Episode 4: An Angel in Trial (1)
Hongwol drove the referee home. First of all, you are not completely out of danger, and since you have already found the house, you can visit it ‘at any time’.
After dropping the boy off at home, Hongwol looked at his face one more time, scanning all the information about the boy.
‘This is really… ‘I want to steal it.’
Just like that, the referee woke up fine.
“It’s an unfamiliar ceiling.”
This is something I wanted to do someday. The referee muttered as he looked at the one-room ceiling for the second time in his life.
‘How did you come here yesterday?’
My memory was vague. Apparently, I went to the convenience store to buy dinner and found a pink cat, Pinky… While fighting a man in a suit, I used up so much strength that I passed out.
And I have no memory.
“hmm… … .”
What happens to those who become prisoners while fighting against large guilds? Generally, in movies, it is expressed as putting it in a drum and throwing it into the sea. It means that you cannot die well.
‘It gives me goosebumps. It was very dangerous yesterday.’
The referee resented himself from yesterday. Why on earth did you suddenly become involved with those guys? My previous life was never like this. He was just a petty citizen, just a coward.
Just because you gained a little bit of power, you can do something so ridiculous… … .
‘I just attacked that suit man thinking he was a personal spirit hunter. Besides, he was embarrassed because it was his first time getting angel powers.
The referee excused himself.
‘I wish I could come home safely. I don’t know what kind of large guild it is, but it seems like it knows how to show mercy.’
In fact, there is a high possibility that they just let people go because it was a hassle to deal with them. The referee decided not to think too much. Even if he thought about it further, it wasn’t a question he could find an answer to. And because there was a real problem to worry about.
This was a problem that really needed to be considered. The referee used all of his power to save Pink, and he gained numerous angel powers according to his plan. He has much more angelic power than when he gained his powers.
The result is this. Raise one stat by consuming all the angel power that has exceeded the threshold. It was an essential ability for a referee who had stats that were no different from that of an ordinary person, or worse than that of an ordinary person.
‘It’s a truly deceptive ability.’
Generally, in order to raise a stat, either hard work or expensive elixirs were needed. This doesn’t necessarily increase your stats, so you have to rely on luck as well.
However, as long as you fill your angel power to the threshold, your stats will be raised for free. Of course, it is painful to consume all the angel power that has reached critical value, but this does not change the fact that it is a fraudulent ability.
‘Anyway, what should I post?’
Strength: 7 Agility: 5 Magic Power: 12 Paranormal Ability: 5… … .
These are the referee’s stats excluding angel power. In fact, they were all so pathetic that the referee felt like raising them all one by one.
But life is a choice. You can’t always live the way you want.
‘First of all, in documentaries and books, in general… They say it’s a good idea to aim to increase the stats that show your strengths.’
It was selection and concentration.
The stat where the referee currently shows his strength is horsepower. It was the only stat that exceeded 10.
‘But the magic power is a little… … .’
Magic power is literally the power needed to manipulate magic. And learning magic requires a significant amount of money. First of all, a usable magic book costs over hundreds of millions of won, and finding a good teacher costs a similar price.
Whether in my past life or now, I was poor. The referee shook his head.
‘After magic power, it’s strength or agility… … .’
Why are paranormal abilities overlooked? This was due to the special nature of the stat called paranormal ability. Paranormal ability is literally a stat that governs superpowers, and when this stat reaches a certain level, the awakened person gains new superpowers.
Therefore, now that you can only raise one stat with angel power, it is too foolish to invest this 1 stat in paranormal ability. Because you’re not getting stronger at all and you’re throwing away all your angel power.
The referee thought for a moment. Then, after some hesitation, he fiddled with his status window.
The referee’s choice was powerful. Of the four types of stats, the most common was strength, and it was also the stat that best matched the referee’s authority, ‘Angel’s Martial Arts’.
Although it was a little bit, I felt stronger.
The boy clenched his fists.
“I really… … .”
A school’s website was displayed on a smartphone. The name of the school is Central Superhuman Academy. It was the most famous superhuman academy in the world. Of course, as it is such an academy, the level of the entrance exam is beyond imagination.
Of course, if we went straight, there was no chance of getting a referee. Everything the referee has. Angel racial characteristics and angelic power. And you will only have a chance of winning if you use all of your future memories.
And that too to a rare degree.
Even if the odds of winning were slim, there was no other way. The referee wasn’t just seeking admission to the academy to defeat the Demon King. The reason the referee sought his admission was to realize that he could eat well and live peacefully, something he had not enjoyed in his previous life.
Now, the referee was living at the bottom of the bottom, with no money and only contacts with psychiatrists. If he missed this entrance exam, there was a high possibility that there would be no next opportunity for the referee.
