Chapter 1: Congratulations on Your Awakening

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My job was at a small event agency.

Due to a lack of manpower, I always designed things that I had never done in my life, carried heavy loads, and even made phone calls and accounting. I faced countless situations where I had to do things that were not my job.

But it wasn't that bad to collaborate with strangers to carry out a project, to the point that I was hopeful that I had finally found my aptitude.

Until I was suddenly told to quit by the boss this morning.

"I'm going to clean up the event agency and start another business."

"How can I stop suddenly?"

"Yu Bom-ssi[1], you know we're in a recession these days. It's not easy to get work."

"But if you do this all of a sudden..."

"I'll help you get unemployment benefits."

"That's not the problem."

The boss sighed deeply and rubbed their forehead as if in pain.

"Yu Bom-ssi, you didn't come in with a serious mind. Didn't you do that during the interview?"

The boss talked about the past when I was speechless.

"I don't know what I want to do yet, so I want to find it."

"..."

"Then it doesn't have to be this. Right? Anyway, know that, and don't go to work tomorrow."

I lost my job like that with just a few words of conversation.

It didn't sound serious to them that I wanted to find what I wanted to do. I was more desperate than anyone else.

I packed my bags that way. They told me not to come to work from tomorrow, but I don't care. I didn't want to spend an extra minute or a second on this kind of company.

When I left the company building, a taxi stood in front of the sidewalk as if I were waiting.

"Hello. Please go to Hapjeong[2] Station."

"Yes."

"...No. The Yanghwa[3] Bridge."

I could pass it over saying it was a big deal, but I didn't have any energy today.

I just felt skeptical about where my life got twisted.

Is it because of the company I joined without thinking? Or, since I became independent, saying I can do well alone?

Or my brother's sudden disappearance? 15 years ago, when my mom disappeared from Dungeon?

A gate called 'Catastrophe' appeared in mankind, and ferocious monsters poured out of the space called 'Dungeon' created in it.

They came out through the gate and attacked and threatened humanity.

Weapons such as guns and missiles possessed by soldiers did not work. People despaired that the world would be on the path of destruction.

However, a small number of people are starting to 'Awaken'.

They learned the fact from an unknown being called the 'System' and were given an incredible power equivalent to a monster.

Humanity quickly adapted to change and established a new civilization.

The awakened were called 'Hunters,' and they killed the monster of Dungeon with strong force.

There is Hunter who showed the best skills in the process.

Jo In-young, an SSS-Rank Hunter, became the No. 1 Hunter at the same time.

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