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 looking

need to lift the dirt up a bit as

“Ah, I’ll do that.”

activated a weak version of

Shaaaaaa-

rest. A bit of the dirt was moved

Han turned his gaze to the side. Cale

are you looking at me

“…It is nothing.”

and picked up his sword. Rosalyn chuckled quietly before

at a time, it was not difficult. It was just boring. Cale continued to move the dirt little by

Super Rock do

what the Scary Giant Cobblestone had said a moment

you trying to

statement made Cale

Why?

in the profound voice

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

of

used this power since he got

no plans

that ancient book that described the Super

All it said was…

Super Rock was

body in front to protect

was all

for a moment before

‘Just ignore it.’

had to ignore

‘Sacrifice myself?’

‘Why should I?’

had no thoughts

“Human, human!”

to Cale at that

“Ah.”

the

item he had been waiting for was finally

started to hear

Tick tock. Tick tock.

sound of

Raon started to shout.

This is definitely

started to investigate

orb made of

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

was full of

“… This is weird.”

gulped as she started to

right. It is weird. What

had landed next to Rosalyn, looked inside

with the black liquid at the

he had never seen before along

was this

purple liquid. Raon was the first to

something natural. I will need to break the orb

we definitely need to research

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

contact with

“It must be fire.”

As expected.

Dragon did not disagree. Rosalyn

their goal seemed to have been to pull

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

burn everything black, thus making it easy to

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

Boom!

a large circle

blow up

poisoned by the dead mana. As for Toonka’s

is difficult for anybody else other

stopped there and looked up

Tap. Tap.

with his paw. Cale caressed Raon's

“Good job.”

Raon snickered and

am great and intelligent! I am great even if

“Yes, yes.”

along. The sound continued on even at

tock. Tick

gaze headed toward the

not your average magic

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

27:13:44.

Rosalyn started to speak.

magic bomb together. It seems to be a way to store the

needing a mage

orb so that only

the mana was raging inside of the

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

of them did not need to be

strength to set off the dead mana

Tick tock.

27:12:07.

and Choi

was smiling with a happy

them all up for

alternate dimension as if he had expected Cale’s response. Rosalyn lifted up the orb with the purple

the magic

timer? The magic bomb might

smile still

it go

“Excuse me?”

Clap.

to get

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

set it off! Then we can take the timer

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

Han, Miss Rosalyn.

time to put

at night is

isn't it

“That is true.”

soldiers who were standing guard around the pillar of fire surrounding the Maple Castle, the ones facing the Whipper Kingdom’s base on the East were chatting with each other in order to

the still brightly lit

really

are. Did they say they know the