Chapter 3 (2/2)

Awakening, monsters, and gates – each are all ranked.

Unlike Awakening and intelligence that can be determined by simple examination, as in the previous one, the combat power is measured through a fairly complicated process to determine the approximate grade of the awakening.

Most of the Awakeners are not able to take advantage of their ability, so it has nothing to do with the rank of the Awakener and the rank of the ability. Each one has a probability to get stronger, or weaker, depending on how they use their ability, and how much their body could handle it.

Among the ranks, the Class A Awakened was treated as an excellent veteran wherever he went, and Class B Awakened is a major national power.

Uninterested people in Korea will often only see the various A-ranked Awakeners on TV and ignore other ratings.

However, the A-ranked Awakened people were out-of-field, so there were usually not more than one or two people in any country.

It’s not long since I’ve been awakened.

Il-hyun roughly expected his grade to be E or F.

But he knew he would not stop there.

He remembered his SSS ranking from the test.

There is no such rank as ‘SSS’, although it includes the highest grade: S.

There are only four Class S Awakened in the world.

“It’s starting.”

Just then, the gate began to open.

The gate shook with a strange sound that seemed to scratch his nerves.

“It started!” The leader of the Dane Company group called out.

“All ready!” His colleagues responded, pulling out their weapons, bracing for battle.

Most of them had swords, but some had spears or axes.

All were weapons processed with ether.

“Key profit!” was their battle cry, as they watched dozens of monsters starting to pour out of the gate.

The monsters are red-skinned humanoid frogs called Forn.

Standing on both legs with a crude spear, Forns have a nasty face with red thorns on their back.

“Die!!!!”

Awakeners stormed the pouring Forn, then a fierce battle ensued.

The sound of their weapons echoed and reverberated as they clashed against each other. The Awakeners hacked the monsters in half one by one.

The Forns attack by bowing back and firing the stinger on their backs.

However, the Awakened deliberately did not even care about the flying sting, and did not even try to avoid them.

All of the attacks of these less powerful E-class monsters were blocked by the self-protection of the Awakeners’ defense coat, each stinger falling off uselessly after hitting the tough coat.

“Oh, is there any Awakener here who has the ability?”

Il-hyun said with admiration in the middle of a fight as the flames burst out of the hands of an Awakener.

This is the first battle scene of the Awakeners that he has witnessed, and he watched it excitedly.

“Okay!”

An Awakener with an ax screamed and cut off the necks of two Forns in one blow.

“Come out here!”

The man shouted when he saw one of the Forn stepping away from him, trying to exit the battle.

Although the Awakeners are superior in power, it was unreasonable to stop dozens of monsters from escaping with only nine members.

“Damn, it’s annoying to follow them”, the man complained.

Thanks to the special police, the monsters will not be able to get out of the barricade, but if you are stuck somewhere in the inner buildings near the barricade, you may encounter one.

The annoyed man turned and was forced to focus on the other Forn in front of him.

And this was when Il-hyun moved.

“It’s a building over there.”

Il-hyun happened to watch the Forn escape.

He came here to aim for monsters that escaped in battle from the beginning and now was the only chance.

He went to the building the monster had escaped to.

He had to make sure no one sees him as he entered the dark interior.

“Damn, I can’t even turn on the light.”

The electricity wasn’t cut off, but he couldn’t turn on the lights as he needed to remain unnoticed and not draw any attention.

Now that he had become an Awakener, he went inside, relying on his improved sensitivity.

“Kkeok, Kkeok.”

Forn’s cry was heard far and wide.

Il-hyun lowered his posture and chased after the sound, pulling out his knife – a fruit-cutting knife.

“Damn, I don’t have the money to buy an ether sword.”