[Episode 09] Assemble (1)

Lee Jun-hyeok was one of the Awoken who led a group of survivors near Seomyeon Station.

It was barely the ability to create water, but the ability to create water in extreme conditions played a key role in survival.

Thanks to this, the group of survivors led by him had a significantly higher number of survivors than other groups.

However, the large number of survivors was becoming a disadvantage rather than an advantage as time passed.

This is because food was being consumed as fast as the number of people.

A total of 24 people including myself.

The amount of food eaten by 24 adults was more than expected.

‘Now is the real limit.’

The food he had earned fiercely while fighting the monsters around him was gradually reaching its limits.

‘I have to leave somewhere.’

It was when I was thinking about that.

gurrring

It was about an exceptionally sunny afternoon when the prelude to despair began to be heard.

coo coo coo-

The ground shook with the sound of something exploding.

The place he was in was underground, so he felt it even more intensely.

‘Is it an earthquake?’

Then a man rushed down from above and shouted at him.

“Junhyuk! I need to come upstairs right now!”

“why? what’s the matter?”

“It’s a big deal! A monster, a monster!”

Lee Joon-hyeok saw the man’s expression stained with fear and said.

“Calm down, guide me. Where can I go?”

“Follow.”

The shaking of the ground continued even as I strode up the stairs following him.

‘No, it’s getting worse.’

When Lee Jun-hyeok followed the man’s guidance to the third floor, the identity of ‘it’ began to be seen through the cracks between the buildings.

“···What is that?”

The giant was there.

Because of his height of several tens of meters, he seemed to be visible wherever he stood.

The monster was destroying buildings.

“Junhyuk. Hey, what do we do now?”

Lee Jun-hyeok blankly looked at the monster and answered.

“brother.”

“Yes?”

“What the heck? Against that.”

The answer has already been decided.

“Tell everyone to stay put and hide in the basement.”

“What? Ha, but…!”

“I don’t know? There’s nothing we can do, brother. The best we can do is just pray that he doesn’t come here.”

When a predator appears, the prey’s options are usually divided into two.

Did you run away or hide?

However, in the situation of Lee Jun-hyeok’s party, he could not choose the option of running away.

“Or where are you going? There are goblins and orcs outside right now, where are you going to run to? If I get caught in the eyes of a giant while fighting them, it’s all over, right?”

“That, that… I get it. I’ll tell you to hide. But what are you going to do?”

“I want to see where he goes.”

“Yeah, yes.”

After sending the man down, Lee Jun-hyeok moved to the roof of the building.

Let’s get to the roof

“Kyaaagh!”

A goblin charged.

‘Was it still there?’

He lightly swung his baseball bat at the goblins rushing towards him.

Kwajik!

The goblin died instantly in one hit.

The reason Lee Jun-hyeok hunted goblins so easily was because he was an awakened person.

At the moment of awakening, he has a different body specification from normal people, and the more he hunts monsters, the stronger he gets.

Now, it was a state of physical ability superior to those who worked hard, and all senses were extremely sensitive.

It far exceeded the specs of the general public.

‘Now I don’t feel anything with the goblins.’

After reaching a certain level, I couldn’t feel the unique feeling of growing even when hunting goblins.

‘Am I saying it should be at least an Orc?’

This peculiar feeling of growing was completely absent from his peers.

‘Perhaps only the Awoken can grow.’

woo woo-

Fortunately, the giant was getting farther and farther away, showing no interest in this building.

I thought as I looked at the giant in the distance.

‘If I can catch something like that, I think I can become incredibly strong.’

I knew.

That it’s just a useless delusion.

But being greedy was unavoidable.

It was because he knew very well that his body specifications would evolve one step further if he just caught that monster.

It was then.

– aaagh!

The giant let out a scream of pain.

‘······Well?’

Looking closely at what was going on, it appeared that someone was fighting against a giant.

‘Aren’t you crazy?’

He never thought that someone would actually do what he had only imagined.

