Trash of the Count's Family

Harol suspected that the basement was used as a prison and as a dwelling for the slaves.

Clack. Clack.

Cale’s group did not say much as they headed down the stone staircase and into the basement. There was only one thing on all of their minds right now.

“A dead mana bomb?”

Rosalyn let out a sigh.

Clack.

Cale stopped on the last step to go down into the basement.

“Miss Rosalyn, please shine some light into the basement.”

“Got it.”

Rosalyn created some light orbs and sent them floating into different areas of the basement. The orbs soon lit up the entire area.

“It seems to be a prison.”

Cale nodded his head at Choi Han’s comment.

The area was full of iron cages. Although there were many paths available to take, they all seemed to lead to cages. Choi Han looked at the simple yet complicated layout and started to speak.

“It looks like a maze. Cale-nim, should I go down first?”

“Do you want to do?”

“… Excuse me?”

Choi Han could see that Cale was smiling.

Cale motioned for Choi Han to stay still before looking to his side.

Sniff. Sniff.

Raon was still sniffing. Although he did not look like a majestic Dragon as he did that, Cale just continued to let Raon do his thing.

Raon made eye contact with Cale after sniffing for a bit longer. Raon stopped sniffing and tilted his head in confusion after seeing Cale’s warm gaze.

At that moment, Cale pointed to the basement and started to speak to Raon.

“Raon, go!”

Raon, who blankly blinked his eyes a few times, finally nodded his head.

“Alright, human! Just follow me!”

Sniff. Sniff.

Raon started to sniff again.

It was difficult to detect dead mana unless you had the darkness attribute. The only reason that Raon was able to do so was because the dead mana was the dead Dragon’s mana, something that Raon was used to.

“Hmm?”

Raon looked behind him only to see that Cale was not following him.

Cale was leaning on the wall of the staircase with his arms crossed.

“Let me know when you find them all.”

Shoo. Shoo.

Raon nodded his head at Cale’s shooing motion and started to move. Choi Han watched this while fidgeting. At that moment, Rosalyn used levitation magic to lift herself slightly off the ground.

“Young master Cale, I can follow behind Raon-nim if I do this, right?”

“Yes. Enjoy your trip.”

Rosalyn smiled before chasing behind Raon. She was using small mana orbs to verify the route that Raon took in order to make sure that it was okay.

Choi Han, who watched this for a moment, finally started to speak.

“Cale-nim, are you worried that Raon might miss a bomb and we might get hurt? Is that why you are making me stay here?”

Cale did not respond as he continued to observe the area that was continuing to light up with Rosalyn’s mana orbs. Choi Han started to smile and stood next to Cale as if he was a guard.

‘His tone is rude but he’s always looking out for everyone.’

As Choi Han was thinking that, Cale had a different thought in his head.

‘Not doing anything while making others work is really the best.’

Rosalyn and Raon were working while he got to rest here. However, that moment of rest did not last very long.

“I found it!”

The center of the basement, the location that all of these winding paths connected to, was where Raon was shouting from.

“You can follow me.”

Rosalyn, who had walked all the way back from the center of the basement, guided them to Raon. Cale could see Raon pointing to the ground with his front paw when he entered this factory-like section.

“This is where it is coming from! It is very strong!”

Cale looked down at the ground.

Contrary to the cages that were made of iron, the ground of this area was made of stone slates. He started to speak.

“It looks like we need to lift these slates up.”

Cale turned his head. Choi Han, who was looking down at the slates, turned his head as well. Cale, Rosalyn, and Raon were all looking at him.

“Ahem.”

Choi Han took out the sword at his side and pulled up both of his sleeves.

“I will lift it up.”

Choi Han said that as he reached toward the slates. At that moment, Raon started to speak.

“But I can do it faster.”

Black mana headed toward the large slates.

A total of four slates were covered by the black mana.

Clunk. Clunk.

The slates slowly lifted up. Choi Han flinched.

Cale watched as the four slates moved without any issues before he then started to speak.

“You really are great and mighty.”

toward Choi Han. Choi Han

to lift the dirt up a bit as

“Ah, I’ll do that.”

He activated a weak version of

Shaaaaaa-

to rest. A bit of the dirt was

the side. Cale started to

you looking at

“…It is nothing.”

and picked up his sword. Rosalyn chuckled quietly

was not difficult. It was just boring. Cale continued

did the Super

recalled what the Scary Giant Cobblestone had said a moment

you trying

made Cale start

Why?

sensed some urging in the profound

Hearing the Super Rock telling him to sacrifice

really can’t get a grasp of how the

had never used this power since

had no plans to

ancient book that described the Super Rock did

All it said was…

Super Rock

put his own body in

was all that the

for a moment before

‘Just ignore it.’

ignore the voice as

‘Sacrifice myself?’

‘Why should I?’

had no thoughts

“Human, human!”

out to Cale

“Ah.”

the Sound of

he had been waiting

started to hear a

Tick tock. Tick tock.

the sound of a

Raon started to shout.

is it! This is definitely where the scent

crouched down and started to

orb made

surrounding the orb. However, the liquid inside of the glass orb

orb was full

“… This is weird.”

she

is weird. What

to Rosalyn, looked inside the pit and started to

see about ten bombs with the

that he had never seen before along with

was this

purple liquid. Raon was the

to be something natural. I will need to break the orb and take a closer look to figure

right. Raon-nim, we definitely need to research

an idea about what it was. The two looked

eye contact with them, started to

“It must be fire.”

As expected.

mage and the Dragon did not disagree.

fire but in the end, their goal seemed to have been to

that the Empire was planning on using this dead mana bomb and the pillar

would burn everything black, thus making it easy to hide the evidence of their use

would have no reason not to enter. Once he

Boom!

drew a large circle with

up

end up being poisoned by the dead mana.

difficult for anybody else other than that

and looked up at

Tap. Tap.

leg with his paw. Cale caressed

“Good job.”

snickered and looked

great even

“Yes, yes.”

continued on

tock. Tick

gaze headed toward the magic

was not your average

had the orb of raging mana hanging on it. The time was slowly going

27:13:44.

Rosalyn started to speak.

way to store the mage’s mana in advance in order to

needing a mage to set

faint amount of mana in the orb so that only a high-grade

raging inside of the orb, there was only

the strength of the magic bomb seems to be pretty weak. It

in front of them did not need to

matter what, it will have enough strength to set

tock. Tick tock. Tick

27:12:07.

Raon, and Choi Han

with a

all up

expected Cale’s response. Rosalyn lifted up the orb with the purple

magic bomb and asked Cale a

timer? The magic bomb might

spoke with a smile still on his

it

“Excuse me?”

Clap.

to

cause a typhoon, so it is not

set it off! Then we can

same thought as he did, on the head as he gave the

Miss Rosalyn. Let's

was now time to put out

night is

it

“That is true.”

of fire surrounding the Maple Castle, the ones facing the Whipper Kingdom’s base on the

still brightly lit patient

are really

they say they know the