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Episode 3
I’m Living My Life for the Second Time? (3)
As Shihoo looked over his Status Window, his eyes went wide.
“…What is this?”
Something was definitely wrong.
The serious expression on his face disappeared as his mouth slowly fell open.
|| Streamer Name: Ahn Shihoo
|| Class: Wandering Martial Artist (D) Lv. 1
|| Title: ???
Physical Stats
Strength: 20
Agility: 20
Intelligence: 15
Mental Power: 30
Health: 150
Stamina: 100
Unique Traits
Luck: 20
??: ??
Passive Skills
Weapon Mastery (F)
Increases the power of any weapon you use. The bonus depends on your physical stats and the weapon itself.
Practitioner (C)
Earn bonus experience and rewards when completing personal quests or clearing dungeons alone.
Body Reconstruction (A)
Your body automatically adapts and improves whenever your stats or skill proficiency increase.
Active Skills
Mind Speech (E)
Send your thoughts directly to the person you choose.
Meditation (A)
Recover lost Health and Stamina by concentrating. While meditating, Body Reconstruction works faster depending on how focused you are.
Akashic Dive (???)
?????
Unique Skill
???? (?)
?????
The information in his Status Window was completely different from what the HunterNet app showed.
Just to be sure, Shihoo closed the window and opened it again.
Nothing has changed.
He carefully compared the app with the holographic Status Window.
The first difference was his class.
HunterNet listed him as simply:
Warrior (F).
According to the guidebook, Warrior was the most basic combat class.
Later, after choosing the weapon you specialized in, you’d receive your first class advancement.
“That part makes sense.”
But the Status Window clearly said:
Wandering Martial Artist (D).
It sounded like he’d already completed his first class advancement.
His physical stats matched what the app showed.
His Luck trait matched, too.
So did Weapon Mastery and Mind Speech.
Everything else was different.
The other passive and active skills didn’t even appear in the app.
“Maybe that’s because only the basic skills are automatically registered.”
The guidebook had mentioned that.
Any additional skills had to be registered manually.
That wasn’t the strange part.
The really strange thing…
Were the skill ranks?
According to the guidebook, you could have skills ranked higher than your class.
However…
A skill can’t be more than two ranks above your class.
Yet Shihoo’s class was only D-rank…
And he somehow had A-rank skills.
Not just one.
One passive skill.
And one active skill.
That made no sense.
The strangest part, though, was all the question marks.
Some skills had their names, ranks, and descriptions completely hidden.
It looked like a computer program had bugged out.
“Can Status Windows glitch too?”
Shihoo rubbed his eyes and checked again.
Among all the hidden skills…
One stood out.
Akashic Dive (???)
“Seriously?”
If the entire skill had been hidden, he would’ve accepted it.
But only the name was visible.
Everything else was covered in question marks.
That bothered him.
Normally, skills could be activated by saying their names out loud.
If your Status Window is open, you can also activate them by touching them directly.
Without really thinking about it…
Shihoo slowly raised his hand.
His fingers trembled slightly.
The moment it touched the words.
Akashic Dive
A blinding flash of light exploded around him.
Everything turned white.
Shihoo found himself standing alone…
In an endless, empty world.
“…Where am I?”
He looked around in confusion.
Everything was purple.
The sky above was a lighter shade.
The ground below was darker.
Other than that…
There was absolutely nothing.
Only an endless horizon stretching into the distance.
Whoooosh!
A freezing wind suddenly swept across the empty world.
Shihoo quickly raised his arm to shield his face.
There wasn’t any dust.
But the icy air stung his eyes.
“…Huh?”
Through the gap between his arms…
He saw someone.
A man had appeared out of nowhere.
He stood with his back facing Shihoo, quietly looking into the distance.
His long black robe covered his entire body except for his face.
The wind made it flap wildly.
He looked nearly 190 centimeters tall.
His dark purple hair reached just past his neck.
His broad shoulders and wide back gave off the feeling of an enormous mountain.
Every muscle on his body looked perfectly sculpted.
Not a single ounce was wasted.
In his thick, calloused right hand…
He casually held an enormous polearm.
It was at least three meters long.
Its blade alone was almost the size of a grown man’s torso.
A pure white light shone from its edge.
“What kind of person is this…?”
Shihoo froze.
The man didn’t even acknowledge his presence.
He didn’t move at all.
Yet…
The pressure he gave off filled the entire space.
“I know this man.”
No.
He’d never met him before.
He didn’t know his face.
He’d never heard his voice.
This man had never appeared in Shihoo’s previous life.
He was certain of that.
And yet…
Just looking at his back…
Shihoo somehow knew exactly who he was.
Information suddenly flooded into his mind like water bursting from a spring.
North Conquering Cavalry God (北覇騎神).
He didn’t even know what the title truly meant.
But those four characters alone made every hair on his body stand on end.
The wind…
Stopped.
The man, who had stood perfectly still until now…
Slowly raised his weapon.
Then he gripped the shaft with both hands…
And took one step forward.
Whooooom!
He swung the spear.
A gigantic slash burst forward.
CRACK!
Something shattered.
