Regress and Eat

You blink once, and the surroundings are completely changed.

Everything in reality disappeared, and the landscape that I had seen decades ago was reproduced.

I had a complicated feeling.

“Altar of Crucifixion! ”

The silver altar in the middle.

In the sky, a group of miraculous lights dances in a dazzling manner.

Landscapes that are not perceived as reality.

- Welcome to the Crucible Altar.

You hear a system message for the first time that Hunters are about to wake up.

However, the message I heard here was a little different from the message I was bored to hear after returning to reality.

Contrary to the general system message, such as what the machine says, a recollection of what I heard at the altar of crucifixion felt more like talking to the personality was also dominant among the hunters.

And the moment I heard that message here in a really long time,

I have hardened.

“Huh?"

What the hell is that?

Without awe of me, the system message continued to speak.

- Reaching this altar in any direction means that your dimension, or Earth, has entered the tutorial phase.

- Having a mission at the Crucible Altar and Awakening can affect the outcome of this tutorial you will face someday.

Will you accept the Awakening?

I was frightened not by the content of the message.

I stared up at the dazed altar.

'When I, Seung Hyun Choi, woke up, there was nothing like that.'

At that time, the Telepathy resounded around the silver altar with absolutely nothing.

But I can see it now.

Instead of blood and flesh, the human form that looks like it ‘consists of Mana' floats on the altar.

Looks close to the female body.

She lies comfortably in the air and looks focused on something.

What I was seeing were countless screen shapes floating in the air ahead. Each one is filled with letters, diagrams, and videos.

She looks at the screen and opens her mouth again without looking this way.

The system message echoes whenever you move your lips.

- I'm gonna ask you again. Do you want to accept the Awakening?

If you accept, you will become a Hunter, and if you refuse, you will simply return to your original world.

“ · · · · · ·. ”

I thought it would be possible to have a 'unilateral conversation’ with the system message, but I did not expect to see this.

I could see her face frowning at the screen.

And finally, he turned his head toward me.

- Will you accept the Awakening? Hm?

Two eyes meet.

I looked up at her at the right angle.

She noticed that, too.

- Huh?

The look on his face said, "No way." The suspicion gradually turns into awe.

The face of blue Mana distorts and the embarrassment spreads like a wave.

She stares at me and suddenly moves her body.

Without saying anything, move round to the left with the surrounding screen as you lie comfortably in the air.

My eyes are drawn to the left, following that trajectory.

Her eyes widen even more when she saw her gaze follow.

- No way!

This time, I moved horizontally to the other side.

My eyes quietly pursued her again.

Then, she emits a scream-like system message, composed of blue mana.

- Can you see me now?

*

Heavy debris.

The day when there were so many gates on Earth without any precedent and they were brutally connected to the intermediate dimensions of the dungeon.

The monsters poured out of the gates lured humanity away, and some of the people who fought each other's way were summoned to a place called the Crucible Altar.

They are the first-generation hunters who have gained superhuman abilities through their experience.

Later, as time passed and as more and more experience aroused, mankind came to realize one thing.

There is a difference between the system message heard at the altar of trials before Awakening and the message that returned to the world after Awakening.

After Awakening, the message is unilateral and close to updating the information.

However, the altar of crucifixion allowed two-way dialogue.

Humanity learned about this by allowing Hunter aspiring students to acquire a series of questionnaires in advance before they came in contact with the Awakening Stone.

What is a tutorial?

Why is Earth suddenly connected to other worlds, and how long will this last?

Who plans everything and for what purpose?

However, the message from the altar almost avoided answering humanity's most curious' critical question. ’

Although I was fortunate enough to answer, the Summoner unfortunately did not understand the meaning.

Testimony was followed as if part of the memory, or part of the language center, was blurry.

When I became obsessed a few times, the message threatened to expel the Summoner from the altar, so the Summoners had to give up and move on.

However, there was no mention of seeing this being before my eyes in any of the reflections depicting all this process.

- I've never seen anything like it. Hmph.

She seems to think about it for a moment, then shakes her head.

- I wonder what the harmony is, but I'm too busy to spend time on curiosity. Anyway, Summoner, will you accept my Awakening?

Why do I see it?

