"Hey!"
The woman who was on the man's back pointed to where Cale was standing.
She then started to speak.
"Who the hell are you guys?! How do you know who we are?"
Cale motioned to them as if telling them to hurry up and get here.
Bae Puh Rum and Kim Min Ah chatted with each other for a bit before getting closer to the roof.
Cale started to speak at that moment.
"Kim Min Ah."
"Who are you and how do you know my name-"
"We'll heal your brother's injuries."
"...What?"
Both Kim Min Ah and Bae Puh Rum looked toward Cale in shock.
"Your older brother is in that building over there. He's in a terrible state right now because of the large injury on his side."
Cale put a hand on Grandma Kim's shoulder.
"We will heal your brother's external injury. In return, I hope that the two of you can fight with us at this shelter."
Grandma Kim placed her wrinkled hand on Cale's hand.
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"Ah, right. Grandma Kim have healing ability"
Pendrick the elf said as he clasped his hands together.
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Cale felt the warmth of her hand as he continued to speak.
"Then the two of you, and Kim Min Ah, your brother as well... All of you will survive."
Kim Min Ah and Bae Puh Rum were high school students at this time.
The two of them were silent.
Bae Puh Rum started to speak at that moment.
"Hey, Min Ah. Should I go bring big bro over?"
Kim Min Ah started to speak.
"Let me down first."
Bae Puh Rum and Kim Min Ah landed on the roof.
Lee Chul Min shouted at that moment.
"Seven of them! All seven of them have appeared!"
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"All seven of them... at the same time, nya?"
Hong stiffened while On, despite her own scare, is trying to comfort her younger siblings.
Meanwhile, Raon slowly looked up to Choi Han.
"The Human will be alright... Choi Han, you think so too, right?"
"...Yes. Cale-nim will be able to win"
Choi Han said that instead of assuring the young dragon that Cale would be alright.
Because he's a bad actor who cannot lie...
And he doesn't want to tell anyone that even he is nervous and was sure that Cale would not be alright when all of these are done.
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The people who were standing on the ledge lowered their hands and looked toward Cale.
It was okay for them to do that.
"...The monsters are retreating."
The Grade 3 monsters were retreating.
They moved farther back than where the Grade 2 monsters were standing. They looked like actors moving off stage after the first act was completed.
Boom.
A Grade 1 monster with a Bear's body and purple tiger stripes stomped and shook the ground.
Just one monster moving forward felt as if tens of Grade 3 monsters were moving toward them.
This was the impact of a Grade 1 monster coming close.
"Kim Min Ah."
Cale opened his mouth to speak.
"Your brother has the message ability right?"
Cale walked past Kim Min Ah as her eyes opened wide.
He then stood at the door heading down from the roof and pointed to some people.
"Park Jin Tae, Kim Min Ah, Lee Chul Min, Bae Puh Rum. The four of you will fight with me."
Park Jin stared in shock.
'But I thought he said...?'
He looked at Kim Rok Soo's feeble body who has fallen on him earlier.
Cale confidently responded while looking at this gaze.
"Park Jin Tae, Kim Min Ah, Lee Chul Min, and Bae Puh Rum will each take care of one monster."
That was a total of four monsters.
"I'll take care of three of them."
'Didn't he said that he needs to save up his energy???'
While Jin Tae's mind turned into a complete mess the corners of Cale's lips started to go up.
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"...He is someone who did not know the word 'rest'."
Litana closes her eyes as she remembered the time the alliances were formed.
That was the first time she had realized just how hard Cale worked for everyone.
The praises he has received until now was for the acts that got published.
If only the people knows just how many good deeds Cale had done behind the scene, Perhaps they would starts to question whether he is a God that has descended.
But Litana and his friends know... Cale Henituse is a human just like them.
Well, an extremely Just and Noble human that is.
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Park Jin Tae started to frown seeing that smile.
"Do you want to die?"
He could accept this unbelievable ability of foresight.
Actually, he trusted it now.
'But what? He's going to take care of three Grade 1 monsters? With his feeble body? One that already crumbling down like that??'
