Hwang Ha-na's Status Window (2)
Hwang Ha-na.
Trait: Severing Dark King [S].
Skills.
▶ 「Severing Slash [S]」.
▶ 「Dark King's Speed [A]」.
▶ 「Ambush [A]」.
▶ 「Stealth [A]」.
▶ 「Mana Manipulation [B]」.
▶ 「Extinction [B]」.
▶ 「Intimidation [B]」.
▶ 「Detection [C]」.
▶ 「Tracking [C]」.
▶ 「Wayfinding [C]」.
… (and so on).
Stats.
▶ 「Strength: 89」.
▶ 「Agility: 101」.
▶ 「Stamina: 81」.
▶ 「Mana: 77」.
'Mi... insane.'
A hunter who just entered the B-rank zone?
Lee Do-hyeon swallowed hard, utterly unable to put into words the monstrous stats before him.
Skill 「Rush」 [D] increased by 1.
Skill 「Stealth」 [E] increased by 1.
Skill 「Severing Slash」 [E] increased by 1.
Skill 「Tracking」 [E] increased by 1.
Skill 「Detection」 [E] increased by 1.
Skill 「Wayfinding」 [E] increased by 1.
Skill 「Mana Manipulation」 [E] increased by 1.
[Current stats have reached their limit.]
No stat increase occurred from the skill analysis.
Unable to obtain AP because the status window could not be analyzed due to AP consumption.
Finally, Lee Do-hyeon had succeeded in viewing Hwang Ha-na's status window.
Thanks to her assassin and spy-type traits like Kang Ji-hoon's, many of her skills had gained experience levels.
Meanwhile, as Do-hyeon stared at Hwang Ha-na like this, she felt the same strange sensation she had when she first saw him, and gazed at him with a strange expression.
Once again, it was the same as before. That gaze that seemed to pierce through everything.
What was she looking at?
“What did you say?”
“Y-yes? Ah, no. I’m sorry.”
She had made a mistake. She must have been staring too intently.
Realizing this, Do-hyeon apologized, and Hwang Ha-na shifted her seat with an uneasy feeling.
“Then we’ll see each other again later.”
“Yes, please enter.”
After parting ways with Hwang Ha-na, Do-hyeon was thrilled. What a twist of fate.
Even though he hadn’t gained any skill upgrades, he had only gained experience levels, it was still a considerable gain.
Moreover.
Skill 「Rush」 [D] increased by 1.
Skill 「Stealth」 [E] increased by 1.
Skill 「Severing Slash」 [E] increased by 1.
Skill 「Tracking」 [E] increased by 1.
Skill 「Detection」 [E] increased by 1.
Skill 「Wayfinding」 [E] increased by 1.
Skill 「Mana Manipulation」 [E] increased by 1.
‘What is this twist of fate.’
Unfortunately, since he couldn’t obtain the skills, he had no idea how much AP it would cost, but now that he could view the status window, he could gather AP and obtain the skills.
Especially.
‘I really want that Dark King’s Speed and Extinction.’
He had shrugged off the other skills, but these two seemed like skills only the Severing Dark King could have, so his curiosity was piqued even more.
Dark King’s Speed probably felt similar to Sword King’s Intuition.
‘It must be his main skill, right?’
Each S-grade trait had a main skill.
There were only two comparisons, so he couldn’t be certain, but it probably was.
If he ever got a chance to see it up close, maybe he could obtain it, but that seemed unlikely.
Do-hyeon clicked his tongue in regret, scanning his surroundings, but nothing unusual happened after that.
Waiting for dinner in regret, he enjoyed the unexpected news during the meal.
* * *
The first day at the Seoul Hunter Training Center was chaotic for the trainees, but the instructors were no different.
By the end of the first day, after dinner, but the real busyness had been before that, so the instructors had to gather for a meeting after finishing their work.
Including Chief Instructor Hwang Ha-na, physical training and medical instructor Choi Pil, information education instructor Kim Ae-rim, sparring education instructor Kang Ji-hoon, and finally practical training instructors Shin Ji-yeon, Jeong Yu-jin, and Yoon Sang-woo, all seven instructors gathered, and the meeting began.
Of course, the meeting wasn’t about results or growth.
