Regress and Eat

< Archeologist (1) >

Magic.

Every Awakening Skill is a miracle in the eyes of ordinary people, and it's hard to distinguish between magic and magic.

Hunters, on the other hand, distinguish magic by the following characteristics:

One. This is not a unique skill, but an elemental attribute such as fire, electricity, and water is granted.

Two. Since Mana is very consuming and slow to activate, it is essential to have an auxiliary item called 'Rune Stone’ with the same attribute as the skill.

3. Skill power varies greatly depending on skill level. It is very difficult to increase skill level if you do not have the talent to display a much more complex Mana pattern than other skills when activated.

Due to the final feature, Magic Skill Cards have already been given to Hunters who have proven their Mana Control ability by quickly raising other Skill Skill Skills in the guild.

Among such magical skill users, his former name was Amano Hibiki.

The name is the apocalypse.

There's a reason they're called that.

Because you can use all seven attribute spells?

No. In the future, Hunters who open additional skill slots are common and not without an Awakener who has mastered all seven mastery skills.

So, because she has superior Mana Control and giant Mana Barrels that distinguish her from other hunters?

Obviously, Hibiki's control was excellent, and 50,000 were the most active Mana of humanity at the time. However, it will have the same effect if you use other skills, not magic.

There is a different answer.

Her unique skill was the most crucial key that Hibiki was able to capture the pinnacle of humanity with magic.

[Multiple accidents ⁄ 2]

Being able to explain briefly and think of different kinds of thoughts at the same time. Multitasking of thinking beyond human limits.

This is impossible for me right now with the Eye of Successor and outstanding Mana control.

If you are a novice hunter relying solely on the system to trigger a skill, it is easy to trigger a few skills in turn with little time delay. All you have to do is think.

However, if you are a hunter who has started caring about his or her skill level and has reached a level where he or she can improve the performance of his or her skills, you should be aware of and intervene in complex Mana patterns with each skill you use.

It is impossible for the human brain to carry out these tasks simultaneously.

Hibiki's unique skill made it possible. The magical properties of combining only Mana without moving the body showed a fantastic match with [Multitasking].

The items belonging to her, [Ishard's Staff], were fitted with all seven runestone attributes and simultaneously burst a variety of magic to make the boss monster into powder.

“Let's get out of here. ”

“Yes, sir! No, yes! ”

Mitoshi, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. She is in this small town with a population of just over 300,000.

Me and Nate just got here by train from the airport.

“Wow · · ·! ”

Nate didn't know to keep his mouth shut.

It must have been a strange few days in D.C., but I came to a foreign country all of a sudden. Tons of Asians fill the streets with signs written in unfamiliar characters, and everything around them pops out.

I grabbed a hotel near the station and sent Nate in first.

“Mark my words. ”

“Yes, I remember everything! ”

Although Nate had been rescued from the lab not too long ago, Nate had already regained some of the personalities he had seen in the future.

Even after such a terrible event, my face is full of bright smiles and full of energy.

I can't stand the joy of everyday life.

He recites the cautions I have taught him.

“I don't show my friends in front of ordinary people! Don't break the beads your cat threw up, but collect them well! Don't train until Mana runs out, if you get dizzy, stop! ”

“Good.”

I went out into the street to meet Hibiki.

He had a lot of concerns about what he needed to make Hibiki his partner.

She is not trapped by anyone like Nate, and is an ordinary adult living a normal social life.

What does she need most at this point?

‘Hibikida.’

It was a bookstore downtown that found her.

When she lost her foster parents as a child, she retired from foster care two years ago and continues to make a living in various parts of her life.

A face that's a little younger than I've ever seen in my life. Her Awakening is three years from now.

As long as it's the truth.

“Well done. I'll be going home first. ”

After work, Hibiki changes her clothes and leaves. I prepared to follow.

I hear her little chattering from behind.

“Amano is still fierce today. I can't see you smiling but when you're dealing with customers. ”

“Isn't that a little offensive? You have to be quiet. There's no joy in people. I think I see dead people. ”

He spits it out behind his back and approaches Hibiki. His face was disguised as an American hunter.

“Excuse me.”

Hibiki turns her head. My eyes met.

"There is no joy · · · ·. ’

There was not even a pale color of emotion on Hibiki's face looking at me.

