Cale was just about to rest when he heard a knocking. He got up to open the door.

"Young master Cale, you like alcohol, right?" Taylor and Cage came to look for Cale.

"What can I do for you?" Cale wanted to know why they came to visit him so late at night, but his expression was not that odd.

Taylor smiled at Cale's demeanor. "Cale Henituse, the trash who cannot go a day without alcohol, but I don't think that is all."

When Taylor was still the potential successor to the Marquis, he had received all of the information about the nobles as well. Cale's information was so unique that there was no way he could forget it.

However, Cale was very different compared to the information. He stayed in the carriage all day so that they would feel at peace, and had the generosity to give them the best treatment possible. His subordinates also trusted and followed him. Most importantly, he treated the two of them like normal people.

"You are different from the rumors."

Cale nodded. "I've been hearing this sentence a lot recently."

They were now right in front of the capital. Taylor and Cage would need to move stealthily starting early the next morning. Of course, they would have to confidently walk in when they walked into the royal palace.

So, there were many things they were preparing to research before that happened. However, they had made up their mind to move differently than their original plan.

They had been watching Cale Henituse for around a week. This person was now on Taylor and Cage's mind.

"Young master Cale. It should be okay to share a drink with us before we leave, right?"

"As long as it's a good wine. Come on in." Cale moved away from the door.

Cage pushed Taylor's wheelchair inside. Once all three of them sat down at the table, Cale did not even take a look at the alcohol before he asked.

"Tell me what you want first." Cale's voice was firm and stoic as usual.

However, this just confirmed in Taylor's mind that this person in front of him was not a trash. In fact, he was smarter than most people thought.

Taylor had not come here just to drink with Cale. Alcohol was only good when you were comfortably drinking with people you could trust. Drinking with others was just for easy conversation and observing the other party.

"What kind of person do you think I am, young master Cale?"

Cale quietly observed Taylor after hearing his question, before approaching his bed and picking up a pouch. He brought it back and put it on top of the table.

Clang. A metallic sound filled the room as the pouch slightly opened. Inside the pouch were plenty of gold, silver, and bronze coins.

Cale's confident voice filled the room. "I don't know why you are heading to the capital right now, when every noble in the country's attention is focused on the capital, but I'm sure there is only one thing people like you who are heading into the lion's den want from me."

Cale had prepared it from the moment they asked to follow him to the capital. But, he acts like a trash anyway. "The wealthy Henituse family. You want money, right?"

The priestess Cage let out a sigh that was almost like a gasp of admiration.

Taylor was someone who used to play at the top before falling off a cliff, but Cage was someone who had always been at the bottom. To someone like her, Cale was a unique individual.

He asked the deputy butler for alcohol whenever he had a free moment. He did not care at all about what his subordinates did, and only ate the highest quality food.

He only stayed in the most luxurious inns, and always seemed to be relaxed. He also did not care about what he said to others. However, he was definitely not trash like he showed to others.

(Tsuki: actually it was Hans and Ron who prepared only the best to serve Cale. Cale himself doesn't really mind, as he could eat anything and sleep anywhere, since he once Kim Roksoo.)

Her friend Taylor understood this even better than she did. "So you already knew."

"It was a piece of cake." Cale imitated On's proud tone as he smiled. Cale answered as if it was not difficult to deduce at all.

"Based on how you are traveling, you look like you are lacking in money. In order to stay at the capital, especially stealthily, you need money more than anything else. I'm sure this was not originally your plan, but it was only natural to ask when you have the golden turtle traveling with you."

Taylor could not disagree with anything Cale just said. It was the truth. Cale Henituse was someone who did not try to avoid him, the eldest son who was pushed aside by his family. Asking Cale and hopefully getting some money was their best course of action.

Even if Cale said no, it didn't look like Cale would tell Venion about Taylor's request. Cale seemed to hate complicated things that could bring him troubles later.

In Taylor's eyes, Cale was someone who voluntarily hid from others to not get any unwanted attentions.

"Thank you very much, young master Cale."

Cale did not say anything like, 'you're welcome.' Instead, he was ready to put into play his plan that he had formulated and thought over ever since they started following him.

"Will you be leaving early in the morning?"

"Yes. We were planning on stealthily leaving, but came here to see you before we left. We need to take care of things on our own now." Taylor's eyes were clear as he sat on the wheelchair.

However, Cale could not see any positive feelings in Taylor's eyes when he made eye contact. "Will you be entering through the temple?"

The moment Taylor's expression seemed to show shock at how Cale knew, Cage stepped in. "Yes. We plan to enter through the temple."

They were planning to disguise Taylor as a member of the temple and sneak him in. However, doing so would alert the Temple of Death of Cage's location.

Cage was willing to put herself in that kind of danger for Taylor. Nonetheless, even entering like that would not guarantee stealth.

Cale poked at that problem. "Even if you enter through the temple, Venion or the Marquis will hear about it within three days. They most likely have informants in the Temple of Death as well."

"...You really are very well informed." Cage started to smile. There was something she suddenly realized about Cale. "Young master Cale, I'm sure there is a reason you are so curious about our course of action?"

"Of course." Cale's index finger tapped on the table. "Remember to take this money and let the innkeeper know that you and your people will be staying one more day here."

