Episode 5 Preparing for the Leap (1)
After a while.
dinner time.
‘This…isn’t it a dream?’
Looking at his mother sitting in front of him, Jaehyun quietly cried in disbelief for a long time.
He forced himself to keep pushing raw rice into his mouth to hide the tears that kept welling up.
A mother who sacrificed her youth for herself.
The mother was as young as Jaehyun remembered.
Jaehyun’s mother Lee Seon-hwa looked at her son like that and put side dishes on the spoon with worried eyes.
‘What is Jaehyun doing these days? The blunt kid is crying so sadly.’
Just now.
As soon as his son saw him coming back from work, he held him in his arms and cried for a long time.
A son who is usually blunt and does not show affection.
Such a son hugged him and wept bitterly.
My heart ached as if a stone had been placed on my chest.
A child who grew up without a father’s love.
It was Jaehyun who quietly went through puberty, which everyone else suffers from.
How heartbreaking it was to see her suffering alone, never expressing herself even when she had a hard time.
Even if that kind of son leans on himself. I had no idea how heavy the task would be.
Silence flows for a while.
Lee Seon-hwa looked at her son for a moment and then carefully opened her mouth.
“Jaehyun. What are you up to these days? Is it because you have a hard time writing your high school application?”
“no. It’s just… I must have had a nightmare.”
“nightmare?”
“yes.”
A ridiculous excuse to even think of yourself. But my mother didn’t ask for more.
Jaehyun pondered for a while before putting down his spoon, and then got lucky.
“I… Mom. Actually, I have something to tell you.”
“okay. It didn’t seem like it.”
also. Something to come has come.
Lee Seon-hwa thought deeply about what was bothering her son.
‘Are you afraid to enter Milles Academy?
but. Radar is a very dangerous job… and the competition is so fierce…’
Seonhwa Lee nodded and convinced herself.
If his son didn’t want to, he was willing to give up Miles Academy right away and go to a regular school.
No matter how prestigious an academy is, it has no meaning if the son doesn’t want it.
however. The son’s words heard later were completely different from what he had expected.
“I’m thinking of changing the department I applied for to the magic field.”
“huh?”
The words that came out of his son’s mouth were unexpected.
Are you changing the department you are applying for?
Isn’t this the son who used to sing that he wanted to go to martial arts?
My son, who is usually a deep thinker, would not be swept away by the atmosphere and speak out.
Lee Seon-hwa pondered for a moment, then put her hand on Jae-hyun’s head.
“It wasn’t a sudden decision, was it?”
“yes. I had been thinking about it before.”
A smile spread across Lee Seon-hwa’s face again.
“okay. Do what you want. Mom wants her son to do what he wants rather than money. magic or whatever. Mom will support you if needed.”
Jaehyun was moved by Lee Seonhwa’s words, but he managed to hold back his tears.
‘Now is not the time to cry.’
I took a deep breath and made up my mind.
Jaehyun had to be strong.
revenge on father. And in order to get on the track of success as a wizard he had longed for, he had to get up and prepare for a new leap forward.
A world where power is everything.
To stop his father, a class A raider, he needs a stronger force than that.
Jaehyun engraved that fact deep in his heart.
* * *
―You have completed the quest 《Relax is the mother of success!》.
―A blank card was obtained as a reward for completing the quest.
After resting for a day, my physical strength returned to normal in the evening.
Jaehyun moved his body and nodded his head in satisfaction.
“good. I also cleared the quest. I also got another blank card.”
It was clear that things were going positively.
We still don’t know exactly what the Nornir System is, but it’s clear that this situation is worth taking advantage of.
Jaehyun knows the knowledge of the future.
He knows all kinds of ruins that even Hidden Peace can monopolize.
He usually has a very good memory, so he even served as a guide in a dungeon.
However, even such a reenactment could not shake off one worry.
“The problem is on the skill side. Excluding 《Absolute Calculation》 and 《Chain of Lightning》, all we have are martial arts skills.”
Jaehyun leaned back in the chair he was sitting on and stretched out.
“Ugh… well. I was planning to go to martial arts from the beginning, so can’t I do anything about it?”
Jaehyun looked at the open status window and fell into trouble for a moment.
[Personal Information]
Name: Min Jae-hyun
Age: 16
Level: 7
[Skills]
Passive: ‘The one who attracts the attention of the gods Max (New!)’ ‘The Eye of the Absolute God Max (New!)’ ‘Skillful swordsmanship’ Lv 17 ‘ Agile Steps Lv 15 ‘Flexible Movement’ Lv 14 ‘First Aid’ Lv 18…….
Active: ‘Absolute Calculation’ ‘Chain of Lightning’ (New!)
