TCF X ORV - The Rise of Caleism in Another World

CHAPTER 63 - The World Without King

Kim Dokja wiped the blood pouring from my nose and the intermediate dokkaebi approached.

[You have made the worst choice. You will regret what you did today for the rest of your life. I will make sure of it.]

Kim Dokja laughed as my vision blurred. The dokkaebi’s words meant that I won the game.

[You have accomplished a non-existence achievement.]

[Your new narrative is created.]

[The narrative ‘King of a World without a King’ has been born.]

[You have obtained the possibility of a stigma.]

I didn’t have a next ‘regression.’ I would reach the end of the story in this world.

The first narrative was built. With this, the main goal of the fourth scenario was achieved.

Craaaack.

The throne crumbling as it’s lost the connection.

“What the hell is going to happen now?”

“No, why did you break the throne?”

There were people who were bewildered by the situation while others were scared about what the angry dokkaebi would do.

From the perspective of the people present, they were a sinner who made the fifth scenario difficult.

But...

“What do you just said!?”

“How dare you blame our Godly Cale-nim decisions?!”

“This is why I hate the non-believers.”

“Do you want us to turned you like those non-believers dokkaebis?”

The fans started to scaring the people who blame Kim Dokja and Cale.

Some brave people cried out to the dokkaebi.

“Make the Absolute Throne again! I’ll join the scenario again!”

“This time I will be the master of the throne!”

“What! How dare you!!!”

“I think you need some good education for your preparations to get a better next life.”

“Fufufu, how dare you spouting such rude things to our Godly Cale-nim!!!”

“This is why it’s better to kill those non-believers. Talking to them only wasting our time and lessen our time appreciating the Glorious Moments of Our Godly Idols."
The fans killing intents are getting more intense.

[The scenarios that have already ended can’t be changed by anyone. Anything that happens to you from now on is the fault of that human.]

The intermediate dokkaebi’s answer was cold. But for some reason because of his burned fur and some part are bald because of the Fiery Thunderbolt, it’s lack of the usual intimidating feels.

While they are busy with the scenario and the throne problem, Cale was looking at the crumbling throne and found another crystal piece.

This time it’s yellow. Cale silently picked up the yellow colored crystal piece and put it into the spacial pocket with the other crystal piece.

The dokkaebi pointed towards Kim Dokja while the wet shoulders of the gathered people shook. But the dokkaebi didn’t dare to look at Cale after what just happened.

[A world with no kings? Okay. Let’s try it once. I will see how well you can survive without a focal point.]

The intermediate dokkaebi flicked his finger. Then the people in Gwanghwamun started to disappear like smoke. People screamed and ran away.

“What? What is this all of a sudden?!”

…This was an unscheduled development.

Kim Dokja looked back and saw Jung Heewon, Yoo Sangah, Lee Gilyoung and the others calling out to him.

“Dokja-ssi!”

The next moment, Yoo Sangah disappeared. Then Lee Gilyoung and Jung Heewon. Next was Jung Minseob and Lee Sungkook.

“Cale-nim!”

“Young Master-nim!”

“Dongsaeng!”

“Wait,  let’s make a deal! Let me record how great Cale-nim exploits are...!”

One minute after the dokkaebi flicked his finger, only Cale and Kim Dokja remaining in Gwanghwamun. The intermediate dokkaebi looked at me with a creepy smile.

[Please keep this in mind. If this world is destroyed, it is all because of you.]

“Can you just shut your mouth and get them back right now?” Cale who is smiling with a smile that didn’t reach his eyes is making the intermediate dokkaebi trembled in fear.

Kim Dokja saw there is a blood colored pebble in his hand.

The scared intermediate dokkaebi quickly flicked his finger and made Cale disappear. But before he disappeared, Cale throw the pebble to the intermediate dokkaebi and hit his head.

Baaaaang.

The loud noises could be heard as the pebble hit the intermediate dokkaebi head and exploded.

After the intermediate dokkaebi fall, another dokkaebi came and looked at Kim Dokja and flicked his finger.

The moment Kim Dokja wanted to speak, there was a ringing sound.

Kim Dokja body shook and he was moved elsewhere. It was accompanied by severe nausea and a headache. He lost consciousness because he had consumed a great deal of energy.

[10,000 coins have been earned as settlement for the fourth scenario.]

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{Kim Dokja POV}

I slept for quite a long time because I was tired from excessive contact with the constellations.

I even dreamt. It was a dream from before the end began.

–Hey, aren’t you awake?

The moment I heard the voice, I realized it was my high school days. They were the days when I was beaten up by the school gangsters.

…Yes. There were times like this. It was a childish dream but I became furious when I thought about it again.

–What? Why are you looking at me like that? Do you want to kill someone?

My head fell back from his slap.

