Chapter 277 – 3 Circle Magic (1)

The morning of the next day when I woke up faithfully keeping my promise to sleep hugging Cha Yu-ri until morning.

After breaking up with Yuri Cha, with whom she shared warmth all night, shortly after leaving the hotel, she headed straight from the hotel in the direction of the union to go to work.

Of course, I don’t forget to double-check the CocoaTalk message I shared with Hwayoung before going to work at the union.

“14:00. Come to the Hunter Autonomous Association Gangdong-gu branch lobby.”

“All right.”

“You can come a little slower. Since my break is long, it might take a little longer to re-evaluate the grade.”

Judging by the fact that he even said that he would undergo a grade re-examination, it seemed that they were certain that they would enter the dungeon together.

It’s probably because he wants to confirm the performance of the 3-circle magic I’ve created.

He also remembered that he said that he would have a hard time making halfway magic, so he seemed to be trying to see for himself whether it was practical against monsters.

… The magic concept I came up with yesterday must be magic with proper meaning.

Fortunately, Esilla’s verification passed smoothly. In terms of the fact that it is a magic that has not been formalized so far, and that it is not absurdly practical.

Of course, like the flame whip or fire punch, there was a possibility that the effect would be insignificant when used in actual combat.

Anyway, I didn’t know until I bumped into it myself, so I moved my steps toward the union with a little anxiety.

“Hello, Seongcheol Kim Hunter.”

“Yes, thank you for your hard work.”

After properly greeting the Guildmaster, I tested the newly created 3rd circle magic in the Valley of the Spirits that I had entered the other day.

After defeating monsters several times with my newly created magic, I was able to confirm with my own eyes that the magic I created was truly practical magic.

… First of all, you don’t have to listen to seniors saying you didn’t do anything and played.

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It wasn’t long after I came out of the dungeon that Hwayoung-senpai arrived at the guild.

She scheduled 2:00 p.M. As an appointment time, and unexpectedly entered her guild before the morning passed, and I, who was waiting in her guild lobby to know when her senior would come, greeted her as soon as I saw her. .

“Senior Hwayoung!”

Hwayoung looked at me and asked if she didn’t expect me to arrive first.

“You came early. Are you free?”

“It’s a promise with the sky-like seniors, but of course the juniors have to come first and wait.”

“The words are true. He must have come early to try things one last time because he couldn’t finish the assignment. Or give up altogether and try to apologize first.”

“…”

Anyway, one notice is dirty fast.

If she really didn’t make it, she imagined for a moment what kind of curse she would have heard, then met her eyes and confidently replied.

“I’m sorry for disappointing you, but the assignment has been completed.”

“Hmm, really?”

“Yes. As Hwayoung sunbaenim said, ‘until now unofficial’, ‘practical’, ‘three-circle magic’.”

“Did you do the test? Just because a plausible concept pops into your head doesn’t mean it’s magic. Because if you use stabilization to create a form, the power will decrease, and if you blindly increase the power, there is no way to use it. Or, I thought you were the only one who invented it, but it might be a common magic in reality.”

Ghosts are really ghosts. When I see you talking about the cases of my failures without a break.

All of the above were problems that I had experienced more than once, but this magic was a 3-circle magic that was created by overcoming all of those past, so I was confident.

“You don’t have to worry. Properly practical magic is just… Oh, I just checked.”

“Don’t worry about me, you worry about yourself.”

“Yes?”

“I won’t let you go home until you defeat 50 monsters with the 3-circle magic you made today. Of course, a monster means a C-class or higher monster.”

… I’m really glad I managed to finish it somehow.

Not 10, but 50. Who the hell is the name of the dog? Like Eunyoung noona, for some reason my teachers tended to view the student’s growth too steeply.

Maybe it’s because they’re both former S-rank hunters. Do you both know how hard it is to perform a task to the standards of geniuses?

As she let out a small sigh in her heart, senior Hwayoung immediately changed her subject and brought up another story.

“And besides this, there’s one other thing I have to tell you…”

“Yes?”

“You came to my house last time. Then, in your semen…”

“… Now, wait a minute, senior Hwayoung! Lower your voice!”

“Ah.”

I thought about what I was going to talk about, but I never thought I would spit out the word semen without end.

As soon as she saw my reaction, she realized that she had made a mistake and immediately lowered her voice.

“… Sorry. Come to think of it, in your union, you were hiding your gender.”

