At that moment…

“Pwa, hahahaha!”

The sealed god suddenly burst into laughter. He looked extremely frivolous as it came with an exaggerated gesture.

However, Choi Han and Toonka were already running toward the sealed god as if they had nothing to lose.

Choi Han’s Black Yong was at the god’s back while Toonka’s fist was to the god’s right side.

“Ah.”

The god suddenly stopped laughing and mumbled to himself while looking at the sky.

“I wanted to have some fun, as if I was playing a game.”

“You can have fun while getting pummeled!”

As Toonka shouted with excitement… The sealed god kicked off the ground.

Tap.

Even though it was just a simple tap… Whirlwinds gathered at his feet and his body shot up and he looked like the crescent moon as he flipped in the air.

“Mm!”

Choi Han frowned.

“You’re like a damn rat!”

Toonka changed directions and grabbed Cale, who was standing there holding the cintamani, and quickly retreated.

Baaaaaaaaaang-!

The Black Yong flew past where the sealed god had been standing and destroyed some trees in the forest.

Tap.

The sealed god elegantly landed on the ground as if he had never moved.

“Pffft.”

The god scoffed. A black mana arrow flew toward his foot that just touched the ground.

The black Dragon was glaring at him. Numerous black mana arrows were already aiming for the god’s openings.

Baaaaang—!

The mana arrows crashed into the silver shield and generated loud explosions.

The impact filled the area with dust, making the sealed god and the shield no longer visible.

They heard the sealed god’s voice through the dust clouds at that moment.

“Did you know?”

His voice was too calm for this situation.

“The God of Death is extremely meddlesome.”

Chhhhhh. Chhhhhh.

The cintamani had turned completely black at some point and was only making sounds like a broken machine.

“That god always brings single-lifers over to handle things whenever chaos arrives in one of the worlds.”

Choi Han jumped into the dust clouds.

The sealed god continued to speak.

“But you see. What sin did the single-lifer commit to get dragged here?”

Choi Han’s face showed no changes at all. Instead, Choi Han made eye contact with Cale.

Nod.

Cale nodded his head and Choi Han charged toward the sealed god without any hesitation.

Baaaaang!

The shield and sword clashed once again and Choi Han could see the god smiling on the other side of the shield. The god continued to whisper.

“What about the family of the single-lifer who suddenly lost a precious member of their family? What about their friends? What did they ever do wrong?”

Choi Han’s eyes slightly shook for a moment.

Shaaaaaaaaaaaa-

The shield disappeared. It was replaced by a rose-gold thunderbolt in one hand and a water spear in the other.

He clenched those two powers together.

Crackle-.

The water, fire, and thunderbolt raged as they swirled together. Choi Han instantly figured out that the destructive nature of this attack was even stronger than the White Star’s Sword of Disasters.

“…Something that even Cale-nim cannot do-”

“Did you really think that I would be like a mere human? You can’t think that we are the same because we look the same on the outside.”

Even if he was using Cale’s powers, the plate that was holding the ancient powers was not Cale’s.

“I am the God of Despair.”

He slowly added on.

“I may be seen as evil.”

He sounded calm.

“Humans wish to avoid me.”

The emotions on his face slowly disappeared.

“I also test the people who come to my temple. However, I do not change people’s lives.”

His calm voice now became monotone.

“Did I goad the White Star? I simply wait in my temple. You all came to me. Despair does not come to find you. Your lives create the despair. So, am I evil?”

The fire, thunderbolt, and water had intertwined into the shape of a spear. Choi Han bit down on his lower lip.

“Despair may seem evil, but, looking at it in a different way, it is just a part of life.”

The sealed god charged in after saying that. Choi Han twisted his body.

“Raon!”

He subconsciously called out that name. The sealed god was charging toward the black Dragon.

“I will not lose!”

The black Dragon didn’t think much about Choi Han’s shout as he glared at the sealed god running toward him. Black mana fluctuated around the Dragon. Intense rumbling showed the strength of this attack.

It was at that moment.

“Black Dragon! Stop focusing on the magic circle and cast shields!”

The black Dragon heard a stern voice.

He couldn’t help but look in that direction. Cale was looking at him. The black Dragon looked at this person, whom he had not been able to see until now, that Choi Han and the others seemed to listen to.

