I Can't Help But Imagine Rok Soo Feeling Bad For Everything He Put Cale Through (╥﹏╥)

We must not forget about eremophobia.

It was clearly demonstrated during the Wind Island test, and although it is not exactly traditional eremophobia (which is more than anything the fear of being physically alone), unlike this, Cale fears more than anything being the last survivor among his dear ones.

I think the reason Cale is always at the vanguard is that he is afraid of seeing his loved ones die. So, if they end up in a situation where their enemy is stronger than them and they can’t flee, at least he will die before the others.

Trauma will always push him to avoid seeing his people die, lest he be the last survivor. The guilt of having those ideas, of imposing that fate on someone else, can make his already low self-esteem even more non-existent than before.

I just realized I'm rambling, so I'll leave it here. Anyway, even if this analysis is wrong, I think it can be quite accurate in many cases.

Kim Rok Soo!Cale – aka. Poster Child of Trauma

Let's list down all the traumatic experiences of our MC, shall we? :)

Body stolen by the White Star's reincarnation

Being affected by the Curse of the God of Death ("All those you cherish shall die") before being born

Rebirth in Korea, shortly followed by the death of his parents

Taken in by his abusive uncle, Kim Seung Jong, who falls into alcoholism and gambling

Either the uncle dies due to his addictions or it gets so bad Kim Rok Soo runs away – that part was a bit unclear

Gets into the orphanage, where all friends or caretakers he comes to care about leave him, one way or another

Choi Jung Gun shows up when Kim Rok Soo is about to get murdered by the Hunters Park So Jin & Jung Yi-Rang, posing as his counselor & classmate

CJG or the Hunters wipe his memory of the event, which one did it is slightly unclear

Just as KRS's life gets stable enough that he gets a job while studying at a university, the Monster Apocalypse strikes and he loses everything all over again

KRS starves under the wreck of a building for a week before getting rescued by Lee Soo Hyuk

LSH takes him to a shelter where Park Jin Tae is in charge, just for him to turn into an abusive leader who bosses KRS around and beats him up

Then the monster wave shows up, killing everyone KRS got to know and care about at the shelter. Hello, Survivor's Guilt!

Somehow, he survives the rest of the monster wave, but that surely wasn't a pleasant experience, considering all shelters lost power for 24 hours and KRS probably experiences the minor ones failing in-person (who knows just how many different shelters he tried to run off to??)

After a time skip KRS gets into the company and we assume life is pretty good for a while for him, under LSH's guidance and the friendship with Choi Jung Soo, as well as their other Team members... except then the Unranked Monster shows up and wipes KRS's entire Team in one go, leaving him the last and only man standing. Hello, Survivor's Guilt Part Two!

KRS attends the funeral of LSJ & CJS, only to be talked about behind his back how he's not even mourning them correctly because he's not crying (those bastards-!)

He takes upon himself to avenge LSH and the rest of the Team, because they were supposed to have back-up from a Guild which all ran away and left them to die. I suppose KRS going after them went down similarly to how he later toppled Arm and the Mogoru Empire, so let's call it his "practice run on Dismantling Corrupt Organisations"

He takes over as the Team Leader as well, overworking himself to the extreme (not even taking a single day off in the first year) to have a 0% casualty rate

He distances himself from the team in order not to suffer another heartbreak if something happens to them (also, my theory is that KRS subconsciously recognized the pattern of his Curse and made himself believe that he's a bad, selfish person who doesn't care about others... just so the Curse don't kill off his Team members this time)

Once again, he gets his body stolen without his permission – and sure, that turned out well in the end, but still: not just once, but TWICE! NOT cool, God of Death!!

He's dumped with the knowledge and responsibility of the conflicts to come in this new world, which was supposed to be originally CJS's job to fix. Come on, it's not KRS's fault he lived instead!! Not he's gotta clean up THIS mess...

Once again, Cale overworks himself white trying to achieve World Peace, because HOW is he supposed to rest if the world comes to an end around him – AGAIN!?

Cale's body wastes away from continuously sacrificing himself (while claiming that he isn't sacrificing himself) and keeps falling into a coma from Ancient Powers overuse

He breaks his plate in the battle at the Gorge of Death and suffers terribly to get it fixed

He gets a premonition that he's probably going to die around November 8th – THANKS A LOT, GOD OF DEATH!!