Cale then lifted up his finger and pointed toward the two of them. "As for the two of you, you will get on my carriage. The rest of your group will enter the capital one day later."

Cale pushed the chair back and stood up. He then went over and grabbed another item from the magic box, and put it on top of the table. "This is a magic tool that will make any lifeforms in a selected area turn invisible for five minutes."

This was the second item that needed to be rented under Billos's name.

"Young master, are you planning on stealing something?"

"Steal? No, I plan to break something."

"...Break something?"

He was planning on using this item during the Plaza Terror Incident, but he had a reason to use it in advance now. Cale was thankful that it was not a single use item.

Silence filled the room once Cale stopped talking. Cage and Taylor looked back and forth between Cale and the item, and their lips opened and closed multiple times, but they could not say anything. They finally managed to ask after a while of silence.

"Why-" Young master Taylor, who had been silent for a while now, slowly started to ask. "Why are you doing this for us? You have nothing to gain from it."

'Why? I want to help because I need your help messing up with Venion later. It's not like it is going to harm me in any way.' Of course Cale couldn't say that out loud.

In addition, if Taylor manages to take over the Marquis position, Cale would not need to worry about Marquis Stan or Venion's greed once the war with the foreign nations starts. That would help the Henituse territory remain quiet and allow Cale to live peacefully.

"Must I answer?"

"Yes. I want to hear your reason."

"Well, I don't want to tell you." Cale shrugged. "What can you do about it?"

Taylor's mouth slowly opened and closed again, before he started to silently laugh. Taylor then patted his knees with his hands. He could not feel anything when he did that.

However, Taylor's eyes, nose, mouth, hands, and the rest of him was still alive. Taylor started to smile brightly. "I really couldn't do anything about it. I'm already pitiful enough."

"Hmm, maybe you could do something for me in return."

"Please tell me, I'll do my best to fulfill it."

"I've heard that you've researched about Ancient Power. Tell me about it."

"Ah, let me think first. It's a little unexpected. I've never thought you're interested in Ancient power."

"It's a very curious power, don't you think? Anyway, can we have a drink while we talk?"

"Of course." Cage started to smile before putting her hand into the wide sleeves of her priestess outfit.

"Tada!" Three shot glasses came out of her sleeve.

"Ho." Cale looked at the shot glasses, the bottle of alcohol, and the priestess with disbelief. He could not believe that she carried shot glasses in her sleeves. "Priestess-nim."

"Yes?"

"You are amazing." She was a true alcoholic. Cale took a glass from her, and Taylor filled the glass.

Once all three of their glasses were full, Cage asked Cale a question. "Young master Cale, is it not weird that a priestess is drinking?"

Cale tilted his head to one side and answered. "Is that any of my business? If the god you believe and worship doesn't mind, then that's that."

"Wow. I really like you." Cage shared her admiration while smacking her knee with her other hand.

"Oh, let's talk about our Roan kingdom." Taylor started the story with a smile. "Roan Kingdom is the kingdom of, 'Boulders.'"

"The Roan Kingdom was kind of unique. Not only was it the Western Continent's greatest source of marble, but the Northwest and Western areas of Roan Kingdom contained a lot of granite. That was why it was called the Land of Boulders.

If you traveled up north, the majority of the mountain peaks were made of granite. The Roan Kingdom had quite a lot of Rock Mountains."

"If you look through the ancient stories, there are many 'boulder' related stories, even before the Roan Kingdom came into existence. One of them says that this land had a boulder-like guardian."

• It's Super Rock.

Cale suddenly heard Glutton's reminder, just like when it's about the crybaby old man, the Vitality of Heart.

'This friend sounds awesome to be called a guardian' Cale told the Glutton as he sipped his wine.

• He was our big brother. Listen to the story first. I won't disturb you.

"It was a guardian that could protect everything from any kind of attack. When darkness descended on the continent, this guardian was the one to stand in the front against it." Taylor continued.

"There were many different myths about the end of the ancient times. You would hear tons of different stories as you traveled around the continent.

Some say that the end of the ancient times came when darkness descended and some heroes managed to defeat this darkness, others say it ended because people were jealous of each other's powers and fought for control. Finally, some even say that a god was so angry that it destroyed all living beings."

'Darkness and God?' Cale thought about it carefully and asked Glutton. 'Are you and your friends the heroes that fight the darkness.'

• Sadly not, I think we got separated before the war with darkness. But I'm sure that Super Rock was the guardian and one of those heroes.

"I like the story very much because the guardian is said to have stood firmly in place, like a boulder, even after everything in his body became broken. That was how he was able to protect the people and the land of this Northeastern area, that is covered in boulders.

Such an existence cannot survive in the present day. That is why I like this myth so much."

"But you don't seem to believe it?"

Taylor nodded his head at Cage's question. "It is very rare to see someone injure himself so severely to protect something."

"Hmm, he sounds admirable." Cale mumbled.

Taylor and Cage was surprised. They looked at each other and smiled. They drank the wine silently as Cale seemed to be deep in thought.

Taylor and Cage finally said their goodbyes when the wine bottle was emptied.

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Tsuki: Enjoy!