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

need to lift the dirt up a bit

“Ah, I’ll do that.”

activated a weak version of

Shaaaaaa-

A bit of

his gaze to the side. Cale started to frown after

are you looking at me like

“…It is nothing.”

up his sword.

dirt at a time, it was not difficult. It was just boring.

Super Rock do

Giant Cobblestone had

trying

Cale start

Why?

because he sensed some urging in the profound voice of

was not a masochist. Hearing the Super Rock telling him to sacrifice

can’t get a grasp of how the Super Rock power

never used this power since

no

that described the Super

All it said was…

Super Rock was

put his own body in front to

was all that

moment before coming to a

‘Just ignore it.’

ignore the voice

‘Sacrifice myself?’

‘Why should I?’

thoughts

“Human, human!”

out to

“Ah.”

the Sound of

had been waiting for was

started to

Tick tock. Tick tock.

sound

Raon started to shout.

it! This is definitely where the scent is coming

started to investigate the

orb

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

was full of

“… This is weird.”

she

She is right. It is

Rosalyn, looked inside

bombs with the black

to that was a magic bomb that he had never seen before along with an orb that was full

was this

and Raon both looked toward the purple liquid. Raon

something natural. I will need to break the orb and

definitely need

an idea about what it was. The two

who made eye contact with

“It must be fire.”

As expected.

did not disagree. Rosalyn

end, their goal seemed to have been to pull Toonka

thinks that the Empire was planning on using this dead mana bomb

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

true! After not finding anything in the castle, Harol would have no reason

Boom!

circle with his front

blow up and

being poisoned by the dead mana. As for Toonka’s side that is

else other

and looked up

Tap. Tap.

on Cale's leg with his paw. Cale

“Good job.”

snickered and looked

I am great even if my

“Yes, yes.”

sound continued on even at

Tick tock.

toward the magic

not your average magic

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

27:13:44.

Rosalyn started to speak.

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 predetermined

needing a mage to set them

orb so that only a high-grade mage would be able to

the orb,

the magic bomb seems to be pretty weak. It seems to be only strong enough to break a boulder the size of an adult's

in front of them did not need to be

enough strength to set off the

tock. Tick tock. Tick

27:12:07.

and Choi Han looked toward

a happy expression on

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

she grabbed the magic bomb and asked Cale a

this timer? The magic bomb might go off if

with a smile still on

it go

“Excuse me?”

Clap.

to get

typhoon, so it is not hard to

right! Let’s set it off! Then we

in joy. Cale patted Raon, who had the same thought as he did, on the head as he

Rosalyn. Let's get

to put out

night is the hardest thing

isn't it

“That is true.”

fire surrounding the Maple Castle, the ones facing the Whipper

toward the still brightly lit patient tent and started to

are really good

Did they say they know the