He also goes through a traumatic test of seeing his worst fear at the Wind Island

He attracts the attention of several nasty characters: like Adin, the White Star, or the Sealed God... which is definitely NOT a good thing

The Sealed God casually tosses him into an alternate universe to relive his greatest trauma

Cale, once again, has to solve problems in another world because he literally cannot do anything else

Also the White Star is trying to murder him in the meantime, so he suffers great physical AND mental pain at the same time - hurray!

Oh and let's not forget, now he gotta defeat the Final Boss by stabbing himself. It won't hurt, the World Tree says...? WHY DON'T I BELIEVE YOU (Also the Sealed God made sure everyone saw everything, nice going there you son of a-!)

And just when the whole thing with the White Star and the Sealed God gets resolved, the HUNTERS SHOW UP, BECAUSE WHY THE HELL NOT

And now Cale gotta go around MORE UNIVERSES to solve ALL OF THEIR PROBLEMS. ..... H o w n i c e

To shortly sum all of Cale's traumatic experiences:

Bodysnatched: x2

Cursed with loneliness and misfortune

Orphaned

Abused

Lived in poverty

Target of attempted assassination (also used as bait for assassins)

Had his head tampered with

Lived through an apocalypse

Trapped under a building (hello potential claustrophobia!)

Starved

Chased down by monsters

Bullied

Survivor's guilt: x2

Betrayed by allies

Forced into leadership

*Body dysphoria due to scars (forgot to mention that earlier)

Impostor syndrome: x2 (for both becoming the Team Leader and becoming Cale Henituse)

Judged for coping mechanisms

Regularly gets hurt and falls into coma

Near death experiences: x[INFINITE]

Forced to experience his worst nightmare

Forced into self-harm

Forced to save the world: x? (at least 3 times and the counter is still rising!?)

Basically, this man's life maybe have gotten better in the past 2 years... but his life is still hell 😅

(I blame you, God of Death – WHY would you consider reincarnation a good punishment?? And a CONTAGIOUS CURSE which affects the victims of your target!? This is all your fault.

...But mostly the Hunters' fault, obviously.)

It's true when they say that clothes show a lot about a person…

Choi Han uses a lot of furs and leather because that's what she learned to wear in the forest of darkness and they are perfect for his active lifestyle.

Rosalyn wears a lot of stereotypical wizard clothing because she identifies more with them than royalty even though she still wears a lot of fancy clothes since that's what she's used to.

Ron wears a butler's suit not only because that's his job but because it's the perfect disguise for an assassin, after all, how many daggers and poison can he hide in a suit with lots of pockets?

In short, your clothes say a lot about you, your social status, your habits, your way of life, your economic level, etc. ╮(￣ω￣)╭

random thought #5: clothes

I only noticed this after remembering what he went through as Kim Rok Soo but I think Cale actually likes or prefers to wear dark-colored clothes. That, or there's another reason why he wears them.

It's not as obvious in the manhwa because the artist probably wants him to have bright colored clothes (fair) but it's been mentioned a few times in the beginning of the novel.

Cale, who used to enjoy wearing fancy clothes and showing off until just two years ago, was suddenly only wearing dark clothes, and had a completely different demeanor about him.

Chapter 43: Somehow

I'm not completely sure if he likes the color (shade?) but I remembered seeing Kim Rok Soo wearing them behind Cale Henituse in a cover.

[SPOILER for the first part of TCF]

Dark clothes could mean a person wants to look cool and stylish or it could mean a person is boring. And in some ways, the person wearing black is grieving.

I looked it up because I wasn't too sure (and I don't want to offend anyone) but Koreans apparently wear black clothes at funerals.

And knowing his past, it could be that he never stopped grieving even as Cale Henituse.

Like I've mentioned before, and what most readers know about him after reading the novel, there are a lot of funerals back in Korea and he attended some of them.

People die everyday in his world and some of them don't have anyone to grieve for them. It's why he's the one who showed up in Lee Soo Hyuk and Choi Jung Soo's funeral.

One of the things that changed the most was the funeral tradition. The reason was simple.

Too many people had died.

And even more continued to die every day and will die in the future.

- Chapter 719

Him constantly grieving for those he lost could appear in what he's wearing.

Yes, there are moments when he wears them to look intimidating in front of the nobles or his enemies but there was this one scene after the Plaza Terror Incident when he actually wears dark clothes, albeit more luxurious.

