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

we need to lift the dirt up

“Ah, I’ll do that.”

Choi Han and Rosalyn. He activated a weak

Shaaaaaa-

where the slates used to rest. A bit of the dirt was moved

turned his gaze to the side. Cale started to frown

are you looking at me like

“…It is nothing.”

up his sword.

it was only moving a small amount of dirt at a time, it was not difficult. It was just boring. Cale continued to move the dirt little

did the Super Rock do

recalled what the Scary Giant Cobblestone had said

trying to sacrifice

Cale

Why?

he sensed some urging in

a masochist. Hearing the Super Rock telling him to sacrifice

of how the Super

this power since he

had no

that ancient book that described the Super

All it said was…

Rock was

own body in

like that was all that

thought for a moment before coming to

‘Just ignore it.’

just had to ignore

‘Sacrifice myself?’

‘Why should I?’

no thoughts about

“Human, human!”

called out to Cale at that

“Ah.”

immediately deactivated the Sound of the

he had been

started to

Tick tock. Tick tock.

sound

Raon started to shout.

This is definitely where

down and started to investigate

orb

orb. However, the liquid inside of the glass

orb was full of

“… This is weird.”

as she started to

is right. It is

to Rosalyn, looked inside the pit and started to

could see about ten bombs with the black liquid at

never seen before along with an orb that was full of a purple

this

the purple liquid.

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

we definitely need to

what they were saying, the mage and the Dragon seemed to have an idea about what

made eye contact with them, started to

“It must be fire.”

As expected.

the Dragon did not disagree. Rosalyn started to

end, their goal seemed to have been to

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 liquid

it easy to

would have no reason not to enter. Once

Boom!

a large circle with his

blow up and

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

anybody else

stopped there and looked

Tap. Tap.

on Cale's leg with

“Good job.”

Raon snickered and looked

am great and intelligent! I am great even if

“Yes, yes.”

continued

Tick

headed toward the

was not your average

This device had the orb of raging

27:13:44.

Rosalyn started to speak.

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

had the issue of needing a mage

amount of mana in the orb so

the mana was raging inside of the orb, there was only a small

magic bomb seems to be pretty weak. It seems to be only strong

of them did not need to be any

have enough strength to set

tock. Tick tock.

27:12:07.

Choi Han

a happy expression

all up for

alternate dimension as if he had expected Cale’s response. Rosalyn lifted

grabbed the magic bomb and

do we do about this timer? The magic bomb might go

with a smile still on

let it

“Excuse me?”

Clap.

clapped once to get their

it is not hard to set a

off! Then we can take

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

Miss Rosalyn.

now time to

standing guard at night is

it

“That is true.”

the ones facing the Whipper Kingdom’s base on the East were chatting with each other in order to stay

toward the still brightly lit patient tent and started to

really

they say they know