Park Jin Tae was frowning as he walked toward Cale looking as if he would grab him by the collar at any moment.
However, Cale's calm gaze once again shut him down.
Park Jin Tae started to speak.
"You cannot die."
He then quickly added on.
"For all of us to survive."
Kim Rok Soo dying would make it very difficult for them to survive.
"...Hyung."
"Hey."
The Lee siblings were looking back and forth at Cale and Park Jin Tae and didn't know what to do.
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"Though I did not like the tone he's using, That Park Jun Tae punk is right-"
"His name is Park Jin Tae"
Bud glared at Glenn, but then huffed as he realized that his friend is getting even more drunk than he is.
It seems like the Mage also could not handle the pressure without the help of some booze.
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Someone stepped forward at that moment.
"U-Umm, hyung-nim?"
It was Bae Puh Rum.
He was scratching his head as he awkwardly started to speak.
"Min Ah and I will lose if we fight against a Grade 1 monster."
"Hey, Bae Puh Rum. Shut up for a moment."
"...Okay."
Bae Puh Rum who had taken a step forward took two steps back at Kim Min Ah's comment.
However, his eyes were still full of uncertainty while looking at Cale.
Cale started to speak to Bae Puh Rum.
"Go bring her brother over."
"Excuse me?"
Bae Puh Rum looked toward Kim Min Ah. Kim Min Ah slightly nodded her head and Bae Puh Rum immediately flew up and headed toward the building they had been at.
Kim Min Ah's older brother was there.
Kim Min Ah wasn't looking at Bae Puh Rum as she was quietly looking at Cale with her arms crossed.
Screeeeeeeeeech-!
A sharp noise rang through everybody's ears at that moment.
Boom!
The ground started to shake as well.
"T-The monsters are approaching!"
They then heard Lee Chul Min's urgent voice.
Cale started to speak at that moment.
"The seven monsters won't attack the building all at once."
Kim Min Ah could see two Grade 1 monsters approaching them from behind Cale's shoulder.
One was a skeleton monster.
The other was a wolf monster that looked as if it had a black snakeskin on its head.
She heard Cale continue to speak.
"Two of them, two of them, and then three of them. They will come in that order."
The reason behind it was simple.
These monsters were tasters.
They stuck to that theme.
"Of them, the Grade 1 monster that seems to be a mix of a lion and a tiger... The Dark Tiger. That bastard is the leader of those seven monsters."
Park Jin Tae looked past the two monsters in front and toward the Grade 1 monsters behind them.
'Mm.'
The Tiger's black eyes were looking right at the roof.
The gaze was too sharp for monsters they had thought lacked intelligence or had very low intelligence even if they had any.
He instantly got the chills.
But Park Jin Tae could not stay like that.
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'those Grade 1 monsters are certainly different any lesser monsters.'
Choi Han, who had fought with numerous vicious monsters for tens of years at the Forest of Darkness, quietly agreed that the monsters in that parallel world is far more dangerous.
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"They're Grade 1s!"
"What do we do? H-How do we stop them?!"
The shelter people on the roof were starting to get scared and frantic.
Park Jin Tae could feel the fear of death and the hopelessness on their faces.
'No!'
It couldn't continue like this.
They still needed to last for over 20 hours.
Night had not come yet either.
It would probably be the longest night of their lives.
But to spend that night without any hope and full of fear?
That could not happen.
"Me first!"
Park Jin Tae started to speak.
"I'm going first!"
All of them looked toward Park Jin Tae.
But Park Jin Tae was looking at Cale as he continued to speak.
"You said I was strong enough to take one down, right? So, I will take care of one."
Boom. Boom!
The two Grade 1 monsters that were slowly approaching as if they were initiating a battue made Park Jin Tae's palms become sweaty.
He could feel the pressure.
"However, you need to tell me how to do it right now."
But he would not be able to do anything if he could not overcome this pressure.
However, Park Jin Tae's eyes opened wide as he looked at Cale who glanced at him before looking south.
He was looking at the two approaching monsters. He then looked toward the five monsters quietly observing the people at the shelter.
