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“Human, there they come!”
“Yes.”
Cale looked down, with an indifferent gaze, at the people entering the building.
‘Do whatever you want.’
The crown prince had left everything to Cale, and he was too busy with the affairs of the Roan Kingdom.
The ‘RMPAG’ and, moreover, the political affairs of Roan. In reality, the crown prince was resisting while reducing his sleep hours.
“Human, our Eden Miry’s recovery rate has already reached 80%! Don’t you think it will hatch within a week?”
Cale ignored Raon’s words and waited patiently for the people who would be looking for him.
‘It’s annoying, so…’
I’m going to take it easy.
He thought that while relaxing.
* * *
㈜Transparent.
Although he’s still holding on as the lead researcher, he’s someone who will leave as soon as his resignation is approved.
Kim Se Hyun constantly touched the collar of his tie, as if the shirt he had put on after a long time was uncomfortable.
‘Damn!’
Click, click.
His gaze turned to the front.
‘…Vice President.’
Vice President Lee Mi Jung was standing in front of him.
‘You have to do it right today.’
She had given a firm warning to Kim Se Hyun, the lead researcher, and Park Jeong Gyu, from the operations team, when she had brought them to this place secretly.
‘Rosalyn said we would meet the person who is at the center of everything today.’
Gulp.
Kim Se Hyun’s eyes scanned the surroundings.
Tae Yang Building, also known as Sun Building.
It was said that this building, with a magnificent facade, located on prime land, didn’t house any company.
‘But wasn’t it said that this building belonged to ㈜Tae Yang?’
㈜Tae Yang, also known as Sun Corporation.
Kim Se Hyun, who had only been investigating, didn’t know anything about this company. He didn’t know anything.
‘Wow, does the Vice President have connections with ㈜Tae Yang?’
But Park Jeong Gyu was different.
‘This is worth trying.’
Park Jeong Gyu, his companion, evaluated ㈜Tae Yang in this way.
‘I don’t know much either, but.’
The people who knew, said they had come to know this company because one of their close friends worked in investments.
‘They say it’s an endless gold mine.’
They say that money flows endlessly. Kim Se Hyun asked if it was famous for being a big investor.
‘A big investor? Ah, yes, it can be seen that way.’
But Park Jeong Gyu shook his head, with a strange expression.
‘But it’s a bit ambiguous to put it that way.’
‘Why?’
‘It’s not a big investor by the standards of us, ordinary citizens, but it’s a big investor even by the standards of companies, and even more so, of large companies.’
‘Then-’
‘If ㈜Tae Yang decided to invest and take the money it has been lending in various places, or if it decided to exercise its voting rights in investments- wouldn’t it be a big problem?’
When he heard that. Kim Se Hyun showed his doubt.
‘Why hasn’t that company become famous until now?’
‘Jajaja, well, because it’s not the business of people who aren’t interested in that. Didn’t you know, boss?’
‘It’s true.’
Vice President Lee Mi Jung stopped.
“Welcome.”
“Nice to meet you, Director Choi.”
Choi Seon Hee, the director of ㈜Tae Yang.
Kim Se Hyun, who saw Lee Mi Jung greeting Choi Seon Hee, greeted the director quickly, following Park Jeong Gyu.
“Nice to meet you both.”
Choi Seon Hee, who had greeted the two one by one, pressed the elevator button.
“I will guide you.”
Kim Se Hyun could see Park Jeong Gyu marveling at those words.
He felt the same way.
‘…Does that mean the person we need to meet is someone that the director must personally guide?’
It was said that when Choi Seon Hee visited a company, at the very least, a vice president would move.
Although Vice President Lee Mi Jung had come with them, the fact that Choi Seon Hee personally guided them-
‘It’s crazy.’
Kung, kung. His heart was beating.
Kim Se Hyun looked down at the bag he was holding in one of his hands.
All of his and his researchers’ achievements on ‘1. Connecting the Black Castle portal’ were in the tablet inside that bag.
‘Theoretically-’
According to the simulation, it had been concluded that it was possible.
‘However-’
Mana.
They still hadn’t been able to fully understand that entity from another dimension.
‘This is something I must coordinate with Rosalyn.’
Anyway.
‘I have brought my achievements.’
The elevator door closed, and it started going up.
Kim Se Hyun swallowed hard when he saw how many floors it was going up.
