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. Choi Han sighed before

lift the dirt up a bit as

“Ah, I’ll do that.”

between Choi Han and Rosalyn. He activated a weak version

Shaaaaaa-

rest. A bit of the dirt

the side. Cale started to frown after seeing Choi Han’s

you looking at me like

“…It is nothing.”

over and picked up his sword. Rosalyn chuckled quietly before helping

difficult. It was just boring. Cale continued to

the Super Rock

what the Scary Giant Cobblestone

you trying to sacrifice

statement made Cale start to

Why?

he sensed some urging in

masochist. Hearing the Super Rock telling him to sacrifice

get a grasp of how the Super

had never used this power since

had no plans to use

ancient book that described the Super Rock did not

All it said was…

Rock

own body in

was all that the book

moment before

‘Just ignore it.’

had to ignore the voice

‘Sacrifice myself?’

‘Why should I?’

thoughts about

“Human, human!”

to

“Ah.”

deactivated the Sound of

he had been waiting for was

also started to hear a

Tick tock. Tick tock.

the sound of a

Raon started to shout.

definitely where the

down and started

was an orb made of

However, the liquid inside of the glass orb was what caught

full

“… This is weird.”

she started to

She is right. It is weird. What

had landed next to Rosalyn, looked inside the

with the black liquid at the

that was a magic bomb that he had never seen before

this

both looked toward the purple liquid. Raon was

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

we definitely need

Dragon seemed to have an idea about what it

who made eye contact with them,

“It must be fire.”

As expected.

and the Dragon did not disagree. Rosalyn started to

their goal seemed to have been to pull Toonka

Even my great and mighty self thinks that the Empire was planning on using this dead mana bomb and the pillar of fire to blow this purple

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

no reason

Boom!

circle

blow up and

by the dead mana. As for Toonka’s side that is deemed to not have any mages, they would need to escape

for anybody else other than that idiot,

stopped there and looked up

Tap. Tap.

on Cale's leg with his paw. Cale caressed Raon's round

“Good job.”

snickered

intelligent! I am great even if my first

“Yes, yes.”

along. The sound continued

tock. Tick tock.

toward

was not your average

had the orb of raging mana

27:13:44.

Rosalyn started to speak.

the Alchemists and the mages developed this magic bomb together. It seems to be a way to store the mage’s mana in advance in order to set the magic bomb to go off at a

the issue of needing a

in the orb so that only

mana was raging inside 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 weak. It seems to be only strong enough to break a boulder the size of

in front of them did not need to

matter what, it will have enough strength to

tock. Tick tock.

27:12:07.

Raon, and Choi Han

a happy expression

them all up for

started to put them into his alternate dimension as if he had expected Cale’s response. Rosalyn lifted up the orb with the purple liquid before she

she grabbed the magic bomb

this timer? The magic bomb might go off

a smile still on his

let it

“Excuse me?”

Clap.

to get their

a typhoon, so it is not hard to set a

Then we

had the same thought as

Han, Miss Rosalyn. Let's get

to put out the

night is the hardest

it better than

“That is true.”

were standing guard around the pillar of fire surrounding the Maple Castle, the ones facing the Whipper Kingdom’s base

of the soldiers looked toward the still brightly lit

really

they say they know the