Chapter 8 – – Chief Researcher Yoon Lee –
Monday always comes.
It seems that the guy called gravity is very diligent, who is equal to the Awakened who cannot even compare with the general public physically.
Over the weekend, his overwhelming physical ability, which he beat over and over again with Shin Ye-hwa, did not help at all with this guy’s Monday sickness.
I still have to go
It’s not polite to go diving without contacting me right away just because your rating has gone up.
It’s fate and life in the world that you don’t know when and how it will connect and twist.
If you are going to quit your job, it is a basic law to at least tell them in advance and include a letter of resignation.
Furthermore, since the YP Research Center is the core research center of YH Group, the world’s No.
“Are you about grade B?”
It was always the same way to work, but maybe the reason why he sees the world more clearly is because his situation has changed… He thought in the rattling subway.
The exact thing will be known after receiving an evaluation, but now his strength should be at the level of the late B-class to A-class chin-ups.
If you compare her current physical ability of her rookie of the year marked in [Heroine Hunter] With your own strength against her, you can roughly guess her own level.
Class B Awakener.
Not just one hunter. A grade that is treated as a main combatant in most hunting guilds.
Of course, Seong Ye-han, who had been away from direct combat except for simple personal training for two years, would not be able to be treated as a proper main force right away, even if he received a B grade in the grade measurement.
No matter what, once you learn the technique, stop.
It is a law to analyze the acting and directing techniques of actors who used to watch movies and write reviews only when they go to the cinema and get tickets.
In the meantime, Sung Ye-han was in a situation where he couldn’t even get a ticket for that movie theater, so there was a difference between him a few days ago and him today.
Finally, he has the qualifications to stand at the starting point as a Hunter.
“There’s still a long way to go for that…”
He felt like he was flying in the sky after sending his rookie picture, but a huge wall approached him.
“I know it’s expensive, but…”
That wall is the price of hunter equipment.
There is a story that Hunter’s equipment prioritizes performance over efficiency.
Of course, as long as reality is real, it is not that efficiency and cost-effectiveness are not taken into consideration, but that is the most fundamental design philosophy.
Special protective clothing that penetrates monsters’ magical fields, leather, and scales much more efficiently and defends against their attacks, as well as various auxiliary functions such as life support and non-combat loss prevention.
Even if you become a C-class hunter, the price of the equipment wrapped around your body is ridiculous.
So long ago, the age of chaos.
Until the commercialization of magic cloud technology grafted with body cams, it was a world in which the maxim that “The same hunter is more dangerous than a monster” Was taken for granted…
Anyway, so to say it again, the Hunter’s equipment was very important.
And, as important as it is, it was, of course, obscenely expensive.
Of course.
Hunters’ armor and weapons were basically replaced with whole magic stones.
Hearthstone.
It is considered to be the nucleus and source of monsters.
A resource that laid the foundation for modern civilization after the Gate Crisis.
It is a miracle stone that is also called the dream of modern alchemists.
Scholars even say that the Philosopher’s Stone has appeared in reality.
This is because the most basic use of magic stones in modern times is the same as turning stones into gold.
To explain properly, it is said that some kind of scientific theory and some kind of technology that is suspicious of human words are involved.
To put it simply, it is said that he manipulates the number of things such as neutrons and electrons that roughly make up an atom with magical power to freely transform elements.
Although the magical power used for conversion varies widely for each element, magic stones do not have the same value as gold of the same weight.
In addition, it is a carbon capture catalyst for the purification of various industrial wastes and the mitigation of global warming, which has already progressed to a serious extent.
Other than that, there is no need to say anything more about the value of magic stones that are not used, such as the development of new materials.
It is inevitable that it will be expensive because it is the equipment of the Awakener that literally grinds such a magic stone and makes it into an alloy.
“Is it possible somehow if I get a severance pay in addition to this month’s salary?”
Even that would be supplies for C-class, not B-class. I can’t help it.
Most of the Awoken get loans from the bank by collateralizing the equipment and the magic stones they will obtain, or they prepare their first equipment with the sponsorship of corporations.
And until the debt is paid off, they roll over and over again, handing over the magic stones they have saved to the bone at a bargain price.
Then, if you break or lose your equipment, there is no such thing as hell.
However, due to the nature of the job that fights against monsters, during the newbie days, of course, the equipment maintenance cost is a mountain, so the debt increases, and then the debt decreases around the second year when you become skilled as a hunter to some extent.
In the hunter industry, hunters who have been in their 2nd year of monster hunting or earlier are called mannequins because they have no freedom and people don’t wear equipment, but equipment wears people.
If Seongyehan also received such financial services, he would be able to get equipment for B-class hunters right away.
However, there is a high probability that it will be fucked.
Two years after graduating from the academy.
It was obvious what would happen if he, who was far from combat, started fighting monsters with B-grade equipment just because his stats had risen.
The higher the grade, the more expensive the equipment. In other words, the amount of debt and interest will be incomparably large.
In the first place, companies and banks even actively interfere with the hunting of debtors in order to safely recover their money. Seong Ye-han had no choice but to be reluctant.
