Learn Martial Arts

There was a little cash in the wallet, and fortunately the card didn't stop. The phone was out of battery, so I went to a local dealership five years ago to buy a new phone. There was also a lot of money saved anyway, and cell phones were essential to live in modern times.

While I was waiting for my new phone to open, I ate sugar at a noodle house nearby. Although the monumental first in modern times, Baek Hyun was fond of sugar.

Upon returning from the meal, my phone was open. Baek Hyun left the dealership and walked around aimlessly and entered the mobile internet page. It was a new sensation that I enjoyed the triumph of civilization that I had forgotten at the Monastery.

“Seo Min-guk...”

I searched for a friend's name. Baek Hyun stared at the profile of his mouth. Photos taken with a cool smile. The name and date of birth, height and weight written under it. None of your guilds... Looking at a string of related queries, Baek Hyun laughs in vain.

“Son of a bitch, you made it. ”

Baek Hyun muttered and searched for the location of Abyss, who appeared four years ago, scattered all over the world, and was located on the Huacheon side of Gangwon, Korea.

‘Hwacheon... I've never been there before. Do I have to run?’

Abyss doesn't refuse incoming people. But secondly, it doesn't matter, but when you first enter Abyss, you must go where Abyss is. I searched for how to go to Abyss without thinking much.

There was a bus going. That was pretty much it, too. At thirty minutes there was a one-way bus running from the terminal and even a night bus.

“Let's take the bus. ”

It's a place I've never been. Rather than riding a bus, he thought it would be quicker to turn on the map app and open his eyes, but Baek Hyun calmly grabbed a taxi and headed to the East Seoul Terminal. He returned in 20 years, so he wanted to win over civilization.

I got on the fastest time bus, sat on the window and looked through my phone. I didn't know anything, so I had to search for it and put it in my head. Abyss does not reject incoming people, but there is an Abyss Administration around the world. The first person to enter Abyss must stop by the Administration before entering Abyss and report the entry to Abyss.

‘All I need is an ID, that's all. ’

What Baek Hyun felt was curious was how to enter Abyss. In fact, Baek Hyun imagined jumping into that big hole, but it wasn't that kind of ignorance.

‘Seeing Abyss. ’

That was the way to get into Abyss. If you look at that hole deeply, it feels like you're just sucking it in somewhere... and you want to go, you move into the Abyss naturally.

‘Tutorials.’

The first to enter Abyss, everyone will proceed to the tutorial without exception. The content of the tutorial is to move forward in the fight against monsters that appear randomly. Depending on how you proceed with the tutorial, you can be selected by Abyss' 13 Monarchs. Of course, not everyone is chosen by the monarch. If you run the tutorial miserably, you may not receive any monarch's choice.

Moreover, the choice of monarch does not mean that everyone is the same. Do you simply receive 'choice’ or part of 'power’? If you succeed in getting some of the power, life really changes.

And there's only one chance in the tutorial. The monarch chosen there can never be changed.

‘This is like the job of an RPG game. ’

Baek Hyun smiled and thought, Because of that, the Internet was overflowing with tips for shooting the monarch that he wanted, and he was selling relevant Internet lectures or references. Even the best-selling of the books was Drave's first "apostle," the most famous of the American hunters, as well as his autobiography, "The Minor Servants of Pure St.". Upon curiosity, I read this autobiography and was filled with reviews that allowed me to shoot "Pure St." in the tutorial.

“... Thirteen monarchs...”

Baek Hyun murmured as he looked out the window. Since I first heard about Abyss from Levi, I've wondered what the 13 monarchs who govern Abyss really are.

After Abyss appeared in the world, the people of the world wondered what Abyss was, why he appeared in the world, and why he poured out monsters at the end of every month. The 13 monarchs who ruled Abyss used dragons to find out why they empowered those who came to Abyss.

However, despite four years of time, there was little to find out about Abyss. 13 The monarchs were still unknown, and it was not even clear why they empowered humans, why Abyss appeared in this world, or why monsters spilled out.

“Hmmm.”

Following the sound of a cough next to him, Baek Hyun turns his head.

“Oh, hello. ”

“What is it?”

“No, just... let's talk on the way. ”

A man in horned glasses smiled at Baek Hyun. I think I heard Baek Hyun murmuring.

“How old are you? ”

“Uh... so... twenty-six. ”

“Yeah? And now you're going to Abyss? ”

The horn glasses look a little surprised.

“I'm only twenty years old. I haven't been able to get in since I was 20 years old because of the fucking Abyss Act, and I'm going to try to get in. ”

I grumbled as the horn didn't even ask.

“Who are you going to contract with? I want to make a deal with Tempest. It's really cool. Right?”

“Oh, yes. ”

“I've looked for Tempest sniper tips and lectures. If I had the power, I wouldn't even have to pay for this bus. ”

“If you don't get on the bus, take something. ”

“I'm going to be riding a lot. Whether you're riding a supercar or hiring a personal knight... which star hunter was it? Some people set up villas near Aye Abyss and party solidarity at the villa every time a monster comes out at the end of the day. There's a swimming pool... oh, some people buy helicopters and fly to Abyss at the end of the day. Doesn't that sound a little overrated? It's worth a fortune. ”

Baek Hyun looks at the horn with a big face. Seeing Baek Hyun, who had no answer, he asked with an awkward laugh.

