A dungeon gate the size of a bus tears open over Seoul, and a Hunter with a C-rank badge and a lifetime of being told he peaked too early clocks in for another shift. Seon Jaehyun is not the main character of this world. He scrapes by on copper-rank paychecks, watches S-rank celebrities on the news, and endures a system that locked his stats at mediocre the moment he Awakened. Then the same gate that should have been a routine sweep collapses on his squad, and Jaehyun wakes up somewhere else. The Academy of the Transcendent. A place that does not train Hunters — it forges the gods they pray to.

The admissions test nearly kills him. So does the first day. So does the instructor who takes one look at him and marks a zero on the board. Jaehyun is surrounded by prodigies who have been groomed for this since birth, and all he brought is the scars from every gate he should not have survived. But the Academy is the first battlefield where survival is not about your rank — it is about how many times you are willing to get back up. Every lesson peels back another layer of a system that has been lying to the world since the first gate cracked the sky, and Jaehyun is starting to suspect he was never underqualified. Something about him was simply buried too deep for the standard Awakening to reach. The Academy did not summon him to fail. It summoned him because the real war is about to begin, and someone forgot to tell the S-ranks.

Also known as: 입학, 초월 아카데미, Iphak, Chwol Akademi, 입학 초월 아카데미, Transcendent Academy.