[{"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-681":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},1848664,2454,"Chapter 681","level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-chapter-681",681,"\u003Cp>[Translator - Night]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Proofreader - Gun]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chapter 681: The Vast World (9)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Minimum income guarantee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing that unfamiliar combination of words, Neheren wore a blank expression for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Just now… you looked at my supply box and called it a minimum income?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And wasn’t he referring, of all things, to the emergency supply box given to the direct line of Salzeo?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that, Yeongwoo shook his head and corrected him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not your supply box—your people’s supply boxes. Anyway, there’s nothing particularly impressive in your box, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-…….\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But if we start looting the supply boxes of those ranked higher than you… well, that’s a different story. Maybe that planet even has a real vault.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-What the hell are you talking about…….\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neheren’s face became overtaken with fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The great cosmic house of Salzeo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A name so powerful that anyone would instinctively shrink before it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet, this kidnapper in front of him wasn’t even thinking of avoiding Salzeo—he was actually planning to deliberately seek out planets owned by them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-…….\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Neheren stood there awkwardly, flustered, Yeongwoo placed his hand on the supply box and asked,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s inside this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Th-that is.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His breathing was ragged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only after stammering did Neheren realize just how tense he was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was his first time encountering someone who wasn’t the slightest bit shaken by the name Salzeo, and his animal instincts were blaring warnings nonstop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-It’s exactly what it sounds like—an emergency supply box. For emergency escape… so, generally, it’d mean a bad situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Figures. Like right now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Right… When you have to escape a planet with nothing but this supply box, it contains things that help you safely return to our family’s domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What exactly?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that question, Neheren made an uncertain expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-From what I was taught, some money for negotiations…….\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, money? As expected of Salzeo.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-…And a few other items. I wasn’t taught the specifics about those.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then I guess the amount of travel money and the composition of items vary depending on rank.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-That’s highly likely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if reluctant to admit it, Neheren slightly frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Yeongwoo’s eyes gleamed as he stared intently at the emergency supply box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then what’s in here is the minimum baseline.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-What does that even mean?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No matter what supply box we open from now on, it’ll have better stuff than what’s in this one, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that, Neheren snapped reflexively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-I never said I was at the very bottom of my family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then about how far from the bottom are you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-…That.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neheren looked up at the ceiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-To be honest, I don’t know exactly. I can only estimate it by intuition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But it’s certain that assigning just five low-level guards to you counts as poor treatment. And no subordinates or anything like that.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Yeah. It’s clear I’m not a favored child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then how many Salzeos like you are there?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Like me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yeah… those who, for one reason or another, fell out of the ‘favored children’ category.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yeongwoo casually pointed at Neheren’s legs while saying “for one reason or another,” Neheren let out a sigh and plopped down into a chair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Well. If you define it as ‘not favored,’ the number would be quite large.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So it’s not just because of physical issues that they’re treated poorly?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that, Neheren let out a low chuckle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-I told you, you don’t know our family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, as if recalling the past, he shifted his gaze into the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Whether you’re missing an arm or a leg, every Salzeo undergoes a test.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A test?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-A kind of… aptitude test. It determines whether one can function in the universe as a true Salzeo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah, I get the general idea.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeongwoo nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d met far too many scions of great cosmic families for this to be unfamiliar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course, since you’re Salzeo, the test must be much harsher than other families’.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that, Neheren gave a small nod.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-It wasn’t easy. But I lacked something. It’s not unprecedented for someone without both legs to pass the test, after all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Isn’t that just because the guy who passed is incredible? By the way, is he still alive?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Of course. He is Joraks the Indomitable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Indomitable, huh. That’s quite a fitting title.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Joraks the Indomitable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For some reason, Yeongwoo felt like he might meet that man someday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this rate, he’d keep coveting the emergency supply boxes of the Salzeo family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And judging by how inspired Neheren seemed just saying the name Joraks, he appeared to be the guy’s role model as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, wasn’t he someone who, despite also lacking both legs, had become a fully recognized, favored Salzeo?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So this Joraks guy is that amazing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that, Neheren gazed into the air with half-lost eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-I dare say, he is great.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Great… wait, great?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Didn’t “great beings” also refer to third-grade entities?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that, Neheren quickly came to his senses and corrected himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-He’s not a third-grade entity. But he’s very close to greatness. Someday, he truly will be great.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Really? Well, that’s a relief.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeongwoo quietly exhaled in relief, then pointed at the large emergency supply box in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright, time to open this. Let’s get out of here before the prisoners show up.