chapter 1
Episode 001: Elementalist’s End
Events in life always happen suddenly.
If you turn on the blinker and come in, where does it go?
It was the same on that day.
The day there was a dragon raid.
Betrayed by a trusted colleague.
“Yoo Seo-jun. suffered all this time Get some rest now.”
The world changed 15 years ago when the gate opened and monsters poured out, but did the selfishness of humans created by capitalism remain the same?
“Why the hell… … ?”
“It is greed. And fear.”
“what?”
“I’m honestly not afraid. But the superiors thought otherwise. I am afraid of your strength and popularity.”
top line.
You must be referring to the Korean Awakened Association.
Pyo Cheon-deuk, president of the association, and Kim Min-cheol, chairman of the board.
There were a few figures that popped into my head.
In my heart, I wanted to uproot the association, but I was exhausted from dealing with the dragon lying behind me. Besides, too much blood was spilled from the knife he stabbed.
“Seo, Seo Jun-ah.”
My eyes met with Min-young, who was calling me anxiously with a knife thrust into his throat.
“I know. You should have kept the line in moderation. What kind of honor are you going to enjoy?”
Lee Juk-dae glared at Hwang Yi-chan as if he were going to kill him, but he raised his hand and pretended to slit his throat.
OK.
“no!”
Min-young, Soo-yeon, and Hyuk, who were my teammates, fell to the ground one after another as cold corpses.
Anger welled up inside.
There was nothing that could be done.
I just had to watch the death of my teammates in a stabbed and subdued state.
It seemed like tears would come out.
Hwang Yi-chan pushed his face towards me and said.
“Yoo Seo-jun. Seo Jun-ah, the era of the great Elementalist is over. Since I gave you such a great treasure at the end, I will think of your contributions and make you a hero outside.”
As Hwang Yi-chan stabbed the knife deeper, he felt tremendous pain. He tried to resist, but in the end death seemed inevitable.
While we were together for 10 years, there were times when we bumped into each other because our personalities were opposite, but Hwang Yi-chan wasn’t such a trash… … .
I thought that Hwang Yi-chan’s crooked personality was just because of the environment he grew up in. It’s just that he sometimes couldn’t express himself, but it was because he also showed his care for his teammates.
That’s why his betrayal was so bitter and painful.
In the meantime, I saw a person appearing in the middle of the crowd.
It was Kim Min-cheol who came in with a round of applause.
It was only when I saw him talking with Hwang Yi-chan that I realized.
That the person who betrayed Hwang Yi-chan was that guy.
With every breath he took, blood flowed backwards. What I saw in front of me as I collapsed was the figures of my comrades who were drenched in blood and dying. The guys from the association even stole the items that the fallen colleagues were holding in their hands.
In the midst of dying, I had a wish.
If God would give me another chance, I would make sure this doesn’t happen. Please help me save my comrades.
The last thing I could see was Hwang Yi-chan and Kim Min-cheol laughing while holding the Awakening Stone from the dragon, and the dragon lying on the ground beyond them.
Flash!
did i see it wrong?
The eyes of the dragon who thought it was dead opened.
His eyes were looking straight at me.
The dragon’s pupils constricted and then swung back.
It moved left and right as if judging the situation, then looked at me again, to the point where I got goosebumps even in the midst of dying.
[Humans seem to be the same in any world. Isn’t it?]
The dragon’s voice rang in his heart.
Is it some kind of magic?
[You are very pitiful too. He was capable enough to beat me and his leadership seemed good.]
The dragon, who had been chattering on its own, seemed to grin, then delivered his words into my heart again.
[I also don’t want to die like this. I have work to do. I couldn’t do it because of you guys… … . We’ll meet again when the kite touches, but then a lot of things will be different.]
Before I could understand what the dragon’s last words were, I lost consciousness.
*
clap clap clap
Mincheol Kim clapped his hands as he entered the dungeon.
Inside the dungeon, there were the bodies of Yoo Seo-jun and three colleagues who were killed by association members.
“Good job. Hwang Yi-chan, the red flame combat magician.”
“Please pay the price. 7:3. Of course I am 7, right?”
“Nonsense. You are also a member of the association. what were you expecting? Didn’t you know everything and agree?”
“what?”
“Whoa, don’t be too impressed. I’ll let you have the Awakening Stone from the dragon. Think of it as an incentive.”
Hwang Yi-chan’s expression relaxed at Kim Min-cheol’s suggestion.
Hwang I-chan said, pointing to the Awakening Stone as if unexpectedly.
“Ohhh, this is probably the most expensive?”
“Awakening only happens once anyway, and if you use too much, you run out of time. Anything with risk is less valuable.”
“Still, it will be sold at a high price to non-Awakened people.”
“The saying that if you use too much, you will run out of control, this applies to non-Awakened people as well. I don’t know? What happened in Suwon?”
It was then.
Hwang Yi-chan picked up the Awakening Stone and dropped it with a cry of surprise.
“Oh, hot! What is this all of a sudden?”
If Hwang Yi-chan, who specializes in flames, felt hot, the heat was enormous.
As if to prove it, smoke was rising from the Awakening Stone that had fallen to the ground.
“Isn’t it exploding?”
“Ah, can’t you?”
“At the time of the Suwon incident, they shined like this and then exploded and died. The thing that exploded then was the awakening stone of the high-level gate boss. Besides, isn’t this a dragon?”
“If you do something wrong… … .”
