When an ordinary Korean office worker falls asleep reading a fantasy novel titled The Birth of a Hero, he unexpectedly wakes up inside the fictional storyline as Cale Henituse, the notorious drunken trash of a wealthy frontier county. Familiar with every twist of the overarching narrative, he knows that the original Cale gets mercilessly beaten half to death early in the story by the righteous protagonist, Choi Han, before global wars lay waste to the continent. Determined to avoid pain and live a safe, luxurious slacker life, Cale devises a meticulous plan to quietly sidestep the coming catastrophe. To secure his peaceful retirement, Cale begins using his future knowledge to resolve lingering tragedies, rescue abused mythical creatures, and secretly collect ancient supernatural powers abandoned across the realm. However, his practical attempts to avoid conflict are repeatedly misinterpreted as noble, self-sacrificing heroics by everyone around him. Inadvertently recruiting a devastatingly loyal entourage consisting of a young black dragon, assassin beastmen, and powerful mages, the reluctant count son finds himself thrust directly to the center of a continental war against an ancient, shadowy terror....more