Chapter 1163 — Book 2: Chapter 360: The amusement of the greatest of all evils (6)
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“You want me to get you a teacher or staff ID for the Breeze Emperor-established Academy?”
“Yes, please.”
The girl scowled while looking at the refreshingly smiling Cale.
“Huuuuuu.”
She sighed before calmly speaking.
“The foreigners are basically camping down on the first floor looking for you. They keep badgering our staff about your whereabouts as well.”
Cale smiled nicely.
“Thank you very much. For hiding my information.”
– Child-
‘!
It’s my liege.’
The one who existed for all of the existences of the Sixth Evil.
My one and only eternal master.’
– Help him.
The Sixth Evil was telling her to help this wanderer from the Seventh Evil.
‘Based on what we have heard, the boss of the Seventh Evil is currently missing and the future boss will soon appear.’
She heard that a cunning teddy bear bastard was acting as the agent to the boss until that future boss is officially here.
They currently had their feelings out, thinking that the Seventh Evil will soon turn into pandemonium over gaining power.
‘But what the hell are they planning in the Seventh Evil?’
The girl, who was out of her home, the Sixth Evil, to gather information for them, was getting a headache thinking about these unexplainable actions of the Seventh Evil.
– Stay by his side –
But now that her liege had given her the order, her actions were already determined.
“I will look into how you can infiltrate the Academy.”
“Thank you very much.”
Cale smiled nicely once again.
The Breeze Emperor-Established Academy.
Bishop Serisa of the Temple of the Sun God was to give a speech in one of the annexes tomorrow.
Cale was planning on stealthily infiltrating the place and approaching Serisa near the end to shake her hand.
It was because of his quest.
[Shake hands with the believer of chaos (Serisa)!]
“I'll come again near dinner time.”
The little girl left the room after saying that.
Cale looked away from the closed door and opened the window.
“I just need to shake her hand, so-”
He could see the Academy in the distance.
“I'm curious about the Academy!”
“Meeeeeow!”
“Meeeeeow!”
The children averaging ten-years-old did not hide their interest.
The little girl returned quickly, sooner than Cale had expected.
“…What is this?”
Cale looked at the items in front of him in disbelief.
“This is the best we can do.”
The little girl was speaking confidently.
"What is wrong? I think it will suit you.”
Cale reached his hand out.
“School uniform……”
“Yes. It is a school uniform.”
His hand touched the Academy’s uniform.
“Isn't the Academy only until the age of 18?”
The little girl calmly answered.
“That’s right.”
She then added on as if she didn't see a problem.
“You do look a bit old to be 18, but at least you are handsome.”
“!”
“It’s fine as long as you are handsome.”
“!”
“Well, it's not like you are planning on staying at the Academy for a few days. You said you just need to listen to a speech?”
“…Yes?”
“Then it is better to act as a student than as a staff. They are stricter on the staff that come and go. Being a student will make it easier for you to move around.”
“…….”
“Good luck then.”
The little girl turned away from the silent Cale and left the room.
“Ah.”
She let go of the door handle and added on to Cale.
“Two uniforms was the best we could do. Student IDs as well. We don’t have that many connections to the Academy just yet. This is our limit.”
Honestly speaking, doing this much for Cale, who was not an ally and just a weird guest, was truly her limit.
“Then I hope you get what you are looking for.”
Click.
The little girl left and Cale picked up the two uniforms.
“Human, the clothes are all too big for us to wear!”
“That’s right, nya! What a pity, nya! Don’t you agree, noona?”
“If we want to go to an Academy, we just need to enroll, nya. There’s no need to be disappointed, nya.”
“Human, we are just going to go with you while invisible!”
Cale sort of listened to the trio before opening the window.
He then looked outside.
“Come in.”
Choi Han, who had been on the roof, jumped in through Cale’s window.
“What is it, Cale-nim?”
Choi Han flinched.
“…….”
Cale was quietly staring at him.
“Mm.”
He then nodded his head and handed over a uniform.
“Let’s wear it. You too.”
“?”
Choi Han looked confused but Cale was being serious.
"And make sure to stay by my side tomorrow. Oh, don’t open your mouth.”
Cale looked away from Choi Han who was blankly standing there with the uniform in his hand and asked Raon to do something.
“Dye Choi Han’s hair please.”
“What color?”
“Red.”
“Oh.”
Choi Han turned into a ginger.
* * *
The Transparent ©.
The transcendent corporation with a large influence not just in Roan but the entire Earth.
Top researcher, Kim Sae Hyun, could not stop himself from blurting out.
“Fuck!”
The game operations employee next to him sighed.
“It is out of our hands now.”
“…We’re ruined.”
“Hyung-nim!”
The employee was so shocked he called out to Kim Sae Hyun as he usually did.
However, Kim Sae Hyun didn’t pay any attention to the employee calling out to him and expressed his anger.