There is no slight surprise or embarrassment to foreigners who suddenly speak Japanese.

It's just that there's no face like ice.

“I'm sorry all of a sudden. I'm a person like this. ”

A business card, courtesy of Danton, a Hunter Agency based in the United States. I made it impossible to track the equity structure easily, but if I go back, the majority owner is me, Seo Jin-wook.

Hibiki's gaze crossed in turn between my disguised face and my business card.

“Can I talk to you for a second? ”

I thought about what I'd say if I sprinkled it on a dagger, but luckily, Hibiki nods.

Keeping an unknown expression on his face.

We sat across from each other in a café.

He made a simple decision to prevent the sound from leaking out.

“I'm scouting from different countries for talented talent to evolve into a hunter. I met Amano this time because I thought you had it in you. ”

“· · · · · · · What is the basis for having aptitude? ”

Hibiki was the first to react.

He said as carefully as possible not to provoke her.

"First, let me tell you that I'm also a hunter."

I coalesced Mana and lifted the teacup slightly into the air.

Hibiki still has no expression.

“I hope you don't misunderstand. We're still a little rusty on how to find potential players. It's about recognizing people who are experiencing a lot of strange, uncontrollable incidents around them. ”

The original Seo Jin-wook caused a psychotic storm in a state of extreme excitement before the awakening. About 70,000 potential Mana at that time.

And Hibiki's potential is 50,000. I laugh much more than 30,000, the standard value of SS.

A person with this much Mana will only reveal himself as an awl in his growing up.

While listening to my story, Amano's eyes did not shake a bit.

“Did you hear about my childhood accident? ”

“Yes, it is. ”

“But that was one time. ”

Here I lied.

I can't say it was her own story from the future.

The accident she was talking about was a car accident when she was five years old and lost her parents.

At the time, the accident was concluded due to driving immaturity, and she also testified that the car had suddenly slipped.

Of course, the truth she later told is different.

“When I checked the CCTV at the time of the accident, my father's car suddenly lost its direction and collided with the guardrail. It looks like the black box was damaged and can't be repaired, but we did get a picture of the vehicle after the accident. not externally, but internally. ”

It's all a lie.

“I found traces of something in that picture. If you look at the forensics team without the relevant knowledge, you might be mistaken for collision damage, but it was obviously damage from the impulse. ”

Hibiki won't remember. They wouldn't have been able to see how the inside of the vehicle was torn.

But there was one thing she remembered. Memories like scars that can never be forgotten now or later.

“I'm guessing that the five-year-old Amano created a psychological storm in the back of his car. ”

That was the cause of the accident.

“I didn't come here to accuse you of anything. I know there hasn't been a similar accident since that day. Nevertheless, we want to help you. A mind-blowing storm occurs when a massive Mana cannot be controlled by itself. When you have an emotional fluctuation, it's a rush against your will. Keeping it that way is like planting a bomb inside your body. ”

Originally, if you are a promising owner with this kind of potential, it was right for guilds to rush and awaken as soon as you turn 19.

But perhaps Hibiki has never had that kind of contact before.

“ · · · · · ·. ”

Hibiki listened to me and kept her mouth shut.

Her mouth reopened after the green tea on the table had completely cooled off.

“· · · · · · · · Mana, because? ”

“Yes, this is rare for anaesthesia. ”

“That accident, that was Manna in me? ”

Knowledge you don't know unless you're a hunter.

Hibiki is tired of hearing strange stories about ordinary people.

A tiny wrinkle formed in his forehead.

It was a very weak expression, but it was the first time I met her today.

“· · · · · · At the time, I didn't know what it was. ”

Hibiki's voice that I had heard in my past life overlapped with her words that I now recite in a heartless voice.

“I was a kid. I don't remember why, but I was very angry. ”

It started out as a typical five-year-old's pitch.

“My father in the driver's seat was annoyed. The passenger's mother turned her head and tried to calm me down. I cried all the time. I cried and I was angry. I couldn't stop thinking about it. He was so angry that his face turned red, he couldn't breathe. ”

Young children are said to be aroused when they are under extreme stress.

As an adult, you can't control the turbulence of emotions that you would suppress and pour them out.

