I Start with 13 Hidden Traits Chapter-259

Ch-259. **(Generational Shift)**

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Radiant light pours down.

From the ten individuals who achieved the highest accomplishments and produced the greatest results.

One hundred thousand challengers.

Out of them, only ten were allowed to head toward the **Holy Star**.

People gazed upon them with reverence, without exception.

There was not a single step among their journeys that could be called ordinary.

Leaders of the next generation—clearly different from Earth’s existing *Dimension Warriors*.

The world would face a great upheaval because of those ten.

“Ah……”

Department Head Kim let out a groan and looked above his own head.

There was no radiance there.

Only a hollow, biting wind passed indifferently by.

His ambition to surge ahead of everyone and stand at the very center of this trial had ended as nothing more than ambition.

After his right arm was crushed, he could do nothing.

Far from standing at the center, he was barely clinging to the edge of a bottomless abyss.

*I should have been standing there……*

With eyes filled with envy, Kim stared at the ten floating lights in the air.

He knew instinctively.

Those people were the protagonists of the next generation.

That all focus would converge on those ten.

*It could have been me……!*

He had been given chances.

More than once, opportunities had existed for him to lead his group and leap to a higher position.

But a single mistake rendered all of it meaningless.

“Move aside, you pig. You’re blocking the view.”

Thud!

A massive man kicked Kim.

Kim collapsed pathetically onto the ground, his body trembling.

“You pissed? Then come at me if you don’t like it. I’ll bury you right here.”

But Kim couldn’t bring himself to raise his head.

After his right arm was crushed and others gradually caught up to his growth, this was the result.

Because Kim had monopolized all the growth resources during the first two days, many people harbored resentment toward him.

He had sacrificed others and tried to stand on top of them—so no one felt sympathy for him.

Rather, most people thought *serves you right* when they saw him like this.

Karma.

He was receiving exactly what he had sown.

Crunch!

The massive man stomped on Kim’s head.

Humiliation didn’t get worse than this.

Still, Kim kept his eyes fixed on the ground.

Though he hadn’t made the top ten, the man stepping on him was a powerhouse who had come close—one wrong move and Kim could truly die.

“By the way, what was that guy’s name again?”

The massive man spoke while looking in one direction, his eyes filled with admiration.

Where his gaze landed, beams of light were descending.

The one bathed in radiance.

The man heading toward the angel—the very man who had reduced Kim to this state.

“P-Park Hyunmyung……” Kim answered.

Crunch!

The massive man pressed harder with the foot planted on Kim’s head.

“Aaagh!”

“You need to add ‘sir.’ Is he your buddy or something?”

“P-Park Hyunmyung, sir…!”

“That’s right, you pig. If it weren’t for Park Hyunmyung-sir, you’d be dead. I’d be dead too. We’d all be dead. So make damn sure you add ‘sir’ from now on.”

“Yes—yes! I will! I promise!”

“Tsk.”

The massive man clicked his tongue.

A bug not even worth killing.

But that man was different.

Park Hyunmyung.

The miracles he had shown over the past six days were something the massive man would never forget as long as he lived.

Ten monsters.

Yet even if the other nine were combined, they still wouldn’t measure up to Park Hyunmyung alone—of that he was certain.

He was a rule breaker who shattered and overturned all existing common sense.

*Even those so-called followers were overwhelmed by sheer presence alone.*

The *Followers of the Heavenly Demon Divine Sect* who appeared one after another committed suicide the moment they encountered Park Hyunmyung.

Yet every one of those followers was an overwhelming powerhouse.

Complete monsters who would utterly devour ordinary Dimension Warriors.

For newly awakened rookies to face even one of them would have been absurd—utterly impossible.

Hundreds would have died just to deal with a single one.

And yet, whenever those monsters stood before Park Hyunmyung, they all showed the same attitude.

They even ended it through self-execution.

What should that sight be called?

*…Reverence.*

They were terrified, awestruck, and offered their own lives as tribute.

Offered them—

To Park Hyunmyung.

To the man advancing now beneath the light of radiance.

Like humans making offerings to a god.

At first, even those watching were confused.

But after the same thing happened again and again, everyone understood.

That man—Park Hyunmyung—was not an ordinary human.

He could not possibly be ordinary.

—This foolish servant has committed an offense!
—I shall atone with my life!
—Long live! Long live! Long live forever!

…A supreme being, like the god worshiped by those followers.

Perhaps he was a god himself.

With a single stomp, a single glare, he subdued them.

Who would believe it if one tried to explain what they had seen?

That was why it was a miracle.

They had witnessed a miracle.

