Chapter 2 (2/2)
“Jungcha!”
Il-hyun dropped the baggage from the company on the floor.
It felt as if a huge weight has been lifted off his chest, and it seems like he was light, so light, that he was going to fly off.
“I feel like ten years has been added to my age due to stress.”
He raised his arms and shouted.
“I am now an Awakener!”
Il-hyun raised his arms and shouted.
It was said that if you are an awakener, you will know instinctively.
And now, he understood the words properly.
He pointed to the wall of his room and slowly put intangible power into the wall, making it follow a pattern drawn in his head.
Suddenly the wall turned into the form he wanted.
A square pillar popped out of the wall as his hand moved.
Then, when he put his hands on the end of the pillar and pushed it back, the wall surface returned to its original state.
Il-hyun picked up a dumbbell that he bought a long time ago and rarely used.
He wasn’t going to exercise now.
When he grabbed the end of the dumbbell and gave it a pull, it was surprisingly very light, as if it was made of clay.
It was an incredible strength, a power beyond humanity.
“Oh, my God.”
Il-hyun was unable to hide the excitement. He kept moving back and forth and around the place.
He remember the three features of the SSS rank written on the Awakening paper he received.
Summon, predation, transformation.
The awakening of tremendous potential was indeed born after the gate was opened.
But the ability to summon hasn’t been reached yet.
Il-hyun raised his right hand and stared at it.
No one told him about the abilities of predation and transformation, but he instinctively knew all his abilities and how to use them.
But not the first one. Summon.
Even while on his way, he tried many things, drawing several images in his head, but nothing like the word summoning happened.
Is my power still not enough?
One thing was certain, he ate the energy of the ether and turned it into his own power.
“Then I will have to absorb more ether. But it’s impossible to get ether core with the money I have.”
Although ether is expensive, pure ether cores that came out of monsters and have not yet been processed are prohibited on the market.
If the general public wants to obtain it, they have no choice but to obtain it through a trafficking transaction, and the price will increase tremendously.
‘Or can I go into the government or business?’
The Government Gate Response team or a private awakening company, these were the two main paths of the awakening.
Private companies hire a large number of awakened people and negotiate with governments in each country to win the case or territory to be dealt with. The government cannot handle all the gates alone, so many private bids to block the gates and kill monsters come and go.
Most people who did not join the Government Gate Response team joins a private company. Awakeners who entered the company were paid according to the quantity and quality of ether obtained from the number of cases they had.
In other words, it means that you receive exactly what you worked for.
Instead of having a basic salary, it is a relatively free atmosphere where you can take a vacation at any time and get back to work.
On the other hand, the government gives the hired Awakeners the ether’s profits from the monster and a substantial amount of the basic salary. It’s a lot more money than a company, but there were also disadvantages. As it was to become an Awakener belonging to the government, the intensity of work was very high for the safety of the people. They often waited to prepare for an emergency, and when things get busy, when gates broke out one after another, they couldn’t rest freely.
The interesting thing was that it was the opposite of the general image of governments and companies that they often think of.
And now, Il-hyun, thinking about two cases, shook his head.
“No. Either way, you’ll make a lot of money, but you can’t get the ether core you need right now. It’s useless.”
Whether it’s government or business, it’s the same to get huge profits from ether and hire Awakeners with that money. Naturally, without ether, the profits of businesses and governments also disappear.
In other words, if you say you hunted a monster, you can’t use the ether from it freely.
All the ether cores obtained by catching monsters are used or sold to companies and governments that are not Awakened, and the appropriate price is converted into money and paid to the Awakened.
If so, I have no choice but to act individually. I’ve never committed a crime, but this is a big deal.
As it is a problem directly related to security and national safety, gates are managed and controlled by the state.
All the Awakeners who worked as companies or crews work with the permission of the country.
Unless in an emergency, it was strictly illegal to enter the field without permission and hunt monsters without permission.
Although, in this situation, finding an ether was strictly by chance.
Oh, I already stole one from the scene.
Il-hyun laughed as he recalled what he had done on his way to work.
He reasoned that the first one was usually the hardest, and then the second one. At this, his heart became lighter.
I can’t help it.
Il-hyun turned on his cell phone and hurriedly searched for information about gates in Korea.
There were several. He found the one he needed.
E-rank gate.
It was the lowest-grade gate, whose monsters can be easily suppressed with ether firearms.
“It’s perfect.”
This gate was expected to appear in Suwon after 7 hours and was being controlled by the Dane Company in combat.
He got up from his seat and changed his clothes.