“Don’t look at me! Do it now!”

The black Dragon could not go against his word for some reason.

The black Dragon was currently maintaining the magic circle to hinder teleportation while using the rest of its mana to find an opening to attack the god.

It was the same in this current situation.

He thought that it was enough.

However, both Cale and Choi Han knew the truth.

Raon was great and mighty from the first time they met him, but his greatness was the result of his desire to learn, his will to improve himself, and his efforts.

This Raon, who had yet to learn a lot of things, would not be able to handle something that was even stronger than the White Star’s Sword of Disasters.

“Hurry!”

The moment he heard the stern yet concerned voice again…

Raon subconsciously stopped focusing on the magic circle and cast shields with all his strength.

One layer. Two layers, three layers.

Shields continued to quickly get cast without stopping.

“Hmph.”

The Dragon could see the sealed god sneer at him before striking down on the shields with the spear.

Choi Han charged toward the god’s back while Toonka stood in front of Cale to block any potential aftershock from this collision.

At that moment…

“Your highness!”

Alberu Crossman, who had been watching all of this, turned his head after hearing a stern voice. Cale Henituse was looking at him.

‘It’s obvious why the god attacked Raon.’

He was planning on interrupting the magic circle that was preventing teleportation to use the opening to escape.

There were still many things in this world that this god could use.

He could pretend to be the White Star even if he had to stop pretending to be Cale.

‘We will tie him down here at minimum.’

Eruhaben and Mary were out to handle the issue in the Mogoru Empire. Rosalyn and Clopeh were in the Eastern continent.

That was why Cale was addressing Alberu.

“Are you going to just stand there, your highness?”

The crown prince’s expression instantly changed. The Dark Elves guarding Alberu noticed this and immediately followed behind Choi Han.

At that moment… Time did not wait for them any longer.

The young black Dragon’s layers of shields and the fire, water, and thunderbolt spear collided.

Baaaaaaaaaang—–!

Their ears were ringing and all they could see was white.

Craaaaaaack.

Only the black Dragon could see his shields starting to break at this violent power that attacked him.

One layer, two layers, three layers…

The shields continued to break and the black Dragon thought that he made the right choice to listen to that human named Cale as he channeled his mana to cast more shields.

He then made eye contact with the god looking at him.

Smirk.

The god smirked and then shot up with a whirlwind.

‘He’s going to escape! He’s getting away!’

The black Dragon had those thoughts on his mind.

However, the god was reaching his hand toward someone. While everybody’s sights were still covered by the explosion… The god chose to do something else rather than running away.

While that was going on…

Cale, whose ears were ringing from the explosion, heard a quiet noise.

– Chhhhhh. Chhhhhh-

The cintamani had turned black again and he heard a voice. The God of Death’s voice could be heard through the static.

– The sealed god, chhh, is someone, chhh, who lives by eating, chhhh, despair.

The sealed god is someone who lives by eating despair.

– Ah, Ahn Roh, chhhh-, Man’s in, fo, was, not, wrong.

Ahn Roh Man’s information was not wrong.

‘Hmm?’

At the spot where Raon and the sealed god had collided… Cale’s expression changed while somewhat listening to the cintamani as he focused on the center of the explosion where Choi Han and the Dark Elves had charged into.

Ahn Roh Man.

He was one of the former owners of the Unbreakable Spear, Taerang, and someone who lived in a different world.

Their world had the Lion Dragon appear as the Temple Guardian, and they managed to take it down and clear the temple as well.

He had informed crown prince Alberu about how they managed to clear the sealed god’s temple and Alberu had used that information to decide the first team to go in.

However, they had experienced a completely different test than the illusion test involving sadness, sloth, and other emotions as Ahn Roh Man had described.

This was the reason Cale had thought for a while that the test might be different in every world or that there was an explanation for what had happened.

– What he t, told you is the o, o, original, chhhh, t, test.

The God of Death was saying that what Ahn Roh Man had told them was the original temple test.

In that case, why had it changed for Cale and the others?

‘…I have a bad feeling about this.’

Cale started walking after feeling an unexplainable ominous sensation.

Toonka got shocked and tried to stop him but Cale ran into an area where it was hard to see anything because of the dust and everything that had blasted from the collision.

