Rustle, rustle. Cale felt the leaves flying by his face as he rushed forward.

Tap, tap. The kittens, On and Hong, were jumping across the trees while keeping up with Cale.

"Cale-nim." Choi Han approached Cale.

Cale's group was currently heading for the valley between the seventh and eighth peaks of the Ten Finger Mountains.

"What?"

Choi Han started to wince at Cale's cold response. He then asked in an awkward voice.

"Do we have to dress like this?"

"Yes."

"May I ask why?"

"One reason is to hide our identities."

Rosalyn, Ron, Beacrox, and Lock, who were following behind Cale and Choi Han, started to pay attention to their conversation. Cale and Choi Han continued to speak while not slowing down at all.

"And the other reasons?" Choi Han could see Cale smiling.

"To annoy them."

Choi Han closed his mouth. In his opinion, Cale's real reason had more to do with annoying Arm than hiding their identities. Choi Han wondered what had Arm done to this kind-hearted person to make him hate Arm even more Choi Han himself.

Choi Han was not wrong. Cale was happy as long as he could ruin this secret organization's work.

– Human, do I just need to stay far away like this?

Cale nodded his head. Raon was flying high up in the sky, but, as a Dragon, he should have been able to see Cale's nod.

Cale had told Raon to stay out of the Elementals' range since they were going to the Elf Village. However, Raon was still nearby, just in case something went wrong.

"Young master-nim, I can see it." Cale raised his head after hearing Ron speak.

Something odd could be seen in the distance.

Clang, clang! Bang! They could hear the sounds of swords clashing together, as well as the sound of explosions.

"How odd."

Cale agreed with Lock's statement. The valley between the seventh and eighth peaks was fluctuating, and they could see a different location flashing through the fluctuation.

That was the Elf Village.

Cale shared his sentiments while looking at the entrance to the village. "What a mess."

There were Elementals that materialized into physical bodies, as well as some Elves who were fighting against the secret organization.

"Let's go." Cale started to smirk. He quickly rushed toward the boundary of the village.

"On."

Fog covered Cale's body. Cale did not need to say anything else for Hong to immediately start spreading his poison inside the fog. A poisonous fog soon protected Cale's body.

"I will take the lead." Beacrox put on a white glove as he stepped forward.

Choi Han was already in front of him.

"Young master, I will quietly follow behind you." Cale could see Ron slowly disappear into the forest without making a noise.

Clang! Cale turned around after hearing the noise, only to see that Lock's claws had grown.

Lock awkwardly smiled, as if he was embarrassed. He was still very shy.

Cale looked back to the front as he approached the loud Elf Village.

Baaaang!

Ugh!

Screeeeech-

It was a mess with the screams of humans, animals, Elves, and Elementals.

The strong individuals within the Elf Village suddenly stopped moving. All of their gazes headed toward the seventh peak. They could see people heading toward them quickly from the seventh peak.

"M-More enemies?!" One of the Elves shouted in disbelief. However, the Elf soon flinched.

Aaaaaah! One of the enemy's arms was missing.

The person who cut the arm off was none other than the person who was in front of the new group of who he thought to be the enemies.

"...Huh?" He could see it clearly once they got closer.

"Who-who are you?!" One of the enemies shouted.

They had black outfits with five white stars and a single red star. Some of the enemies started to shout in disbelief.

The Elves could see that the outfits the people coming from the seventh peak were wearing was the same as the enemies, however, it was done with a terrible patch job.

The people wearing outfits that had stars that looked like a newbie had sewed them on soon approached them.

"Hyung-nim! It is them!"

"Pendrick! What did you say? Them?" The Elf's eyes became wide after hearing Pendrick's words.

At that moment, Cale arrived at the battlefield with Choi Han and Beacrox in front of him. He could see a familiar face.

Choi Han, who was in the front, started to speak. "Won't they be angry?"

Cale's group was pretending to be the secret organization, just like they had done at Hais Island.

Cale smilingly responded. "I want them to get angry. Wouldn't that be great?"

"It definitely would."

Cale listened to Choi Han's response as he looked toward the familiar magic spearman. It was the same one who thought he was going to get away safely from Hais Island, yet ended up getting injured by Raon's mana arrow.

