The Returned Hunter Has Awakened to a Hidden Class - Chapter 57
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Chapter 57
Mage Tower (1)
“You’re really pathetic, aren’t you?”
“Wh-what did you say?!”
Another Hall of Harmony.
Here, Ryu Ji-a sat facing Adelaine, one of the Mage Tower’s administrators.
Adelaine appeared to be a woman in her mid-twenties.
Her bright red hair was pulled up high, and sharp eyes glared through her pointed glasses.
With her arms crossed, she looked Ryu Ji-a up and down like an appraiser examining defective goods.
“It’s amazing that someone who doesn’t even know the first thing about magic made it this far.”
“Why do you keep picking fights with me!!”
“How is such a pathetic person supposed to be an S-rank Hunter? Ah, you probably just acted cute with that pretty little face and got carried. Right?”
Adelaine nodded her head with her arms still crossed.
And Ryu Ji-a’s face turned bright red as she fumed.
“Pa-pathetic? You called me pathetic?!”
Ryu Ji-a shot up from her chair.
“Didn’t you see me defend this place? And I’m the strongest! …Except for oppa.”
Ryu Ji-a quietly added for a moment.
“…And except for Su-in unnie.”
“What? Then that oppa person must have carried you. I can see it coming, the estimate.”
“Didn’t you see my performance?! I killed thousands at once!!”
Ryu Ji-a waved her hands and shouted.
“I had to stay here, so I couldn’t see it?”
Adelaine answered nonchalantly.
Then she looked back at Ryu Ji-a’s skill list and shook her head.
“Tsk, this little kid. You have many skills but your application is a mess. The tail is wagging the dog. Why would such talent be wasted on someone so pa~thetic like you. Tsk.”
“Li-little kid?! I’m twenty! I’m an adult!”
At that moment, Adelaine slowly looked Ryu Ji-a up and down.
And then.
“Hmm…”
A brief silence.
“Adult?”
A strange smile spread across Adelaine’s lips.
“Pfft!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Ryu Ji-a could tell exactly where that gaze had lingered.
Crack-
“Th-this is really! I’m still growing!”
“But you said you were an adult?”
Adelaine asked back meaningfully.
“Aaaahhh!!”
At this moment, Ryu Ji-a realized.
This woman was…
Too similar to herself.
Her way of speaking, attitude, even how she treated others.
It was like looking in a mirror.
‘Was I always like this too…’
She felt momentarily reflective, but soon anger surged up.
“Grrr, grrr…”
Frustration and anger mixed together until tears almost welled up.
They say people who are too similar are actually poison to each other.
This was exactly that situation.
Adelaine observing Ryu Ji-a’s skills with her arms crossed, and Ryu Ji-a with both cheeks burning bright red from anger.
As if she had finally met her match, Ryu Ji-a was getting completely destroyed by Adelaine.
‘Min-soo, that bastard! Why isn’t he next to me at times like this…’
She suddenly missed Park Min-soo, who always took her harsh words by her side.
That kind and gentle guy.
The person who would eventually say ‘Fine, let’s do that’ no matter what she said to him.
Ah, at this very moment, Ryu Ji-a realized anew just how precious Park Min-soo was.
“Ha! Look at this little kid. Thinking about something else again?”
“I wasn’t!”
“I can tell by your eyes. You were just thinking about something else, weren’t you?”
“I said I wasn’t!!”
But Park Min-soo wasn’t by her side.
She had to endure this woman with a frighteningly similar personality to her own, using only her own strength.
Adelaine tapped the desk with her finger and said.
“Now, shall we get to the main point? To properly combine the skills you have…”
She looked at Ryu Ji-a sharply.
“First, we need to fix that arrogant attitude of yours.”
“Wh-what?!”
Adelaine smoothly raised her staff.
“W-wait. I’m a customer! I even paid 100,000 coins!!”
“So what?”
“Is it okay to treat a customer like this?”
“I have plenty of money. What, want a refund?”
Adelaine spoke curtly.
“Or…”
Adelaine continued with a meaningful smile.
“Try calling me teacher. Then this unnie will personally guide you down the path of a true mage.”
“Get lost!”
Ryu Ji-a shouted angrily.
“I can’t stand it either! You’ll end up crying and apologizing anyway!”
“What? Me cry? Hahaha!”
“Don’t laugh!”
“You’re quite bold for a little kid.”
“I’m not a little kid!”
Suddenly.
Crackle-
Mana flashed from the tip of Ryu Ji-a’s staff.
And at the same time.
Crackle crackle crack-
Much more powerful mana exploded from Adelaine’s staff as well.
*
Meanwhile, on the floor below.
Another Hall of Harmony where Kim Jun was.
Crash bang-!
Bang bang bang-!
Loud noises came from the ceiling.
“What’s that sound?”
Kim Jun lifted his head to look at the ceiling.
“Haha… that, that place is…”
Olivia laughed awkwardly with a troubled expression, trailing off her words.
The source of the noise was directly upstairs.
That was the Hall of Harmony that Adelaine was in charge of.
‘Hmm…’
Kim Jun searched through his memories from before his regression.
He clearly remembered Ryu Ji-a coming out of the Mage Tower with an irritated expression, fuming with anger.
At the time, he didn’t know what had happened, but now he could see the answer.
‘When that personality meets that personality…’
Kim Jun chuckled softly.
There was no way those two would get along peacefully.
“Are they having a fistfight or something?”
“Well, I’m not sure… haha, hahaha…”
Olivia trailed off her words.
Bang-!
The ceiling shook once more.
‘Ji-a, that girl is going to have a hard time.’
Kim Jun chuckled softly. It wouldn’t be bad for her to experience what she usually did to others.
Well, anyway.