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yeongwoo glanced toward the outside of the building, Neheren, evidently not wanting to run into the prisoners of Pahaloupe either, quickly extended his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Translator - Night]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Proofreader - Gun]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-This is a supply box for me. Only I can open it. And only while I’m alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Are you telling me that so I won’t kill the other Salzeos?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-…….\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead of answering, Neheren pressed his palm against the surface of the supply box, drawing Yeongwoo’s attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clank!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon making contact with its owner, the supply box immediately reacted, lifting the locks at its four corners upward, and then a silver-white pattern appeared across its exterior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fwaaaat!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was none other than the emblem of the Salzeo family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A procedure to reaffirm whose property this was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, that’s pretty neat. Rich families really do have different vaults.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-It’s about to open. You should step back a bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Neheren gave that warning, the vertically standing rectangular supply box split open in four directions, lifting the items inside upward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rrrrkkk!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the identity of what emerged was—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What is this……?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a kind of display stand, composed of multiple layered segments like a spine, yet flexible enough to bend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the very top, silver-white coins were densely packed—something Yeongwoo had never seen before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This… could it be Karma?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that, Neheren nodded and took out the coins slotted into the display.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-They’re exclusive coins of our family. Each one is worth fifty million Karma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fifty million each? As expected of a great cosmic house, you’re big spenders.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After confirming the coins were worth fifty million each, Yeongwoo immediately rolled his eyes, calculating the total cash inside the supply box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Exactly twenty… so that’s one billion.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The amount the Salzeo family had allocated for Neheren’s emergency escape was one billion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Originally, you were supposed to use this money to buy people off and secure passage back to Salzeo territory.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-It’s more than enough. Usually, just mentioning the family name resolves most issues.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he said that, Neheren looked at the planetary shipmaster—a problem that was far from “usual.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-How much would it take to buy you over?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that, Yeongwoo burst into the loudest laughter he’d had all day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For anything else maybe, but one billion isn’t even close.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yeongwoo showed no signs of stopping his laughter, Neheren, slightly irritated, clenched his jaw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Then one hundred billion?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You don’t even have that money.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-But if I did… would it be possible to buy you?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well, maybe I’d grant a fairly big favor.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Even with one hundred billion, it’s difficult?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Neheren Salzeo, one hundred billion seemed like an enormous sum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, it was ten times the value his family had set on his own life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And realistically, it was a massive amount.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What exactly do you mean by buying me? Do you mean subjugation?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Yes. Like becoming my subordinate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’ve got big dreams. Sorry, but that’s not happening. Though asking for protection for a certain period—that’s doable.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, Yeongwoo tilted his chin toward the middle section of the display stand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That, no matter how I look at it, is Katangdal.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, there were three navy-blue metal pieces inserted there in the form of flat bars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Ah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that, Neheren’s expression brightened slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-That’s Palsi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Palsi?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-It’s Katangdal ingots that have been reprocessed into smaller units. About three hundred million each.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why not just put it in cash? Why include those?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Well… there are those in this universe who prefer Katangdal over cash. At least, that’s what I was taught.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Feels like the Salzeo family takes pretty good care of its direct line, doesn’t it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, they had already invested 1.9 billion into Neheren, who was clearly of lower rank among the direct line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And there was no guarantee when the money stored in this supply box would ever be used.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then what’s below that? I’d love it if there were another kind of currency.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yeongwoo’s gaze moved below the section holding the “Palsi,” Neheren’s eyes widened once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Oh, this is…….\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Srrk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What he pulled out next was a certificate hammered so thin it resembled paper, despite being made of metal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s that? Some kind of ID?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-It’s similar. It’s a token that allows you to requisition a spaceship in our family’s name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Requisition a spaceship? Who do you think you are?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-You first secure and use the ship with this token, and the payment is settled later by the family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah. So it’s basically a kind of bond.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having understood, Yeongwoo snatched the token from Neheren’s hand before he could even react.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Snap!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-…Ah!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You… no, the Salzeo family, has gifted me a spaceship. I’ll make good use of it. And they even cover the cost? That means no one gets hurt, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-W-what are you talking about? If you use that however you want, our family will…!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neheren, shocked, tried to snatch the token back from Yeongwoo’s hand, but the tip of Bastard was already nearing his chin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Buying me a single spaceship won’t bankrupt Salzeo. So go on—unpack the rest of the gifts. Now I’m really curious what’s coming next.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Translator - Night]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Proofreader - Gun]\u003C\u002Fp>",1739,"2026-06-09T07:04:16.708Z",1,"novelbin.me","2a18377222c1433751add6461e1e44082822e47a3b60d18350d764737d41a323","level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-chapter-620","level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-chapter-680",688,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Flevel-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-cover.jpg"]