The same thing happened to Park Jeong Gyu, who was next to him.
‘It’s crazy.’
The discarded card of the operations team.
That was Park Jeong Gyu’s position. He was a more precarious existence than Kim Se Hyun.
‘It’s an opportunity.’
He also had a role to play.
‘Hold on to the operations team no matter what. And find clues.’
Vice President Lee Mi Jung said.
‘I don’t expect you to find clues that are fatal to ㈜Transparent. Clues that can cause a little damage are enough.’
As Park Jeong Gyu belonged to one of the many operations teams for the New World.
He had been collecting all the information, pretending to be busy with nothing to do.
‘I had reported everything to Rosalyn.’
In reality, he should report it to Lee Mi Jung.
‘I will take care of everything.’
Lee Mi Jung lost her strength at those words from Rosalyn.
‘Just with that, you can already see that Rosalyn is the most powerful.’
No. It’s the person we’re going to meet at ㈜Tae Yang.
“Huu.”
He let out a deep sigh. His breath, which had come out without realizing it, was stronger than he had expected, but no one was looking at him.
Park Jeong Gyu, who had looked away, stopped when he saw Lee Mi Jung’s deep eyes.
‘Definitely.’
Lee Mi Jung was feeling as if she were sharpening a blade.
Definitely…
‘Either I stay with ㈜Transparent.’
Or.
‘I will get the base to surpass it.’
As she had accepted Rosalyn’s proposal to do business that crosses dimensions. Lee Mi Jung can’t back down now. Because she had already betrayed ㈜Transparent.
‘Of course, ㈜Transparent was always thinking of abandoning me.’
Han Tae Soo, the honorary president. That guy doesn’t trust anyone but himself.
‘He would even abandon his own son, even the current president.’
Lee Mi Jung, who had started as an ordinary employee and had become a vice president, subtly relaxed her shoulders.
Ding!
Because the elevator had reached its destination.
“…….”
Slowly, Vice President Lee Mi Jung followed Director Choi Seon Hee.
Click, click.
Choi Seon Hee didn’t hide her presence.
A space where an entire floor was open.
A place where everything could be seen through the bay windows.
There was only a desk, a sofa, and other simple things in the center.
‘That person-’
And the moment she encountered the man who was looking at them, sitting on the main sofa.
“…!”
Lee Mi Jung couldn’t continue walking. She inhaled, instinctively, without realizing it. Because she felt like she would forget to breathe at that moment.
“!”¨
“!”
It wasn’t just her.
Kim Se Hyun and Park Jeong Gyu also stopped.
They couldn’t move.
‘What’s wrong? Why am I like this?’
Kim Se Hyun was looking at the red-haired man with dark brown eyes, who was looking at him. He couldn’t move at that man’s gaze.
‘…What is this?’
Really, he couldn’t understand the current situation.
The power users who had appeared after the monsters appeared. Kim Se Hyun, who had collected quite a bit of information about them and had also met them, while creating the New World.
But this feeling was new.
‘How-’
How can that, that feeling, no, I don’t know.
‘I don’t know!’
What am I experiencing now?
The red-haired man who was sitting far away.
He felt as if his entire body was being squeezed by something that emanated from him.
‘It’s not like that.’
It’s not a feeling, it’s reality. It’s a real feeling.
‘Is this-’
Possible?
Kim Se Hyun, who had experienced many unusual things, while talking to Rosalyn, the mage from another dimension, and other entities from the Black Castle.
Therefore, he could believe in the New World, in the possibility of a complete New World, and he could continue to investigate tirelessly.
But-
‘Ah.’
At this moment, Kim Se Hyun felt as if he had encountered something from another dimension.
This is abnormal.
An overwhelming existence just with his aura.
‘The power of ㈜Tae Yang is not money.’
It’s that person.
No. Is he a person?
I don’t know.
As long as that existence is there, ㈜Tae Yang will be strong.
‘Damn!’
Park Jeong Gyu only said rude words inside.
‘I grabbed the right rope!’
He marveled. But Kim Se Hyun and Park Jeong Gyu felt an emotion.
‘Fear.’
They felt as if their own breathing was being controlled by that person, without knowing why. Moreover, a primitive fear, a fear that seemed as if they had encountered an unknown existence, had gradually infiltrated.
