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“Do you want me to get an employee ID or a staff pass for the Briz Imperial Academy?”
“Yes.”
The young woman frowned as she saw Cale smiling cheerfully.
“Ugh.”
She sighed and continued speaking calmly.
“Right now, foreigners are camping on the ground floor to find you. And they keep persistently asking our people where you are.”
Cale smiled kindly.
“Thank you. For hiding me.”
The young woman let out a growl and was about to sigh.
-Girl-
‘!’
It’s my lord.
The one above all beings who live in the Sixth Evil.
My only master.
-Help him.
My lord says to help that vagabond from the Seventh Evil.
‘They say that now the head of the Seventh Evil has disappeared and that the new head will appear soon.’
They said that before the new head officially ascended, the cunning bear cub was acting as head in his place.
That’s why they were on high alert, speculating that chaos would soon break out in the Seventh Evil because of the power.
‘But what is the Seventh Evil up to?’
The young woman, who was looking for information in this place, outside her territory, for the Sixth Evil, was becoming increasingly confused by the Seventh Evil’s unpredictable behavior.
-For now, stay by his side-
But, once her lord had given the order, her job was defined.
“I’ll find a way to get you into the Imperial Academy.”
“Thank you.”
Cale smiled kindly again.
Briz Imperial Academy.
Tomorrow, Bishop Serisa, the Sun God’s bishop, was going to give a lecture in an annex building of the Academy.
Cale intended to stealthily infiltrate there and approach Serisa to shake her hand when the lecture was over.
Because it was for his mission.
[Shake hands with the believer of the God of Chaos (Serisa)!]
“I’ll be back tonight.”
The young woman said that and left Cale’s room.
Cale looked away from the closed door and opened the room window.
“I just have to shake her hand-.”
The Briz Imperial Academy could be seen in the distance.
“I’m curious about the Academy!”
¡Nyaaang!
¡Nyaaang!
The children with an average age of 10 couldn’t hide their enthusiasm.
And shortly after, the young woman returned to Cale’s room faster than he expected.
“…What is this?”
Cale looked at what was in front of him with an incredulous face.
“It’s the best we can do.”
The young woman was confident.
“Why? It seems like it would suit you.”
Cale extended his hand.
“Uniform…”.
“Yes. It’s a uniform.”
The Briz Imperial Academy uniform touched his hand.
“Don’t they attend the Imperial Academy until they’re 18?”
Cale asked and the young woman answered naturally.
“Yes.”
And she added as if there wasn’t any problem.
“It’s true that you seem a bit older to be 18, but you’re handsome, right?”
“!”
“If you’re handsome, there’s no problem.”
“!”
“It’s not like you’re going to live in the Academy for days. You just have to listen to the lecture for a while, right?”
“…Yes?”
“So, it’s better to pretend to be a student instead of a teacher. Also, access control for teachers is stricter. It’ll be easier to move around as a student.”
“…”
“Well, cheer up!”
The young woman left the room, leaving behind Cale, who was saying nothing.
“Ah.”
She grabbed the doorknob, stopped, and added to Cale.
“We could only get two uniforms. And two student IDs. We don’t have much influence in the Academy yet. This is the best we can do.”
In reality, it was the best she could do for Cale, who wasn’t an ally, but just a stranger.
“So, I hope you get what you want.”
Clack.
The young woman left and Cale, who was left alone in the room, took the two uniforms.
-Human, the clothes are too big for us!
“It’s true! It’s a pity! Isn’t it, sister?”
“It’s the Academy, we just have to enroll. There’s no need to lament.”
“Human, anyway, we’ll become transparent to go with you!”
Cale ignored what Raon, On, and Hong were saying and opened the room window.
And looking outside, he said.
“Come in.”
Choi Han, who was on the roof, jumped into the room through the window.
“What’s up, Cale-nim?”
Choi Han stopped.
“…”
Because Cale was staring intently at him without saying anything.
“Well.”
Then, he nodded his head and handed him a uniform.
“Put it on. You too.”
“?”
A question mark appeared on Choi Han’s face, but Cale seriously asked him.
“And tomorrow, stay by my side. Don’t say anything.”
Cale ignored Choi Han, who was standing with the uniform in his hand, and asked Raon.
“Raon, can you dye Choi Han’s hair?”
“What color?”
“Red.”
“Oh.”
Choi Han turned red-haired.
* * *
㈜Transparent.
A transcendent company that influenced the entire planet, beyond Roan.
Kim Se-hyun, the company’s lead researcher, couldn’t contain the words that escaped his mouth.
“Damn it!”
The employee from the game management department who was next to him sighed.
“It’s not in our hands anymore.”
“…We’re lost.”
“Brother!”
The employee was surprised and, without realizing it, called Kim Se-hyun as usual.
