Dust exists everywhere.

The only question is whether it can be seen or not.

Ha.

Cale got goosebumps.

The platinum-colored powder floating before his eyes.

No, dust.

If Lord Eruhaben had aimed to become an assassin, he would have become the best.

The dust was stealthy.

No, it did not even need to be stealthy.

It simply had to exist.

Eruhaben.

It was only because he preferred to reveal himself and fight, because he preferred beating everything down by turning it all into powder, into dust.

But now that he had decided to move in secret, Cale felt as if he was finally seeing the true face of # Nоvеlight # the power Eruhaben possessed.

Though that’s exactly why I brought Lord Eruhaben in the first place.

Choi Han, Rosalyn, the Heavenly Demon, even Raon.

All of them had power that could become endlessly flashy if they chose.

But Eruhaben could also do the opposite.

As if present and absent at once.

Whichever side he chose, he could do it.

Now!

Wanderer Cho passed right by Cale, who was on Eruhaben’s back.

When Cale tapped Eruhaben’s shoulder twice, Eruhaben silently stirred up the dust.

And right now.

Tap.

The instant Cale tapped that shoulder once more.

Cho’s back entered Cale’s view.

And especially, at the moment his empty hand caught Cale’s eye—

“!”

Cho flinched and came to a halt.

The instant he felt that wave of power rising behind him, he turned his head.

A brilliant platinum light.

What entered his eyes was fine powder.

The powder floating in the air was so tiny it was hard to make out with the naked eye, but at the moment he turned his head—

Its numbers multiplied at a terrifying speed in an instant, forming something like a tiny galaxy.

Mm!

And Eruhaben was startled.

He had not yet fully revealed his attribute.

Even so, Wanderer Cho had sensed the sign of it and turned around.

Damn.

These Wanderers really were strong.

A chill ran down Eruhaben’s spine.

“!”

Wanderer Ryeon.

Over Cho’s shoulder, she too had turned her head exactly toward the platinum dust.

These Wanderers were strong enough to detect Eruhaben’s sneak attack.

If Gashan, the Tiger Beastman chieftain, had not appeared to steal their attention, it would have been difficult for Eruhaben to quietly stir up the dust in front of these two people at all.

But the ambush has already begun.

The platinum dust came crashing down on Cho.

But—

He’ll block it.

These two Wanderers would somehow block or evade the ambush Eruhaben had just launched with ease.

If—

—Cale Henituse hadn’t been here.

Wanderer Cho shouted.

“You bastard—”

But he could not finish speaking.

“!”

His eyes widened.

The moment the platinum dust descended on him—

What is this—!

He felt an enormous power.

A vast force rushing at him like a wave.

As that power tightened around his whole body, Wanderer Cho froze without realizing it.

“......!”

For an instant, he could not think of anything at all.

He could only feel it.

As if—

The head of the family—

When he had first met the original Wanderer.

The one who possessed Five-Colored-grade individuality.

And then—

...A god!

When he had met a god.

That overwhelming presence.

Before that power, a Single-Born who was not a god was nothing at all.

The helplessness he had felt then, the sense of defeat that told him he had to bow his head before a god—

As all of that came back to him, he remembered the first moment he had ever felt fear.

Yes.

It was terrifying.

The fear hidden in the instincts of his own existence swallowed Cho whole.

Memories of all kinds of fear and terror rose up and drove him into chaos.

Ah.

At that moment, Cho came to his senses.

“Cho!”

At the same time, he heard his older sister Ryeon’s voice.

“Damn it!”

Cho hurried backward and ignited his individuality.

Fwoooosh—

Fire flared up.

A terrifying blaze that looked as if it could burn everything.

“Urgh!”

But the price of that brief instant of chaos, filled with fear, was great.

It really had only been a few seconds.

Yet Cho, before the fire covering his arm, saw the dust already clinging to it.

A beautiful platinum light that did not suit mere powder.

The dust that had drifted in through that enormous wave of force—

Boom!

Started exploding.

Booom! Boom! Booom!

The price of a moment’s carelessness.

His mind had been stolen by the beastman.

He had left others behind his back.

He had ignored those others.

And even after noticing the ambush, he had recoiled before that enormous force and hesitated for a moment.

A tiny gap of time that had not even lasted ten seconds.

“Gaaaah!”

And Cho had to feel the pain of it.

“Cho!”

Wanderer Ryeon’s face twisted as she watched the explosions erupting from one of her younger brother’s arms.

Damn it!

She had let her guard down.

And in that instant, she had faltered.

She too, like Cho, had recoiled for a moment before that enormous force.

But she had recovered faster than Cho.

Because that enormous power had not descended upon her.

It had acted as if it would swallow her too, only to aim at her brother’s arm alone.

Boooom!

Another explosion rang out.

It did not come from Cho’s arm.

“You bastard!”

The ice shattered, and where the smoke from the explosion vanished with the wind, Eruhaben was there, gracefully stepping back.

Wanderer Ryeon glared at the guard with murderous eyes.

“Heh.”

And the guard laughed as he stretched out a hand.

It was aimed directly at Cho.

