Chapter 5: Awakening (2)

I went straight to the dungeon after lying that I have to go to the library at the crack of dawn .

The hip sack I prepared was pretty full .

I didn't eat or drink anything except for the breakfast that my mother prepared .

But I didn't feel anything like hunger or dehydration .

I once again realised how frightening human greed is .

It was about 9 pm when the sun was going down .

14 hours of continuous hunting… and the hip sack which was as big as my excited heart!

Going back, my footsteps were light rather than being heavy .

On the way home, I go to a busy 'Awakened Market' street and entered into one of the stores .

A place which trades 'blood stones' and sells Awakened weapons, armour, and such .

It's a place that I had never paid any attention to… but now, I wonder how many of them there were .

"Welcome!"

The owner who is wearing a neat suit greets me .

I can clearly see that his gaze towards me, who looks pretty young, isn't nice .

He's definitely viewing me as a brat who will touch this and that and ask annoying questions .

I observe that two robust men are standing next to the owner .

People who use this place are mainly Awakened . By using their powers, they could harm the store's business, so those two are probably hired bodyguards .

"Yes, hello . "

I give a simple greeting, untie the hip sack and place it on the counter .

The owner's eyes become big as he looks at the puffed up hip sack .

"I'm disposing of all this . "

I say as I raise my head up .

The owner, who looked at the hip sack's contents more closely, slowly shrinks back .

His disappointment is clearly shown .

'Eh? This isn't the scenario I envisioned would happen?'

The owner doesn't even give me time to panic and opens his mouth .

"You got this all from a level 1 dungeon right?"

"Yes . "

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"It's all F rank, and there's 1 transcendent F rank one too . "

Anxiousness assaulted me with the owner's expression and words .

I didn't know the commercial rate of the 'blood stones' and just constantly hunted .

"45 small ones! And 1 big one!"

I quickly reply like a child who's pleading for innocence after being unjustly accused of something .

I went to around 30 dungeons today .

I counted all the stones one by one and carefully put them in the hip sack .

It might look like I'm a miser, but counting all that wasn't annoying! Or hard! Or confusing!

Therefore, I could only feel down in front of this harvest after all my effort .

"It looks like you just Awakened and hunted all this time to get all this… F ranked essences don't go for that much . "

This piece of dog shit!

I regain my temper and carefully ask .

"Then how much would it all be?"

My chin that didn't know how tall the sky was raised itself and quickly found its proper place .

The owner who touched his tablet PC once or twice replies .

���Let's see… The current price for F rank is 20 thousand won, transcendent F rank is about 50 thousand won . If what you said about the amount is correct…"

The owner keeps talking while punching numbers on a calculator .

"It comes to be about 950 thousand won . "

Ah… no… . It's only 20 thousand won, 50 thousand one per…

It's only 950 thousand…

TLN: 100 won = roughly 1 USD . Well, that's what it was last time I checked . So the MC's total comes to $9500 .

Eh?!

Did this guy get heatstroke or something? Cheap?!

You cosplaying as Mansour?

TLN: He's referring to Sheikh Mansour the billionaire, owner of the English Football Club, Manchester City .

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Disappointment quickly turned into joy, and I felt a thrill from the top of my head to the tip of my toes .

"So, would you like it in cash, or do you want it in 'Awakened Credit'?

The store owner asks while putting the blood stones in a stone counter .

The counter splits the small stones and the big stone up, and quickly figures out the price .

"Eh? What's… that 'Awakened Credit' thing?"

The look he had towards me when we first met is all gone and he now has a look towards me as if saying I was cute, and asks:

"Really, you haven't been an Awakened for long huh?

"Yeah, haha…"

I take a wipe-your-nose-with-your-hand pose and make an embarrassing smile .

"The association doesn't even explain things like this, freaking governments . "

The owner, who mumbles to himself speaks to me .

"You have your 'Awakened Certificate' right?"