But Kim Se-hyun ignored the employee’s call and unleashed his fury.
“Hey, don’t you feel it too?”
“…”
“The Han family is ruining the game. Did the researchers or executives on our side participate in this update? It’s all the product of those who are related to the Han family!”
“…”
“Also, what did you say a while ago?”
The employee sighed and said.
“…You said that many missions were occurring that couldn’t be identified.”
“Yes. What does that mean?”
Kim Se-hyun, who had stayed in the lab after working, without stopping to investigate the virtual reality system, said in a voice in which he barely contained his anger.
“That you, who work with missions, you, who’re an administrator, can’t identify the missions that are appearing. Also, the system only identifies them after they’re created. The New World is heading towards a course that we can no longer control.”
“It was the direction we wanted, right?”
Kim Se-hyun mocked his companion’s words.
His gaze fell on the interior landscape of the lab, which used to have dozens of people.
Now there were only five people in the lab.
“The direction we wanted? If it’s about players enjoying the game in different ways and, as a result, different variables and flows appearing, it’s not bad that the system doesn’t intervene beforehand and only realizes it afterwards.”
Kim Se-hyun admitted.
“Yes. That’s the new world we wanted.”
But then, he retorted.
“But you know it’s not like that, right?”
“…….”
“The Han Family. They’re treating the system like a simple tool and they’re doing all sorts of things without considering it.”
“Hmm.”
“Because of that, the New World is becoming a world we can’t understand. Does it make sense?”
The companion said without strength.
“…It’s an assumption. That the Han Family people have done something.”
“We only have a hunch, there’s no evidence. But you see it too, right? That’s why you’re here with me, isn’t it?”
“It’s hard to deny it.”
The companion smiled without strength.
Currently, ㈜Transparent was divided into three factions: the Han family faction, the neutral faction, and the minority faction that opposed the Han family’s direction.
In reality, the minority was too small to be considered a faction.
It was more of a way to refer to people who were isolated, not knowing when they would be fired or when they would resign on their own.
“The New World could become a new world. I can’t stand for it to be ruined by someone’s intervention.”
Kim Se-hyun’s face looked like he was going to cry.
“They also-, they also wouldn’t want that outcome.”
The two people who had created the virtual reality, as the beginning of RMPAG.
Kim Se-hyun frowned as he thought of them.
“…They really wanted a new world. A world that existed on its own, that evolved on its own, a dream world that didn’t move because of anyone’s intervention or interests-”
“Brother-”
The companion, who knew why Kim Se-hyun had entered ㈜Transparent as a lead researcher and why he had stayed until now, couldn’t easily utter any words.
Toc, toc, toc.
At that moment, in the lab, where people had gone to work and there weren’t many people left.
Someone knocked on the lab door that was being ignored.
“!”
Kim Se-hyun stopped and looked at the lab door.
¡Creak!
The lab door opened and Kim Se-hyun’s eyes widened.
“Hello.”
A person he didn’t expect at all entered the lab with a smile.
“…Vice President?”
Vice President Lee Mi-jeong (Im Mi Jung).
Everyone recognized her talent for having risen from the bottom to the vice presidency. She had come to look for Kim Se-hyun.
‘Why?’
Kim Se-hyun became nervous.
Lee Mi-jeong.
She was practically a Han Family person.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been able to reach the vice presidency.
“Our lead researcher, how have you been?”
Lee Mi-jeong had no relationship with Kim Se-hyun to greet him so familiarly.
Rather, it would be logical if she were hostile.
“…What’s going on?”
Kim Se-hyun opened his mouth with a serious face.
Lee Mi-jeong looked at him and his companion and said.
“I came to see you two here.”
“Yes?”
Kim Se-hyun and his companion, Park Jeong-gyu, were surprised to hear that she had come to see them both.
At that moment, Lee Mi-jeong asked Kim Se-hyun, who only knew about the research in front of him and, therefore, could detect the weaknesses and gaps in the system, and Park Jeong-gyu, the loner of the management team.
“Would you like to do a secret project with me?”
Vice President Lee Mi-jeong remembered one of the suggestions Rosalyn had made to her.
‘Create a team with the people who have the skills we need. Create allies.’
‘And do something fun with those allies.’
‘A portal that crosses dimensions and enters the game. I’m thinking of creating it.’
She told the two employees.
“It’s to make the New World a bigger world, beyond the fence of ㈜Transparent.”
Kim Se-hyun’s eyes shone for a moment.
Lee Mi-jeong, Kim Se-hyun, and Park Jeong-gyu.
The three of them came together for the first time that day.
And Lee Mi-jeong contacted Rosalyn.
