I Got an Ex-Class Omnipotent System - Chapter 16

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Episode 16
Episode 16: Hwang Hana’s Status Window (2)
『Hwang Hana』
『Trait: Absolute Death Dark King [S]』
『Skills』
▶「Short Blade Mastery [S]」
▶「Dark King’s Swiftness [A]」
▶「Ambush [A]」
▶「Concealment [A]」
▶「Mana Manipulation [B]」
▶「Absolute Death [B]」
▶「Oppressive Aura [B]」
▶「Detection [C]」
▶「Tracking [C]」
▶「Pathfinding [C]」
…(and more)
『Stats』
▶「Strength: 89」
▶「Agility: 101」
▶「Endurance: 81」
▶「Mana: 77」
‘Incredible… incredible.’
A Hunter entering a B-Rank Zone with stats like these?
Dohyun swallowed hard, overwhelmed by her utterly extraordinary abilities.
[Simultaneously, by analyzing higher-tier skills, proficiency increases by 1 for the skills 「Ambush [D]」, 「Concealment [E]」, 「Short Blade Mastery [E]」, 「Tracking [E]」, 「Detection [E]」, 「Pathfinding [E]」, and 「Mana Manipulation [E]」.]
[You have reached the limit of your current stats.]
[No stat increase occurs from skill analysis.]
[You have successfully analyzed the status window through AP consumption, but cannot gain AP.]
I had finally succeeded in viewing Hwang Hana’s status window.
Thanks to the assassination and espionage-type trait similar to Gangjihun’s, I was able to raise the proficiency of many skills.
Meanwhile, as Dohyun gazed at Hwang Hana, she felt the same sensation as when she first saw him, and looked at him with a peculiar expression.
It’s the same as before. Those eyes that seem to pierce through everything.
What exactly was he seeing about her?
“Is there something on my face?”
“Huh? Oh, no. I apologize.”
I had made a mistake. It seemed I had been staring too intently.
As Dohyun realized this and apologized, Hwang Hana felt an unsettling sensation and excused herself.
“Well then, see you next time.”
“Yes, please go ahead.”
After parting ways with Hwang Hana, Dohyun felt delighted, as if he had received an unexpected windfall.
Though no skills had been upgraded and I had only gained proficiency, it was still a considerable gain.
Moreover.
‘What a windfall.’
Unfortunately, since I couldn’t acquire a skill, I had no way of knowing how much AP it would cost, but now that I had accessed the status window, I could acquire skills if I simply accumulated enough AP.
Especially.
‘I really want that Dark Monarch’s Swift Movement and Absolute Severance.’
I could accept the other skills, but those two seemed to be skills that only the Dark Monarch possessed, making me desire them all the more.
Dark Monarch’s Swift Movement felt like it would be a skill similar to Sword Monarch’s Intuition.
‘It’s probably the main skill, isn’t it?’
The primary skill that each S-Rank trait possessed.
With only two points of comparison, I couldn’t be certain, but it certainly seemed that way.
If I could see it demonstrated later, I might be able to acquire it, but that seemed unlikely.
Dohyun clicked his tongue in frustration and looked around, but nothing particularly noteworthy happened after that.
Frustrated, I waited until dinner, and while eating, I heard unexpected news.
* * *
The first day at the Seoul Hunter Training Center was chaotic for the trainees, but it was no different for the instructors.
The first day ended after dinner, but since the period before that was the busiest, all the instructors had to finish their tasks and gather for a meeting.
With the head instructor Hwang Hana, along with Choe Phil who oversaw physical training and the infirmary, Kim Arum who handled information education, Gangjihun who managed sparring instruction, and finally Shinjiyeon, Jeongyujin, and Yunsangwoo who supervised practical training—all seven instructors gathered, and the meeting began.
The meeting was naturally not a place to discuss achievements or growth.
Since it was the first day, achievements and growth could be considered meaningless.
However, this batch was somewhat different.
“Trainee Dohyun’s growth rate is extraordinary.”
At Choe Phil’s words, everyone except Kim Arum, who handled information education, nodded in agreement.
It couldn’t be helped.
According to what Choe Phil had observed while conducting physical training since dawn, Dohyun’s movements in the final practical training had grown to an inexplicable degree.
Gangjihun, who had also observed during sparring, felt the same way.
