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-Beepeeee

A strong tinnitus hits my ears.

The surrounding environment changed in an instant.

However, this situation is somehow very familiar.

“–You’re doing it! You crazy guy, are you out of your mind?”

“Kang Ji-hoon!! Attack!!”

“Whether you attack or run away, move quickly, you crazy bastard!”

I hear a familiar voice. It didn’t take long to figure out the situation.

Raise your head a little.

A huge green chin ridge. Protruding sharp teeth. A torso covered in muscle.

King Goblin

The E-class gate boss mob was right in front of me.

It was Jihoon who used this forward high-speed movement skill to deliver a single blow.

‘It was 10 years ago…’

King Goblin looks down at Jihoon, who suddenly rushed in front of him.

King Goblin’s intense red eyes meet Jihoon’s empty eyes.

‘Goblin? No, is it King Goblin? That’s right, I think so.’

Ji-hoon looks down from the goblin and looks at the sword in his right hand.

‘I’m sure I’ve returned to that moment ten years ago.’

“Why is that crazy guy just standing there and not attacking?”

“Are you trying to have a snowball fight with the King Goblin?”

“Hey, but aren’t the clothes she’s wearing a bit strange? Was it originally that outfit?”

“I don’t know, no one is interested in what that idiot was wearing”

I can clearly hear the voices of my colleagues coming from behind.

colleague? No, we were just 11th class cadets. I don’t remember a single person among them who considered me a colleague.

King Goblin suddenly rushes right in front of him and looks at Jihoon, who is just standing there blankly.

Soon, the King Goblin ignorantly raises a large wooden club high.

“Aaaah! Damage!”

“Damage! You idiot!”

“Oops! I will go!”

It was when Professor Jin Seok-hyeon, who had joined in order to lead and protect the members of Class 11 on the E-class gate subjugation mission, was about to take a hurried step.

Sigh-

With a soft and sharp sound, the King Goblin, raising his club, freezes in place.

And after a while

A clean line is drawn across the king goblin’s thick neck, and then its head falls at an angle.

Gurgling

Is it because it was cut so cleanly?

The fallen goblin’s head begins to pour out blood like a waterfall from its original spot.

‘Did you swing your sword? when? ‘I just missed the moves of an 11th class E-level hunter?’

Professor Jin Seok-hyeon, who was about to run out, couldn’t believe that he couldn’t keep up with Kang Ji-hoon’s swordsmanship just moments ago.

Kang Ji-hoon walks towards the gate exit, leaving behind the King Goblin’s corpse, which does not collapse despite the blood gushing from its neck.

“Yeonhwa… I left Yeonhwa behind…Yeonhwa…”

Like a person in a trance, I walk out the gate alone, repeating words I can’t understand.

“What… what is that guy?”

“Is that what that guy cut right now?”

“Huh? Why are you going out alone?”

The other Class 11 cadets, who were belatedly looking at Kang Ji-hoon, this time cast a questioning look at Professor Jin Seok-hyun.

“… Since we caught the boss mob, we should go out too. Those guys behind you, take the magic stones. 11Class B team withdraws.”

***

[Reconnect to the system]

[Detect changes in the player]

Messages that ring in my head. I was glad to hear those words that I had not heard for a while.

‘Reconnecting? As expected, I was cut off from that world.’

Jihoon opens the status window again for the first time in a long time.

Name: Kang Ji-hoon

Lv: 4

Basic stats

Power: (Measuring due to rapid fluctuations)

Agility: (Measuring due to rapid fluctuations)

Intelligence: (Measuring due to rapid fluctuations)

Horsepower: 30

Unknown energy: unmeasurable

skill

Class C Lv1

I can’t check the basic stats yet, but looking at the level and skills, it doesn’t seem like my abilities as a hunter have changed much.

‘Unknown energy? Are you talking about the internal energy located in the danjeon? Yes, it is not a force that exists in this world, so the system may not recognize it. But it doesn’t seem like it’s gone.’

Jihoon, who came out of the gate and walked to a nearby park, soon sat cross-legged on the spot and began practicing the inner strength of Danjeon.

‘also. It’s the same. Ha what now…’

***

Summer vacation of third year of high school.

Jihoon suddenly awakened while working part-time delivering bottled water to earn money for his room and living expenses.

Like all awakened people, Jihoon was able to naturally open the status window and check his abilities even without anyone telling him.

