I Got an Ex-Class Omnipotent System - Chapter 1

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Chapter 1: Dohyun
As a child, I often found myself lost in such thoughts.
‘If only reality worked like a game, life would be so much easier.’
How wonderful it would be to see my study experience points rise with each hour of studying, my athletic stats climb with every workout?
If I could see exactly how much effort was needed to improve, there would be no more frustration.
And it would actually be fun.
Why couldn’t reality work that way?
If life were like a game, I would have worked so much harder.
It was a thought I’d entertained countless times in childhood, and strangely, I still caught myself thinking it now.
But ultimately, it was nothing more than fantasy.
Now I’d reached an age where I had to confront reality rather than indulge in imagination, and having just graduated from university, the time had come for me to find employment.
So I reluctantly threw myself into the job market, resigned to my fate.
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Employment. Job hunting.
Still difficult, still unpleasant words.
For Dohyun, freshly twenty-six and newly graduated, they felt especially harsh.
『[Web Message]
Hello. This is the recruitment department of ◆□ Electronics.
We are writing to inform you of your second interview results.
First, we sincerely thank you for your interest in our company and your application.
After careful review, we regret to inform you that you will not be joining us in this recruitment cycle.
We hope to meet you again under better circumstances in the future.』
For all their verbose language, the message was clear: I didn’t make the cut.
I exhaled heavily as I read the suffocating rejection.
“Sigh.”
Another public recruitment failure.
At least I’d passed the document screening—though what good was that when I’d failed anyway?
‘Why is finding a job still so impossibly hard when the world itself has changed so drastically?’
How was it that even after the Black Gate appeared, job hunting remained just as brutal?
If the world could transform so fundamentally, shouldn’t this have changed too? But reality was what it was, and there was nothing I could do about it.
When had I become old enough to be job hunting?
I still felt like a college student, laughing at YouTube videos and anime, watching dozens of shorts before sleep claimed me.
Time felt merciless.
Someone older might call my worries the complaints of the privileged, but for me, they weighed heavily.
At my age, such concerns were natural enough.
‘Well, what can I do?’
Still, I’d made it through university without a single leave of absence except for military service, and I was pursuing employment immediately after graduation—that alone deserved some credit.
Especially for someone my generation.
I closed the rejection email and opened another window.
‘Let me take it easy today.’
The interview results had left me feeling off, and besides, I had no part-time work scheduled for today anyway.
I tore open a triangle kimbap I’d bought from the convenience store and pulled up YouTube on my phone.
My studio apartment was shabby—not even a TV to speak of—but there was nothing quite as comfortable as unwrapping triangle kimbap on my bed while watching YouTube.
‘Yeah, this is the best way to relax.’
Time slipped away unnoticed, and it made me forget about the interview results for a while.
I was scrolling through thumbnails with picky indifference when one suddenly caught my eye.
[Phoenix Guild Enters B-Rank Zone]
“What? Phoenix Guild is already going into B-Rank?”
It was common knowledge by now—everyone knew that stepping through the Black Gate meant entering the Other World.
And since the zones within the Black Gate shifted by rank, much like different dimensions, hunters could advance through the ranks once they reached a certain level, which meant that starting from F-Rank at the beginning, B-Rank was considered quite a high tier.
After all, South Korea’s greatest guild, the Taebaek Guild, was only A-Rank.
Entering a B-Rank zone was proof of formidable strength.
Yet here was the Phoenix Guild—barely five years old—finally breaking into B-Rank.
I couldn’t resist.
I clicked the thumbnail and the Phoenix Guild video began to play.
‘Wow, this is really B-Rank? It’s no joke.’
Hunters tangled in combat with all manner of monsters, their movements fierce and coordinated.
It had become content for consumption now, yet the fact that the Black Gate remained a threat to humanity hadn’t changed.
Only by entering the Black Gate and defeating monsters to earn points could humanity prevent the creatures from overflowing out into the world.
Points were tallied each month, and if a nation fell short, a gate resembling the Black Gate would manifest in a random location within that country, spewing forth monsters.
There had been times when hunters from every nation fought desperately to accumulate points.
Now, fifteen years later, it had become routine.
Yet hunters still pushed themselves to the limit gathering points.
Was it because points were still insufficient these days?