*And it wasn’t just his presence.*

But Park Hyunmyung’s terrifying aspect wasn’t limited to the aura that drove followers to suicide.

In the final trial conducted on the sixth day—

…What Park Hyunmyung showed then—

“Ugh…!”

Recalling that moment, the massive man shuddered.

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**The Holy Star.**

A star bestowed as a reward together with the Island of the Gods.

At last, I stood before it.

And I realized—

*The Star That Drinks the Nebula…!*

Among the stars Wilhelm once possessed, this was the most exceptional one.

The star I believed could only be obtained upon reaching level 10 was now right before my eyes.

Yet at the same time, the **Blessing Angel** dwelled within it.

Szzzzz!

As I brought my hand closer, my flesh burned with intense pain.

*I can’t take it yet.*

Only then did I understand.

Why this star had never reached me.

It was something that could only be obtained at level 10.

Because I wasn’t level 10 yet, I couldn’t claim it.

“So this is the Holy Star?”

“There’s an angel inside this?”

Besides me, nine others stood around the star.

The ten people who had achieved the highest scores in Main Quest 1: *Survival*.

Yet no one knew why we had been gathered here.

Then—

「Nice to meet you.」

A voice echoed in our minds.

Neither clearly male nor female, neither adult nor child—an utterly ambiguous voice.

「My name is Gabriel.」

It introduced itself.

「Great warriors, please—fight.」

Fight?

Were all ten of us supposed to battle each other?

「I shall gift the greatest story, a *Legend*, to the greatest warrior.」

「And only the greatest warrior is worthy of seeing me.」

…So that was it.

The moment Angel Gabriel finished speaking, everyone instinctively distanced themselves from one another.

These were the ten most exceptional individuals among one hundred thousand.

Their strength needed no explanation.

And now, a contest to determine the strongest among them.

“Sorry, but you’re all going to be my stepping stones.”

“Come at me, you bastards!”

A few shouted boldly, voices brimming with confidence.

*The greatest warrior…*

Only I remained beside the Holy Star, unmoving.

Final reckoning.

Once this battle ended, all of *Survival* would likely conclude.

After careful thought, I reached my decision.

*I’ll show them properly.*

I’d see it through to the very end.

—

“The Island of the Gods—what in the world is happening there?”

“Nearly tens of thousands of people have gone missing!”

“The prevailing theory is that all of the missing individuals were forcibly summoned to the Island of the Gods.”

“Several experts are insisting that awakenings are very likely taking place on that island.”

Media outlets across the world were in chaos.

They poured out articles highlighting the people who had vanished since the island’s appearance.

Because everyone—not just players—had seen the messages.

The announcement that the tutorial had begun.

The choice window asking whether they wished to enter the Island of the Gods.

“If ordinary people can awaken as well, could current Dimension Warriors be replaced?”

“…I believe it’s possible. Since only non-awakened individuals can enter the Island of the Gods—meaning Dimension Warriors cannot—it may indicate a complete generational replacement.”

“Then the standing of Dimension Warriors could be threatened!”

“Honestly, we’ve turned a blind eye to their abuses for quite some time. But the awakening of Earth’s people will bring many changes.”

“Could this not be a one-time event?”

“Even so, the emergence of second-generation awakeners alone represents enormous potential. We’ll also need to re-evaluate the privileges first-generation awakeners have enjoyed.”

So-called *experts* appeared nonstop, exchanging words incessantly.

As if venting long-accumulated resentment.

Dimension Warriors.

They were already being labeled *first-generation awakeners*, while those who entered the Island of the Gods were categorized as *second-generation awakeners*.

One fact was clear:

Not a single first-generation awakener had entered the Island of the Gods.

What did that mean?

Was it not a divine revelation calling for a generational shift?

Because of that—

Almost no one spoke kindly of first-generation awakeners anymore.

Naturally, from the players’ perspective, those who had challenged the Island of the Gods became thorns in their eyes.

*What can freshly awakened newbies even do?*
*No matter what, they’ll be weaker than us who’ve experienced Pangaenia.*
*Replacing players? Don’t be ridiculous.*

Even if they truly awakened, they were still beginners.

The gap between those who had never touched Pangaenia and themselves would only be highlighted.

So many players mocked them.

Then, on the seventh day since the Island of the Gods appeared, another change occurred.

《The tutorial has been completed.》

The Island of the Gods.

The moment its tutorial ended—

Every player saw the message announcing its completion.

《The challengers are returning.》
《720 hours until the start of the second tutorial.》

Those who had vanished reappeared, one by one.

But they were no longer the same.

**Awakening.**