I Got an Ex-Class Omnipotent System - Chapter 1

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Chapter 1: Lee Dohyun

When he was young, Dohyun often had such thoughts.

‘It would be convenient if reality looked like a game too.’

How nice would it be if you could see study experience points going up when you study, and exercise experience points going up when you exercise?

You could see exactly how much you need to do to improve your abilities, so there would be no frustration.

It would even be fun.

Why isn’t reality like that?

If it had been like a game, he would have worked hard too.

It was a thought he often had as a child, but he still had similar thoughts now.

But anyway, that was just a story of imagination.

Now he had reached an age where he had to face reality rather than such fantasies, and since Dohyun had also graduated from university and it was time to find employment.

Dohyun eventually had no choice but to reluctantly jump into the job market.

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Employment, getting a job.

Still difficult and uncomfortable words.

For twenty-six-year-old Lee Dohyun, who had just graduated from university, it was even more so.

『[Web Message]

Hello. This is the recruitment manager from ◆□Electronics.

We are informing you of the results of the second interview.

First, we sincerely thank you for your interest in our company and for applying.

After careful consideration, we regret to inform you that we will not be able to work together in this recruitment.

We hope to meet again through a better opportunity.』

They wrote a long rambling message, but in the end it meant you didn’t make it.

Dohyun sighed as he looked at the suffocating text message.

“Sigh.”

Another failure in this public recruitment.

He thought it might be fortunate that he at least passed the document screening, but what good did that do when he failed in the end.

‘Why is finding employment still just as hard even though the world has gone crazy?’

How is it that even after the Black Gates appeared, employment is still just as difficult.

If the world had changed dramatically, shouldn’t things like this have changed too? He thought, but what could he do about reality being like this.

When did it become time for him to find employment?

He still felt like a college student who giggled while watching YouTube or anime, and fell asleep watching dozens of shorts before bed.

Time felt so cruel.

From an older person’s perspective, it might sound like a privileged complaint, but for Dohyun it was quite a heavy concern.

That was natural at Dohyun’s age.

‘Sigh, what can I do.’

Still, he had attended university without taking a leave of absence except for military service, and trying to get employed right after graduation was praiseworthy enough.

For today’s young generation.

Today too, he closed the failed interview result screen and opened another screen.

‘Let’s rest a bit today.’

The interview results came out and he felt a bit down, and fortunately he didn’t have a part-time job today either.

He opened a triangle kimbap he bought from the convenience store and accessed YouTube on his phone.

It was a shabby studio apartment without even a TV, but nothing was more comfortable than opening triangle kimbap on the bed while watching YouTube.

‘Yeah, this is the best when resting.’

Time passed without him noticing, and it made him temporarily forget the interview results.

Dohyun was scrolling through thumbnails, wondering what to watch, when he spotted one that caught his eye.

[Phoenix Guild Enters B-Grade Zone]

“Oh? Phoenix Guild is already entering B-grade?”

It was now common knowledge that you could enter another world through the Black Gates.

And within those Black Gates, the difficulty increased the farther you got from the gate, with the first entry zone being classified as F-grade, so B-grade meant they had penetrated quite deep.

Since Korea’s top guild, Taebaek Guild, was A-grade.

B-grade zone was proof of being quite strong.

But Phoenix Guild, which had been established for less than 5 years, was finally entering B-grade.

He couldn’t miss this.

When he clicked the thumbnail, Phoenix Guild’s video started playing.

‘Wow, is this really B-grade? This is no joke.’

Hunters fighting while entangled with various monsters.

While this was now consumed like content, the fact that Black Gates were still a threat to humanity hadn’t changed.

Only by entering the Black Gates and defeating monsters to earn points could they prevent monsters from overflowing from the Black Gates.

Points were tallied monthly, and if points were insufficient, gates identical to Black Gates would appear in random locations in that country and pour out monsters.

That’s why there was a time when hunters from each country desperately gathered points.

Now 15 years had passed and it was a familiar system.