The entire world was silent…
Yet Shihoo could clearly hear the sound of something breaking.
It had only taken…
One strike.
Craaack!
Space itself split apart.
The sky…
The earth…
Everything began collapsing.
He hadn’t merely cut through the world.
He had…
Split the entire world in half.
“That’s… Insane!”
As soon as Shihoo shouted in shock, the man slowly turned around.
His deep violet eyes—darker and clearer than his hair—looked straight at Shihoo.
Then the man spoke.
His voice was calm, deep, and more powerful than anyone Shihoo had ever heard.
“Do you still carry that noble sense of duty?”
Shihoo couldn’t answer.
He simply stared back at him, clenching his teeth.
The man looked into Shihoo’s eyes.
A faint smile appeared on his face.
“So be it.”
“I shall give you…”
“…an unbreakable will.”
“And the power to see that through.”
Flash!
The same blinding light exploded around Shihoo.
“Gah!”
He gasped and jumped to his feet.
He was back on his own balcony.
The mug of coffee he had set on the table was still steaming.
It hadn’t even had time to cool down.
“W-What… was that?”
He had simply activated the only skill that wasn’t completely hidden by question marks.
Then he’d been dragged into that strange place.
There, he had watched a man split the world apart with a single swing of his spear.
And that man had looked directly at him.
He had spoken to him.
“I shall give you an unbreakable will… and the power to see that will through.”
“…An unbreakable will… and the power to make it reality?”
Shihoo slowly turned back toward his Status Window.
The moment he read it…
His eyes widened in disbelief.
|| Streamer Name: Ahn Shihoo
|| Class: Wandering Martial Artist (D) Lv. 1
|| Title: Successor of the North Conquering Cavalry God (Not Equipped)
Physical Stats
Strength: 20
Agility: 20
Intelligence: 15
Mental Power: 30
Health: 150
Stamina: 100
Unique Traits
Luck: 20
Willpower: 100
Passive Skills
Weapon Mastery (F)
Increases the power of any weapon you use. The bonus depends on your physical stats and weapon.
Practitioner (C)
Gain bonus experience and rewards when completing personal quests or clearing dungeons alone.
Body Reconstruction (A)
Your body automatically improves whenever your stats or skill proficiency increase.
Blessing of the Elegant Dragon King (L)
When fighting non-human beings, your basic stats and skill power increase depending on your opponent’s rank and level.
Against dragons or dragon-related beings, you ignore 50% to 90% of their defense depending on their attribute.
Immortal Will (S)
It makes you immune to all mental interference.
No matter the situation, you maintain an unwavering will and unshakable conviction.
Depending on your Willpower stat, you can also ignore various status effects.
Active Skills
Mind Speech (E)
Send your thoughts directly to the person you choose.
Meditation (A)
Recover Health and Stamina by concentrating.
While meditating, Body Reconstruction improves faster based on your level of focus.
Akashic Dive (EX)
Connect to the Akashic Stream and access any information you want.
As you become stronger, more information becomes available.
Unique Skills
True Dragon Martial Arts (S)
The legendary martial art of the North Conquering Cavalry God, who was recorded as the strongest martial artist in the history of the Northern Continent.
It was created by his master, the Elegant Dragon King, and passed down to only one disciple.
Its power increases based on your Willpower stat.
Twelve True Dragon Forms (A)
The first twelve techniques of True Dragon Martial Art.
Because the skill has been converted into swordsmanship to suit the user, its rank has decreased.
As your skill proficiency increases, additional techniques and advanced variations will gradually unlock.
“…True Dragon Martial Art.”
The name sounded like something straight out of a martial arts novel.
Actually…
Calling it a martial art felt more accurate than calling it a skill.
Even its name was incredible.
True Dragon.
It literally meant subduing dragons.
Still in disbelief, Shihoo pinched his own cheek.
“Ow!”
He had pinched himself much harder than he intended.
At least now he knew.
This wasn’t a dream.
The other skills were unbelievable, too.
Especially, Blessing of the Elegant Dragon King.
That skill alone would completely shake the Hunter world.
Hunters fought monsters inside dungeons.
And the strongest monsters…
Were dragons.
They weren’t exactly like the dragons from fantasy novels.
But any dungeon containing dragons—or dragon-type monsters—was automatically ranked A-Class or higher.
And against those enemies…
His skill gave him a huge advantage.
Ignoring over half of a dragon’s defenses would make those dungeons dramatically easier.
Even against ordinary monsters, simply receiving a combat bonus against all non-human enemies was ridiculously overpowered.
He still didn’t fully understand everything.
But he had another S-Rank passive skill.
And Akashic Dive…
The ability he’d just experienced…
Was actually EX-Rank.
“So this is the legendary second-life bonus…”
He never imagined something like that actually existed.
There was no way simple luck could explain this.
He still had no idea what was happening.
He didn’t know what the North Conquering Cavalry God meant by “your sense of duty.”
But at this point…
It almost felt like becoming a Hunter wasn’t just his future.
It was his destiny.
“…They’re really pushing me down this path.”
Feeling both overwhelmed and a little helpless…
Shihoo muttered those words in a daze.
