[{"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-664":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},1848640,2454,"Chapter 664","level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-chapter-664",664,"\u003Cp>[Translator - Night]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Proofreader - Gun]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chapter 664: Kindred (1)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Planet Maden of the Soro Galaxy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A former holding of Quiad, a Class-3 human, and a planet currently inhabited by other Earthlings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Yeongwoo, it was inevitable that his eyes would go wide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Earthlings? Does that mean humans are living on that place called Maden?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that, Quiad nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―Isn’t that only natural?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Natural?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―I would say you, too, are surrounded by humans all the same. In this universe, it is perfectly natural to prioritize one’s own kind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But I…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeongwoo trailed off, unable to continue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, the reason Yeongwoo himself had gathered so many humans was purely because this planet-ship had been created through Earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike the ‘spacefarers’ he had met so far, Yeongwoo had never lost his home planet, Earth, and so he had never developed any particular attachment to his own kind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While encountering other humans in this universe was certainly surprising, it wasn’t exactly something he found especially heartwarming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, Quiad tilted his head, having read Yeongwoo’s expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―It seems you can’t relate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ve wandered the universe in search of money, but I’ve never moved to find other humans.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―I see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Still, if I had to choose between saving an alien or a human, I’d probably choose the human if possible.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he said that, Yeongwoo couldn’t be certain what choice he would actually make if such a situation truly arose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he really had to choose, wouldn’t he judge based on merit rather than species?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least, that was how Yeongwoo currently felt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he referred to the virtuous as fools, ironically, he held their values in high regard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Yeongwoo’s view, this universe needed more virtuous individuals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was true even setting aside the fact that hundreds of sinners were currently aboard this planet-ship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―A planet-ship… and one made from Earth, at that. Even I have never seen such a thing. So perhaps your way of thinking is only natural. Among the Earthlings sent out into the universe, wouldn’t yours be the most prosperous?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Uh… I’m not sure we’re the most prosperous.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―For a single species, it is difficult to achieve anything greater than a planet-ship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quiad slowly nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, shifting his gaze to Chancellor Herisa on the screen, he issued an order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―Herisa, you are to move to Maden immediately. You won’t be able to travel faster than the planet-ship, so it would be best to make haste accordingly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that, Herisa shrugged and spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「That would depend on the will of the planet-ship’s master, wouldn’t it? Lord Yeongwoo, has the next destination been decided as Maden?」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a question asking whether he would come to Maden, as proposed, and conclude matters there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To this, Yeongwoo answered as if there was no need to hesitate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s where our chairman can get reinstated, right? And where I can receive the rest of my payment.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「I merely proposed the nearest suitable meeting point. However, it is certainly the optimal location at this moment.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then let’s meet at Maden. It’s not like I have anywhere else to go while carrying this many guests anyway.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At Yeongwoo’s words, Mantero immediately began plotting a course, and Herisa gave a slight nod before cutting off the communication.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The meeting on planet Maden had been set.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―The Soro Galaxy… it’s quite a distance from our current position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before long, Mantero, having found a route, reported with a troubled expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is there even such a thing as a close destination in this universe? How far is it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―It will take about four months via interstellar travel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Four months?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, it was truly far.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so Yeongwoo reflexively looked out at the space beyond the window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In that case, we’ll just have to use the ‘passage’ again. That’s what it’s there for, isn’t it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―But you’ve already done so within a single day… are you really sure about this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each time a passage was used, the centennial covenant increased by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Yeongwoo merely shrugged as if it were no issue at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ask my descendants about that.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>* * *\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two hours of travel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And contact with yet another black hole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As usual, the solitary black holes demanded a ‘covenant,’ and Yeongwoo readily accepted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was pushing the burden of the promise onto descendants who might not even exist in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Black Agreement】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>|Opening new paths becomes gradually easier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>|Secured Agreements: 10\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Already ten agreements.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yeongwoo muttered this, Quiad glanced sideways at the Myth Map in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―If the number of agreements keeps increasing, what happens?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well… originally, it should mean that multiple black holes are favorably disposed toward me, so the next black hole ought to let me pass easily…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now it had taken on the exact opposite meaning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The number of agreements engraved on the Myth Map had effectively become the number of covenants between Renaissance and the black holes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so, every new black hole he encountered demanded that he make a covenant with it as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Anyway, whatever. This covenant will be a problem for my successor to deal with. Hah-hah!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yeongwoo let out a sly laugh, Quiad tilted his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―Why do you think that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh? Well, by the time I’d have to fulfill these covenants, I’d already be…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been about to say that he would have died a natural death by then, but for some reason, Quiad’s reaction seemed odd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What is it? Why that expression?