I Got an Ex-Class Omnipotent System - Chapter 12

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Chapter 12
Chapter 12: Backseat Driving? (4)
A lie? Why would the instructors deceive us? Such thoughts crossed my mind, but I quickly dismissed them—this could very well be part of the training itself.
Now that I knew it was false, I could certainly spot the inconsistencies in their story.
‘Even if the Maze’s mana circuit became unstable, it’s at most a place to confine Goblins—there’s no way C-Rank instructors couldn’t break through it.’
Even if the Instructor Trio truly couldn’t breach it, with Hwang Hana present, there was no reason they couldn’t enter.
It was something I could deduce with cold logic, but my teammates were experiencing real combat for the first time after the tutorial, so they had no choice but to panic at the mention of an emergency.
“The mana circuit malfunctioned?”
“But if they’re telling us to escape, it can’t be that serious, right?”
“If the instructors can’t help us when things get dangerous, that would be a real problem…”
“Phew, this could get pretty dangerous.”
Their fear had grown considerably since we first entered. The emergency alert had sounded, so panic was understandable.
I was debating whether to tell them the broadcast was false, when Yongchan Kim’s eyes met mine.
‘Dohyun’s so calm even in an emergency situation.’
And immediately after, not just Yongchan Kim, but Guminah, Yesul Park, and Jeongminwoo all noticed the same thing watching me.
‘Not just calm…’
‘He’s thinking about what to do for us?’
‘Dohyun…”
My composed demeanor while clearly contemplating something gave them this misunderstanding.
It was a misinterpretation, but given everything I’d shown them so far, they couldn’t help but see it that way.
Though their fear grew, their resolve remained unshaken.
“Honestly, I’m pretty scared, but this is the kind of thing we’ll have to face eventually if we’re going to be Hunters, right?”
“That’s right, let’s do this.”
“What else can we do but try?”
As they all spoke with such determination, I scratched my head watching them.
With this atmosphere, there was no need to say anything.
I had no intention of dampening their courage and resolve.
No normal person wants to discourage someone who’s trying their best. I was no exception.
However, unlike them, I wouldn’t grow much in this Maze, which was unfortunate.
‘I want to increase my stats too.’
Then suddenly, a brilliant idea occurred to me.
I remembered the stat increases I’d gained from analyzing my teammates’ growth.
Which meant…
‘If I push my teammates hard, I grow too, don’t I?’
What an incredible strategy!
I praised myself internally and spoke to my teammates with a slight smile.
“Then let’s do this. I’ll take the lead as well and we’ll move as fast as possible to escape this Maze.”
“…If you do that, hyung…”
As Jeongminwoo tried to express his concern, Yongchan Kim grabbed his shoulder and stopped him mid-sentence.
And then.
“Dohyun’s already made up his mind, so he wants to get us through as quickly as possible.”
“Ah! That’s what you meant!”
“Wow, you’re amazing, Dohyun.”
“I’ll do my best to keep up.”
As everyone steeled their resolve and spoke to me, I wondered how it had come to this.
No, I had simply wanted to raise my own stats by helping you all grow stronger. I felt a bit embarrassed since I was really just trying to satisfy my own desires, but from my teammates’ perspective, the situation seemed urgent enough that I let their dramatic declarations slide.
There were some things I glossed over because I would have been too embarrassed to acknowledge them.
In any case, I took full control of the situation, drew my dagger, and prepared to run.
Team 1’s members also prepared to follow me. I spoke.
“Let’s go.”
Whoosh!
The moment I stepped forward, my teammates scrambled in alarm and tried to chase after me.
I ran at a speed that reminded them of the morning’s running drill, and they were all too busy trying to keep up.
“You’re, you’re too fast!?”
“D-Dohyun?”
I ignored the voices calling from behind and pushed my speed even further in an instant.
I kicked off the ground with far greater force than before.
Bang!
A sound like a gunshot erupted as I shot forward at roughly double my previous speed, mana subtly flowing into my short dagger.