“Yes. I have been hiding my gender from the beginning, so I plan to keep it for a while.”

“So you only revealed your gender at work. If that’s the case, I’ll understand.”

“Yes, so be careful… Yes?”

In response to the unexpected information that came out of senior Hwayoung’s mouth, her mouth naturally turned to her and then uttered her question.

“Did I tell the senior that her job transfer was successful?”

“What are you talking about. It’s already been a long time since news of the male awakening’s debut has been sold nationwide because of newspapers and Internet news. Did you know that being the only male Awoken person in the world is usually worth a rare name?”

“Okay…”

… It wasn’t that I didn’t anticipate the attention I’d receive as the only male Awoken, but I never imagined hearing from behind the scenes like this.

No matter how busy I am these days, I’ve been ignorant of the latest information, but if I’m known enough, there’s a chance someone will recognize me once or twice outside the company.

Around the time I was feeling strange about her strange sense of distance, senior Hwayoung continued to explain the situation I was in.

“It is a known fact that male awakened hunters have been created in the company. However, the target has not yet been clearly identified.”

“Yes?”

“Besides you, there are no male hunters in the company at all. There were about 10 D-class and one C-class?”

“I don’t know the exact number, but I think there are a few. I’ve seen it a few times while passing by inside the company.”

Although most of them looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger, with their svelte bodies and heavy firearms.

Most male hunters in this world had that impression. Conversely, it means that you have to be at that level to be able to follow the female hunter’s awakening ability even to the tip of your toes.

At least it was a company made with strict tests and identity management, so there were many probationary male hunters in the union who were almost normal people.

Most of the male hunters who earned apprentice hunter qualifications from the union did not set foot in the dungeon again after going through a D-class dungeon once.

… In a slightly worse case, it becomes impossible to step in at all.

In that respect, the company’s male hunters who received a solid basic education have a high retention rate.

Of course, the main purpose of most of the company’s remaining male hunters was to be used as face madams for publicity. Something like ‘our guild hires male hunters without discrimination’.

In the first place, being a male hunter was not economically feasible by the standards of a normal hunter.

Even if you try to catch monsters with guns or bazookas, the limit is mostly D-class monsters, and the damage to the corpse is severe, so in most cases you can’t retrieve the material except for the monster core.

Anyway, before I joined the company guild, there were about a dozen male hunters in the company. Although the number of actual activities is only in single digits.

As much as they are more active for company promotion, there were cases where some were treated as celebrities or quasi-idols, so the attention of reporters and media outlets must also have been focused on existing male hunters who have worked for the company for a long time.

It would be a much more plausible assumption that the existing hunters raised their ranks rather than that B-class male hunters were born out of nowhere.

Of course, if you think about it from their point of view, it would be close to saying that my existence really came into being.

“… So it seems that I’m still interviewing mainly other male hunters who used to work for the company. Like, have you become an Awoken person, or do you know any Awoken male hunters?”

“I was prepared that it would attract attention, but after hearing it again, it is a very boring story.”

“Until now, it seems that the representative there didn’t open his mouth, so he couldn’t accurately identify it as you. No matter how large a media company is, it is impossible to ask for a list of employees from Eun and Ok Co., Ltd.”

“The fact that President Seo Ok-hee embraced me… I am a little surprised.”

“You may not know it on the outside, but since you are a male Awakener, you must be looking forward to it in your own way. I’m not an employee at the company, but I don’t know what kind of thoughts your boss is protecting you.”

When I saw the attitude I saw during the job interview, it seemed that I was not very interested in the existence of the country.

Surprisingly, are you the type to take good care of someone under you? Or, as Hwayoung sunbaenim said, are they paying attention to me because they expect that much of me?

Anyway, in order not to be consumed as a publicity face madam like other male hunters, I had to prove that I was not lacking in qualifications as a hunter, not a male hunter.

“Come to think of it, what was the story you were going to talk about earlier?”

“Ah, that.”

Fortunately this time, instead of saying semen shit out loud, he gestured for me to bow his head in order to whisper.

She leaned over her back with her face and took her ear, followed by her whispered next words.

“… It’s about your semen, but I thought it would be good for you to know.”

“… Yes?”

As I quietly listened to what he was going to say, senior Hwayoung carefully told me the following words.

“… First of all, don’t be shocked and listen.”

“… Yes.”

“You are azoospermia.”

“…”

… What were you trying to talk about?