Chapter 731: Pushing forward too rashly (1)
# Pushing forward too rashly (1)
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‘Double the difficulty?’
The voice continued just as Cale thought that this was really wrong.
It was a mechanical voice without any emotions.
- Determining the target of indignity.
‘Target? Am I not the target?’
The voice quickly continued before Cale could even organize his thoughts.
- Determined the target within the challenger’s data who has faced the most indignity under the requirements.
There are two qualified individuals.
Based on the increased difficulty, the test will take two levels.
Based on the increased difficulty, new test conditions required. Modifications necessary.
Starting the optimization.
“Ugh!”
Cale subconsciously touched his eyes.
The purple colored area started to warp.
- Optimization 30%.
40%
Cale's insides were churning the further the optimization progressed.
It felt as if he got on a roller coaster without the safety bar after having a bottle of Makgeolli. (TL: A Korean alcoholic beverage)
Basically, he felt as if he was going to die.
‘I'm going to hurl.’
The voice spoke sternly as he had that thought.
- Optimization complete.
The optimization had finally ended.
However, Cale’s insides were still churning.
Unfortunately, the voice did not wait for him.
- Indignity test version 1.5 is now starting.
Paaaat!
The purple light surrounded Cale.
* * *
“Son of a.”
Something like his insides churning was no longer a problem for Cale.
"This is bad.”
What he saw after the purple light disappeared was the sky at dawn.
It was the twilight hour, just before the darkness disappeared and the sun came up.
The night was slowly moving aside despite the sun not being up yet. This time in between night and morning... It was truly a beautiful period of time.
However, Cale couldn’t pay any attention to this beautiful sky.
“I.”
I looked down at his hands and then raised his head.
“I am Venion Stan’s lackey?”
He could see a stupid and cruel looking bastard's reflection in the window.
That was the body Cale was in right now.
Venion Stan.
The bastard of the House of Stan who imprisoned and tortured Raon. The bastard who did not simply try to tame Raon but did things he should never do.
“Haaaa.”
Cale knew the person he was possessing right now.
During that time when they visited the Stan territory to take care of the issue between Raon and Venion Stan...
There were some bastards who took care of the issues pertaining to the shitty things Venion Stan did.
Cale had seen Venion Stan’s right hand man at that time, and this guy Cale was possessing was that right hand man's right hand man’s right hand man.
Basically, he was slightly higher than the lowest of the lowlifes but was still one of Venion's lackeys.
He had an official title but someone doing something so shitty didn’t even deserve to be called a lackey.
“Haaaaa.”
Cale was truly at a loss for words.
On the desk underneath the window... Cale picked up a piece of paper.
It was a letter. No, it was an order.
< The young patriarch-nim is heading for the Tolz territory tomorrow. Prepare things so that you can serve him the same as last time. >
Crack.
The paper was crumpled.
He could see the calendar on top of the desk. The date March 29, 780 was circled on the Felix calendar (F.C.).
Cale had arrived in this world on March 29, 781 F.C.
He didn't know what today's date was, but he at least knew that it was March one year before he arrived.
That meant that Raon was three years old.
He would be in the middle of being tortured without even knowing anything.
Cale could see some of the words on the crumpled order.
Tomorrow, Tolz territory, prepare to serve.
The cave Raon was imprisoned in was in one of the villages under Viscount Tolz's territory.
That was the only place in the Tolz territory that Venion Stan would go.
Basically, Venion Stan would go to the Tolz territory tomorrow to see Raon and this guy had to get things ready to serve Venion.
Cale looked around.
He could see the bags that the owner of this body had packed.
He seemed pretty finished with the preparations.
‘Then what do I need to do?’
Cale slowly started to decide what he should do from here.
“Mm!”
However, Cale's body suddenly stumbled and he grabbed the desk with one hand and his head with the other.
“Why, all of a sudden-”
He suddenly felt extremely sleepy.
Cale’s sight slowly became blurry as if he was falling into a swamp and could not avoid this slumber.
‘Fuck, what the hell is going on?!’
Cale was extremely angry as the situation changed again.
The Chief of Staff looked as if he would have a stroke because of this newbie in front of him. However, he calmed himself down.
