Episode 101 – Pro Hunter Exam (1)
Pro Hunter exam.
It was a test that was considered one of the biggest events in Korea as a gateway to becoming a professional hunter.
The test, which is conducted nationwide, was also divided into several test sites.
Unlike other competitions or mock tests, it was conducted over several days.
“There are so many people…”
“Does it seem like the most in the world?”
Arriving at the exam hall, Seo-joon and his party couldn’t keep their mouths shut when they were surprised by the huge crowd.
In particular, Soo-yeon and Min-yul were looking at the huge procession of people with their eyes wide open.
Pro Hunter exam conducted once a year.
With hundreds of thousands of students flocking from all over the country, the number of students could not be less.
This was the reason why the pro hunter test was conducted over several days.
Even that was the extent to which the test centers were separated nationwide.
If you add the crowds at other test sites, it will literally exceed your imagination.
In addition, it was said that the pro hunter test, which had been piled up in the unknown, was revealed, and people’s attention was also inevitably focused.
It’s not an exaggeration, all the interest in Korea was now focused on the pro hunter exam.
“Whoa…! I, can I do well?”
Maybe that’s why Soo-yeon calmed her trembling heart and repeated deep breathing.
Seo-joon spoke as if to soothe Su-yeon.
“If you can’t do it, who can do it well? Just do what you do.”
“Whoa…!”
Then, as if she had calmed down a bit, Suyeon’s expression relaxed.
Then he looked around and said with a regretful tone.
“It would have been nice if Seoyoon unnie came too…”
As Suyeon said, Seoyoon unfortunately did not come with her.
All I could say was that I was sorry that I hadn’t finished what I had to do.
I wanted to ask what was going on, but Seo-joon didn’t.
It was because Seo-jun believed that there must be a reason why Seo-yoon did not speak.
Is that why?
An unexpected person was mixed in Seo-jun’s party.
“Rather than that…why are you here?”
Startle!
Lee Ha-yoon stopped walking at Seo-joon’s words with tears in his eyes, flinched, and shook his body.
“Oh that···”
And then I started fidgeting, not knowing what to do.
Seeing Lee Ha-yoon like that, Seo-joon sighed slightly.
At the time when Seoyoon came to Dream Academy.
Seoyoon did not allow Lee Ha-yoon to enter Dream Academy.
First of all, Dream Academy no longer accepts students.
It was because I had to think about Hunter Mill’s position anyway.
That would be the case, because if Lee Ha-yoon was accepted like this, it would only look like stealing students.
I wouldn’t know if he continued to attend the academy, but that was a meaningless act.
However, for some reason, Seoyoon did not stop Lee Ha-yoon from visiting Dream Academy.
For a while, he was slightly embarrassed by Seoyoon’s attitude.
To be honest, Seo-joon thought Lee Ha-yoon would never come back.
But why
Lee Ha-yoon came to Dream Academy almost every day for some reason.
And every time I glanced at Seo-joon, it wasn’t an intrusive thing.
When I ask if he has anything to say, he just looks down and avoids it.
It was so frustrating that I thought about just kicking him out, but I just left him alone.
It was just annoying, and I didn’t see anything suspicious about it.
“what’s the matter. How much unnie Ha-yoon helped me.”
“that’s right. that’s right. We can go to the exam hall together.”
It was because Lee Ha-yoon was helping Soo-yeon as well as Min-yul’s training wholeheartedly.
It is said that Seo-joon was catnip, but Lee Ha-yoon was the owner of skills that no one could match among the students.
As a result of daily training for Lee Ha-yoon, the two’s skills have grown tremendously unlike before.
Seo-joon looked at Su-yeon and Lee Ha-yoon and said.
“But wasn’t it bad between you?”
Then, Soo-yeon replied with a small smile.
“Oh, that? What… Is it because you saw what your brother did to Ha-yoon? He didn’t have much emotion.”
It seems that he received a lot of help from Lee Ha-yoon.
Suyeon seemed to have no feelings for Lee Ha-yoon anymore.
“……If you are, then what?”
The party is fine, but what more do I need to say?
Seojun only shrugged once.