‘That guy is unconditionally an Awakener like me.’

He hadn’t encountered an awakened person like himself yet, but he was certain.

Otherwise, there was no way he would risk his life and take such a risky gamble.

In Lee Jun-hyeok’s eyes, he seemed to be overdoing it, blinded by the greed for experience.

‘A pitiful person who can’t even grasp his subject…’

By the way.

– aaah!

A strange thing was happening.

‘uh?’

Looking at the giant’s voice in pain, it seemed that the pathetic guy who couldn’t understand the subject was feeding his own effective blows.

‘no way? Can you catch a giant?’

It’s been awhile since I had such expectations.

aaang!

The giant’s poisonous feet became Meteor and slammed the ground down.

Coo-gu-goo-!

“Keugh!”

I could see the sight of the surrounding buildings collapsing helplessly as it shook momentarily.

And part of that vibration was transmitted to the building where Lee Jun-hyeok was.

I almost lost my balance for a moment and fell, but I was able to avoid falling thanks to my bodily abilities and motor nerves that became awakened.

‘… must have died.’

The time when I was mourning the nameless Awakener who died from being trampled by a giant.

‘Well?’

The giant went mad again and started running.

But strangely, the giant’s steps were slower than before. Looking closely, he was walking with a limp on one leg.

‘what? Are you still alive?’

It was confusing.

Now, how great is that Awakener’s ability to awaken to be able to fight that giant on an equal footing?

‘why···.’

how powerful

He thought he had grown up constantly hunting after the day the monsters suddenly appeared, but there was already an awakened person who could fight those monsters.

‘Would it have been possible if I had acquired combat-related abilities?’

No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t picture myself fighting that monster.

But after that, an even more surprising scene unfolded.

Roaring-!

“!!!”

A huge fire erupted from the giant’s mouth like a fountain.

Along with him, a warm wind blew to the place where Lee Jun-hyeok was.

A fire that reaches this distance.

‘What kind of monstrous ability is that again?’

It was clear that the explosion was not a giant’s ability. That would be the case, because if it was his own ability, there was no way he would show himself as if he had been hit like that.

That means it’s the Awakened’s ability to battle giants, but such an overwhelming scale.

‘The level is different from me, no, it’s different.’

Now, instead of being a giant, the unknown Awakener fighting a giant looked more like a monster.

If they were at the same level, they would be jealous and competitive, but that went too far.

It was just wonderful.

One surprising thing was that even the giants withstood the blast with fearsome vitality.

After that, the giant who had been punching the floor for a long time came to a certain moment.

Flash!

The upper body was cut off with a brilliant flash of light.

“!?!?!?!”

The battle ended with that, and suddenly the giant’s body began to disappear entirely.

“It’s crazy.”

Lee Jun-hyeok, who watched the scene from beginning to end, was able to gain a realization.

‘That person.’

You have to stick to that person to survive in this fucking world.

‘I have to go find him right now.’

As soon as he made up his mind, Lee Jun-hyeok went down to the basement and persuaded people.

I didn’t have to persuade for a long time.

“If Junhyeok asks to go, I will go.”

“Of course not, but who opposes Junhyeok’s words?”

“No.”

It was because the group of survivors he already existed in revolved around him.

They knew that they were able to survive thanks to Lee Jun-hyeok, and everyone was aware that they would have to leave sooner or later to find food.

Above all, there were only those who actively agreed with Lee Jun-hyeok’s words.

This is because in the first place, Lee Jun-hyeok did not bring anyone who would vomit against his opinion.

It can be said to be cold-hearted, but it was only a natural choice to survive a little longer.

“Let’s go.”

Surprisingly, the road to the apartment complex where the giant died was not so difficult.

It was because no monsters could be seen around, perhaps thanks to the giant’s overexposure.

In addition, the group of survivors led by Lee Jun-hyeok were high-quality personnel who had not only hunted goblins, but even hunted orcs.