Since it was the first day, results and growth were meaningless.
But this batch was different.
“The growth rate of trainee Lee Do-hyeon is alarming.”
To Choi Pil’s words, all except information education instructor Kim Ae-rim nodded in agreement.
They had no choice.
When Choi Pil saw him doing physical training from dawn, he saw that in the final practical training, Do-hyeon’s movements had grown to an inexplicable level.
Kang Ji-hoon who had seen him in sparring was the same.
They often said babies grow rapidly, but Do-hyeon’s growth rate was so steep in such a short time that words couldn’t describe it.
At that moment, Kang Ji-hoon spoke up.
“Honestly, trainee Lee Do-hyeon’s growth rate is at an inexplicable level.”
To Kang Ji-hoon’s words, Shin Ji-yeon, Jeong Yu-jin, and Yoon Sang-woo also agreed.
“Really. Leaving aside trainee Do-hyeon, trainee Ji Yu-chan is at a level that doesn’t make sense either.”
“Ji Yu-chan also had an unprecedented growth rate, but trainee Do-hyeon surpassed it.”
“Numbers that don’t make sense.”
To those words, Hwang Ha-na had no choice but to nod as well.
Even the videos and materials they had seen until now were impossible to describe, and now she wondered if he was a villain who had hidden his strength and entered as a low-rank hunter.
But mana measurement couldn’t be hidden no matter what, so there was no instructor who truly thought that.
“And during my training time, I saw him watch my techniques once and copy them perfectly.”
“…Hmm.”
“That’s really unbelievable.”
“He watched the techniques once and copied them?”
“It’s not believable, but since we’ve been doing this, we have no choice but to believe it.”
The instructors, who were hunters, had no choice but to express their displeasure about this.
The techniques they had mastered weren’t something they could obtain for free. Most didn’t receive manuals.
Of course, they were techniques they had learned from manuals they had bought with points from hunting monsters in the Black Gates, but the idea of someone obtaining them for free after watching once felt strange.
Anyone would feel the same if someone used their expensive purchase for free.
And since some even developed their own unique techniques that others didn’t have, recording others’ techniques was implicitly banned among hunters.
Breaking that would mean no one would question combat inside the Black Gates anyway.
But there was one problem.
“Then what about tomorrow?”
While the on-duty instructors were sighing in admiration, Kim Ae-rim asked that question. What about tomorrow?
To that, everyone thought for a moment.
What was happening tomorrow that made them behave like this?
If the trainees had heard this meeting, they would have wondered the same, but soon Hwang Ha-na spoke.
“Tomorrow’s schedule will proceed as planned with a skills demonstration and skills and magic education.”
Skills demonstration and skills and magic education.
The highlight of the Hunter Training Center’s curriculum.
Each hunter would find their best specialty, decide whether to learn skills or magic, and the instructors would demonstrate their own techniques and educate the trainees.
But now that a regular appeared who could learn techniques after watching them once, the instructors were worried that their secrets would be exposed.
But there was no choice.
Especially.
“There’s an agreement with the Magic Association, so we can’t delay it.” Because the day the magic instructor from the Magic Association would arrive was tomorrow’s magic education.
The instructors’ expressions turned a little displeased at the Magic Association’s story.
“Magic users.”
“Even if we have to….”
“It’s a bit awkward.”
In this society, hunters and magic users were treated equally, but the reality was a little different.
Awakening mana, entering the Black Gates, hunting monsters, and competing with other races were the same, but the essence was slightly different.
Ordinary hunters and magic users handled mana differently from the start.
Because of that, magic users always wanted to be called magic users and distinguished themselves from hunters, and eventually even created the Magic Association separate from the Hunter Association.
Although there were fewer of them than hunters, the scale was still inferior to the Hunter Association, but it wasn’t a loosely formed association.
It was a proper international association rooted in the United States, even recognized by the U.S. government, so no one could easily ignore it.
“Hoo, even so, they cooperate well, and since those with talent for magic can’t learn skills, coexistence is inevitable.”
“It’s inconvenient, but we have no choice.”
At first glance, it seemed like an elitist group, but it wasn’t exactly that. They accepted requests for cooperation from the Hunter Association well, and when it came to education-related matters, they always showed up.
