After reaching to the apartment Lycan went straight to his room. Along the way some neighbor greeted him. He wasn't in mood to think about any other things. He just wanted to confirm if the system panel was real or not. Closing the door Lycan lean back against the door panting heavily.
He pulled out the mana crystal wrapped in cloth from his pocket. Slowly unravelling the cloth ,he saw a blue crystal. Raising his hand slowly touching the crystal as if touching an antique. As he touched the crystal a familiar but unfamiliar screen came in front of his eyes.
[Do you wish to absorb mana stone.]
Not wasting any moment Lycan raised his voice.
"Yes"
As this was his only chance left to change his destiny and get out from poor life. The blue crystal hovered in the air and slow turned into particle entering Lycan's body. As the particle entered his body , he began to feel new kind of power growing inside him which caused pain. This new power of his was changing his body to let the proper flow of mana and strength.
After half an hour the pain started to decrease. His body was drenched in sweat and some dark gunky stuff. Smelling it he had urged to vomit. Seeing that he was covered in nasty stuff ,Lycan threw away what he was wearing and ran straight to the bathroom and began taking shower.
When the stream of warm water flushed down his head, Lycan breathed comfortably. His tense mind had finally begun to relax.
After washing, Lycan started to dry himself off while looking at the mirror. After removing the impurities, his skin had become white and smoother. It was probably better than some rich girls who always uses high end potion and cosmetics to maintain their youth.
At this time, a translucent message was hovering in his sight but due to unbearable smell he had to take a shower.
[System synchronization starts.]
It was a "system message" window that only Hunters have seen, which has been talked about a lot of times.
[The Awakening Condition has been met!]
"Am i going to awaken as hunter."
However, the more he looked into the message, the clearer it became.
That he is destined to be a Hunter.
[System Synchronization 17.1%]
When awakening as a hunter, a message window like what Lycan sees now appears.
It's like a hologram in virtual reality.
From that very moment on, the "system" will be applied to those who awakened, and growth will be possible easily beyond human limits.
After this brief synchronization process, he will awaken as a hunter.
'Then am I a conditional awakener?'
There were two cases of Hunter's awakening.
First of all, when one's ability is naturally expressed at a certain age.
Second, in the case of 'conditional awakening' in which the ability is expressed only when certain conditions are satisfied.
The absolute majority of Hunter's current activities were innate awakening.
In the case of conditional awakening, the number was extremely small.
There were many different conditions for each person to satisfy, so he didn't know the conditions until he experience this, so even if one was born with the ability, most people didn't know that for the rest of their lives.
'But if I am a conditional awakener....'
There was a special merit as the ratio was low and very difficult to obtain.
Unlike innate awakeners, the privilege of getting bonus characteristics as soon as you wake up as a hunter is given.
Ring!
[Synchronizing system]
Acquire ['Trait :???' .]
'That's true.'
The synchronization has not yet been completed, so it was not known exactly what the characteristics were.
However, the characteristics given to conditional awakening were usually special.
That's why there are quite a few conditional awakeners in the top hunter compared to a much smaller number.
"Was absorbing crystal a condition for me?'
Lycan looked at thrown clothes where there was little to none blue glow. Seeing that the sync rate was still on loading he decided to have supper and rest.
While moon was still up in the sky.
A messages unfolded in front of him.
[Sync is complete!]
[The user's body is strong and energetic.]
[Conditional Awakening Earns Bonus Attributes!]
[Acquired attribute '???'.]
[The attribute is not activated due to lack of experience.]
As Lycan was still sleeping he did not saw the message but after the message end ,his body started to transform in all sorts of monsters out there. Even rare to lost monster.
Early in the morning covering in cold sweat Lycan opened his heavy eyes. He had remembered something he did not wanted to remember. Walking away from the bed he tried to forget what he had dreamed.
Walking into the bathroom ,turning on the tap, splashing water on his face. Lycan stared in the mirror as he was looking into his own soul.
"You are not a monster anymore. You are human now and always has been."
As he looking in the mirror his reflection started to change as denying his words. The reflections changed into all sorts of monster sometimes 2 legged , 4 legged or sometimes ghost like figure.
Seeing this he smashed the mirror not wanting to remember all the hell he went through. Blood started to drip down from his hand. Feeling his burning he pulled out med kit from above cupboard.
After sometime treating his hand and clamming down he went kitchen to have simple breakfast. While he was cooking for himself ,he remembered about system sync rate. Bring up his panel he began to look through his attributes and what power he had got.
[Name: Lycan ]
[Age: Roughly 19 Years Old]
[Height: 172 cm/ Weight: 65kg]
Status
[Physical Strength 13]
[Endurance 12]
[Agility 16]
[Mana Manipulation 6]
[Mana 1]
[Magic Strength 1]
[Luck 3]
Trait: [Pastlife Memories]
[Rank: ???]
[Trait Level: F]
-Memories from Past life can be opened as host grows.
-New skill can be acquired at fast rate.
-Leveling up skill at fast rate.
-???( condition has to be fulfilled before unlocking this power. )
[Current memories available : Giant Rat , Ebony Wolf , Goblin , Drake snake , Ghost. ]
Seeing what in front of him he wanted to scream badly. Out of all Trait why has to be this his. He wanted to forget all these and now fate has bring up this as playing joke upon him.