The reason is obvious. The opponent is Mana, so you can see it through [successor's eyes].

On the other hand, she doesn't seem to know why yet. Haven't you seen my unique skills?

“Before I do, I'd like to ask you a question. ”

- · · · · · Yes, question. I see.

And she's like, "Are you? 'I was bored with asking again.’

- I wish it were short and simple. Ask a question.

A nagging expression appears prominently above Mana's wave.

Those are the bodies of the system message against the Summoners here.

I brought up the question I was prepared for.

The messages here provide a perfectly understandable answer to categories that are not classified as definitive questions.

For example, it's not about the secrets of the world, it's not about the big picture, it's about the status of individuals.

I looked at the creature made of Mana and said,

“Am I able to awaken now? ”

Make questions more concrete

“Can I get a Awakening Seal, Awaken a unique skill, open a regular skill slot, connect to a system message, and be qualified to activate a potential Mana? ”

Manah's aggregates replied:

- Mana, hidden in the Summoner's body, is strong enough to receive the Awakening Seal. So the Summoner, of course.

I frown rather than say it.

- Wait, what the hell?

I'm furious. This time, I flew to me biting all the surrounding windows.

Then he took his face right up to his nose and looked me straight in the eye with a very serious face.

My face reflects and shines in the blue eyes that look at me.

After a long time, she mutters.

Why is the Seal of Awakening embedded in the soul and not in the body?

I beg your pardon?

She tells me to wait for a while and then starts looking for someone desperately.

Somebody get over here. Hurry up!

After a while, a dark space splits long like a knife, and a similar entity pops out of it.

She, too, was a female figure shaped by a cluster of blue Mana.

The two beings started having serious conversations with me in front of them.

It's already sealed. To the soul.

The first one who welcomed me asked.

- Here's my question. Can I put a seal on a mortal like that? I've never seen anything like it.

- It's me, okay?

- According to regulations, there are three conditions under which a mortal can be sealed. Enter the Crucible Altar. Minimum Mana. Choose Awakening at your own discretion. You know what the first condition here means, don't you?

- Yeah, I know. Entering the altar has fulfilled some of its qualifications. Because the rule that mortals who have already been awakened cannot enter the altar of crucifixion again · ·.

- No, wait. That, to be precise, wasn't the sentence you just said.

- Oh, I'm busy. Should we just put a seal on the body and send it? Well, it's the soul that's sealed, and it's not in the body yet.

- I'm in trouble! What happens if people like us (# # #) make careless decisions and break the rules · ·.

For the first time, I remembered a piece of telepathic content that I couldn't understand.

There was something digging into the consciousness, but as many hunters testified, they couldn't understand the meaning of the fog.

At the same time, the woman asked with a flawed surprise.

- Can I say that in front of mortals?

- Force will filter it out anyway.

- Oh, is that so?

By the way.

A system message came to mind again.

It was not a message like a conversation between two beings in front of him, but a dull Telepathy that he had always heard after the Hunter Awakening.

- [Successor's Eye (Rank: EX) detects forced interference.

- Attempts to recover a filtered semantic piece. · · · Recovery Complete!

The beings before me did not react as if I had not heard the message that resounded in my head.

Meanwhile, the parts of the conversation that I did not understand found form in my consciousness like a lie. Like the fog is lifting clean!

I could now see what it meant.

Meaning that it was just filtered. Those two beings called themselves the Spirit of War.

The conversation between the ministry spirits continues.

- Look at that soul! Seals on it, terminals on it. (# # # #). You're already connected, and you want me to wake up again?

Again, the meaning was blurred, and the effects of the successor's eyes were again in the cognitive range.

The filtered word this time was (control personality).

In summary, I have a Awakening Seal on my soul, and a terminal linked to my control personality?

- I can't do this. If we talk to each other, there's no answer. Expand the rules of business.

As soon as he said that.

Roll!

The area around the Crucible Altar begins to tug, rattle, and shake.

“What the hell!”

A large stature spear suddenly tears through the darkness, incomparable to the existing stature spears surrounding the two spirits.

The blue Mana barrier that covers most of my vision overwhelms me and my spirits. I felt like an ant standing in front of a herd of elephants.