Still, the instructors’ expressions were displeased.
“Hoo, magic users are all unlucky and annoying….”
“But we have no choice.”
“…That’s true.”
It was because magic users basically spoke arrogantly and unluckily.
Because they had overwhelming mana control compared to ordinary hunters, they tended to behave arrogantly.
For example, they would say things like “This control is very easy, so I’ll teach you with my sympathy” or “You need talent, so don’t bother trying,” which they liked to say openly.
After the magic users’ story caused a small commotion, Hwang Ha-na looked at the instructors and organized the situation.
Whatever the case, the arrival of the magic user was set, so they had to prepare beforehand or face uncomfortable situations.
And what worried her most now was Lee Do-hyeon.
“If trainee Lee Do-hyeon watched and copied once like Instructor Kang Ji-hoon said, we’ll have to think about a skills demonstration when the magic user arrives.”
“Magic?”
“Do we really need to worry about it?”
Except for Hwang Ha-na, who already knew that Do-hyeon had mastered magic, all the instructors looked at her with curiosity.
It wasn’t that those who could learn skills couldn’t learn magic, but the efficiency was extremely low. There were cases where they couldn’t learn anything while learning five skills.
Of course, there were people who had talent in both skills and magic.
People who used skills well and also used magic, similar to martial mages. But unfortunately, in such cases, the talents on both sides were often half-baked.
That’s why Do-hyeon, who showed such monstrous behavior as learning after watching once, didn’t apply here.
‘Trainee Lee Do-hyeon has already mastered magic. Even on his first day, just by reading a book alone.’
But Hwang Ha-na knew well that Do-hyeon had demonstrated genius in both, so she had spoken boldly.
However, there was a reason she didn’t say it outright.
‘It would be obvious they wouldn’t believe it anyway.’
Even the one who saw it directly, Hwang Ha-na, still doubted it, so if she said it, they wouldn’t believe it.
That’s why she could only say to prepare just in case.
Moreover, the instructors had already thought of the story.
“Even if trainee Lee Do-hyeon couldn’t copy the magic, the skills demonstration is fine, but since there won’t be a magic demonstration, let’s do a magic demonstration this time.”
“Hmm, and we’ll see if trainee Do-hyeon copies it.”
“Even if trainee Do-hyeon can’t, it’s good to have the magic user demonstrate the magic.”
“Yes, that’s right.”
Accepting the instructors’ opinion that it was fine, they nodded.
Usually, the instructors demonstrated the skills themselves, while the magic users only taught magic without demonstrating it, so it felt a bit unfair to the instructors.
Since it had come to this, some instructors accepted the idea of demonstrating the same way.
After moving to the next agenda and the meeting ending, Kim Ae-rim said she would tell the trainees’ dinner the schedule for tomorrow.
“Then the schedule will be announced by me.”
“Thank you.”
“……It was troublesome, but thanks.”
“As expected, Ae-rim!”
“Thank you!”
Everyone said that to the instructors, and Kim Ae-rim led them to the trainees’ cafeteria.
Since the guide was short, it ended quickly.
“I’ll tell you about tomorrow’s schedule. Unlike today, tomorrow you’ll spend most of your time learning skills and magic. Since today involved tests and practicals, which were tough, tomorrow you’ll have time to learn the techniques and magic demonstrated by the instructors and the magic from the magic association dispatched today.”
And at that moment, Kim Ae-rim looked at Do-hyeon’s eyes shining and tilted her head.
It didn’t seem like that high of an academic image, but she wondered why he seemed to like it more than expected, but since the attitude of trying hard was good, she just passed it over.
‘Could it be that he’s excited to learn everything after watching the techniques?’
Thinking that out of caution, she thought so, but she just smiled and passed it over.
Anyway, no matter what, Do-hyeon couldn’t learn magic as easily as skills, so Kim Ae-rim thought that as she headed back to the instructors’ building.
Suddenly.
‘Trainee Do-hyeon who looks like a genius in skills, even magic?’
Thinking alone, Kim Ae-rim smiled and shook her head.
There were rare people who used both skills and magic, but if Do-hyeon could do magic too, wouldn’t that be too unbelievable?
Thinking that, Kim Ae-rim smiled.
‘No way.’