episode_0058

There were many people watching this Colosseum.

This is to scout excellent personnel from the Awakened Academy.

From the third year onwards, students have more contact with the guild, such as receiving consignment training for about a month and receiving training in the second half of the year.

It is basic to select good awakened people in advance for that time.

The scouts began working hard on their cameras and laptops and writing reports.

Of course, human eyes are similar. In most cases, the person you are looking forward to is already set.

“First graders Taeseop Yang, Hanbyeol Lee, and Jaeseop Yoon. 2nd graders Lee Sang-hyun, Rasia, Ahn Dae-ho, April, and Kang Cheon-seong.”

Third graders do not participate in this exercise. Because they come to fight real monsters.

Only first and second year students are evaluated in this coliseum for three days.

What they are looking at closely is the potential for growth.

Skills are taken for granted so they are out of the question.

How much has each person grown and developed their abilities compared to last year?

The emphasis was on that.

“For each Colosseum, the terrain is different and the monsters are also different. 10 people can be put into a Colosseum at a time and a melee may break out”

“Check it quickly and see how it blends in with the surroundings.”

It was a practice that should have unfolded with such expectations, but the scouts’ expectations unfolded in a different direction.

A rough vibration echoed several times in the direction of the audience where they were, and the wall collapsed.

But wasn’t a monster with a huge mouth sticking out from beyond the wall?

“Ugh!”

Amidst the screams, an awakened person falls down, bleeding profusely and clutching his severed arm.

Hundreds of blood-stained teeth are visible. A monster with a huge mouth that took up two-thirds of its upper body was advancing towards the scout.

“Blood, damage!”

If other pros hadn’t quickly intervened and stopped them, they would have been in danger too.

But the problem is that all the monsters that will last for three days have been released.

Although the level is low, they are overwhelmingly numerous, pouring in from all directions, making it impossible for professionals and teachers to protect everyone.

At this very time, when the command system was broken in the melee and melee, powerful ice and lightning began to rain down from both directions.

A mark appears in the sky, checking all monsters.

A soft light began to shine throughout this venue, strengthening the people around it.

Yes. Students are coming forward now.

***

Originally, there was only one manual for students to respond to situations like this.

[Retreat back and wait for instructions.]

But that only happens when there is a threat that can be sufficiently dealt with. Therefore, as a teacher, I must add the following.

[In an unknowingly threatening situation, take action first and report later. You little ones.]

Yes. This is an emergency situation where adults cannot give instructions, and in an emergency, they can act at their own discretion.

Such is the case now.

Lasia and April first gained time with their special skills.

Meanwhile, they were using their respective abilities as they had learned.

April called the friends she went with.

“Dajeong! Mark the location and Mia supply us with ether!”

Her friends begin to move, wondering what the current number of monsters is.

Lee Sang-hyun glanced at the mechanical sword.

“It turned out to be a bigger penalty than I expected. But if you can’t win even that much… .”

Lee Sang-hyun thought of Jetman.

“Can’t be surpassed.”

Lee Sang-hyun swung his sword straight at the monster that was destroying the ice.

This sword, armed with ether, cuts through ice walls and cuts monsters to pieces.

He takes the lead, followed by Dae-ho Ahn, who pushes back his dyed hair.

“Sanghyun Lee. Where did you leave your beloved sword and bring that crappy mechanical sword? Are you confident?”

“Not really. Are you worried because you didn’t expect something like this?”

“Hmph. If you don’t perform as well as usual, get out. Because I will step forward.”

The moment Daeho Ahn focused the ether, the wind began to move.

The moment the wind passed through the hole made by Lee Sang-hyun, it created a fierce whirlpool and destroyed everything that passed by.

“It was a low-grade monster to begin with. If you can’t even do this… .”

But soon, behind the 10 or so monsters that had been defeated, more than 100 more monsters appeared again.

“…is it a bit much?”

“If you could use all the monsters for 3 days, wouldn’t it be 1,000 at best? You have to control your strength.”

“I know even if you don’t?”

While Ahn Dae-ho is slightly nervous, the sound of a huge fist spreads.

“Wow, you talk a lot. One way or another, I have no choice but to kill you!”

Kang Cheon-seong steps forward. However, his body was huge, as if it had swelled 1.5 times its original size.

An awakened person with body strengthening abilities. Among them, Kang Cheon-seong was unique.

“Han Seol-ah! Give me a buff.”

Then he concentrated his buff and tried to attack following the mark given by Da-jeong.

A low-level monster is reduced to powder with a single punch.

“This is it!”

The wind pressure of the fist was splitting the surrounding area wherever it hit.

At this time, Lasia shouted to everyone.

“You just have to respond calmly! Because we have a lot of people!”

Yes. This is a situation that can be easily handled as long as you remain calm.

Although it was their first experience, there were professionals and some who moved ahead of everyone else.

April went to the front with Kang Cheon-seong.

Lightning from the sword she swings travels through the ground and burns enemies.

While doing so, April suddenly raised her sword upward and stopped it.

Habit.

She was moving forward, swinging as compactly as possible.

“There’s someone else in front of you?”

