Awakening Center

> Few would be able to resist the temptation of anyone being able to become an Awakened person.
>
> Seok Simyeong, Chapter 61

## Appearances

### Last appearance

Chapter 118

The **Awakening Center** (Korean: 각성센터, RR: *gakseong senteo*) is a Hunter Association-owned facility that causes people to Awaken, created with the goal of boosting the numbers of Hunters. Though the building was destroyed a few months before its opening by Riette Luire at Han Yoojin's request, it is currently being rebuilt.

## Layout

The center consists of a single dome-shaped building, constructed next to the secondary Hunter Association building. Stairs lead up to the glass doors of the front entrance. Immediately inside is a hall with a long reception desk. A hallway leads from this area to a round inner lobby, where five other doors are located and spread out around the room. These doors lead to the Awakening Rooms, areas where the actual Awakening process occurs; each Awakening Room is fitted with one Illusion Maze. There are other rooms inside the building that can serve as meeting rooms.

After its destruction, the layout of the facility may have been altered.

## Function

### Awakening process

The Awakening Center is powered by five copies of an A-rank item called the Illusion Maze, which can show targets an illusion comparable to reality; this item is used to show Unawakened people an illusion of being attacked by monsters, with the perceived threat being enough to Awaken them, usually with combat or combat-supporting skills. In the pre-regression timeline, one or more Illusion Mazes were also used to create illusions tailored towards healers.

A time limit of 30 minutes is placed on anyone entering an illusion to avoid any psychological problems. Each Awakening Room fitted with an Illusion Maze follows the item's capacity, allowing a maximum of 30 people at once.

The initial plan was to place a cap on the number of visitors, cutting it off at 1000 Awakenings per day and going up to 3000 per day after a few months, but this cap has been lowered by the new head of the Awakening Center so as not to produce an excessive number of Awakened people.

### Post-Awakening

Those who Awaken at the Center are not given the Awakening subsidy generally granted by the Association, and are still required to pay for a basics training program.

## Employees and visitors

The Awakening Center is staffed by members of the Hunter Association. After the corruption in the Hunter Association was unearthed, the person in charge of the Awakening Center has changed.

The Center serves Unawakened people, helping them undergo the Awakening process. Minors are not permitted to use the Center's services to Awaken.

## History

The Awakening Center was planned a little under 3 years after dungeons and Awakened people appeared. Construction began around the end of June, with the Center being placed next to where the secondary Association building was located.

### Original timeline, pre-regression

The official announcement of the Awakening Center was made four months after construction started, around October. Near November (possibly December) of this year, the Center was officially opened. Han Yoojin underwent his Awakening at the Awakening Center on the day of its opening and was revealed to be an F-rank. Some of Han Yoojin's future teammates and friends may also have Awakened at the Center.

The Awakening Center was immensely popular, with queues that lasted several days forming outside. Though it initially imposed a cap of 1000 on the number of people Awakened in a day, it was forced by public pressure to increase this cap within 2 days of its opening, going up to 3000 and then 4000, not stopping operation even on holidays. The number of people Awakened by the Center broke 100,000 in under a month. Overwhelmed by demand, the quality of treatment offered by the Association to low-rank Awakeners dropped, with the basics training program also being shortened from a week with boarding provided to three days to one.

The Awakening Center presumably continued to function for years after its opening, up until Han Yoojin's regression.

## Synopsis

As before the regression, the construction of the Awakening Center begins in late June, shortly after Han Yoojin regresses. Han Yoojin is invited to the Awakening Center when he proposes his own special skill Awakening Center. He visits the day after he obtains Blue, heading to the meeting around lunchtime accompanied by Han Yoohyun and Moon Hyuna. They are shown around the building, where construction is largely complete save for the still-incomplete Awakening Rooms that they see, before meeting with the President of the Hunter Association to discuss Yoojin's special Awakening Center proposal.

Later, the Association attempts to frame Han Yoohyun for the partial collapse of the secondary Association buliding's annex. Upon arriving at the location and finding Yoohyun missing, Han Yoojin has Noah Luire knock out the Association employees attempting to make them leave. In retaliation for the attempted framing, Yoojin calls Riette, asking her to destroy the Association building as well as the Awakening Center, reframing the situation as an alleged dungeon break and the black dragon as said dungeon's boss monster. Song Taewon and other Association employees arrive to deal with the collapsed buildings.

## Trivia

* Prior to the regression, roughly 70% of Awakened people produced by the Awakening Center had combat skills, 29% had healing skills, most of the remaining 1% had combat-support skills, and one in a million had special skills.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 71
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 61
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 9
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 200
5. ↑ *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 264
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 6
7. ↑ *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 4
8. ↑ *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 10
9. ↑ *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 188
10. ↑ *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 64
11. ↑ *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 70
12. ↑ *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 117
13. ↑ *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 118