Chapter 390: The Birth of Evil (7)

It didn’t matter that his companions—and even the ancient powers—reacted with distrust.
Cale moved forward with what he had to do.

“At the very least, I can protect you from Honorary Chairman Han Taek-su. And—”

Cale believed he understood the deeper fear that haunted Chief of Staff Kang Geun-mok.
The fear of lingering, of never truly ending.

“The peaceful death you desire… I believe there’s a way to achieve that too.”

The God of Death.

As long as that god remained Cale’s ally, there was a path.
A way to reach the answer Kang Geun-mok had been seeking.

“…I see.”

Kang Geun-mok’s tense shoulders relaxed as he leaned back into the sofa.
“Hmm.”

Cale paused, thinking.
There was still much to learn from Kang Geun-mok.
Better to ease him in with a story—something that would help him relax, maybe even cooperate.

“And our goal is, eventually, to eliminate the King’s Successor—”

“What?”

Kang Geun-mok shot upright, startled.
“What—what did you say?”

“Ah? No, it’s just—”

Cale flinched slightly as Kang Geun-mok’s bloodshot eyes locked onto him, burning with intensity.

“It’s just… well, our final goal is to destroy all the members of the Hunter family. And also, to eliminate the King’s Successor. If we come out on top in the end… won’t that fulfill what you want?”

“Ha!”

Kang Geun-mok tilted his head back, staring at the ceiling as he let out a laugh that sounded more like a sigh.

“You say you’re going to eliminate that evil?”

“Hehehe~!”

He laughed uncontrollably, astonished—almost agitated.
But his hands, gripping the armrests of the sofa, clenched tighter and tighter.

There’s a possibility.

The red-haired man stood before him.
Kang Geun-mok had seen the King’s Successor with his own eyes.
And in Cale, he saw a possibility.

But—

“With your current level, you can’t defeat that evil.”

It was only a possibility, after all.

“Hmm?”

Alberu’s eyebrows lifted slightly.
His calmed gaze settled on Kang Geun-mok.

Rosalyn pulled a high-grade magic stone from her pocket and began to spin it in her hand, her eyes fixed on the Secretary General.

But Cale didn’t flinch.
He simply asked,

“Why did you say that?”

Kang Geun-mok answered without hesitation.

“Because that monster has been growing for over fifty years.”

The monstrosity he first saw looked like a child—no older than ten.

“Of course, you have potential. That’s my intuition.”

Kang Geun-mok, famed for his sharp insight—even Han Taek-su acknowledged it—spoke plainly, without hesitation.
He said what he felt.

“I see in you the possibility of facing a world made up of seven hells.”

Cale remembered what the Elder of the Blood Cult had once told him:

‘It is the same with you. Of course, you are different from the King's Successor. The size of your plate is too small compared to the successor. It is also weak. It wouldn't be weird if your plate was to break at any moment.’

He said that Cale’s world was smaller than the King’s Successor’s.

And that comparison was based on fifty years ago.

The current King’s Successor would have more power than back then.

“…It’s not a wrong statement.”

Cale agreed with Kang Geun-mok’s words.

“However—”

But he had to let him know what Kang Geun-mok didn’t know.

“I’m not going to do it alone, so don’t worry too much.”

He has many allies and companions.

He just had to prepare gradually.

“The King’s Successor also has allies, his subjects.”

When Kang Geun-mok said the reality with a tense face.

“No?”

“What?”

Cale said with a wry smile.

“Now only the Transparent Blood Family and the Five Colored Blood Family remain, right?”

“…!”

Kang Geun-mok’s eyes widened.

“Could it be, you are the power behind the elimination of the other Hunter families?”

He asked in a trembling voice, but Cale didn’t answer. Instead, he said something else.

“And soon, the Transparent Blood Family will disappear too, right?”

Cale’s appearance while smiling was quite evil, but Kang Geun-mok clenched his fists and raised the corners of his lips.

A bit of life floated on his face, which was like a dry tree.

That was hope.

“Why did you seek me out?”

He finally got to the main point.

“The access code to the secret laboratory.”

The moment Cale said those words, Kang Geun-mok unconsciously hit his knee with the palm of his hand.

“Did you already get that information?”

Actually, it was the RMPAG system that told him.

Cale only received the mission.

[Sub–mission: Steal the special research report from the secret laboratory of ㈜Transparent!]

“Yes. The special research report that’s there. I have to take it.”

Kang Geun-mok asked cautiously as he looked at Cale smiling.

“Do you know where it is?”

“Yes. I know.”

The address was written in the mission details.

The System told him.

“Oh!”

Kang Geun-mok exclaimed.

“Chairman Han Taek-su said that only a God could find the location of that place—”

God?

Cale flinched.

But Kang Geun-mok, caught in his astonishment, pressed on.

“I see. Are you a God?”

“No!”

Cale eagerly denied.

“Then, how—”

“I have a God on my side.”

“Oh.”

Kang Geun-mok’s eyes shone even brighter.