“It is a beautiful day today. Probably because we are here to respect the fallen.”

Cale’s red hair fluttered in the wind and created a stark comparison to his black outfit.

- Chapter 48: Somehow

It's a sad thing to think about if this is actually the reason why he wears them.

Another preference that was briefly mentioned before is him liking simple clothes. It could mean several things for him.

Simple clothes could mean he's lazy (which is debatable but probably true). Simple clothes could mean he's a guy with simple tastes (also debatable). Simple clothes could mean he's poor or doesn't have the more luxurious type of clothes. Or simple clothes could mean he's used to wearing them in a world where the apocalypse is real and he needs to move comfortably to survive.

I'm thinking he's so used to getting too injured, he never allows himself to wear something different. Like if you're gonna get cuts all over your body after using an ability, I doubt you'll bother wearing something nice.

It's intriguing how a simple mention of his clothes can mean several things.

I really didn't consider the possibility of something more just judging by what he wears.

From his words, to his actions, and even to his clothes, you can make different opinions and theories about him and that's why I'm having so much fun reading this novel.

Can someone please write a crossover of PMMM and TCF?, I don't dare write it because of the angst but I really want to see it o(TヘTo)

Secondary characters need more love! o(>< )o (Part 1: Sully)

Ok, well I'm going to be honest, I love the secondary characters in this novel and I want more to appear (o^▽^o)

It's as simple as that and I'm going to rant about how they deserved to appear more or have greater importance and participation (；⌣̀_⌣́)

Let's start with Sully, you remember him? I highly doubt it Σ(▼□▼メ) He is one of the characters who most deserved greater importance (」゜ロ゜)」

He and his grandmother are the only human elementalists in the entire novel (￣□￣」) ! Why in the name of all the gods is it not of greater importance (╬ Ò﹏Ó) !?

Not only that, it only appeared twice! TWICE! ヽ( `д´*)ノ

Heck, his elemental can literally purify dead mana after it started imitating the fire of destruction ヾ( ￣O￣)ツ

What's more, his elemental is a baby! And he's already powerful enough for the world tree to throw him out for fear of being incinerated! Why don't they respect his canonical power and make him participate more (＞ｍ＜) ?!

I really like the responsible older brother-annoying younger brother dynamic that the two of them have ( ◡‿◡ ♡)

Why couldn't they in canon, don't I know? Give him a good character arc (＃＞＜) ?!

His character is so underrated that after he leaves with the elves he is never mentioned, what the hell happened to him?! Disappeared out of nowhere or what ヽ(　￣д￣)ノ?!

I feel like he could have been given more involvement for example in the Molden Kingdom (←_←)

He could have helped purify the dead mana in the labyrinth and probably helped create more chaos, we must not forget that no matter how innocent Sully is, his elemental was raised by our favorite wind elemental (Chaos! Destruction! Love! Thanks! ＼(≧▽≦))

I also feel like he might have become good friends with Toonka and Harold for some reason and I think the interactions between the three of them would be really fun ヽ(o^―^o)ﾉ

Edit: I just realized the implications of Sully's elemental (who I will now call Spark) accompanying Cale to Sha-Orlen (*^ω^)

The idea that they turn Sully and Spark into the Saint of the God of Purification (Cale does not count for them, he is the incarnation of their god) by thinking that the flame of purification is alive and it is Sully who takes care of it and thus misinterpreting everything the situation believing that her god had left her in her care (￣ω￣)

I think that at some point GoP would offer him the position of real Saint so that his followers won't be praising the wrong person and Sully (due to lack of sleep caused by escaping from the most fanatical) accepts ¯＼_(ツ)_/¯

I bet you all you want that he's going to complain about "his god" to Cage for months after that ┐(︶▽︶)┌

A list that every TCF fan needs (＠＾◡＾)

TCF HIGHLIGHTS (1-750)

Note: someone originally created this list (it was only 1-650 though) but they deactivated so I'm reposting it after adding a few of my favorite scenes

CALE GETTING HURT:

•Chapter 45 : Magical Bombs [Spat Blood]

•Chapter 55 : Protect Knights From Toonka [Buckling knee, Drenched]

•Chapter 80 Giant Wave + Dragon Drying [Headache, Drenched] Chapter

•112 Red Thunderbolt [Spat Blood (A Copious Amount)]