Then, like an acrobat, I flipped through the air with my feet barely leaving the ground, scanning the floor below while activating multiple skills at once.
The skills I was using now were Short Sword Mastery, Sword King’s Intuition, and.
[Successfully analyzed the trap.]
I drove my dagger toward the trap’s weak point, clearly visible through Analysis.
Clang!
Since my mana and skills were still weak, the infused mana couldn’t slice through the floor like tofu, but I precisely struck the trap’s seams and neutralized it.
Click.
The trap deactivated with a sound that seemed almost artistic, and just as my teammates arrived and were about to gasp in admiration.
I quickly bounced off the wall and dashed to the side.
I rapidly entered the branching alley while they, still unable to catch up to me, called out as they watched.
“…?”
“Huff, huff—c-come on…!”
“C-come on… a bit!”
“Phew! Let’s hurry!”
Like a train that doesn’t stop for barking dogs, I never paused to wait for them, so they all rushed into the alley to chase after me. Meanwhile, I charged at a trap on the wall as if I were clinging to it, drove my dagger in, and neutralized it.
Then, still suspended in midair, I planted my feet on the wall again and added a skill I hadn’t used when neutralizing the previous trap.
Using Analysis, Short Sword Mastery, Sword King’s Intuition, and finally Ambush, I kicked off the wall at an even faster speed than before and shot forward.
As I lunged toward four Goblins standing at the end of the alley, my keen dagger gleamed softly with mana, leaving a blue afterimage in the air.
The blue afterimage extending from the wall stretched like a fired arrow in a straight line, reaching toward the neck of the Goblin in the lead.
And.
Screeeech!
The blue light severed the Goblin’s neck in one clean stroke, and as the graceful dagger that followed traced an arc, completing a perfect circle, blood erupted from the throats of every Goblin in that spot.
Pssshhhhh—!
In an instant, the alley was painted with Goblin blood, but Dohyun was already gone from that place.
After briefly retreating to evade the spraying blood and preparing to advance again, I suddenly turned to look at my teammates who weren’t following.
Then Dohyun spoke to them as if asking what they were doing.
“Aren’t you coming?”
The moment everyone stopped in their tracks, startled by Dohyun’s prowess, their expressions shifted to embarrassment as they offered awkward excuses.
“You, you’re too fast.”
“It’s hard to keep up…”
When Guminah and Yesul Park said this, Dohyun tilted his head in confusion and muttered.
“Huh? I wasn’t even going half my speed. This pace should be followable, shouldn’t it?”
“”….””
The other team members couldn’t say anything in response.
Certainly, comparing his speed when simply running to his speed when ambushing the Goblins, they could clearly sense that he was moving at less than half his assault pace.
The teammates, unable to bring themselves to ask him to go any slower, naturally fell silent.
But Dohyun, seemingly unaware of their feelings, uttered words that pierced their hearts.
“Then I’ll slow down a bit more. Keep up.”
Dohyun said this and ran again, and though he was certainly slower than before, the team members ran while watching his still-swift figure ahead of them.
And suddenly, they could recall something.
‘This is…’
‘Like this morning…’
‘It feels like we did this…’
‘More running…?’
It felt more like physical conditioning than actual combat, and they sensed their stamina and agility would improve, but no one dared to object to Dohyun here.
Besides, they could feel themselves getting faster and building endurance, so there was nothing more to say.
Watching this, Dohyun smiled happily and muttered to himself.
[You have defeated four 『Goblins』.]
[You have acquired a total of 40P.]
[You have acquired a total of 40AP.]
[You have successfully 『analyzed』 another person’s stat growth.]
[Strength, Agility, and Stamina permanently increase by +1 each.]
‘This is sweet.’
Who said you can’t grow in this Maze!
I’m growing just fine like this.
Team 1 rapidly traversed the Maze, unaware of the thoughts I’d had just minutes before.
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Meanwhile, as Dohyun was rapidly traversing the Maze, the Guide Trio who witnessed it was monitoring with expressions of considerable admiration.
