[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world":3,"chapter-level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-chapter-490":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Level 4 Human in a Ruined World",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1848054,2454,"Chapter 490","level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-chapter-490",490,"\u003Cp>[Translator - Night]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Proofreader - Gun]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chapter 490: The Balance (7)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ugh… I don’t think I can do that again.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yeongwoo crawled out from between the two dragons’ massive bodies, a vast sea of silver-armored figures came into view.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clink, clank!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The royal knights directly under the command of the Shelbir Kingdom were beginning to form ranks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not far from the scale, the Shelbir royal family had their seating area, and the knights guarding it had hurriedly surrounded the two dragons and Yeongwoo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, given how enormous Jiseon and Jeongho were, the royal knights looked almost like dwarves in comparison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— Must’ve been an important event. There are a lot of knights around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiseon snorted out the dirt that had gotten into her nose and gave a full-body shake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The landing just moments ago had left her entire body aching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>∴ How many aliens are even gathered here?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jeongho, on the other hand, was more focused on the countless spectators forming a wall beyond the royal knights than the knights themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was his first time in life being the subject of attention on this scale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>∴ Not sure if this is the right way to put it… but it doesn’t feel bad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Jeongho straightened his long neck stiffly and rose to his feet, casting a massive shadow over the venue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The disembodied voice of the host came out from who-knew-where, and the crowd of hundreds of thousands collectively took a step back in fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>∴ They’re afraid of us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jeongho said this excitedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But from Yeongwoo’s perspective, this was far from ideal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, their purpose today wasn't to take over Doatel—it was to gain good press as a charity organization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tch, could you stay still for a second?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeongwoo lightly kicked his uncle’s forepaw and began walking toward the ranks of knights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clank, clank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the Doatel side, it looked like a bizarre man had shown up leading dragons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, the royal knights couldn’t hide their nervousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oddly, this calmed Yeongwoo instead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as they didn’t make the first move, there wouldn’t be any unnecessary bloodshed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, it seemed he’d need to skip a few formalities to speed things up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘That must be where the royal family is seated.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeongwoo looked toward a tall platform set behind the silver-clad knights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was likely where Prince Aldo and the rest of the Shelbir royals were gathered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey! Prince Aldo!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeongwoo waved a hand toward the platform and called out to the prince.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some of the knights in front of him turned toward the platform in surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, it was shocking for someone who’d just fallen from the sky with dragons to be calling out the second prince by name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But something even more surprising happened next.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— Huh?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone on the platform let out a short sound and threw a golden medal toward the floor of the venue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fwoosh—tiiiing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The medal rolled a few times across the floor of white stone and stopped right in front of the knights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shiiing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The knights, who had been ready to start a battle at any second, all sheathed their swords in unison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…What? Is that supposed to be a royal order or something?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Yeongwoo stared at the medal lying on the ground, white steps began to unfold from the outer edge of the platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rumble!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, a caramel-colored creature with a stout body began to quickly descend the steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tat-tat!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was none other than Prince Aldo, second in line to the Shelbir throne.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Recognizing him, Yeongwoo raised a hand in greeting, and Aldo raised his hand for a moment before quickly lowering it again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whatever the reason, it seemed he couldn’t openly greet Yeongwoo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Well, yeah. I did cause some trouble.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, just moments ago this venue was being used for a sacred royal ritual involving weighing good and evil deeds on a giant scale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, while Yeongwoo and his group were acquaintances of Prince Aldo, they were also technically event terrorists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— My goodness… Y-Yeongwoo? What on earth is going on? How did you even get here?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aldo, clearly overwhelmed, spoke in a rapid-fire pace unlike his usual self.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— How did you even…?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He repeated himself and looked up at the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was likely asking how they had broken through the blockade of the refugee fleet in orbit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“……”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeongwoo couldn’t bring himself to admit they had hijacked the escort ship and broken through the inner walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that he thought about it, he was a bit curious about the fate of the unfortunate caramels left behind on the ship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m now the master of a planetary ship. There’s no place I can’t reach—except the afterlife.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— Huh? A planetary ship…?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ve completed the grand mission that held the fate of my nation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then raised a finger toward the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fwoop!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Earthship is waiting just outside the atmosphere. With coordinates, I can go anywhere.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For this brief moment, even Yeongwoo felt a bit proud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He now owned something that existed not just beyond the sky, but in the vastness of space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And right then, a part of Yeongwoo’s long-standing quest, “Balanced Bonds,” was fulfilled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beep!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Planetary Court] “Balanced Fate”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reunite with the following three individuals: (0\u002F3)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Aldo, the second prince of Doatel\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Amana, the guardian of Sacred Sutral\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Taru, the last hope of Pigot\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Must use a family-owned spaceship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adjustment of karma score guaranteed by the Planetary Court.