Chapter 28 – Class S(?) Sorcerer Ajin Kang (1)

Kang Ah-jin listened to Seul-bi Kim and raised her body.
While she was resting, she drank her potion, but this fatigue was not relieved at all.
It was the first time in my life that I had such an experience, so I didn’t know how to interpret it.

If she had encountered a tolerable mystery, she would have been curious to meet a new level and study it, but the moment she confronted this ability, she only felt that there was no answer.
As an analogy, would it be like the feeling of helplessness when an F-class hunter faces an S-class monster?

The more she thought about that ability, the more she doubted her own ability, which she believed was never at a low level, and her fear grew.

But since she came this far, she couldn’t go back without doing anything.

Seulbi Kim is sure she’s not that kind of person, but she’s never failed to handle a commission.
If this became a rumor, of course, her face would be cut.

Strictly speaking, she belonged to a different occupational group from Hunter, but even this floor was competing in its own way.
Overall, the level of the hunters was gradually leveling up.

For ten years she was confident that no shaman would surpass her, but to her surprise she met an unexpected foe today, and her faith in herself was shaken.

“All right.”

Even in the midst of her complicated mind, she moved resolutely to Kim Seul-bi’s call.

“I tried to wake her up, but she seems to be very tired and won’t wake up.”

At Seulbi Kim’s words, Ajin Kang nodded her head.

“When she spoke on the phone earlier, she didn’t hear a specific story. Could you explain what happened?”

What I heard from Seulbi Kim when receiving her request was vague.
In fact, I didn’t even know what the grade of the person who seduced Kim Seul-bi and Kim Eun-bi was.

Since she had received similar requests several times, she believed that she would be able to solve them without difficulty without hearing the specifics.
In addition, it was not good for her to know the detailed story of the S-class hunter.
No one could break the strong cartel that the S-class hunters were making, no matter what.
It was also that she was not guaranteed her life just by trying.

But when things got this far, she couldn’t help but listen.

“The fact is…”

Kang Ah-jin was surprised to hear Kim Seul-bi’s story.
She doesn’t change her expression for tolerable things.
But even though she was conscious of herself now, she could see that her expression had never collapsed.

“Did you just say… E-class?”
“Yeah. Even that rating went up yesterday. Until then, I was a normal Awakener.”
“Ah.”

Kang A-jin staggered away from her shock, and Kim Seul-bi quickly supported her.

“Are you okay?”
“I can’t…”

Of course, she knew that her opponent would be an S-class or someone with abilities equivalent to that.
In her mind, she even thought of candidates for S-class male hunters, which are few in Korea.

In fact, the friendship between S-class Hunters was very common.
Besides, it’s messy.

Until now, she thought Kim Seul-bi was keeping her distance from it, but she only thought that at last she had come.

But it’s E-class.
She said that, too, was graded yesterday, so she’s E-class, and she was a regular Awakener until then.

S-rank Hunter and A-rank Hunter put their abilities into love sickness.
Besides, he couldn’t break that ability even with his own magic.

‘E-class…’

Kang Ah-jin stared at Kim Seul-bi’s face.
No matter how you think about it, this woman wasn’t lying.

Because I’m not that type.
Seulbi Kim.

Besides, she was about to see her face, and she was a lie that would soon be discovered.

“I can’t believe it either. But what can I do when it turns out like this?”

Seulbi Kim spoke modestly.

“Hmm…”

Kang Ah-jin tried to maintain her fortitude even in her shock.
Hearing that she was an E-class made her feel a little more courageous.

She had thought earlier that she would never be able to break the power, but she thought that perhaps she had misdirected her.
No wonder she couldn’t break it if she had misstepped her from the start.
She thought that if she had a new type of ability that she hadn’t had before, she might be able to break it through a change in her thinking.

Kim Seulbi led Kang Seonggi to the room where she was lying.

Kang Ah-jin looked down at the man lying on her bed.
Outwardly, he was just an ordinary guy.
He appeared to be undressed, judging from the shoulders exposed above the covers.
His skeleton was solid and he looked fairly decent, but that was all.

A man like this could be seen by dozens a day even on the street.
No matter how much he was sleeping, a high-ranking Hunter was bound to display his own aura.
But this man had none of that.
Apparently what Seulbi Kim said was right.