•Chapter 162 Falling Tower [Spat Blood]

•Chapter 177 Eating Pies After Lightning [Spat Blood]

•Chapter 183 Destroying Houses [Spat Blood]

•Chapter 198 First Line Of War Defense [Blood Coming Out Of All Orifices]

•Chapter 215 ~ 225 War On Dessert & At Sea [Spat Blood]

•Chapter 238 Death Gorge [Blood]

•Chapter 244 "Are you trying to sacrifice yourself?" "Yes"

•Chapter 251 Prince + Raon Introduction [3 Days Left To Live]

•Chapter 257-259 Receiving Sky Eating

•Chapter 295 Putting Out Dragon's Fire [Blood]

•Chapter 302-306 Rose Gold Fire [Blood, Fainted] "Slap me"

•Chapter 339 Vs White Star [Fainted] •Chapter 354 The Wind Whip Trial [Fainted]

•Chapter 384 After Using All 5 + Crown [Shaky]

•Chapter 421 "He is writing a legend :"[Blood]

•Chapter 448 Earth + Water vs WS [Blood]

•Chapter 570 In The Sealed God's Test [Blood]

•Chapter 602 Sealed God's Bullshit [Blood]

•Chapter 607 Using The Shield In SG's Test [Blood, Collapsed]

•Chapter 646 'Instant Skill [Blood, Scars, Fainted]

•Chapter 6 Cale and Choi Han first meet

Other cute stuffs that happens along the way :

•Chapter 53 Saving Paseton's Life and Himbo Bob's first apperance.

•Chapter 58 Offering Dragon a house

•Chapter 59 Return home to worried! fam

•Chapter 66 Yandere eyes! Choi Han

•Chapter 67 Concerned! fam about visit to Whipper Kingdom + Dragon Name

•Chapter 71 Pre-battle trash talk

•Chapter 76 Heading into No-Return Path

•Chapter 85 venuon tortute

•Chapter 89 Ron comes back heavily injured.

•Chapter 91 "My Blood Would Be Very Effective."

•Chapter 96 Cale treats Ron from the mermaid poison.

•Chapter 97 Laziness Raises Concern •Chapter 101 Raon Reveal To Dark Elves

•Chapter 124 "Shouldn't You Blow Up?"

•Chapter 130 Asian Parent! Raon

•Chapter 133 Everyone In The New Villa

•Chapter 140 Big Shots Meeting

•Chapter 147 "Pretended to be trash"

•Chapter 163 Sleeping with Raon

•Chapter 168 Sick Raon!

•Chapter 170 Meeting World Tree Elves

•Chapter 174-175 Cale messing with Clopeh

•Chapter 176 Cale, whose favorite way of working out was breathing.

•Chapter 177 EAT APPLE PIES

•Chapter 178 “I told you I'm okay.”

“I will guard you.”

“I will protect you!”

“I'm going to surround the enemies with poison.”

“I'm going to cover their sights with fog.”

•Chapter 185 Worried Prince

•Chapter 190 Shopping Spree

•Chapter 195 Cale vs Old Nobles

•Chapter 196 Holding Up Shield For 3 Days

•Chapter 197 HUG (Choi + Cale)

•Chapter 198 “You are not the one who will create a legend. That role is already reserved for someone else.”

•Chapter 206 “If I make a mistake, it will be that I accidentally killed them. There will be no other types of mistakes.”

•Chapter 207 “Please just make it so I can make sure the soldiers have time to eat.”

•Chapter 208 Clopeh's New Religion •Chapter 209 Every1 trynna feed Cale •Chapter 232 “You seem to be someone who is quite loved.

•Chapter 235 Adressing Insecurities •Chapter 252 Ron Hearing About 3 Days

•Chapter 258 Immobilized In Bed

•Chapter 259 “Goldie! Why are you saying something that’ll make me want to destroy the world?”

•Chapter 262" Well, you can say that he l almost died but came back to life."

•Chapter 264 HUG (Cale + Alberu)

‘Both you and I have experienced it once. That is why we cannot let it happen again. This is our last house. You know that, right?’ -Ron Molan

•Chapter 285" Human! Didn't you say that you would only use a little bit of your power? Are you trying to collapse again ?!"

