I Got an Ex-Class Omnipotent System - Chapter 17

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Chapter 17
Chapter 17: The Genius Hanalin (1)
In reality, unlike in games, Hunters learn techniques and magic through various methods.
First, there was the method of creating techniques or magic through one’s own imagination, but not a single Hunter on Earth had ever succeeded with this approach.
It was a method known to be used occasionally by the Heterogeneous Beings inside the Black Gate.
Second, there was the method of purchasing textbooks by spending points, which was the most universal and common approach.
However, the difficulty was not insignificant. Even basic techniques and fundamental magic, despite their reputation for simplicity, involved manipulating unfamiliar mana, making them abstract and challenging. Since each person activated mana differently, many encountered obstacles in their learning.
Thus, a third method emerged.
The final third method involved transmission from someone who had already mastered techniques or magic.
Among the three, this method had the lowest difficulty and was the most practical to attempt, which was why the Hunter Training Center adopted it.
It was no coincidence that the Training Facility’s pride—the Trainees who had enrolled—were so excited about it.
Team 1 could not hide their elation at the news either.
“Wow! We’re finally going to learn techniques!”
“Phew, I hope there’s a technique that suits my aptitude.”
“Hanalin must have one, right?”
Dohyun felt his excitement surge as well. He had spent considerable time wondering if he might catch a glimpse of Hwang Hana’s technique, but a technique demonstration? It was like manna from heaven.
An unexpected blessing had fallen into his lap.
Dark Sovereign’s Swift Strike and Severing Fate.
He had agonized over how to witness these two skills, yet the opportunity had arrived so effortlessly! Dohyun felt as though the world itself was conspiring in his favor.
This was what it meant for things to go smoothly.
‘If things go well, couldn’t I learn both?’
While Dohyun indulged in such hopeful thoughts, Guminah turned to her teammates with an excited expression, practically bursting with enthusiasm.
“But did you hear? A Mage is coming!”
“Right! Wow, I never thought I’d get to see a Mage.”
“They say you need an exceptional sensitivity to mana. I wonder if that’s really true?”
“…?”
Dohyun tilted his head in confusion at their peculiar reaction. He wondered if the arrival of a Mage was really cause for such a fuss.
While Dohyun had seen many videos about Hunters, he didn’t fully understand the distinction between Mages and Hunters. Noticing his expression, Guminah turned the question back on him.
“Huh? Dohyun, do you not know much about Mages?”
“No. Is there a difference between them and Hunters?”
“Ah, that’s understandable. Usually, if you’re not interested, you wouldn’t know much about it.”
When Dohyun asked, Yongchan Kim also seemed unfamiliar with the topic, listening intently without speaking. As both Yongchan and Dohyun focused on the explanation, Guminah, who knew well, provided the details.
“Well, there are some differences. Mages are technically included within the Hunter category, but there are people who are exceptionally skilled at manipulating mana. Magic requires a certain level of mana control, and that threshold is quite high. That’s why the number of Mages is relatively small.”
“Ah, I see.”
So the Mage trait he had seen in the records was rare after all?
But then again…
‘Guminah and Han Junseo both have the Mage trait.’
There was one in each team, which made it a fairly common trait.
Suddenly, Dohyun tilted his head in confusion and asked like a diligent student.
“Wait, then what about Buffers or Healers?”
“Some people surpass ordinary Hunters and, among Mages, show aptitude for Healer or Buffer roles. Rather than mana control, it’s more about having a different attribute of mana they handle, or so I’ve heard.”
“Ah, thank you.”
Dohyun, unaware such distinctions existed, thanked her with a slight smile, his curiosity satisfied.
As he did, Dohyun recalled the basic Fire magic he’d first read about when entering the Training Facility.
Since he’d mastered it immediately through Analysis, he hadn’t considered it particularly special, but it seemed more difficult than he’d thought.
‘Learning magic is harder than I expected. But when I think about it, I use it so easily?’
Now that he thought about it, though he hadn’t been conscious of it, whenever Dohyun learned something through Analysis, the method of use would naturally input itself into his mind.
Because of this, even without intention, he reproduced it exactly as instructed, and the process was so swift and precise that it appeared as though he were casting a skill, yet his usage was perfectly orthodox.
However, Dohyun couldn’t even begin to guess how such a thing was possible.
‘Analysis is truly broken.’
Whatever he observed, he could analyze it all and have it input into his mind, allowing him to master it.
While Dohyun mused on how awakening Analysis was truly a stroke of fortune, his other teammates were absorbed in their own conversation.
“So that’s why there are so few Mages.”
“Yes. Perhaps that’s why the Mage Association seems to have a bit more power.”
“I’ve heard that too.”
“So Mages can’t use techniques?”
When Yesul Park asked, seeming to think Guminah knew well, Guminah recalled what she’d heard and murmured thoughtfully.