Hunters were still desperately seeking points.

Even now because points were insufficient?

That couldn’t be.

Points earned from killing monsters weren’t only used to block Black Gates.

Points could be exchanged for money, and you could do everything you wanted with them – it was truly like divine technology.

If a certain amount of points was used to block Black Gates, the remaining points went to the hunters.

Thanks to this, it could be said to be the highest-paying profession of this era.

Of course, you could only do it if you awakened, but even if Dohyun awakened, he wanted to decline.

It wasn’t simply because you had to risk your life.

‘Ugh, how much training would I need to do to become like that?’

It’s not like there’s a system like in novels or games, where you click a skill and an attack goes out.

The magic that seemed like it would only appear in fantasy, as shown in the current video, was the same.

It was the result of purchasing spellbooks with points, training mana, and practicing.

Just because you become a Hunter doesn’t mean you automatically hit the lottery and become strong, so why bother?

Dohyun found even going to the gym bothersome and difficult.

But a Hunter who had to go through training much more grueling than athletes?

He wouldn’t do it even if offered.

He just wanted to get a job, slack off with a decent salary, and live moderately well.

Was heaven moved by Dohyun’s such feelings?

Suddenly, particles of light were settling in Dohyun’s body.

“Huh, what?”

A precursor symptom of awakening.

Why was he awakening while giggling at Hunter YouTube videos?

As bewilderment and embarrassment arose, a strange phenomenon occurred before Dohyun’s eyes.

Crackle—

A feeling as if his vision was distorting, like noise appearing on a screen.

Would it be like this if space itself distorted?

Suddenly his vision distorted, then became hazy and something popped out.

“…?”

What is this?

Looking at the letters floating in midair, Dohyun was thinking exactly that.

It was already absurd that he suddenly awakened, and now letters were suddenly floating before his eyes.

Dohyun blinked his eyes incredulously at the text window that looked like system messages.

Was this a dream?

He had that thought, but he was holding his phone, and the sensation of the bed he had awkwardly risen from in surprise felt too vivid.

It seemed wrong to mistake this for a dream.

Then this was reality.

‘Isn’t this a system?’

Looking at the text window, Dohyun immediately thought so and looked again with a strange feeling, but the text window floating precisely in one corner of his vision still showed no signs of disappearing.

It looked like he was wearing VR goggles or something.

‘There’s no system… right?’

Though he foolishly had that thought, he soon focused on the text window again.

Perhaps it was because of what appeared to be that trait?

An extraordinary grade and an extraordinary trait name.

Having watched many novels and anime, Dohyun immediately realized.

That what he was seeing now was because of the trait.

As Dohyun’s thoughts reached that point, he could realize the value of this trait.

‘Crazy.’

He had gained an ability like a game?

And just in case, he spoke the words he had always wanted to say.

“St, status window?”

Even though it was a question, responding to it, the text window floating in midair disappeared and a new text window appeared.

‘Crazy!’

It really works.

No, how did this happen?

He was dejected by a text saying he failed an interview, eating triangle kimbap at home and watching YouTube, and then he awakens like this?

And with such a high-grade trait?

This is really crazy.

But wait a minute?

‘Why are my stats like this?’

Utterly miserable stats.

They seemed significantly lower than average, but he couldn’t really deny it.

Since Dohyun had never once gone to the gym that most people attend these days, wouldn’t those actually be the correct numbers?

Then he suddenly remembered the awakening education video he heard as an annual event every year.

The phenomenon that appears when you first awaken mana and gain a trait.

“Huh? If I awakened, will I be dragged to a tutorial?”

The moment Dohyun uttered those words.

Text appeared before his eyes once again.

“Gasp?!”

If it’s according to what the education video taught, he remembered that goblins appear in the tutorial.

But with these trashy stats, he’s supposed to do a tutorial?

Wouldn’t that be hopeless?

There had actually been successive cases of deaths in tutorials due to being unprepared after awakening. It wasn’t for nothing that they had education videos as an annual event.