“uh? Isn’t that Kim Seo-jun over there?”
At that moment, someone who discovered Seo-jun’s group heard a cry.
“where? where?”
“Seojun Kim is taking an exam here at the test center?”
“excuse me! over there! This is the real Seojun Kim!”
Then, in an instant, the procession of the huge crowd began to rush in.
Seo-joon turned his head slightly and spoke to the party.
“Then everyone, take the test well and see you later!”
Then he flashed into the sky, jumped, and bang! Fain! It disappeared from sight in an instant with a booming sound.
“What, what?”
“What did I just see…?”
“Oh my God…”
People had no choice but to stare blankly at Seo-joon, like a puppy chasing chickens.
“The captain is really…”
“I thought I had grown a lot too, but I can’t dare to pursue Seo-joon oppa… How about Ha-yoon unnie?”
Hayoon hesitated for a moment, then gently shook his head.
The bruises had long since disappeared, but somehow they still hurt.
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Inside the Pro Hunter Proving Grounds.
Five people gathered in a luxurious room prepared as a VIP room.
“The Hunter exam just started. I think there are a lot of talented people to use this year.”
A man with a clean style muttered while looking at the glass window.
“Will you give in this time? The Shinhwa Guild doesn’t have a lot of operating funds, does it?”
Then the red-haired woman shouted and the man spoke to the woman.
“It’s more generous than the four-year-old Garam and the Mugunghwa over there.”
“Why are you touching me when I am still?”
When he was suddenly mentioned, the man in casual clothes shouted as if he was unfair.
“In terms of financial power, the father to fight is the most beggar?”
“That honour-chung bastard has no taste to be touched.”
“We are only looking for students who know honor in our father to fight.”
Shinhwa, Garam, Fighting Father, Mugunghwa.
These four guilds were the first guilds mentioned as large guilds in Korea.
It was a guild located within the 5th place in the Korean rankings, and it was a famous guild that had firmly maintained its position for decades.
And the people gathered here were the guild leaders of such guilds.
All of them are active S-class hunters and are at the forefront of the ruthless professional hunter world.
They were the owners of skills and forces that dare not compare with the three major academies of the students.
“More than that… the stupid president of the association. In the meantime, he’s playing superficial tricks.”
“Looks like he thought Kim Seo-joon would definitely get a perfect score.”
“So that’s why you’re stupid. Because we thought that we would have planned this without knowing Kim Seo-joon’s skills.”
According to the preceding order, Shinhwa Guild’s guild leader, Lee Seong-min.
The father of the fight’s guild leader, Han Man-cheol.
And those were the words of Mugunghwa’s guild leader, Do Min-seok.
That moment.
“I’m sure you’ve made plans with the lobby, right?”
Everyone shut their mouths at the heavy voice.
Then, slowly, he turned his head to look at the source of the sound.
Then, in their field of vision, a middle-aged man with an aura of a seasoned mercenary appeared.
It was none other than Ryu Jin-cheol, the head of the Black Dragon Guild, the No. 1 guild in Korea.
While the other 4 guilds are tossing and turning, the Black Dragon Guild is the undisputed No. 1 in Korea with an overwhelming gap.
They knew very well that the reason was because there was Ryu Jin-cheol, the master of the Black Dragon Guild, who was said to be the closest to the level of the heroes of Cataclysm.
Jincheol Ryu said while looking at the four guild leaders looking at him.
“If, by any chance, Seojun Kim acquires an A-class hunter, then things become a headache.”
“It will never happen.”
Then, the red-haired woman and Garam’s guild leader, Jung Yoon-mi, continued her words firmly.
“It will never happen, so all you have to do is think about how to recruit Kim Seo-joon.”
It was a word with a certain certainty beyond resoluteness.
He was not aware of Kim Seo-joon’s skills, but no one refuted or disputed his words.
“By the way, what do you plan to do if Kim Seo-joon refuses to recruit you? Even if he doesn’t get a rank A hunter here, isn’t it actually only a matter of time before Kim Seo-joon becomes an A-rank hunter?”
Along with the question of Han Man-cheol, the guild leader of the father to fight, everyone’s eyes turned to none other than Ryu Jin-cheol.
