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657: everything can be connected (7)

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"My mother possessed a wood attribute ancient power."

"The Indestructible Shield" was what tcf!Cale immediately thought. But stopped and frown as he heard a voice in his head.

- It's not me Cale, I was always underneath the black tree. Your the first one to have my power and actually crazy enough to throw tons of bread at a pit." As the glutton laugh.

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"My mother said that she could see the annual rings of all living things."

"Annual rings."

Cale said those words once out loud. His expression then turned odd. Kim Rok Soo then added on.

"She said that she could see the entire annual rings of a person from birth to death."

Cale Henituse's mother had a wood attribute ancient power.

That power allowed her to see a living being's birth to its death.

"But you see..."

Kim Rok Soo turned to look at Cale.

"My mother sat me down and told me something at one point."

He recalled a memory from when he was very young. It was a conversation that he somehow could not forget, despite how long it has been.

"My dear Cale. Sometimes, there are people whose annual rings are warped. In that case, it is highly likely that that person has a peculiar experience with time."

Kim Rok Soo recalled how his mother had caressed his red hair and how his little fingers had played with her just-as-red hair as he said that out loud.

tboah!Cale and og!Cale was also reminiscing the time he bonded with his mother.

"I want to see my niece" og!Cale thought.

"Cale, you are a child who will have a peculiar experience with time."

Cale brushed his face with both hands. Kim Rok Soo just continued to speak in a calm voice.

"My mother said that after looking at my entire annual rings. But I couldn't understand what she meant at that time. I only understood it when I turned forty years old."

He had received an offer from the God of Death as he was about to die at the age of forty.

"But you see, Cale Henituse..."

Kim Rok Soo's voice sunk low.

Everyone was anticipating what information they will gain.

"I'm sure you've seen this power before. Doesn't it remind you of someone you know?"

Cale kept his mouth shut and closed his eyes.

Kim Rok Soo whispered while looking at him.

"You should have a record of experiencing a power similar to my mother's."

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*"The White Star-"

"White star?" tcf!Tasha said thinking deeply at what she read so far.

"What's that? drugs?" tcf!Bud asks indecorously.

"I think it's referring to a group? or a person?" A voice like GPS said as Mary wonders if she will be involved since she was here.

"What kind of an idiot would name themselves white star?" tcf!Rasheel said because he can't imagine any mother will give that kind of name.

While everyone was dissing the name, tcf!Cale was frowning as he listen to the cry in frustration of the three voices inside him.

- White star?! why is he alive?!" the glutton demands with anger and despair as she remembers her comrades who died.

- No! no no no! wasn't he dead? pls no.. sobs.. my comrades who sacrifice themselves" the crybaby said as he sob in grief.

- That trash! That rotten trash that killed my friends!" the thief snarl at that name.

tcf!Cale frown deepen.

On the other hand, another white creature is fuming remembering the name "that bastard that took my children" Serhitt was trembling in anger and grief.

Cale recalled something the White Star did in that memory.

"The White Star touched a dead tree."

Smoke had come out of the White Star's hand as he caressed a dead tree in the Underground City.

Tasha, Alberu, and Mary from both sides stiffen at the mention of the Underground City. "Does that mean that the dark elves will somehow be involved? " They don't know how to feel about that.

"That bastard knew from a single touch when that tree had died."

He knew that, although the tree looked very dry; it had only died in the past week. He had figured it out almost instantly.

"The White Star frequently said that Choi Han and my time is warped."

"So this white star is a person" tcf!Litana said as she focus on reading "since I'm here I'm sure there's some information that I could use to save the jungle from the fire" she thought.

"Huh, so there is an idiot that will name himself white star" tcf!Rasheel said like he can't comprehend why would anyone want that name.

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"I suspected that the White Star's wood attribute ancient power might be related to time or that he had a different time attribute ancient power."

He had brushed aside the fact that the White Star observed the tree with some kind of smoke.

"...I didn't expect it to be annual rings."

Cale stopped there and did not say anything else.

What he would have said next was...

'Does that mean that the White Star has Cale Henituse's mother's power?'

Or 'Was the White Star responsible for the carriage accident and mother's death?'

He could not say those things out loud.

Cale frowned and kept his mouth shut.

The room atmosphere drops down as they absorb the information. They don't like what that implies.

"Oh, don't get the wrong idea."

"...What?"