They watched without missing a single detail of Dohyun’s judgment, movements, and combat techniques.
“Wow, there’s definitely a reason Gangjihun praised him.”
“Gangjihun didn’t praise—he just told us to watch?”
“Geez, Jeongyujin, that was a compliment. You need to study Korean more. Can’t you read context?”
“Anyway, this Dohyun kid is no joke, right?”
“Yeah, he’s already at a level that could handle the tail end of an F-Rank Zone.”
“He hasn’t even started regular training or learned any techniques yet, and he’s already at that level? Isn’t he just a monster?”
Everyone couldn’t help but marvel at Dohyun’s performance.
At first, he led his team members and displayed leadership and strategy, but after the emergency broadcast, he moved so aggressively, dealing with every trap and Goblin, rushing through like a whirlwind.
“I don’t think Hwang Hana was even at this level when she was a junior…”
“…Well, they said Hwang Hana was confused on her first day. But from the second day onward, she was flying around.”
“Sigh. There’s no end to his potential.”
The three instructors were each marveling at what they saw.
Honestly, I hadn’t expected him to be this good, but since Hwang Hana and Choe Phil said so and Gangjihun told me to see for myself, I had anticipated something. But he exceeded even those expectations by far.
In fact.
“I think he even caught on that we were bluffing, didn’t he?”
“Yeah, he wasn’t even nervous or surprised from the start.”
“He was even hesitating whether to tell his team members or not.”
Though they only watched through monitors, they had experience, so naturally they could read this much.
Thinking about these things, they murmured among themselves.
“We should bring him to our guild.”
“Isn’t it difficult because of Chief Instructor Hwang Hana?”
“Taebaek will definitely step forward too. No matter how much the Taebaek Guild prides itself on fairness, this is a level where you have to recruit him regardless of that.”
Somehow, I had to bring Dohyun to my own guild.
That was the only thought possible.
Right now, he could be dismissed as F-Rank, but it’s only the first day of the Hunter Training Center. In other words, in practical training without formal education yet, he’s displaying the combat power of an F-Rank tail-end or possibly an E-Rank Hunter—if you can’t think of recruiting him, your eyes are rotten.
But since Hwang Hana had claimed him, everyone decided not to rush and also looked at the monitor on the other side.
Then.
“Ugh, that one’s a mess.”
“It’s the same one-man show, but the atmosphere is so different.”
“I remember Team 2’s atmosphere was good too.”
“Dongwook Park is the problem.”
“A loach does muddy the water, after all.”
“But Jiyuchan is incredible too, right?”
Everyone nodded at Yunsangwoo’s last comment.
Dohyun’s handling of mana was surprising, but Jiyuchan had similarly learned to infuse mana subtly into his sword.
Compared to Dohyun’s, it was certainly a bit weaker, but he also showed similar prowess in severing a Goblin’s neck in one strike.
His speed and movements were still lacking, but at this level.
“What, is this a field of geniuses? There are two newcomers surpassing Junior Hwang Hana?”
“This is seriously unbelievable.”
“Wait? But Dongwook Park, that bastard!?”
Everyone let out sighs at Yunsangwoo’s words.
The feared situation had finally come to pass.
“Huh?!”
“Ah, this team’s done for. Should I go?”
“No, I’ll go.”
Just as Jeongyujin spoke, everyone nodded in agreement and was about to send her out when, in that instant, Shinjiyeon tilted her head with a puzzled expression.
“Wait? Dohyun’s moving?”
At her words, they all looked at Team 1’s monitor and could see Dohyun emerging from the exit along with his other teammates.
While his teammates lay sprawled on the ground, gasping for breath, Dohyun alone continued to move.
“Huh? Where’s he going?”
“Could it be? Check the direction.”
“Wait? He’s really going?”
“Why is he heading toward Team 2?”
“That’s… what?”
None of the instructors could answer that question.
And the three of them could only watch the monitor as if entranced.
Because they had no idea what Dohyun’s intention was.

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