•Chapter 269 The reason Cale never explains anything

•Chapter 291 Raon Meet Sr Rex + Billos •Chapter 292" Imma go put out the fire i made "+ Two-man Sick Patient Act

•Chapter 306 Sleep Talking

•Chapter 309" You fucking moron: "

•Chapter 310 Gluttony

•Chapter 320" That can't all be possibly true, right?” “Mhm, that's true. ""Excuse me? "+ Hide And Seek

•Chapter 333 WS Meeting

•Chapter 335 “Don’t you dare touch my children.”

•Chapter 346 Bud Ilis, barely a day after knowing Cale, "My friend, you're such a good person :"

•Chapter 353 FEELS

•Chapter 354 "Why is only one day's worth of food gone?"

•Chapter 359 "Cale Henituse, this-" "it's fine for me."

•Chapter 362 Taking a call looking drunk

•Chapter 368 Cale Feeding Raon + CHOI HAN'S PAST REVEAL

•Chapter 391 Bud Meets Cloph

•Chapter 394-395 ‘Kim Rok Soo, it’s not your fault.’ <You were the one who was supposed to die.>

•Chapter 402 "Because I think you will use the power if things look bad : "We've had to watch you be in pain like that over and over!"

•Chapter 414 "Apparently, Choi Han woke up while shouting, 'Kim Rok Soo!' Human, do you know who Kim Rok Soo is? "

•Chapter 423 "..Why am I crying? I'm not sad."

•Chapter 424 Kim Rok Soo Meet Choi Han

•Chapter 425 "Oh, by the way, the original owner of your body is living well too. He said he is happy."

•Chapter 432 "It looks like the Henituse household will become at least a Marquis and at maximum a Duke household." + "Do you want to become thw territory lord?"

•Chapter 433 Clopeh + Witira vs Farmer! Cale & Territory Lord Hot Potato

•Chapter 434 Parental Concern

•Chapter 435 Sworn Brotherhood

•Chapter 437 Trash of The Duke's Family

•Chapter 447 Breaking out of illusion

•Chapter 456 Ron + Beacrox Homecoming

•Chapter 460 “It is not the Henituse County anymore. It is the Henituse Duchy now."

•Chapter 463 “Cale-nim, are you planning on sacrificing yourself again? "

•Chapter 470" LaNgUaGe, siX-yEaR oLd "

•Chapter 475" Honestly speaking, Alberu Crossman cherished the current Cale Henituse .. "

•Chapter 478 DHB Joins The Party •Chapter 481" The God of Death cherishes heroes, but is willing to sacrifice a few to save the masses. ""It looks like it is you this time. “

•Chapter 483 “Cale-nim ,. Did the God of Death do something?”

•Chapter 485 think your ancestor was a criminal?"

•Chapter 487 Concerned! Alberu on Cale's involvement with GoD

•Chapter 490 Meet Princess Jopis

•Chapter 494 “really seemed to have made a deal with Someone who is worse than the Demonic race.”

•Chapter 500 Guardian Knight fanboys

•Chapter 501 Back To The Other World + Cale faints after getting captured by Fake World Tree

•Chapter 502 Choi + Raon goes feral •Chapter 503-505 Aluding to 💖🔪

•Chapter 507“You showed our young master-nim despair. You shouldn't have done that."

•Chapter 515" Hand your blood over to us. No, serve it to us."

•Chapter 524".You are someone who has received the will of a god"

•Chapter 525 Conspiracy Theorist! WS •Chapter 527"Do you have any intentions of making the White Star's comments come true?"

•Chapter 528 GoD better watch out for one" innocent "swordsman + baby dragon lord" Cale Henituse, what do you think? Have you thought about it yet? I want to quickly drink your blood."

•Chapter 530 Best Actor goes to.Naru! Cale

•Chapter 535"Please give the order to kill Cale Henituse right away :, Cale Henituse said.

•Chapter 540 Choi + Raon vs WS's first name + face

•Chapter 554 "Cale had instantly fallen into darkness." "There's only one reason that a VoW of death would be cut. "That means that the other person is dead"

•Chapter 555 Sealed God's test start

•Chapter 556 "Cale's eyes teared up at that moment"

•Chapter 580 Cloppeh Sekka 2.0

•Chapter 582 Lee Soo Hyuk Reunion •Chapter 587 Ron continue to scare Alberu

•Chapter 589 <Become the sun.>

•Chapter 603 “It feels like someone is trying to pull my heart out.”

