The Genius of One Lin
In the real world, hunters learn technology and magic through many different methods. [LT]p[GT]
The first way is to imagine and create your own technologies or spells yourself. No one among the current hunters on Earth has ever been able to do it. [LT]p[GT]
Sometimes it was said that the other races inside the Black Gates invented technologies and magic. [LT]p[GT]
The second way was to pay points and buy manuals. It was the most universal and the most common method. [LT]p[GT]
However, the difficulty was not that easy. Even though basic technologies and basic magic were easy in theory, dealing with unfamiliar mana made it abstract, and because each person’s way of controlling mana differed slightly, they ran into many setbacks. [LT]p[GT]
That was why the third method was born. [LT]p[GT]
The final third method was for someone who had already mastered a technology or magic to pass it on to others. [LT]p[GT]
Of the three, it had the easiest difficulty and was the easiest to attempt, so the Hunter Training Center adopted this method too. [LT]p[GT]
It was not just that the training center’s flowers and the trainees who had entered the training center were excited. [LT]p[GT]
One Group was unable to hide the excitement from the news. [LT]p[GT]
“Wow! Finally we’re learning technology!” [LT]p[GT]
“Hoo, I hope it’s something that suits my aptitude.” [LT]p[GT]
“There’s at least one, right?” [LT]p[GT]
Dohyun had the same feeling of excitement. He had spent a long time thinking whether he could see Hwang Hana’s technology, but seeing a technology demonstration?! [LT]p[GT]
It was like rolling in on a plate of rice cakes. [LT]p[GT]
Severing Dark King’s speed and Extinction. [LT]p[GT]
He had thought about how he could see both, but it was so easy that the opportunity came to him! Dohyun felt as if the world was helping him. [LT]p[GT]
Things worked out this way too. [LT]p[GT]
‘If I’m lucky, I can learn both?’ [LT]p[GT]
Around the time his mind was filled with such dreams, Kim Min-a said excitedly, watching the group members with a thrilled expression. [LT]p[GT]
“By the way, did you hear? A mage is coming!” [LT]p[GT]
“Right! Whoa, I didn’t know you could see mages.” [LT]p[GT]
“They say you need exceptional mana sensitivity, is that really true?” [LT]p[GT]
“……?” [LT]p[GT]
Dohyun tilted his head in confusion. It was as if seeing that a mage was coming made her seem too excited. [LT]p[GT]
Dohyun had watched many videos about hunters, but he didn’t know the difference between mages and hunters, so he was like that when Kim Min-a noticed his expression and asked in return. [LT]p[GT]
“Huh? Dohyun Oppa, don’t you know much about mages?” [LT]p[GT]
“Yeah. Is there a difference between hunters and mages?” [LT]p[GT]
“Oh, I see. It’s natural to not know if you’re not interested.” [LT]p[GT]
When Dohyun asked, Kim Yong-chan also seemed not to know, secretly listening with his ears. As Dohyun focused on the explanation, Kim Min-a, who knew it best, explained. [LT]p[GT]
“Ah, there is a difference. Hunters include mages, but there are people who handle mana especially well. To use magic, you need a certain level of mana control, and that standard is quite high. That’s why mages are said to be very few in number.” [LT]p[GT]
“Ah, I see.” [LT]p[GT]
Then, among the traits Dohyun had seen, was the mage trait rare? [LT]p[GT]
But that was it. [LT]p[GT]
‘Kim Min-a and Han Junseo both have the mage trait.’ [LT]p[GT]
It was a trait with one in each group. [LT]p[GT]
Suddenly Dohyun tilted his head curiously and asked as if he had become a student. [LT]p[GT]
“Eh? Then what about buffers or healers?” [LT]p[GT]
“Compared to regular hunters, if you fall into the mage category, there are cases where there is aptitude for healer or buffer. They say it feels like the mana being handled is of a different nature rather than mana control.” [LT]p[GT]
“Oh, thanks.” [LT]p[GT]
Because he didn’t know there were such differences, Dohyun said thank you as if his curiosity had been resolved and smiled faintly. [LT]p[GT]