Ryu Jin-cheol opened his mouth slowly while receiving their gaze.
“You know my way.”
A word from Ryu Jin-cheol that follows.
“I don’t tend to make competitors.”
At the same time, a heavy living feeling settled down throughout the room.
Cold sweat running down your cheeks.
It was the same S-class hunter, but Ryu Jin-cheol was different.
What would it be like if you faced a cataclysmic hero?
“So for now, focus on Kim Seo-joon not getting an A-rank hunter. Because that’s more troublesome than turning down a recruit for him.”
When Ryu Jin-cheol opened his mouth again, the heavy murder disappeared in an instant.
They let out a sigh and spoke.
“Even if it’s useless to worry.”
“okay. Jung Yoon-mi is right.”
“Of course, Kim Seo-joon will win first place.”
“But you will never get a perfect score.”
Ryu Jin-cheol slowly turned his gaze without a word.
A window made of whole glass.
Countless students were preparing for the pro hunter exam there.
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The pro hunter test is basic physical strength, writing, dungeon raid, mana utilization, combat power (monster), combat power (person-to-person).
It consisted of 6 subjects.
And today, on the long-awaited first day of the Pro Hunter exam, there are two subjects.
It was none other than ‘Basic Physical Fitness’ and ‘Writing Test’.
“It’s definitely the same method as the Hunter Mill Mock Test.”
It was only natural that the Hunter Mill Mock Test was made to prepare for the pro-hunter exam.
However, it is an absolute evaluation method, not the existing relative evaluation.
The difference was that the difficulty level of the test was significantly increased.
“They said they adjusted it upwards to the point where they couldn’t get a perfect score…”
Seojun couldn’t help but be a little nervous.
It was also because Seo-jun was aiming for perfect scores in all subjects, not just passing.
That’s because you can get an A-class hunter license.
If Seo-jun could not get the A-class hunter license, the creation of the guild would be impossible.
“I thought you wouldn’t be nervous… but you’re very nervous.”
If you think about it, the pro hunter test was a very important test that is taken once a year.
It could be said that it was a life-changing test depending on whether or not you passed.
Besides, since Seo-joon’s direction changed depending on whether or not he got 100 points, he couldn’t help but be very nervous.
The first test of the two subjects to be taken today was the written test.
The written test was originally a pass or fail method.
In a word, if only the standard score was exceeded, it was not reflected in the total score of the Hunter test.
The reason was that the relative evaluation method could not be applied to the written test.
Because it was a test question with a clear score, it was not possible to measure the score based on 1st place.
But now it has changed to an absolute evaluation method.
Written test scores also had to be reflected in the total score.
So it affected my average score, and to get a perfect score, I had to get a perfect score here on the written test as well.
However, Seo-joon did not worry as much as the written test.
A professional hunter is a job that speaks only of skill.
In the past, the written exam was not that difficult.
It was because even in the light of the last pro hunter test, there were many people with perfect writing scores.
However, since there was something he didn’t know about, Seo-joon was also prepared for it.
So, Seo-jun received the test paper with a comfortable mind.
however.
① Cold.
② Fire.
③ Water.
④ Electricity.
⑤ Land.
How… The first problem was not serious.
“Eh···?”
“What is this…?”
Sure enough, the students in the same exam room as Seo-jun shouted in embarrassment.
Even the students who seemed to be at the ale academy were making faces of embarrassment.
“Everyone be quiet. We are testing.”
Everyone kept their mouths shut at the supervisor’s words.
But there was nothing to do with the small sighs leaking here and there.
Everyone just stared blankly at the test, as if they were asking what kind of problems they had.
‘How can I solve this…’
And it wasn’t much different from Seojun either.
With an honest heart, I thought it would be difficult even for Suyeon, a disciple of Maseong.
Seo-joon checked the problem in the back with a feeling of wanting to.
And I did it just in case, but the difficulty was generally the same as the first problem.
‘What is this…’
In a situation where a perfect score would fly away even if you got one question wrong, it meant that you shouldn’t get a perfect score because all the questions are like this.
What happened was that from the first subject, the A-class hunter was blown away.
