C436
Raon.
“Human, Sui Khan injured his arm, but you, human, bleed profusely and faint. What do you think seeing that? Human, do you consider others’ feelings?”
Hong.
“I wonder what position he’s in to say that.”
And lastly.
“…Oh dear.”
Another sigh from On. Cale tightly closed his mouth and thought:
‘No, why do these kids speak so well?’
The vocabulary Raon and Hong used was surprising.
‘Well, they’re smart.’
It seems these kids speak better than Cale.
Ironic smile. At that moment, laughter was heard.
“Haha.”
Sui Khan was laughing while eating another apple pie. When their eyes met, Sui Khan smiled broadly, as if he were very happy.
“…….”
Cale’s face was about to crumple.
“Sui Khan.”
Raon softly said.
“Do you think it’s time to laugh?”
Sui Khan stopped. Whether he did or not, Hong stealthily approached Sui Khan and patted his leg with his front paw.
“It’s not time to laugh.”
“…”
Sui Khan stopped laughing.
“Oh dear.”
On sighed once more, and neither Cale nor Sui Khan could laugh. Something awkward and uncertain spilled into their expressions, but they couldn’t say anything.
“We’re also careful not to get injured.”
It was because of On’s last sentence.
“…….”
“…….”
The two couldn’t say anything.
“You should take care of yourselves.”
At On’s following words, the two lost their speech again, and their shoulders slightly shrunk. Seeing that, On stopped talking. It was because of what he saw in his field of vision.
“The bleeding won’t stop.”
“Hmm! This is a problem!”
On and Raon became serious, and Cale’s expression wasn’t good either. The wound on Sui Khan’s arm wasn’t serious. It wasn’t deep, nor a layered wound. Normally, it wouldn’t be a serious injury.
A single time. A clean, not very deep wound, showed that Sui Khan had tried to protect his body even at a critical moment.
“They said it was Choi Jung Soo level, right?”
“Yes.”
Sui Khan opened his mouth while looking at the blood slowly reappearing on the tightly wrapped bandage.
“Isn’t it that I couldn’t dodge an attack by mistake?”
Sui Khan’s lips were bluish, and his face was pale. He seemed to have chills. Even if the wound wasn’t deep…
“But the blood won’t stop, no matter how much I stop it.”
As the blood kept flowing, it was an emergency situation. Although Cale and Sui Khan were calm, it wasn’t a situation where they could be calm.
Sideways. Cale looked at the dark night and spoke:
“Hmm. Will it be the sword or the skill?”
This wound that won’t stop bleeding. Will it be the opponent’s sword power or their skill? If it’s the sword, there’s a possibility it’s the Chaos God sect’s sword, but it was something he had to keep in mind.
“I don’t know.”
And Sui Khan shook his head.
“There are very few samples.”
There wasn’t enough evidence to make a decision.
“Hmm.”
While Cale was lost in thought…
“Choi Jung Soo?”
At Sui Khan’s sudden question, Cale answered without hesitation:
“He’s missing.”
“Did Choi Han go?”
“Yes.”
“Demon World?”
“Yes. The direction is north. He mentioned that the Chaos God sect is in the Demon World and then lost contact.”
At that moment, Cale and Sui Khan’s gazes met.
Demon World.
Chaos God sect.
Sui Khan’s mouth, who was reviewing the keywords, opened.
“Isn’t he here?”
That’s when.
“Cale-nim.”
He had to stop for a moment because of Clopeh, who appeared in the darkness. As soon as he saw Clopeh, Cale asked:
“Did it take you long?”
Clopeh hadn’t come in two hours.
“I’m sorry.”
But it wasn’t a reprimand. It had taken longer than expected, but there was a reason.
“Did you find a way?”
Where they should go with Sui Khan, who was injured. Cale was worried, and came to an immediate conclusion.
The city of Dioruel.
He wanted to enter there, where the lord’s castle is.
‘Because the members close to the Demon King are there.’
Therefore, it would be very problematic if their identity or the Mediator Alliance’s existence were discovered by them.
‘Still, neither the Chaos God sect nor the Five-Colored Family hunters can act freely there.’
According to the atmosphere. Now the Chaos God sect and the Five-Colored Family Wanderers. They all had their own plans.
‘Only the Demon King will be deceived.’
Therefore, the Chaos God sect and the Wanderers will try to avoid the Demon King’s gaze. Therefore, staying near the members close to the Demon King would be the best way to avoid the enemies’ gaze.
“Yes.”
At Clopeh’s simple answer, Cale nodded. Late at night. Cale told Clopeh to find a way to enter the castle with Sui Khan.
‘They said Dioruel normally allows passage freely even at night.’
But after the previous lord, Count Lupeh, disappeared, entry at night was restricted, except for those who had permission from the mines and commerce. In particular, Cale’s group, who are foreigners, would have to go through a rather strict verification procedure to enter the castle at night.
‘As the team leader is here-’
It would be better to secretly infiltrate the castle as quietly as possible and find a place to stay. Therefore, Cale told Clopeh to find a way to scale the wall or some other method.