Cale looked toward Kim Rok Soo after hearing his voice. There was a faint smile on Kim Rok Soo's face.

"The White Star was not responsible for mother's death."

"Ah."

"Haaa"

Everyone let out a sigh in relief but pause when they remember that Cale's mother still died from something.

Cale quietly gasped.

Hearing Cale's sigh of relief helped Kim Rok Soo understand who taught those company employees who worked so hard to take care of him when he first arrived in Kim Rok Soo's body and could not adjust properly.

'It's because he's like this that I can tell him everything.'

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"When I was forty..."

Kim Rok Soo continued to speak.

"The Roan Kingdom was razed to the ground. The Henituse County was ruined as well. I was the only one left alive in our family."

"Ah!"

The Henituse family gasp in shock, various emotions welled up. They were devastated that everyone is dead and left Cale behind.

Ron and Beacrox from both sides stiffen, they don't know what to feel knowing the Henituse family san Cale died, its just... how could they just let that happen?

Both Alberu's face darkens, "how could I let the Roan Kingdom be destroyed?" He needs to strengthen himself and his kingdom so that this will never happen. His eyes held determination, he needed to prepare and plan.

tboah!Cale was trembling, "why?.. why only me?.. why was I the only one left alive!?" he thought as tears formed in his eyes.

"pyah!"

They look at the slime.

"pyah" "pyah"

The slime is right, it hasn't happened yet, and will make sure it won't. They calm down and focus on reading to figure out what they needed to do.

Cale gasped in shock.

Just hearing about it made it hard to breathe.

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"After taking over the Eastern continent, the White Star's first target on the Western continent was the Roan Kingdom. More specifically, it was Puzzle City. He started from Puzzle City, then went to the northeast region, and then the southeast region. I don't know why he started with Puzzle City as his first target."

"How powerful was he to actually conquer all of that?" tcf!Pedrick thought as he was thinking if the elf village will be safe.

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"King Zed Crossman died in the battle against the White Star, while crown prince Alberu Crossman fought many battles against the White Star to recover the Roan Kingdom's eastern areas. Choi Han, Rosalyn, and Lock helped Alberu with that."

Hearing that his father died.. both Alberu's hearts clench, even if he lost his father's affection, Alberu still cares about him.

Cale started to speak.

"That war took close to twenty years?"

"Yes. It continued until I turned forty. The Roan Kingdom protected the palace and its western territories and continued to fight against the White Star while he invaded and conquered the Whipper Kingdom, Breck Kingdom, and other areas. We were extremely persistent. We truly looked like a kingdom that had survived through many things for a very long time."

Twenty years...

To think of a war where a lot of kingdoms were lost and the war still continues for so long.

...

The atmosphere darkens.

"It won't happen," a firm voice said "I'll make sure of it" there's no doubt in tcf!Cale gaze.

Hearing that firm declaration and seeing that gaze.. yes, they'll make sure it won't happen. There was determination in their eyes. The mood started to lighten once again.

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"The Roan Kingdom continued to recruit people as we needed soldiers to fight against the White Star and his subordinates. I signed up for it."

Kim Rok Soo looked down at his arm.

He had been happy to see all the scars on this body when he first woke up in it.

The owner of this body must have suffered a lot too. He has scars all over his body as I did.

Such thoughts helped him start to like this body.

tcf!Cale's face wrinkles, "why would he like a body full of scars?" He look at his current body "yup this body clean of scar is the best" as he nodded to himself.

"I needed to get revenge. I needed to get revenge on the White Star who destroyed our territory and my family. I knew that I wouldn't be able to kill that bastard, but I thought I could only die in peace if I could even leave a damn scratch on him."

Kim Rok Soo was looking up into the air.

"And I finally got the chance."

The corners of his lips slightly went up.

"The strong individuals throughout the Eastern and Western continents gathered together with Choi Han at the center. Crown prince Alberu rallied together the survivors from the kingdoms that fell while opposing the White Star and the kingdoms that were still fighting against him as well."

Both Alberu smile at that, to let the continents be united under his leadership. Now if he could just do that without war, that would be perfect.

Kim Rok Soo's heart still beat wildly when thinking about that time.

"We headed for Puzzle City after hearing that the White Star was preparing for something in Puzzle City."

"Hmm.. what does he want in Puzzle City?" tcf!Cale needed to figure it out so that he could plan on how to smack them from the back.

That was the start of the Great Battle.