“Hey. You feel it too, don’t you?”
“…….”
“Those Han family bastards are ruining the game. Did any of our researchers or operators participate in this update? This update was the work of all of the Han family and their cronies!”
“…….”
“And what did you just say?”
The employee sighed as he answered.
“…I said that quests we don’t know about are starting to pop up.”
“Yeah. What do you think that means?”
Kim Sae Hyun, who had stayed behind in the research lab after getting off work to continue his research on the Virtual Reality system, suppressed his anger as he continued.
“If you, someone who works on the quest side, if you, an operator, sees quests you don’t know about popping up… And even the system only recognizes them after the quests are created… IT means that New World is slowly heading in a direction where we can’t handle it.”
"Wasn’t this the direction we wanted?”
Kim Sae Hyun snorted at his hoobae’s comment.
He looked at the research lab that once housed dozens of people.
There were only five people left here now.
“The direction we wanted? If the users are enjoying the game in many ways and that is leading to all these variables and flows… Then the system not doing anything in advance and figuring it out later is not bad.”
Kim Sae Hyun admitted it.
“Yeah. That is the New World that we wanted.”
However, he soon retorted.
"But you know what we have right now is not that.”
“…….”
“Those damn Han family. Those bastards just treat the system as a tool and exclude the system to do all sorts of things.”
“Mm.”
"That is the reason New World is turning into a world we don’t know. How does this make any sense?”
His hoobae weakly answered.
“…It is just a hypothesis. We don’t know if the Han family did something.”
“We know it but we just don’t have any proof. Didn’t you come to me because you can see it and it is frustrating you?”
“It is hard to say no to that.”
His hoobae weakly laughed.
Currently, the Transparent © consisted of the Han family faction, the neutral faction, and the smaller anti-Han faction.
Actually, that faction was so small it was hard to even call it a faction.
It was just a term for the shunned people who had no idea when they may get fired or would quit.
“New World is a place that really can turn into a new world. I can’t stand someone messing with it and ruining it.”
Kim Sae Hyun looked ready to cry.
“They-, I'm sure they wouldn't want such results either.”
The two people who had researched Virtual Reality that was basically the start of RPOG…
Kim Sae Hyun scowled thinking about those people.
“…They really wanted a whole new world. One that exists and grows on its own. A dream-like world that does not move according to someone's influence or hindrance-”
“Hyung-nim-”
The hoobae, who know the people responsible for Kim Sae Hyun coming to Transparent © as a top researcher and lasting until now, could not say anything so easily.
Knock knock knock.
At that time, in the research lab where not many people were left because most had left the office…
Someone knocked on the room of the shunned individuals.
“!”
Kim Sae Hyun flinched and looked toward the door.
Screeeech.
The door opened and Kim Sae Hyun’s eyes opened wide.
“Hello.”
A completely unexpected person smiled and entered the room.
“…Vice President?”
Vice President Lee Mi Jung.
The woman, whose abilities were accepted by everybody as she had risen from the lowest position to the Vice President position, had come to look for Kim Sae Hyun.
‘Why?’
Kim Sae Hyun became anxious.
Lee Mi Jung.
She was basically a member of the Han family.
If not, she would not have been able to rise to the position of Vice President.
“Our top researcher-nim, have you been well?”
Lee Mi Jung was not close enough to Kim Sae Hyun to greet him in such a friendly manner.
It would make more sense for her to be hostile.
“…How can we help you?”
As Kim Sae Hyun answered with a stiff expression on his face…
Lee Mi Jung looked at him and his hoobae and then answered.
“I came because I heard the two of you were here.”
“Excuse me?”
Kim Sae Hyun and his hoobae, Park Jeong Gyu, became anxious after hearing that she specifically came looking for them.
Lee Mi Jung asked Kim Sae Hyun, the person who only knew of research and could notice the critical points of the system and its gaps, and the loner of the operation team, Park Jeong Gyu, a question.
“Would you be willing to do a secret project with me?”
Vice President Lee Mi Jung thought about one of the offers Rosalyn had made her.
‘Create a team with people who have the abilities we want. I'm telling you to make allies.’
‘And let’s do something fun with those allies.’
‘Portals to cross dimensions and to enter the game. I plan on making that.’
She addressed the two employees.
“It is a project that would take New World beyond the fence of the Transparent © and into a bigger world.”
Kim Sae Hyun's eyes clouded over for a moment.
Lee Mi Jung, Kim Sae Hyun, Park Jeong Gyu.
This was the first day the three of them started to work together.
Lee Mi Jung immediately contacted Rosalyn.
< The Black Castle you mentioned. I picked the team to go there. >
Kim Sae Hyun turned in his resignation letter the next day.
As for Park Jeong Gyu, he persistently stayed in the operation team.
* * *
“Chairman-nim.”
