17 – Rebellion-1
While I was walking after praying for Sahyun’s soul, Wolha came up to me and opened her mouth.
“Can I ask you one favor, knight?”
“What is your request?”
“There will be a light rebellion in the underworld in the near future. Can I ask for my escort?”
“Rebellion?”
The modifier light did not suit the word rebellion at all. Mild rebellion, does this make sense?
“Even if it’s a rebellion, I’m the instigator. I led the atmosphere to weed out those who have animosity against me, so it won’t be too dangerous.”
“Can I help you too?”
“Is the captain of the guard trying to intervene in affairs in the underworld? We’ll take care of our business.”
“Then why are you asking your brother for help?”
“That’s right, the knight is my knight.”
Ha Yeon-i continued talking with a sullen expression.
It seemed that he didn’t like the fact that I was escorting Wolha.
“Your brother is a non-awakened person. Does it make sense to escort you?”
“Of course it makes sense. Among the forces that rebel against me, there is no A-class Awakener. No matter how many Awoken people below B-class try, I can deal with them all with my powers and knight-sama’s fighting skills.”
“How big is the rebellion?”
“The entire underworld will be engulfed in rebellion.”
Wolha’s face stiffened at the sight of Wolha talking as if it was nothing. You say so calmly that the entire underworld is engulfed in rebellion?
Wolha’s position as the ruler of the underworld began to approach heavily.
“Maybe the entire underworld will be a piece of shit for about a week. They’re not hard to step on, but it’s going to take a while because there are so many of them.”
“What about the people who live in the dark?”
“Maybe a lot will die, right? But I think it will end in the line where hundreds of people die.”
There was no trace of guilt on his face. He felt no remorse, as if hundreds of people were just numbers.
“It takes a while to think that the population of the underworld will decrease, but it’s a plan worth the damage.”
Yes, this must be the way Wolha lives.
Since he is a person on the highest level of the underworld, this kind of calmness is a basic skill.
I could understand it with my head, but my mouth was bitter. I wonder if Ha-yeon thinks like this?
I glanced at Ha-yeon, but she didn’t seem to notice my gaze as she was looking at Wol-ha with a winning expression.
“Knight?”
“So what should I do?”
“I need you to guard me 24 hours a day.”
“That’s no good! Why are you trying to monopolize your older brother?”
“Ha-yeon? You’ve been doing it since before, but our contract includes putting names on each other’s names, right?”
“That doesn’t matter now!”
“You can go with Ha-yeon 24 hours a day. I don’t understand why you call this a monopoly.”
I felt like my mind was exploding.
The conversation between the two seemed pretty and cute until now, but for some reason I didn’t want to hear it anymore.
I quickly cut off the two of them.
“Can you tell me where my weapon is?”
Even though my waist was empty, it was a building under the moon, and I didn’t feel the need because there were A-class Awakeners and S-class Awakeners next to me, so I just went there, but now that I’m in charge of escorting, it’s a different story. Prepare for a battle you never know when it will happen.
“I told you to bring it to your room, but there is no need to prepare it already?
“No. I have to make sure the work is done.”
When I moved to the room I woke up in the morning, my soldiers were neatly placed.
“Brother, since monsters aren’t your opponent, do you really need to bring a pistol?”
“Because I feel reassured.”
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Normal pistols cannot damage the Awoken. After the cataclysm, firearms that used general bullets disappeared and only magic-based firearms remained, and commercially available monster bullets could not inflict a single scratch on the body of an awakened person.
This was the same for F-class Awakeners who could only strengthen their bodies with mana in their bodies, and also for Awoken who were incapacitated by the power of the moon.
“Well, if you’re a knight, you’ll be able to use a pistol without bullets. First of all, it’s a heavy blunt weapon.”
“Yeah. If the knife gets smashed, you’ll have to swing at least a gun.”
He said something he didn’t mean to and mounted his weapon on his waist.
“And can I get some information about the enemy? You can’t just send an escort and fight without any information about the opponent, right?”
“Ten years ago, you fought well, right?”