An E-class hunter who captured two S-class and A-class hunters at the same time…

Kang A-jin felt a great curiosity welling up in her heart, freed from the vagueness she had felt a while ago.

“Would you like to leave the room?”
“Yeah?”
“I think we need just the two of us to concentrate.”
“But…”

Kang Ah-jin looked back at Kim Seul-bi.
She seemed to know what she was worried about, from the complex look on her face.

“Do not worry. I have no rational feelings for this man. I am a person who has been training for a long time to overcome lust. To reassure Seulbi, I have never had a relationship with a man in my life. Gender is meaningless to me.”

After Kang Ah-jin’s sincere words, Kim Seul-bi corrected her expression.

“Sorry. Then I will leave.”

Left alone in the room with Kang Sung-ki, Kang Ah-jin sighed.

What she said to Seulbi Kim was not a lie.
She herself has long since shunned the opposite sex in order to enhance her abilities as a shaman.

She was the one who wasn’t interested in men in the first place.
Because of her beautiful appearance, she has always been attracted by men since she was young, but on the other hand, because of her own unique atmosphere, her men have not approached her.

She never had a relationship with a man until she was over twenty.
She was like that because she made the wall on purpose.

I didn’t understand things like dating feelings, and it was just uncomfortable.

Even before her awakening, she was interested in the occult, witchcraft, and mysticism.
In fact, I experienced some bizarre phenomena, and instead of being afraid of them, I felt more curious and clung to them.

Was that so?
The ability he gained after awakening was like that.
She never went to the Hunter Management Office to have her rank measured, but she knew she was S-class.

The essence of her ability was mental, and the number of skills she could use increased as time went on.
Shall we say that we were able to develop new abilities by being conscious and studying?

She learned that there were some talented people like her in foreign countries and that their work was different from other hunters.

In other words, the shaman was able to independently study and acquire skills, and he played a role in receiving requests from hunters who were in trouble and solving them.

Her requests were varied.
It wasn’t just about receiving requests from Hunters.

Strange things often happen in the world besides hunters and monsters.

After awakening, she wandered abroad for several years.
She searched for Awakeners with the same abilities as herself, interacted with them, and increased her abilities.

By the time she thought she had nothing to learn from others, she returned home and started receiving requests one by one.
Her word of mouth spread quickly, and she set her fees high to filter out her outpouring of referrals.

Although she received many requests, she carried out her requests mainly on things that could satisfy her curiosity.
In the process, she gained many new skills and her abilities improved exponentially.
Her mana figure itself did not fluctuate much, but the range of her abilities was widened.

In the process, she made a name for herself worldwide.
The public did not know much about her existence, but those at the top of the social class had her name and contact information like insurance.

She believed that in order to become an excellent shaman, it was first to overcome her lust.
That was also her first piece of advice from another witch doctor during her years living abroad.
They said it was hard work, but she herself didn’t.

Because she was the one who couldn’t understand the feelings of love itself in the first place.
She didn’t know if that was why she was able to grow much faster than others.

Even when she was alone in a room with a man, she gave no meaning to herself.

“Hmm…”

Kang Ah-jin looked down at her strong personality.
The man, who was sleeping soundly with even breathing, looked very comfortable.

She even had a smile on her lips to see if she was having a pleasant dream.

When she tried to fix her earlier targeting Kim Eun-bi, she was very much troubled by her.

However, when she met the person who bet her ability on it, that thought went away.

‘Also…’

There was no way she had an ability that she couldn’t break.
I didn’t know earlier that this man was only an E class.
It was she who judged that her approach in the first place was wrong.

Ajin Kang pulled out some of her amulets from her inventory.
First of all, I thought to find a way to destroy the ability by analyzing the mana properties of the man.

She performed her ceremony in a quiet room.

It was a much more comfortable and smooth ritual than when she was dealing with Eunbi Kim.

But when she suddenly came to her senses, she sensed that something was seriously wrong.

His own sorcery had not touched him at all.
What made him feel at ease was that his spell was completely in vain.

“Umm…”

Kang Ah-jin, who saw the sleeping man with a happy expression on his face, felt his heart sink.

‘No way…’

Throbbing.

Unbeknownst to her, she was lifting the blanket covering her strong body.