Chapter 10.5

Beast People. This included beasts, birds, and even insects. Beast People were different from monsters because of the existence of a conscience. ‘Lock has the purest blood of the wolf people.’ Lock had received the bloodline to dominate the wolves. The Beast People with the purest bloodline tend to look weak and average when they are in their animal form or their human form. However, once they enter their berserk state, they become more cruel and violent than anyone else. And Lock was the only survivor of the entire Blue Wolf tribe. Cale took a map out of a drawer and opened it up on the desk. “You will start the journey with me.” He then pointed to a location on the map. “We will separate at this point. You just follow what I wrote on the paper.” Choi Han didn’t ask any questions and just quietly listened. Cale watched Choi Han for a bit. There was a reason Choi Han had to go with him until that specific point. ‘I need to avoid the crazy dragon.’ The beginning of ‘The Birth of a Hero.’ Like any other novel, new villains had to appear after Cale. However, those villains were not easy picking like Cale. The next villain involved a Marquis who led one of the noble factions. Throughout the beginning of the novel, he gets in the way of the crown prince and Choi Han. He ends up being ruined around volume 2, but Choi Han runs into the Marquis for the first time on this trip to the capital. ‘That bastard raised the crazy dragon.’ It definitely was a crazy dragon. It was still just a baby dragon. That black dragon was being tortured by the Marquis’s future successor in secret. They were training it to obey the Marquis’s commands. ‘They’re crazy too. Dragons are the strongest beings in the world. How do they think they will be able to tame a dragon?’ It actually does make sense. The Marquis managed to get his hands on a Dragon egg through the secret organization and chained it down with mana restricting chains as soon as it hatched. Cale could not fathom the extent of the strength of that secret organization. But would dragons be called the strongest beings in the world for no reason? This black dragon, that was less than 5 years old, was still a dragon. In the end, the dragon goes crazy and berserk. It may be young, but in the novel, it exploded with enough mana to remove the mana restricting chains. Since its mana was restricted, the mana it exploded was actually its own life force. After living in a cave and being tortured every day without ever being able to see sunlight, the young dragon cuts into its own life force to find freedom. After managing to escape, the dragon ends up losing its rationality and goes berserk. The village that Choi Han is staying at the time almost ends up in danger because of the berserk dragon, and Choi Han ends up fighting against the black dragon. [Choi Han gazed at the small dragon that was less than 1 meter long. It managed to blow up a mountain with that small body and put the villagers in significant danger. However, Choi Han could not easily attack this dragon.] [The eyes of this dragon that had lost its rationality, were in pain and full of sorrow. However, the black dragon’s mouth was smiling. Choi Han found that to be extremely sad.] Choi Han ends up killing that black dragon and gifting it the freedom called death. Cale had to go to that village. ‘Either Choi Han takes care of it or I prevent it from going crazy and find a way to release it.’ There was no other choice because it was on his way to the capital. He would need to take an extremely long detour to avoid that village, and that would require a long time and change the flow of the story. He would also be late in arriving at the capital if he took that detour. ‘For being a crazy dragon, it’s described as being a really cute dragon.’ The novel described it as a cute black dragon with short legs. It mentioned that it was even scarier that such a cute existence had gone crazy and caused chaos. Cale decided to stop thinking about the dragon for now, and instead gave Choi Han the rest of the order. “Come to the capital with the owners of these two names. That is your way of paying me back.” Choi Han asked a question. “...I just need to protect these two people?” “If you want to.” These two people should be strong enough to not require Choi Han’s protection. Especially princess Rosalyn, she wouldn’t even budge an inch even if a truckload of Cales with the Indestructible Shield attacked her at the same time. “Do as you wish. However, you must definitely come to the capital. You must also meet me there without being injured. You can at least keep yourself safe, right?” Cale and Choi Han should have no reason to meet again after that. Choi Han has another negative encounter with the secret organization after getting involved with Lock. Meeting with Lock should allow Choi Han to stop the danger in the capital like in the novel. “Why are you not answering? Can you do it?” Choi Han’s gaze became a bit clearer. “Yes. I can do it.” He seemed to be speaking in a more respectful tone than before, but Cale just let it be. He relaxed a bit after seeing Choi Han put the paper in his chest pocket. ‘I should have been drinking as I did that.’ It was really tiring to talk to Choi Han with Cale’s body. “You can leave now.” Cale waved his hand at Choi Han. Choi Han started to walk toward the door after seeing Cale’s gesture. Cale leaned his back on the chair and watched Choi Han reach for the door before starting to speak again. “In addition, everything we discussed here is a secret. I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that?” Choi Han did not look back and answered as he opened the door. “Of course.” Choi Han’s voice seemed to indicate that he was smiling, but Cale did not care. Once he was alone, Cale took out a piece of paper and pen and started to write in Korean. After writing for a while, he left the study and headed for his father’s office. “Father.” “Yes?” “I need money.” “Okay. I will tell Hans to give you some.” Cale needed a lot of money. Once Cale laid down on the bed with another 10 million gallon check in his chest pocket, Ron approached him and put a bottle on the nightstand as he started to speak. “It is warm lemon honey tea. My son made it especially for you, young master. Please have a good night. I am always by your side.” Cale’s sleepiness went away in an instant. No matter what happened, he needed to make sure the two of them went away with Choi Han. The next day, Cale Henituse headed to the slums as soon as he woke up.