[{"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-569":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},1848583,2454,"Chapter 569","level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-chapter-569",569,"\u003Cp>[Translator - Night]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Proofreader - Gun]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chapter 569: The Black Zone (1)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Huh? What the hell is this?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hypocrite and Pretender of Evil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even for Yeongwoo, those were choices he had never imagined would appear. He hadn’t even known such a compendium existed in the first place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hypocrite…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Yeongwoo murmured while looking at the message in front of him, Lady Kanaph noticed something odd and tilted her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—What’s all this about all of a sudden?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Yeongwoo decided to consult someone “educated.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“As I expected, the Catalog reward has appeared. But its condition is… well.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—What about it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It says to choose between the Catalog of the Hypocrite and the Catalog of the Pretender of Evil.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Catalog of the Hypocrite]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>– Strengthens when performing good deeds while your evil-karma ratio is higher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Catalog of the Wicked]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>– Strengthens when performing evil deeds while your good-karma ratio is higher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lady Kanaph burst out laughing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—“Pretender of Evil”? Aren’t you just plain evil?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If I wanted to hear that kind of talk, I wouldn’t have brought it up. If you were me, which would you choose?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—You must be really torn about this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kanaph folded her arms, thinking for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—But still…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But still?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—I can’t understand what there is to think about. You might be able to fake goodness, but pretending to be evil? That’s impossible for you, isn’t it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…That’s…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had a point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To pretend to be good—that is, to be a hypocrite—was something even villains could do. But pretending to be evil was different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To fake evil, the actor must not actually be evil. That’s the whole premise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, for a man who was a certified villain through and through, pretending to be evil simply didn’t make sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So you’re saying the Catalog of the Hypocrite is my only real option.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Of course. You knew that already, didn’t you?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yeah, but still.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeongwoo frowned, deep in thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the very business model of the Renaissance—robbing people under the pretense of “charity fundraising”—was already hypocritical by nature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the tooltip even stated clearly: ‘Strengthens when performing good deeds while evil karma is higher.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Right now, my evil karma ratio is way higher anyway… and I even have that quest to reduce it.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Burning Ice]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>| Ensure your total evil karma does not exceed twice your total good karma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, as Lady Kanaph said, the Hypocrite Catalog was the one he could make immediate use of.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regardless of whether he was evil or not, using the Pretender of Evil Catalog would first require him to have a higher good ratio.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘But long-term… isn’t the Pretender better?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason Yeongwoo was hesitating over what seemed the obvious choice was the potential scalability of good karma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘In this universe, it’s ridiculously hard to live righteously.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason was simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The universe was full of villains, and most of the powerful derived their strength from evil karma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what if a powerful being decided to act virtuously?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘In a world drowning in evil, even pretending to be nice counts as good karma.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was exactly why Yeongwoo, despite chopping off other people’s limbs in the dungeon, could still be rated a “Hypocrite.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this universe, the threshold for good was absurdly low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Then what if I go all-in on doing good? What happens then?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The answer, he suspected, was right in front of him,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Catalog of the Pretender of Evil]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>| Strengthens when performing evil deeds while your good karma ratio is higher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Pretender of Evil—one who acts evil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, once you become truly good, even committing sins would count as merely pretending to be bad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘It’s basically a license to sin…!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, that meant he would first have to become a true paragon of virtue—one whose good karma outweighed his evil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘In the end, I’ll need both. The Hypocrite Catalog to become a Pretender later.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would he ever get another chance to choose between them again?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Hey, system—make sure my future includes the Pretender of Evil Catalog too.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t have both, so for now he had to pick just one—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Hypocrite Catalog, a guarantee of growth for the next three or four… no, three or four billion years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yeongwoo finally reached toward the Hypocrite Catalog, the system message appeared:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「You have selected the Catalog of the Hypocrite.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A brilliant light engulfed the extraction chamber, followed by one final notice:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「All rewards have been settled. Closing the dungeon.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Lady Kanaph hastily pulled a golden staff from her abdomen and shouted in panic,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Wait! You have to take me with you!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the dungeon closed now, Yeongwoo would return to his planetary ship alone, leaving Lady Kanaph behind where she’d been abandoned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fwoosh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her body glowed and was drawn back into the staff—the same divine relic she had hidden in before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that, Yeongwoo swiftly reached out and grabbed the relic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he, too, was swallowed by light and vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>* * *\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shooaaah!