When a person regains consciousness, it doesn’t happen all at once, like flipping on a TV. Rather, awareness slowly seeps in, as if waking from a deep dream, with reality gradually encroaching upon the senses, one by one.

The first sensation that reached Baek Yuseol was sound.

"...with us..."

"...complicated transport process..."

"...we can also..."

Murmurs filled his ears, and with them, his awareness sharpened, his senses returning more vividly.

The flood of reality suddenly opened before him.

Baek Yuseol instinctively tried to snap his eyes open and sit up.

“Ugh...”

But his eyelids felt as heavy as if an …