“Follow me.”
Clopeh found a way.
“As everyone is tired, I chose the most comfortable and useful route for the future.”
“Yes.”
Cale silently followed Clopeh. While watching Clopeh guide him without hesitation, he thought:
‘Definitely, this guy does his job well.’
He had the advantages in handling work that were hard to expect from Choi Han or Miss Rosalyn.
-Should I use magic?
At Raon’s words, who understood the atmosphere, Cale slightly nodded. It seemed it would be better to quickly cross the wall with Raon’s magic. Or invisibility.
“…….”
“…….”
While they walked in silence…
“…….”
Cale truly became speechless.
“Ahem. Ahem!”
From the four directions, a guard who was guarding in front of the east gate coughed.
Softly. Clopeh handed over a small pouch.
“Ahem!”
The guard looked inside and startled, then slightly smiled at his companion. His companion also slightly smiled and reached out his hand.
Creak. A small side door opened next to the main gate. It was a small door mainly used by the guards.
Kind smile~
Clopeh, politely smiling, calmly walked towards the small door.
“…….”
“…….”
“…….”
“…….”
Cale, Sui Khan, On, and Hong followed with dazed expressions. That’s when.
“Ah, wait a moment.”
One of the guards took something out of his chest. It was a stack of papers.
“Here.”
“Thank you.”
Clopeh politely bowed and took another pouch out of his chest and handed it to him.
“Ahem. Ahem!”
The smiles on the two guards’ faces intensified.
“…….”
Cale dazedly watched the scene and then began to move again following Clopeh’s gesture. They entered a residential area and stopped in front of a house that seemed normal and adequate.
“Ahem.”
An elder was standing there and greeted Clopeh.
Softly. Clopeh took another pouch out of his chest and handed it to the elder.
“Hup!”
The elder’s eyes widened upon seeing the inside of the pouch. When the elder looked at Clopeh in surprise, Clopeh simply covered his mouth with his index finger and said:
“Shhh.”
Nodding~
The elder nodded seriously, handed the key to Clopeh, and disappeared. He didn’t even look at Cale’s group.
-Human, what’s going on here?
Raon, who had turned invisible, dazedly asked, but Cale didn’t have time to answer.
Creak. Clopeh opened the door with the key and entered a cozy and lovely house. The house had basic furniture, but there were no tools or living necessities.
“…Hey, you-”
Cale wanted to ask. What did you do for two hours? And you, where did you get that money-?
But Cale immediately realized.
‘Does this guy have a lot of money?’
Clopeh Sekka. He’s the heir to a well-known family in the Paerun Kingdom. He’s rich. It seemed there was gold, silver, or jewels in the pouches. Cale was amazed by his meticulous preparation.
“…How did you get to know those people?”
At Cale’s question, Clopeh answered with a smile:
“As it’s been a year since the person in charge disappeared-”
As the lord disappeared…
“The greedy ones will be acting freely.”
Clopeh calmly said, as if saying something obvious, that corruption was infiltrating Dioruel.
“…Hmm.”
Cale had nothing to say against it. Because it was a reasonable inference. But…
-Human, I’ve never seen this work method!
Cale was only surprised by Clopeh’s way of working. Because there was no one in Cale’s group who worked like that.
“I thought it would be better to use the safest and most comfortable method, even if it costs more time and money.”
Two hours. Clopeh did many things during that time. No, how did he prepare a house in two hours?
‘Is this guy really amazing?’
Cale was amazed.
-Human, Clopeh Sekka seems to become more amazing each time!
Raon was also amazed. But that amazement didn’t end.
Softly. The stack of papers he had received from the guard. Three stacks of papers. Clopeh Sekka unfolded two of them on the table.
“Ha-”
Cale was dumbfounded. Cale’s gaze, in which the translation spell the mages from Aurora had put on him was activated, turned to Clopeh.
“This crazy guy-”
He couldn’t help but say that.
-Human. It’s the lord’s castle patrol schedule!
Information about the lord’s castle night guard team.
-Huk! And it’s the organizational chart of the people managing the lord’s castle right now!
An organizational chart with the names of the people working in each department of the lord’s castle. The first was almost confidential information, and the second was information that could be obtained with a little effort. But both were difficult to obtain right now. And it was very important information for Cale.
Chaos God sect.
Demon King.
Wanderers.
It was necessary information for Cale, who was trying to create a great plan by involving those three.
“…….”
While Cale looked at Clopeh with a complex gaze, Clopeh said with a calm smile. He untied the last stack of papers.
“I prepared it for Cale-nim’s will.”
Whisper. The last stack of papers.
“Ha!”
Cale was dumbfounded.
“You’re a true madman.”
It was a compliment. It really was.
-Human, these are the names of Count Lupeh’s relatives currently in the small castle!
The relatives of the Lupeh family, believed to have allied with the Chaos God sect. The names of the relatives staying in the small castle came into Cale’s hands.