“No!”

Ryeon’s gaze snapped toward Cho.

Another vast wave of platinum dust was rushing toward him, as if to engulf him again.

No!

Absolutely not.

No one was allowed to touch Cho.

They had been born on the same day, the same hour, only seconds apart.

And they had died on the same day, the same hour, only seconds apart.

Looks like this time I died before you, Sister.

Cho had smiled when he said that.

Of course he had died first.

He had died protecting Ryeon.

Thanks to that, Ryeon had died a little later than Cho.

And only after dying had the two of them learned they were Single-Born.

After that, they had spent a very long time together.

When Ryeon decided to live as a Wanderer, she had sworn only one thing.

I’ll die first.

If the time ever came to die, then no matter what, I will die before Cho.

But right now, her younger brother had been attacked.

And she was unharmed.

Ryeon, who was always praised as calm and cool-headed, yet was said to be weak only where her younger brother was concerned, always getting dragged around by him.

Her heart now boiled like a massive fire.

Rage at the enemy.

Rage at herself for letting her guard down.

Rage that she had failed to protect her injured brother.

Pouring all of that rage into it, she used her power.

Sssshaaaaa—

The wave of platinum dust.

And the immense cold that descended over it.

In an instant, the platinum dust was trapped inside ice.

Like a perfect sculpture, the platinum light sparkling inside the wave-shaped ice was unbelievably beautiful.

“Urgh!”

Cho’s groan rang out.

Ryeon moved her hand on instinct.

Her next action had already been decided.

Sssshaaa—

Ice instantly spread over Cho’s arm, which had been left in ruins by the explosions.

“Ugh—”

Only when Cho’s groan eased slightly did Ryeon’s hand move again.

She was furious, but this time she did not let her guard down.

Booooom!

A massive ice spike.

And the platinum barrier that blocked it.

Craaack—

But the spike pierced right through that barrier.

Beyond the breaking shield, Ryeon saw the guard fleeing quickly.

On his back hung the servant, limp as if unconscious.

“Let’s chase them, Ryeon!”

Wanderer Cho’s voice drew no reaction at all from Ryeon.

Cho, who had intended to pursue Eruhaben while clutching the arm that had been frozen by Ryeon’s ice, though it was already so mangled it was nearly gone—

His pain was less than his rage at the enemy, and so his movement had been fierce.

But—

“......”

Even he stopped calling for them to give chase.

He looked up at the sky.

“Ha!”

The sky, hard to see because of the towering trees.

It was only faintly visible through the leaves.

Rumble—

The sky had turned dark red.

No, dark red clouds had covered the sky.

And from those clouds—

Crackle, crackle!

Red fire and dazzling golden lightning began to rain downward.

Wanderer Ryeon opened her mouth.

“We’ve been played.”

Booom! Boom! Booom!

Dozens of bolts of fire and lightning poured down at once.

The jungle was being reduced to scorched earth.

There were so many explosions and so much dust that it was impossible to properly see the whole area.

Sssshaaaa—

But then, with a single gust of wind, the explosions subsided almost instantly.

At the center of the direction where all the attacks had been falling, Wanderer Cho opened his mouth.

“...Ryeon.”

The explosions had no choice but to stop.

Fire.

Lightning.

Trees.

Grass.

All the attacks aimed at Cho and Ryeon.

All the living things around Cho and Ryeon.

Everything had frozen.

“......”

Everything centered around Wanderer Ryeon froze solid.

The fire and lightning had already been swallowed up completely.

She lightly waved her hand.

Craaack—

Cracks spread through the ice.

And everything covered in ice shattered.

Like platinum dust.

Everything fell to the ground as powder.

“......”

Wanderer Ryeon said nothing.

Cho watched, then finally could not hold back his fury and kicked the ground.

“Damn it! Goddamn it!”

He could not suppress his anger.

Ryeon silently stared in the direction the guard had disappeared.

The man was long gone.

Well, someone who had needed only an instant to blow off Cho’s arm would need only an instant to escape too.

“Ryeon! Let’s go after that guard bastard right now!”

“...We’ve been played.”

“Ryeon!”

When Cho’s voice rose higher, Ryeon looked at him and spoke.

“I said we’ve been played.”

The instant he saw her cold, translucent eyes, Cho faltered.

He realized that Ryeon was extremely angry.

Angry enough to make her snap.

Gulp.

Cho swallowed without realizing it.

Enough that he forgot the pain in his arm for a moment.

Because when Ryeon’s eyes flipped like that, even the Five-Colored-grade members of the Transparent Blood family had difficulty stopping her.

Even then, Ryeon muttered in a low voice.

“Starting with the beastman, all of it was a trap.”

“Ah!”

At her words, Cho finally remembered the beastman.

Ryeon looked around.

The beastman had vanished without a trace.

You could think it ran after seeing us fight.

But for that, it had disappeared far too quietly.

Appearing suddenly, then vanishing in secret.

It was more accurate to think all of this had been arranged beforehand.

And when that guard ran, magic attacks suddenly poured down too.

And in the sky from which those magical attacks had fallen, she had felt individuality.

