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Awakening.

It was one of the contents in MePan. It was a system that breaks the growth limit inherent to each character, a content that was originally only accessible to those who reached a high level.

‘It feels like a kind of metamorphosis.’

Upon awakening, physical abilities are enhanced, and one can surpass the stat limits to acquire even higher stats.

‘To think it would happen now.’

As great as the effects are, one had to overcome numerous obstacles to achieve awakening.

There were countless prerequisite quests, and on top of that, one had to refine their body to the limit, and ultimately had to sacrifice a portion of the accumulated stats.

‘The most difficult part is refining the body to the limit.’

In other words, the meaning was that one had to max out all the stats they could raise in order to awaken.

‘Since I’m sickly due to Extinction, the limit of this body was extremely low to begin with.’

That meant the prerequisite conditions for awakening were already met.

‘And drinking the Elixir of Life helped too. No, wait a minute.’

-You have received the quest reward!

-You have received the enhanced heroic reward.

‘This isn’t just regular awakening.’

This was a reward.

A reward for perfectly clearing the fourth quest of Surviving as Ethan Whiskers.

‘Could it be that they’re giving awakening as a reward?’

Certainly, in terms of surviving against Extinction, there was nothing better than this awakening.

‘After awakening, physical abilities will be vastly improved, so even Extinction will be powerless against it.’

In a sense, it could be seen as an extremely effective method of countering Extinction.

‘Of course, awakening itself is difficult, but still.’

He was satisfied that he had secured a way to prevent sudden death from the disease.

“Are you alright!”

At Ditrinir’s sudden voice, Ethan nodded.

“It was worth the effort of taming you.”

“…What are you saying? Could it be you’ve gone mad from drinking the Elixir of Life?”

Ditrinir frowned.

“It might have been too potent a drug for a human.”

Ethan moved his body in various ways.

Swoosh.

As he drew out his two swords, Ditrinir flinched and was startled.

“Don’t be scared.”

“…I’m not scared.”

Shwing-!

Right there, Ethan consecutively unleashed Ethan Swordsmanship First Form and Second Form.

‘Indeed, there’s a different vitality coursing through my body.’

His physical condition was different from before. Of course, it wasn’t a dramatic change, but he could clearly feel it.

‘My physical condition has improved a bit.’

Ethan then summoned Lyuka.

“Kyung! Kyuung!”

The summoned Lyuka, as if delighted, started running around in various directions. But upon seeing the massive black dragon Ditrinir, it howled warily.

“To command an ancient spirit… Just who are you…”

Ditrinir immediately recognized Lyuka’s identity.

Knowing well how formidable an ancient spirit was, Ditrinir’s eyes were filled with increasing suspicion as he looked back and forth between Ethan and Lyuka.

“How can a human make a contract with the fickle ancient spirits? They would never willingly contract with a human…”

“Kyang!”

Lyuka howled at Ditrinir.

“Are you the only one who came to find me? Hmph, judging by that, you seem to be the successor Master of Mana from the previous generation. In that case, you must have been at the very top of the spirit hierarchy.”

Ditrinir looked at Ethan with a startled gaze.

“You climbed to the top of the spirit hierarchy?”

“It was tough.”

Ethan’s casual response made Ditrinir unconsciously touch his own wound area.

This human was a monster.

“If you didn’t have that disease…”

He grumbled with a deep frown.

‘That’s a meaningless speculation.’

Ethan brushed off Ditrinir’s words without much concern.

What’s already happened doesn’t need to be worried about.

What’s important is always deciding how to proceed forward.

Ethan first received mana from Lyuka.

“Kyung!”

Whoosh-.

The amount of mana transmitted from Lyuka had increased slightly compared to before.

‘I can definitely feel it. Although slight, the amount of mana received has increased.’

Lyuka seemed to feel it too, as it happily circled around Ethan.

Ethan swung his swords, channeling the mana received from Lyuka.

Shwing-!

Rumble-!

Torrents of lightning and frost.

Ethan’s swords created a large crack in the walls of the lair.

-Survival probability has increased due to the awakening!

-Current survival probability: 18 percent

-The next main quest will be unlocked when survival probability reaches 20 percent.

“Hm.”

Ethan smiled.

The effects of the awakening were clear.

It had at least solved one of Ethan’s weaknesses, the physical problem, so Ethan was quite satisfied.

‘For now, I don’t need to worry about the Surviving as Ethan Whiskers quest until I raise the survival probability higher.’

He had effectively blocked the possibility of sudden death through the awakening.

But Ethan did not let his guard down.

‘The sickness has not been completely cured, even though the risk of sudden death is gone.’

Just because he had acquired numerous defensive techniques and now awakened, letting his guard down would create vulnerabilities that Extinction could exploit.

‘Extinction is remarkably adept at targeting those vulnerabilities.’

So he must not relax his vigilance.

