Chapter 375
: The altar is a trick to disperse power. However, at the same time, if you think of Shin Yoo-seong’s heart that cherishes velvet, it was a trap that would succeed unconditionally.
“So… there is no need to have the elite at every altar. As long as you dispersed the power to the altar, you have already fallen into a trap.”
A first year student in class S.
As if it had been a tedious wait, Min Seong-hyeok stretched out refreshingly and stood up from the altar. Min Seong-hyuk used respectful words to Adela, not casual words as usual. It meant a sense of distance between the two.
“I thought you were smart, but I’m disappointed. Have you lost your sense of being a hunter after getting drunk on playing house and becoming indifferent to the class president’s responsibilities?”
Adela Ortensia.
The only absolute person in the first year before Shin Yoo-seong came. The reason why other classes couldn’t surpass Class S is because Adela always reigned as the strongest in the first year.
Not all students in Class S are stronger than Class A. However, the best freshman in Gaon is in Class S.
It was the pride of class S and a kind of symbol. But now the story was different.
Adela was defeated by Shin Yoo-seong in class F, and in Min Seong-hyeok’s eyes, it seemed that she didn’t even care about the responsibility of the class president.
“Class monitor. no Adela. After this job is over, the president decided to give me the class president position for the next S class. Do you know what that means?”
When Min Seong-hyuk laughed, Adela raised her palms in a question-and-answer dance. It was the mindset that I would not allow even a second of meaningless waste of time.
“I am not curious. Nothing for a petty human like you.”
“You should be curious. It’s not my story, it’s the president’s story. Soon, when the president becomes a junior, Gaon will change.”
“…she is just a student after all.”
“No, absolutely not. Adela, you really don’t care what the academy is doing?
Externally, the person who had the greatest strength in Gaon was by far the principal, Jin Byeong-cheol. However, the story is different if you dig into the reality of Gaon one by one.
Except for the second year and Adela, who will be in the third year soon, most of the upper class members followed Ha-yoon Shin.
Shin Ha-yoon was resourceful and had the background of the Shin-oh family and the Yusu Guild. He raised the Hunter club by receiving requests from external guilds as well as companies, and the students followed Shin Ha-yoon.
Shin Ha-yoon is a scary and harsh person in charge, but he also has overwhelming abilities.
“Currently, Gaon cannot function without the president. The president won the guild contract, and the upper class students follow the president.”
If only strength was everything, no one would be afraid of Shin Ha-yoon. However, Shin Ha-yoon knew how to use the power in his hands.
From Gaon’s rookie, he became the head of the Hunter Division and expanded the position of the Hunter Division through his background and connections as well as his innate ability.
When will Shin Ha-yoon be satisfied?
He got the position of the next president, and when he is in the third grade soon, he is entrusted with Gaon’s full authority, which even the principal, Jin Byeong-cheol, cannot interfere.
After graduating from the academy, you will have the best position in the hunter world under the protection of the Shin-O family and the Yusu Guild.
“The president is different from us. I am looking far away. Shin Yoo-seong is strong, but… compared to the chairman’s ability, he’s just a mediocre hunter.”
Shin Ha-yoon has no colleagues.
Because she always reigned among people, but instead of reliable allies, there were those who obeyed her skill and charisma.
“If the president leaves for another academy, will the student council and hunter club students stay in Gaon or… will they follow the president?”
It was quite a reasonable story that Min Sung-hyuk spits out step by step.
“For the students, only the name of the academy has changed. However, the president has a Yusu guild and a Shin-O family. If you work under the president, your life will be different when you graduate?”
It’s a simple logic of capital, but that’s why it’s even more powerful. I was asking you to choose between one apple and two apples. This question has a fixed answer.
“The president can press you whenever he wants. Then who will side with you in Gaon?”
Min Seong-hyuk puts his index finger and thumb together. he shouted. The mana circuit drawn on the floor around the altar instantly glowed and activated the prepared barrier.
“So I said that I just need to wait until the president comes.”
At first, Min Sung-hyuk’s body spread transparently. But that was just the beginning. If it could only be used on one’s own body, it would have been a B-class trait.
“As you know, my ability is ‘invisibility’. But did you know that even that ability has stages?
Transparency.
Min Seong-hyeok’s ‘transparency’, which is visible even to the inside without blurring, touches the perception of the subject.
“First step one.”
Level 1.
The body of Min Seong-hyuk or the object is reflected, and the location cannot be recognized. Adela couldn’t even feel the presence of Min Sung-hyuk’s body as soon as it disappeared.
“To the extent of hiding the location. You cannot defeat me.”
As Adela grabbed her palm, ice in the form of a weapon flooded the spot where Min Seong-hyuk was.
Chuck-!
However, the ice was meaninglessly stuck to the floor and could not catch Min Sung-hyuk, who had become invisible.
“I guess so. but you said My job is to pass the time. ruler! Look Carefully!”
Step 2.
The floor Adela was standing on disappeared as if it had been pierced. Originally, ‘transparency’ occurs when an object allows light to pass through. This occurs because visual information from the back that should have been hidden by objects can be transmitted without being hindered.
“I just made the place where we were standing invisible. Position is relative. If I can’t get the visual information of a place, I can’t know where I am or where you are.”