"It was such an intense battle. So many people died. I was lucky to last quite a while in it, but it was only because I was trapped underneath ally corpses."

Winced. To be alive because of your ally's corpse, they all shudder at that thought.

Kim Rok Soo's eyes were full of an odd fiery passion.

"It was then! That's when I saw it."

His gaze turned toward Cale.

"The White Star grabbed Choi Han's arm with his hand that was releasing smoke. He then said the following."

Boom. Boom.

Kim Rok Soo's heart was beating wildly.

He recalled the things he heard the White Star saying as he laid there being crushed underneath ally corpses.

"Time is warped oddly for you."

He had realized it at that moment.

"That bastard has my mother's power."

"How! how did he get my mother's power?!" tboah!Cale thought and is trembling in anger.

Kim Rok Soo had then made eye contact with the White Star, who was wearing a mask that covered everything above his nose.

"The White Star found me and shot a fire toward me. That was how I ended up in danger of dying."

"...Is that when you made the deal with the God of Death?"

"Yeah."

Kim Rok Soo stopped there and took a breath. His hand that was holding the curtain was already full of sweat.

"I learned about how my mother died while making that deal with the God of Death."

Ah, the content of the deal, they'll finally find out. As they continue to focus on reading.

The conditions the God of Death offered the real Cale Henituse was that as soon as he returned to the moment he met Choi Han, the starting point that could change the fate of our world, he would go into the body of a person named Kim Rok Soo in a different world.

"It was because my condition was to learn the truth about my mother's death as well as saving my territory and family."

"So we were right," they all thought, he accepted it to save those important to him even though he won't be able to see them.

To leave everyone important to you just so they can be saved. They can only imagine how hard that is.

Kim Rok Soo recalled his conversation with the God of Death.

'If you go into the body of the person you are about to possess, that will be enough to change the fate of this world. That is all I can tell you.'

He did not share this part with Cale Henituse.

"Why does that feel ominous?" tcf!Cale shiver in thought.

Instead, he told him the truth about his mother's death.

"My mother had gone to Harris Village to secretly hide a portion of her ancient power."

"Harris Village again?" tcf!Choi Han doesn't like how he feels like his village was fated to be involved.

"Why there of all places?" tboah!Choi Han was having a bad feeling.

Cale couldn't help but ask.

"You can transfer an ancient power while you are alive?"

Ancient powers were supposed to remain in the place where the user died.

Some people grimace, they know what will happen if a person transfers their ancient power while being alive and it's not good.

"Yeah. It's possible."

Kim Rok Soo had a sad smile on his face.

"As long as that person is willing to break their plate."

"...Ha."

Cale gasped.

Every person had a 'plate.'

Ancient powers were stored in this plate as well. Cale's plate was large, but quite weak.

Cale Henituse's mother had broken her own plate to secretly bury a portion of her ancient power in Harris Village.

Cale barely managed to say something.

"...If a person's plate breaks-"

"They die."

tboah!Cale and og!Cale feels bitter, how could his mother willingly leave them all behind? They couldn't help but be angry at the same time sad at what their mother choose.

"Anyway, what I will tell you now is the important part. What is the White Star doing right now?"

Cale answered without any hesitation.

"He's aiming for Puzzle City."

"Again Puzzle City. In both alternative futures, the white star aims for the Puzzle City" tcf!Cage said frowning at how it implies that he had a goal there.

What is he trying to accomplish there? tcf!Taylor thought deeply, he doesn't like how part of their kingdom is being threatened.

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"Cale."

Kim Rok Soo quietly whispered.

"It was weird that the White Star killed me. Do you know why?"

He recalled the moment he potentially died and realized something.

"That bastard knew that time was warped for Choi Han, but didn't know that it was warped for me. What could that mean?"

Cale calmly answered.

"That means he can only see the past. Time wasn't warped for you at that time."

For the forty years old Cale Henituse...

His time had not been warped just yet. His time only became warped when he made a deal with the God of Death after that.

"That's right. But my mother's power even saw my 'future' where time would get warped for me."

"Ah" tboah!Cale gasps. "There is still half of his mother's ancient power" as he felt relieved that the white star haven't got all of his mother's ancient power.

It was at that moment.

Chhhhhhh-

The curtains started to move on their own.

The curtains moved away from the large window and they could see outside.

Kim Rok Soo started speaking after looking outside the curtains.

"Hey. What the hell did you use my body to do?"

??