•Chapter 605 "Are you still thinking about protecting others in your current situation?"

•Chapter 615 Beacrox switches to black gloves

•Chapter 616 Caleism spreads to Earth 2

•Chapter 618 Truth Revealed to LSH

•Chapter 620 Thanking SG

•Chapter 622 SG's Test Completed

•Chapter 623 Visiting The Henituse Duchy

•Chapter 624 Basen thinks Cale wants him to become the territory lord because he thinks he's gonna die.

•Chapter 627 Reuniting with dad

•Chapter 628 Cale Fanbois

•Chapter 630 Cale in the capital + Cale fanclub

•Chapter 631 Dragon Master Cale

•Chapter 634 Motherhens about Cale's health

•Chapter 637 "Dragons." "..Ah. They're Dragons." "Nod nod. Bud just decided not to think about Cale's group anymore."

•Chapter 640 "We need to destroy everyone who messes with our kids." “I’m not going to let you mess with my noona and my hyung. I will destroy everything.”

•Chapter 646 Cale uses "Instant" (REALLY EMOTIONAL)

•Chapter 647 "Raon could never forget the arms that carried him and took him out of that cave."

•Chapter 648 "In the future, the person who gathered all these different races together would be called the beginning and the end of everything. But that person, Cale Henituse, was currently lying on a bed unable to open his eyes."

•Chapter 649 The dragon half-blood <\\3...

•Chapter 635 alternative world KRS meets Choi Han

•Chapter 655-657 The OG Cale

•Chapter 658 "Goldie gramps! Pretend to be dead!"

•Chapter 660-661 Repairing Cale's plate

•Chapter 661 Everyone thinks Cale is visiting his "mother's" grave cause he might die

•Chapter 662 Drew's diary

•Chapter 664 The red tree and young drew

•Chapter 665 “Choi Han, do you want to try dying once?”

•Chapter 670-671 Cale finds out he has to stab himself in the heart aka meeting with the world tree

•Chapter 676 "Alberu was saying that the thief who stole Taerang was named ‘Choi Jung Gun.’"

•Chapter 678 Hilsman is sus

•Chapter 679 “Capture Deruth Henituse!”

•Chapter 681 CALE BITCH SLAPPED WHITE STAR

•Chapter 683 Cale uses Blood-Drenched rock

•Chapter 685 Cale tells White Star he's only been in that world for 2 years + Cale imprisoned white thing

•Chapter 687 “I finally think that my life is a bit precious.”

•Chapter 693 < The great and mighty hero did not die even when his heart was stabbed. >

•Chapter 695 "Why the hell would Alberu faint?" -bastard who always faints + they beat unranked monster

•Chapter 696-697 Cale gets interrogated

•Chapter 699 Entering the Sealed God's Temple

•Chapter 704 "Cale is saying that he is currently a ghost."

•Chapter 707 Clopeh's crazy talk ensues misunderstandings

•Chapter 710 Test Eruhaben thinks Cale and Alberu are part of the divine race

•Chapter 713 Cute Mary only believes it's actually Cale when he talks about his slacker life

•Chapter 715 SG Pretends to be Cale and makes it look like the others are ganging up on Cale

•Chapter 716 SEALED GOD WAS THE FIRST HUNTER??

•Chapter 718 "He had lost his family at a young age, but the day that he had lost his second family had returned as an illusion."

•Chapter 719 seventeen year old KRS

•Chapter 720 younger KRS's home life <\\3

•Chapter 726 the hunter targeting KRS is revealed

•Chapter 727 Choi Jung Gun finds out about Cale

•Chapter 730 "Find the Red Blood"???

•Chapter 739 ALBERU'S MOM WAS KILLED BY A HUNTER???

•Chapter 744 'Dodam Miru" <\3

It's the stuff of nightmares to think about having an ever-growing population of dragons (;;;*_*)

In the best situation, humans and all other races would be slaves to the whims of the dragons, dying one after another.

In the worst case it is the end of the world.

Wait! (◎ ◎) That doesn't sound like…

I always thought the reason Dragons only lay one egg in TCF (being Sherritt the only exception) was a bit obvious, and then realized I'm stupid for thinking it was obvious, so I'll share my thoughts.

It's a way to avoid overpopulation.

