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New seeds have sprouted. And that in two adjacent cities. There’s no time to waste.
“This is truly incredible!”
Even so, Cale had to do what he had to do.
“I think so too!”
When Hong agreed, Raon confidently and energetically stated:
“They’re all injured, and they’re looking at each other with disdain!”
“!”
“……!”
“!!”
Cale, Choi Jung Soo, and Sui Khan were startled by Raon’s words. But only one remained calm. Raon also noticed.
“Of course, Clopeh Sekka is different!”
Raon didn’t explain how he was different. He simply moved a little away from Clopeh, who was staring intently at Cale with burning eyes, with the recording device in his hands.
“…….”
“…….”
“…….”
Cale, Choi Jung Soo, and Sui Khan remained silent for a moment.
*Dalgak*. At that moment, the door opened and Ron entered with a tray holding a teapot and teacups.
*Jjorruuru--*
Ron poured lemon tea into the teacup in front of Cale. Cale, who looked at Ron without realizing it, stopped. This merciless old man’s gaze was strange. When he realized…
“Young Master.”
Ron said with a kind smile.
“I know you are very worried about your old friends’ injuries, but since we don’t have much time, shouldn’t we finish this quickly and go to another city?”
“!”
Cale’s shoulders flinched. His pupils trembled slightly.
“…….”
Cale said nothing, and Ron smiled slightly before leaving the room.
“Cale.”
Sui Khan, with a strange expression, said:
“Haven’t you said it?”
“…….”
Cale remained silent, and Choi Jung Soo, seeing this, said:
“It seems everything has been discovered?”
With small cuts all over his body, his smile seemed to mock Cale. ‘Your old friends.’ Cale flinched at those words and furtively glanced at Clopeh.
“Jaja.”
This guy is also smiling. He smiles like Ron.
“…….”
Cale felt very annoyed.
“…Damn it.”
He was simply annoyed.
‘I wanted to finish some work and talk calmly.’
Since there were many perceptive people around him, it seemed that everything would be discovered even without speaking.
‘Is it alright to do this?’
Cale wondered, but anyway, the right thing to do was to follow the merciless old man’s advice.
“Choi Jung Soo and the team leader will stay here to recover.”
“I’m fine.”
Although the scabs from the small wounds were still clearly visible, Cale ignored Choi Jung Soo’s kind words, who was smiling cheerfully, as if it were natural.
“Cale-nim, what about me?”
At Clopeh’s question, Cale answered as if it were natural:
“You’re coming with me.”
“Yes.”
Clopeh had wounds all over his body from fighting the Chaos God sect, but he had recovered quite a bit. Although he wasn’t fully recovered.
“Jaja. I guess I’ll be useful.”
That’s right. What he had felt while working with Clopeh this time is that this guy is very useful. Cale looked at the still unhealed wound on Clopeh’s arm and clicked his tongue, but he didn’t order him to rest. Choi Jung Soo, silently observing this, smiled and said:
“Clopeh and I are in a similar state of recovery. Why can’t I go now?”
His smile disappeared, and he said with a serious face:
“Is it because I’m a Wanderer?”
“…….”
Cale didn’t answer.
“Is it because the guys from the Three Emperors’ faction, those guys, might recognize me because I’m a Wanderer?”
Choi Jung Soo said with a serious face. But…
*Psik*.
Cale smiled slightly. Choi Jung Soo stopped at that smile. Instead, Sui Khan opened his mouth.
“Jung Soo.”
His measured tone had a firmness that attracted everyone’s attention.
“Look at yourself in a mirror.”
Doubt appeared on Choi Jung Soo’s face, and Sui Khan calmly replied:
“You’re still out of your mind.”
“……!”
Choi Jung Soo had suffered many mental attacks from Hitellis, of the Chaos God sect, through the Sacred Object. He had had to remember and feel the greatest pain, the moment of death, countless times. That was more than a physical wound.
“Cale. I’ll take care of Jung Soo.”
“Yes. Leader.”
Seeing Sui Khan and Cale calmly talking, Choi Jung Soo rubbed his face with a hand. Indeed, he still suffered nightmares about the moment of his death, which he had had to experience dozens of times due to Hitellis, every time he fell asleep.