The God of Death was still speaking.

– However, the sealed god was a, able to, chhhh, eat the despairs of a lot of test challengers, chhh, in Ahn, chhh, Roh Man’s world.

The sealed god is someone who lives by eating despair.

An unfathomable number of people were said to have taken the test in Ahn Roh Man’s world for a year.

The sealed god must have consumed quite a lot of despair.

Cale started to think.

‘If the God of Despair eats despair?’

He quickly came up with an answer.

‘He’ll get stronger!’

Even if he was sealed, he ate despair, which was the foundation of his power.

‘…Because of that!’

The God of Death said the next part before Cale could think it.

– T, that is the reason that the test has c, changed.

The reason that the sealed god was able to create a new test was because he had gotten stronger, despite being sealed, by consuming a lot of despair in Ahn Roh Man’s world.

– F, furthermore, he is t, trying to make the t, temples appear in numerous worlds, chhhh-

Cale couldn’t hear the rest of what the God of Death had to say because of the static, but he understood the point.

‘The unranked monsters appeared in the world where I used to live as Kim Rok Soo as well.’

Those monsters eventually lead to the Lion Dragon and forcibly open the temple. The people trying to protect that world would have no choice but to take down the Lion Dragon, so they would be forced to open the door of the temple that appears once the guardian disappears.

Then the people trying to protect that world would have to take the test of despair and the God of Despair would benefit from every challenger.

‘Now that I think about it, what Ahn Roh Man explained about the end of the test seems odd as well.’

The way to clear the temple in Ahn Roh Man’s world that Alberu had shared with Cale was a bit absurd.

‘Once you overcome all illusions related to the emotions…’

They would arrive at the end of the temple.

There would be a white key to close the temple door and the temple would disappear right away if they made it back to the entrance and closed the temple door.

Thinking about it in a different way…

‘That means that the sealed god would consume the despair and leave that world without any harm at the end.’

He figured out why numerous worlds were dealing with incidents and monsters related to the sealed god.

But it also made him come up with a question.

‘Can the sealed god do this on his own? He’s supposed to be sealed.’

It must mean that there was an accomplice helping the sealed god.

It was not a stupid bastard like the White Star. It was someone who could traverse through dimensions and create traps in the different worlds. This individual would not be an easy enemy to defeat.

“Ha!”

Cale scoffed and started moving faster.

His eyes were focused on the sealed god who was slowly becoming visible as the dust subsided.

He realized where the sealed god was moving toward and what he was reaching for as soon as he noticed that the sealed god was not running away.

Someone who lives by eating despair.

Someone who was originally a Hunter.

He should only have one target.

“Cale-nim! Please don’t come! I will stop him!”

Choi Han was shouting with urgency toward Cale.

Choi Han’s attribute was despair. Of course, there was something else in there, the hope from his heart overcoming that despair.

However, it started from despair.

Furthermore, he was a single-lifer.

Choi Han looked away from Cale and quickly charged toward the sealed god with his sword in his hand.

Smirk.

The moment the sealed god smiled…

– Y, you must s, stop, chhhh- chhhhh-

Cale knew as well.

He knew that he needed to protect Choi Han from the sealed god.

The static disappeared and he was able to hear the God of Death’s voice properly.

– The you of this time. This is the end.

He did not hear the God of Death’s voice in the cintamani any longer.

Craaaaaaack.

The cintamani then cracked in half.

Choi Han and Cale were still far from each other.

The sealed god and Choi Han were pretty close, with their respective hand and sword reaching toward each other.

Ooooooooong-

Cale then saw it.

He saw an eerie and frightening red aura around the sealed god’s hand.

The corners of Cale’s lips curled up.

“At least the God of Death did a lot of things for us.”

Choi Han and the sealed god would collide in an instant.

However, that instant was enough for Cale.

Not the present Cale, but the Cale of the time frame of this illusion…

The power that Cale had at that time… The God of Death had removed the restrictions on those powers.

– Are you okay? What is going on?

– Hmm? Why did I get removed from noona?

The glutton priestess of the Indestructible Shield and the old man of the Vitality of the Heart.

The moment Cale heard the two of their voices… His hand stretched out toward the sealed god and Choi Han.

The dust had completely settled at that point.