Think about it, each ecosystem has its own rules and there is a reason why invasor species (animals that were thoughlessly released in an ecosystem they didn't belong to) are considered invasors.

They tilt the whole balance within, they eat other species that eat plagues or help pollination, and end up becoming a plague.

What do you think would happen if Dragons were social creatures? What do you think would happen if they reproduced like humans or could lay more eggs like, say, snakes?

Dragons are the Apex Predator of Apex Predators. Just one of them can destroy a whole country, the ecosystem would collapse if too many inhabit the world, it's not like Dragons would hesitate to get rid of anything inconveniencing them

So yeah, nature has to have a way to keep them in check

My God! Like never before, no one thought about how useless the poor soldiers felt every time Cale and his group were present (っ˘̩╭╮˘̩)っ

They surely work to the bone to overcome their own "uselessness" and be able to protect their commander when not even a dragon can do so.

LOL (o´▽`o)

Normal day of a TCF soldier

Today's battle might be my last day. I don't know if I'm going to make it back home to my family. The enemy has mages , bear tribe , lion tribe and even many others dressed in black in their army. It feels like we're going to have a hard time. Well fortunately, our side has the greatest commander who uses his shield and strategies to win the battles; our hero the young master silver shield, Cale Henituse.

He's now standing straight facing the enemy while giving us his back, and he's..... holding a wip? And talking to himself ?? is that ok? Well what do I know I'm just a soldier..... Anyway, the enemy started firing at us and the commander has immediately activated his sheild and water ancient ... Wait a minute since when did he have a water ancient power like that!? AND NOW HE'S ATTACKING THEM WITH THUNDER BOLTS!!! WHAT IS THIS?!! A GOLDEN DRAGON!! WHERE DID HE COME FROM !? WAIT ISN'T COMMANDER CALE COUGHING BLOOD? HE'S DYING!! NOW HIS PEOPLE ARE GOING CRAZY AND DESTROYING EVERYTHING!! WHAT IS GOING ON!?

..................

And the battle is over, the commander has fainted, the enemy retreated and we won .. why am I even here ?

It's crazy how true this is (⊙_⊙), for Cale having enough money to support his family must be one of the biggest dreams he's ever had taking into account that being the last survivor and loneliness are his biggest fears {{ (>_<) }}, every gift is like declaring to the world "I'm not alone and I can protect my people" is a beautiful thing and a big part of his character once you break it down (个‿个)

I feel like it's really telling that, when Cale got a lot of money, the first thing he did with it was give Billos a massive tip and tell him to treat everyone in the teashop to a cup of tea. Like, if that doesn't show how casually generous he is.

And the way he tried to play it off as if he was bragging but it's tea, you know? That's an insanely generous tip. And the way he says he'd always wanted to do it. Like most people, if they got a large sum of money, would go on holiday or buy a mansion or, you know, use it fairly selfishly (not a problem really I would too). And here Cale is, spending it on random strangers, most of whom are dismissive at best

And then he buys the bread and gives them very generous tips as well.

Idk what the point of this is, maybe just as always Cale is a better person than me. He never hesitates to buy things for people or spend his money on others. Sure he does sometimes spend it on Ancient Powers but most of the time, when he spends money, it's for other people

Cale Tattos

Why does nobody talk about Cale’s tattoos?! It’s canon that Cale has tattoos, and nobody mentions it! (＃＞＜)

Why didn’t Ron ask anything? It’s safe to say that Ron knows when the shield tattoo appeared because he helps Cale get dressed. So why didn’t he say anything when it’s obvious that Cale didn’t go to a tattoo shop? After all, if he had, the rumors would go wild (＾＾＃)

And when does the heart appear? And the swirls? And the lightning bolt?! With the latter, it’s obvious that they are ancient power marks, so why is it never mentioned? ＼＼٩(๑`^´๑)۶／／

I understand it’s for plot convenience and all, but how the hell does nobody comment on it even once? ヽ(`⌒´メ)ノ

Here’s a list of Cale’s canon tattoos up to chapter 1045:

Silver shield + Heart + Lightning bolt (disappeared after the battle at Mapple Castle and the appearance of the golems) over the heart.

Swirls on the ankles.

Eight water droplets on the collarbones (four on each side).

Well, well, I know it’s not much, but it’s still significant! (」°ロ°)」

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