Hardly.
The points earned from killing monsters weren’t used solely to seal the Black Gate.
Points could be converted to money, and they could be used for virtually anything—a power almost divine in nature.
As long as a certain amount of points went toward sealing the Black Gate, the remaining points went to the hunters.
This made it the most lucrative profession of the age.
Of course, one had to awaken first, but even if I awakened, I’d rather decline.
It wasn’t simply about risking my life.
‘Man, how much training would it take to reach that level?’
Unlike novels or games, there was no system here—no clicking a skill button to unleash an attack.
The fantasy magic displayed in this video was the same way.
You had to purchase grimoires with points, cultivate mana, and train relentlessly to achieve results.
Becoming a hunter didn’t guarantee you’d win the lottery and become strong overnight, so why bother?
I found even leaving for the gym exhausting and burdensome.
A hunter, requiring training far more grueling than any athlete?
Not a chance.
I just wanted to land a job, earn a decent salary, and live comfortably—that was my only wish.
Did the heavens take pity on Dohyun’s earnest resolve?
Suddenly, particles of light began to settle upon his body.
“Wh-what?”
The precursor symptoms of an awakening.
Why was an awakening happening while I was giggling at Hunter videos on the internet?
Just as bewilderment and mortification washed over me, something extraordinary unfolded before my eyes.
Crackle—
My vision warped as if static were bleeding across a screen.
Was this what it felt like when space itself distorted?
My vision suddenly twisted, then blurred into white noise before something burst forth.
[You have awakened the Ex-Grade Trait, 『Analysis』.]
“…?”
What is this?
Staring at the text floating in midair, I could only think that one thought.
It was absurd enough that I’d suddenly awakened, but now text was floating before my eyes out of nowhere.
I blinked in disbelief at the text window that resembled a system interface.
Was this a dream?
That thought crossed my mind, but I was still holding my phone, and the sensation of the bed beneath me as I jolted upright in shock felt far too vivid to be imaginary.
It didn’t seem right to dismiss this as a dream.
Which meant this was reality.
‘Is this… a system?’
The moment I saw the text window, that thought struck me, and though something felt strange, I looked again—but the text window hovering precisely at the edge of my vision showed no signs of disappearing.
It was as if I were wearing a VR headset.
‘Systems don’t exist… right?’
Foolishly, I entertained that thought, but soon my attention returned to the text window.
Could it be because of that trait?
An uncommon grade and an uncommon trait name.
Having consumed countless novels and anime, I grasped it immediately.
This display was because of the trait itself.
As my thoughts reached that conclusion, I finally understood the true value of this ability.
‘Insane.’
I’d obtained a power like something from a game?
And on impulse, I spoke the words I’d always wanted to cry out.
“St-status window?”
Though my words were uncertain, the text window hovering in midair responded, vanishing and replaced by a new one.
『Dohyun』
『Trait: Analysis [Ex]』
『Skills』
▶「×」
『Attributes』
▶「Strength: 3」
▶「Agility: 4」
▶「Stamina: 3」
▶「Mana: 1」
‘Insane!’
It’s actually happening.
How in the world is this possible?
I was just sitting at home eating triangle kimbap after getting rejected at an interview, watching YouTube videos, and now I’ve awakened? Like this?
And with such a high-tier trait at that?
This is absolutely insane.
But wait a second?
‘Why are my stats like this?’
Pathetically abysmal stats.
They seem significantly below average, but I can’t exactly deny them.
Since I’ve never set foot in a gym—something most people do these days—perhaps these numbers are actually accurate for someone like me?
Then, suddenly, I recalled the awakening education video that had become an annual event by now.
A phenomenon that appears when you first awaken mana and gain a trait.
“Huh? If I’ve awakened, will I be dragged into a tutorial?”
The moment those words left my lips.
Text materialized before my eyes once more.
[Tutorial will commence.]
[Entering the Black Gate.]
[Moving to Tutorial Zone.]
“Gasp?!”
If I remember correctly from the education video, Goblins appear in the tutorial.
But with these pathetic stats, they want me to run a tutorial?
Isn’t this hopeless?
There had actually been cases of people dying in the tutorial after awakening without proper preparation, so there was a reason the education video was mandatory every year.
Which meant.