Everyone was curious about what og!Cale said.

"hm?" tcf!Cale was having a bad feeling.

They could see the inside of the Puzzle City City Hall office through the window.

The whole room was full of beige mana. Cale's body was full of cracks as he lay on the bed and Mila was about half-way done with putting him back together.

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Various voices commented.

"Cale-nim!" a worried voice shouted.

"Puppy young master," a chilling benign smile said that will make a certain red hair noble shiver.

"Young master Cale!" a gasp by a red hair mage.

"Young master" worriedly said by a wolf.

"Crazy bast-" the crown prince closes his mouth as he almost ruins his image.

"What an unlucky bastard" a beautiful golden hair elf sigh.

"Oh... Young master silver shield" said by someone.

- Human! why are you injured again!? You can't do that! Don't injure yourself human!

On and Hong rub their head in tcf!Cale's legs.

Even some from tboah side and some that haven't encountered tcf!Cale was worried.

Everyone all looks at tcf!Cale, who was.... eating?

Crunch as tcf!Cale takes a bite with the treats in his hand "it was alarming that I was injured but it did say that I was being healed" satisfied at that thought he was happily munching a cookie.

"..."

"...unbelievable" said by the brightest of the star as he sigh.

"Where did he even get that?" someone asks... "and why does that slime look like it was scammed?"

They all just sweatdrops.

While Mila thought "So I will also be involved with the transmigrator? hmmm how interesting"

Kim R ok Soo stared at Cale in shock, and Cale just avoided his gaze.

"Ahem. Hem."

"Ho."

Kim Rok Soo shook his head from side to side.

"Really, What did you do to get injured like that? raising his eyebrow tboah!Cale asks tcf!Cale curiously.

"Hey! Don't look at me! ask my future self." tcf!Cale said, but he has an idea based on the description of his injury and was thinking how he got back 'that' ability.

"You must have used 'Instant', didn't you? that crack on your body is the same one I get when I use that ability," said og!Cale

tcf!Cale frown hearing that "you should only use that at extreme emergency because of the backlash" he was worried that Kim Rok Soo might overuse it knowing his self-sacrificing tendencies... the idiot.

og!Cale just smiles at him. Which makes tcf!Cale frown deepen.

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"Cale, go to mother's grave."

Cale shook his hand. They could both feel each other's body heat that proved that they were both alive.

Kim Rok Soo continued to speak with a serious expression on his face.

"There should be an item with half of the power near the tomb."

tboah!Cale's eyes widen, he always visits his mother's grave but didn't know that his mother's ancient power was there.

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The man who decided to live as Cale and not Kim Rok Soo from now on answered the man who would continue living as Kim Rok Soo from here on.

"Live peacefully."

tboah! Cale and og!Cale smile at that. It's been a long time since someone wish for him to live peacefully.

Kim Rok Soo smiled and responded.

"It looks like you will need to struggle a little longer, but anyway, live well. Please take care of my family."

"Please take care of my team members."

Even when they exchange lives they still care for their family and comrades... Everyone has various thoughts about them which some of the thoughts will give tcf!Cale another heart attack if he finds out.

Both men let go of each other's hand with a small amount of sorrow visible in their eyes.

Cale headed toward the window. Kim Rok Soo headed for the bedroom door.

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"Stay safe, Kim Rok Soo."

"You too. Stay safe."

Cale jumped out the window while Kim Rok Soo opened the door all the way.

The two of them headed out into their respective worlds.

[End]

[Preparing The Next Information]

"Guess that's the end of the first information." tcf!Litana said.

"Yes, but is this the right information? I didn't get any clues" tcf!Tasha said as she tries to recall what she read.

A lot of people agree that they didn't get any clues.

"Well I could say that the deal I made was the same, so what we read now has a very high chance that it's true" og!Cale supplied.

"Hey slime, didn't that system say that they will give a clue and make it very easy, then where is it?" tboah!Cage ask the slime... that was sticking at the rectangular transparent screen.

"pyah" "pyah"

"What? so we just continue reading?" tcf!Cage said crossing her arms contemplating.

"Maybe we need to compare all that we read to find the real future?" tcf!Mary said with a voice like GPS.

"I also had that same idea so let's just continue reading the next one so we could judge it," said tcf!Alberu concluded.

Everyone agree on that and watch as the words appeared.

"pyah" "pyah"

Suddenly food and drinks were given to all of them.

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