“Usually, if someone has talent as a Mage, they’re not good with techniques. It’s like their body develops less while mana control develops instead? Normally, when ordinary Hunters’ bodies grow quickly and become strong, Mages’ mana increases rapidly, so the efficiency is different.”
“Oh? So Hunters also have poor efficiency with magic?”
“Yeah, that’s what I heard. So usually, if someone can use both, they’re mediocre at both.”
“Ah, then Dohyun hyung can’t use magic, right? Since he’s practically a monster when it comes to techniques.”
“Probably.”
When Jeongminwoo said this in response to Guminah’s explanation, Guminah nodded in agreement.
Even if Dohyun was an unreasonable genius, she doubted he’d learn magic too, so she agreed; the other teammates also thought for a moment before nodding, unable to disagree that it was unreasonable.
Dohyun couldn’t possibly have mediocre talent.
As they conversed among themselves, Dohyun suddenly tilted his head, as if he hadn’t heard properly, and asked back.
“Huh? Did you call me?”
“Ah, hyung, about magic….”
When Jeongminwoo tried to explain that if you had talent for magic, your efficiency with techniques would suffer, Dohyun misunderstood it as a question about whether he could use magic, and answered by spreading his fingers and conjuring fire.
“This?”
Whoosh—
“??????”
“Huh???”
“What???”
“What is this???”
“Huh? Wasn’t that asking me to use magic?”
His bewildered teammates and an even more bewildered Dohyun.
In the vast gap between them, Yongchan Kim, the oldest among them, looked at Dohyun and asked.
“When did you learn that?”
“Oh, on the day I first entered the Training Facility, they said I could go to the Record Room, so I read a book there and….”
Dohyun wasn’t a fool either, so he sensed something subtly amiss and trailed off, but it was already too late.
The team members who heard this exchange wore expressions of disbelief, shaking their heads in dismay.
“Insane. I mean, just from reading books….”
“…This guy’s seriously a crazy monster….”
“Phew, Instructor Gangjihun wasn’t wrong after all.”
“…Exactly.”
While everyone else was left speechless, unable even to muster jealousy, Dohyun felt embarrassed, turned off the light, stood up, and spoke.
“Well then, see you tomorrow.”
Having inadvertently bragged, Dohyun hastily excused himself from the room, and watching him leave, the other team members couldn’t help but chuckle.
There had to be a certain gap in ability. When the difference was that vast, it was only natural that jealousy wouldn’t even arise.
Rather.
“He really is incredible.”
“Right? I never thought Dohyun would have talent in magic too….”
“Wait? Then isn’t he the first?”
“I’ve been searching, but so far there’s no one in the world with overwhelming talent in both?”
When Guminah subtly suggested he might be the first, Jeongminwoo, being the youngest and fastest with searches, answered.
As he spoke of no such person existing in the world yet, everyone was beginning to grasp the reality.
“If it’s Dohyun, it’s possible.”
“If it’s Dohyun hyung, what isn’t?”
“That’s true.”
“Of course if it’s Dohyun.”
They all simply accepted it as such.
Given the overwhelming performance Dohyun had demonstrated, it wasn’t particularly strange. The members of Team 1 had somehow developed warped standards without even realizing it.
Meanwhile, Dohyun, wondering what was going on, went to his dormitory room and searched, only to discover that typically only one of the two talents manifested in a person, and he shook his head.
I never knew that having only one of the two was supposed to be the norm.
‘Ugh. I ended up bragging.’
Though I’d inadvertently come across as boastful, I figured it would be fine since my teammates were good people, and with that thought, I drifted off to sleep.
I waited eagerly, anticipating tomorrow’s technique and magic demonstration.
* * *
South Korea possessed a Hunter pool substantial enough to be called a superpower, yet it bore the derisive epithet of being a magical wasteland.
It was unavoidable—South Korea’s shortage of mages was particularly severe.
Had even a single mage with promising talent emerged among their small numbers, things wouldn’t have reached this point, but for fifteen years, no mage of note had appeared. However, that was now a thing of the past.
Someone had surpassed the previous top record at the Hunter Training Center and shattered Hwang Hana’s five-year-old record—and that someone was a mage.
This had happened just two months ago.
Hanalin.
South Korea’s greatest magical prodigy and a genius recognized by the world’s magical elite.
It wasn’t merely South Korea making a fuss—the International Mage Association had officially certified her as a genius.
Because of this, the Korean Mage Association had tried desperately to protect her. The fact that she hadn’t even entered the Black Gate two months after graduating from the Hunter Training Center was proof of their efforts.
Thus, Park Hyeonwoo, a department head at a fairly high position in the Seoul Magic Association Branch—once called a magical wasteland, now the largest and most central branch in South Korea—found himself in an awkward situation today as well.