[Stat]
HP: 350 /350
MP: 500/500
Strength: 4
Dexterity: 3
Horsepower: 10
Endurance: 5
Distributable Points: 21
“Levels seem to be back around this time. The stats have also been reset…but why are only the passive skills the same?”
Just as Jaehyun was thinking, he heard a system notification sound.
―Due to the influence of the skill 《The One Who Gets the Attention of the Gods》, all of the user’s passive skills before returning are maintained.
“The One Who Gets the Attention of the Gods”?”
One of the new skills registered at the top of the skill window, 《The One Who Gets the Attention of the Gods》. I’m not sure, but it seems that this skill has maintained the passive before Jaehyun’s return.
Jaehyun immediately checked the skill information.
[Passive skill]
Name: One who attracts the attention of the gods
Rank: EX
Helps the user’s rapid growth with God’s blessing.
Effect
1. Maintains all passive skills when returning.
2. Each time the level goes up by 1, all stats are additionally increased by 1.
*Many anti-Aesir gods have their eyes on you!
“what? A skill that corrects my stats?”
It’s a skill that corrects stats. I’d never heard of anything like this.
‘The stat given every time you level up is 3. There, correcting all stats by 1 means that you can grow more than twice as fast as others.’
Even by simple calculation, when someone else gets a stat of 3, you get a total of 8.
“……crazy.”
Even in the midst of happiness, Jaehyun couldn’t get one vague question out of his head.
‘Attention of the anti-Esir gods… what the hell does that mean? I’ll have to look at other skills first.’
The names of the new skills were unusual.
Jaehyun is ‘New!’ I checked the information of other skills with the mark in turn.
[Passive Skill]
Name: Absolute God’s Eye
Rank: EX
Penetrates false illusions and sees through reality.
[Active Skill]
Name: Chain of Lightning
Rank: A
Mana Consumption: 50
Attacks the enemy by swinging a chain impregnated with electricity. Inflicts a paralyzed state or higher on the attacking enemy with a chance.
*Mana consumption increases as the number of chains ejected increases.
“I still don’t know what kind of skill 《Eye of the Absolute God》 is. I experienced the < Chain of Lightning > even then, but it was definitely a good skill.”
Jaehyun nodded.
《Chain of Lightning》 is a good dealing skill, needless to say. 《Eye of the Absolute God》 must also be an amazing skill in terms of rank.
In the case of the latter, the problem is not yet knowing how to use it clearly, but this was also a problem that would be solved by itself after a while.
‘There’s no need to rush anything.’
After confirming all the new skills, Jaehyun decided to distribute the stats next.
“Hmm… Strength is a stat you don’t really need since you’re a magician, and agility should be set at a minimum for evasion. Magic is, of course, the key.
……But the most important thing is endurance.”
Endurance is not a stat that increases attack power like strength or magic, but it slows down the rate of fatigue when repeating the same task for a long time.
If you take it first, you will definitely feel it when leveling.
After thinking about it for a while, Jaehyun invested 2 horsepower and 5 in agility and the rest in endurance.
Thanks to that, his endurance was already 19 at level 7.
Even if he entered Miles right away, it was a figure corresponding to the upper ranks.
“Once, the urgent fire was turned off. What skill should I learn next…”
Jaehyun pondered as he looked at the blank card he took out of his inventory.
“As for the attack skill, it’s okay because I have «Chain of Lightning» right now. Anyway, if you forcefully copy high-grade magic, you won’t be able to use it much because of mana.”
Jaehyun said while spinning the blank card.
“The most necessary thing is, of course, a healing-type skill.”
As of 2020. Compared to martial arts, the treatment of magic is the lowest.
However, the case of a raider with healing-related skills is different.
They are treated like nobility everywhere.
This is because, even if it is not necessarily a radar, it is highly preferred because it is engaged in the medical field and can be active in various fields.
‘If you start with a healing skill, you won’t be ignored by others. …… but.’
The most serious problem is that it is not easy to meet an Awakener with a healing skill.
In particular, around this time, there were almost no Awakeners around Jaehyun.
furthermore.
‘I couldn’t help it during Jung Woo-min’s time, but from now on, I have to use the blank card as efficiently as possible. I don’t know how many cards the system will give out… but it won’t give out items that will break the balance.’
《Chain of Lightning》 is, of course, a good A-class skill. However, on top of this, S-class. And assuming that there was one more level of skill on top of that, it was true that it was regrettable to use blank cards to copy A-level skills.
Jaehyun was thinking of using this blank card more efficiently.
‘……But it’s easy to say.’
Even if it’s not, the enemy finds a healing radar and copies the skill, picking up something that can break the balance and copying it?
“There’s no way the world could run so easily. shit.”
Jaehyun sighed and fell into deep thought.
“Ah… is there any way?”
at that time.
Gyiing…… Gyying…….
“Huh? Who is it?”
