The Path of No Return.

In about a month from now, the Queen of the Jungle will be running amok inside of Oorim with her subordinates. Cale was planning on being her guide at that time.

Choi Han, who had been standing to the side, approached him and asked.

�Then is Hoik Village our next destination?�

�Yes.�

Cale was thinking about the last stage of the first step toward the luxurious slacker life, the �money� step and started to smile. Once he took care of this business with the Queen of the Jungle, he would return to the Roan Kingdom to take care of Raon�s revenge and some trivial things before building a sturdy house.

�We can head there right away once things here are done.�

Cale was meticulously preparing for the future beyond volume 5 that would soon arrive.

***

Three weeks later, Cale arrived at Hoik Village. It was sprinkling.

��Why are there so many gravestones here?�

Cale looked toward the gravestones that started from the entrance of the village before responding to Rosalyn�s question.

�Hoik Village is a village that was created by the families of the travelers who went in and never came back.�

Their desperate pleas for their loved ones to return as well as the hope that they would someday return had led to them remaining here and building this village. Those people who entered the Path of No Return had entered for many different reasons. However, with them never coming back, their family ended up moving as close to them as possible.

�However, people will eventually give up. Once those hopes turned into despair, well, those gravestones are the results of that.�

The gravestones were placed for their loved ones who they decided would never come back. Hoik Village was more of a village of sorrow rather than a village of hope.

Cale looked toward the large forest beyond the village.

�What a sad place. What are we doing here?�

Cale casually responded to Choi Han�s question.

�Hope.�

�Excuse me?�

�We will be the hope of the jungle.�

He was feeling seasick.

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