Realizing the train had already departed, I sat down quietly, sighed, and before I could go mad from the millennia of time that lay ahead,
I opened my status window to check myself, verified the name on my ID and the name in the status window, and confirmed my yet-to-be-revealed name in this place.
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Name: Tetiras - Machia
Gender: Male
Privileges: [ Immortality ( C ) ], [ Limit Break ( S ) ], [ Transcendent Body ( B ) ], [ Egoist ( A ) ],
[ Immortal Existence ( EX ) ], [ Indomitable ( C ) ], [ Madness ( A ) ], [ Adaptation ( A ) ]
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Stats
Strength: B - B / Stamina: B - B
Intelligence: D / Technique: B - B
Endurance: C - C / Mental Strength: S - C
[ Indomitable - Endurance Mental Strength ] / [ Transcendent Body - Strength Stamina Endurance Technique ]
( Stat correction effects applied )
- Evaluation: [ Don't labor under the delusion that you're strong. Let your guard down and you're dead. ]
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My name in this place was 'Tetiras Machia', abbreviated as 'Ras'.
After confirming his name, Ras, knowing he couldn't die inside the Warp Train and that time didn't pass, began to employ his specialty—sleeping anywhere—and with the help of his 'Privileges', closed his eyes and fell into a deep slumber.
Ras slept fitfully until he was hit by some unidentified object flying towards him.
- Thud....!!
Hit by the unknown object, Ras woke up and looked around. What he saw were...
Creatures that looked like monsters, insane beings, and a madman acting out a feudal system in his madness...
Finally, what he saw was a raving lunatic charging straight at him....
- Die!!!!!!!
Seeing the man charging at him, I dodged lightly, aided by the stat correction from my Transcendent Body. But sensing the severity of the surrounding environment,
- { ' Indomitable ' resonates with ' Madness '!! }
- { Temporarily acquired 'City-like Thinking' }
I acquired City-like Thinking, and immediately thought, 'Well, that figures.' But...
- Bang!!! Grraaaaa!!!!!!
Seeing the madman, who looked far stronger than me, charging, I paused my thoughts for a moment and tried to enter a combat stance... but... his fist was already in front of my face, and hit by that fist, I....
- Splurch!
...had my head blown apart... Just as the status evaluation warned, I had been under the delusion that I was somewhat strong, and failed to dodge the fist right in front of me.
Ras was, after all, nothing but a living sandbag with good physical specs and zero combat experience...
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Shortly after Ras's head was blown apart... the Cleanup Crew...
W Corp's Cleanup Crew entered the train interior today as well, to restore the bodies of all the already-deceased passengers using W Corp's true Singularity, Phenomenon Reversion, killing the visible madmen inside the train, and preparing for the usual upcoming battle by going deeper inside, but...
Strangely, there wasn't a single living person inside the train.
Not a single insane madman or monstrous creature was inside the train.
And the rookie, sensing something ominous about the situation, became frightened...
- Senior... something feels off... Can we not do this a little later??
But the seniors teased the rookie for being a coward and went inside.
Just as they were gathering all the body parts of the already torn-apart mad humans, collecting every last blood vessel,
- Bang!!!!
An explosion sound came from somewhere. Everyone hurried there with their weapons, but what they saw was the train car door shattered to pieces, the corpse of the rookie who had died horribly with his head blown apart, and a mad monster watching the agents from that spot...
- Grrrrrrrrrrrrr...{KRRRRRRRR...}
The monster was like something out of a comic or novel, a creature that seemed like a mix of a Mad Dog and a Mad Dragon. If one were to name it, based on its ferocious appearance—a blend of a savage hound and a vicious dragon—it would be named something like a Great Demon, a Savage Dragon, or a Fighting Dog combined... perhaps...
( Mad Savage Hound-Dragon ) The Black Mad Dog....
And at that moment, the monster saw the W Corp Cleanup Crew, reconfigured its cloak-like wings into a new form...