Kim Jun turned his gaze back to the front.
‘This is what’s important.’
A massive magical device stood tall in the center of the Hall of Harmony.
A bronze-colored machine that looked to be well over 3 meters tall.
Intricately intertwined magic circles covered its surface, and blue magical lights flickered here and there.
The most eye-catching feature was the two giant scales positioned in the center.
The left scale and the right scale.
Above each scale plate, transparent crystal spheres floated.
“The principle is simple.”
Olivia pointed at the magical device as she explained.
“When you activate skills on each scale, those skills take physical form and appear on the scales.”
Kim Jun nodded. It was a device he had seen before his regression, but it was still fascinating to see again.
“And when you inject mana and the scales are balanced…”
Olivia gestured toward the center.
Between the two scales, at the exact midpoint, there was a device that looked like a giant furnace.
Inside it, red magical flames blazed fiercely.
“The two skills fuse into one inside the furnace. They’re reborn as a completely new skill.”
Kim Jun’s eyes lit up.
Before his regression, he had come here without any decent skills.
At best, he had forcibly fused two C-rank skills he’d gotten by luck to create one B-rank skill.
But now it was different.
Powerful skills close to S-rank. Even rare skills obtained through second awakening.
“May I take a look for a moment?”
Olivia asked cautiously.
“Please do.”
The administrator of the Mage Tower helps visitors achieve the best possible results.
To maximize hunters’ abilities and enable them to climb the Tower to the end.
That was the fate and duty of one who manages the Mage Tower.
Whooom-
As Olivia placed her hand on Kim Jun’s back, a magic circle unfolded and gentle mana flowed in.
Olivia’s mana slowly flowed along Kim Jun’s mana circuits.
She closed her eyes and concentrated, beginning to analyze Kim Jun’s skills one by one.
At first, her expression was calm.
‘First, let me check the basic skills.’
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「Explosion」- C-rank
「Detection」- C-rank
「Acceleration」- C-rank
—-
‘These are ordinary so far.’
Olivia muttered to herself. These were common skills that most hunters possessed.
But the next moment.
「Diabolic Override」- A-rank
“Huh…?”
Olivia’s eyebrows rose slightly.
‘An A-rank skill already? And it’s a demonization type?’
A-rank skills weren’t common. They were precious skills that fewer than 10 out of 100 hunters possessed.
‘But this much could still be possible…’
Olivia continued her analysis.
And the moment she detected the next skill.
「Draconic Incantation」- S-rank
“…Oh my?”
Olivia’s eyes widened.
An S-rank skill.
It was a top-tier skill that maybe 1 out of 1000 hunters might possess.
And it was 「Draconic Incantation」 at that.
‘Wh-what is this hunter? Already has S-rank?’
Olivia’s heart began to beat rapidly.
But the surprise didn’t end there.
More S-rank skills followed, along with skills that couldn’t simply be evaluated by rank.
For example, 「Deus Ex Machina」 or 「Diablo」.
“W-wait…”
Olivia’s hand trembled.
A-rank and S-rank skills appeared one after another. This wasn’t the skill composition of an ordinary hunter.
‘Wh-what exactly is this person?!’
Olivia opened her eyes in confusion. Her gaze toward Kim Jun had completely changed.
“Why. Is there some problem?”
“N-no. Then, I’ll continue looking…”
With trembling hands, she continued the analysis.
But the problem was that it wasn’t over yet.
「Brand」, 「Black Flame」, 「Berserk」, 「Dragon Slash」, 「Dragon Blood Awakening」, 「Ragnar Explosion」…
‘Aaah…’
Olivia let out a small scream.
There were too many skills. And every single one was a high-grade skill.
‘H-how many are there exactly?!’
Usually hunters possess about 3-5 skills. At most around 7?
But Kim Jun?
‘Over 10… no, there are still more?!’
Olivia’s face turned pale.
How could one person possess so many skills?
Moreover, the problem wasn’t simply the quantity.
‘Just analyzing each one…’
Even for a simple D-rank skill, analyzing how that skill operates, how it connects with the Hunter’s mana circuits, and what its compatibility is with other skills was an enormous task.
Usually it takes 30 minutes to an hour to analyze all of one Hunter’s skills.
But what Kim Jun possessed?
‘Too many! They’re all complicated!!’
S-rank skills had complex structures by nature.
The layers of magic circles were different, the flow of mana was intricate, and the activation conditions and effects were multidimensional.
Even properly analyzing just one would easily take several hours.
Yet Kim Jun had more than ten such skills.
“Phew…”
Olivia let out a rough breath and pulled her hands away.
She had consumed too much mana. Beads of sweat formed on her forehead, and her legs trembled.
‘I shouldn’t have given him a discount… sob…’
To do this level of work for 50,000 coins.
Olivia momentarily regretted her kindness.
There was a good reason she usually charged 100,000 coins per Hunter.
For this level of labor intensity, even 200,000 coins wouldn’t be too much.
But it was already spilled milk.
After Olivia panted for a while and calmed down, she professionally pulled herself together.
“Alright… let me find the optimal combination.”
She raised both hands and cast magic.
Whirr-
A golden magic circle spread in the air, and Kim Jun’s skill list appeared one by one.
The sight of over 15 skills floating in the air, glowing with golden letters, was spectacular.
“The combination I’d like to recommend is 「Berserk」 and the 「Flame」 attribute that Hunter Kim Jun possesses.”
“Huh?”
Kim Jun blinked.
It wasn’t the name he had expected.
Not his main skills like 「Explosion」 or 「Diabolic Override」, but two passive skills.
“Why those two?”
“Hehe.”
Olivia smiled meaningfully.
“I think the most perfect masterpiece of my life might be born.”
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