[{"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-531":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},1848545,2454,"Chapter 531","level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-chapter-531",531,"\u003Cp>[Translator - Night]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Proofreader - Gun]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chapter 531: New Normal (3)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What do you mean? ‘In custody’?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yeongwoo gaped at Resham’s guidance message, Earth tilted its head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『Looks like that “Visit” really is that kind of visit.』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait, you’re telling me our client is in a cell right now?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『That’s how it looks. This is awkward.』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earth kept scratching its forehead helplessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Yeongwoo’s brow furrowed hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“King Teroph, that bastard.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『Wh… what’s with you, all of a sudden?』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He definitely said it. That Koatu ‘recently’ sold weapons.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeongwoo’s memory was spot on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>◇ Arms dealer Koatu. He sold weapons for a recent war between houses, so he should be flush with cash right about now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Earth still didn’t seem to get it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『…And that means what, exactly?』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You don’t see it? Teroph would’ve known perfectly well that Koatu was in prison.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『C’mon, no way. Even so, His Majesty is… he’s a doer of good, right?』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They’re not doers of good in my book. They’re extreme balance-ists.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeongwoo squeezed his eyes shut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this rough universe, the thought that he’d been blindsided again made his blood boil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Those sons of bitches.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『So what now? We turning back?』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Can’t do that. There’s a stack of cash right under our nose—how could we walk away?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『…….』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did Earth realize Teroph might well have anticipated things even this far.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d seen through that, even if the client was in prison, Yeongwoo would still force the collection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he’d done it from that brief meeting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『A king is a king, huh.』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Earth muttered in a deflated voice, Yeongwoo shifted his gaze to the hologram screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No helping it. We’ll have to try a visit first.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『Visit and do what? Don’t tell me you’re planning a jailbreak?』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why not? If this planet belonged to Koatu, we would’ve punched through their shield with ship guns anyway.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『Uh… no? We never made a plan like that. That’s just something you were thinking by yourself, isn’t it?』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My thoughts are our plan.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, they might not need to go as far as breaking Koatu out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn’t yet know exactly what this planet’s prison was like.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For all they knew, Koatu could be living it up behind bars, and as a career criminal arms dealer, there was a decent chance prison was practically his residence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I will visit.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Yeongwoo hit the Visit button on the screen, a new line soon appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They say to follow a guiding line?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『They want me to send the ship to the coordinates they give. Want to hear something wild?』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『The Black-Iron Prison’s location is the same as the coordinates you gave me.』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You sons of… called it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I mean, in this brutal universe, who’s there to trust?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Still, they must’ve given it to us because it’s doable.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『They wouldn’t hand out a suicide mission. And besides us, it didn’t look like they had anyone else to send for collections.』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both Yeongwoo and Earth spun their positive-thinking circuits and opened the passageway to Resham’s Black-Iron Prison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chuiaat!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『Go through there and you can take a drop pod down. Use a recall stone to come back.』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earth pointed at the portal that had opened on one side of the cockpit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeongwoo fingered the recall stone in his hand and asked,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What about coming back for two?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『…Huh?』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If I’m bringing Koatu off-planet with me, how do we do that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『Uh…….』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earth faltered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn’t thought that far ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『If you grab the other person while using a recall stone, joint recall is possible… but it takes a really long time.』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s a problem. During a jailbreak, who has time to stand around waiting in place?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『…Right?』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even to Earth, that sounded true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he pulled out Plan B.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『Then the only thing left is to go analog.』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tapped a point in midair with his index finger, then dragged downward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『We send an escape craft.』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We have an escape craft?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『We don’t have a proper ship. Calling it an escape craft is generous—it’s really a recoverable drop pod.』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which meant there was a high chance it would be shot down by the facility’s anti-air guns, Earth explained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『Even you would have a hard time surviving a hit from AA guns.』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now it’s starting to sound like a suicide mission.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『That’s why Plan B needs suppressive fire from the Earth-ship. We have to neutralize the Black-Iron Prison’s anti-air capability.』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Oh. First plan I actually like.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earth frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『We’d basically be pre-emptively striking Resham to save one arms dealer. It’s honestly crazy.』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We can charge high prices because we can do crazy things like that, no?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this was the Earth-ship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A planet specialized for escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which meant it would also be specialized for breaking someone out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『Times like this, I wish we had some secondary guns. Kinda a shame. The main gun can’t be sprayed, and the firepower is way too high.』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So they couldn’t directly target the prison, Earth added.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, they might not just breach the walls—they might erase all the inmates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>『Think it through to the end. If you mean to break Koatu out, he has to walk himself all the way outside the prison.』\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ve thought that far.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, Yeongwoo set his foot on the portal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Shall we?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earth nodded, and Yeongwoo stepped through without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>* * *\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A disposable drop pod of the Earth-ship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This oval, ultra-small craft was just big enough that when Yeongwoo stood straight inside, he filled it exactly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘What the—this is tiny.