“This… this might be a possible battle.”

The King’s Successor isn’t a god yet either.

He’s just trying to become one.

But it’s said that someone who has the possibility of facing him isn’t a god either.

“Yes. That’s how things are.”

Kang Geun-mok nodded his head and put all the pieces of the puzzle together.

“Only the Chairman and I know the password to that place. Among those who are alive now. If you even know where that place is, even if a God discovered it, it’s truly amazing.”

Hmm.

Actually, the RMPAG System told him everything.

Kang Geun-mok couldn’t seem to imagine that the game system had betrayed him, and that it was an ally of Cale.

Actually, the game system is the true god of New World.

The only real god that currently exists within RMPAG is the game system.

Huh?

This feels like I’ve obtained an incredibly important key, doesn’t it?

Cale thought he had to talk to the system to truly know it.

Maybe our biggest ally right now is the game system.

The system, which seemed to be under the control of Transparent Corp., had been creating mutant NPCs like AI Won to protect its world.

Xiaolen, Central Plains, Aipotu.

An existence with a stronger and more active power than the worlds he had previously experienced.

Although, as a system, it had its limitations and was under the control of Transparent Corp.

It could be our most powerful weapon.

Cale stopped thinking about the system for a moment and looked at Kang Geun-mok.

This guy doesn’t know anything about the system.

He couldn’t completely trust him.

Cale gave instructions to Kang Geun-mok.

“I think you can write the password on your business card.”

“Yes.”

He needed a way to communicate with Kang Geun-mok.

“Tomorrow morning, I’m going to steal the special research report from secret laboratory.”

“Hmm.”

“Before that, pack the basic essentials and contact me here.”

If only the Chief of Staff and the Chairman know the password, Kang Geun-mok would have to run away before that.

If he doesn’t want to die at the hands of Chairman Han.

“I’ll let you know thirty minutes before I go in, so don’t worry too much.”

Kang Geun-mok’s eyes widened as he received the business card that Cale handed to him.

“…Sun.”

The business card had the name Choi Seon-hee, the director of ㈜Sun.

“If you can’t contact her, use this.”

The next business card Cale gave him had only three characters on the front.

<Ahn Roh Man>

“!”

Kang Geun-mok’s hands trembled.

“How far—”

How far have you gone with your preparations?

The man in front of him had prepared a giant trap without ㈜Transparent knowing.

“Stop asking questions.”

Cale said as he put away the business card with the password that Kang Geun-mok had written.

“Actually, it would be safer for me to take you to the laboratory.”

Because the password that is written on Kang Geun-mok’s business card could be fake.

Besides, Kang Geun-mok could confess the truth to Chairman Han.

“But the reason I’m letting you go is just one.”

Cale demanded.

“If you don’t want to die restfully, if you want to live.”

The condition you desire, a comfortable death.

If you don’t want that, if you want to live—

“Bring me the information I want.”

Of course, I don’t know if that life will be comfortable, easy, or like hell.

“What do you think?”

He asked Kang Geun-mok.

“It’s worth a try, right?”

Kang Geun-mok nodded his head, put away the two business cards that Cale had given him, and stood up.

“Then, I’m leaving.”

“Okay.”

Cale greeted Kang Geun-mok with a wave of his hand.

Kang Geun-mok bowed his head in greeting with a tense face and headed back to the front door.

He had the same dry face, like an old tree, as if nothing had happened.

“Ah.”

Kang Geun-mok stopped for a moment.

“I was about to make a big mistake.”

He turned around and asked:

“What should I call you?”

At that question, Cale shrugged.

“I’ll tell you the next time we meet.”

“…You still don’t trust me. That’s fine. We’ll see each other next time.”

Kang Geun-mok nodded as if he understood and was about to walk again when he heard an ordinary voice.

“What kind of monster is Han Taek-su?”

“Don’t you know?”

“I only know that he’s not human.”

At Cale’s unreserved admittance, Kang Geun-mok said with a slightly pale face.

And soon after.

Beep!

The lock on the front door closed and only Cale and his group remained in the living room.

“Ugh—”

Rosalyn sighed and ran a hand over her face.

“Han Taek-su—”

She was remembering the moment when Kang Geun-mok had described Han Taek-su’s true nature a moment ago.

“He said he was a chimera?”

“To be exact, it would be different from a normal chimera.”

Alberu added, looking at Cale.

And Cale was recording what Kang Geun-mok had said.

‘Chairman Han Taek-su is human. However, he is a human who became a chimera on his own.’

‘Except for his brain, he has nothing human.’

‘He took the best parts of countless living creatures and made them part of his body.’

‘Hmm. Although he started as human, it would be more accurate to call him a monster.’

Black Mage.

Blood Demon.

Dragon Lord.

The heads of the Hunter families he had faced so far.

Two family heads remain.

The Leader of the Transparent Blood Family is a human who became a chimera on his own.

And the Leader of the Five Colored Blood Family is the first Wanderer.

None of them are easy.

