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.”

and looked toward Choi Han.

lift the dirt up a bit

“Ah, I’ll do that.”

stepped in between Choi Han and Rosalyn. He activated a

Shaaaaaa-

slates used to rest. A bit of

gaze to the side. Cale started to

you looking at

“…It is nothing.”

walked over and picked up his sword.

it was not difficult. It was just boring. Cale continued to move the dirt little by little as he started

the Super Rock do

recalled what the Scary Giant Cobblestone

trying to

Cale start to

Why?

urging in the profound voice of

a masochist. Hearing the Super Rock telling him

a grasp of how the Super Rock power

had never used this

also had no plans to use

the Super Rock did not describe the

All it said was…

Super Rock

body in front

all

thought for a moment before

‘Just ignore it.’

to ignore the voice as

‘Sacrifice myself?’

‘Why should I?’

thoughts about

“Human, human!”

out to Cale at that

“Ah.”

deactivated the Sound

had been waiting for

to

Tick tock. Tick tock.

sound of

Raon started to shout.

definitely where the

crouched down and started to investigate the

an orb made of thin

devices surrounding the orb. However, the liquid

was full

“… This is weird.”

as she started to

is weird. What is this

who had landed next to Rosalyn, looked inside the pit and

see about ten bombs with

that he had never seen before along with an orb

was this

looked toward the purple liquid. Raon was the

not seem to be something natural. I will need to break the orb and take a closer look to figure out what

definitely need to

were saying, the mage and the Dragon seemed to have an idea about what it was. The two looked at each

contact with them,

“It must be fire.”

As expected.

and the Dragon did not disagree. Rosalyn

the end, their goal seemed to have been to pull Toonka and

self thinks that the Empire was planning on using this dead

it easy to hide the evidence of their use

castle, Harol would have no reason

Boom!

large circle with his front

up and

dead mana.

anybody else other than that idiot,

there and

Tap. Tap.

lightly tapped on Cale's leg with his paw. Cale caressed

“Good job.”

snickered

am great and intelligent! I am great even if my first

“Yes, yes.”

The sound continued

Tick tock. Tick

toward the

was not your average magic

the magic bomb. This device had the orb of raging mana hanging on

27:13:44.

Rosalyn started to speak.

It seems to be a way to store the mage’s mana in advance in order to

needing a mage to set

mana in the orb so that only a

of the orb, there was only a small

the amount of mana in the orb, the strength of the magic bomb seems to be pretty

new magic bomb in front of them did not need to be

have enough strength to set

tock. Tick

27:12:07.

and Choi

a happy expression on

them all up

them into his alternate dimension as if he had expected Cale’s response. Rosalyn lifted up the

the magic bomb and asked Cale a

we do about this timer? The magic

with a smile still on his

let it go

“Excuse me?”

Clap.

to

going to cause a typhoon, so it is not hard to set a bomb off

set it off! Then we can take the

patted Raon, who had the same

Rosalyn. Let's get

to put out the

standing guard at night is the hardest thing

it better

“That is true.”

Castle, the ones facing the Whipper Kingdom’s base on the East were

toward the still brightly lit patient tent and started

really

are. Did they say they know