As I was looking at him with a solemn expression, Wolha pouted.
“Okay. I’ll tell you.”
“If we’re going to keep talking about work, can I visit the kids? I have a lot to say and I can teach them how to fight well.”
“Yes, you may go.”
Ha-yeon didn’t feel too anxious and quickly disappeared, leaving Wol-ha and me alone.
I was curious about what kind of contract there was between the two, but it wasn’t something I needed to focus on right now.
I carved the information about the enemy Wolha said into my ears.
***
How strong is the Awoken? If you ask me, I’d say you have to think differently depending on your rank.
The rank of the Awakener is basically in the form of a staircase. Even the weakest at E can easily beat the strongest at F.
Different levels of Awakeners mean that their ‘personality’ is different.
F-class Awakeners can strengthen their bodies with the magic within their bodies. However, it is not possible to manipulate it at will, so in fact there is no big difference from a non-awakened person who has a lot of physical abilities. Therefore, very few non-Awakeners can catch Awoken. How sure? ‘Cause I’ve been caught
From E class, it can be excreted outside the body to strengthen certain parts. I’ve heard that Ahri’s level is exactly that level, and depending on how she trains, she can wear weapons other than her body, but it’s not a stage with a big personality.
From D-class, there is something called personality. Each individual’s personality, such as generating a small static electricity or specializing in speeding up, gradually emerges.
Awakeners who are around D-class have strong magical powers, so even if they are at this level, they are welcome wherever they go.
Starting from C-class, you have a distinct personality that can be called an ability. It has specific abilities such as lighting fire from its hands or creating fireballs from fantasy novels.
It is different for each city, but in the case of the Sun Guild, indulgence is included in the treatment of C-class talent. Big sins are not forgiven, but light sins are forgiven. Even if they commit serious crimes such as murder or rape, they end up with a pay cut and probation. That’s what it means to be a highly skilled workforce.
When you reach B-class, the range of motion of your abilities widens. I can use my abilities in various ways, but since I didn’t meet people with B-level skills, I only heard about them. The man Ha-yeon beat yesterday is probably a B-class Awakener.
Class A is different from class B or lower. If you don’t become equal or higher, you will have a powerful authority that can never be interfered with.
Considering that he was able to prevent all awakened people within a certain range from using their abilities even though he had weak magical powers and was not good at using his powers when he was young, it would be predictable how absolute his powers would be.
S class… . I do not know. There was no widely known information, and there was nothing known about it except that he had extremely strong magical powers and was good at using powers.
There were only 3 S-class Awakeners I saw, including Ha-yeon, and I didn’t have a chance to see them properly. If you ask Ha-yeon, she’ll tell you, but unfortunately, she’s not around right now.
So why am I saying this now… .
“Three B-class people and 12 C-class people? Isn’t that enough for you to destroy all of Moonha by yourself?”
I thought there was a Class A Awakener because they said they needed my escort. No matter how many B- and C-classes come in, all of them will be neutralized by Moonha’s ability, so will I be necessary?
It was only when he was young that he was able to help because of his weak magical power, but now he possesses powerful magical power worthy of an A-rank. If I neutralized it and swept it once with mana, it would all be sorted out, but I didn’t know why I needed it.
“That’s true, but being protected by the knight reminds me of the past and I think it would be nice.”
“… Haa, anyway, you think they’ll come together on the first day, right?”
“Yes, they’re idiots who don’t know the difference between ranks, so they’ll attack with the idea that I’ll take care of them first.”
thank god. If I had been slower than Wolha, I would have been worried that the number of victims would increase.
“It’s an easy job, just cut your hair and organize the small things. It was difficult to work to make a justification, but the fight itself will flow easily. The knight only needs to work hard on the first day.”
Wolha’s confident words calmed her mind to some extent. I forcibly denied that I felt as if some unknown anxiety was stabbing me in the back of my neck.
‘Nothing will happen.’
I’m sure you feel this anxiety because you’re worried about the citizens of the underworld who will be harmed by the machinations of the high-ranking person.