“... but you haven't been in Abyss until now. What did you do? ”

“Just like that.”

“... what do you want, monarch? ”

“Nothing.”

“... is it just good for anyone? ”

“Grow up. ”

Baek Hyun grumbled small. At the end of the speech, the horn's head fell down. He bounced his finger without even moving his hand, ignoring the blood of the horn. Baek Hyun looks down at his cell phone again as he leans on the horn of a new sleeper.

“Quiet now. ”

The bus ran towards the Abyss Exit in Huangcheon while putting the information needed by Baek Hyun into his head.

After more than two hours, the bus arrived at the Abyss Entrance in Huangcheon.

Abyss is a huge hole 5 kilometers in diameter. The Abyss Administration surrounded a few layers of high walls just outside of Abyss. It evoked an enormously high dome at first glance. Abyss Entrance was inside that wall.

“Baek Hyun. 26 years old. ”

Abyss Administration staff beyond the counter look up and down at Baek Hyun with a blunt face.

“What have you done since you've never been in Abyss? ”

“I'm busy.”

“Yes?”

It's been four years since Abyss appeared. It is a place where anyone can enter even without special abilities, and in the tutorial, monsters will resurrect even if they die. That's why it was quite unusual to first enter Abyss at the age of 26.

“The army didn't come and go... I hope so. Abyss got the conscription abolished. ”

“I had a good time. ”

Baek Hyun muttered like that and received identification and documents from an employee. The paperwork contained simple human details and psychological examinations.

“Do I have to do this? ”

“You have to know what kind of person goes in. Abyss got into a car accident. I don't know, but it hurts when you crash outside. I'm trying to prevent that from happening. I don't know if it works. ”

Baek Hyun wrote a psychological examination honestly in his own way.

“Have you ever felt a strange urge? ”

“What impulse? ”

“I want to kill a passing man. A man looks like a monster. ”

“Nothing.”

“Abyss is a place where common sense doesn't work. It's full of real monsters, not CG. It's not just in the tutorial that you die, but behind the tutorial, you really die. ”

“I looked it up, too. ”

“I'm not in yet, so I'm going to tell you that you can choose not to. Do you know how many people go in and die, Abyss? There's no one else to work for, because they're all in Abyss for nothing...”

“If you want to go in, you go in. ”

“... but that's it. TV or something like that only illuminates people who go in and out of Abyss. Actually, it's not. More than half of the people who went in and started hunting Abyss couldn't even earn fifty dollars a month. I'm wasting my time and my life dreaming of Seo Min-kik, Park Joon-hwan, and Su-yeon. ”

Baek Hyun continued to move the pen as he listened to the employee.

“... I'm not saying that challenging is a waste of time. Every last day of the month, monsters keep popping out, and I can't guarantee that the good hunters will still be alive. So there must be a steady successor... but Baek Hyun seems to be older...”

“I'm not all old, I'm 26 years old. ”

“There are a lot of kids going in instead of Baek Hyun. ”

“There's a lot of kids going in instead of me, but there's no one like me. ”

Baek Hyun replied and handed over all the written documents.

“It's over, isn't it? ”

“... uh... yes. ”

Upon hearing the employee's trembling answer, Baek Hyun raised his body.

I took the elevator to the entrance floor. There, the first people to enter Abyss, after finishing their fast as Baek Hyun, stood with a tense expression.

“Please, please Tempest...”

“Pure St.... pure St....”

People swallowed up tension whilst muttering the monarchist tinnitus they wanted. Some people even looked at the reference book, the autobiography, the cell phone with their eyes open. The tutorial is done once. In other words, this is the first and last opportunity.

Baek Hyun didn't care. He walks quietly past people. In so doing, Baek Hyun stood in front of a huge glass wall that people ‘didn't want to see'.

Beyond the glass wall.

There was a huge abyss that suddenly appeared in the world four years ago.

The tall walls are built to prevent monsters from coming out at the end of each month. Of course, this wall was not attached to Abyss. Baek Hyun looked down. There was quite a lot of free space between Abyss and the wall. When a monster pops out of Abyss, the hunters waiting down there kill it. Not only Korea, but the whole world has been doing so for four years.

In the early days of Abyss' emergence and the spill of monsters, it was said that the army and modern weapons were fighting monsters, not hunters. However, as the number of hunters gained power from Abyss increased, fighting monsters became the hunter's share, not the army's. Army groups and weapons cost a lot of money just to move and use, but Hunter was relatively inexpensive.

You should make some money. ’

Seo Min-sik paid for the hospital for five years. I didn't mean to be a friend. I intend to pay you back for everything.

There is a reason why people walk into Abyss with their lives at stake. After all, it's money.

“... self. ”

Baek Hyun took a deep breath once and looked at Abyss.

“Let's go.”

Armed with interest and curiosity, without tension or fear. Baek Hyun headed inside of Abyss.

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