Blood flowed from my cracked lips and my tingling cheeks caused a feeling of shame.
Arms, legs, and shoulders. Pain came from all these places. It might be a dream but it was more painful than reality. Maybe it was because there was no Fourth Wall here.

–Why? If it is too much, stab me. Do you want to appear in the same newspapers as your mother?

My clenched fists trembled but I couldn’t hit him. At that time, what had I been thinking?

‘…If only I was Yoo Jonghyuk.’

Yes, that’s right. This was what I thought in my misery. It was the time when I was reading Ways of Survival.

I say the name on the uniform’s name badge.

Song Minwoo.

What was he doing now? I remember that he had gone to university and was working well. That was the first time I thought the world was unfair. I didn’t know if he was still alive.

[The exclusive skill, ‘Fourth Wall’ is activated!]

My dream collapsed and I was left in the dark again.

[Exclusive skill, Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint stage 3 has been activated!]

Voices started to overlap.

「 Hey, can you hear me? Are you okay? 」

「 Representative-nim? 」

「 Dokja-ssi, where are you? 」

They were the familiar voices of people I knew.

The words were conveyed through the ‘third person perspective’ of Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint’s third stage. I knew who the voices belonged to without looking.

「 “Ah…why here? Dokja-ssi? Can you hear me?” 」

There was a bar with various types of wine. Jung Heewon was frowning and sighing.

「 “A love letter… I will meet that ahjussi again… damn, why did I fall to the school?” 」

Lee Jihye was touching her cheeks as if she had been hit by someone.

「 How come… why… here…? 」

Lee Hyunsung was trapped in a nearby military base.

…I could roughly guess what happened based on people’s reactions.

Deputy Yoon threw a chocolate bar into one cage. The woman behind bars cried out and grabbed for it.

There were those in the world who first identified the system and figured out how to exploit it. The ‘coin farm’ was the structure that those who first understood the world devised in order to take advantage of the system.

“I see people from our company…”

“They were from our company.”

I realized for certain after hearing his cold tone. The ‘Deputy Yoon’ that I knew from Mino Soft, he didn’t exist in this world anymore.

“Hey! There are new slaves! Imprison them!”

“Yes!”

The slaves were moved to the prisons. I was stunned to see a familiar face among them.
Deputy Yoon smiled.

“Oh, there is a new one? Hey! Strip her and bring her to the cage!”

A petite person with white skin. Fine black hair that fell down to the shoulders and slightly raised eyebrows.

I rubbed my eyes but there was no doubt. The First Apostle, Plagiarist Han Sooyoung was here.

Han Sooyoung was thrown into a cage.
She was unconscious and probably lacking magic power after I took the flag from her.

Han Sooyoung must’ve been moved to the area near here. She was a writer so she might have a management or publishing company nearby.

“Aren’t you quite good looking? Hey, you haven’t touched her already have you?”

“No. I know that the constellations are all gathered here.”

[A constellation who likes obscenity is excited.]

[A few constellations have eyes that are shining in a lascivious manner.]

White underwear was revealed by Han Sooyoung’s torn jeans. There were men already playing rock paper scissors.
I stared at Han Sooyoung beyond the bars. No matter how I looked, there were no signs that anything happened.
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This woman would be a hindrance if she was left alive. She was the one who knew the most about this world, apart from me.
The story had completely changed from the third or fourth regression from the first quarter of the story and the knowledge she had might be obsolete, but…

The moment I thought this, I shuddered with disgust at myself.

…Why was I worrying about this?

Killing someone because they would be dangerous in the future. Who should I save because they would be useful in the future?

I wasn’t Yoo Jonghyuk to be thinking about these things.

“Do you want to do it Dokja-ssi?”
Deputy Yoon laughed as he saw me staring intently. It was a expression that said ‘I can help you’.

“If you promise me one thing, I will let Dokja-ssi do her first. How about it?”

“…What do you want me to promise?”

“You have a group, right? Please introduce me to Dokja-ssi’s group. We will soon start expanding our forces. Looking at Dokja-ssi’s items… it is a pretty big group?”

I stared at Deputy Yoon and said, “I can introduce you if you like. But I want you to stop this.”

“Huh? Haha, Dokja-ssi. What does that mean?”

“Let that woman go.”

Deputy Yoon’s eyebrows twitched because he knew it wasn’t a joke.

“Hmm…Dokja-ssi. What is wrong with treating people like this? If you have survived to this point, don’t you already know?”

“…”

“I have been watching Dokja-ssi for a long time. I knew that if it was Dokja-ssi, you could survive anywhere.”

There was a strange ridicule in Deputy Yoon’s expression.

“Aren’t you always reading web novels alone? You always commute to work in a gloomy fashion. Sometimes you would talk to me and a few other colleagues. They were good people like Yoo Sangah-ssi.”

