Chapter 10 : Academy Entrance Exam (5)

The second World Boss to appear in the world.

[Immortal Knight]

The being who defeated it alone.

Reaper.

!!!

That’s me.

So I’m curious.

‘It’s not a place where that name should be mentioned. Why are you asking?’

This is the academy.

Isn’t it a place of hope and learning, not a battlefield where a gate has opened, nor a blood-stained black tower?

Moreover, I was only twelve years old, an age that did not know the harshness of the world.

Her cheeks are plump, and her hands are small and soft, more suited to holding a flower.

There’s no way I can give a proper answer.

First of all, I made a face that said I didn’t know what was going on.

“Reaper?”

“Are you pretending not to know in front of me?”

I heard that the martial arts that reached the sky were very strict.

Just standing in front of her made my legs tremble.

A sensation as if ice water had been poured.

I lowered my head further.

“…At that time, I lost consciousness and collapsed, so I don’t know anything. I was caught up in the incident, but I survived by luck. It’s not a story that the chairman needs to be concerned about.”

“You have a boldness that is not like a child. You seem to have lived only twelve years, but it is impossible to be possible by luck.”

The God of War clicked her tongue.

‘Are you ignoring me? I survived alone after everything was destroyed??’

Why?!

How can a 12-year-old catch a World Boss.

I did catch it.

Anyway.

Usually, people don’t think like that.

‘If it’s revealed that I’m the Reaper.’

Countless people will try to figure out how such a thing is possible.

Then the day will come when the secret about my eyes will be revealed.

I’m not a person worthy of that title.

‘I don’t want to be a ghost without eyes.’

I could end up saying goodbye to Hell Joseon with a dissection ending.

I put on a brazen face.

“I am sorry that I have nothing to say.”

The person in front of me is a national-power-level hunter.

Still.

What are you going to do if I say no?

Is it a crime to struggle to survive?

Should the visually impaired just die when they meet a World Boss?

Even though I can’t open my eyes and look straight at her, I straightened my shoulders proudly.

A sense of detachment was felt in the end of her words.

“But, there are always mysterious things in the world. Somewhere out of human reach, miracles and disasters dance with the same wings and play tricks. Perhaps you were the dice that laughed and cried in that prank.”

It seems that she is simply dismissing it as luck.

‘Was she just probing? Whew, I was scared.’

Indeed.

Even I would think it strange if only a child survived in a place where hunters were annihilated.

Even the God of War can’t help but be curious.

It was fortunate that she didn’t dig any further.

“You may go down.”

“Um……. Then the interview?”

“You passed. I was amused by the boldness of taking out your Ideation in front of me. Continue to strive endlessly and become a great hunter.”

“Really? Can I go?”

“Do so.”

Wow.

A visually impaired person who used to attend a special school has now passed the best academic background in the world.

Was that a joke?

I suppressed the overflowing joy.

But my lips betrayed me.

It twitched, threatening to reveal everything.

So I bowed deeply to my waist, trying to make my small body look full of courtesy and humility.

It was the only way to hide this ecstasy.

After that.

With my eyes closed, I opened the door, guided by Hayang.

Clank.

A sigh that bursts out.

“Whoa. That’s, the strongest in the world.”

My flesh trembled.

My still-present baby fat shook lightly.

I gritted my teeth, but the trembling didn’t stop.

Like a tree rooted in the ground, an unshakable center.

Depth from words and actions.

“Awesome.”

Words that came out of my mouth without me realizing it.

I want to be like that person.

I thought unintentionally.

Admiration bloomed.

It was a pity that I couldn’t see such a being directly with my own eyes.

‘Should I have looked at the status window once, even if it felt like my eyes were splitting?’

I immediately shook my head.

That’s dangerous.

In the hunter industry, they don’t go easy on you just because you’re a child.

There is no such thing as my side.

Hunters are guys who do anything to get stronger.

But at the same time, something was blooming inside me.

In the emotions mixed with fear and awe, enlightenment also took place.

Unlike me, she didn’t reveal her Ideation to the outside, even though she had such a narrative.

Nevertheless, it was overwhelming, so I learned something.

‘Ideation is not all about revealing it.’

A sense to detect flow, read the air, and predict danger.

I only threw it out like the gesture of a drowning person struggling in the water and reaching out.

That was the only way I could hide my eyes.

But the God of War turned her Ideation inward and held it quietly.

‘If you spread Ideation to the outside, your senses expand, but what happens if you hold it inside?’

A thought I had never thought of.

But, the moment I realized that possibility, my Ideation moved to a new dimension.

The moment I learned it, I realized how.

That sound caused vibrations inside.

Ideation began to connect with me in a new way.

Every corner of my body woke up one by one.

Every cell seemed to be burning, and I felt like I was assembling and rearranging my body myself.

I intuitively understood what it meant.

Ideation tunes the body.

‘This is……………. Body Schema?’

A body schema covered in black mist.

A small and fragile body. It’s me.

But it’s different from when I looked at my body with x-ray vision.

I’m not seeing it with my eyes.

This, I’m seeing with Ideation.

‘Is it because my Ideation stat is still low?’

Not everything was clearly visible.

It felt like what I was looking for was slipping away through the blurry and heavy shadows.

But.

I realized that Ideation could freely roam in the clearly revealed parts.

The Ideation stat displayed on the status window is 10.

That’s probably why there are so many areas covered in black mist.

[You have realized the state where the mind and body become one. Congratulations on your achievement.]

“What is this? What good is it to do this?”

[Heroes used to call such a phenomenon ‘opening the core’. It would be better to move directly according to your senses.]

It’s a reasonable statement.