Meanwhile, Dohyun recalled the basic magic Fire that he had first read when he entered the training center. [LT]p[GT]
It was magic he had learned immediately with Analysis, so he hadn’t thought it was special. But it seemed harder than he thought. [LT]p[GT]
‘Learning magic is harder than I thought. But when you think about it, I’m using it really easily?’ [LT]p[GT]
Thinking about it, he hadn’t consciously thought about it, but the way to use whatever he analyzed was naturally input into his mind. [LT]p[GT]
Thanks to that, he reproduced the method without intending to, and because the process was so fast and accurate, it looked like he was just using a skill, but the method of use was perfectly orthodox. [LT]p[GT]
But Dohyun could not even guess how that was possible. [LT]p[GT]
‘Analysis really is OP.’ [LT]p[GT]
It turned every single thing he saw into input in his mind, allowing him to learn it. [LT]p[GT]
Thinking that awakening Analysis was truly a stroke of luck, Dohyun was lost in thought when the other group members were still talking among themselves. [LT]p[GT]
“So that’s why there were so few mages.” [LT]p[GT]
“Yeah. Maybe that’s why the Mage Association feels a little more powerful.” [LT]p[GT]
“I heard the same.” [LT]p[GT]
“Then can mages not use technologies?” [LT]p[GT]
When Park Ye-seul asked that, recalling what Kim Min-a had heard, Kim Min-a muttered while thinking. [LT]p[GT]
“If a mage has talent, they usually can’t do well with technology. It’s like the body grows instead, but mana control grows. Usually, if regular hunters grow physically quickly and get stronger, mages grow mana quickly, so efficiency is different.” [LT]p[GT]
“Oh? Then even for hunters, magic efficiency is not good?” [LT]p[GT]
“Yeah, that’s what they say. So they say when both can be used, both are mediocre.” [LT]p[GT]
“Ah, then Dohyun-hyung can’t use magic? Because he’s a monster with technology.” [LT]p[GT]
“Is that so?” [LT]p[GT]
When Jeong Min-woo said that, Kim Min-a nodded in agreement. [LT]p[GT]
Even though Dohyun was a crazy genius, would he learn magic too? Kim Min-a had agreed, and the other group members also thought for a moment and nodded, unable to say otherwise. [LT]p[GT]
Because Dohyun could not have mediocre talent. [LT]p[GT]
After they talked like that, Dohyun tilted his head as if he had not heard the words properly and asked. [LT]p[GT]
“Eh? Did you call me?” [LT]p[GT]
“Ah, hyung is learning magic……” [LT]p[GT]
Jeong Min-woo was about to explain that if a person has talent in magic, efficiency in technology is poor, when Dohyun thought he was being called to use magic and spread his fingers to create fire and answered. [LT]p[GT]
“This?” [LT]p[GT]
Fwoosh— [LT]p[GT]
“??????” [LT]p[GT]
“Eh??” [LT]p[GT]
“Uwaa??” [LT]p[GT]
“What is this?!” [LT]p[GT]
“Eh? Wasn’t I supposed to cast magic?” [LT]p[GT]
The group members who were panicking and Dohyun who was even more panicking. [LT]p[GT]
Within that long gap between the two, the oldest member Kim Yong-chan asked Dohyun. [LT]p[GT]
“Eh, when did you learn it?” [LT]p[GT]
“Ah, I heard I could go to the record room on the first day I entered, so I went there and read the book…” [LT]p[GT]
Dohyun was not an idiot, so he had sensed that something was subtly off and trailed off, but it was already too late. [LT]p[GT]
The group members who heard the story made blank expressions and shook their heads. [LT]p[GT]
“Crazy. No, just by reading a book…” [LT]p[GT]
“……Real crazy monster…” [LT]p[GT]
“Hoo, Instructor Ji-hoon was wrong.” [LT]p[GT]
“……Exactly.” [LT]p[GT]
Everyone was envious but unable to say it when Dohyun stood up embarrassedly, put out the fire, and said, [LT]p[GT]
“Ahem, see you tomorrow.” [LT]p[GT]
Dohyun had accidentally shown off, so he hurriedly avoided the seat, and the other group members could only smile faintly as they watched him leave. [LT]p[GT]
There had to be a certain gap. It was natural that no jealousy would arise with that much of a gap. [LT]p[GT]