“It is only natural that we die, and this dungeon itself will blow away.”
“sh*t.”
“Withdraw! Get your loot quickly and get out!”
At Kim Min-cheol’s command, everyone went outside.
Right before leaving the dungeon, Hwang Yi-chan, who had turned around and gazed at the dragon’s corpse, licked his lips and turned around.
‘This is how it comes out, Kim Min-cheol? Someday, I will get it right about this case.’
Hwang Yi-chan, who betrayed his colleagues and gained almost nothing, looked at the back of Kim Min-cheol’s head thinking that way.
When the people left, the dragon grinned and chanted.
When the dragon finished the spell, a great light illuminated the surroundings, turning white and back.
In the dungeon where the light disappeared, the dragon and Yoo Seo-jun’s body were not visible.
*
Could this be death?
I didn’t even feel gravity in the dark space.
Even if you die, you can still think.
where am i going now
Shall I become a soul and go to the afterlife?
Is everyone going first?
.
.
.
Thoughts of thoughts continued to bite their tails.
Then, a sound was heard.
[A new awakening has been discovered.]
[The attribute ‘Link Master’ has been added.]
The voice was the same as the unknown sound I heard when I first woke up.
By the way, he died, but a new awakening was added?
What are you talking about?
And at the same time, I heard someone calling me.
“···hey! wake up! You Hanryang!”
My eyes widened at the cry.
Is it such a vivid human voice?
I’m sure I’m dead
“Huh, anyway, once you fall asleep, you don’t even know who’s carrying you?”
I blinked at the unbelievable scenery and looked around.
everything was alive
flow of air.
Smell around.
Especially.
Even the familiar person in front of me.
“what! Come on?”
In disbelief, I grabbed her cheek and shook it.
Then, as expected, the familiar taste of knuckle hit my chin.
“it’s crazy? Why are you like that right after you wake up?”
“Ah, this feeling. Am I alive?”
“What bullsh*t? Did you dream?”
“Was it a dream?”
I hope it’s a dream.
Were you so alive?
Isn’t development like ‘Ah Shibal Dream’ only in novels? I sincerely hope that it is not such a dead end life.
There was only one thing to check.
“Minyoung, what day is it today?”
“Did you just sleep and forget the sense of the date? Today is the day you decided to challenge the first gate. Come on, get ready!”
what?
The day you decided to challenge the gate?
For a moment, I felt like I was wrapped up in the boat, so I looked down.
He was fine without a single wound.
However, the feeling of being stabbed was still vivid.
“What is this?”
Then I saw a large egg on one side of the bed.
It was my first time seeing it.
“Did you sleep holding that tight?”
“what? I was sleeping with this hugged?”
“huh. Where are you from? What is it?”
Min-young picked up the egg and checked it out.
“You can’t feel emotions with my emotion skill? Is it rare?”
The emotion skill was a common skill given to all awakened people.
However, it was not possible to appraise everything with only skill.
Appraisal of high-grade items was limited to the Awakeners of production capacity.
If the egg was of a high grade, it was natural that Min-young, a healer, could not appraise it.
“I’ll have it first.”
I took the egg from Minyoung’s hand and put it on the side of the bed.
If this is a regression, none of the things I have at this time are like that.
Then I remembered the dragon’s last words.
[…] … We’ll meet again when the kite touches, but then a lot of things will be different.]
no way.
I thought about it, but I shook my head.
It’s an unbelievable imagination.
However, what was clear was that the situation unfolding before my eyes was not a dream, but a reality.
“Anyway, hurry up and get ready. Soo-yeon is waiting downstairs alone.”
Minyoung said that and went outside.
After Min-young left, I looked around properly.
familiar space.
It was my room in a share house I got when I teamed up with my colleagues ten years ago.
Everything was the same as ten years ago.
Except for that egg.
At this time, Minyoung, Sooyeon, and I were a team of three.
I still vividly felt the last appearance of Min-young and Soo-yeon.
aww
Rather, it got cold.
Once the situation was sorted out, a plan was drawn up for what to do.
Hwang Yi-chan, a colleague, betrayed him, and the Korean Association was behind him.
And back to ten years ago.
Now is the time when five years have passed since the gate opened.
In the meantime, the World Awakened Association was established and corporate guilds were set up.
Originally, our team would be the first to close this gate, gain attention, and enter the Korean Awakened Association to receive various support, but this time will be different.
Hwang Yi-chan said that the association was afraid of my strength and tried to stop it.
Originally, on the day of the raid, after closing the gate, it was planned that I would be appointed as the new chairman of the Korea Awakened Association.
In the end, the association only used me to keep their position and abandoned me at the decisive moment.
It’s just that I didn’t think of it as a hunting dog.
It will never happen this time.
plural? In a situation where it has not happened due to regression, revenge by simply killing them is meaningless.
it’s a new opportunity
I don’t remember everything, but I’m well aware of the big events in the hunter world that I’ve been through and heard about for at least ten years.
In the future, they will become a feared existence that no one can carelessly use them.
That’s when my revenge really begins.
I will destroy them to such an extent that they think ‘it’s better to die’.
At the same time, I will build a strong fence so that no guild or association can touch me or my people.
To do so, he now needed achievements and team members.
Well, it was just the right time.
The day to challenge the gate for the first time.
As I was making plans and making resolutions, I heard a new sound in my ears.
[Do you want to proceed with the tutorial of ‘Link Master’?]