[04:00 PM]

“Good, I am ready.”

Bam––!

I closed the book and put it back in my bag.

After reading the book for three hours, I understood how to enhance an item. The theory was easy; I just needed to infuse a specific attribute of Mana into the item while sprinkling the Enhancement Dust on top of it while thinking of the effect that I wanted to put in the item.

It sounded simple, but turning Mana into a specific attribute and infusing it into an item was more complicated than it sounded.

While enchanting, not only did I need to make sure I infused the Mana correctly, I needed to be careful not to destroy the item. After that… it was left to Luck. Whether it would succeed or not, Luck was the important decision.

That was why having S-Rank Luck on top of S-Rank Talent in Enhancement was a broken combination.

Now, I needed to try enhancing the Faker’s Earring.

After putting the Faker’s Earring on the desk, I took the Enhancement Dust that was placed inside a leather bag out of my magic bag.

The Enhancement Dust was purplish-white; it looked beautiful. However, it was expensive, so I couldn’t waste it.

“Hmm, I need to infuse Null Attribute Mana to Faker’s Earring, then sprinkle the Enhancement Dust at the same time.”

I infused the Faker’s Earring with Mana through my left hand while pinching a few bits of Enhancement Dust. Only around 1g of Dust was needed for an item as small as the Faker’s Earring.

Because the Mana attribute that I used was null-attribute, the process was fast. Each Awakener only had a specific attribute that they could use. However, with my Talent in Magic and Enhancement…

“I could use all attributes with no problem.”

My Mana seeped into the Faker’s Earring as I thought about the effect I wanted to put into it while sprinkling the Enhancement Dust.

As soon as the dust made contact with Faker’s Earring, it glowed a faint blue light and absorbed the dust._-.

[Your Luck has miraculously helped in the enhancement.]

[Faker’s Earring enhancement successful. The effect of the enhancement has been amplified.]

[Faker’s Earring turned into Faker’s Earring +1]

A few seconds passed before the light disappeared, and I looked at the Faker’s Earring description again.

_____

[Faker’s Earring +1]

[Null Attribute]

Enhanced by Vincent Dihart

Effect:

– Status Camouflage

You can freely customize your status.

_____

I smiled at the effect of the Earring.

At first, I just wanted to add the effect to hide one of my Talents, but… the enhancement turned out better than I had expected.

The effect of the earring became camouflaging my status, and I could even customize my status. My name was even written on the item description, which meant the system recognized that I was the one who did the enhancement.

After knowing that I was better than I thought, I then took out the mask that I had bought from Park Injun from my magic bag.

“Let’s continue,” I muttered as I licked my lips.

***

[25 March 2023, 12:30 PM]

[Awakener Association’s Building]

Not only were newly awakened people gathering in the lobby, but some guild officials were also waiting to recruit new talents to their ranks.

One of the guild officials belonged to Sacred Relic, the number one guild in the world. She was a beautiful lady called Rosa, and now she was looking around under her sunglasses. She then noticed another guild official approached her from a distance.

The man who approached her was a bulky man and waved his hand to her with a smile. “Look who we have here, Rosa from the Sacred Relic.”

“Jonathan…” Grumbled Rosa.

He was a guild official from Street Road, the rival guild of Sacred Relic as well as the second-ranked guild.

“It’s rare for the Sacred Relic to be spotted here. Is there any newbie that catches your eyes?” Jonathan asked curiously as he looked around the lobby.

They were standing out because of their suit and sunglasses, and the newly Awakeners had spotted them already.

“No, there is no one special among them.” Answered Rosa calmly.

The newbies, those who had just registered to get their awakener ID, were nothing special. At best, they only had D or C Rank Talents, and none of them were as powerful as Swordsmanship and Magic.

“Is that so? The newbies today are so different from ten years ago.” he stated with a lonely smile.

“Right. It’s so different from our times.” Added Rosa.

They had been active as an awakener for ten years, and now they had retired for some reason and became guild officials as a recruiter.

