Trash of the Count's Family

Cale and Alberu both just quietly observed each other.

“And?”

The crown prince’s response at the end of that silence was pretty confident. His face was not shaking at all. Cale shrugged his shoulders.

“Just that I can give this to you, but not for free.”

Alberu couldn’t believe Cale had nothing else to say after giving him such a strong blow.

“Ha, haha-”

Alberu started to laugh. It made Cale wonder what would have happened if there wasn’t soundproof magic in the office. Either that, or what would have happened if he hadn’t sent the servants and his subordinates out.

The atmosphere turned chilly in the room.

“I was planning on putting you to work. I shouldn’t have told you to come.”

Alberu was tired of that mug on Cale’s face that was as relaxed as usual. His gaze headed toward the bottle with the black liquid.

Mother.

The weight of that word pierced into Alberu’s heart.

Cale did not say anything else and just sat there observing the crown prince, who was staring at the bottle.

Dark Elf.

They were creatures of the dark that were chastised by the people of the continent because of their affinity to darkness. The base of their power was the dead mana flowing out of the dead.

In the past, Dark Elves tended to be found near graves or villages that were destroyed by illnesses.

That was why people hated Dark Elves, even though the Dark Elves never harmed people nor desecrated corpses.

This led to the Dark Elves living in hiding. They were hiding even better than the Elves.

Alberu moved his gaze from the glass bottle and looked toward Cale. Cale just smiled back at him.

“And you’ll keep your mouth shut?”

“Of course.”

“But not for free?”

“Naturally.”

Alberu spoke his honest feelings.

“You sly bastard.”

“Why thank you.”

Alberu hated how Cale didn’t even flinch at what he said. At the same time, he was relieved as well. Cale had come directly to him instead of going to the favored third prince or the second prince who were aiming for his position.

It meant that Cale wanted to make a deal with him.

That was why he was relieved. It was because Cale was similar to him.

However, he did have a question.

“Are you really not one of us?”

How could Cale know his identity if he was not a Dark Elf as well? Alberu could not figure this out.

The only people who knew his identity were his mother’s siblings. They had helped him so that his father, the king, would not find out his mother’s identity.

They were all on Alberu’s side.

Cale pointed to the glass bottle and answered Alberu’s question.

“I will die if I drink that.”

Dead mana was like an extremely deadly poison for humans.

• Do not worry, human. This mighty dragon will save you no matter what.

ignored Raon as usual and pushed

“Don’t you need it?”

came clean

if I have it. It will make me stronger. It is clean as well. There

It is

continued on like what he said

it is a

“…What?”

hide his shock. He then let out a sigh after seeing the smile on Cale’s

“You’re driving me crazy.”

was not speaking like how someone in his position should, but he did not really want to do so today.

plans to say anything

find dead mana these days. But it was a

a dragon’s dead mana would make Alberu become at least three or four times stronger than

compensation. He thought Cale

asking something so

a loss of words after hearing Cale

was the obvious answer for

Roan Kingdom needs

the power struggle between kingdoms right now, the Breck Kingdom and Roan Kingdom were at the bottom. The Whipper Kingdom was on a one-way train to hell under Toonka’s leadership,

regaining its strength after putting out the fire earlier than in the novel. They all

Alliance was planning their invasion as well. Alberu was gathering the Whipper Kingdom’s

that was

is also the Wyvern Knights Brigade and

after volume

‘It’s obvious.’

greed and reaches his hand out to

the strength to defend itself in order for him to live a peaceful life. In order to do that,

as well use it to set

not want them

prince was already stronger than he was in the novel. The Stan family was now also under Taylor’s control, which meant that

One more thing.

more thing to

need the Magic

be hard to speak like

the crown prince, as well as the

Tower’s liege’s summoning device.

Magic Tower. It was an item that belonged to the liege of the tower,

Magic Tower’s liege was the person who rose to the highest spot amongst the Whipper Kingdom’s mages and guarded the Magic Tower. It wouldn’t make sense for such a person to be unable to

never found the item because

had delivered this to Alberu through Billos, and Alberu immediately sent a single message to

Kingdom of Boulder’s future ruler

to either move the Magic Tower to somewhere in the Roan Kingdom or to restore it. However, he was not in a place to

you

plan to

Cale would say. That was why he was trying to slowly

a part of the blueprints to build the

face

“What do you want?”

there was no reason to beat around the bush anymore. He was

something to

status in addition to money in

be a slacker? It was because you didn’t need to worry about anybody

matter if he was seen as

he read the contents of the document. Alberu was looking at it with confusion before his expression turned into

the

short answer for

that is for you to determine,

Sigh.

could not help

leave the office with the contract signed by

never felt so iffy after signing something that was beneficial

believe you just need to enjoy it since it is a win-win for both of us,

definitely was a win for the crown prince. Cale would keep his identity a secret, give him the bottle of a dragon’s dead mana, as well as a portion of

though he had received this enormous profit that had a worth that was almost impossible

he was on a field of flowers

be on

“Hurry up and leave.”

didn’t want to send Cale away. He wanted to hold Cale here

Darkness, the

Cale’s intentions in asking for something

care whether the crown prince knew or not. He quickly got back on his carriage after accomplishing his reason for coming to the capital. There was no