Awakening

"He said not to do anything reckless."

"Do you not hear me?! She is the one who decided to go against my wishes and left the Palace willingly! If he asks, then just say that she tried to flee, but got caught in a trap and got killed. The animals would eat her body anyway, he wouldn't go as far to check on her." An innocently cruel smile rose in her face as Jiang Meng laughed, because she finally took out the sore thumb and disposed of it properly.

With her condition, Rui will never be able to save herself from this tragic fate!

"As you command." After a silence, the man seemed to be convinced as he spoke up and left in the shadows of the night once again.

'Goodbye, sister. I didn't wish to bid goodbye to you so soon. Alas! What a shame!'

Jiang Meng watched him leave with a cruel, yet satisfied smile on her face, leaving a delectable taste in her mouth that wouldn't fade easily. 

★★★

Rui left the Palace grounds behind as she sat in the car, closing the door by her side as she leaned back on her seat.

While she felt tired, her eyes roamed back to the high pillars of the Palace again, places where she left behind memories of her last life. And even this life.

"Hmm, I'm surprised to see that Jiangeng didn't try to pull anything yet…" Rui mumbled as she thought, because by now, news of her leaving the Palace may have already reached her ears. "But, whatever." 

Rui didn't have time to care for those unimportant people, because the matter in her hand right now was too significant to ignore other matters altogether. 

The car engine started as it slowly started to move. Rui pulled the car window up as she was finally alone.

"Now, shall we check what's going on?" Rui was prepared as she took in a deep breath.

"Status window." 

Two words came out of her mouth like a chant, and a screen flashed before her eyes which seemed to be only visible to her.

'No way, did it really?'

Everything that happened felt like a dream, yet at the same time, it wasn't. 

Rui was in awe after she saw the floating screen before her.

[Please complete your registration as a hunter, awakener.]

Rui was not in a hurry as she read through the screen. 

Now that she was free from the Royal Family, Rui finally had freedom to take a surname and even change to an entirely new name. 

In this timeline, Rui didn't want to use this name which made her past full of misfortune. So she changed her entire name and took on the surname of her real family. 

A strange satisfaction washed over her as she filled out her name and information on the non- visible status window.

Ding!

[Congratulations to the host for successfully registering as an Awakener!]

[Would you like to get started?]

[YES] [NO]

Ling Yu tapped yes, she wanted to take a look at her current conditions. 

[Awakener Ling Yu (S*)

Title : Drakkon]

S?

What does it mean?

I was a normal D class Awakener though?

Confused, Rui thought it through as she clicked the red dot showing up on top of the class.

[Potential : ???

Current Class : E ~ D

Due to the use of regression skill, the Awakener received a buff upgrade, which helped you to upgrade your class as well. However, the Awakener will go through other conditions as requirements for the next time of skill use.]

The details were simple, Rui also understood what it meant.

This is the buff I get for using the regression skill as a bonus?

That's amazing!

In the first place, Ling Yu wasn't convinced to take on a risk and use this ominous looking skill that she got as a dungeon reward.

In reality, it was not even her wish to raid a dungeon that was of a higher class than her. She, a mere D class with support skills, wasn't fit to raid a dungeon higher class than herself. Jiang Rong was supposed to raid this one as a hunter with high class Offense skills. 

He is also the one who dragged her into the dungeon despite not taking responsibility to protect her. 

Usually, hunters with support skills have lower class than hunters with defense skills. They remain at the back to help high class hunters by increasing their powers for a time limit, using buffs to overpower them so that they can safely and effectively kill the monsters and clear the dungeon. 

However, because Ling Yu also awakened her powers as a support, the Royal Family gained a powerbank free of cost and used her as they pleased, to the point of breaking down.

Just thinking of those times, Ling Yu felt nauseated.

Anyway, not only her class, but all her stats seemed to have evolved as well, which was good news.

In about two years, the world will go through some drastic changes, which deeply troubled humanity.

After going through some rigorous natural disasters, 'Gates' appeared all over the world one day. No one knew whatever was in it, but they gave off an ominous feeling. 

After six, seven months since its appearance, one day the red Gates broke, and monsters came pouring out, causing chaos within the world everywhere.

When people were on the verge of disaster, some people suddenly started to awaken powers along with the System's support, which they didn't know how to do. 

They eventually started to get called as Awakeners or simply, Monster Hunters.

They wielded great powers and began to subdue monsters and raid the Gates, closing down the dungeons one after another.

'Gates' appeared at any time, anywhere. No one knows when or where one can appear. 

But people quickly blended in and this became a part of their daily life, except for a group of people who started to be used in the name of the greater good of humanity.