Paaaat.

“What’s going on?”

“…It’s Cale-nim!”

Eruhaben and Mary showed up surrounded by gold mana, and…

“…Choi Han, no!”

“Stop him!”

The black Dragon, Alberu, and the Dark Elves were able to see again.

That was why they could see it properly.

The moment Choi Han and the sealed god were about to collide…

“This is the original.”

They heard a low voice as a holy silver shield was cast.

They saw two radiant wings warmly embracing the black haired swordsman.

They saw it all.

This was the perfect and flawless shield, the shield that was created to protect someone.

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The black aura in the shape of a black yong sparkled as it opened its jaw against the White Star.

Baaaaaang—!

There was a loud explosion as a cold fire appeared in Choi Han’s eyes.

Craaaaack-

The walls of the basement cracked and started shaking as if the whole building might crumble at any moment when Choi Han saw a bright light.

A holy silver light was releasing its serene light.

The shield with two wings was releasing its silver color in full to make its presence known.

“Haaaa.”

Choi Han couldn’t help but scoff.

But his pupils shook a bit as the White Star slowly became visible behind the shield.

Craaaaaaack.

The White Star’s mask started cracking.

The face underneath the mask appeared.

“Mm!”

Toonka subconsciously groaned.

‘Cale Henituse!’

The face underneath the mask was exactly the same as Cale’s.

‘I would have been fooled by that face if I didn’t meet the Dragon first.’

Toonka, who had been running toward the Henituse territory, would have definitely thought that the White Star was Cale if he had not met the black Dragon and Choi Han in the middle.

‘Ah. Did he say that the White Star is not the real White Star?’

Toonka hated complicated things. That was why he came to a simple conclusion.

‘The fake White Star, the bastard who is pretending to be Cale Henituse is the sealed god.’

Toonka looked amused.

‘When else would I get to beat up a god?’

“Kahahaha!”

He couldn’t help but laugh with joy.

“This sounds fun!”

He then charged toward the White Star and his shield. The White Star’s eyes looked toward Toonka at that moment.

The moment the silver shield and Toonka’s fist smashed against each other…

Baaaaang!

Toonka was sent flying from the shock while the White Star groaned a bit and started speaking.

“…It is my fault for thinking that you guys are my allies, my close friends.”

‘Hmm?’

Choi Han slightly frowned while slashing his sword toward the White Star. But Toonka responded to that statement without putting much thought into it.

“Fucking bullshit!”

Toonka charged forward again and reached toward the White Star.

A bitter smile appeared on the face of the fake White Star, who had Cale Henituse’s face.

“Your true selves are revealed now that there is nobody watching.”

Toonka’s hand was then able to easily grab the White Star by the collar.

“…Hold on!”

Choi Han tried to stop Toonka. However, Toonka completely ignored him. It could not be helped.

“You can’t do anything in such a tight space!”

He then dragged the White Star upstairs.

“No!”

The middle-aged mage turned pale from shock and tried to cast a spell toward Toonka.

“Hmph.”

However, his actions turned useless at the black Dragon’s interference.

“Fuck!”

The middle-aged mage frowned. These enemies must have suppressed their subordinates as everything was quiet despite such loud explosions echoing through the area.

He looked toward the White Star, who was weakly being dragged away by Toonka with disbelief and concern.

However, Choi Han was feeling differently.

‘Something is weird.’

He heard someone’s voice at that moment.

“How odd.”

It was Alberu Crossman who was watching all of this.

“Why did he get caught so easily? What did he mean by what he said?”

Choi Han had the same questions. He urgently rushed after Toonka. Alberu shouted toward his back.

“Teleportation is possible outside the building! Remember that teleportation is possible in the yard!”

“It doesn’t matter.”

Alberu could see the black Dragon’s front paws move.

“We just need to expand the magic circle around the house all the way to the garden. I can easily do that.”

His chubby front paw moved. He opened three toes.

“I just need three minutes. Hmph.”

Shhh.

The black Dragon disappeared after saying that. He had used his invisibility spell.

“Let’s follow them as well.”

Alberu followed Choi Han and the black Dragon up to the surface. Of course, his subordinates had already bound the middle-aged mage.

He hurried up to stairs to see the White Star. Being thrown out the door.

Boom!