There’s a common saying about how babies grow by leaps and bounds day by day, but Dohyun hadn’t even spent a full day yet, and his growth rate was steep to the point of being utterly indescribable.
Then Gangjihun stepped forward and spoke.
“To be honest, Trainee Dohyun’s growth rate is at an inexplicable level.”
Shinjiyeon, Jeongyujin, and Yunsangwoo all agreed with Gangjihun’s assessment.
“Truly. Apart from Trainee Dohyun, Trainee Jiyuchan is also at an absurd level.”
“Jiyuchan’s growth rate is record-breaking, but Trainee Dohyun far surpasses even that.”
“The numbers are nonsensical.”
At those words, Hwang Hana could only nod her head.
Just from the footage and data she had reviewed so far, it was indescribable. She even began to wonder if he might be a villain who had concealed his strength before enrolling.
However, mana measurements couldn’t be hidden no matter what, so naturally, no instructor genuinely believed that.
“And during my training session, he observed my technique once and replicated it immediately.”
“…Hmm.”
“This is truly unbelievable.”
“He replicated the technique after seeing it just once?”
“It’s not a story I’d normally believe, but given what you’ve already demonstrated, I have no choice but to accept it.”
The Instructors—all active Hunters—couldn’t help but express their reservations.
The techniques they had mastered were not something obtained for free. Most didn’t come from distributed textbooks.
Naturally, these were hard-won skills acquired through textbooks purchased with points earned from personally hunting Monsters inside the Black Gate, so the idea of someone grasping them in a single viewing felt decidedly strange.
If someone used something you’d paid dearly for without cost, anyone would feel the same way.
Moreover, since some Hunters developed their own unique techniques that others didn’t possess, recording another’s techniques was implicitly forbidden among Hunters.
Breaking this unspoken rule could easily spark combat even inside the Black Gate.
But there was one problem.
“What about tomorrow, then?”
While the active Hunter Instructors were expressing sighs beyond mere admiration, Kim Arum posed that question. What would they do tomorrow?
Everyone paused to consider for a moment.
What was happening tomorrow that warranted such concern?
Had a Trainee overheard this meeting, they might have wondered the same thing, but Hwang Hana soon spoke.
“Tomorrow we’ll proceed as scheduled with technique demonstrations and skill and magic instruction.”
Technique demonstrations and skill and magic instruction.
It was the crown jewel of Hunter Training Center education.
It was one of the training sessions where each Hunter’s natural aptitudes were identified, they were classified into either skill or magic learners, and the Instructors demonstrated their own techniques while educating the Trainees.
But now that an Irregular had appeared who could master techniques after seeing them once, the Instructors couldn’t help but worry that all their secrets would be exposed, yet the situation was unavoidable.
Above all else.
“We have a commitment with the Mage Association, so we can’t postpone it.”
Tomorrow’s magic instruction was the day a Mage would be dispatched from the Mage Association.
At the mention of the Mage Association, the Instructors’ expressions darkened slightly.
“Mages.”
“It’s unavoidable, though…”
“Still, it’s a bit much.”
In current society, Hunters and Mages were viewed as equivalent, but the reality was somewhat different.
While both awakened mana and entered the Black Gate to hunt Monsters and compete with Heterogeneous Beings, their fundamental nature differed somewhat.
General Hunters and Mages differed from the very foundation of how they handled mana.
Because of this, Mages always wanted to be called Mages rather than Hunters, emphasizing their distinction, and had even established the Mage Association separately from the Hunter Association.
Since their numbers were smaller than Hunters, the organization itself was overshadowed by the Hunter Association in scale, but it was far from a haphazardly assembled group.
Rooted in the United States and recognized even by the American government, it was a legitimate international organization that no one could afford to dismiss lightly.
“Still, they cooperate well enough, and those with talent for magic can’t learn techniques, so coexistence is unavoidable.”
“It’s inconvenient, but there’s no getting around it.”
On the surface, they seemed like an organization operating under supremacist ideology, but that wasn’t entirely accurate. The Hunter Association’s cooperation requests were generally well-received, and they always stepped forward for educational matters like this.
Yet the reason the Instructors’ expressions remained poor was.
“Sigh, I just hate Mages—they’re all so insufferable…”
“But there’s no way around it.”
“…That’s true.”
Mages were fundamentally arrogant and had an annoying way of speaking.
Since they were overwhelmingly superior to ordinary Hunters in mana control, they tended to act insufferably.