It was subtle, but it was a feeling that was gradually dampening from the tips of their feet. But they and Vice President Lee Mi Jung were a little different.
Ecstasy.
An ecstasy passed through their eyes. Secretary Choi’s voice reached their ears.
“I have brought them.”
“Thank you, Secretary Choi.”
Secretary Choi.
Lee Mi Jung’s expression changed when she heard the way he referred to the director.
“Then, I will go down.”
Secretary Choi left.
Cale got up from his seat and slowly extended his hand towards the three.
“Nice to meet you. I’m Cale Henituse.”
He had a gentle smile.
“Ah.”
Kim Se Hyun felt as if his body suddenly lost strength.
His breathing calmed down.
The same thing happened to the other two.
“Nice to meet you. I’m Lee Mi Jung.”
After shaking hands one by one, starting with Lee Mi Jung, the three sat down, at Cale’s gesture.
-Good job with the suppression.
Cale ignored Super Rock’s words.
He had let out a bit of his Dominating Aura, and just with that, all the annoying processes had disappeared.
Well, with that…
“Kim Se Hyun?”
“Yes, yes!”
“They say you have found a way to connect the Black Castle portal?”
“Yes!”
Kim Se Hyun handed over the tablet, opening the bag quickly.
“I have recorded everything here. If we continue like this according to the simulation, it will be a success, but I think we should carry out the first test.”
“I see.”
Cale didn’t turn on the tablet, and he placed it on the table.
‘Hmm.’
The moment Kim Se Hyun stopped, and his expression clouded slightly.
“It’s right to trust the work of those who are good at what they do.”
Kim Se Hyun’s gaze turned towards him at Cale’s words.
“I don’t know this side. That’s why, I have decided to trust Rosalyn and Kim Se Hyun.”
Cale’s appearance, who was speaking calmly, was relaxed.
“Feel free to experiment, and tell me anything you need. And if it’s hard to hold on at Transparent, leave with the research team members. I will create a lab for you.”
Wow.
Kim Se Hyun was stunned for a moment.
“We will give you a deal that will be no less than Transparent’s. And someday-”
Cale’s gaze turned to Lee Mi Jung.
“New World, Transparent. The owner can change. Or a bigger company can appear.”
Snick.
Cale smiled and said.
“Isn’t that right, Lee Mi Jung?”
He had confirmed Lee Mi Jung, who had reacted differently to his aura, a moment ago.
Therefore, he asked her one more question, before she answered.
“Vice President.”
Lee Mi Jung’s gaze, who couldn’t answer, and was looking at him, contained an expression of interest in Cale.
“What did you see in me a moment ago?”
“!”
Lee Mi Jung, who didn’t expect that question, flinched for a moment, but then smiled and said.
“Have you met Honorary President Han Tae Soo?”
“No.”
Cale shook his head.
While Kim Se Hyun and Park Jeong Gyu were looking at her with an expression of doubt.
Regardless of that, Lee Mi Jung said indifferently.
“…Honorary President Han Tae Soo-”
She decided. Although she had thought that she should find her own path when she had met Rosalyn and Choi Seon Hee. She felt that she had found good support.
‘I must show a trick I have been hiding.’
That way, I will be recognized.
She continued speaking slowly.
Honorary President Han Tae Soo.
“…That.”
That.
Lee Mi Jung, who had called Han Tae Soo that way, recited the secret she had been keeping since she was a low-ranking employee.
“He’s not human.”
Han Tae Soo is not human.
“…!”
The moment Cale’s eyes widened for the first time.
“I have heard that they are looking for the corruption of ㈜Transparent. The information that Chief Park Jeong Gyu has found will be very helpful, but.”
Park Jeong Gyu was looking at Lee Mi Jung, who had pointed him out. He was looking at her with an expression of bewilderment.
Kim Se Hyun felt the same way.
Regardless of that, Lee Mi Jung told Cale.
“I don’t have any information, but I suspect. Because I saw something. Of course, it could just be an illusion, as I haven’t been able to find any evidence for over ten years.”
To be exact, she had only seen a shadow.
Honorary President Han Tae Soo.
She had seen his shadow, but that shadow wasn’t that of a human.
He was definitely a monster. A monster that had gradually transformed into a human. After seeing that, Lee Mi Jung had been hiding it. Although there was no way to prove it.
