Chapter 55 – Entrance Ceremony (4)
As I waited in line, my turn came quickly.
At the entrance, there is a machine that authenticates the identity of the Hunter Association staff and magic waves.
What was your name?
Ah, it was Haetae No. 1.
As you know just by hearing the name, it is a machine made by Korean artisans.
Did you borrow the name of an imaginary animal that knows how to judge right and wrong and good and evil?
However, it is only called in Korea, and it is called MWIV (Mana Wave Identity Verification) in foreign countries.
The way that machine determines your identity is simple.
Each awakened person has their own magic wave, and only those who have registered it in the database in advance can confirm their identity.
So what about those who haven’t registered in advance?
What should I do?
Being caught as an unregistered Awakener right away, well.
In Korea, it is a law to register mana waves in the database when you become an Awakener.
I put my hand on the head carved in the shape of Haetae, and soon my identity information appears on the panel behind my back.
“Kim Do-jin, it has been confirmed. You may enter inside.”
At his words, an association employee who was blocking the entrance stepped aside and opened the way.
As I passed them and went inside, I saw strange movements.
Looking at me, it seemed that something was being whispered into the microphone worn on the collar. Is it my imagination?
I tilted my head and went inside, but suddenly someone jumped out and blocked my way.
“Kim Do-jin… ?”
The one who stood in the way was none other than Yoon Ji-an.
This is what I said to the association staff into the microphone a while ago.
Her expression looks very similar to Shin Yoo-jung’s expression we saw a while ago.
The expression of wondering if I am Kim Do-jin.
“It’s been a while, Mr. Jian. Only three weeks, right?”
When we first greeted each other in a friendly way, Yoon Ji-an’s eyes and mouth slowly opened.
“Uh, how….”
Her index finger pointing at me is spinning.
A movement that seems to ask how the face and body have changed so much.
“Exercise hard for three weeks, and a little… , You know?”
He blurted out his words with a nuance as if there was something.
Then, her eyes, which had been stained with bewilderment, turned serious.
“… Okay. You seem to have experienced something special. Congratulations.”
I wonder if this woman is a model of the sharpness that young friends these days emphasize so much.
“It would be better to tell the rest of the story later. There’s not much time left before the entrance ceremony, so let’s go in quickly.”
“Okay, then see you later.”
After a brief exchange with her, I went back inside.
An excessively large space was revealed for the entrance ceremony of only a few exceptionally admitted students.
Even if it is not possible, 200 to 300 people can be seated enough, but the number of people sitting is only about 10 people.
I’m almost at the end, so even if one or two more come in, I’m not even twenty.
“Special admissions are tough, really tough….”
As mentioned earlier, only the Hunter Association or high-ranking Hunters of A or higher rank can recommend special admission.
As much as they came in as their guarantee, the school treats the special admission students as talented people among talented people.
Tuition fee waiver is basic, meal fee waiver, monthly cafeteria 500,000 won free use, etc.
Various benefits are piled up.
Of course, these are not given free of charge.
As talented people who are exempted from exams and have entered here with all kinds of benefits, special admission students have to prove themselves every time they take an exam.
Practical test score of B+ or higher.
If it falls below that level, all benefits are withdrawn immediately.
If that happens, the person who recommended the special admission student will also be criticized.
You may even go into an investigation to see if you received back money, asking how you could recommend such a guy.
That’s why the special admissions students are in a position where the burden is heavier than expected.
Not only your benefits, but also the reputation of the recommender who recommended you is at stake.
So, even if they are offered special admission, there are many people who reject it and enter through general admission.
[Ah. Mic test. The entrance ceremony will be held shortly, so please take a seat in both rows 1 and 2 for special admissions students.]
A young man with thick dark circles spoke into the microphone.
At those words, the newly admitted students who had been sitting freely rose from their seats and started to move forward.
I followed them and took a seat at the end of the second row.
After a while, people began to sit on the five chairs on the podium.
Those who scatter unusual energy like one.
They were professors at Korean universities.
The teaching assistant who was standing in front of the microphone raised his voice once again.
[From now on, there will be an entrance ceremony for specially admitted students. Before the full-scale ceremony, the national rites….]
Everyone gets up from their seats and looks at the Korean flag fluttering from the ceiling of the auditorium.
[Everyone salutes the flag.]
Familiar songs and words flowed from the large speakers placed under the podium.
[I am free and righteous in front of the proud Taegeukgi….]
That time when I thought it was going smoothly.
Gripping!
An ominous sound hit my ears.
Quick!
The sound of sparks could be heard from the large speakers that had been playing music a while ago.
At the same time, an intense noise filled the auditorium.
Beep-!
“Kyaaaaagh!”
“Ouch!”
The noise that pierces their ears makes the special admission students grab their ears and sit down one by one.
In an instant, the auditorium became a mess.
Association employees surrounding the area are exchanging information through transceivers in their ears.
As they continue to talk, their faces begin to harden.
It seems like something happened inside or outside.