It was an imperfect individuality, as if newly formed, but the power still seemed to be at least Purple-grade.

And none of those powers had been used at full strength.

Only for a few seconds.

Just enough power to hold the two Wanderers in place.

“Ha, haha—”

Wanderer Ryeon laughed as she lifted her eyes from the ground, where everything had frozen, shattered, and melted away, and looked up at the wide-open sky.

Cho watched her, then flinched when she looked at him again.

“Cho.” 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Ryeon approached and grabbed his arm.

“Are you okay?”

At that, Cho answered stoutly,

“I can do without one arm.”

He meant it.

Cho had always thought that one day, the time would come when he got injured.

And when it did, all he had to do was ask the family to make something to replace his arm.

He pointed to his shoulder.

“I think they’ll have to cut it off below the shoulder.”

“......”

Ryeon looked at his arm in silence.

Then she spoke.

“You felt it too, didn’t you?”

Cho looked into Ryeon’s eyes.

They were still translucent and expressionless.

Yet an enormous rage sat inside them.

What do I do now.

Ryeon had snapped.

Cho recognized that, but unfortunately, he was furious too.

“Yeah, I felt it. You felt it too, right?”

“Mm.”

Ryeon continued in her detached tone.

“There is only one thing capable of pressuring us like that, with that chaos-infused force mixed with fear.”

Her gaze turned past the depths of the jungle.

“The God of Chaos.”

The guard.

In the end, he really was a plant of the God of Chaos.

She should have been more suspicious, but the price of letting her guard down had been her brother’s arm.

Ryeon felt as if she might go mad from the fury twisting through her.

And yet her voice remained calm.

“So in the end, the God of Chaos has betrayed us.”

Cho spat out his rage.

“How dare it stab us in the back?”

The God of Chaos, an ancient god.

No matter that he was a god, Cho could not forgive him for betraying the Five Colored Blood.

How dare he stab them in the back?

That was absolutely unforgivable.

Ryeon spoke calmly.

“There’s no helping it.”

At this point, there was no helping it now.

With it certain that the God of Chaos had betrayed them, what was left to do?

Seeing Ryeon’s reaction, Cho furrowed his brow and raised his voice.

“What do you mean, there’s no helping it? We should wipe it out! We’ve already found a way to destroy an ancient god!”

Ryeon patted her younger brother’s back.

“Calm down. For that part, let’s first follow the family’s decision.”

“You’re saying just endure it?”

“No.”

Ryeon smiled softly.

There was no helping it.

There was no other move left.

“There really is no other move left. It can’t be helped.”

She made her decision.

“We’ll break everything apart one by one and show them just how wrong a choice the Order of the God of Chaos made.”

“Ryeon!”

Cho’s face brightened.

And Ryeon decided what to do next.

“Let’s destroy the holy land first.”

And then she added,

“And kill the bastard who did this to you.”

An entrance into the holy land?

Entering carefully?

None of that mattered.

They knew the rough location of the holy land.

“Don’t overdo it, Cho. I’ll take care of it.”

Ryeon decided she would simply destroy both the area around the holy land and the holy land itself.

Ssssss—

Cold spread around her enraged body.

Ready to freeze everything in an instant at any moment.

“Khh! That won’t work. I’m furious too. I have to get paid back for my arm.”

And Wanderer Cho was furious as well.

He would kill the one who had dared attack and injure him, no matter what.

The Order of the God of Chaos.

That place was finished now.

*****

“Here it is.”

At Cale’s words, after spotting the marker, Eruhaben stopped his acceleration magic and slowed down.

Step, step.

Once Eruhaben entered the cave, he was soon able to see their companions.

“You’ve arrived?”

Alberu, Rosalyn, the Heavenly Demon.

And even Gashan.

All of them had managed to hide inside the cave.

Hm?

Eruhaben sensed that the others’ gazes were strange.

It was then—

“Haha!”

Cale’s voice came from behind him.

“Good to see everyone!”

Cale’s voice was light and excited.

Still riding on Eruhaben’s back, he was swinging his feet.

And he casually lifted a hand in greeting.

“Ah.”

Eruhaben realized that, because he had been in a hurry, he had carried Cale on his back the entire way.

The brat was perfectly fine. He could have let him move on his own.

“Now then, let’s hurry to Primordial Night and watch the Order of the God of Chaos and the Wanderers beat the hell out of each other!”

And Cale was utterly thrilled.

“Heh.”

At last, the bastards behind everything that had been making his life miserable, making him cough blood, and knocking him unconscious—

Were about to fight among themselves.

How could that not make his heart race?

And the holy relic.

And Choi Jung Gun too.

The way to save all of that would be simple as well—he would just quietly take care of everything while watching the enemies beat each other senseless.

“Hehe.”

Cale was truly delighted.

“Cale.”

At that moment, Eruhaben called to him quietly.

“Yes!”

Cale answered enthusiastically.

“Get down.”

“Ah—, yes, sir.”

Cale quickly and efficiently climbed down from the ancient dragon’s back.

Only then did Cale realize that he had been riding on the back of his oldest companion for far too long.