Upon seeing the others in a melee situation, she transformed the ether by focusing it purely on the sword, just as she had shown to Shin Jeul.

With a sword surrounded by lightning, she began to focus on chopping up the monster. However, it emits lightning in a wide area from the tip of the sword and adjusts it as needed.

“Jeul should be impressed when he sees this.”

It was a time when I regretted the absence of Shin Jeul.

Ice spikes rained down on her head.

He instantly skewered the monster he was trying to deal with.

“!”

When April narrows her brows and turns around, Lasia passes by with a gentle expression.

“It’s faster when I push.”

“What should I do? I can do that too, right?”

“Okay.”

When Lasia ignored it and set up an ice barrier towards the monsters, April just shot out lightning.

However, rather than breaking through the ice barrier, the lightning surrounds the ice barrier, and as the approaching monsters approach, they are drawn in like a magnet.

“I used it well. ‘Assist’ me.”

“…”

There is a chilly air between the two people.

Contrary to that atmosphere, the situation was gradually becoming more favorable due to the Awakening’s actions.

In particular, things were slowly being sorted out as the two guilds waiting outside joined in.

So many hours. The incident ended at 4 p.m.

However, Lim Heon-su, the cause, had disappeared somewhere.

***

Because there was so much commotion on the awakened side, the sports event was also canceled.

The support department also hurried back to the school and was waiting, where they heard even more surprising news.

“Hunsu is the culprit?”

“Hunsu attacked!”

As the police began to investigate Lim Heon-su’s friends, the situation began to escalate.

The rumor was immediately spreading everywhere and even on the Internet.

“Was Heonsu a monster?”

“That doesn’t make sense. What kind of monster is it?”

“Aren’t you being manipulated?”

The students were talking about various things among themselves, and the place was now semi-excited.

In that state, the teachers returned and the awakened people also returned, making it even more noisy.

Teachers went into each class and gave general news.

“Quiet! quiet! You may not believe it now, but Heonsu caused this situation. This is hard for all of us to believe. However, there is clear evidence on camera that Heonsu did it. I don’t know if he was manipulated or if a monster is hiding, but everyone should not talk carelessly to the media.”

People close to Heonsu are called in and begin an investigation.

Of course, Shin Je-ul also has no choice but to focus on ghost stories.

‘Let’s call ghosts monsters. Monsters control people?’

Even monsters sometimes have special powers. It’s just that I’ve never seen a case of manipulating people or anything like that.

‘At best, it’s a hallucination or something that confuses the mind. Parasitic type? ‘There’s no way a monster could parasitize a human.’

Among monsters, there are monsters that control other monsters. It is a host concept after all.

But of course there are no reports of people being manipulated.

Monsters and people are different, and their energy efficiency is also different. There is a high possibility that it will be considered worthless as a host.

Moreover, Lim Heon-su had been telling his class that there was a ghost in the house for over a week.

When you say there is a ghost, you usually see things moving or the shape of a ghost.

‘I need to hear specifically which side it is.’

Moreover, it is said that Im Heon-su gave orders to lift the restrictions on the monsters.

‘In general, did the arrested monsters break free on their own? Or is it that he became stronger in response to the voice? There is not enough information.’

Shin Je-ul realized that he could at least search the academic affairs department using the academy computer.

At 6 p.m., when the students’ investigation actually ended. Those who headed to the club room with Ahn Deok-hoon were checking the teacher’s office and confirming various stories.

First, professionals, accompanied by a teacher, were scheduled to visit Im Heon-su’s house and conduct a search.

Also, they are monitoring the entrance to the academy and conducting searches in all directions to find Lim Heon-su.

“When Im Heon-su screams, the monsters lose control and attack other awakened people. Because it happened so suddenly, other seals were released as other awakened people had to deal with it? Fortunately, it doesn’t seem like it’s been strengthened or something like that.”

“Jeulth. Looking at it, it is clear that it has the ability to control other monsters. But that’s a person.”

“If you think about the ghost story, there must be a monster hiding in Heonsu’s house, right?”

“But it’s surprising?”

“What?”

The more Shin Je-ul looked at it, the more strange he thought this incident was.

“Don’t monsters usually attack people right away when they see them in front of them?”

“But you can run away too.”

“If you fight and the opponent is strong or seriously injured. That goes for animals too. But if Heonsu was controlled by a monster, then that means he was just looking at Heonsu’s family in the house for over a week, right?”

“Huh?”

Ahn Deok-Hoon also realized that something was strange now.

A monster waits for its moment to act?

“Does that make sense? It’s like… .”

“Black-level monsters also use their brains, but it’s all about their cleverness in battle. Waiting and hiding in a human’s home for days, waiting for an opportunity?”

Act like a human and think like a human.

“Unless Heonsu is the monster itself, it is an unusual phenomenon.”

“Or attack right away, control the beast, and wait for the right moment… . That’s strange. If you really manipulate it, you have to pay for it right away. While manipulating people, did you at least transfer their thoughts?”

Either way, it was enough that it wasn’t an ordinary monster.

However, the incident occurred before they could find Heonsu.

The next morning, the corpses of the monsters that had been disposed of in the Colosseum began to rise all at once.