Instead, [LT]p[GT]
“He really is amazing.” [LT]p[GT]
“Exactly. I never thought Dohyun Oppa would have talent in magic too……” [LT]p[GT]
“Eh? Then not the first time?” [LT]p[GT]
“If it’s Dohyun, he can.” [LT]p[GT]
“I searched and there’s still no one who dominates both.” [LT]p[GT]
When Kim Min-a said vaguely that it wasn’t the first, the youngest Jeong Min-woo, who searched the fastest, answered. [LT]p[GT]
He said there had never been such a person in the world, and everyone gradually realized it. [LT]p[GT]
“If it’s Dohyun Oppa, of course.” [LT]p[GT]
“Yeah, that’s true.” [LT]p[GT]
“Dohyun-hyung is obviously that.” [LT]p[GT]
Everyone passed it off. [LT]p[GT]
Thinking of the overwhelming performance Dohyun showed, it was not that strange. The One Group members had become a bit strange as their standards changed, but they could not realize it. [LT]p[GT]
On the other hand, feeling as if something was wrong, Dohyun went to his dorm room and searched, and knowing that usually only one of the two had talent, he shook his head. [LT]p[GT]
He had not thought that using only one of them would be natural. [LT]p[GT]
‘Ugh. I ended up boasting.’ [LT]p[GT]
Somehow he had ended up boasting, but since the group members were kind, he thought it would be okay. Dohyun fell asleep like that. [LT]p[GT]
He had been waiting, expecting the technology and magic demonstration tomorrow. [LT]p[GT]
*** [LT]p[GT]
Despite Korea having a hunter pool worthy of calling it a superpower, it was called a barren land for magic. [LT]p[GT]
There was no choice, because even if there were few mages, Korea had a serious case. [LT]p[GT]
If even one talented mage worthy of being called a prodigy had appeared among the few mages, it would not have reached this point. However, for 15 years no notable mage had appeared. [LT]p[GT]
But now that story was old. [LT]p[GT]
The person who replaced the number one of the existing Hunter Training Center and broke Hwang Hana’s record that had not been broken for five years was none other than a mage. [LT]p[GT]
That was the story from just two months ago. [LT]p[GT]
Hana Rin. [LT]p[GT]
The best magic genius born in Korea and a genius acknowledged by world magic geniuses. [LT]p[GT]
It was not just that Korea was excited; a genius certified by the International Mage Association. [LT]p[GT]
That was why the Korea Mage Association tried desperately to wrap her up. Even two months after graduating from the Hunter Training Center, she had not been allowed to enter the Black Gates. That was proof. [LT]p[GT]
That was why the head of the Seoul branch of the Mage Association, Park Hyun-woo, who was once the largest branch in the land called a barren land for magic, today had no choice but to receive an earful. [LT]p[GT]
In the center of the Mage Association’s office, sitting deeply on the sofa with his legs crossed, Park Hyun-woo looked at the woman and thought, [LT]p[GT]
‘Hah, this is a problem.’ [LT]p[GT]
In front of Park Hyun-woo sat a beauty with a somewhat cold demeanor, whose face looked like she had just turned twenty, but she had an air of excessive ease as if this were her own living room. [LT]p[GT]
However, her current appearance, where faint blue light like mana flowed and seemed to live and move with each strand, told him that her mood was not good. [LT]p[GT]
“Why can’t I send her?” [LT]p[GT]
Arms crossed, she tapped her arm with her fingertips in a steady rhythm. [LT]p[GT]
Her eyes were calm but sharp, and every time the sharp eyes were occasionally grazed by blue light, her gaze became even sharper. That gaze had an oddly constricting power. [LT]p[GT]
Was it really only three months since she had awakened mana? [LT]p[GT]
It was not strange that the words “the best genius mage born in Korea” had come out. [LT]p[GT]
Park Hyun-woo looked at Hana Rin’s sharp eyes and scratched his head as if he was in trouble. [LT]p[GT]
What she requested was simple. [LT]p[GT]
To be sent to the Seoul Hunter Training Center. [LT]p[GT]