That’s when I want to do this.
[The sustainable phenomenal world means the world you live in.]
Suddenly, Merlin’s voice was heard faintly.
[And the properties implemented in the phenomenal world definitely require something.]
[Fire is heat and energy, water is a flowing fluid, electricity is the power of particles, and earth is soil and sand.]
[Like this, the properties of the phenomenal world definitely need something to make it up. Therefore, it is also something that can be observed in the phenomenal world.]
[However, unusually, only cold is nothing. You can implement it yourself. You definitely need something to generate heat, but cold just needs space.]
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Of course, Merlin’s voice was not actually heard.
However, Seo-joon came up with an answer to the question as naturally as someone telling him the answer.
Do you think you understand the content of the problem intuitively and conceptually?
‘Could this be because of… insight?’
‘Insight [S]’ obtained while completing Merlin’s lecture.
Merlin says in the epilogue lecture.
Insight was said to be the ability to intuitively understand and grasp the problems of a phenomenon.
It was such a vague word, so I skipped it.
I just thought of how I wish I could relate well to Chiron’s intuition in battle.
However, it could be used in this way…
Seo-joon checked the next problem with a curious mind.
and.
‘number 3?’
As soon as I saw the problem, the answer almost came to my mind.
‘No.2?’
Next problem too.
‘no. 1?’
then the next problem. Also the next problem.
Seo-joon freed himself without hesitation.
‘This… isn’t it very useful?’
square. square.
Seo-joon started to solve the problem at a tremendous speed.
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① It is a monster classified as a flying dragon, and its size reached a whopping 100m.
② It has the characteristic that magic does not work.
③ It has an intellect that surpasses that of humans, and it uses the ability to control the mind.
④ It appeared in the first cataclysm, but there was no direct threat.
⑤ It was punished by the great voice and the seven apostles.
Then I stopped at one problem.
Seojun did not immediately come up with an answer to this question.
‘hmm···’
Seojun was lost in thought for a moment.
The Great Monster Beserk is a monster of the Cataclysm era, and only the heroes of the Cataclysm have actually encountered him.
In a word, only the heroes of Cataclysm know about Beserk.
Of course, it wasn’t that people didn’t know about Beserk.
However, Beserk did not remain as a photo, video, or any other record.
Therefore, the students who were taking the Pro Hunter test here and now did not know or could not know detailed information about Beserk.
It was just a terrible monster during the cataclysm.
And Jinrihoe took care of it. I only knew this much.
In a word, the problem was to just shoot.
Literally, the problem of preventing perfect scorers.
however.
‘At that time, what did Amseong-nim say…?’
Seojun had heard about Beserk from Amseong.
Of course, the hero of the cataclysm is not the grandfather who tells old stories.
It was absurd to tell the students about Beserk’s information.
‘Oh, it’s not that magic doesn’t work, it’s that they ignore things below a certain level.’
However, Seo-joon had heard about Beserk from Amseong until a scab sat on his ears.
And here, a certain level meant the level of current S-class hunters.
So, Seo-jun had heard of the behind-the-scenes story, where only the heroes of the cataclysm had no choice but to participate in the subjugation of Beserk.
‘It’s number two.’
It must be accurate since it was information from the dark planet that directly faced Beserk.
To be honest, if this isn’t the right answer, it’s not ignorance, but the problem is wrong.
In fact, if you look closely, even number 5 was not correct, but it was a fact that only a few people knew.
square.
Seo-joon solved the problem faster than anyone else in the exam hall.
square. square.
square. square.
The sound of Seo-jun’s pen resonates constantly at regular intervals.
‘What, what… that speed is possible?’
‘Do you really know how to solve it? Aren’t you filming?’
‘Wasn’t he just good at fighting…?’
The students at the test center only made a blank look at Seo-jun’s appearance.
It took less than 5 minutes for Seo-jun to write down all the correct answers to 100 questions.
<Course 1 – Written test>
[1st place] Seojun Kim (100 points)
[2nd Place] Suyeon Seok (87 points)
[3rd place] After the exhibition (85 points)
[4th place] Lee Do-eun (83 points)
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