Which means.

‘They want me to catch a goblin?’

At that moment, Dohyun’s face turned pale as he shouted into midair.

“C-crazy!? C-cancel! Cancel the awakening!”

Dohyun had never exercised even once and only watched hunters on YouTube with admiration, yet suddenly he was awakened.

What good would such a great ability do?

He was going to die because of his trash-like stats.

But Dohyun’s desperate wish wasn’t granted, and he was transported somewhere while still lying in the same position on his bed.

Was it because he was transported in such an awkward position?

The moment he was transported, Dohyun tumbled backward as if rolling.

Thud—

Rustle.

As he crushed the fallen leaves and grass growing haphazardly on the ground, the surrounding grass tickled Dohyun.

A transfer with no preparation whatsoever.

Just in case, when Dohyun got up from his spot.

“Kek kek!”

He saw a green-skinned dwarf sneering at him.

A pathetic monster he’d only seen in videos—a goblin.

But to Dohyun, it looked like the grim reaper.

“Ah, aah…”

His legs trembled uncontrollably.

Even when he tried to stand up, his legs wouldn’t move as he wanted.

But then.

Red targets appeared on the goblin’s body.

However.

‘Even if you show me something like that, how am I supposed to attack!’

He grumbled inwardly as if whining.

But now wasn’t the time for that.

The ferocious goblin charged at Dohyun as soon as it saw him.

Dohyun looked around, trying to do something somehow.

But there was nothing but stones.

In the midst of this, kindly enough.

Analysis even provided information about the stones.

Dismissing that utterly useless information, Dohyun watched the charging goblin and tried to jump up from his spot to dodge.

“Uaaah!”

But was it faster than Dohyun, whose stats were trash?

Just as the goblin approached right in front of him and was about to swing its crude dagger at Dohyun.

Along with a message, Dohyun literally began to see the trajectory the goblin would move.

Seeing this and thinking it was like a game, Dohyun unconsciously moved away from that trajectory, and the goblin’s crude dagger that had been aimed at him sliced through midair.

Swoosh!

“Keruk?”

A cry as if asking how he had dodged.

As Dohyun was blinking in bewilderment after dodging by chance, another message appeared before his eyes.

“Huh?”

At that moment, Dohyun felt as if the world had slowed down and stared blankly at the text.

What the hell was this?

Seeing Dohyun spacing out unable to collect himself, the goblin quickly moved to attack again.

But the moment the goblin showed that intention.

Swish swish swish.

He could see the goblin’s trajectory, which gave him the illusion that the world had slowed down, and Dohyun unconsciously moved to escape the dagger’s path.

But.

‘Faster than before.’

Perhaps because his agility had increased, Dohyun was able to escape the trajectory and dodge backward even faster than when he had dodged before.

Whiiik!

The goblin’s dagger sliced through midair once again.

The goblin was furious at that moment and tried to swing its dagger again, but the creature’s openings, which hadn’t been visible until now, were starkly apparent.

‘This might work?’

Just moments ago he thought there was no opening to attack, but now, unlike before, he could see openings everywhere.

With the thought that it might work, Dohyun gripped a stone and swung it toward the head where the weak point was marked.

Thwack!

“Kekek!”

The stone swung quite fast struck the goblin’s temple precisely, blood spurted from its head, and the creature screamed as it collapsed to the ground.

Looking at the goblin that had fainted while spilling green blood on the ground, Dohyun swallowed his saliva and muttered.

“I, I did it.”

For the first time in his life, he had won a fight.

And from a monster that was trying to kill him, no less.

With adrenaline pumping through him, Dohyun swallowed hard and thought.

‘This is an absolutely broken ability, isn’t it?’

From predicting movements to even copying skills and gaining stats.

Any one of these alone would be considered overpowered, but he had all three abilities.

With this.

‘I could actually become a Hunter, couldn’t I?’

He had been trying to find a job, but instead ended up awakening an incredibly powerful ability he never expected.

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