‘I thought I had hidden it.’
It seems that neither Choi Han nor Choi Jung Gun know. Why have the team leader and Kim Rok Soo discovered it?
*Psik*.
Choi Jung Soo, strangely, smiled slightly, and he felt his tense shoulders relax a little. He leaned back in the chair. He understood the reason why Cale Henituse had created this place. It wasn’t because of the team leader Sui Khan, who would soon begin treatment.
“Ah.”
Choi Jung Soo sighed and calmly said:
“It can’t be hidden.”
With a relaxed smile, Choi Jung Soo, feeling a new sense of camaraderie, took his hands away from his face and looked at his two companions and family.
“!”
And he was startled. Cale and Sui Khan. The two weren’t looking at Choi Jung Soo. They weren’t paying attention to him.
“Leader.”
The two were having a conversation only between themselves.
“Yes.”
“Does it seem like you’ve been provoked?”
Cale looked at team leader Sui Khan with a rather arrogant look.
*Siiik*. Sui Khan, with the corner of his lips curved, didn’t deny it.
“Cale.”
“Yes, leader.”
Cale treated Sui Khan like Kim Rok Soo, the long-time employee.
“About the Unique Power.”
A strange gleam appeared in the eyes of Clopeh Sekka, who was silently listening.
“Isn’t it similar to our abilities?”
The ability users who appeared on Kim Rok Soo’s planet. The power they possessed. Kim Rok Soo possessed the power of the Record and the Instant.
“Well…”
But Cale didn’t agree with his words.
“Well, if you think about it, magic and aura are also abilities.”
A power that only a few can possess. Magic, aura, abilities, ancient powers.
“Hmm.”
Sui Khan looked at the ceiling and said:
“It seems that the Unique Power is above all those powers.”
He calmly expressed his thoughts.
“I should say it’s a power that transcends the human…”
Team leader Sui Khan realized this while he was with Cale in the Demon Kingdom.
“I must strengthen myself.”
Although he’s not the Heavenly Demon nor Choi Han. He has his own power, and he has found the key to strengthening it. Sui Khan had been thinking while he was delayed in joining Telia as an injured person. And he came to a conclusion.
“The high-ranking paladin. Can I do whatever I want with him?”
Cale’s smile deepened.
‘The team leader has made a decision.’
He has the ability to cut anything. And the high-ranking paladin who injured Sui Khan. He didn’t look at his face, which was captive, nor did he see his ability precisely. But that guy had the power to prevent wounds from healing. It’s unknown whether it’s the power of the God of Chaos or what.
‘They have good affinity.’
Sui Khan’s ability and that power have good affinity. It’s unknown how Sui Khan will grow if he obtains that power.
“Watching Clopeh, please.”
“Yes.”
Furthermore, Sui Khan wants to have Beacrox by his side. It seems that the team leader wants to transmit, or make flourish, his ability to Beacrox. Probably the team leader saw in Beacrox the ‘seed’ that would inherit his sword.
‘Good.’
Cale accepted reality.
‘Everyone must strengthen themselves.’
It’s time for everyone to strengthen themselves. That’s why he liked Sui Khan’s idea very much. Cale said nothing more.
“I trust you.”
“Yes.”
Choi Jung Soo watched that scene with a relaxed expression. On the other hand, Clopeh watched Sui Khan and Cale with a serious look.
‘I might be left behind.’
Cale-nim doesn’t abandon his companions. But if he doesn’t have the sufficient ability to follow him, he won’t be able to stay near Cale-nim. Clopeh can’t allow that. Clopeh’s eyes, focused only on one goal, burned intensely.
“…….”
“…….”
Sui Khan and Cale looked at Clopeh with an uncomfortable expression. That’s why they didn’t know that Choi Jung Soo’s hands, which were under the table, were clenched into fists. Choi Jung Soo also had no intention of being left behind.
“Hmm.”
Raon observed this for a moment and hesitated.
“Human.”
And he cautiously called Cale. And Cale automatically responded, as if it were natural. Because it was obvious what this little black dragon was thinking.