"Hah!" The magic spearman, who had a spear in his hand, let out a gasp of disbelief.

He looked toward the people who made him run away from Hais Island before sighing and starting to speak. "They're driving me crazy."

Hearing a villain saying something like that made Cale start to smile.

"Just who are you?"

Choi Han responded to the magic spearman's question. "The secret organization."

Choi Han was very confident with his answer now. Cale could see Choi Han starting to smirk through the opening in his mask. He couldn't believe that Choi Han was smirking. It was not fitting Choi Han's character.

"What a bunch of lunatics." They could feel the magic spearman's true feelings. He looked angry and annoyed.

Cale started to smirk even wider than Choi Han. 'So why do you do these bad things to harm other people?'

"Hey kid, who are they?"

"Who are they?"

There were two people who seemed to be working with the magic spearman.

There was a boy who seemed to be about 12 years old, as well as a middle-aged man.

– Neither of them are as strong as the magic spearman. However, the young boy is special.

Their handy strength detector, Raon, explained to Cale. Furthermore, Pendrick had already described these two to Cale.

"The young boy is a tamer. Based on the type of words that he uses, it seems that he just looks like a young boy. He made the animals that seemed to have lost their will to spread the dead mana against the Elves. The middle-aged swordsman protects the tamer."

They could also see hundreds of soldiers from the secret organization. On their side, the Elves had, at max, two hundred adult Elves.

Even with the help of the Elementals, it was no wonder that the Elves were struggling, especially since the secret organization was using dead mana against them.

"Hyungs, who are you and why are you pretending to be us?"

Cale made eye contact with the tamer boy who was looking at him.

Tamers were said to have special abilities. They could become friends with living animals and monsters and fight together with them, or they could take away the animals will and make them like a zombie.

An animal or monster that has their will taken away can never return to normal. Even if they are released from the taming, they will go berserk until they die.

Grrrrrrrr. Cale could see animals with bottles of dead mana in their mouths around the young boy.

There seemed to be at least two or three hundred animals. The animals seemed to have been poisoned by dead mana as well, as their entire bodies were filled with black veins.

"The wolves living in the valley all lost their wills once the young boy's eyes turned white. Our biggest issue right now is the tamer boy directing the animals to release the dead mana."

"Each time he does that, he makes his subordinates temporarily retreat so that they are not affected by the dead mana, so the Elves can only avoid the animals with the dead mana and retreat as well. Since they control the timing of that attack, we are unable to launch a proper attack."

And there were two strong individuals protecting the young tamer boy. It was at that moment.

Boom! One of the animals suddenly blew up.

The wolf that blew up because it could not handle the dead mana that was released slowly disappeared without a trace as black smoke started to rise from its corpse.

"I-I cannot forgive them."

Cale turned around to see Lock's eyes turning red. Of all the animals out there, the animals that the tamer boy had picked were all wolves, foxes, or similar animals.

The young boy's eyes suddenly turned wide. "Huh? There are claws on that man's hands. He must be from the Wolf Tribe. Wow, I want to make him mine!"

Crunch. Lock's teeth became sharp and his anger was visible on his face.

Choi Han stood in front of Lock and covered his sword with his aura. Both the tamer boy and the middle-aged man flinched after seeing the aura that showed that Choi Han was a sword master.

The middle-aged man asked the magic spearman. "Are they the ones who messed with the mermaid incident?"

"Yes, it was those crazy bastards."

A cold voice interrupted the middle-aged man and the magic spearman who were looking at each other. "You weaklings sure have a lot to say."

The two men turned toward the source of the voice. Cale lightly laughed before he gave an order to the owner of the cold voice who was looking at him.

"You can fight."

Beacrox put on four pairs of white gloves to get revenge for his father. There was a broadsword in his hand. However, the first scream did not come because of Beacrox.

"Aaaaaaahh! My arm!" One of the secret organization's soldiers had suddenly lost their left arm. They clenched onto their shoulder as they started to scream. However, they could not see the person that had cut their arm off.

While the other soldiers was blasted by red mana. The scream could be heard for a while.