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"And they still need to survive for another 20 hours too"
Rex gulped from his chair, his ears that's as red as his hair flattened and his tail did not fail around like it would normally.
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Cale quietly observed all seven of them then started to walk toward the roof's ledge.
"I will fight first."
Cale could see people walking next to him at that moment.
"Kim Rok Soo!"
Park Jin Tae and the Lee siblings ran toward Cale in shock.
"Hey, are you crazy?! Stop!"
Park Jin Tae could see Cale's foot step into the air at that moment.
"Rok Soo!"
Lee Jin Joo shouted as Cale disappeared.
Cale's body had walked off the roof ledge and fallen down.
Park Jin Tae and the Lee siblings frantically ran over and grabbed the roof ledge.
"Hey, you bastard-"
"Hyung!"
They looked down with urgent expressions.
It was at that moment.
Shhh.
Lee Jin Joo's hair fluttered in the wind.
Her jaw naturally dropped.
"...Huh?"
There was wind blowing from the bottom.
Her hair fluttered in the wind.
Park Jin Tae started to speak while looking down.
"...The wind-"
The wind was surrounding Kim Rok Soo's body.
Park Jin Tae subconsciously said something.
"Those golems aren't the only ones...?"
"Wait, those golems were Rok Soo's???"
Many were baffled as they were not informed about this until now.
We made eye contact with Kim Rok Soo who looked up at that moment.
But Cale just let them believed whatever, there's no time to fix any misunderstandings that might formed.
Swoooooooosh-
Cale closed his eyes while feeling the wind surrounding him.
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"The Nature is cheering for him"
Gashan said as he clutched onto his staff.
The fact that Nature is cheering for him is both good and bad.
It is good because that means Nature is giving their esteemed young master-nim its blessing. But the fact that THE Nature felt the need to cheer on him means that things won't be as easy.
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He then raised his head to look at the people looking down at him from the second and third-floor windows before looking up at the roof.
Cale could see Park Jin Tae, Kim Min Ah, Lee Jin Joo, and the others looking down at him from the ledge.
Park Jin Tae thought that he had made eye contact with Cale's nonchalant gaze.
It was at that moment.
"I couldn't guide you all the way, so please take a good look."
He looked at the individuals he had mentioned before.
"Your potentials. Your futures. You will now see the true value of your powers, so watch and learn."
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'Watch and learn'
For some reason, many people felt like those words were directed at them as well, and not just towards these people.
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"What do you mea-"
Park Jin Tae who was about to ask suddenly got chills throughout his body.
His gaze headed down.
There were no changes.
Kim Rok Soo was just standing there.
But Park Jin Tae felt was not the only one who had felt the difference.
"...Holy crap. What is that?"
Kim Min Ah's hands were shaking as she held onto the ledge.
Park Jin Tae's mouth turned dry.
'this pressure... it's less than before. But still.'
An intense amount of pressure was coming from Kim Rok Soo.
Cale slowly started to walk with the Dominating Aura surrounding him.
"Screeeeeeeeeech-!"
"Grrrrrr- grrrrrr-"
The Grade 1 monsters focused their gazes on Cale.
Cale opened up his arms toward the two monsters showing him hostility.
Crackle, crackle.
Rose gold fire flowers and current started to flow around him.
Small whirlwinds gathered at the tips of his feet as well.
"Time to go."
His body quickly rushed toward the monsters.
But Cale's face looked relaxed.
The monsters' patterns, attributes, and weaknesses. Adding the powers he had gained.
"It's been a while since I stretched like this."
Cale laughed.
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"He laughed while looking so relaxed while facing such creatures"
Eric's no longer paying attention on his posture as he simply slumped down on his seat.
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"Screeeeeeeeeech-!"
Cale was flying toward the body of the skeleton monster charging at him.
The rose gold colored light was gathered in his hands as if they were guns.
"Screeeech- screeeeeeech!"
Cale moved even faster toward the 3-meter tall mummy-like skeleton monster charging toward him.
Jang Man Soo had barely managed to crawl over to the ledge and peeked out while holding onto the railing.