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―It seems you’ve already forgotten where you brought me from.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No way. You were in Pahalufe, weren’t you, chairman?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―Yes. A prison isolated from the universe for eternity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did Yeongwoo realize what he meant and opened his mouth belatedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Translator - Night]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Proofreader - Gun]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Come to think of it, he had never asked how long Quiad had been imprisoned in Pahalufe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Judging by the circumstances, it didn’t seem like he had been locked up for just a year or two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…No way. Can you surpass a fixed lifespan? Then you’re not human anymore.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―Human? Does living long simply make one no longer human? Then what about your own skin? It has long since become impervious to bullets, hasn’t it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“….”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a reply that left him speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, if surpassing innate limitations meant one was no longer human, then most Earthlings currently alive would no longer be human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No, but still, there has to be some limit, right? The fact that you were imprisoned in Pahalufe and are still alive means…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just how old was Quiad?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yeongwoo stared at him intently, Quiad soon gave a faint smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―Of course, the period I was imprisoned was not particularly long compared to other prisoners. However, compared to my lifespan, it was quite long. That is why Chancellor Herisa took the risk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, it meant that they had tried to extract the human Quiad before he died in Pahalufe, and things had led to this point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since Yeongwoo himself also had a short lifespan, he could fully understand why Herisa had needed to hurry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Strictly speaking, I’m the one who took the risk. Anyway, then how long were you in prison?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that, Quiad slightly raised his head and answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―612 years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Six… what? Six hundred years…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeongwoo’s eyes and mouth fell open at the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No, does that even make sense? If you were imprisoned for 600 years alone, just how long is your lifespan?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Six hundred years was enough time to circle black holes six times under the covenant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was an unimaginably long period.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How can a human live that long?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yeongwoo wore a look of disbelief, Quiad gazed down at the youthful planet-ship master with a calm expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―This universe is filled with things that cannot be understood. Extending the time one can breathe is hardly surprising.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well, that may be true… but no matter how much I think about it, I can’t get used to it. Does that mean I’ll also be able to live unbearably long someday?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―If your value reaches Class-4 and you come to possess cosmic significance, you will be able to shed your innate limitations as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…That damned Class-4.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeongwoo’s brow furrowed on its own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet strangely, it was a condition he could accept.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every remarkable being he had encountered so far had been at least Class-4.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, beings like Lemu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in the ‘Sea of Status,’ wasn’t it only from Class-4 onward that entities were no longer depicted in fixed forms?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this universe, the standard for being granted significance as a great existence was precisely being Class-4 under the laws of existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So if I don’t become Class-4, I might not live that long.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―In any case, all beings live and die not by lifespan, but by destiny.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ha, you chairmen really do speak as if you have it easy.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was probably the composure that came from overwhelming strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for Yeongwoo, still a mayfly in comparison, such elegant lines and composure were luxuries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing he could say—and had to say—right now was:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So our remaining payment is fully prepared, right? By destiny, of course.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yeongwoo said this and pointed outside the window, a blue planet, much like Earth, came into view.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―That is Maden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mantero added the explanation at just the right moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this, Quiad, uncharacteristically, gazed out the window with a face tinged with sentiment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―It has been a very long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even for someone who had surpassed Class-4 and reached Class-3, 612 years was an immensely long time as a human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Come to think of it, this must be your first time returning to this planet in 612 years.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―You could say that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But if that planet used to belong to you… doesn’t that mean someone else owns it now?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―Most likely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Most likely? Then you don’t know who the current owner is at all?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, how could Quiad, who had been imprisoned in Pahalufe the entire time, know of changes outside?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But there was no way Chancellor Herisa hadn’t considered this, so there had to be a reason she had chosen Maden as the meeting place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, the Earth-ship entered Maden’s territorial range, and before long, a one-sided transmission came from the other side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Piaaat!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「You have entered Maden’s territorial zone. Visitor, please state your business.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A very courteous announcement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, the emblem that appeared—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…What?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the white square that appeared at the center of the pitch-black communication screen, Yeongwoo couldn’t help but gape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he wasn’t mistaken, that was—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Le…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Yeongwoo could even finish speaking the name, Quiad stepped forward toward the screen, his voice tinged with displeasure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>―…Lemu? How did that insidious bastard come to hold my planet?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Translator - Night]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Proofreader - Gun]\u003C\u002Fp>",1801,"2026-06-09T07:04:16.708Z",1,"novelbin.me","1737e9ca2c65244c8fd1f6bfa23f886b5deb547645064aee35c37acea2e10f08","level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-chapter-665","level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-chapter-612",688,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Flevel-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-cover.jpg"]