“What does that have to do with this?”

“Dokja-ssi is enjoying the situation right now. Isn’t that right?”

Enjoying it? It was like aiming a dagger at my heart from a completely different angle.

Deputy Yoon grabbed my shoulders.

“Dokja-ssi. Those people who are trapped right now, don’t you know who they really are? Look carefully. They are the scum who ignored us.”

My vision broadened and the screams of people could be heard. Looking closer, I did recognize them.

Many of the people trapped behind bars and similar to cage were those I knew from Mino Soft. There were people I didn’t know very well, people who didn’t know me or who didn’t care...hmm...it’s them, right? What kind of crazy way to die. Why did they trapped them? If I didn’t wrong, I think she was the one that helped me writing the fake Book of Revelation.

“It is over now. The finance team, the planning team, none of that matters. The best ones in the world right now are our QA team. Haha. Dokja-ssi, shouldn’t you know from testing bugs? This world is a game. A game with bugs. There are too many loopholes that I can take advantage of.”
Numerous messages from constellations were heard in my head.

The messages that wanted a more stimulating, more lascivious, more decadent story quietly overlapped with Deputy Yoon’s face.

Sometimes inferiority turned people into monsters. But they seems to not realize that they made a lethal mistakes.

“There is nothing to be afraid of. This world is a game that exists for us! Do you know how many coins my group earns a day with this?”

“I don’t know.”

“It is 5,000 coins a day. 5,000 coins… can you imagine? We don’t do the scenarios and we get 5,000 coins. It is 5,000 coins just from making people fight and mate. It is the same as the planning team taking cash items. Don’t you know what this means?”

“...”

5,000 coins...Ugh, I think my views had changed after saw what Cale Henituse group and their followers done. Well...it’s only 5,000 coins after doing such things and I think they didn’t know that the unconscious woman in that trapped over there could easily earn ten times coins just by muttering something.

I saw men approaching Han Sooyoung one by one. I slowly breathed out. So far, I showed courtesy to the colleague who once shared a rooftop with me by listening to his story.

I removed Deputy Yoon’s hand from my shoulder and opened my mouth. “If you want to make coins, there is a better way.”

“What?” Deputy Yoon turned red. “Did Dokja-ssi also find a bug? What is it?”
“The principle is the same as a coin farm. Stimulate the constellations.”

“Oho, there is something more stimulating than this? Is that possible?”

“Yes, it is. Would you like me to let you know?”

“It would be good if you share the know-how!”

"The constellations really like…"

Looking at each other while holding weapons. They pointed the weapons at each other without hesitation.

This was a kingless world.

There was no one to control this world.
The dokkaebi was trying to show me this sight.

A world without a king was wild, without the laws and ethics that we had been guarding, showing how poor our belief in other humans was.

An unexpected voice stopped those who were about to wield their weapons.

“Do all of you want to die?”

The frightened people looked at Han Sooyoung at the same time.

Han Sooyoung squatted down and spat out.
“Are you all idiots? Wake up. Think properly if you want to live. You don’t know when you will meet other bad people yet you want to cut down the number of people who can be colleagues?”

“T-That…”

“In this world, the underdogs have to be united. You want to fight over a few garbage items instead of combining forces?”

The people suddenly came to their senses and reddened.

The intermediate dokkaebi probably didn’t know that among the people he scattered, one of them was a web novelist.

“Woah!!!”

“Aaaah...”

Crack!!

Bang!

Clank.

Thump.

The other cage also making a loud sounds.

“Haaaa. That Damn Dokkaebi!!! Why don’t that useless thing send me to somewhere that near Our Godly Idols? Just when I get a new inspiration for my new writing. At least you should send me to where I can look at one of them...but I’ll more appreciate it if I could see Cale-nim especially his interactions with the First Dragon Slayers...fufufu~ new plot and ship fufufu...”

“What is this woman? She was a monster!”

“That’s rude! I’m just a normal woman with good taste and blessed by a real God to enlightened others with my works. And that’s already get approved by Clopeh-nim.” Hyun Ji-Hu proudly said while hitting the people in the cage and also broke the iron bar with a scary smiling face.

I think that was really a foolish way of dying by poking at the angry dragon. No, they are someone who dare to kill the Gods if they dare to act rude to them. What a scary and vicious cult.

The same thing happened in some other cages.

“DIE YOU NON-BELIEVERS!!! AFTER I KILL YOU ALL, I WILL KILL THAT MOTHER-FUCKER DOKKAEBI FOR MILLION TIMES!!!”

“YOU UGLY THINGS SHOULD JUST DIE!!! You need to be purified with dying so you may be able born in a more presentable look in your next life. Right, right. I’m killing you for your own good. So please let me kill you or just kill yourself.”