With no foundation there, he needs to reduce his risk.
That’s why I chose C-class general-purpose mass production equipment.
First of all, he was thinking of learning the skills and knowledge as a hunter and practical sense at an appropriate level.
Anyway, from now on, he’s not just a B-class. He is of a much higher level… As much as he is confident that he can grow beyond A-class to S-class.
He also didn’t like being in debt for equipment that would only last a short time.
“You just have to go up step by step.”
Compared to a few days ago, when there was only possibility but not even a tree to build a ladder to climb, now it just takes time.
Because there was already a sturdy staircase built in front of it.
***
This morning’s job was a different kind of research assistant.
While preparing for the day, the team leader suddenly came in and sent him and Dong-wook to the inside of the laboratory.
It’s not common, and it happens once in a while, but there’s something that needs to be done directly with the material in real time during the experiment.
Or, if it is necessary to look at the change or reaction of the material to the Awakener’s magic field. A few Awoken people would be recruited from the management department.
Did you say that the research topic this time is a temporary magical power enhancer?
Han Dong-wook, who was also hired as a research assistant, was delighted and said, “Steam pack!?”
Sung Ye-han had no idea what Dong-wook was so interested in.
It’s not that novel, is it?
Even though a confidentiality agreement is basic, as is usually the case with this kind of work, the fact that Han Dong-wook, a non-regular worker, was hired for a research assistant job even though he did not know himself as a full-time worker.
Other than that, it was a little surprising that senior researcher Yoon Lee was also in the position, but…
She was present at all the three or four research assistant jobs he had experienced before, so it was something he didn’t know.
It could just be that she is the type to focus all her attention on various things.
She was a dazzlingly pretty person at all times.
Even in the eyes of Shin Ye-hwa and Seong Ye-han, who had been lying around all weekend, the light still does not fade.
In any case, research assistance usually comes with an additional bonus to the salary, and unlike by-product management, which just rolls people, the break time is like a knife and the resting room facilities are good, so it was what everyone in the management department wanted.
In the past, whenever I entered the lab, I was envious of how nice the people who work in this place were.
“Not now.”
Lunch time is approaching.
I handed in my resignation letter as soon as I went to work. Just by working until this payday and quitting.
The team leader questioned his sudden resignation letter for a while, but accepted it without saying anything.
It was natural.
The current Seong Ye-han was only an E-class Awakener.
There are bound to be overflowing E-class Awakeners who want to do chores at the YP Lab.
Well, there was a bond they had together for a year, so they suggested that we have a farewell party and dinner on the coming Friday.
Personally, Seong Ye-han is not a big fan of alcohol, but she wasn’t heartless enough to refuse it.
Anyway, she is now coming to part with this institute, which she attended for a year.
As much as she went out for a better future, she felt relieved, but also regretted it.
“Is this delicious meal over soon?”
Seong-ye-han thought that, if she didn’t know anything else, she would always think of the delicious meal she ate every day at the cafeteria.
In particular, if you become a hunter who hunts monsters in the future, you will have no choice but to distance yourself from a proper meal like this.
Hunters once hunted for as little as 3-4 days. It is said that they spend up to a week, and of course, as they cannot be active in the middle of the city, the food is high in calories, convenient, and storable.
In other words, it has no choice but to be a composition centered on combat rations.
These days, it is said that companies are making aggressive investments in high-end convenience food sets to catch the appetite of such hunters.
I know that the YP Institute is also taking a step in that direction.
Until now, it has not been efficient, so it has developed a special packaging container using E-class magic stones that can be collected in large quantities and used as emergency fuel for power plants.
I remember that it was such a plan to draw a stroke in combat rations for hunters by raising the freshness and taste of the product.
“It’s a bit unfortunate.”
But that won’t taste better than this rice.
When Seong Ye-han swallows such disappointment and enjoys lunch. She was talking to someone she had never thought of.
“What are you so sorry about?”
Uh?
For a moment, it felt as if all the sounds in the restaurant had disappeared.
The sound of a chair being dragged.
She casually sat with her buttocks pressed against the seat in front of her own, the woman facing his eyes.
Long straight hair with a good texture, swept to one side of the face.
Thin, silver-rimmed glasses hung on his small face.
Inside were deep black eyes with a strange golden light that seemed to unleash him in pieces.
A high-quality shirt that looked different from the one he was wearing, and his swollen breasts that pushed up the shirt.
Colorful but intelligent.
She is a beauty who has naturally attracted attention just by being in a restaurant for the past year.
Lee Yoon was in front of him.
“What are you so sorry about?”
Sung Ye-han couldn’t find an answer for a while, even when she asked again with a smile as she rested her chin on one of her hands.
A day ago.
The confusion Shin Ye-hwa felt against Seong Ye-han
Now he was being taken back by a completely different person.
Whether you know his confusion or not
Lee Yoon continued with a casual attitude.
“We. Would you like to talk?”
“Um… That’s right. What.”
This is completely unexpected even as a saintly person.
But it was also an interesting thing.
Suddenly, what does this woman want to say to him?