My body was also itching, so I tested it right away.

I’m a growing child, so I can’t resist stretching exercises.

‘One, two, three, four.’

My body stretched out.

It felt like the muscles and joints that I hadn’t been able to pay attention to in my daily life were waking up one by one.

I never knew that moving my body as I thought would feel so good and refreshing.

I clasped my hands behind my back and slowly leaned back.

The leisure to talk while my back is touching my buttocks.

“Wow, amazing. I can even do this.”

Even if I stretch my legs straight, my crotch doesn’t hurt at all.

What is this sense of balance and flexibility?

It’s crazy.

‘Not only flexibility, but also reaction speed seems to have improved. My senses also seem to have become more sensitive.’

I wonder if stats like strength, agility, and vitality have also increased?

It’s a pity that I can’t feel it right away.

But.

There are not only advantages.

‘If you use Ideation to open the core, the Ideation that is active externally decreases.’

There is a limit because the total amount of Ideation itself is still weak.

It feels like I lost my sight instead of gaining physical performance.

‘I have more reasons to level up.’

‘What if I manifest the narrative I have?’

If I gave my narrative to the Ideation spread out, it became a bullet that condensed darkness.

But what if the Ideation that became one with my body implements the narrative?

Suddenly, my whole body turned black.

“Oh my.”

It’s not that I turned black and became a four heavenly king of an evil organization, or that my race changed to black.

“Wow. I disappeared. Can you see me?”

[…As expected of you, who used to put Ideation into a strange device and shoot it, it’s a gloomy method.]

Even Achilles couldn’t see me with his eyes, so he just sniffed.

It was stealth.

“Hmm.”

A short exclamation left her lips.

Her black eyes crossed the letters.

They say the eyes are the windows to the soul.

A depth that seems to suck in the soul of the beholder.

In it, the principles of all things were swirling.

In front of the absolute, a hunter who was once a member of the tower’s front-line attack team bowed his head.

It’s a terrible thing to meet the eyes of the God of War.

“Honestly, I was a little surprised when the chairman said she would conduct the interview herself.”

S-rank hunter.

The Flame of Roar.

Park Hankyeol.

He continued cautiously.

“Because it was customary for the professors to lead the interviews. The fact that the chairman is directly involved means…………… I took it to mean a very special case.”

The pressure interview conducted by Korea’s best hunters.

Even if the best prospects from all over the world flock, there were many cases where they were overwhelmed by the atmosphere and couldn’t even speak properly.

There were even people who lost consciousness and were carried out because they couldn’t stand the pressure.

But.

That God of War said she would conduct the interview herself.

Only the first place in this entrance exam.

It was unprecedented.

The chairman is the busiest person in the world, so why would she spare time for just one academy student?

What would happen if the God of War conducted the interview?

It would be fortunate if they didn’t die of a heart attack.

But I can’t raise any questions either.

This human-like person in front of me is the one who pays my salary.

Yuseo-ha covered the documents and looked at Park Hankyeol.

“The world is governed by the Way , protected by power, and advanced by faith . But I, as you see me, am neither of the Way, nor of power, nor of faith. Am I a dog of some Buddha?”

Park Hankyeol showed a moment of embarrassment.

She still has a mischievous side.

“It’s not. I’m just curious.”

“At least, I thought that the disciple of that ferocious guy would naturally get first place.”

“Are you talking about the disciple of Man-sin?”

Yuseo-ha nodded.

Her calm voice flowed out with a deep look, but the sharpness in it could not be hidden.

“To raise a successor, it was hard to believe. So I came to see it with my own eyes. But not only was Man-sin’s place changed, but a mere twelve-year-old child was fluttering Ideation in front of me.”

The fluttering of her Ideation was so incredible that even a veteran like Park Hankyeol was taken aback.

Park Hankyeol, who was at a loss for words, read the documents floating in the air.

Information about the girl who swept the entrance exam with overwhelming scores was spread out in front of his eyes.

‘What, everything is 100 points? Oh my? This guy Kim Seokhoon also gave 100 points in the practical test?’

Perfect score in written and practical tests.

It’s unprecedented.

I muttered that even a parachute wouldn’t be able to get this score, and then suddenly.

Park Hankyeol swallowed his words for a moment.

He had been reviewing the notes he had taken during the entrance exam, specifically focusing on the section dedicated to Ernian Ludwig.

‘I knew there was something special about her, surviving alone on the scene where the World Boss swept through.’

Thoughts that seemed to try to convince himself were repeated in his head.

At first, I just thought that she had obtained a good skill, or that she had just saved her life by luck.

Because.

Wasn’t she disabled?

‘She was just awakened. Nevertheless, the reason I brought her to the academy was because I thought she would have a high-grade skill.’

I don’t know what kind of skill she got from the system, but a skill that can allow a disabled person to survive from the [Immortal Knight].

S and Ex grades.

Although ‘untalented hunters’ who rely only on the grades of skills or equipment are often useless in the latter half of the tower.

Park Hankyeol knows.

That being born with such a skill is also ‘talent’.

There are plenty of skills with high growth ceilings, such as the [Cheonmujiche] skill that the son of [Geomseong] has.

It would be nice if she performed well in the entrance exam, and if she fell, I thought it would be a good experience and she could apply to another academy.

There are many options, domestically or abroad.

“…But.”

She took first place in both the written and practical tests, and above all, she caught the interest of the God of War.

It’s something that can’t be done just by getting a high-grade skill by luck.

“Hankyeol-ah.”

“Yes, Chairman.”

“You were the professor who recommended that girl.”

“……?”

“Let’s do one thing.”

Cold sweat ran down his neck.