-Tak!
My teacher's pool cue whacks my head .
At that moment, I regain consciousness .
"Hey Min-Cheol, just because Jae-Hyuk is sleeping, you're sleeping too?"
"Sorry . . . "
"You want to get into university, right? Pay attention . "
With my mind still hazy, I try to analyze what happened . It seems that this bastard Hwang Jae-Hyuk, even when he knew I fainted, didn't take me to the hospital . . . Not even the infirmary! I think he just left me lying down like I was sleeping .
Whether to hit him to death, or to hammer him to death, or to use a fingernail clipper to shred him to death . . .
While I'm thinking about such impossible things, I put my hand into my pocket to ensure that my 1000 Won notes were still ok .
Thankfully the money is still there .
I feel embarrassed, submissive and angry . This situation is so disgusting that I could throw up .
Over these two fucking pieces of paper . . . Why, to a guy like me who has no abilities . . .
Eh? What's this?
In the upper-right corner of my vision, I can see a small icon like a smartphone application notification .
'Did I hit my eyes hard with a handphone?' As I wonder this, a hologram-like status bar appears in front of the teacher, who is currently busy teaching .
Kim-Min-Cheol
Level: 1
Exp: [0/100]
Class: Magician
Special Ability: Mana doesn't run out .
Strength: 10
Mana: ∞
Agility: 10
Vitality: 10
Unspent points: 0
Possessed Skills
Arcane Orb Lv . 1 [0/100]
'Wow . . . So I died and came back to life and now I'm seeing hallucinations . . . '
Wait! I can faintly remember what happened just before I lost consciousness .
-Your body has Awakened .
No! I remember it clearly . This is reality .
Ding-Dong-Dang-Dong~
The bell which signified the end of 7th period rang .
"Freak~ I thought you died but guess not? Well, just don't rebel like that and just follow my orders~ Who knows? Because you're a dog that listens well, maybe someone will make you an Awakened manager?"
Hwang-Jae-Hyuk, who woke up like a ghost, spoke to me sarcastically as he prepared to go home .
Yeah! It's confirmed .
Hwang-Jae-Hyuk, you bastard, you're going to die by fingernail clipper!
I made a mortified smile and wished him well on his way back home .
Fucking jerk, I had to say that like a fool with a smile .
I go back home feeling excited and sit down in front of the computer .
As always, mother is out working at the diner .
She always, without missing a day, prepares breakfast and then goes to work at the break of dawn .
From the time the diner opens to the time it closes . . . She spends 16 hours a day at the diner .
All the money that she earns working like a dog every day goes to the loan sharks .
It's a reality that allows me to remember . . . no, remember the human who called himself my 'father' .
TLN: In Korean, the first 'remember' is said in a respectful way . Obviously, MC holds disgust for his father, so he switches it to a less respectful way .
If only she didn't have a useless son like this, she probably would've suffered less .
Usually, I would use some powerful videos to comfort myself and then study, but today is different!
I feelboth hunger and excitement I never felt in my life before .
I open an internet browser and search up details on my Awakening and my passive skill .
-Awakened Rookie Forums-
I look around here and see a lot of information saying that you normally hear a narration about becoming an Awakened and see a status screen at the right-hand side of your vision .
I have confidence .
That this is an opportunity that God has given me, that I am now what I always envied, an 'Awakened'!
I'm not sure if it's good to be having these kind of thoughts already, but I imagine my mother going to the markets to go buy tofu in an imported car with a chauffeur .
I can't even imagine getting a housekeeper in the reality I am living in right now .
I'll just let my mother have a wonderfully comfortable life!
I try to calm down; my heart is leaping up and down about to explode . Then I go on the forums again .
I saw many situations where even when people Awoke they got classes and passives that weren't even enough to make a living, so I searched up my passive ability which allows me to have infinite mana .
-Red Desert mana doesn't run out infinite walkthrough!
-Blessyou magician infinite mana system tree (beginner's usage)
"Fucking game addicts"
Only useless game guides pop up .
I try the Magician Line Awakened cafe, but the results are basically the same .
There is a skill called 'Mana Regen' .