I wasn’t particularly fond of those who would condescendingly explain that this level of control was trivially easy, or who would openly declare that such abilities were innate and that I shouldn’t bother trying so hard.
When the mention of the Mage caused a brief stir, Hwang Hana looked toward the instructors and began organizing the situation.
Regardless of how things stood, the fact that the Mage was coming remained unchanged, so if we didn’t prepare in advance, inconvenient circumstances could arise.
And what concerned me most right now was Dohyun.
“If Dohyun learned and replicated everything in one viewing as Instructor Gangjihun suggested, we should also consider a demonstration when the Mage arrives.”
“Magic?”
“Is that really necessary to worry about?”
All the instructors except Hwang Hana, who already knew that Dohyun had mastered magic, looked at her with expressions of bewilderment.
It wasn’t that those capable of learning techniques absolutely couldn’t learn magic, but the efficiency was terribly poor. There were cases where one couldn’t master even a single spell while learning five other techniques.
Of course, there were those who possessed talent in both techniques and magic.
Those who used techniques quite well and could also use magic—individuals with talents similar to what was commonly called a Spellblade. However, unfortunately, in such cases, both sides often ended up with mediocre talent.
That’s why the instructors believed that Dohyun, who displayed such monstrous ability by learning techniques after seeing them once, wouldn’t fall into that category.
‘Trainee Dohyun has already mastered magic as well. And he did it alone on the day he enrolled, just by reading books.’
But Hwang Hana knew well that Dohyun had already demonstrated genius in both fields, so she came forward with considerable confidence.
However, there was a reason she didn’t state it outright.
‘There’s no point in saying it anyway—they obviously won’t believe me.’
Even Hwang Hana, who had witnessed it directly, still harbored doubts, so there was no way they would believe her if she told them.
That’s why Hwang Hana had no choice but to speak in this manner, as if merely preparing for a possibility.
Moreover, she had already considered an angle that would intrigue the instructors.
“Even if Trainee Dohyun can’t replicate the magic, normally we do technique demonstrations but not magic demonstrations, so I’m suggesting we have a magic demonstration this time.”
“Hmm, and we’d get to see whether Trainee Dohyun can replicate that, is that it?”
“Even if Trainee Dohyun can’t do it, having the Mage demonstrate magic would be good.”
“Yes, that’s right.”
The instructors all nodded, finding nothing objectionable about Hwang Hana’s proposal.
Usually, while techniques were demonstrated directly by the instructors, the Mages only taught magic without bothering to demonstrate it, which had somewhat bothered the instructors.
Some of the instructors accepted the idea with the thought that since things had come to this, they might as well have equal demonstrations.
As they moved on to the next agenda and the meeting began to wind down, Kim Arum spoke up, saying she would inform the trainees who were beginning their evening meal about tomorrow’s schedule.
“Then I’ll announce the schedule.”
“Thank you for that.”
“…I was dreading it, so thanks.”
“As expected from Arum!”
“Thank you!”
The instructors all said so, and Kim Arum went to the trainees’ dining hall to make the announcement.
Since the announcement wasn’t particularly long, it could be finished quickly.
“I’ll tell you about tomorrow’s schedule. Unlike today, tomorrow we’ll spend most of our time learning techniques and magic. Since today was quite grueling with the intent of experiencing tests and actual combat, tomorrow you’ll have time to learn by watching the techniques demonstrated by the instructors and the magic demonstrated by the Mage dispatched from the Magic Association.”
And at that moment, Kim Arum tilted her head in puzzlement as she saw Dohyun’s eyes light up.
It wasn’t the image of someone with such high academic enthusiasm, and while she found it strange that he seemed more enthusiastic than expected, she simply let it pass, thinking his earnest attitude was pleasant to see.
‘Could he possibly be excited at the thought of mastering every technique just by watching?’
With that fleeting thought, she laughed it off and moved on.
In any case, no matter how exceptional Dohyun was, he wouldn’t be able to learn magic as easily as techniques, Kim Arum thought as she headed back toward the Instructor Building.
Then, suddenly.
‘This trainee Dohyun, who appears to be a technical genius, can use magic too?’
Kim Arum chuckled softly to herself at the thought, shaking her head.
While there were rare individuals who wielded both technique and magic simultaneously, if Dohyun could actually use magic as well, wouldn’t that be utterly absurd?
Kim Arum laughed quietly at the notion.
‘No way.’

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