“Ugh!”

The White Star rolled on the dirt floor of the garden with his face revealed.

“Why is he so weak?”

Even Toonka was looking at Choi Han with confusion. Choi Han didn’t know what to say.

The White Star had not shown any signs of attacking and had only sighed when he first saw Raon.

In fact, he was being dragged around like a rag doll.

‘What the…? What is going on? I didn’t expect something like this.’

Choi Han and the White Star made eye contact at that moment.

The enemy who looked so much like Cale opened his mouth.

“Even if this is a place where your desires are revealed, I never expected that your desires would be to become heroes! Yes, I guess it is understandable that you all want to be heroes.”

What was up with these statements that made no sense?

Choi Han could not understand why this guy was ‘acting’ like this in the current situation.

‘He should be acting as much like Cale-nim as possible if his intentions were to pull us back to be his allies or to cause chaos.’

But he was saying things and acting in way that the real Cale Henituse would never do.

Choi Han didn’t dare to move without knowing the enemy’s hidden intentions.

‘Cale-nim will be here soon.’

He would try to figure out what was going on until that time. Of course, they could not let him escape.

Choi Han decided his course of action and pointed his sword toward the White Star who was still on the ground.

* * *

Inside a room deep within the highest floor of the Roan Kingdom’s Puzzle City City Hall at that time…

“Oppa!”

The door of the room that was currently being used as the crown prince’s bedroom burst open. Sword master Hannah poked her head into the room.

“Hmm? Hannah?”

Saint Jack sat up in shock. Excommunicated priestess Cage was next to him, looking at the bed with an impossible to explain expression on her face.

Alberu Crossman.

He was lying peacefully on the bed with his eyes closed.

“What is it? What happened?”

Hannah looked around the room and quickly walked in after hearing Jack’s question.

Jack had an ominous feeling seeing his younger sister acting like this.

‘…I hope nothing has happened again… it has been a while since his highness fainted.’

The first team dispatched into the sealed god’s temple was stuck inside and the large orb above the temple had turned from blue to red.

Crown prince Alberu Crossman, the man who should be calming the chaos, suddenly fainted after that.

That almost caused even more chaos, but Cage had told Saint Jack that the God of Death seemed to be helping. It allowed Saint Jack and Eruhaben to step up and calm the situation.

It made it seem as if Puzzle City was calm and relaxed on the outside, but there was a lot of chaos and fear underneath the surface.

It would have turned into pandemonium if the representatives of the different kingdoms had not covered up the situation and delivered messages to calm their respective nations down.

“Oppa!”

Hannah headed toward the window.

“Look outside!”

She then opened the window.

“What is going on?”

“I don’t have time to explain! Look outside!”

Hannah grabbed Jack by the arm and dragged him to the window. Cage followed them as well and immediately started speaking.

“Son of a…!”

Coarse words came out of her mouth as her eyes looked toward the thing above the temple that had been a red orb.

The red orb was maintaining its shape but was no longer red.

A person was speaking inside the orb.

– …It is my fault for thinking that you guys are my allies, my close friends.

It was a face they were all too familiar with. Cale Henituse. He was speaking sadly with sorrow and bitterness visible on his face.

Choi Han was pointing his sword at him and then Toonka attacked Cale.

– Your true selves are revealed now that there is nobody watching.

Commander Toonka grabbed Cale by the collar as he weakly commented.

“W, what the-”

Saint Jack looked at the orb in disbelief. He then turned toward Cage.

“Do you think that is what is going on inside the temple?”

The area they could see had a normal building and a forest, which seemed quite odd for the inside of a temple.

“They did say that the test was an illusion.”

Since this test was one that showed people illusions… It was understandable that there could be such a place.

But Jack could not believe that what he was seeing was a part of the test.

“W, why are they fighting like that?”

Commander Toonka was one thing, but Choi Han pointing his sword at Cale?

That made no sense whatsoever.

The Cale inside the screen rolled on the ground and groaned.

– Even if this is a place where your desires are revealed, I never expected that your desires would be to become heroes! Yes, I guess it is understandable that you all want to be heroes.

Saint Jack subconsciously commented.

“Do you think that it is real?”

Cage immediately responded.