“No need for Chairman. I've stepped down from that position.”
Han Taek Soo, the Honorary Chairman of the Transparent ©, waved his hand at the Executive Director.
“Anyway. What brings you here today?”
“Ahn Roh Man has become the Imperial Crown Prince of the Eastern Empire.”
“I know.”
Han Taek Soo leisurely nodded his head. He asked Executive Director Jang.
“You didn't come here to report something I already know, right?”
Ahn Roh Man seemed to want to hide his identity, but…
Han Taek Soo already knew that Ahn Roh Man was the top ranker in RPOG as well as who his parents were.
“…It seems like the AI is in the Eastern Empire.”
He had an idea about the AI helping Ahn Roh Man as well.
Transparent © was even more thorough than Ahn Roh Man expected.
“I'm sure it is. Investigate the NPCs on the Eastern Empire's side. Figure out who Ahn Roh Man's backing is. We need to get rid of that hiding rat.”
“Yes sir.”
Han Taek Soo had no problem giving orders despite the company having a different Chairman.
Executive Director Jang left the study and Han Taek Soo started to speak once he was alone.
“You said characters related to chaos appeared in the Western Empire?”
“Yes. Patriarch-nim.”
Someone revealed themselves from the darkness.
It was one of the Transparent Blood Hunters.
“Did the God of Chaos do something?”
"We are currently looking into it, sir.”
“Didn't you say that believers of the God of Chaos also appeared in the Demon World?”
“Yes sir.”
“…Don’t put your guard down on the chaos side and the Demon World side.”
“Yes. I understand, sir.”
"And who was that guy hunting the Hunters? Cale Henituse was it? What about the investigation into that guy?”
“We recently sent a few Hunters to Aipotu. We should be able to figure out his whereabouts soon, sir.”
“He may appear in Earth 3 so keep the company’s security thorough.”
“Yes. Patriarch-nim.”
Han Taek Soo got up from his seat.
He walked over to the window and looked out.
He could see Earth 3.
“It’s soon.”
He mumbled in a low voice.
“A new world will appear soon. It is not long until the omnipotent god will be born.”
“…….”
“We can’t let even the tiniest of issues appear in our preparations to welcome the birth of the omnipotent god. You know that, right?”
“Yes sir.”
Han Taek Soo debated for a moment before opening his mouth again.
“Tell those Five Colors Bloods bastards.”
The God of Chaos, the Demon World… Both were troublesome.
Those Five Colors Bloods were extremely annoyingly arrogant bastards, but…
There weren't many who were as strong as those wanderers.
"Tell them to put all of their efforts into New World.”
“Yes sir. We've already confirmed that a majority of the Five Colors Bloods are in New World.”
“Okay.”
Han Taek Soo sighed.
“…Our destination is not far.”
This was something that had continued for thousands, no, for over ten thousand years.
It was time for it to come to an end.
* * *
As the Empire of culture and art… The Breeze Empire-established Academy was a place famous throughout the entire continent not just for their political science, studies, but also art.
Potentially because of that, the uniforms were quite dazzling.
Each stitching of the golden crest embroidered on the white jacket was done with perfection.
“Who are they?”
“…Did we have such students?”
"I don’t know. Ah, but they are so handsome!”
“I’ll take the left one!”
“Ahem.”
The person on the left who heard the whispers… Choi Han could not hide his discomfort.
“Wow, you don’t know anything. The right side is the real deal. But what grade are they in? I've never seen them before.”
“Did they say anything about transfer students?”
“I don’t know.”
The whispers were honestly something that only someone like Choi Han, whose physical abilities were so developed that his hearing was better than normal people, could hear.
Because there was a speech happening right now.
“Sacred power is a power bestowed upon us, but at the same time, it is a power we can gain by proving our faith.”
And the person on the right… Cale was leisurely half laying down on the chair as he listened to the speaker.
– Human, is that bishop Serisa?
Cale slightly nodded his head at the invisible Raon’s question and looked at the speaker, Bishop Serisa. He looked at this believer of the God of Chaos.
“And with that, I will conclude today's speech.”
Once the speech and the Q&A ended…
Cale stood up.
He was not the only one.
All of the students got up and Cale slowly headed forward from the back.
Serisa.
He went to shake her hand as she stood there answering a few questions from the students.
‘I wonder what will happen.’
The Saint of the God of Chaos. What would happen when Cale, who has the Saint’s power, shakes hands with Serisa, a believer of the God of Chaos?
He felt like something would happen since the quest told him to shake her hand.
– Human, I am ready to run away whenever you say so.
Cale finished all of his preparations and arrived in front of Serisa.
“Bishop-nim.”
He called out to Serisa.
The student with blonde hair and blue eyes, the gently smiling Cale, was reflected in Serisa's eyes.
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Translator's Comments
Man, Cale looking like Beru has me weak in the knees still…
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