‘It’s better to over-prepare, so I can handle any excessive situation that may arise.’

Having obtained what he needed, Ethan promptly left Ditrinir’s lair. As Ethan was about to leave without looking back, Ditrinir was rather taken aback.

“Are you just leaving?”

“Why? Do you want me to take you along? The taming is broken anyway. I can’t tame you with my current skills.”

‘Though, if I raise the proficiency more, I might be able to.’

With the Elixir of Life secured, there was no need to painstakingly tame Ditrinir.

“That’s not it.”

Ditrinir huffed, as if questioning Ethan’s view of him.

“The Elixir of Life alone isn’t enough. Since you cured my long-standing illness, you must receive proper compensation for that.”

Ditrinir took out something small from among the numerous treasures in the lair.

“Oh.”

Ethan immediately recognized the item.

“It’s a summoning stone.”

“That’s right.”

A summoning stone.

Literally, a gem that can summon something.

“I will grant you two chances to summon me. Whenever you need my power, summon me. I will provide assistance in any situation.”

It was a reward that Ethan had no reason to refuse.

“This seems fair enough. Alright, Ditrinir. See you later.”

Ethan answered and took his leave.

Watching his retreating figure, Ditrinir frowned.

“Hmph, trying to tame me, that’s a hundred years too early. But… perhaps that Ethan Whiskers might be a bit different.”

***

“Hm?”

King of the Underworld Hades.

He was taking a stroll with his beasts when he received a New World subscriber notification.

“Who subscribed? I don’t usually get many comments either.”

Hades’ channel was essentially a space to record Hades’ hobbies. Only Hades’ hobby videos were uploaded, so there were not many viewers.

His recent project was making goods, and those goods were also motifs of Cerberus and other beasts.

“Oh.”

Hades made a surprised expression after checking the comment.

He wasn’t exactly keeping up with the happenings in New World, but he wasn’t completely ignoring the news either.

“The famous [Only subscribed to the right gods] subscriber has subscribed to me.”

The famous subscriber subscribing to him. Hades felt strangely pleased.

“Ah, then Cerberus must have seen it too.”

As Hades read the comment happily, his expression gradually grew serious.

He had thought the comment from the famous subscriber would be a review or a video made after the subscription.

But the main content was not that.

“To introduce our Cerberus to more subscribers…?”

Ethan’s proposal was extremely appealing to Hades.

“I’m just dying to show how smart Cerberus is. And I’d like to share the proper way of raising beasts too.”

Hades suddenly imagined it.

Countless subscribers leaving comments saying how cute Cerberus is.

“I have to do this!”

***

Entrance to Dragon’s Hill.

The guard was standing with his arms crossed, frowning deeply.

Trembling his legs and gnawing on his nails repeatedly.

“Surely he couldn’t have died. No, even so, catching a dragon alone is just…”

“Why are you being so restless?”

The other guard scolded the agitated one.

“You shouldn’t believe it.”

“What’s going on? Did someone go into the forest alone to catch a dragon or something?”

“…”

“What is it? If you just clam up, how will I know what’s going on? Are you saying someone really went into the forest alone to catch a dragon?”

“…Yes.”

“Goodness, knowing full well they’d die, you still let them in?”

“Ahem…”

The guard sighed. Then someone knocked on the door.

“Hm?”

The sound came from the inner door. Knocking on this door meant the one who had gone into the forest had come back out.

The guard hurriedly ran to open the door.

“I had a great time here. Well then, I’ll be going.”

Ethan, who had come out of the forest, was about to leave right away.

Seeing Ethan’s seemingly unharmed appearance, the fellow guard muttered.

“He just came back, didn’t he?”

But the guard who had escorted Ethan did not think Ethan would have just come back out.

“Excuse me, this may be an impolite question, but… did you accomplish what you wanted?”

Ethan glanced at the guard and then took something out of his pocket and tossed it over.

The dazed guard who received the object looked at it and his hands started trembling.

“What? What did he toss… Urgh!”

In his hand was a scale of the black dragon Ditrinir.

“So he really did meet Ditrinir…”

The two guards couldn’t close their mouths for a long time.

***

Ivecar Academy.

“It’s been a while.”

It wasn’t a very long trip, but with so many things happening, it felt like he had been away for a long time.

“Oh! Teacher Ethan!”

“Teacher Ethan has arrived as well.”

The teachers who had arrived earlier were lined up.

The Knight Department Dean checked off a parchment after confirming Ethan.

Ethan seemed to be the last to arrive. Normally, the newest teacher shouldn’t be the last, but no one pointed that out to Ethan.

“Alright, that’s everyone. We’ll depart right away. As you know, the training site this time will be overseen by a well-known figure.”

Everyone’s gaze turned to Ciron Ramsdale.

“We’re going to Ramsdale territory to receive the education led by Sword Saint Zed Ramsdale.”

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