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a tremendous sense of falling, Yeongwoo opened his eyes to find himself not inside the escape chamber, but somewhere completely different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Oh.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Translator - Night]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Proofreader - Gun]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was none other than Gwangjin-gu, in the middle of the night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m back.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even after completing the dungeon, it didn’t quite feel real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the golden staff in his hand was proof enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lady Kanaph, you’re in there, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Uh… we’ve arrived. Maybe you can come out now?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What, am I supposed to let you out manually?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking she wouldn’t stay inside on purpose, Yeongwoo inspected the staff and spotted a tiny button on its end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Guess I just press this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t wait for an answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he pressed it, a white beam shot from the tip and formed Lady Kanaph’s image.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fwaaah!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You humans sure love the theatrics.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yeongwoo stepped back, she fully emerged—only to immediately collapse onto the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ugh!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Are you okay? Why’d you fall over by yourself?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Kanaph ignored him, clutching the relic and scanning her surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Wh… where are we?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where else? The place I promised to take you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gestured around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gwangjin-gu was dark overall, but the neighboring districts gleamed bright as day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, every region and every building now had full, constant power supply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To Kanaph, though, this sight was utterly alien.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—You said we were going back to your ship…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I said planetary ship. The entire planet is the ship.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—What…?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes widened as she slowly turned in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—You mean… I’m inside the ship right now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The planetary ship—one of the wonders of the cosmos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having spent her whole life confined within noble walls, she had only ever read about such things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s easier to think of it as a planet that moves on its own than as being inside a ship.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, once they reached the control room—where the stars hung like ornaments—her sense of reality would probably shatter completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For now, let’s get to our quarters. I don’t want you dying of shock from seeing too much at once.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yeongwoo summoned Negwig, Kanaph flinched and stepped back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—And what in the world is that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Our ride to the quarters. Relax—this is my territory. No enemies here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clank!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even after Yeongwoo mounted the beast alongside his golden goblin, Kanaph’s anxiety didn’t subside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s with that face? We survived the dungeon just fine.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—But… will I really be able to go home? Will you really send me back?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not today, but once I’ve wrapped up my business, I’ll make sure you meet Duke Dalqui.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The planetary ship was already near the Black Zone, so turning back wasn’t an option.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You know I’m a hypocrite, right? And now that I have the Catalog itself, I’m obliged to do good.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—R-Right…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And besides, he still had to collect her ransom from the duke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Come on up. I’ll introduce you to some proper humans—you’ll feel safer. There are plenty at the quarters.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Humans? There are more of you?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes went wide again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only human she’d ever met was Yeongwoo, and that alone hadn’t left her with the best impression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Among the humans on this planet, I’m the best of the bunch. The rest are… subpar. You’ll be fine.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeongwoo extended his hand from atop Negwig.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kanaph hesitated, then reluctantly grasped it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clack!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In one motion, Yeongwoo pulled her up as if kidnapping her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Welcome to Earth, Lady Kanaph.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, Negwig galloped off toward Gangnam at high speed—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>just as a sharp system alert rang in Yeongwoo’s ear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beeeep!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Now what?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why would the system be triggering at this hour?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he frowned, the message appeared—and it all made sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Hypocrisy detected!」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘What?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Rescue of Kanaph Izori]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>| Evaluation Grade: C\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You rescued Kanaph Izori, motivated by the promise of a hefty reward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if Duke Dalqui feels sorrow during the ransom negotiations, that’s still better than mourning his sister’s death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, another message followed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「‘Kanaph Izori’ has been added to the Catalog of the Hypocrite.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「You now take 5% less damage from all ‘Izoris’.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Uh… what?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeongwoo blinked at the notification.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that wasn’t the main reward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The true value of the Hypocrite Catalog lay in its collection progress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Catalog of the Hypocrite]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(1)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, as if to make sure he didn’t forget, the system gave one more reminder:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Four more acts of hypocrisy remain until the first collection reward is unlocked.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Translator - Night]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Proofreader - Gun]\u003C\u002Fp>",1588,"2026-06-09T07:04:15.797Z",1,"novelbin.me","74f470eb70eb7612a058f0c1d7423e62b96868981dc028a868ff9ad54485b7c0","level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-chapter-570","level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-chapter-568",688,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Flevel-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-cover.jpg"]