The feeling of floating above the firmament like clouds in the sky. Because there is no place, I don’t know where I stand or where my opponent is. The visual information given to Adela was, at best, that this place was above the sky.
‘…I don’t know anything except that this place is the sky.’
Hesitation-
Adela couldn’t even walk because she couldn’t see the ground she was standing on or her own body.
But even this was not the end. Min Seong-hyeok, who has S-class characteristics, had the last 3 stages that were nothing short of a special move.
“And this… my best.”
After Min Seong-hyuk’s words, Adela lost her sight.
‘…ah?’
For an instant, it felt as if I was drowning in the pitch-black depths of the sea. As if the eyelids were closed, nothing could be seen in the field of vision, and it was completely dark.
“Now stop giving up. I can’t beat you, but neither can you.”
This is Min Sung-hyuk’s third step, the transparency of space.
“I made the entire space that was previously closed off with a barrier transparent. Vision is what we can see because objects reflect light. If everything in space is transparent, nothing can be seen.”
Information transmitted from the outside was blocked, and everything inside the barrier became transparent. Light is meaningless in the space where Min Seong-hyeok exhibited the third stage.
“How are you going to catch me in a world where you can’t see anything?”
Advanced Hunters were a kind of decisive battle weapon. Among the S-class, some exceptional ones had the power to break the common sense of the world.
Adela, who was ranked first in the grade, was a representative example, but it was the same for Min Seong-hyuk, who was in S class.
“No matter how strong a hunter is, if you don’t fight, strength is useless. Everyone is equal in my world.”
I can’t see anything.
It wasn’t just the feeling of closing your eyes that the light in the entire space had disappeared. I can’t get the surrounding data, and furthermore, I don’t even know if I exist in this place.
“Ah…”
Adela’s eyesight had collapsed, so she tried to make sounds with her mouth, relying on her hearing. However, sight and hearing are complementary to each other. Based on the data obtained from each other, sight replaces the empty information of hearing, and hearing replaces empty information of sight.
Adela felt that the voice she uttered was floating in an empty universe, not her body.
“The other five senses are also starting to break down. I’m used to it, but everyone goes crazy quickly in a space like this.”
Contrary to Min Seong-hyuk’s thoughts, however, Adela laughed weakly.
“In a world where vision is blocked, it breaks down on its own. Among all the hallucinogenic traits I’ve encountered… It’s one of the most terrifying abilities.”
As Min Seong-hyeok said, if you are left in this world for a few days, your mind may slowly collapse and you may go crazy.
But this danger was nothing new to Adela. Seonghyuk Min did not know the weight of the crown carried by the first place, and Adela did.
This match was decided by the difference.
“…You are not the first to prepare a strategy to defeat me. However, the reason why I reigned as Gaon’s No. 1 despite such a threat…” It
wasn’t because I thought of countermeasures against their abilities, nor because I had an excellent strategy.
“Because it has overwhelming power.”
At first glance, the battle between the hunters looks like rock-paper-scissors. When you have similar fighting power, a good strategy gives you an edge.
However, most of the time the power of hunters is not symmetrical.
“The scales on which the weight of power has tilted cannot be undone by strategies.”
[Opera of Snow]
“Intermezzo.”
A white winter flower blooms in a colorless world. In a world where everything is transparent, flowers have no shape or scent, but they definitely exist.
Adela felt the coolness of the snowflakes spreading from her fingertips. I felt the surroundings freeze with a cold chill.
“Aria.”
yeah nothing changed
Winter is usually quiet. The world is locked without form in a blizzard, and the world is full of silence and silence.
Whoaaah-!
“It’s a simple contest of strength… can your space handle my performance?”
Eggs are the only thing that can be hidden in a small mug. You can’t hide a big watermelon.
“Finale.”
Adela used both hands like a conductor to play a concise finale.
“Mana creates a barrier…”
Min Seong-hyeok received the help of an artifact he drew on the floor in advance, but this was the limit. With Min Seong-hyuk’s power, Adela’s mana bursting out of the barrier could not be prevented head-on.
Wedge-Ae-Ae-!
Snowflakes bloom in a world of nothingness that was pitch-black. The snow storm slowly revealed its shape, dispelling the darkness and lighting up the surroundings.
“It is over.”
As soon as the barrier was broken, the world was restored. The lofty Snow Queen looked down at the kneeling Min Sung-hyuk with insensitive eyes.
overwhelming power difference.
The despair of never winning.
“This is my defeat…”
Adela took out the velvet glass heart from the altar as if showing no interest in Min Seong-hyuk.
“…even if you beat me, nothing will change. The chairman made a castle and you are isolated in that castle.”
At Min Sung-hyuk’s provocation, which he spat out with pride, Adela turned around and said.
“…are you okay. Because such an isolated life is better than voluntary slavery.”
Unlike Min Seong-hyeok, who claimed to be a slave, Adela had no intention of serving a tyrant named Shin Ha-yoon.
‘My role now… is to save Velvet…’
It was not Adela’s role to bring down the tyrant from the throne. It was Shin Yoo-seong’s role to be the only rebel who shouldered everyone’s burden.
Adela, holding the glass heart, closed her eyes. His expression, which seemed insensitive, was nowhere to be found, and he prayed so earnestly.
‘I’ll believe you. you….’