But it's an active skill, not a passive one, and it only regains 15% of the user's mana .
Of course, the casting time would be different as your proficiency went up, but the cooldown seems to be approximately 30 minutes .
The Skill Book price seems to have so many zeroes that I stopped counting at 10 million .
My brain is working at a seriously fast pace at this point .
"Wait… This… Ha~ This really . . . "
Without me knowing, laughter came out .
It's like winning the top prize in the lottery, I feel nervous but excited .
Right out, the Skill Book regenerates 15% of your mana on a 30-minute cooldown is worth millions . . .
My ability is a passive skill, and it gives me infinite mana . . . ?
I quickly run out of the house and go to a playground where there were no people .
I want to see my ability with my own eyes .
I already know about how to use skills thanks to my searches .
The skill that is automatically given to an Lv1 Magician Awakened, 'Arcane Orb' .
Like in games, when starting out as a Magician levelling up is very hard .
Of course, to rich Awakened it's a different story .
They can easily obtain advanced Skill Books and can level up with high-levelled servants .
It's abnormally unfair .
This is why the Magician class is hard .
You get 10 points of stats like the Warrior class branch, but Lv1 skills use up a lot of mana .
So, at low levels, instead of physical abilities, using skills to hunt is the correct way for Magicians to level up .
In my mind, I think of the skill name 'Arcane Orb' .
Like the video I saw online, blue spheres that about the size of a baseball float up on top of my hands .
"Ah, I'm getting goosebumps!" Unconsciously, I said it with a loud voice .
'Kueg' a laugh came out .
Like a kid who tasted candy for the first time, I can't resist this excitement .
I stretch my hand to the beer can that was on a bench .
-Dalgeurak! Tudududug!
The orbs hit the can without any sound or shaky movements .
When I check carefully, the first orb seems to have frozen the can and the second one seems to have torn the can to pieces, like it was paper .
Even when I see it with my own eyes I can't believe it .
I silently stare at my hands and say 'Arcane Orb' at the ground .
The ground turns into a sheet of ice and the sound of hard ice rings out in the quiet playground .
It said in the video that it's hard for an Lv1 Awakened to cast 'Arcane Orb' more than five times .
Although you couldn't see their mana gauge through the video, many Magician Awakened commented that they felt the same way .
But I can't see my mana gauge . I looked at the beginners 'Awakened Guide' which explained things with pictures so it was easy to understand, their status bar was different from mine .
You can say that I don't have a mana pool, and was Awoken to be able to infinitely use mana .
So, I can easily ignore trivial things like mana management!
If I could learn a skill then I can use that skill without any restrictions .
"Nyunnyu nyannya screw everything and get Skillbook~bookbookbook~galeugebgeb bookbookbook~"
TLN: I have no idea what he's saying either . I don't keep up with slang, dammit! Basically, he seems to be just singing about how he loves skillbooks .
I start singing without thinking .
Back at home, I look at Skill Book prices .
The Skill Books I saw at the cafe auction seem to have widely varied prices depending on which classes they're for .
Especially Magicians, their Skill Books were astronomically high price .
It's probably because even when hunting in parties there's low risk in using them and they can destroy multiple monsters with powerful, long-ranged attacks .
-drrrck drrrck
The mouse wheel keeps scrolling like a god .
TLN: probably means it's working really well
"What I need right now is information… Information . . . "
I don't feel anything like hunger at this point .
-ttirik ttik ttik ttik ttik ttirororong~
I heard the sound of the front door opening .
"Son~ Mom's here~"
"You're back?"
"Yeah, have you eaten?"
Seeing my mother's face, I finally begin to feel hungry .
With the hunger, I feel a wave of unfamiliar emotions, and my eyes are filled with tears .
This fucking poverty and debt, mother working at the diner, I can say goodbye to all of it now . Seriously, goodbye! Say goodbye!
"I haven't eaten, Ms . Park~ I have something to say~ let's eat together"
I say to my mother with a cutesy expression .
As she cleans up after dinner, I say one sentence .
"Mother, I'll protect you from now on . . . "
I can keep at least this one promise, right?