Within the walls of Mana, numerous letters and figures flow like a mighty river. I wondered if I could decipher that, too, but it was too fast to get into the cognitive realm.

Spirits stare into the barrier-like Mana Statue Window and nod.

Then we looked into each other's eyes.

- Oh, yeah?

- I see.

The spirit who first greeted me here said.

- I was mistaken. It is not part of the business regulations to declare that mortals who have already awakened cannot enter the altar of crucifixion. Here's the rule book. Immortals who have already been given the seal of Awakening in the flesh cannot enter the Altar of Crucible.

- Meanwhile, the Summoner's body is clean.

- That's why I was able to enter the altar. There is no law against the position of mortals sealed in souls.

- In the beginning, there was no mention of a seal on the soul.

- There's no regulation yet.

- No, I don't. It's a regulatory gap.

He nodded again.

Roll!

As the space fluctuates, the massive Mana Wall hides its tracks.

After eliminating the so-called work rules, the spirits turned their gaze at me.

- Summoner, let me answer your question.

I swallowed a dry saliva.

- Upon examination of the full text of the work regulations, there were no regulations that prevented the seal from being placed on the body of the mortal sealed on the soul.

I endured wanting to call joy into my heart.

I need to hear the answer more clearly.

“Does this mean that if I want to, I can keep the seal on my body steady, without damaging the seal of the soul, and thus obtain a ‘new’ unique skill? ”

The Spirit replied.

- Yes, it is.

I fully understood

I was able to retain Choi Seung-hyun's unique skill [Accessory's Eye] while possessed, because the Awakening Seal of my past life followed with my soul, and the unique skill attributed to it survived.

And now, like normal hunters, you get another seal on your body?

Can obtain another unique skill attributed to a Seal.

Become the first Hunter to have two unique · · · skills!

I only shouted in my heart because I wanted to scream.

You were right! ’

The first question I had.

What will happen if I contact the Awakening Stone in my current state?

In a way, it was an adventure.

The fact that Seo Jin-wook's body has enough potential to become a hunter confirms the fact that he postponed the incident. Nevertheless, if you do not have an Awakening Stone reaction, you can raise unnecessary suspicions.

If they start to doubt whether I've already Awakened, a workup will be conducted and the problem becomes very complicated.

Suspected of forcibly Awakening a minor may result in sanctions and permanent suspension of activity in the interest of the Celestial Dragon Guild suspected of being a perpetrator of forced awakening.

But I was expecting it to come to a conclusion from the spirits.

After all, there were no seals on the body.

And I was right.

- I'm sorry it took so long. No more questions. Summoner, do you accept the Awakening?

There was no more hesitation.

“Yes!”

The spirits nod.

- Awakening, proceeding.

At that moment.

A light came from the altar of crucifixion and touched me.

Immediately, there is a sense of uplifting in the body. Clear changes have begun.

“Ahh!”

All my senses were pouring out of my body, then mixed with the surrounding space and flowing back into my body like a waterfall.

The chaotic energy breaks down in it and repeats its reuniting.

It's been a long time since I've felt it.

After such a short time.

- Done.

Whee!

The field of view changes quickly and the surrounding landscape changes to the reception room.

We're back on Earth! '

There was a glance that filled my expectations, but I couldn't bear to look at them.

As the body awakens, the Mana stored on the core appears to be quantified.

- Active Mana: 400/400

- Potential Mana: 71,600

I tried to open my mouth.

Active Mana at the Awakening Point is not bad enough.

The current limit of Manatong available is 400 and nothing has been consumed yet, which means of course it is full.

What's really amazing is the potential. I felt different from when I perceived it with my blurred senses and when I saw it with shame.

That means that as we train and consume Mana frequently, Manatong can be expanded by an additional 71,600.

In other words, a maximum of 72,000 is possible.

The last thing I remember, Hibiki the Great was about 50,000 mangoes.

My heart is beating just by checking this far, but I need to confirm more important things.

I shouted in my heart.

‘Check your acquisition skills! ’

A stiff tone repeats me, unlike when I just spoke to spirits.

It was a system message I was used to.

- The details of the unique skills obtained by the user are as follows:

The next moment I checked the description, my eyes grew wide as if they were popping out.

Awakening (2) > End