“Hmph.”

Looking at the chaos and destruction in front of me...I think that I will be in danger. CALE HENITUSE! Please came here and calm your followers! Or at least put a leash on your mad dog.

After looking at them directly, I really wanted to cursed and hit the writer for describing them mildly in the Ways of Survival. I really wanted to beat that intermediate dokkaebi for this terrible decision that he made. Should I help this cultists to kill that Damn Dokkaebi?

Kim Dokja started to think about what should he do to survive from the carnage of the crazy cultists anger.

“Don’t you have the necessary weapons and supplies? Can’t you survive? Don’t you know that the selfish ones are the first to fall? Do you think you can get stronger just by picking up a few more trash items?” Han Sooyoung shouted.

The complexions of the survivors darkened. Their bloodthirstiness slowly subsided. But the angry cultists mob are getting scarier.

“You should be a followers of Our Godly Idols and get their blessings and salvation.”

“If you don’t give me any inspiration, just leave me alone or die.”

“Why are you disturbing me from making a master piece...ufufufu~ one is dating game with Our Dear Godly Idols as the capture target and an adventure game with Our Godly Idols as part members ufufufu...”

Hmmm, isn’t she the game maker team...what is her name again? I didn’t realize it before, but she is also that cultists member. How far is that cult influence? I never thought that a polite and kind person like her turned into a scary person who hitting and killing people brutally while smiling like that. Ah! I think that was the reason why I didn’t recognized her before.

Looking at her appearance now...What a scary cult. They could change a docile person onto a mad dog like character.

“If you can’t become strong enough so that no one can touch you, make trusted colleagues. Isn’t that common sense?”

It was natural for a plagiarist to say such things but I think it would be more effective when you saw the conditions in other cages.

Her words were effective. The people in her cage started to look awkwardly at one another. If someone opened their mouths at this moment, the people could unite. A few words caused their survival rate to rise sharply.

What a contrasting solution. Han Sooyoung’s words that swayed the others and the absolute strength of the cultists that made the others fear them.

On the other cage, people started to running away and some cage had been broken.

They easily broke the iron bar...

“Hiii! I’m sorry! I won’t do it again! Please spare me!!!”

“NO!!! I’M SORRY, DON’T KILL ME!!!”

“I will believe in whatever God you want me to believe, just please spare my life!”

“Uwaaaaack, don’t came closer!”

There are five cultists members and they are able to destroy this farm easily. I really terrified by them.

For my mental health and to protect my common sense, I stared at Han Sooyoung and opened my mouth. “But for you to say this…”

“Do you understand. Everyone should act correctly!” Han Sooyoung said quickly before turning and running away. Her stamina was low so she couldn’t run far. “Pant, pant! Why are you chasing me?”

“You even plagiarized the words of the novel?”

「 “If you can’t become strong enough so that no one can touch you, make trusted colleagues.” 」

This was the advice that Yoo Jonghyuk gave to survivors in Ways of Survival. Han Sooyoung shouted, “How is it plagiarism? These lines are from my novel!”

“Then why are you running away?”

“…No reason! Why are you chasing me?”

She refused to admit that she plagiarized to the end. I grabbed her collar.

“I saved you so you should pay back the value.”

“What value?”

I laughed at Han Sooyoung’s nervous expression.

“If you have a spare battery, take it out. You must need it for your novel text.”
Han Sooyoung’s expression distorted.

“Eh! You are Kim Dokja-ssi, right.” Someone is calling me.

“Tsk, why did you also in this area! Who need an ugly squid. Why don’t that dokkaebi send me to one of our Godly Idols? Just you wait, I will kill you horribly next time if we meet again.”

“Right, you are also working in Mino Soft.” The game maker seems to just remembered me.

“You are right! We must torture that goddamned dokkaebi until he repents for all the sins that he did.”

“Oh! The fake Yoo Jonghyuk is also here.” The prophet, Yoon Jinho said.

...As I saw the five of them coming closer, I think really hard to let me survive as I looked at the destruction that caused by them.

“Hmmm, isn’t she the first apostle!” Hyun Ji-Hu words change the direction of the killing intents from me to Han Sooyoung whose face turned pale from the pressure.

“I will tell you about what I know. Can you calmly talk about this?” As I don’t know what to do, let’s talked about it calmly and get their help.

I hope this will work.

Some of the cultists members changed their attitude after knowing Han Sooyoung identity.

What should I do?

I really regret my decision of destroying the throne right now.

<to be continue>

Author’s note: What will happens to Kim Dokja and Han Sooyoung?
The cult (Caleism) is making a game too. It’s really happened but sadly I can’t understand Korean. I think this is the picture of the game.

Thank you very much for reading, votes and comments. I hope you enjoy the story and have a great day. GBU.