I Got an Ex-Class Omnipotent System - Chapter 25

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Episode 25
Episode 25: Early Discharge (2)
Hanalin lounged lazily across her bed in pajamas adorned with a sky-blue bear character, yet her expression remained grave and detached.
Though it was only my first day as a magic instructor at the Hunter Training Center, everything had changed. My thoughts, my resolve—all of it.
Initially, I had come driven by competitive spirit toward Hwang Hana. But now, a different opponent consumed my attention far more.
Hwang Hana had impressed me with her remarkable achievements as a Hunter in a domain separate from my own, yet now a prodigy had emerged who surpassed her standing even in my own field—magic.
‘Dohyun.’
A trainee whose talent exceeded even my own—talent rivaling the world’s greatest—while simultaneously possessing superior technical aptitude compared to Hwang Hana. My thoughts and resolve could not help but shift.
The fact that he could replicate magic after witnessing it just once was a talent I could scarcely fathom.
I had harbored competitive spirit toward Hwang Hana, believing I would only ascend. But at this rate, I would be overtaken before I could even climb.
These thoughts compelled me to cease my lounging and rise from the bed.
‘This cannot be allowed.’
I could not simply lose my focus and be overtaken, so I changed my clothes. Though I had been resting comfortably in my dormitory with nothing scheduled before dinner, this was no time for idleness.
While there was nothing more to learn about magic itself at present, I changed my clothes and delved deeper into magical texts, pushing myself to advance to the next level, suspecting I might have overlooked something.
And.
‘Jiyuchan, was it?’
Jiyuchan, who seemed to possess talent comparable to my own, would also shatter my training records at this rate.
Falling to second place in the competition for first was acceptable.
‘But third place is unacceptable.’
With the resolve to maintain at least second place, I concentrated more intently and honed my magic.
And I did not forget to contact the Magic Association.
“Hello? Ah, Director Park Hyeonwoo. I apologize, but I have a favor to ask.”
Upon hearing Hanalin’s request immediately after answering, Park Hyeonwoo could only express bewilderment.
-What on earth are you talking about all of a sudden???
Park Hyeonwoo reacted as though hearing something utterly absurd.
Yet Hanalin spoke to him again.
“I intend to enter the Black Gate soon. A party? That’s…”
* * *
When the Black Gate information education session began, Kim Arum reiterated the information she had explained previously.
“Last time, I mentioned that entry to the Black Gate is only possible through a party. Do you remember?”
Several trainees responded to Kim Arum’s question, and she nodded as she continued her explanation. The Black Gate, which permitted entry only through a party, had this rule as its fundamental premise.
And this rule applied not merely to entry, but throughout one’s time inside the Black Gate as well.
“Barriers and dungeons available within the Black Gate similarly cannot be entered without a party. For instance, if trainee Dohyun entered the Black Gate together with Team 1, but then excitedly hunted separately in the Field, the remaining Team 1 members would be unable to enter dungeons or safe zones.”
Without a party, one would be denied access everywhere.
As I had mentioned before, there was another reason why parties were mandatory.
“And dungeons and parties within the Black Gate always leave records. Inscriptions appear outside dungeons stating which party from which celestial dimension set the record. In this regard, it truly resembles a game, yet it’s peculiar that there’s no actual system like in novels or games. Had there been one, South Korea would surely rank far higher. It’s a shame.”
The trainees listening to the lecture on the Black Gate’s ecosystem found themselves nodding unconsciously. They wondered if Koreans would truly dominate had such a system existed.
Of course, Dohyun flinched upon hearing this, but no one noticed.
I continued listening to the lecture while inevitably dwelling on that statement.
For I alone could read that system.
‘Hmm, Analysis isn’t a system that I created myself. It’s showing me something that already exists, right?’
It was a thought that kept recurring as I attended the lectures.
Perhaps my ability wasn’t about setting numerical values on its own, but rather analyzing an existing system and making it visible to me.
Maybe the power of Analysis only manifested when I gained stats or acquired skills through that process.
That was my hypothesis.
Either way, it was broken—but as I pondered this, my thoughts turned to the Black Gate.
A world where parties were mandatory, competing against parties from other dimensions. And it wasn’t just competition.
“If you rank within the top positions in this record competition, you’ll naturally earn a massive amount of points. As you all know, without these points, the Black Gate releases monsters, making this quite a brutal death game.”
Whoever had created this was merciless beyond measure.
Yet even as I listened to such a lecture, I felt confident. With Analysis alone, couldn’t I emerge victorious in any competition?
So far, no one—not even S-rank hunters like Hwang Hana, Jiyuchan, or Hanalin—had come close to matching my ability, so I was certain I could hold my own against heterogeneous beings from other dimensions.
Before, I’d worried about what would happen if an overwhelmingly powerful opponent appeared, but after hearing this lecture, such concerns had vanished.
“Once you advance, you can’t re-enter the World of the Black Gate of your previous rank, so it’s managed quite well. If someone possesses power beyond that zone, the difficulty naturally increases, gradually applying pressure as you move to the next area—a kind of burden system.”
Knowledge truly is power.
With that reassurance, I finished listening to the rest of the lecture.