“Of course not! I’m sure there is a reason for this! The sealed god must have done something! Miss Hannah, how is the situation outside?”

“It is quite a mess.”

Hannah’s face stiffened.

The thing they first saw once the red color inside the orb disappeared was Choi Han’s Black Yong attacking someone and that person releasing a silver shield.

“…Young master Cale was wearing the White Star’s mask though.”

Either way, the face that appeared once Choi Han’s attack destroyed the mask was Cale’s. They were sure it was Cale Henituse and not someone who just looked similar.

Hannah had rushed over to this place to see her brother and Alberu Crossman as soon as she watched it.

She recalled the things she had heard on her way over.

‘What the hell? Why are the heroes fighting against each other?’

‘Why is Sir Choi Han pointing his sword at the Commander-nim? Why is he attacking him?’

Everybody inside Puzzle City had seen this footage. Well, there were a lot of people who had not seen it at first, but their friends quickly got them to look as well.

‘What is going on?’

‘Are they fighting like that inside the temple? Why?’

Their voices had sounded full of panic.

Hannah clenched her eyes closed before opening them back.

“…We cannot let the people watch this footage. Who knows what they will think?!”

“Exactly.”

She heard an unfamiliar voice behind her.

Hannah turned her head to see Eruhaben walking in. Cage shouted while looking at him.

“Eruhaben-nim!”

“The Roan Kingdom’s side and the representatives of the different nations are calming people down while other Dragons went to observe the screen. Don’t worry too much.”

Eruhaben was speaking calmly but they could not relax after hearing the voice inside the orb.

The Cale inside the screen started speaking weakly while taking one step then another toward Choi Han who was pointing his sword at him.

– I have sacrificed many times until now.

Everybody inside Puzzle City, including Eruhaben, was watching Cale. Most of them had their mouths shut. They couldn’t say anything against what Cale had just said.

– I have never called myself a hero. I never even asked to turn me into a hero.

Queen Litana subconsciously mumbled to herself while trying to calm people down.

“…Young master Cale.”

She sounded apologetic.

– However!

Cale Henituse inside the screen raised his voice at that moment. His voice sounded empty.

– You bastards finally show your hidden desires and are aiming for my position!

Litana could hear one of her subordinates speak.

“…Is it possible that they are attacking Commander Cale-nim on purpo-”

“Stop!”

Litana shouted at her subordinate. However, her eyes looked chaotic. His subordinate was not wrong if they were to take what they were seeing at face value.

However, her pupils were shaking for a different reason.

“Is it possible-”

“No, Sir Choi Han is the Commander-nim’s sword.”

“But Commander Toonka is from the Whipper Kingdom, and let’s be honest, the only person in there from the Roan Kingdom is young master Cale-nim. Everybody else is a foreigner.”

“…What the hell is going on in there?”

“Either way, it seems true that they are hostile toward each other in there.”

People were whispering everywhere and coming up with all sorts of theories.

None of them were positive.

Litana immediately started walking toward Eruhaben.

“…If at least the crown prince was awake right now……!”

There was not much that Litana, a foreigner, could do when the representative of the Roan Kingdom was not here.

As for the individual Litana was headed toward… Eruhaben had to hear Cage’s angry voice.

“There is no way the young master-nim would speak like that! He’d happily hand over the hero position if someone else said that they wanted it!”

Eruhaben nodded my head.

“Yes, you are right. That bastard-”

The ancient Dragon’s eyes turned cold.

“That bastard is not Cale.”

He was certain.

“Choi Han is not someone who would attack rashly. He must have attacked because that bastard is the enemy.”

“Then……?”

“It must be part of the sealed god’s scheme.”

“Ah.”

Eruhaben immediately responded to Saint Jack’s question. Sword master Hannah’s face looked grim as she asked.

“Do you think that other people would know that?”

Everybody closed their mouths.

The people of the Roan Kingdom inside Puzzle City and the people all over the Western continent… They only knew of Cale, the hero. It would be hard for them to differentiate this fake Cale from the real Cale.

Having them see Cale fighting Choi Han and the others on his own was not good.

“…Huuuuuu.”

Eruhaben simply responded by sighing. Hannah ruffled her hair in frustration as she shouted.

“Where the hell is Cale Henituse in such a situation?!”

