Awakened people

*This article is about individuals who have undergone Awakening. For the process of Awakening itself, see Awakening. For a full list of Awakened individuals, see Category:Awakened people.*

> My hyung is an F-rank Awakened person.
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> Han Yoohyun, Chapter 1

## Awakened people

Awakened person Choi Yoomi showing off her Status Window

## Novel appearances

### First appearance

Chapter 1

**Awakened people** (Korean: 각성자, RR: *gakseongja*) are individuals who have undergone the process of Awakening. They have access to magical abilities, which vary based on the person's innate strengths, and are generally stronger than the average Unawakened person (비각성자, *bigakseongja*). Certain Awakened people's abilities can grow in strength, granting them significant potential and strength that may even surpass human limits.

## History

Awakened people first appeared during the dungeon shock, when the power of the source manifested on Earth in the form of magical dungeons and monsters. Humans became able to tap into magic to wield skills and defend themselves. With the assistance of the immoral people's system, Awakened people's abilities have become increasingly better understood, and their populations more organized worldwide.

## Abilities

Every Awakened person has access to their own stats and skills, each of which are ranked on a letter-based system ranging from F to S, and further upwards from SS to Myth. Awakened people with high-ranking stats and skills are quite rare overall. FF-ranks are incredibly common and make up the vast majority of the populace; there are millions in South Korea alone.

Awakened people can also gain titles through completing special achievements, which can grant additional skills or stat boosts. In addition, they have exclusive access to a personal inventory, into which any item made of dungeon materials can be placed.

Awakened humans can view their skills, stats, and inventory through a system, revealed to have been created by the immoral people. As humans did not possess magic before the dungeons appeared, they did not develop the ability to sense Awakenings and abilities. As such, the video game-like system interface temporarily allows humans to access their abilities until they develop the sensitivity required to do it without the system windows.

## Ranks

Awakened people initially Awaken at ranks ranging from F to S. Each Awakener is assigned an overall rank, usually based on their average stats. However, if someone has skills two or more ranks apart from their stat rank, their overall rank is calculated as the average of their stat and skill ranks. Awakened people are sometimes described as XY-ranks, where `X` is their stat rank and `Y` is their skill rank. For instance, if only considering his initial skills, Han Yoojin is an FE-rank.

Stat ranks are directly correlated with youth and health prior to Awakening, with younger and healthier people Awakening to higher stat ranks. Stat S-ranks, for instance, are generally in their 30s or lower. Fitness is also related to stat ranks, with many athletes Awakening as E-rank or higher. The highest possible stat rank at which someone can initially Awaken is S, with the highest rankers having the potential to Awaken either as A- or S-rank based on their environment. S-ranks *can* grow further to SS-rank, SSS-rank, or higher, through training their skills and developing their bodies' stats, raising the stats'/skills' individual ranks.
While skills grow to higher ranks relatively easily, however, stats—and therefore overall ranks—take much longer to build up, taking decades or longer. Awakened individuals, in fact, cannot raise their stat ranks by 3 or more levels, though a jump of 1 or 2 stat ranks is possible with strong growth.

While stat ranks generally determine one's overall rank, there remains the exception mentioned above of a vast stat-skill rank difference resulting in an averaged overall rank. This exception hypothetically makes it possible for individuals to Awaken with an overall rank higher than S, with particularly high-ranked skills putting them in a higher class. This is the case for people like the Saintess Emily Spence, an F-rank with SS-rank skills; she is technically an S-rank, but officially known as an A-rank due to her inability to go in dungeons. Han Yoojin is a similar case, with F-rank skills and L-rank skills that likely put him well above S-rank.

The difference in high-ranking and low-ranking Awakened people is stark; stat F-ranks are often no better than ordinary people, while S-ranks can reach nearly inhuman levels of ability. As a result of this, high-rank Awakened people (particularly those with a combat aptitude) have a tendency to look down on lower-rank Awakened people and Unawakened people, seeing them as weak and pathetic. However, they appreciate Awakened people whose stats are low-rank but whose special skills are high-rank, as they are unthreatening and extremely helpful at the same time.

### Born S-ranks

*See also: List of born S-ranks*
There are some rare individuals whose ability is top of the line even amongst stat A~S ranks; these are the born S-ranks. Such S-ranks are extremely rare, with only two to three per generation. Since Earth's population is on the larger side, there are currently five born S-ranks alive. Born S-ranks have stats and abilities that reach the very threshold of their species' potential. They are so strong that where A~S rankers will look down low-rankers and Unawakened people, born S-ranks may not even treat them as people. They have a tendency to identify lower-ranked or Unawakened individuals in terms of their usefulness, at worst treating them like items, or objects that can be polished and bettered with training.

Born S-ranks often subconsciously frighten others and end up ostracized in society. As a result, they are largely held at a distance even by their parents and guardians, and it is vanishingly rare for a born S-rank to have anyone they truly consider a caregiver. Some of the immoral people have only ever met one born S-rank's qualified Caregiver in their lives.

Born S-ranks are extremely sensitive to mana, skill and item effects, and more. So far, the born S-ranks who have debuted have been able to sense mana currents since childhood (including before Awakening), detected the reversal of time triggered by Han Yoojin as well as retained and gained access to their pre-regression memories, and have been able to sense high-rank magic stones even through obstacles. Their senses are also developed enough that with enough experience, they will be able to directly detect someone's skills, attributes, and Awakening. As with any higher-rank Awakened person, they hold favor towards low-stat Awakened people with high-ranked special skills, and their favor is heightened due to their ability to directly sense the person's skills and usefulness.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 4
2. ↑ *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 35
3. ↑ *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 13
4. ↑ *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 9
5. ↑ *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 33
6. ↑ *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 10
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 66
8. ↑ *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 152
9. ↑ *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 140
10. ↑ *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 137