“7-year-olds only need to eat well, sleep well, and play well.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes.”
“Jihi!”
Seeing Raon laugh cheerfully, Cale gestured to Clopeh.
“Let’s go.”
*Dalgak~*
He opened the door, and General Mol, who was waiting in the hallway, approached with a worried expression.
“Guide me.”
Cale headed towards Midi and Mika, two adjacent cities. Very secretly.
“That punk Third Emperor is crazy!”
Cale asked General Mol how it had all happened while heading to Midi, one of the cities of Midi and Mika. Mol’s voice rose.
“You may not know, but Midi and Mika are historically famous cities. They are cities that have existed since ancient times.”
“I know. They say there are ruins that housed a Demon God?”
“Yes. Midi and Mika. There are ruins between them.”
Midi and Mika were cities that had existed for a long time, with a large population and had maintained a mid-to-high position in various fields, such as commerce and culture. Of course, they weren’t individually that large cities, but they had grown together and had active exchange, so they were considered sister cities.
“I don’t know why that crazy Third Emperor wanted to go to those ruins.”
At Mol’s words, who sighed, Cale replied:
“But I understand why the Chaos God sect planted seeds there.”
“Yes. Because it’s a place that contains the remains of a Demon God.”
Both General Mol and advisor Ed. When they received the map of the seeds’ location from Cale… They immediately understood upon seeing Midi and Mika, and sent demons there. But the Third Emperor had already arrived there, and was causing trouble looking for Cale and the Chaos God sect.
“There’s a tribe that protects the Demon God ruins. They are responsible for managing and protecting the ruins.”
“Hmm.”
Cale groaned at the words that there was a tribe protecting the Demon God ruins.
‘Is an image forming?’
He felt a cliché aura. Mol continued:
“The Third Emperor tried to enter the ruins, and the tribe tried to stop him. But one of the tribe’s children was a seed.”
“…Wow.”
Cale groaned.
“But that tribe has an heir who serves as high priest from generation to generation.”
Cale unknowingly asked at Mol’s words:
“Is that child the candidate for the next high priest?”
“!”
Mol looked at Cale surprised.
“How do you know that…”
“Hmm.”
Cale looked into the distance instead of answering. His prediction was correct. But…
‘How annoying.’
He felt bad. Why does it have to be a child? No, why is that punk Third Emperor causing trouble in other people’s ruins? It’s a historical site of a country. Why is he touching it?
“I don’t know what the Third Emperor did to the child who had the seed. I only know that the seed sprouted, and because of that, it’s believed that many members of the tribe, as well as many demons who were visiting the ruins, became infected.”
Mol’s expression hardened.
“And the two cities have fallen into chaos.”
The Demon King’s side, who arrived with little time, tried to control the situation belatedly. But Midi and Mika were in utter chaos.
“…Because…”
He sighed.
“There’s a legend that the moment the ruins collapse is the moment the Demon Kingdom is destroyed.”
But the tribe that had protected the ruins for generations is about to collapse. It was natural that chaos would reach the two cities, which considered the ruins their pride and refuge.
“And it’s said that several demons who couldn’t be quarantined went to the two cities.”
While they were trying to calm down the Third Emperor who was causing trouble, they couldn’t stop several demons returning to their home cities. Because of that…
“The demons saw the true nature of the gray disease.”
Several demons who arrived in the two cities lost consciousness as the gray disease manifested. And they woke up when night came, showing their ferocity.
“Now they say that the ‘gray curse’ that will destroy the Demon Kingdom has appeared there, and it’s total chaos.”
Mol said that and moved Cale’s wheelchair over the magic formation.
*Paaaaaat-! *
Along with a bright light, Cale, Mol, and his group headed towards Midi.
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The light soon disappeared, and Cale could see someone waiting for him in Midi.
“Cale Henituse.”
The Demon King calmly said.
“From now on, I intend to go meet the Third Emperor.”
Because he has to expel the Dragon King, one of the Three Emperors, from the ruins.
“Will you join?”
*Tuk*. The Demon King threw a robe, which gently fell onto the knees of Cale, who was sitting in the wheelchair.
“It’s a robe that hides ki/energy.”
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