(Tsuki: I don't know how to put Rosalyn in the fighting scene.... 😅🥺😣)

A moment later, Cale could hear a quiet voice from behind him. "Young master, it is a cruel sight to look at. Are you feeling okay?"

Ron was the perpetrator who cut off the arm of the soldiers. What a sly old man.

"It's fine, I can watch you having fun taking revenge anytime." Cale smiled confidently. It's not like it's his first time seeing this much blood.

His family was the reason why Cale was so confident today. He looked past the secret organization and toward the boundary of the Elf Village. A small defensive wall could be seen.

Cale could also see Pendrick and the Elves looking at them with blank expressions. Cale gave the order while looking at the Elves. "We will first get to the boundary."

Cale's body shot forward by using the Sound of the Wind.

"Our first priority is to block them!" The magic spearman shouted. The hundreds of soldiers and animals all charged toward Cale's group.

Cale looked toward them and started to smile. The magic spearman flinched as they made eye contact.

Cale then started to speak to the magic spearman. "You think this fog is just for show?"

The fog surrounding Cale's body quickly started to spread. On and Hong had gotten much stronger than before.

Meeeeeow.

Meow.

The chilling meowing of the kittens echoed in the valley.

The white fog quickly turned red as Cale charged into the approaching enemies. However, Cale was not afraid at all.

The enemies in the front of the army started to grab their necks.

"Uggggh!"

"Aaaaaaah!"

It was difficult to use deadly poison against a large number of enemies, however, it was possible to paralyze them. The ones who managed to approach Cale through the paralysis all lost their left arms.

"Young master, do not push yourself too hard as you run."

"It's not hard, Ron."

Ron was using a dagger in each hand in order to cut off each of the enemies' left arms without any hesitation. He was being nice by not killing them.

A whirlwind started to form in Cale's hand.

"Remove the fog." The fog disappeared.

"Add poison to the whirlwind." The whirlwind turned red.

A kitten who was dyed black jumped off of a tree and landed on Cale's shoulder. It was Hong.

Cale shot up two poisonous whirlwinds into the sky as he continued to charge forward. Ron kept up in order to protect Cale.

Lock was not far behind them, growling with his fangs showing. "Grrrrrrr-"

Although Lock had not transformed into his berserk state, the animals that had lost their wills still flinched at his growl. Their instincts made them feel fear, as it was the growl of the Wolf King's heir.

Lock quickly caught up to Cale and asked.

"Young master-nim, can we heal them?"

"In that state, probably not."

"They can't return to normal?"

"No."

"... I understand."

The way to save those animals was to quickly kill them and remove the tamer's control. If they just got rid of the tamer's influence, they would continue to go berserk while suffering from the dead mana.

Cale peeked at Lock moving away before continuing to move forward. He could hear the magic spearman shouting from a distance.

"Where are these bastards always popping out from?!" The magic spearman clenched his teeth and started to shout.

Beacrox started to attack him as he did that. "Shut the hell up. I plan on using all of my white gloves today."

Clang! Beacrox's broadsword clashed against the magic spearman's spear.

The magic spearman started to cast a spell with his other hand. "Fireball!"

Bang!

"Shit! This is why I didn't want to come here!" The magic spearman shouted, as if he was tired of this.

His fireball was easily blocked by Rosalyn's magic shield. Lock's goal was not the magic spearman, so he was aiming for the person the magic spearman was protecting while Rosalyn was fighting with the magic spearman.

The magic spearman urgently shouted. "Shit! Ahjussi! Protect Ballad!"

Lock's sharp claws were aiming for the tamer. However, there was no one to block Lock.

The middle-aged swordsman was currently in a fierce battle. "Damn it, where did these bastards come from?!"

"Oh, looks like you still have enough energy to flap your mouth. Shall we raise it up a level?" Choi Han leisurely continued to attack the swordsman.

The swordsman's body started to become covered in injuries. However, Choi Han did not kill him, instead, he just looked around as he pushed the swordsman to his limit.

"Wow!" However, the tamer was still laughing without worry. Lock's sharp claws instantly arrived in front of the tamer. "Time to catch a Wolf!"

The young boy's eyes instantly turned white. However, there was something covered his eyes the moment they turned white.

