Chapter 208 – Hunter Qualification Test (5)
About 1,000 people enter the maze in different directions.
“Good luck.”
Darkness comes only when the door closes with the supervisor’s dry gongchi.
The pitch darkness, where you can’t even see an inch ahead.
There is no exaggeration or falsehood in this sentence.
Because the darkness in front of your eyes was designed to literally block the act of seeing itself.
“Not much has changed.”
Maybe 10 years ago
There was a time when the shocking news that all 400 test takers who survived until the end of the newly released test announced that they had given up was widely reported.
At the time, I was still young, so I was curious about the unknown.
What kind of test was it that the candidates who desperately hoped to become hunters cried out for giving up at the final threshold?
“Surely… , It was a test worth giving up.”
When I asked the association directly and experienced the ‘maze of darkness’, I had only one thought.
This is not a test you were made to pass.
A vast labyrinth that is difficult to gauge the total area of, and various traps filled in.
Up until this point, there might have been some candidates who could pass somehow.
But one bigger problem remained.
“The problem is that you have to pass through all of this while blocking the view.”
The darkness that fills the maze makes the field of vision extremely narrow.
The biggest problem was that you could only see one inch ahead, and if you took just one wrong step, you would face an irreversible mistake.
And one more thing.
“Ahhh… !”
The screams of the candidates echoing from far away.
Every time I hear it, my heart can’t help but shrivel.
A vague fear that the next person to scream might be himself came over me.
“That much discrimination is certain.”
It’s scary enough to die, and as difficult as it is, it’s certain that it has one performance that covers the upper hand.
Mental strength, force, judgment, ability to deal with crises, etc.
As a Hunter, you will only be able to pass this place if you have all the elements you need.
“… Of course not me.”
Even the body of Son Si-woo, who was an S-class hunter, could not see through the darkness filled with this maze.
I was just curious about what it was made of.
Of course, I couldn’t find an answer.
Because the producer said it was a trade secret and did not tell the people of the association.
This body can see such a secret.
The principle of darkness blocking the view, and the scenery of the maze beyond that.
Chicken meat sprouts all over the body.
“What the hell happened to the eaten eye, this.”
To destroy the darkness that could not be penetrated even with the eyes of an S-class hunter as naturally as breathing.
At that time, the desolate landscape of the maze, which I had not seen before, comes into my eyes.
As if reproducing a huge maze that would have existed in the Middle Ages, the rough and rough structures rather add a sense of reality.
“… It’s leaking steam all of a sudden, Ayy.”
Her heart raced for the first time in a long time until she came in.
Although it was a place that Son Si-woo easily passed through, it was undoubtedly an interesting place.
I thought I would be able to enjoy this maze even more with a weaker body than before…
“I never thought I could solve the riddle so easily.”
He also grasped the identity of the darkness that filled the maze.
As expected, it was an artificial darkness created by the magic circle.
To be precise, a large magic circle was drawn on the ceiling by modifying the formula of ‘Blind’, one of the curse magics that blocks the opponent’s vision, and designating the target as the entire space rather than a person.
Of course, everyone who enters here will be blinded, and only the creator of the maze and I know this.
“Mmm.”
The exam is held over a total of 3 days.
Within three days, 100 people who complete the maze, or are close to the exit, will earn a license.
The latter is a newly added passing condition in this exam, but in fact, this is correct.
As I said before, the test is not at a level that candidates can pass.
The hope that you can become a hunter as long as you are close to the exit will be a ray of hope that you cannot give up easily like the test takers 10 years ago.
“I can’t help it.”
You can’t just be disappointed by the reduced stimulation.
That said, I don’t have the desire to pass through the maze as easily as drinking stale cola.
If the darkness of the labyrinth can’t cover my eyes, there’s nothing special.
“I have no choice but to cover it myself.”
Even these deceitful eyes couldn’t pierce their own eyelids.
It is only when the eyes are closed that the same conditions as the test takers are completed.
No, the other kids can still see an inch ahead, so am I at a disadvantage?
It’s not bad.
“It’s about this handicap, what.”
Sharpen the senses of your whole body and move forward.
* * *
Even the most terrifying test for test takers is nothing more than an interesting spectacle for the audience watching it.
“Hey… , Do you avoid that?”
Scouts from each guild.
They couldn’t take their eyes off the monitor that filled one wall with exciting eyes.
Worst test resumed in 10 years.
If there is someone who stands out here, it will be a sale that the guild should keep an eye on.
“How much time has passed?”
“23 hours and 42 minutes.”
“… Have you been counting them all?”
“I bet you’re the only one here who doesn’t see the time marked under the monitor.”
“Kuhm… ! I’m tired, I’m tired.”
It has been 24 hours since the test takers wandered inside the dark maze.
300 people fell away without being able to overcome the trap that was triggered unexpectedly in a situation where one could not see an inch ahead, and 200 people ran away from the fear of the screams that burst out one after another.