He could see the wind surrounding Cale and the reddish-gold light in his hands.
Still Man Soo started to shout as he could see a black animal charging toward Kim Rok Soo who looked too weak and tiny compared to this house-sized snake wolf.
"Rok Soo!"
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"DODGE!!!"
People screams all around the continents as they were too immersed with the fight.
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"Roooooar!"
The black snake wolf charged at him from the right with its jaw open.
Baaaaang!
They all heard a loud explosion.
A lot of dust shot up.
However, the dust soon subsided.
Jang Man Soo subconsciously opened his mouth.
"...A shield?"
A silver shield with two wings open was blocking the black wolf.
"...Holy crap. How many powers does this son of a bitch have?"
He heard Park Jin Tae mumbling, but Jang Man Soo could not say anything.
The shield was small compared to his shield.
It was only big enough to block the black wolf's face and front paw.
But the way it was being used was different.
At least, that's how Jang Man Soo felt.
Kim Rok Soo was not using the shield to block the enemy, but so that he could keep moving forward.
Jang Man Soo made eye contact with Cale who was on the other side of the shield.
He might be wrong, but it seemed as if Rok Soo was looking at him.
It was as if he was teaching him that this was how to use a shield even though he was in the middle of a battle.
It was as if he was showing how to do it.
"...Did I make a mistake?"
"Of course not!"
Jang Man Soo looked toward Park Jin Tae. But Park Jin Tae was not looking at him. He was speaking.
"He's obviously using the shield like that for you to see, Mr. Jang Man Soo! Isn't that obvious?"
Park Jin Tae stopped talking for a moment.
He still couldn't take his eyes off the rose-gold light in Cale's hands.
"Crazy bastard."
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"T-This... They need to 'watch and learn' from this? Ho..."
Rei Stecker let out a deep sigh.
He was doing some research while watching the previous scenarios, but he could not do so with this one.
He could not multitask with this kind of sight presented in front of him.
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"Screeeech!"
Cale, who had been looking at Jang Man Soo, started to walk again.
Craaaaaaack-
His shield slowly started to crack.
This Indestructible Shield was only at half power this time around. Which is better than last time. But it is still so weak.
"...And I can't overdo it."
Cale wasn't using all of his powers.
Efficiency was the most important thing right now.
Swoooooooosh-
Cale rode the wind and shot forward before the shield broke.
"Roooooooooooooooar!"
The wolf's roar echoed in Cale's ear.
The skeleton covered in bandages swung its arms at Cale.
Swoooooooosh-
The bandages on both of its arms instantly turned into sharp whips that struck down to split Cale in half.
The movement was elaborate.
However, there were no openings. Actually, even if there were any openings, they would only last a few short seconds. It swung its bandage whips around before striking down at Cale.
Park Jin Tae bit down on his lips.
'...Those damn bandages-'
Park Jin Tae who had escaped from that monster in the past to survive started to frown but he still have to deliver what Rok Soo has assigned him to do.
"Three steps to the left."
"Huh?"
Many people turned to him.
"Don't stare at me, look at that bastard. I'm just repeating what he told me." Jin Tae grumbled as he instructed them.
They were right on time to witness Cale quickly took three steps to the left.
"The blind spot of the two arm bandage attack."
Three steps to the left.
An area where the bandage whips could not reach was there.
"Five steps forward."
Cale then quickly took five steps forward. He mumbled the things he had told Park Jin Tae.
"The bandage monster will raise its left arm."
It was a pattern.
It was a monster's unchanging pattern that all monsters Grade 1 and lower had.
Cale could see the bandage monster raise its left arm.
"The first weakness. The left armpit."
Cale could see a red rock in the spot of the bandage monster's armpit when it raised its arm.
"Aim."
Park Jin Tae was the one talking. But his mouth felt like it was not his own at the moment.
"Fire."
Park Jin Tae paid close attention as he saw the bandage monster raise its arm. He saw a rose gold light shooting toward its left armpit.
It looked like a gun.
Park Jin Tae subconsciously took his gun out of his pocket.
"First weakness destroyed."