They transformed into the wings of a dragon called [ Heavenly Calamity Dragon - Valafaruk ] from Monster Hunter, and as soon as they changed, the wings spewed fire like a jet engine....
- Keeeeeeeng!!! Bang!!!!!
It charged straight at the company employees.
Half of the Cleanup Crew who were just watching were annihilated in a single, futile moment....
Seeing half of them die, the remaining agents hurriedly pulled themselves together and tried to fight back, but
what returned was...
- Keeeeeeeng!!!!!
...only a bomb of draconic energy filled with ferocious power, about to be fired from its wings.
- Bang!!!!
The launched energy mercilessly shattered the bodies and souls of the Cleanup Crew.
What the few survivors saw were wings flying towards them like spears.
The lucky ones barely dodged all the attacks and survived, but those who couldn't...
- Splurch!
...had their limbs torn off or heads blown apart and died...
As they tried to grasp the situation and call for backup from their superiors,
- Are there... more enemies??? Is this place not safe??
The monster spoke in a very rough and vicious voice, asking if this place was safe. Hearing this, a few, terrified, tried to run, but one brave rookie slowly approached the monster and said it was okay..
- It's okay.. There are no more enemies here... It's safe...
Then the monster asked if the place was really clear.
- Really... no more enemies?? Safe??
The moment the employee answered 'Yes', the monster's body melted away, leaving only a puddle of blood and corpses.
The employees who saw this praised the rookie, saying he was amazing, and suggested they get back to work since the monster was gone too.
While everyone was moving, the rookie tried to clean up the monster's corpse, but at that spot,
- Huh?? Where is it??
The monster's corpse was nowhere to be found. The rookie, feeling something strange, asked his senior, but the senior employee, while feeling something was off, said it was good that there was less to clean up,
and suggested they just let it slide and move on. They reported the incident to their superiors, who, upon hearing it, couldn't understand what nonsense they were spouting and instead got angry, telling them to get a grip. Meanwhile, the Warp Train began the Phenomenon Reversion of the passengers.
Once the Phenomenon Reversion was complete, those who had died and had their bodies restored got up at the announcement of arrival, commenting on the pleasant and fast journey, and exited the Warp Train.
Ras, who had become the monster, melted away, and returned to his original seat before the employees could clean up, having finished regenerating on his own, thought 'So this is W Corp's Singularity,' and disembarked the Warp Train peacefully, unaware of what he had done.
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After getting off the Warp Train, Ras looked around the platform and moved about to check if he had arrived where he wanted to go, and then he spotted them.
An employee of the Hana Association, wearing white clothes embroidered with the four trigrams of the Taegeuk and bearing their emblem. Ras immediately grabbed one employee and asked,
- Excuse me... I want to register as a Fixer... Where is the Hana Association??
He directly asked the employee for the association's location.
The response he got was...
- Are you... a Fixer aspirant??
The employee asked if Ras was an aspirant. When Ras said yes, the employee's eyes changed to that of a veteran looking at a newbie, and he
personally showed Ras the way to the association, asking him to become an association employee once he gained some skill later. The employee then went on his way, and Ras finally arrived at the Hana Association.
He was taking the test given by the Hana Association to receive a Fixer Registration Certificate.
After finishing the test, I received the registration certificate from the association. The grade Ras received was...
- { Grade 8 }
It was Grade 8. It seemed he had received a relatively good evaluation on the Hana Association's test, but
knowing how Grade 8 Fixers were treated, I was quite disappointed, yet I had no choice but to accept it... Because...
This was my first time at the association, and even though I tried really hard on the test, nothing particularly stood out. I was almost made Grade 9, but perhaps because the written exam (not the practical) had impressed the examiner, I was able to start at Grade 8 instead of Grade 9.
Thinking that Grade 8 was better than Grade 9, and that I should be grateful for this much,
I decided to go out and live the life of a Fixer, thinking positively that I might even meet my favorite character. It was the moment Ras's life as a Fixer, a new world, began.
It was a commemorative day that marked the beginning of the legendary, undisputed strongest Fixer in the world, who would later be known as the Black Mad Dog.