It’s only been a day, but half of the people have been eliminated.
“Only like this, no one who has passed through the maze will come out.”
“I wonder if it would be possible to pass through that maze safely if you are active duty B-class or higher.”
“Surely… It’s a bad place. “
The monitor in the upper left edge is laid down a monitor around the maze exit.
But no one gave me a gaze.
I was convinced that there would be no candidates to reach there.
It was definitely.
In unintentionally, a scout of a scout leaned on to drink water.
“Puzal… !?”
The water that I had to drink pour out and wet it around.
“What are you doing, now!”
“I don’t have clothes to change… !”
Despite her protests, the man stared at her monitor with her dazzling eyes and pointed to the place he was looking at with his index finger.
“Look at that…”
The attention of the scouts that attracted attention heads in the direction of the fingers.
“What the hell is… Uh, huh? “
There is something.
The black shadow is long within the range of CCTV.
When you are looking into the monitor like a person who has appeared.
A man appeared and doubted their eyes.
It’s a familiar face.
It was hot on SNS, and it showed a ridiculous skill throughout the Hunter Qualification Exam.
“Ki, Dojin Kim… ?”
23 hours 48 minutes after the fourth exam began.
Breaking the scouts of the scouts who would never pass the exit.
Route!
Kim Do -jin opened the door of the exit.
* * *
The vision is a big part of the battle.
In fact, it is unclean that the more people who have not reached the level of the five senses, the more important the vision is.
But when you attack the dungeon, you sometimes find a moment when you have to doubt your eyes.
The vision itself is blocked as it is now, or the truth is buried in welcome.
What should I find with the only thing that looks like this, and when I find a situation where it’s not real?
The answer is simple.
If you don’t see it, you have to listen, take on, taste, and feel.
To be precise, you have to mobilize the remaining five senses to overcome the situation.
“Oops.”
Read the flow of magic power around you and avoid the flames rising.
Avoid the swamps of the whole body as soon as you soak your feet with sour smell.
Quang!
Avoid and counterattack the golem’s fist, which is flooded through the sound sound.
There are two ways to pass through the maze.
As I do now, I rely on different senses instead of perspective, breaking traps and finding a way.
Or rely on the gaze of the only time, move slowly but carefully.
“Either way, it’s hard. Even more for Hunter aspirants. “
Neotomy is not easy.
In particular, the entire five senses could have been so difficult that they were only learned at the time of the B class in class B.
However, moving forward by relying on the vision one inch ahead… , Well.
In the still darkness, one second feels like ten seconds.
Can you concentrate for three days in the slow flow of time?
I think it’s difficult.
“I don’t know if my kids are doing well.”
For our children, this test is literally the worst combination.
Why?
Contrary to his outstanding ability, his body and mind are still green at the age of 20.
Although I have become an adult legally, there is a little immature corner to be seen as an adult, so it is brilliant and beautiful, but mentally jagged.
Whether they will be able to demonstrate their skills in the test that requires strong mental strength.
“… I’ll be fine, what.”
Wee.
I thought about helping, but I didn’t think it was.
As long as they’re chosen to be on my team, they should be the best in the industry, but I can’t let them step into the full-fledged hunter society without winning even this much.
If you fall, you just aim for the next opportunity by polishing it even more.
“Ah.”
As I walked, lost in thought, I came to the end before I knew it.
How much time has passed
“Has it been a day?”
I don’t know exactly, but maybe that was it.
He finally opens his closed eyes and grabs the doorknob hanging on the rugged wall in his hand.
It rattles!
A beam of light pours through the door that opens stiffly.
“Ow.”
My eyes flashed as if I had been hit by a flash grenade, but my vision gradually recovered.
A small waiting room.
The two overseers stared blankly at us with eyes wide open in disbelief.
“This is the exit, right?”
The supervisors, who finally came to their senses at the humorous question, took care of their relaxed expressions.
“… Big! You’re right.”
“Congratulations on passing the exam, candidate Kim Do-jin.”
Supervisors hurriedly whispering something into the radios in their ears.
Well, it’s not unreasonable to do that.
Maybe they didn’t even think that there would be test takers who would come through this door.
“I want to go home and rest for a while, okay?”
“Yes.”
We pass the scurrying supervisors and the waiting room where we were handed the first aid kit before entering.
I’m waiting for the elevator going up, but the entrance to the maze is noisy.
Wondering what was going on, I turned my head and saw a candidate being carried out on a stretcher.
“Did I fall into a trap…”
Overseers with stretchers approach this way.
My gaze naturally moves to the stretcher standing next to me.
His face was distorted with pain through the transparent oxygen respirator that covered his face.
My heart, which has never beat faster even in the maze, throbs at the familiar face.
As if in disbelief, his trembling lips call her name on their own.
“… Seo Yeon-ah?”