‘Did he prepare all this in two hours?’
At Cale’s gaze, full of disbelief, Clopeh gave a simple answer:
“I brought a lot of jewels.”
Money. He said that was the answer.
“When I was a child, I only learned how to use money in my family.”
The Sekka family. Clopeh had simply learned how to use money in his family, and had simply put it into practice. Money and politics were closely related, and Clopeh Sekka, who had a great sense of politics, didn’t forget that.
“Ha-”
Cale laughed.
“…….”
Clopeh calmly looked at Cale without saying anything. Cale, realizing the meaning in that gaze, let out an ironic laugh and said:
“Well done.”
A gleam appeared in Clopeh’s eyes, and Cale, seeing that, continued: With sincerity.
“It seems I did well bringing you.”
“!”
Ecstasy spread across Clopeh’s eyes. Because he had read the sincerity in Cale’s voice.
“Haha.”
Clopeh couldn’t contain his laughter and let out a low laugh.
“Haha.”
And Cale also couldn’t contain his laughter upon seeing the information he had in his hands.
-Ji ji! It seems it will be easy to steal Count Lupeh’s secret vault if we look at the lord’s castle patrol schedule!
-Ji ji! Right! We can make a plan!
-Haha. We must calmly explore all the information.
Even the children averaging 10 years old were excited.
“…”
Sui Khan calmly watched the whole scene and then turned his gaze to the window.
‘It’s strange.’
These guys are really strange. But he couldn’t reveal his feelings. Suddenly, he was taken to the room by the children. The only room with a bed. Sui Khan had to lie on the bed, cover himself with a blanket, and stay still.
“The bleeding won’t stop despite treatment.”
Clopeh’s gaze was too terrifying. Clopeh, realizing he had begun to receive Cale’s recognition, had a burning fire in his eyes. With shining eyes, he told Cale:
“I’ll look for a treatment method and information.”
Clopeh, with a different shining gaze than before, left the house. There was vitality in his appearance as he disappeared into the darkness. A voice reached Sui Khan, who was dazedly watching this.
“Then-”
It was Cale.
“How did you get injured?”
He asked Sui Khan. And the team leader didn’t beat around the bush.
“The Chaos God sect is using Chaos contamination to create something called the gray disease to swallow the Demon World.”
He simply pointed directly to the main point.
“Right now, they’ve only spread the seeds of the gray disease, but they soon plan to simultaneously spread it throughout the Demon World and expand their influence in the Demon World while treating it. The starting place will probably be the city of Dioruel, and the time will be the period of the new lord’s selection.”
“!”
On widened his eyes.
“I saw a village destroyed by an experiment on the propagation ability of the gray disease seeds, and I went crazy.”
He smiled embarrassedly while looking at his arm.
“I got hurt. Ha ha!”
But immediately, with a serious expression, he asked Cale:
“Did you save Choi Jung Gun?”
Choi Jung Gun, who had been affected by Chaos contamination. The question of whether he had found a way to save him was a question containing his feelings about whether he could also solve the gray disease. Cale answered as if it were obvious:
“Yes. I saved him.”
A smile reappeared on team leader Sui Khan’s lips. He didn’t hide his shining eyes as he looked at his wound. With a low laugh, he lazily said:
“I can ruin their plans.”
And Cale thought:
‘He’s angry.’
Team leader Sui Khan had wide eyes.
-Human, why are your eyes also at 120 degrees?
And Cale’s eyes were also slightly wide. Kim Rok Soo, Lee Soo Hyuk, and Choi Jung Soo, who died. Lee Soo Hyuk, whom he finally saw again, had a new body. And it was a young body. But that body is now injured and the bleeding won’t stop. Cale’s heart beat stronger than he expected upon seeing team leader Sui Khan, who was nervously smiling with a pale face.
-Hmm.
Raon secretly told On and Hong.
-It seems our Human is going to destroy everything this time.
On and Hong silently nodded in response.
* * *
Dawn broke, and Cale headed to the lord’s castle with Clopeh Sekka.
“Let me know if you contact Choi Han.”
Of course, he left an order for Raon.
“Second brother.”
Clopeh Sekka, true to his role, kindly said. Today, Cale and Clopeh Sekka are members close to the current Demon King.
They plan to meet with them to achieve something. If all goes well, they plan to proudly visit the small castle. Clopeh Sekka, without erasing his smile, continued:
“I have a lot of money. I brought as much as I could.”
And he added:
“Can I use it however I want?”
Cale energetically nodded at Clopeh’s words.
“Yes! Brother, spend it however you want!”
“Haha.”
A commercial city where the lord has disappeared. A place where rules and honesty have disappeared and competition and corruption have begun to overflow. Clopeh Sekka, who brought many jewels and gold, many jewels and gold, just in case, in his dimensional space pouch, smiled. Cale looked at Clopeh Sekka with shining eyes. For the first time, this guy felt reliable.
The chaotic Dioruel. Suddenly, a rich madman, Clopeh Sekka, appeared.