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yeongwoo balked at the cramped space that didn’t even let him turn sideways, Earth spoke in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>○ It’s because the craft is only for one thing: a hard drop. If you want to make some grand entrance like a chairman, go buy an actual ship somehow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Like we’ve got the budget for that right now.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>○ I’ll keep it simple. The cushion around your skull is just for show, and the only survival aid is the footplate under your feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Footplate?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>○ On impact at the drop point, the pod’s outer shell will crumple and spring away to all sides, and in the same moment the footplate will shatter and bounce you upward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A system to keep the rider from smashing into the pod’s debris.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Why is everything about this just breaking?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>○ There’s no attitude control either. Which means you can only fall to the coordinates I’ve input.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Translator - Night]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Proofreader - Gun]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘So I’m arriving right in front of the Black-Iron Prison’s main gate?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>○ Probably. Can’t be sure—their external scan is blocking me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Not easy, huh.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>○ Okay, launching now. Commence drop!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At Earth’s cue, Yeongwoo’s pod jolted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Likely it had been chambered in some launch tube he couldn’t see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘…….’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Drrrrrrrk!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sensation like rolling along rails washed over him as tremendous speed wrapped around his whole body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Puuuuuuung!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At last they were outbound for the Planet of Power, Resham.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>○ I’ve opened an entry lane for you through Resham’s shield. So you won’t splatter against it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘You little punk—having fun, are we?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>○ You should feel what it’s like to be helpless in space for once!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earth’s voice was full of glee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the pod carrying Yeongwoo was plunging fast into Resham’s atmosphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The holographic flight path hanging in front of his nose said as much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kuiiaaaat!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the craft existed purely for descent, the knife-edged, air-rending shriek from outside piped straight in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is nuts. I’m a head of house, and this is what I—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yeongwoo grumbled, Earth warned him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>○ Touchdown imminent. Brace for impact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What? Already?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And almost at once—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kwaahtz-euut!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The whistling outside shifted strangely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air had changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Click!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From inside the pod came the sound of some kind of latch unlocking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Uh? That’s not right—something just popped early!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>○ It’s prepping to come apart. Impact is right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the end of their exchange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An enormous shock smashed the pod, and Yeongwoo’s body was flung upward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kuuuuuung……!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Son of—!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Catapulted in an instant to some twenty meters up, Yeongwoo saw the pod below him shatter to pieces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kwajak!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Huh?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He realized a massive shadow had fallen across everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Roughly fifty meters ahead of the landing point stood a colossal jet-black citadel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless needle-sharp spires rose, easily hundreds of meters high, and around the base of those spires, walls of staggering thickness ringed the citadel like a mountain range.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, shi—This Koatu fellow picked one hell of a spot. Are you seeing this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yeongwoo touched down amidst the pod debris and asked, Earth stirred in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>○ I see it. Even bigger than I expected. Are all the universe’s prisons like that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How would I know? It’s my first time seeing a prison in person.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>○ Is it even possible to break someone out of a place like that……?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Earth spoke in a daunted voice, a signal came from ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiiiiiing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>《0929, approach slowly without drawing any weapons.》\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“0929?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>○ The temporary code we used talking with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah, so they’re telling me to come in.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fifty meters ahead, there was a massive gate big enough for most ships to pass through.Updates are released by NovєlFіre.net\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was shut tight at the moment, of course.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘If I go in there, they’ll probably take my weapons. Even on Earth, you can’t carry sharp objects into a visitation room.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>○ Then stash them ahead of time?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Earth said that, Yeongwoo was already putting Bastard and Aratubank into the Catalog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In their place, he pulled out a single junk sword registered in the Catalog and slid it at his waist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>○ Why that one?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘You hand over something—anything—and it looks less suspicious.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He strode toward the gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clack, clack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he was about twenty meters out, a small postern on the right side of the main gate slid open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Drrrk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-0929, this way, please.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three knights stood there, clad head to toe in pitch-black armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yeongwoo angled toward the postern, they stepped aside and led him in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Go to the end of that corridor you see there. There will be a simple equipment check.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“An equipment check?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-We do not allow equipment with offensive capability in the visitation room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, one of the knights raised a hand to indicate the corridor, and Yeongwoo walked along as directed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tiles beneath his feet lit up each time he stepped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘What’s this? Only the floor I step on lights up?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Yeongwoo was about halfway down the corridor—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Biiiiiiip!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A vicious alarm blared, and a system message flashed in midair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>《Warning, 0929, Catalog detected.》\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As expected of a prison—they could instantly pick up on something like an Equipment Catalog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it didn’t stop there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>《Evil Karma ratio, 83%.》\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>《Subject may be an assassin. Security team, apprehend the target immediately.》\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Translator - Night]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Proofreader - Gun]\u003C\u002Fp>",1824,"2026-06-09T07:04:10.527Z",1,"novelbin.me","a867596f5b397d4c537f5c5f5b8b1979af1c65bb139893977f940ddfc621c9ae","level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-chapter-532","level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-chapter-530",688,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Flevel-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-cover.jpg"]