Jaehyun picked up the vibrating smartphone and looked at the screen.
The sender is Kim Yoo-jung.
Jaehyun’s expression hardened for a moment.
“Kim Yoo-jung…….”
Kim Yoo-jung was Jae-hyeon’s childhood friend. He lived next door and went together often, and he was one of his best friends who went to Miles together and developed his dream of becoming a radar.
but.
Jaehyun puts his hand on his forehead, suffering from a severe headache.
The old memories squeezed Jaehyun’s chest and caused pain from deep inside.
Kim Yoo-jung, who was covered in blood and barely opened her eyes, and herself who survived alone.
It seemed that the trauma of that day still remained in him.
Jaehyun took a deep breath and calmed himself down.
‘are you okay. I can change it now. No, I have to change it.’
Jaehyun’s face softened slightly with a firm determination. In the meantime, Kim Yoo-jung’s message continued.
“He is exactly as I remember him.”
Jaehyun smiled bitterly and checked the contents of the message Kim Yoojung sent.
[Yayayaya. What are you doing right now?]
[Sungnyeo Yoo Seongnyeo is coming to the city to give a lecture!!!!! Do you want to go see the saintess with me?]
If you’re going to go, then go alone?]
[Ah, please let’s go ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ]
“Ah! okay!”
Jaehyun’s face turned bright as he read the message.
“There was this person.”
Jaehyun raised an eyebrow and made a greedy expression.
An S-class radar with only 200 people in the world. Saint Yoo Sung-eun.
Jaehyun jumped up from his seat holding his smartphone.
“mom! I’ll go outside for a bit!”
“okay. Be careful not too late!”
After getting permission from Lee Seon-hwa, Jae-hyun left the house and immediately sent a reply to Kim Yoo-jung.
[I’ll be there soon.]
“If you’re this big, there’s no need to worry.”
Lee Chae’s eyes were young.
He is the best healer in Korea.
I was thinking of copying Yoo Sung-eun’s healing magic 《Sacrifice》.
* * *
Whoops.
A black van skidding on the road.
From the driver’s seat in the front seat, you can hear the voice of Seong-jae Park, Yoo Seong-eun’s secretary and manager.
“I will brief you on the rest of today’s schedule. After a while, there was a lecture on encouraging radar on an outdoor stage in the city, followed by a B-class dungeon attack in Seongbuk-gu, Wonju field garrison inspection, and then straight to the United States.”
Looking at Yoo Sung-eun on his face, he sighed.
He paused for a moment and then asked.
“……Are you really going to be okay with that? CEO, your complexion is worse than before.”
“are you okay. It’s just a little drowsy.”
“It’s because I’ve been working on an unreasonable schedule for several months already. Yesterday, during the dungeon raid, you overworked yourself too much. …… don’t you know?”
Park Seong-jae paused for a while.
“The CEO’s magic… is killing himself.”
Yoo Seong-eun’s lips were tightly shut. Park Seong-jae’s words were not wrong.
The healing magic 《Sacrifice》 that put Yoo Seong-eun on the right track.
This magic is powerful enough to heal many people in a dying state at once, but it has one fatal flaw.
It means that every time you activate magic, you consume your own life force.
In general, ‘unique skills’ such as Sacrifice have penalties. For example, taking the user’s life force, demanding a price, or granting a debuff.
This was undoubtedly applied to Yoo Sung-eun’s magic 《Sacrifice》.
Seongjae Park lowered his head in regret.
‘It would be nice if it worked even with healing magic.’
The life force exhausted by 《Sacrifice》 can only be healed with magic of the same grade or higher.
The problem is that there is no higher level healing magic than Sacrifice.
saintess. Seongeun Yoo’s «Sacrifice» is a unique skill.
Here, a unique skill is a skill that is one level higher than S, which is called the end of skill.
It can only be obtained through blood lineage transmission or individual skill expression.
Yooseong is the only person in the world who has acquired the healing skill as a unique skill.
It was also impossible to receive healing from others.
“You said you wouldn’t say that. Seongjae’s older brother.”
Yoo Seong-eun laughed with a mischievous expression.
Park Seong-jae put his strength on the steering wheel he was holding with a sad heart.
‘If this continues, the CEO may collapse soon. If that happens…….’
Park Seong-jae looked at Yoo Seong-eun.
Yoo Seong-eun didn’t say anything more and just looked out the window with a detached face.
In fact, Yooseong knew best. The fact that there is not much time left to be active as a radar. That one’s body will soon reach its limit.
But she had to move on.
In order to protect the people who believed in him and the members of the Yeonhwa Guild, who were like his family, he had to endure even a little longer.
‘shit.’
Park Seong-jae let out a sad sigh as he watched Yoo Seong-eun drink water with trembling hands in the back seat.
