke.

“Start.”

A voice that changed like a whistle with age was still annoying.

As I approached, my face reflected off the door surface and reflected.

There was an older man in his 80’s.

Woo Woong!

I didn’t have to mobilize my weak mana, which is less than a handful—as always, just focusing my mind has shown my unique skills to work.

Along with Angelica’s [Future Foresight], this is the only EX rank skill among the hunters’ skills known to date.

[The Successor’s Eye (Rank: EX, Passive)]

Immersive observations revealed blue particles revolving around the lock. It seemed to be a dot, and it was connected like a line. Repeatedly flows with a specified pattern.

I put it in my head. Even if I did not try hard to memorize, I fully understood and remembered just by looking.

“I knew it.”

Hibiki, called the title of Tsushima, came.

I frowned upon by briefly explaining how to destroy her.

“Still, it’s fucking complicated.”

She grumbled and raised mana.

I looked at it with bitter regret. I can see the powerful storms that are incomparable to my weak mana from Hibiki’s mana core.

The mana that Hunter can recognize is the only mana inherent in me, and it is common sense that mana in other people or objects cannot feel it, but I was different.

Any kind of mana looks clear.

Even if I find out all the principles, I have to entrust the practice to a ‘Hunter’ like Hibiki.

“······.”

I didn’t know how happy I was decades ago when I checked my skills immediately after awakening.

The skill effect described by the system message was a hit.

[The Successor’s Eye]

-You can visualize the mana.

-Never forget what you perceive through vision.

-The system message of the target can be read while in contact with the effects of objects and skills.

Each one has never been known.

Besides, passive skill without even mana consumption it means that the number of uses and maintenance periods are close to infinity.

I didn’t know what to do with my heart, but the moment of joy was also temporary.

When I checked my unique skill and then checked my potential mana in order, I had to be frustrated.

Active Mana: 9/9

-Potential Mana: 1

“······.”

Interpreting the message… At the moment of awakening, the mana given to me was 9 (active mana), meaning that even after practicing and trying for a lifetime, the limit of mana could be increased by 1 (potential mana).

In other words, the limit that can be reached in a lifetime … 9 plus 1, only ’10. ‘