The reason was simply to see Hwang Hana who had broken the previous record. [LT]p[GT]
It was a somewhat absurd reason, but in fact it was not impossible. [LT]p[GT]
‘Naturally, she has the ability to teach the trainees that surpasses the mark.’ [LT]p[GT]
But there was also the position of the Mage Association. It was not that she had not been sent to the Black Gates even though two months had passed since she graduated from the Hunter Training Center. [LT]p[GT]
She still needed more education. [LT]p[GT]
And also, [LT]p[GT]
‘She is still too young.’ [LT]p[GT]
Hana Rin, a genius that even the world recognizes as comparable, everyone agreed. Park Hyun-woo agreed too. However, she was too young to send out into the world right now. [LT]p[GT]
She was already twenty-one, but it was not about age. [LT]p[GT]
Because Hana Rin, who was arrogant yet playful, might act out anywhere, they had to hold her back for now, but it seemed like the time had come. [LT]p[GT]
Looking at Hana Rin’s eyes that were high and slightly arrogant, Park Hyun-woo cautiously opened his mouth. [LT]p[GT]
“So, Hana Rin’s career……” [LT]p[GT]
When Park Hyun-woo was about to talk about her career, Hana Rin did not unfold her arms and raised flames in the air. [LT]p[GT]
One of the basic magics, Fire. [LT]p[GT]
But that was not the end. [LT]p[GT]
Wind blew around the flames, and suddenly stone fragments, ice fragments, water droplets floating in the air, and small sparks flew around the flames, merging into one and disappearing simultaneously, spreading out around. [LT]p[GT]
Even if one handled only one attribute, it was recognized as a mage, but Hana Rin showed that she handled six attributes at the same time. [LT]p[GT]
No matter who said it, there was an overwhelming gap that could not be followed in basic magic. [LT]p[GT]
And Hana Rin said proudly, [LT]p[GT]
“Career is covered by skill.” [LT]p[GT]
“……” [LT]p[GT]
“Is there anyone in the Korea Mage Association who uses basic magic better than me now?” [LT]p[GT]
“……” [LT]p[GT]
There is none. [LT]p[GT]
“Then even with theory, is there anyone who knows better than me?” [LT]p[GT]
“……” [LT]p[GT]
The same. [LT]p[GT]
Hana Rin, who had a slight smile without smiling because her mouth was slightly upturned, had an undercurrent of laughter, but as the corner of her mouth rose, the air in the room became strangely heavy. [LT]p[GT]
Within that heavy air, Hana Rin asked Park Hyun-woo, who had nothing to say. [LT]p[GT]
“Then what is the reason you can’t send me?” [LT]p[GT]
“Huuu.” [LT]p[GT]
Logically, Park Hyun-woo’s mouth was blocked, so he could not help but feel frustrated. [LT]p[GT]
Looking at the troubled Park Hyun-woo, Hana Rin smiled faintly and asked him, [LT]p[GT]
“Then what is the real reason you can’t send me? Are you just bored and about to cause trouble?” [LT]p[GT]
“……That’s—” [LT]p[GT]
With a playful smile, Park Hyun-woo shook his head. [LT]p[GT]
He was not worried about causing trouble. Although she was young, she had accurate judgment. [LT]p[GT]
But the arrogant personality was the problem. [LT]p[GT]
He had worried that trouble might arise, but there was no choice. [LT]p[GT]
Because she was so eager, there was no reason to stop her, so Park Hyun-woo raised both hands and said, [LT]p[GT]
“Understood. We will dispatch Narin.” [LT]p[GT]
When Park Hyun-woo said that, Hana Rin smiled strangely as if she was satisfied and said, [LT]p[GT]
“Good. Then I’ll go and come back well.” [LT]p[GT]
Looking at the back of Hana Rin leaving with a smile, Park Hyun-woo thought bitterly. [LT]p[GT]
‘I hope nothing happens.’ [LT]p[GT]
Or rather… [LT]p[GT]
‘If she makes a big mistake there, maybe she’ll calm down a bit?’ [LT]p[GT]
He hoped Hana Rin would learn something at the Hunter Training Center too, but he did not think Korea would lower her pride, so Park Hyun-woo quickly gave up and focused on the remaining work. [LT]p[GT]
Hoping nothing bad happened, Park Hyun-woo submitted the report accepting the dispatch of Hana Rin. [LT]p[GT]