"Yeah, I got it . "

"You can use it like a debit card . Give it here . "

"Ok, here you go . "

As I hand over the certificate I feel embarrassed at my non-existent knowledge, and yet feel proud that I'm experiencing a world that not all people can get into .

As the certificate is put into the card terminal some information about me comes up .

"Do you remember your password that you made?"

"Yes! I remember . "

"Ok, put the password in here . "

'1004'; you probably think that this is simple and dumb right?

But this number is the most important number to me .

My mother's birthday is on the 4th of October .

TLN: In Korea it's mm/dd/yyyy I believe .

As I enter in the password it displays the information about my latest card usage, and the amount of money I have in it .

The market owner says this as he puts his credit card into the other side of the terminal .

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"Item price 950 thousand won, I'll transfer it . "

"Wait! Do you have the Lightning Spray Skill Book?"

The owner once again looks at me as if I was cute .

"Even if you buy it you can't use it . The mana cost is abnormally high . Hm… Do you want me to suggest you something different?"

"No! I'm buying it as a gift . "

"Oh, well then…"

The price was 1 million won .

It's a bit higher than the online price, but the owner gave it to me for 900 thousand won while saying 'Please keep coming . '

After finishing the trade and checking the money left in my card, I get out of the store confidently .

The Skill Book 'Lightning Spray', which I thought I would get ages later, was bought on the first day of dungeon hunting .

"Unbelievable…"

Only a few days ago I got almost beaten to death because of a mere 2000 won .

But now?

It's like money doesn't feel like money .

Like harvesting plants from a mountain, all I did was pick up blood stones from a dungeon .

I chuckled and went home .

***

It was 10pm when I got home .

On the first day of the holidays, from the first hunt I got an unbelievable sum of money .

I stare at the 'Lightning Spray' Skill Book .

The Skill Book is about the same size as a manhwa .

When I open it up there are indecipherable hieroglyphs .

To obtain a skill, you have to place the 'Skill Book' on your chest and wait about 10 seconds .

As I put the Skill Book on my chest, a gentle light comes out and slowly sublimates .

[Would you learn the skill 'Lightning Spray'?]

"Of course! Absolutely! Yes!"

[You have learned the skill 'Lightning Spray . ']

Kim Min-Cheol

Level : 7

Exp : [4200/6400]

Class : Magician

Special Ability : Mana doesn't run out .

Strength: 10

Mana : ∞

Agility : 10

Vitality : 10

Unspent Points : 30

Current Skills

Frost Orb Lv . 8 [1450/12,800]

Lightning Spray Lv . 0 [0/100]

My gaze rests on the name 'Lightning Spray' only for a moment .

The 30 unspent points attracted my eyes .

I didn't upgrade my stats yet .

Currently, I don't run out of mana, and a mana quantity didn't exist .

The mana stat affects the quantity of mana I can hold and the regeneration rate of mana .

Therefore I had no reason to put points into the mana stat .

Strength upgrades battle speed, stamina, accuracy as well as power .

That's the reason why Magician class Awakened are less popular than Warrior class Awakened .

Of course, you can't select which one you get .

When a warrior and a magician are the same level, have similar ranks of equipment, then the only difference between them are the massive difference between their stats .

The only way to close this gap is to have strong skills and high skill levels .

Ah~I forgot something, the thing which allows you to constantly use those skills, the mana gauge!

This is probably why the Skill Books for the magician class are expensive .

Anyway, even though I'm a magician I don't need to put any points into mana .

Therefore I feel that the most important stat right now is strength .

Even though casting spells at a range is relatively safe, as the dungeon level goes up a high level monster could possibly be able attack me once .

Let's say that I raised my agility, and avoided most of the attacks . But what if I get unlucky and get hit once?

'Few days later~ few days later~ meet him across the Jordan River!'

I ignore the strange voice support and use the 30 points I got from levelling into strength .

Because it's hard to reset your stats, I put them in cautiously and carefully .