Of course, it was thanks to Lee Jun-hyeok’s performance, but anyway, it was important that not a single person could do it without exception.

For one reason or another, they were able to reach their destination in less than an hour.

“Brother, are you there?”

“I think so.”

When Lee Jun-hyeok affirmed, the man next to him looked up at the apartment and spat out his impressions.

“As you said, Junhyeok, it looks like there is something there. No matter how new it is, there was this uproar, but it looks so clean?”

What was unusual was that it wasn’t the only thing.

‘It’s as you said. The surroundings are so clean.’

Neither the corpses of common people nor the corpses of monsters could be found.

Almost no bloodstains or anything like that.

It looked as if someone had cleaned it.

It was then.

“uh? Look over there, Junhyuk.”

About a dozen people were walking towards the place the man pointed to.

Most of them were a group thoroughly armed with Orc spears and bows.

I could vaguely hear their conversation, but something was strange about it.

“Wow. It was really cold.”

“I know. I was trying to make some pocket money hunting goblins, but I almost lost it, really. Suddenly a giant.”

“What is the identity of that giant?”

“I don’t know. But how much money did you make?”

“me? I caught three goblins today, so about 10,000 won? I ate a lot of experience points, and I should go and buy some cup noodles.”

“That would be nice. I only caught two.”

I could understand the expression of getting experience points by catching goblins.

Because Lee Jun-hyeok’s sense of self was just right for that expression.

‘But what do you mean by money?’

Killing three goblins and earning 10,000 won?

what the hell does that mean

I couldn’t understand.

‘No, wait. But getting experience points means that those people know that sensation too, so you’re saying that all of them are Awoken?’

In Lee Jun-hyeok’s group, that sense was felt only by him, an awakened person.

However, all of those people seemed to be sympathetic to the story about experience points.

‘Besides, what is this sense of incongruity?’

I didn’t feel a single bit of tension from them.

There was no fear of monsters and no urgency to survive.

That’s why I was convinced that they were somehow related to the great Awakener who killed the giant.

“Junhyuk. what’s the matter?”

“Hyunchan hyung.”

“yes?”

“Let’s follow them.”

At some point, I was about to enter the apartment complex following them.

“100 million!”

“what?”

Suddenly, a transparent wall blocked them.

[No entry.]

And.

[Would you like to obtain citizenship?]

[Yes No]

Strange letters appeared in front of them.

“What is this again?”

“Junhyuk. How do I do this? It looks like you need citizenship to enter?”

Lee Jun-hyeok glared at the letters in the air he had never seen before.

“Take it.”

Tring!

[You have acquired citizenship.]

As soon as I received it, the transparent wall disappeared and I was able to enter the apartment complex.

and not long after

《Party Quest》

Quest Content: Come to Building 114 Room 3002.

Time limit: 1 hour 00 minutes 00 seconds

Reward: A small amount of experience.

Failure Penalty: None.

Once again, the hologram window appeared before my eyes.

“quest?”

“What is the experience point?”

Lee Jun-hyeok spoke to the people.

“I’m calling, so let’s go.”

I didn’t have to worry too much about what was happening right in front of me.

Right now, he himself has the supernatural ability to create water out of nothing, so it wasn’t surprising that there were people who had the same ability as a game system.

It was when he led his group of 23 and went to the quest area.

“Nice to meet you, Mr. Lee Junhyuk.”

The moment I met him, I knew instinctively.

‘This is the man.’

That the person who had brought that colossal giant to his knees was the man in front of him.

The overwhelming presence of the man in front of her made her think that the word giant was more fitting than a giant of that size.

“My name is Jaehyun Kim.”

I had the illusion that something like an aura was emanating from his whole body.

The dignity embedded in his trivial gestures and tone naturally aroused respect.

Wouldn’t the ranks of nobility, royalty, and royalty in the past exist for people like this?

Lee Jun-hyeok held Kim Jae-hyun’s hand and bent his waist ninety degrees.

“My name is Junhyeok Lee! i look forward to!”