Trash of the Count's Family

Cale looked toward On, Hong, and Raon.

‘What is going on?’

He asked the three of them with his gaze, but the three just sighed and shook their heads.

“Soooooooob.”

Cale could still hear Mueller continuing to cry. Why was he crying so much? Cale turned back toward Mueller.

Both the dwarves and the Rat people were very short. Having received both sets of genetics, Mueller was smaller than both dwarves and Rats.

He resembled the dwarves in fairy tales, having very cute features that would make almost any adult have the desire to protect this small person.

However, this did not apply to Cale.

“I feel so bad for him.”

On and Hong wagged their tails before approaching Mueller with pity in their eyes. Mueller started to shake even worse as they got closer. He was crying even louder now.

“...I feel so bad for him.”

Cale internally snorted at On’s words.

There was no need to feel bad for him. Mueller was 30 years old and lorded over the others as part of the family that helped develop the Magic Tower. He knew about the Magic Tower’s last line of defense, but did not use it because that would have meant revealing himself to Toonka and his crew. He was so scared that he just ignored his father’s last wishes. [1]

If it wasn’t for that, there was no way that the Mage faction would have lost so badly.

Of course, this was actually beneficial to Cale.

Although he looked like a young and cute boy based on his appearance, inside of that body was a thirty-year-old man who knew the ways of the world. He knew that his own life was what mattered the most.

Naturally, Cale preferred such a person.

“Sooooob.”

Cale was tired of seeing a grown ass man continuing to cry. He decided to stop the good guy act.

“Hey.”

Mueller flinched at Cale’s voice. He started to shake again after seeing the steel rod in Cale’s hand. He felt like this was the end of his life.

Plop, plop.

Cale placed some things on Mueller’s arms while he was still crouching inside the wall. It was a loaf of bread and a bottle of milk. He had taken it out of his magic bag.

Mueller’s eyes started to shake. He cautiously looked up at Cale only to see a slightly annoyed expression.

Eat it.”

Mueller quickly took a bite after hearing what sounded like a command. Cale had an odd feeling while watching Mueller eat the bread that got drenched in his tears.

‘...He seems to be useless.’

He had a bad feeling about this. Mueller looked like a totally useless fool.

He was supposed to have the dwarves’ technical skills and the Rat’s stealth and meticulousness. This combination was said to have given him the potential to become the greatest developer and constructor. But why-

“T, thank you very much.”

Why does he feel like such a doof?

Cale had a bitter taste in his mouth. However, On, Hong, and Raon all looked toward Mueller with pity and approached him. They were trying to be his shield, as it looked like he was afraid of Cale.

However, contrary to their intentions, Mueller was unable to even taste the bread he was chewing. Two purebred Cat tribe kittens and a dragon. At that moment, he heard a noise that brought chills down his spine.

Ding. Ding.

Cale tapped the wall with the steel rod. There was no reason behind it, he was just randomly tapping. He had a bad feeling about Mueller, but decided to take him anyway.

The Henituse territory had a lot of sculptors, as well as skilled artisans of all styles. There were especially many artisans involved in construction. It was because they had a lot of quarries. That was why Mueller would be useful.

“Do you want to live?”

Cale’s low voice echoed throughout the staircase. He started to get annoyed with Mueller, who looked like he was ready to cry again.

Ding. Ding.

Cale calmed himself by tapping on the wall with the steel rod. He thought about how he probably needed to be gentle with Mueller since he was such a coward. Cale put on a gentle smile as he asked Mueller.

“Should I save you?”

Mueller vigorously nodded his head. It was so energetic that the breadcrumbs started to fling off of him. Cale was satisfied with his energetic response and started to speak in a relaxed manner.

“Then you have to listen to me. Got it?”

“Y, yes sir!”

“Eat your bread first.”

Mueller quickly started to eat the bread. Cale was satisfied with the speed and casually asked.

“You know where the Magic Tower liege’s treasure room is, right?”

Plop.

The bread in Mueller’s hand dropped to the ground. Cale gently added on.

your bread. You should pick

the bread back up. He was still crouching inside the wall with Cale, On,

know about the secret room. The real room for the liege of

liege’s room. The Magic Tower had more to it than meets

chaotic. How did he know about the room? It was something that only the liege of the tower and the members of the

that moment, Mueller heard

get into the fourth floor of

wondering how Cale knew about all those secret places. Cale felt like he had become a criminal, taking a hostage and threatening them for information. He had no plans to do that. In fact, his goal was to save Mueller and give him a safe place to

and console the shaking Rat

will at least let you live if

He needed to take him back home

I will do anything you tell me

Rat and Dwarf mix halfling sounded like he was

“Good.”

to Mueller’s

were still shaking as he looked at the man who brought the scary Cats, Cats that were even scarier because they

the bread and guide

you need a magic stone to

a bag filled with many magic stones. Mueller quickly

had to go down to the third underground floor with Cale’s

no other stairs heading downward. However, Mueller took

Creeeeeeeak-

cave was revealed accompanied by the noise. It was the pathway to the fourth

“You go in first.”

do so. Cale was excited as he headed down the

4th floor

of the tower, the mages who were secretly experimenting down below, and Mueller of the developer’s family knew about. Cale walked down the path for a while to

is an alarm

small door opened. Naturally, there was no alarm

‘Found it.’

had found the first

in the

secrets were the two research projects

the

storage device that used the principles

for

desperately want to acquire, as well as research that would take away the citizens’ greatest advantage, were

“Wonderful.”

the files under layers of security

also wanted to be able to

like that will not

belonged

approached the large orb located in the middle

seed resting within a fluid inside of

“Human, that looks interesting!”

approached the egg and squished his face onto the glass in order to observe the seed

patted

you want to try raising

“Human, is that okay?”

mine

“Deal!”

do all of the work only for someone else to benefit from it. Cale had a satisfied smile on

pack up everything in

am curious about

Cale should create a lab for Raon in the future. Cale started to smile, knowing how much this seed and the

“Mueller.”

even know, m,

dragon that made the documents and the large

the

“Y, yes sir!”

“Raon.”

“What is it, human?”

device here and a few

the Magic Tower was destroyed. Toonka and the non-mage faction would become even stronger if they found the items that were down here. Of course, Cale did not really want them to get

perish faster this

that was

blankly watched as Raon

cannot take all of the interesting things in here. I need to make it so they die the moment they step in

to turn paler. Cale didn’t care about Mueller’s current mental state, instead, he waited until Mueller

“The liege’s room.”

Mueller respond

go to the 20th

front paw on his back and felt like he

I can

they were moving very quickly. Cale had used the Sound of the Wind

before trying to stand once they got back up to the 20th floor. He needed some support as he seemed to

you very

Meeeow.

then started to speak after seeing Cale’s gaze that seemed to be telling him to explain how to get to

floor in the

21st floor

do not call it the

do you

that the non-mage faction did not ever manage to find. Cale only knew about it because of something that was written in

learn about the real

heard Mueller’s voice in

call it

“Get it ready.”

“Yes sir.”

The moment a smile ended up on his face, Mueller’s movements became even faster.