If that Cale was fake, shouldn’t the real Cale be somewhere?

Hannah was extremely worried that the already chaotic people inside Puzzle City who were already on the verge of exploding might fall into chaos because of this.

“Fuck! What the hell-”

Hannah’s eyes opened wide while looking at the orb above the temple.

“Huh?”

“What is it, Hannah?”

“O, o, oppa.”

Hannah clenched Saint Jack’s clothes.

“What, what is it?”

“O, over there-”

Hannah pointed toward the orb. The others all looked in that direction as well.

She was pointed not where Choi Han, Toonka, and Cale were fighting against each other, but at the corner of the screen. She was pointing at the forest.

Eruhaben subconsciously opened his mouth.

“Over there, that bastard who is crouching with that orb in his hand-, that bastard is definitely-”

“Young master Cale-nim!”

Cage shouted.

At the corner of the screen… Cale was crouching in the forest with the cintamani carefully in his hand and he had his unique smirk on his face while watching the others fight.

“Anybody would be able to tell that-”

“That is young master Cale-nim!”

“I, I agree.”

As Eruhaben responded with confusion…

The other Cale who was fending Choi Han off… The Cale who sounded full of grief looked around as he spoke.

– How disappointing. The things that I had barely managed to achieve while going through all sorts of difficult trials… Would the people outside know that you all are trying to take it away now that nobody is watching you? Toonka, I am your close friend, Cale Henitu-

It was at that moment.

The grieving fake Cale turned his head.

* * *

“…How-”

The man with Cale’s face now that the White Star mask was broken frowned while observing a part of the forest.

Cale stopped crouching after they made eye contact. He then flinched for a moment.

‘Hmm?’

The cintamani in his hand was gently vibrating, so gently that it was almost hard to tell.

‘…It looks a bit more black as well?’

Whether it was because of the Dark Tiger filling the screen or because of something else, the cintamani seemed to be releasing a black aura. However, Cale nonchalantly commented as he could not feel anything.

“It seems that he can see me as we thought.”

– Sounds like it.

Dark Tiger Alberu responded in a relaxed manner.

– He didn’t notice me though. Is it because this item was prepared by the God of Death?

“That seems to be the case, your highness. He noticed me right away.”

Cale leisurely headed out of the forest.

However, his thoughts were incorrect.

“Ha! I knew it was weird while you were crouching there!”

The fake White Star shouted.

– Hmm? It looks like he already noticed you?

Alberu commented while the fake White Star shouted with anger.

– Why is the God of Death’s power with you?! How dare you bring another god’s power into my test!”

My test.

Cale smiled at that comment.

– Dongsaeng, it looks like that bastard figured out the identity of this item. Is it because it is not hidden under cloth this time?

Alberu smiled as well.

– And I guess he is the sealed god since he said this was his test.

Cale walked out of the forest and commented to the man who had the same face as him.

“You’re the sealed god, aren’t you?”

The sealed god glared at the cintamani before suddenly looking around. He then frowned as if he remembered something.

“Haaaa. It’s obvious what is going on. That son of a bitch always gets in my way.”

He glared at the cintamani as if he wanted to burn it up before waving his hand in the air.

“I wasted my time!”

* * *

“Hmm?”

“Hmm?”

Cage and Jack looked confused while looking out the window. Hannah mumbled at that moment.

“…Did the feed just get cut off?”

“That seems to be the case.”

The person pretending to be Cale said that he had wasted his time before the feed turned off. The orb above the temple turned red again.

“…Uhh… mm… I don’t know what is going on, but that son of a bitch the fake young master Cale mentioned seems to be the God of Death. I think the God of Death must have done something. I guess he helped them properly?”

Cage smiled with satisfaction and then chuckled.

Raon flew in with On and Hong through the open window.

“Goldie gramps! We saw the human! He is fine!”

Eruhaben chuckled and responded.

“I guess he is even smacking gods in the back in there.”

* * *

“I don’t know what you mean by wasting your time, but… You’ve done a lot of things that have been a waste of time.”

Cale tilted his head to the side and leisurely commented.

“Who cares what you have done? No matter what you do, it doesn’t work against me.”

The Dark Tiger growled at that moment.

– Choi Han.

Choi Han’s hand was reaching for the back of the sealed god’s neck.

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