At that moment, Yoon Ji-an, who was standing guarding one side of the door, stood up on the podium and shouted.
“The villain’s attack has begun from the outside! Students admitted under the special exception, please move quickly according to the instructions of the association staff! I say it again!”
Her voice, shouting that her throat would burst, began to reach the special admissions students through the intense noise coming from the speakers.
I looked at her plaintively at her.
“I wish I hadn’t said that now.”
The words he spat out to quickly control the students who entered the special case ended up pulling another trigger.
A trigger that triggers the fear of special admissions students against villains and heinous awakening criminals.
“Rain, Villain… !”
“The villain has attacked!”
“Run away!”
Terror spread like wildfire and consumed them.
There are guys who run amok to run away in a panic, and there are guys who sit there and cry.
Pathetic… , Can not be said.
The only thing the special admissions students gathered here proved was their talent.
After peeling off the shell of talent, all that remains is a weak young man who has just turned 20.
I sighed and looked around.
“It’s completely abysmal.”
All kinds of noise is running rampant.
Outside, a thumping sound comes over as if a battle is in full swing, and inside, a strange sound stings your ears as if something has been done to the speaker.
In addition to that, along with the cry of Jung-gu heating by the association staff who are trying to control the site somehow, even the incoming students who don’t listen and say, I’m dying.
“These days, the association’s workmanship is very poor.”
I don’t know how the staffing was done this way.
None of the association’s employees inside are over the age of 40.
I wonder if this kind of thing is happening because it’s all just young kids in the blue.
We should have left at least one experienced commander to control them, tsk tsk.
“How about this… ?”
It would be impossible to control everyone here with this body.
Control and command also work well only when there is an accident.
Then, how about that speaker….
Quaang!
You’re one step too late.
One of the professors who had been sitting on a chair on the podium and silently watching this place stood up.
A middle-aged man with a stocky physique.
Just looking at it, it looks like he’s a professor teaching tankers and melee dealers.
The man shouted after pushing Yoon Ji-an aside, who was flustered and repeated the same words like a parrot.
“Everybody quiet!”
Quiet, quiet, quiet….
The loud voice that echoed through the chaotic auditorium drew everyone’s attention.
“From now on, this place will be controlled by Professor Bon! Everyone follows my instructions and makes them move quickly. Got it!”
“Ah, I see.”
“Yes… !”
In a situation like this, a guy who has a loud voice and looks good will gain trust.
Maybe that’s why the association’s employees and the students who entered the special cases began to come to their senses little by little.
“How is the situation outside now?”
He asks Ji-an Yoon, who is standing next to him with a bewildered expression.
“… Not good. Requests for assistance from outside are flooding in.”
“Um… , Then some will have to go out to support.”
Except for the speaker that made a strange sound, at least there were no noticeable enemies inside.
As everything ends when the outside is pierced, his choice was reasonable.
At his direction, half of the personnel enclosing the interior moved out to assist outside.
“The remaining personnel adhere to the current position and maintain the four weeks boundary….”
When the professor is giving instructions to the remaining personnel inside.
Powerful magical energy suddenly began leaking out of the two doors leading to the outside.
“Also, special admissions students….”
Nobody cares over there
No, you’d be right to say you can’t.
I am the only one who can see the manifestation of magical power with my own eyes.
I hid among the newly admitted students and shouted.
“I can feel the magic coming from the door!”
“What?”
At my words, the professor hurriedly turned around the door, but it was too late.
The wide open door closed on its own, and a clear magic circle appeared across the door.
“Shit!”
The professor jumps off the podium and throws his fist.
Quaang-!
A roar that is hard to believe that it came from human fists.
However, there was not a single scratch on the door.
The magic circle of the six visions revealed above the door is firmly guarding the door.
“Damn it, is it sealing magic….”
It is usually a magic used to lock things such as chests and safes.
It’s a good magic invented for security, but the problem is that the only flaw is that the villains use sealing magic to imprison people.
Said the professor biting his lip.
“It was Seongdonggyeokseo.”
As he said, it is highly likely that the outside was used to create a disturbance.
The real thing was a minority hiding inside.
Haha, the professor is right. But you found out later than I thought.]
A teaching assistant with thick dark circles spoke mockingly into the microphone.
Judging from the way he smiled, he must be the one who put the sealing magic on the door.
Then, did you pretend to be a teaching assistant for today?
“… Great guy.”
He’s an enemy, but he’s definitely a great guy.
Teaching assistants say that was an extreme job, but I don’t know how they survived.
The furious professor kicked the ground with all his strength.
“You guys… !”
As soon as the professor rushed in, the assistant’s figure disappeared in an instant.
“You are impatient.”
The place where he appeared was at the back of the main auditorium.
Blink.
High-level magic that instantly jumps a short distance.
Of course, high-ranking magic can only be used by high-ranking wizards.
“What.”
Then you’re saying that the corrupt-looking dark circle assistant is a high-ranking wizard.
That it is
“It sucks… ?”
I guess it seems to have been properly screwed up.
