Chapter 58 - Summon (1) (1/2)

Summon (1)

Il-Hyun opened his eyes.

He stayed asleep for a long time, but he looked around and saw a different atmosphere than usual.

The place where he was lying was inside a hospital room that looked neat, and outside the window, he was able to see the busy Aegis headquarters.

It was the same scenery he saw when he was admitted for the first time here, and Il-Hyun remembered what he had experienced.

If he’d think about it now, it was his chance to get into Aegis, and he believes it was a good thing, but at that time, he was honestly afraid of what would happen.

While looking outside and staying awake for some time, Il-Hyun turned his gaze and looked at the door, muttering, “The doors will open now.”

At that time, Lee Soo-Yeon came in shortly after she got up.

Snick!

And the door opened as if it were a perfect fit.

As if she had just been fighting, Lee Soo-Yeon appeared wearing a frozen-blooded coat.

Despite the mess on her face by filled with the dust, her beauty still remained, but her eyes seemed to have accumulated fatigue.

“How are you feeling?” Lee Soo-Yeon said in a slightly hoarse voice.

After returning from a single mission, she heard that Il-Hyun was awake and immediately went up to the medical room.

The medical staff was checking his physical condition 24 hours a day, so she could know immediately when he woke up even if no one was in the room.

“Ah… I think I slept a little longer… How long has it been?” Il-Hyun, who still has no sense of the situation, said slowly.

“One week.”

His mind flashed.

“Did I hear something wrong?”

Asked Il-Hyun, whose eyes were round with her words.

“No. Your ears seem fine.”

Il-Hyun only touched his body here and there to see if there were any abnormalities.

The limbs remained intact, and moving on everywhere else was also excellent.

He inspected the injured part of the previous battle and stroked the bottom of his face.

A thin scar that started from one side of his left jaw was drawn down to the bottom of the bone.

“I cured it right away, but it didn’t heal everything. I think the monster you dealt with has the ability to hinder healing. It was a Nightmare.”

Nightmare.

It was the codename of the guy who got attached after the killing of Chaser’s mutated monster.

Whether there was any ability to prevent the wound from being healed, all the injuries suffered from the monster were healed.

It was that the body itself had a tremendous amount of self-healing power and that only one faint little scar remained because the world’s best medical staff took all the measures they could do.

Il-Hyun, who touched his cheeks, turned his legs and tried to descend from the bed.

But Lee Soo-Yeon pushed his forehead with one finger, and his head got wrapped in a fluffy pillow.

“You absorbed too much Ether, and it was a big strain on your body. It was inevitable, but you should be careful,” said Lee Soo-Yeon.

Il-Hyun’s body, which ate a considerable output of the A-rank core in an indirect absorption method, had an intense overload, and eventually passed out.

Even after a week or so, it felt like he had a large stone on his body.

“Is the situation over?”

“Thanks to the Nightmare, we finished without any damage after that. Your parents are safe,” Lee Soo-Yeon said slowly, and Il-Hyun sighed with relief and closed his eyes for a moment.

But soon, his face became dark again.

“Tae-hee is…”

Lee Soo-Yeon couldn’t find anything to say with what Il-Hyun had said.

There was silence in the room for a moment.

The sound of the clock’s second hand on the wall clicked, and Il-Hyun looked blankly at the ceiling.

“Would you like to see…?”

Lee Soo-Yeon broke the silence and opened her mouth.

“What?”

“Taehee.”

* * *

Last week, Il-Hyun solved the scene and collapsed.

A blood-stained Christmas day brought many things.

A huge station that can be seen several kilometers away, the A-ranked gate that appears in it, and over 100,000 people trapped together.

The deaths of famous awakened people and the massive damage.

As such, the scale of the incident was so grand that the government was limited in hiding it.

The best thing the government could do right now was to bring out other topics while reducing the amount of disaster known to people as much as possible.

Even so, people’s attention was all over the gate.

Also, as this happened in Korea, which was considered the safest gate safe zone so far, it has been widely reported to foreign countries.

One of the reasons for this is the mutant monster Nightmare, nicknamed the White Nightmare that appeared alongside the gate.

It overturned common sense.

The considerable force field surrounding it prevents outside intervention.

This kind of ability was the first to appear ultimately.

This time, a lot of damage had been reduced because of the miraculous performance of Il-Hyun, who was there by chance, but the chances of knowing where it would appear again are slim.

No matter how strong the Awakeners power, it was useless if you couldn’t approach and remove the monster.

If you don’t have a level of Awakener in the station to solve the gate, then you’re done.

It was a Korean city with a high percentage of Awakeners, but the problem was even worse if it appeared in another country.

From the citizens’ point of view, if they were caught without luck, they couldn’t even run away, and it was just that they had to die.

Besides, another reason for the topic was the death of Lee Tae-hee, the world’s best prospect, and the emergence of Il-Hyun.

Lee Tae-hee’s death, which was more popular than the Aegis’ team leader and prominent government people with promising and outstanding ability, was a huge shock among the public.