Rosa then looked at Jonathan curiously, “How about you? Did you find some talents for your guild?”

“Meh, nothing so far. I got one newbie with B-Rank Talent in Gunmanship though.” Jonathan smirked at Rosa as if he had won a competition against her.

“What?!”

Rosa was surprised when she heard Jonathan. Gunmanship Talent was a rare talent among the newbies. Right now, guns were the most popular weapon that Awakener used. With technology and magic combined, researchers managed to make a Magic Gun that shot Mana instead of a physical bullet.

The destructive power of the gun depended on the amount of Mana that an Awakener held, but without the Talent to use the gun, an Awakener wouldn’t be able to shoot accurately.

That was why Awakeners with Gunmanship Talent were coveted by Guilds as sharpshooters. Archery Talent was also coveted, but because mastering Archery was more difficult than mastering a gun that only needed to pull a trigger to shoot, most Guilds chose a Gunner over an Archer.

However, Archers who had achieved a certain point of Archery were more destructive than a Gunner, but those Archers were so rare that only one woman had achieved that level of skill.

That archer in question was called Robin, an Awakener with A-Rank Archery Talent who was affiliated with the Association.

“Are you serious, Jonathan?”

“Of course. I am here to accompany him to get his ID. Oh, he’s there. Just look at his Talent.”

Jonathan pointed at a young man who was talking with the receptionist to get his name and his Talent checked with an artifact recovered from a Tower. Rosa looked at the boy and waited.

There was a big screen above the receptionist’s table that showed an Awakener’s Talent after they put their hand on the said artifact.

When the young man put his hand on the artifact, the screen changed.

There were words written on the screen.

—–

Paul Marino

Gunmanship (B)

Mana Manipulation (C)

Boxing (D)

—–

A B-Rank Gunmanship Talent, along with two other common Talents, appeared on the screen, and it caused a stir among the people who watched it.

“Woah! That guy will enter the big guild for sure!”

“I envy him! How could he have B-Rank Talent in Gunmanship?! That’s a guaranteed success in life!”

They made a fuss among themselves, and only one person in a hoodie was calm.

Rosa couldn’t hide her jealousy either.

Jonathan noticed that and patted her shoulder.

“Don’t mind it. I believe you will find a good newbie later.”

He then walked over to Paul and waved his hand at him.

Paul, who had received his ID, met up with Jonathan, and they left the lobby under the jealous gaze of the newbies.

The process of receiving the ID was simple like that. Rosa leaned her back against the wall and let out a tired sigh.

“Haa––”

She was not lucky enough to meet Paul faster. If she had met him earlier, then she would have given Paul a better condition if she joined Sacred Relic.

“Well, there is nothing I can do. I just need to wait here like usual and hope that there will at least be someone with B-Rank Talent.”

Rosa then focused on the receptionist’s counter back. This time, someone with a hoodie stood in front of the receptionist. Rosa recognized him from earlier; after all, he was the only one who had no reaction to Paul’s Talent.

“Hmm, what kind of Talents does he have to be able to stay calm when he sees B-Rank Gunmanship Talent?”

Rosa was a bit curious about the man, and so she watched over him carefully.

She couldn’t see his face from her position, but he was clearly a man because of how he dressed. She then saw him move his hand on top of the artifact, and then his Talents were displayed.

—–

Rai

– Sharpshooting (S)

– Magic (A)

– Swordsmanship (A)

—–

When his Talents were displayed, the lobby turned silent all of a sudden.

S-Rank Talent. That was something beyond rare; it was something that was considered a legend.

Not only that, it was Sharpshooting Talent which was even rarer than Gunmanship Talent. Because Sharpshooting Talent meant he could wield a Gun or Bow with no problem.

His other Talents were also good. He was a gem that needed to be recruited.

Rosa’s mouth fell, but she quickly recovered. She paced toward the man named Rai in front of the receptionist and called out to him.

“Hey! Do you want to join the Sacred Relic Guild?”