Chapter 12: When in trouble call the mc
Now I get it how he lost control...
Negative emotions.
That had to be it. The trigger for his second awakening. Dungeons are filled to the brim with negative energy. Especially an S-Class dungeon—for someone who only just learned to contain this energy, it was like throwing a newborn baby in the ocean expecting him to swim his way out when the outcome was obvious from the start. He would drown.
Cheon Areum must’ve known about this. Did he take the risk for the money then? Going from an F-Class healer to an S-Class didn’t change his status from poor to rich overnight. He had to still clear a gate to earn the money, and the highest paying gate was an emergency S-Class gate.
S-Class gates....
All gates from F-Class to S-Class are considered government property. When a gate opens, the government assigns it to an officially registered guild within minutes. Once a guild is registered, it cannot refuse the gates it is assigned. The guild is then responsible for clearing the gate within three days—the critical window before a gate breaks and unleashes catastrophic damage on the area or city.
The government pays the guild for gate clearance. If the guild lacks the manpower or ability to handle a gate—especially in the case of higher-class gates—they can use that payment to hire freelance awakeners or collaborate with other guilds. In extreme cases, such as an unexpected S-Class gate, the guild can request government assistance. In those situations, the government can dispatch any high-class awakener to help stabilize or clear the gate.
Cheon Areum had yet to join a guild. As an unadopted awakener, he couldn’t decline formally. He could still just say no straight up to them. The government would have succumbed to an S-Class anyway, like they did with Yoon Seoyul—but he didn’t. He took it as his chance to clear the gate and make dough.
The sudden outbreak of S-Class gates hadn’t happened yet. Cheon Areum had his second awakening on the second day of the revolt. The timing wasn’t right. When Yoon Seoyul had his awakening, the notification had popped up as:
[The system has awakened you.]
All S-Class awakeners received the same notification according to the book. S-Classes—the only class personally chosen by the system. Cheon Areum’s notification should look similar to it.