<I’ve chosen the people who will go to the Black Castle that you mentioned.>
The next day, Kim Se-hyun submitted his resignation. Also, Park Jeong-gyu clung to the management team.
* * *
“President.”
“President, what? I’m not in that position anymore.”
Han Taek-su, the honorary president of ㈜Transparent, gestured in rejection at the director’s words.
“Yes. What brings you here today?”
“Ahn Roh Man has become the Crown Prince of the Eastern Empire.”
“I know.”
Han Taek-su nodded his head calmly. He asked Director Jang.
“You didn’t come here just to inform me of something I already know, did you?”
Ahn Roh Man seemed to be trying to hide his identity. But Han Taek-su already knew that Ahn Roh Man was number 1 in the RMPAG rankings and who his father was.
“…It seems there’s an AI in the Eastern Empire.”
He also had a vague knowledge of the existence of the AI that was helping Ahn Roh Man.
㈜Transparent was more meticulous than Ahn Roh Man expected.
“Of course there is. Investigate the NPCs of the Eastern Empire. Who’s behind Ahn Roh Man. We have to take care of that hidden rat.”
“Yes.”
Although the president was there, Han Taek-su gave orders without hesitation.
Director Jang left the studio and Han Taek-su, who was left alone, opened his mouth.
“They say that people related to Chaos have appeared in the Western Empire?”
“Yes. Sir.”
A figure appeared in the darkness. It was a Transparent Blood Hunter.
“What has the God of Chaos done?”
“We’re investigating it.”
“Didn’t they say that a believer of the God of Chaos had appeared in the Demon World?”
“That’s right.”
“…Keep an eye on those from Chaos and those from the Demon World.”
“Yes. I’ll keep that in mind.”
“And about that Cale Henituse, who’s hunting the Hunters, how’s the investigation going?”
“I’ve sent some Hunters to Apitoyu. It seems we’ll be able to locate him soon.”
“Just in case he appears on Earth 3, reinforce the company’s security.”
“Yes. Sir.”
Han Taek-su stood up. He walked towards the window and looked outside. He could see Earth 3.
“It’s soon.”
He muttered softly.
“Soon, a new world will be unfolded. The day of the Absolute God’s Birth is near.”
“…….”
“There must be no failures in the preparations for the birth of the absolute god. Understood?”
“Yes.”
Han Taek-su hesitated for a moment and then said.
“Tell those from the Five Colors Blood Family.”
The God of Chaos, the Demon World. They’re guys who worry me.
The Five Colors Blood Family are such arrogant guys that they make me sick.
But there aren’t many who are as strong as those vagabonds.
“Tell them to do their best in the New World.”
“Yes. In fact, it seems like most of the Five Colors Blood Family are in the New World.”
“Okay.”
Han Taek-su sighed.
“…There’s not much left.”
It’s something that’s been happening for thousands of years, even millions of years.
Now we have to put an end to it.
* * *
As Briz was an empire of culture and art, the Briz Imperial Academy was famous throughout the continent for its politics, learning, and arts.
Because of that, the uniform was really brilliant.
The golden design embroidered on the white jacket was a work of art, carefully embroidered.
“Who’s that?”
“…Were there children like that?”
“I don’t know. Hey, but he’s super handsome!”
“I want the one on the left!”
Ahem.
The person on the left heard the whispering voices. Choi Han couldn’t hide his discomfort.
“Hey, hey, you don’t know anything. The one on the right is the real one. But what course is it? I’ve never seen him.”
“Did they say there was a new student?”
“I don’t know.”
The whispering conversations were so low that only someone with the hearing ability of Choi Han, whose body was so developed, could hear them.
Because they were now in the middle of a lecture.
“Holiness is a power that God has given us, but it’s also a power that we can obtain by demonstrating our faith.”
And the person on the right, Cale, leaned back in the chair indifferently and listened attentively to the lecturer’s words.
-Human, is that bishop Serisa?
Cale nodded slightly at Raon’s words, who had become transparent, and looked at Bishop Serisa, the lecturer on the stage, the believer of the God of Chaos.
“With this, I conclude today’s lecture.”
And the lecture ended, and the question time also ended.
Cale stood up from his seat.
He wasn’t the only one.
The students stood up from their seats and Cale slowly advanced from the back.
Serisa.
To shake her hand, who was surrounded by some students who were asking her questions.
‘What’s going to happen?’
The Saint of the God of Chaos. What’s going to happen if Cale, who has his power, shakes hands with the Believer of the God of Chaos, Serisa?
Clearly, something was going to happen, since the mission said he had to shake her hand.
-Human, be ready to run away at any moment.
Cale arrived in front of Serisa with all preparations ready.
“Bishop.”
He called her.
Serisa’s eyes fell on Cale, the blonde-haired, blue-eyed student who was smiling kindly.