“Mister!! Do you see this? this? It’s a status window! I have awakened!!”

“What? where? where? Oh, don’t you know that the status window is only visible to the hunter himself? Have you really awakened?”

“Yes!! The status window is popping up here right now. It’s so amazing!”

Ji-hoon grabs the bottled water bottle delivery driver he was working with and runs around saying he likes it.

Name: Kang Ji-hoon

Lv: 1

Basic stats

Strength: 8

Agility: 11

Intelligence: 10

Horsepower: 16

skill

Class C Lv1

When Jihoon first awakened, he was very happy even though he only gained a trivial skill called a C-level skill.

I was happy even though I visited the Hunter Management Bureau and was declared an E-level hunter.

Because hunters can make a lot of money instead of taking risks!

Since his parents passed away when he was in middle school, Jihoon lived alone and attended high school.

Since I was unable to raise the rent, I paid part of the deposit as a monthly rent deposit from my third year of middle school, and used the remaining money to cover monthly rent and living expenses while attending high school.

I couldn’t even dream of going to college, and I planned to start working as soon as I graduated from high school.

However, after awakening, Jihoon graduated from high school and entered Hunter Academy.

The Hunter Academy was an organization that spared no financial support to foster strong hunters at the national level.

All academy cadets were able to receive a monthly stipend based on their class, similar to a monthly salary.

The highest class 1 cadet received a monthly subsidy of 10 million won, and the lowest class 11 cadet received a monthly subsidy of 2 million won.

In addition, raising the player level and learning combat skills through higher education at the academy could be of great help in earning money by occasionally working part-time at gate suppression.

Of course, the biggest goal for all cadets at the academy was to eventually be scouted by a good guild.

Just as college students’ biggest goal is getting a job.

This is because the amount of money you can get if you belong to a good guild is different from that of ordinary people.

Of course, it goes without saying that honor also comes naturally.

An E-level hunter with poor basic stats and C-level skills. Combat sense is also poor.

In a way, it was natural that Jihoon would belong to the Class 11 B team.

No, should I say I was lucky?

In fact, Jihoon was admitted to the academy through pull-ups.

Fortunately, the high-speed movement skill can instantly inflict critical damage on monsters, and is also useful for escaping from desperate situations.

As a combat skill, it was an extremely useful skill.

Jihoon literally barely got into the academy thanks to his skills.

“Hey, that guy came in after closing the door”

“I heard you’re in last place again in the quarterly evaluation because you don’t have much fighting sense?”

“The problem lies with the admissions officers who accepted such a child in the first place”

“But I heard he’s chasing after Seol Yu-jeong because he likes the 4th class?”

“That’s right, he’s been following me since high school and all the way to the academy lol”

“ I don’t even know the topic, why are you like that?”

From the first day of entering the academy, the gaze towards Jihoon was not kind. Not only is he lacking in skills, but his poverty is obvious even without saying anything.

Class 11 classmates in the same class criticized and looked down on Jihoon even though they were also in the same class 11.

However, after his parents passed away, Jihoon was so caught up in life that he could not afford to worry about human relationships.

It wasn’t that I didn’t feel the tangible and intangible harassment of my classmates.

I just quietly tried to adapt to the academy.

There was nothing I could do other than smile at those who openly cursed me and move on.

***

“Now, it’s been over a year since you guys trained at the academy. This is the first time in real life! Are you shaking?”

“No!”

“The gate you are trying to defeat this time will not be that dangerous as long as you watch out for the boss mob, King Goblin. Also, since I’m with you, you won’t have to worry if something goes wrong.”

Jihoon, who had raised his level to level 4 in one year at the academy, set out to conquer the gate in real life with his fellow classmates for the first time.

After a year of training, Class 11 cadets took down ordinary goblins without hesitation.

And finally, we face the boss mob, King Goblin.

It was Jihoon’s turn to step forward among the Class 11 cadets who had completely surrounded King Goblin.

His mission was to use his high-speed movement skill to quickly rush in and cut off the King Goblin’s legs.

A strike that has been practiced for a long time. The skill that got him admitted to the academy!

Jihoon uses his high-speed movement skill to rush right in front of the King Goblin. No, it was rushing.

A high-speed movement skill that creates a wormhole connecting space and moves through it.

However, the side effect was activated, creating a wormhole connecting this space with the space of another dimension.

The moment of blinking an eye. Jihoon reappeared and returned after spending 10 years in a parallel world.