‘Aura-’
Han Tae Soo.
The aura that emanated from that shadow was incredible, and it had made Lee Mi Jung feel suffocated.
She had encountered a similar aura.
That terrifying force that stimulated primitive fear.
But-
‘This one is stronger.’
She had encountered an aura more powerful than that, today.
‘It’s not an illusion.’
What I experienced then wasn’t an illusion. If that’s the case, this is truly an opportunity.
“That, is a monster.”
Monster.
It was the word used to refer to the existence that had invaded Earth.
Most of those monsters were being exterminated steadily.
Kim Se Hyun, Park Jeong Gyu, and Cale also knew that. But Vice President Lee Mi Jung said.
“An unidentified monster, which has not yet been confirmed, that has taken the form of a human. Or a demon or a god. That is my opinion.”
Ding!
At that moment, the sound of the elevator arriving was heard.
Cale’s mouth opened.
“Originally, today, we were going to spread rumors about the corruption of ㈜Transparent, make the stocks go down, buy them on our side, raise the stocks, gather the shareholders, and exercise our voting rights. We were going to talk about that.”
Jaja-
Cale smiled and looked at the elevator door that had opened.
Secretary Choi bowed to Cale.
“I have brought them.”
Who else is here?
Lee Mi Jung, who had been surprised, and had turned her head, could see a person.
‘Hmm.’
She wasn’t happy. An existence that would be a shame to call him a hero of Earth. The best specialist in monster extermination.
“What a funny story you’re telling.”
President Ahn Roh Man. The person, who would surely step down from his position in the next election, was standing.
“I also bring a rather interesting story.”
He had told Alberu, Cale, and Rosalyn. That he was investigating something that could be the corruption of ㈜Transparent.
‘People are entering the ㈜Transparent lab in droves, once every two months. But they can never leave.’
‘And it seems that Alberu has found evidence related to that, and he has relayed it to Cale.’
“Huu!”
“Ha!”
Kim Se Hyun and Park Jeong Gyu jumped, and realized how far this situation had gone. Cale greeted Ahn Roh Man with joy.
“It’s a really interesting story. Transparent Inc. is also being bought, and we have to deal with Honorary President Han Tae Soo.”
A smile appeared at the corner of Ahn Roh Man’s lips.
“Truly, a story full of excitement.”
* * *
That night, Lee Mi Jung called one of her people.
“…Spread the rumor that our company is kidnapping people to experiment on them.”
“Yes?”
“In the financial sector, no, in the loan sector, first. Let it spread naturally.”
“…Vice President?”
At the sudden order and content, Lee Mi Jung’s subordinate was surprised, and she closed her eyes tightly.
‘…That our company is killing people to experiment on them?’
She felt a chill all over her body.
And Ahn Roh Man was talking to his assistant, Mary.
“You have obtained money and power.”
“That’s right.”
“The money from ㈜Tae Yang, the traitors of ㈜Transparent. It’s worth trying.”
Mary, the assistant, said before leaving Ahn Roh Man’s office.
“I’m also going to leak the information we’ve collected to the media.”
“First, just gossip.”
“Yes. I’ll start from the bottom, not from the main ones.”
Click.
Mary left, and Ahn Roh Man, who was left alone, looked at the lamplight.
“…Could he be a monster-”
Ahn Roh Man, who had met Honorary President Han Tae Soo. His eyes sank deeply at the information he couldn’t believe.
“If he’s a monster-”
I must catch him.
No one heard the words he murmured softly.
Only him.
* * *
“Young Master, you have cleared all the preliminary rounds with ease. You are truly incredible! Finally, the final round tomorrow! I’m really proud of you, Young Master! Jaja!”
The Heavenly Demon smiled with satisfaction at Cale’s cheerful voice.
“This is nothing.”
And Alberu, who was beside him, also said softly.
“You’re incredible, Young Master.”
“Jaja.”
The Heavenly Demon shrugged easily.
A warm wind blew between Cale, Alberu, and the Heavenly Demon.
The three preliminary rounds, which had been held for several days, had ended.
The final round, the real main stage, starts tomorrow.
A total of 64 people had been filtered.
“Number 44! I like the number!”
Kim Haeil’s number was 44.
And starting tomorrow, Queen Tamahi of the Kingdom of Lan will start attending.