The heads of the previous three families hadn’t been easy, but somehow, now it felt like he was finally facing truly strong enemies.

“Let’s go.”

Cale and his group left without a trace, just like when they entered the house.

Of course, the agents guarding Kang Geun-mok’s house were all sound asleep and were destined to wake up in the morning.

All thanks to the special sleeping poison of Hong, the Cat tribe Member.

* * *

“Sir, the prosecution demands the appearance of the chief of staff!”

“They say the prosecutors have arrived at the chief of staff’s house!”

“They don’t have any evidence, what evidence are they looking for?”

President Ahn Roh Man.

He came out of the VR game and, after a long time, called all his advisors and associates to his office.

“…….”

“…….”

Only Ahn Roh Man, sitting in the main seat, and Mary, sitting beside him, remained silent as they faced the information that was being poured in.

“Chief of staff!”

One person told Mary persuasively.

“We have to take action!”

“…….”

However, Mary remained silent. Everyone felt uncomfortable with her unusual behavior.

If it were her, she would have been working diligently to find a way out.

But some were able to detect something in her behavior.

“…”

Mary was staring intently at Ahn Roh Man, who was sitting in silence.

The advisor who had been serving Ahn Roh Man along with Mary for a long time spoke.

“Have you found a way?”

Currently, Mary couldn’t avoid appearing before the prosecution.

The image of Mary entering the abandoned elementary school grounds was too clear.

No one could question why there were surveillance cameras there, but it was first necessary to refute this evidence.

A way to save Mary.

Just the bones found on the elementary school grounds numbered in the hundreds.

Mary, accused of being the mastermind behind that horrific incident, was being criticized by everyone, including the media, and the situation would worsen.

Ahn Roh Man’s position was also like a candle in front of a storm.

“…”

And Mary, after a silence, spoke.

“What is the method?”

She had heard Ahn Roh Man say that there was a method, but she hadn’t heard it yet.

That’s why she didn’t move and just stayed silent.

But she couldn’t stay still anymore.

She would soon be arrested as a suspect and taken to the prosecution. If that happened, the situation would become even more complicated and unfavorable.

“…Mary, the chief of staff—”

Finally, Ahn Roh Man’s closed mouth opened.

“She was looking for something under my orders. This is what happened because of that.”

That was evidence to reveal the corruption of ㈜Transparent, and it was a secret.

Only Mary and a few trusted associates knew.

In that situation, the fact that Mary has been arrested means there is a traitor among my associates.

That’s why Ahn Roh Man couldn’t speak easily.

He only said one word.

“The only thing we have to do now is—”

He looked out the window.

It’s still night.

“Hold on as long as possible.”

Until the sun rises.

‘Ahn Roh Man. We will bring evidence of Transparent’s corruption.’

Alberu arrived with Rosalyn and Cale Henituse and said.

‘Wait until the sun rises.’

And he requested.

‘And when the sun rises, send the trusted people to the address we gave you.’

Ahn Roh Man looked at the address and spoke.

‘Do you know where that address is?’

‘Yes. I know.’

Alberu Crossman calmly replied.

‘If you find it difficult to handle this silently, something big could happen there. You’ll have to deal with the consequences. Understood?’

Ahn Roh Man couldn’t refute that.

Because he knew where the written address was.

The Transparent Museum.

The capital of Roan.

A magnificent building located in the best place in the city.

Created by ㈜Transparent, this place houses the history of ㈜Transparent and its achievements.

What’s there?

Ahn Roh Man suppressed his anxiety and waited for the sun to rise.

* * *

“The sun has risen.”

Alberu looked at the rising sun and Cale looked at his wristwatch and spoke.

“Rosalyn, are you ready?”

“Yes. But I don’t think I can undo the camouflage magic silently.”

“It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t have to be silent.”

Swoosh!

Rosalyn’s hands and arms were covered in bracelets.

They were all made of high-quality magic stones and shone beautifully.

Rosalyn, with the cost of running a city for a year on her two arms, said cheerfully.

“A secret laboratory disguised as a museum. It’s true face will be revealed to everyone today.”

Haha.

Her eyes shone like the sun as she laughed softly.

“Young Master. I’m in charge of distracting the people outside, right?”

“Yes.”

“If the situation gets complicated, can I just do something flashy?”

“Yes. Do whatever you want.”

Cale walked towards the museum as he watched.

“Let’s go.”

“Okay.”

Cale, wearing a mask and camouflaged, was accompanied by Alberu, who was also wearing a mask.

By the way, both of them were wearing Arm outfits.

Step, step~

Cale’s step triggered the red magic to coil around Rosalyn, flickering like a flame straining against its own restraint—ready to erupt.

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P/R Thoughts:

Kang Geun-mok’s secrets crack open the truth about Han Taek-su and the Transparent Museum, pushing Cale one step closer to the heart of despair.

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Thank you for reading!

[Author – Yu Ryeo Han]

[Translator – Anowa]

[Proofreader – Mayank]