This year’s exam was the only entrance exam that the referee knew about in detail.
“As long as I graduate… … .”
However, if you graduate from the Central Superhuman Academy, you will be able to live a little warmer in this harsh society. Maybe you can indulge in luxuries like traveling abroad and going to restaurants that cost more than 100,000 won per meal.
‘A successful life… … .’
The referee had a sweet dream. A dream I had never dreamed in my previous life.
‘success… … .’
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It’s a fact I won’t admit anymore, but… In his previous life, the referee admired heroes. The extent to which he admired him was to the point where he could clearly memorize knowledge about the Central Academy cadets who were prospective heroes, the structure of the school that was the cradle of those cadets, and entrance exams.
In the middle of the night, the former referee went around the Central Academy through entertainment shows, documentaries, Sprout Wiki, and websites to gather information about them, and even collected goods from popular cadets. These are goods of cadets who have the potential to become warriors.
Anyway, there was this content in the documentary that the former referee watched with admiration.
‘The Central Academy of Superhumans was created with investments from 25 countries around the world. The entrance exam here is famous for being extremely dangerous and difficult.’
The video begins with a panoramic view of the Central Superhuman Academy. A huge city-level educational facility located in the former DMZ area, its huge scale and artificial world tree located in the center of the facility are impressive.
‘No, to be exact, they say that just submitting the application itself is incredibly difficult.’
JoongAng Academy has gone far beyond the line in the way it accepts applications. First, in order to submit an application, you had to find an examiner infiltrated in each area, and then find out the hidden password and tell it to the examiner.
Of course, neither is easy.
No, it’s really difficult.
However, you only have 3 days to submit your application. Most applicants end up wasting their opportunity without even submitting an application, let alone taking the entrance exam.
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However, the referee knew of a test tube hiding in Seoul. Because he said this in the documentary.
‘While original books are being discovered one by one, there is one that has not been discovered until the very end. Right in Seoul… … .’
A meat restaurant located in a back alley. It was a store that only regulars would visit, as it didn’t even have a sign. The referee knocked and entered the store.
“anybody home?”
“I’m not doing business right now.”
It was a small store. A man who appeared to be the owner was grilling meat and spoke bluntly without even looking at the referee. Up to this point, it was just as the documentary said.
After taking a deep breath for a moment, the referee said,
I said it as told in the documentary.
“You need well-cooked meat.”
“Hmm, already?”
The owner looked interested, but muttered in disbelief without even looking at the referee.
“It’s only been a few hours since the application process started… You found me and even figured out my password? “What kind of trick did they use?”
“… “A wizard hides his secrets.”
“Of course.”
The owner grinned as if it was fun, then took a big bite of the meat and ate it. The referee swallowed his saliva and looked away.
“Then, now apply.”
“Let’s take one more test. Then I’ll give it to you.”
“… yes?”
“no? Then get out.”
I’ve never seen a situation like this in a documentary. The same was true in other media. Wasn’t it obvious that they would hand over the application form if you found the examiner and told them the exact password?
“… “I’ll see.”
But the referee had no other options. This is because only this entrance exam was filmed as a documentary, so the referee had a chance of winning.
“Guess my race.”
The owner was still serving meat with iron liquor without looking at the referee. The view of wrapping and eating ssam was exquisite.
‘Guess the race?’
The owner looked like an ordinary man. Not too good, not too bad. I had a moderate amount of belly fat and small wrinkles were forming around my eyes.
No matter how you look at it, he was human.
From the looks of it, it is.
“Give me 10 seconds. “Speak quickly.”
“hmm… In my opinion, the owner… … .”
But the referee knew the answer.
“It looks like an elf?”
This is because the documentary included an interview with the apostate elf Rusa, the professor in charge of this test and the examiner in Seoul.
After the final exam, a man came out of nowhere and was being interviewed. I can’t believe that a man I’ve never seen before in this documentary is interviewed at such an important moment. The referee was a little dumbfounded.
However, what was even more absurd was the fact that the subtitles underneath read ‘Rusa Sherinan, martial arts professor at Central Academy.’
‘You may feel that the final exam is vicious. But shouldn’t you be called a hero if you can see through this much?’
‘But no one could see through it.’
The man shook his head a few times as if he felt sorry. Then, the stomach loosens and a beautiful elf with short orange hair appears.
The elf said.
‘… If that’s the case, then it means it’s not happening this time either.’
That’s how the interview ended.
A soju glass breaking with a clang sound.
At that sound, the referee returned to reality. The owner, who had been ignoring the referee until now, was finally looking at him.
Of course, he was a bit of a burdensome referee.
“cute… uh… No, not this.”
The owner immediately shook his head. Then he took a deep breath and asked again.
“you… you… “How did you detect my race?”
fantasy,