‘Yes, a clueless idiot of an attendant like him would be great for that little punk.’
He said one thing to the attendant and quickly left so that he could not be stopped again.
“West.”
Cale looked at the disappearing Chief of Staff before turning around.
‘It's the same.’
Cale had asked just in case the crown prince's palace would have been different from the one he knew since it was far in the past.
Thankfully, it was in the same place.
‘I guess it’s time to go?’
He headed toward the first prince’s palace and looked around at everything, especially himself.
Attendants were sorted into ranks and their years of service and ranks were visible on the shoulders of their uniform.
‘There’s nothing there.’
There were no colors visible on the shoulder.
Cale realized that he was in the body of a new attendant who had just entered the palace.
‘He hasn’t even been here for six months.’
That meant that he became an attendant who had no power whatsoever in this palace.
“This really...”
Cale sighed at this fact that he suddenly figured out.
‘Does he not even have a chef in his palace?’
Members of the royal family usually had their own personal chefs in their palace.
Cale looked down at the now cold soup and realized that he knew nothing about Alberu’s childhood or his teen years.
However, he figured something out for sure.
‘The two people who faced the most indignity around me.’
Raon and Alberu Crossman were those two people.
Frustration, failure, despair... They were different from indignity.
Cale inspected his body.
‘This time... I can’t even use my ancient powers. I can’t use my abilities either.’
Cale was in the bodies of people without any power or authority and had to watch Raon and Alberu's indignity without any of his powers to help him.
It would definitely be hard for Cale to watch the two of their indignity through day and night.
Cale came to a conclusion.
‘That’s why I should live an easy life.’
Cale made up his mind as Venion Stan's lackey and the newest attendant of the Roan Palace.
‘Let's flip everything over.’
These were just illusions anyway.
He decided to pour cider all over it. (TL: In Korean, cider is used to label stories that the MC plows his way forward without much difficulty. In case you are curious, the opposite, a story full of slow development and angst is called sweet potato.)
Cale’s footsteps were extremely light as he held the tray and headed for the first prince’s palace.
* * *
As for Cale's friends who had started the indignity test long before he did...
They all started at different points.
Mary, who was in the body of a soldier in the Caro Kingdom's Dubori territory, felt her heart beating wildly.
‘...Mom.’
She had only been able to remember her mom's voice.
Seeing her mom's face stabbed deep into her heart.
“Please, please, I beg you. Please?”
“Shut up! Things even worse than you pests can imagine will show up if you can’t pay up by tomorrow morning! Got it?”
The unbelievably high territory tax... Mary's father and mother who did not have the means to pay it were desperately begging to the tax collector.
‘\Indignity.
Mary was able to get back a bit of her forgotten memories from before she was 10 years old.
However, it was not a joyful occasion.
It was not just her.
Rosalyn and Clopeh were also facing the indignities of people they were close to in the past.
However, just one person...
Choi Han was in a slightly different situation.
When he had finally overcome the failure test...
“Huff. Huff.”
When he had finally managed to save the people of Harris Village...
“I did it......!”
He had become surrounded by green light and could feel that he had truly overcome it.
Both the failure of his past and his present self...
Choi Han had overcome them all.
That was why Choi Han had flinched after hearing the voice that appeared with the purple light.
- Target determined.
Beep, beep.
Error detected in target determination. Error detected.
The purple light swept over Choi Han as the voice continued to speak.
- Completed determination of the source of error.
Target Cale Henituse is lacking to be the target.
Using challenger’s memories to determine a new target.
Target’s true nature determined.
Choi Han opened his eyes.
- Target, Kim Rok Soo.
Choi Han was the only one of the people in the temple who knew about Cale Henituse's true nature.
Only he could face the indignity of Kim Rok Soo who was inside Cale Henituse's body.
“...How, how is this......”
Choi Han clenched his eyes shut.
* * *
"What are you looking at?”
‘Wow.’
Cale was amazed.
15 years old Alberu Crossman.
“Get out.”
He was going through puberty right now.
Cale subconsciously smiled because this felt quite different.
Fifteen years old Alberu Crossman’s glabellas twitched at the same time.