“The moment I was filled to the very end of my head, suddenly there was a sharp wind, or wind, spreading from my body. My mother screamed. He yelled at me with a white face. Stop it! ’The passenger's mother reached out to me. There was a brake, and the car went round and round. I kept going crazy until I lost my mind. ”

“ · · · · · ·. ”

It was no accident that only Hibiki survived the accident, and it was not a miracle, as the press said.

Hibiki, who created the storm inside the car, unconsciously protected his body.

In the middle of losing consciousness.

“In the end, I was the only one left alive. I didn't even know what it was until now. I just remembered one thing. that I was very angry at the time. That the emotions that I couldn't control were driving me like that. ”

It was almost a miracle that there was only one such accident for a child with 50,000 potential Mana.

You can't fully control your mind unless you're an adult in the process of human growth.

Some are sad enough to freeze their hearts, some are annoyed enough to have headaches, some are so excited that they can't sleep, and some are so excited that their whole body's blood is hot.

Although Seo Jin-wook's frenzy was frequent because of the curse, it is common for Mana to go through the same thing several times after 50,000. Proof of Promising.

But it was only once in Hibiki's life.

“· · · · · · Since then, you've been pushing your emotions as hard as you can. ”

“Yes, I didn't want to feel anything. I knew that people around me would get hurt if I went deeper into emotion. ”

One accident was enough.

To have her whole thing fall apart.

After the accident, Hibiki suppressed his own emotions in case he couldn't handle them.

A life that thoroughly suppresses pleasure.

“You don't have to do that anymore. Again, the storm in Mana happens when you can't control it properly. It's called activating dragging Mana into a controlled area. ”

The general characteristics of mana, other than the rare concept of mana rush, are known to the general public, but I deliberately explained them slowly from the foundation.

Hibiki told me everything I said.

“Then, when you get Awakened · · ·. You don't have to worry about that anymore, do you? ”

“Once the possibility of a breakout is reduced to close to zero. And then training gives you more complete control. ”

I didn't have much to worry about.

“· · · · · · · · · I will. ”

It meant the end of a long fear she had lived with in her heart.

Mito went through a dungeon break three years later. The reason Hibiki woke up in his previous life was because he faced a life-threatening threat at that time.

Then, Angelica came to the refugee shelter and met Hibiki, who was half-mad.

Angelica had foreseen a lot of cases, but not all dungeon brakes. By the way, [Future Prognostic] skills are never perfect and you can't know all the events you want.

Now I wonder again.

"Could Angelica really not have known Mitosi's dungeon brakes? ’

Maybe it was what triggered Hibiki's awakening and growing hatred for the dungeon monsters, waiting for the timing to pass on to her proposal?

if there really was a way to know the future.

I'm thinking this because in this lifetime, Hibiki's Awakening Method will be different.

After going to her house, I took out the contract and the Awakening Stone.

“The term of the contract is 3 years, with both parties free to extend and destroy. ”

I signed with my Hunter Agency, but I wrote it down so that I could naturally sign over to the Celestial Dragon Guild after I finished cleaning it up. Nate has also signed the same terms.

“However, you will not be able to stay in Japan during the term of the contract. ”

I explained.

“You will register Hunter in Korea. Both countries are sensitive to the leakage of their own hunters, but are flexible in the opposite direction. ”

I think to myself.

‘It is illegal in both countries to wake up like this, even though it is blindfolded. Later on, when you officially fill out the paperwork and register as a Hunter, you have to process it as an accidental awakening. ’

Convert each country's Freedom given to Hunters to a figure.

With the exception of state emergencies, the United States, which is like entrusting the Hunter industry to capitalist logic, can be expressed as 10, representing China, which is forcibly recruiting all identified people.

South Korea and Japan are similar and correspond to 7-8.

The Awakening of Hunters through Awakening Stone must be done under the control of the state. It's usually a horse.

Hibiki nods.

“I understand.”

Now it's time to find out what I was worried about.

In this lifetime, I was awakened on the same date as my previous episode, at about the same time.

Nate would have been the same at the time and method of awakening as before.

But now, Hibiki has a different way of doing things.

‘Will this Awakening give you a unique skill like your previous life? ’

After completing the contract, I released the Awakening Stone.

“Put your hands here. ”

She nods and places her hand on a transparent jewel.