‘They’re telling me to hunt Goblins?’
In that instant, my face drained of color as I screamed into the void.
“C-Crazy!? C-Cancel! Cancel the awakening!”
I’d never exercised a day in my life and only watched Hunters on YouTube with admiration, yet suddenly I’ve awakened.
What good is giving me such an amazing ability?
I’m about to die because of these garbage stats.
But my desperate wish went unfulfilled, and I was transported away while still lying in bed.
Perhaps because I was transported in such an awkward position?
The moment I arrived, I tumbled backward.
Thud—
Crackle.
As I crushed the fallen leaves and wild grass scattered across the ground, the surrounding vegetation tickled against my skin.
A transition without any preparation whatsoever.
Just to be sure, I pushed myself up from the ground.
“Kek kek!”
A green-skinned dwarf was laughing mockingly at me.
A pathetic Monster I’d only ever seen in videos—a Goblin.
But to me, it looked like death itself.
“Ah, aah….”
My legs trembled uncontrollably of their own accord.
My legs refused to obey me, no matter how hard I tried to stand.
But then.
[Analyzing the Goblin.]
[Weak points analyzed.]
Red target markers appeared on the Goblin’s body.
But.
‘What good is showing me this when I don’t even know how to attack!’
I grumbled inwardly like a whimpering child.
But this was no time for complaints.
The ferocious Goblin charged at me the moment it saw me.
I looked around desperately for anything I could use.
All I could find was a stone.
And helpfully enough.
『Stone』
▶「An ordinary stone commonly found anywhere.」
The Analysis even provided information about the stone.
Dismissing that useless information, I jolted to my feet to dodge the charging Goblin.
“Uaaaah!”
But was the Goblin faster than someone with pathetic stats like mine?
The Goblin closed the distance in an instant, raising its crude dagger to strike me down.
[Analyzing the Goblin’s attack trajectory.]
With the message, the exact path of the Goblin’s movement became visible to me.
Seeing it, I thought it was like a game, and without even thinking, I sidestepped out of the trajectory. The Goblin’s crude dagger slashed through empty air where I had been.
Whoosh!
“Keruk?”
A confused cry, as if asking how I had dodged.
As I blinked in bewilderment at my own evasion, another message appeared before my eyes.
[Analyzed the Goblin’s skill 「Dagger Mastery [F]」.]
[This skill is below the standard threshold.]
[You acquire the skill without consuming AP (Analysis Points).]
[You have acquired the skill 「Dagger Mastery [F]」.]
[Your newly acquired skill has permanently increased your Agility by +1.]
“Huh?”
In that moment, the world seemed to slow around me as I stared blankly at the floating text.
What on earth is this?
Seeing me dazed and unfocused, the Goblin moved swiftly, attempting to strike again.
But the instant the Goblin revealed its intention.
Whoosh.
The Goblin’s trajectory became visible as if the world itself had slowed, and without thinking, I shifted my body away from the dagger’s path.
And yet.
‘I’m faster than before.’
Whether it was the increased Agility or not, I managed to evade the trajectory far more swiftly than I had previously, slipping backward with ease.
Swish!
The Goblin’s dagger carved through the air once more.
The creature snarled in frustration and attempted another swing, but now the openings in its defense—previously invisible to me—became glaringly apparent.
‘I think I can do this.’
Where I had seen no opportunity to attack before, now the gaps in its movements revealed themselves abundantly.
With that conviction, I gripped the stone and swung it toward the Goblin’s head, where its weakness was marked.
Crack!
“Kek!”
The stone, swung with considerable speed, struck the Goblin’s temple with precision, and blood erupted from its skull as it shrieked and crumpled to the ground.
Watching the Goblin collapse unconscious, green blood pooling beneath it, I swallowed hard.
“I… I did it.”
For the first time in my life, I had won a fight.
Against a monster that had tried to kill me, no less.
Adrenaline surged through my veins as I swallowed again, my mind racing.
‘This ability is absolutely broken.’
Motion prediction, skill copying, even stat acquisition—all of it.
Having just one of these would be considered overpowered, yet I possess all three.
With this…
‘I could actually become a Hunter.’
I had been preparing to find employment, but instead, I had awakened an extraordinary power beyond my wildest imagination.

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