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Oh.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Translator - Night]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Proofreader - Gun]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had now officially reunited with one of the \"three fools.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘One assignment down.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, all that remained was a meeting with Chancellor, and then a trip to North America to finalize the Golden Ratio achievement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was only one condition left to fulfill the Golden Ratio-related achievement, Golden Tempest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Golden Tempest]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>|Summon the Golden Ratio in the following four ways. (3\u002F4)|\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>– On the continent of North America.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>– When a Level 2 or higher extradimensional being appears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘I never did end up encountering a Level 2 entity.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, at his current level, facing a Level 2 being might very well crush his mind to pieces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Hmm.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yeongwoo stood there, staring off into space and stroking his chin, Prince Aldo cautiously spoke up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Um… Sir Yeongwoo?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah, yes, Your Highness.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—You still haven’t… told us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sorry? Told you what?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yeongwoo asked this, he quickly snapped out of it and looked directly at Aldo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, you mean why I came here?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he said that, a loud noise erupted behind them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom, craaaash!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Song Jeongho rose to his feet and then Jiseon followed, the already-ruined scale began collapsing further into the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeongwoo instinctively realized that whatever that was, it had been quite important to the Caramels, and he made a troubled face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, Aldo was sweating buckets, wiping his yellowish forehead nervously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Whatever reason brought you here… my father is furious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the first time Aldo had ever spoken with such bitterness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I know I’m in no position to say this after ruining everything, but… what even is that thing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeongwoo pointed to the object that no longer resembled a scale and asked, prompting Aldo to look up at the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—It’s the Scale of Balance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Scale of Balance?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Yes. We periodically weigh the good and evil deeds that have spread throughout the universe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aldo added that this weighing was one of Doatel’s major ceremonial events.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But during that crucial moment, Yeongwoo’s group had shown up and not only interfered with the weighing but also completely ruined the ceremony itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No, but… how do you even measure good and evil? Is that something you can actually quantify? It’s not like it’s visible or tangible.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, he knew that \"good points\" and \"evil points\" existed as actual numerical values within the system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So did that mean the scale was connected to the central system of the universe—the Blueprint?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You Caramels aren’t secretly peeking into the records, are you? Even Remu spent his life trying to study that.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Ah… weighing the balance doesn’t require methods that complicated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What? Then how?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Everywhere in the universe, traces of good and evil remain. Our scale simply has the ability to detect those traces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you saying—like how air is made up of oxygen and nitrogen, you're saying space itself is composed of something too?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that, Aldo looked at Yeongwoo with a hint of surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Something like that. Every corner of the universe is made of something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And one of those somethings is karma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While factions like Remu's struggle to peek into the Records, the Royal House of Shelbir in Doatel has been studying the “karma” that permeates the entire universe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So you really can see the balance of the entire universe?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Our detection range doesn’t extend that far yet. For now, we can only collect data within a galaxy cluster centered around Doatel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A galaxy cluster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive cosmic structure made up of thousands of galaxies—a level above a galaxy group, which contains dozens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, that's broad enough to call it “the universe.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most beings never even leave their own galaxy, and here we’re talking about thousands of them grouped together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So you’re not watching the whole universe, but you’re still monitoring a pretty huge region.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Yes. But the balance has never been in favor. There’s always been far more evil than good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time, the scale had started to tilt in the opposite direction, Aldo explained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—But then you…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unable to finish the sentence, Aldo just stared at Yeongwoo, at a loss for words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But by then, Yeongwoo’s eyes had already begun to glint mischievously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heh. You're only seeing half the picture, Prince Aldo.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Pardon? What do you mean…?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t you get it? Why do you think the scale suddenly started tipping toward good today?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—…?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that Aldo really didn’t understand, Yeongwoo straightened his back and raised his shoulders confidently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What day is it today?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Well, it’s the Balance Ceremony…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Nope.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Then… what day is it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Today is the day the Guardian of Balance, Jeong Yeongwoo, arrived.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—…?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There’s no need to weigh good and evil anymore. From now on, balance will always be maintained. That’s why I sent the weight flying.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeongwoo drew a large arc in the air with his hand, illustrating how the weight of good had been launched into the sky and vanished earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—…That’s insulting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I came with an incredible business proposal, so please escort me to your king.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—I told you earlier… my father is extremely angry right now…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He’ll calm down extremely fast after hearing about my miracle laundry technique.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Translator - Night]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Proofreader - Gun]\u003C\u002Fp>",1791,"2026-06-09T07:03:45.910Z",1,"novelbin.me","8fbc57a7fb4e59870cf42eba19613275cb1b8739e945613380246a0310114906","level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-chapter-491","level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-chapter-489",688,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Flevel-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-cover.jpg"]