Chapter 15 - First Task (1/2)

First Task

He had two choices.

To either remain a scavenger or enter Aegis.

It was, in fact, a no brainer. Fortunately, such a beneficial opportunity introduced itself. He couldn’t be a scavenger forever, and he was offered all the conditions he wanted.

Nevertheless, he didn’t answer right away due to the irregularity of the situation. He was invited to the place where the best in the world were gathered. Additionally, he was offered recruitment at such an odd situation and by the team that he had just fought with.

Of course, with his abilities, he assumed that he would be in such a situation someday once he became stronger, but he didn’t think he’d be offered the opportunity this quickly.

The conditions were excellent.

To start with, one of the essential conditions was the salary portion; the company organized it so that the awakened divided the value of the core obtained fifty-fifty. Il-hyun thought that eighty-twenty was a lot of money, but if he belonged to a different company other than Aegis, he wouldn’t be exempted from the country’s huge taxes.

Overseas, in particular, where there was a shortage of human resources, consigned work with further compensation, and that alone would be worthwhile.

Better yet, he was not tied to the terms of the contract, and he could leave whenever he wanted to.

Over time, the treatment of contracted awakened had improved thanks to the fact that the executives themselves became awakened since the incident ten years ago.

Thanks to this, rather than pursuing the maximum profit, they made many proactive investments and have many gate-related technologies developed.

“So, I signed a contract.”

Il-hyun, who was lying on the sofa, looked into his phone and scratched his head.

He was still spending his second day at home, even after signing the contract.

Due to the nature of the Aegis company, there was no training or education program to raise prospects, and there was nothing to be done.

It was not helpful to Il-hyun, who was a predator in growth.

In the same vein, there was no need for a training center or training room in the company. Il-hyun heard when he became contracted that the contract would be put into action right away.

However, there was no action.

They said they would call him when something happened, but there has not been any news for two days.

He feared that they might have forgotten about him.

“What… I’ve heard about it before signing the contract.”

That’s not to say that Il-hyun didn’t expect anything at all.

Lee Soo-yeon told him in advance that there would be fewer jobs momentarily.

The Aegis A team, which had been dispatched to South America for some time, returned to South Korea.

It was a relatively narrow area compared to the other continental regions. The fact that the area was narrow meant that the gate was less likely to come out and was more convenient for them.

Not only that.

Being part of securing ether and diplomatic activities, the Korean government response team was active abroad. There was also a government response team that handled most of the high-ranking gates in Korea, reducing their work.

In fact, due to their home country’s symbolism, they interchanged teams and alternated vacations.

Though they rotated swiftly, he still thought it was a vacation and was a little reluctant to do anything while waiting.

Il-hyun sat up from a lying position and picked up his phone.

He was playing games to get inspiration to use for his future summons.

“A wolf with a horn?”

Il-hyun, who was swayed by the monsters coming out of the game, woke up while covering his cell phone.

Then, using the summoning ability, he began to form it as he had seen. However, there was a slight difference from his usual procedure. He did not use the transformation ability before summoning the monster.

The wolf appeared in the air from nothing.

“Hmm… It’s great, but I don’t know why it has horns there.”

Il-hyun shook his head as if he was not pleased.

He thought it would be better to increase the concentration of horns on the forehead.

“Anyway, I’m somewhat used to the summoning ability.”

Going forward, even if he did not use it with his transformation ability, he could still summon a monster without a base.

But, of course, it was still more efficient to use the ability as he did previously.

It took less power and was easy to maintain.

It was much more effective to use it together unless it was an unusual situation.

“Transformation and summoning, it’s fortunate that they synergize so well.”

Il-hyun, who summoned the horned wolf, picked up the paper on the table.

It was the result of the first contract condition; it was the awakened class inspection results—the intellect portion was omitted due to consideration by the company.

The test showed a rough grade by measuring numerous items such as body vision, muscle strength, and acceleration with a complicated device.

Awakening-grade testing was a fairly complex process and costly.

However, even though it was not mandatory, and even after considering the high cost, almost every person who awakened measured it periodically.

It was a test that has been proven to be quite reliable; it gave information that was vital for gauging a person’s current capacity. It was better to know your limits, and challenge monsters appropriate to your level rather than going in blindly and dying.

“I just barely got C-rank.”

It was higher than what he thought it would be.

Even a veteran awakener had to work for at least ten years under normal circumstances to reach the C-rank. That was also only applicable when the awakener had above-average talent.

It was said that the higher the level of awakening, the more difficult it became to grow to a higher level.

Even if the person had predation, it would have been impossible to grow steadily with only E rank cores. A turning point was needed; entering Aegis was the most conducive opportunity for him to grow.

But today, it was already past 6 pm, and there was no sign.

The sky continued to darken.

After checking his watch, Il-hyun hurriedly dressed up and left the house.

* * *

“Well? Didn’t you say you can’t come out because of work? “

“Sometimes, the schedule changes.”

Two friends sitting in a meat house looked at him with eyes wide open.

Il-hyun then came into the room with a smile.