"The wolves on our side all lost their wills once the young boy's eyes turned white."

Pendrick had explained it in detail for them.

Meeeeeeow.

Another kitten that was dyed black appeared.

The kitten, who was covering her usual silver color, instantly landed near the tamer and covered the tamer's eyes with her fog.

"Huh? What is this?!" The tamer became anxious.

Cale's first goal was to prevent any more animals from becoming tamed. Lock's claws headed toward the tamer's eyes that were covered by the fog.

Clang! However, there was a small dagger that stopped Lock's claws.

Suddenly, a mummy-like assassin wearing white appeared from the shadow of the grass. The dagger in the assassin's hand turned in an odd direction and aimed for the back of Lock's hand.

"I guess I need to cut your fingers off."

The moment the assassin said that, he could see that Lock was smiling.

Pendrick had said the following to Cale.

"It looks like there are two people protecting the tamer."

However, right before Pendrick had climbed to the top of the mountain, Raon had told Cale that the magic spearman had just arrived.

In that case, who were the two that Pendrick had seen protecting the tamer?

"Number 1! Dodge!" A voice called out to the assassin.

At the same time, the man named Number 1 twisted his body to the side after hearing a different, cold voice.

"You are going to cut off whose what?"

It was Choi Han. His sword cut through the assassin's side.

"Ugh!" However, the assassin covered the tamer boy's neck with his arm and retreated to the back.

Lock's claws only managed to scratch the boy's palm.

"Ow! Number 1, I'm hurt! I'm going to kill that Wolf!" The boy started to cry through the fog.

"Tsk." Lock clicked his tongue and carried On in his arms as he and Rosalyn rushed toward the boundary of the Elf Village without looking back.

The tamer started to shout. "Kill those young mutts!"

And old man's voice echoed in the valley as the animals' eyes turned red. Choi Han immediately headed toward Beacrox. He was supposed to go to Cale, but he was worried that Beacrox would lose his rationality during the battle.

"Where are you going?" Beacrox asked Choi Han with a stoic expression. Beacrox was weaker than the magic spearman.

Choi Han, who had been worried about Beacrox for that reason, looked back and asked in shock. "What is up with those gloves?"

"I was annoyed." Beacrox, who had thrown a total of eight gloves toward the magic spearman, was smiling.

They stopped talking at that moment and instead started chasing after Cale, who had arrived at the boundary to the Elf Village.

Thanks to Ron's guard and Hong's poison, Cale had arrived at the wall in a straight line, like he was running a 100m race.

"Pendrick, good to see you."

Pendrick nodded his head with a blank expression. "Yes, yes sir."

Cale looked past Pendrick, only to see another familiar face. "Good to see you again too."

It was the middle-aged Elf he had met in the inn, the Guardian Knight, Jeet.

Jeet could not believe what he was seeing. Adult Elves were strong because they could handle Elementals. However, they were not at this level.

This man had a sword master, a mage, a Wolf Beast person, a poisonous fog, and an assassin of unknown strength protecting him. Furthermore, the other swordsman seemed to be as strong as Jeet as well.

How could all these strong individuals show up together? They were all as strong as the Royal Knights.

Jeet looked toward Cale Henituse, the man leading these experts, and barely managed to speak.

"Yes sir, it has been a while." He was still respectful toward Cale.

Jeet asked his Elemental as soon as he saw Cale. 'Is he a Dragon?'

*No, he's a human. However, the power of nature is strong in this one.*

He was not a Dragon. However, Jeet had heard about this noble and the things that he had done. Pendrick had explained it all to him. Pendrick also mentioned that this human had agreed to help them without asking for any compensation.

Even though Elves did not like humans, they liked lifeforms that were pure and had a sense of responsibility.

Cale could see an old Elf with white hair walking toward them. It was the Elf Chief. However, unfortunately, he did not have time to greet her.

"Cale-nim, everyone has arrived."

Cale saw that everyone had arrived and walked toward the front of the wall. Choi Han and Beacrox followed next to him. Cale was walking confidently, as if he was walking on top of the walls of the Henituse castle walls.

These walls were too shabby to be called castle walls. He could see animals rushing toward them from below the wall.