In the center of the Mage Association’s department head office, Park Hyeonwoo observed a woman seated deep in a sofa, her legs crossed, and contemplated the situation.
‘This is troublesome,’ I thought.
The beautiful woman sitting across from Park Hyeonwoo had an appearance that could seem cold at first glance, yet she was barely over twenty years old—and she carried herself with an ease that suggested this office was her own master bedroom.
However, the way her hair shimmered with a subtle blue light reminiscent of mana whenever it caught the light, each strand seeming to move with its own life, revealed that her mood was far from pleasant.
“Why can’t I go?”
With her arms crossed, she tapped her fingers against her arm in a steady rhythm.
Her eyes were leisurely yet sharp, and each time a blue gleam flickered across her already piercing gaze, it grew even more cutting. There was something unsettling about the way those eyes seemed to constrict around a person.
Could this really be someone who had only awakened to mana three months ago?
The title of South Korea’s greatest genius mage hadn’t come from nowhere.
Park Hyeonwoo scratched his head awkwardly as he looked at Hanalin’s sharp eyes.
Her request was simple enough.
She wanted to be dispatched to the Seoul Hunter Training Center.
Her sole reason was merely that she wanted to see Hwang Hana, who had set the previous record.
It was a somewhat unreasonable justification, but in truth, there was nothing that couldn’t be arranged.
‘Of course, she has more than enough skill to teach the trainees.’
But the Mage Association had its position to consider. It wasn’t without reason that she hadn’t been sent into the Black Gate even two months after leaving the Hunter Training Center.
She still needed more training.
Beyond that.
‘She’s still far too young.’
Everyone acknowledged that Hanalin was a genius comparable to the world’s finest. Park Hyeonwoo agreed as well. Yet she was still too young to be released into the world just yet.
She was now a twenty-one-year-old adult, but that wasn’t what I meant by age.
With Hanalin’s arrogance mixed with playfulness, there was no telling where she might go off course, so I had been holding her back—but it seemed we were reaching a critical point.
Looking at Hanalin’s eyes, which held both nobility and a hint of arrogance, Park Hyeonwoo carefully opened his mouth.
“So regarding your experience, Hanalin—”
As Park Hyeonwoo tried to speak of her experience, Hanalin created flames in midair without even uncrossing her arms.
Fire—one of the basic spells.
But it didn’t end there.
Wind swirled around the flames, and suddenly stone fragments, ice shards, water droplets floating in the air, and small sparks flew around the fire, merging together before simultaneously dissipating and spreading outward.
While most mages were recognized for handling even a single attribute, Hanalin demonstrated the simultaneous control of six different attributes.
No matter what anyone said, she displayed an overwhelming gap that no one could match in basic magic.
Then Hanalin spoke with confidence.
“Skill covers for lack of experience.”
“….”
“Is there anyone in the Korean Mage Association right now who uses basic magic better than me?”
“….”
There wasn’t.
“Then is there anyone who understands the theory better than me?”
“….”
There wasn’t anyone like that either.
Because of the slight upturn of her lips, Hanalin’s smile carried a subtle laugh even without a full grin, and as her mouth corners lifted slightly, the air in the room became strangely heavy.
In that oppressive atmosphere, Hanalin asked again, looking at Park Hyeonwoo, who had nothing left to say.
“So what’s your reason for not sending her?”
“Sigh…”
When logic left everyone speechless, Park Hyeonwoo couldn’t help but feel exasperated.
Watching Park Hyeonwoo’s predicament, Hanalin smiled faintly and asked him.
“Really, what’s your actual reason for not sending me? Are you worried I’ll cause trouble out of boredom?”
“…That’s…”
At her playful smile, Park Hyeonwoo shook his head.
He wasn’t concerned she’d cause an accident. Young as she was, her judgment remained sound.
The problem was that arrogant streak in her personality.
He’d worried whether trouble might arise, but there was nothing he could do about it.
Since she desired it so earnestly, he had no grounds to refuse. Park Hyeonwoo raised both hands in surrender and spoke.
“Understood. I’ll have Narin dispatched.”
At Park Hyeonwoo’s words, Hanalin’s expression brightened with satisfaction as she replied.
“Excellent. Then I’ll be on my way.”
Watching Hanalin’s retreating figure as she smiled and departed, Park Hyeonwoo thought bitterly.
‘Hopefully nothing goes wrong.’
Or perhaps not?
‘Maybe she needs to take a hard fall to learn her lesson.’
He wished Hanalin would learn something at the Hunter Training Center, but he doubted anyone in South Korea could humble her pride. Park Hyeonwoo soon abandoned the thought and focused on his remaining duties.
Hoping nothing would go amiss, Park Hyeonwoo filed the report approving Hanalin’s dispatch.

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