“Of course, because of that, we do form parties with people of similar ability who can advance together. Usually, after trainees graduate from the Training Facility, if they join a Guild, the Guild assigns them a party, or if they don’t join a Guild, the Association takes charge.”
As I heard this, I found myself wondering what kind of people I’d be paired with.
According to Hwang Hana, we’d need the Association’s support for a while, so I was curious to see who the Association would pair me with.
‘I hope I can gain new skills too.’
* * *
After the information lecture ended and dinner time arrived, the trainees gathered and ate together.
At lunch, they’d eaten by team, but now that distinction seemed meaningless—both Team 1 and Team 2 gathered and ate together.
It would’ve been silly to use separate sections of the spacious Dining Hall, and it was amusing for grown adults to divide themselves like that anyway.
As they gathered and ate, conversation naturally flowed.
“What’s everyone doing after dinner?”
“Hmm, just resting. Ugh, today was pretty intense….”
“Yeah, waking up at dawn and doing all this isn’t easy. I’m exhausted too.”
“Right, it’s a wake-up time I never would’ve imagined back in civilian life.”
“Hehe, honestly, we’re living our best lives.”
As they chattered away, their attention naturally turned to Dohyun and Jiyuchan, who drew everyone’s gaze.
It was an instinctive pull—toward Jiyuchan, who was undeniably handsome, talented, and fit, and toward Dohyun, whose talent was arguably the greatest in South Korea, if not the world.
When the other trainees sent questioning glances asking what the two would do afterward, Jiyuchan glanced at them quietly and answered.
“I’m just going to do some physical training.”
“Wow, that’s intense.”
“Ugh, Yuchan’s really something….”
Since Jiyuchan was the third oldest, they spoke casually with him, and Yongchan Kim and Dongwook Park reacted with admiration.
Dongwook had been quite dejected since the practical training and kept apologizing whenever he saw Jiyuchan, so he looked a bit pitiful, but no one sympathized with him.
In any case, the other trainees nodded in acknowledgment at Jiyuchan’s words.
“Right~ Yuchan really is diligent, isn’t he?”
“Mmm~ As expected, Yuchan oppa really is sincere, isn’t he?”
“If a genius puts in effort too… what are the rest of us supposed to live on?”
“Please take it easy, hyung… If you do that, I have to as well.”
“That’s right, Yuchan oppa. We need to rest when it’s time to rest.”
Several trainees teased Jiyuchan like that, and he simply smiled faintly without saying much in return.
Then some of them turned their heads away from Jiyuchan and looked at Dohyun, who sat beside him eating quietly, and asked.
“What about Dohyun oppa then?”
“Is he training too?”
“Sigh, even if Yuchan oppa isn’t, Dohyun oppa really needs to rest.”
“…That’s what I’m saying.”
“You should rest like a normal person, hyung?”
Just as everyone was telling Dohyun to rest like a human being, someone walked into the Trainee Cafeteria.
The distinct sound of sharp footsteps and the chilling aura that seemed to cool the air in the cafeteria made everyone turn their heads, and an unexpected person entered.
When Hanalin arrived with her perpetually cold expression and her blue hair and eyes shimmering with an icy light, the trainees murmured at the sight of her sudden appearance.
“Hanalin… Instructor?”
“Why is Instructor Narin here…?”
“Huh?”
As everyone whispered at the unexpected arrival, Hanalin paid them no mind.
Then she spoke to Dohyun.
“Trainee Dohyun, come to the Magic Training Grounds after dinner. We’ll conduct the lesson you missed earlier.”
“Understood.”
Dohyun was somewhat taken aback, but remembering that he had only attended the technical lesson and missed the magic instruction, he could only nod in agreement.
After dinner was free time, and while it was unfortunate to have that time taken away, he wasn’t too bothered if he could learn magic instead.
When Dohyun answered so casually, Hanalin turned to leave as if her business was done. But then she suddenly turned her head back toward Dohyun.
Then she glanced at him sideways and spoke.
“See you then.”
“…?”
I wondered why she was acting like that, but thinking maybe I had been a bit excessive earlier, I just scratched my cheek.
Thinking she might have been a bit annoyed, I didn’t pay much attention and tried to return to eating, but after Hanalin left, the other trainees erupted into chaos.
“What, what!?”
“Do those two have something going on?”
“Now that I think about it, didn’t they act familiar earlier too???”
“What’s your relationship with Instructor Hanalin, Dohyun!!!”
“Talent and Instructor Hanalin too!!!”
“Oh my, oh my?”
“Is there really something between you and Dohyun oppa?”
“…How could there be?”
The men looked at Dohyun as if they were about to shed tears of blood, while the women also looked at him with curious eyes, wondering what this atmosphere was about.
Dohyun looked at the people making a fuss with an expression of disbelief and muttered.
“It’s just a magic lesson.”
“…It doesn’t seem like ‘just’ anything.”
Even when Jiyuchan said the same thing, Dohyun shook his head as if he had a headache.
‘It’s just a class. Why is everyone acting like this?’
The moment his expression settled into that look, the other men—who had never shown such jealousy toward the talented Dohyun—now squeezed their eyes shut in frustration. The women were also watching Dohyun with peculiar expressions.
Even Jiyuchan was gazing at Dohyun with an odd look in his eyes.

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