Trash of the Count's Family

Chapter 171: Perhaps (6)

Cale observed the Elf priestess while holding the gold and coins in his arms.

The young priestess who had rushed over let out a sigh of relief before flinching. She had finally seen the Black Dragon sitting down next to Cale.

“Gasp!”

They all heard her gasp.

The Black Dragon Raon spoke into Cale’s mind to share his first impression of this priestess.

She seems like a nice Elf.

He then peeked toward the large bag of coins in Cale's arm. On the other hand, the young priestess bowed toward Raon.

“It is an honor to meet you, Dragon-nim! My name is Adite, and I serve the World Tree-nim in this End Village.”

“Oh.”

Cale let out a quiet gasp.

He had never seen an Elf behav so calmly around a Dragon before. He remembered what Eruhaben had told him.

‘Talk to the Elf in charge of the World Tree if the other Elves do not understand. Then everything will be fine.’

The, ‘do not understand,’ was literally talking about the Elves not understanding what Cale was saying. It was just in case they were too busy revering the Dragon that they could not understand anything else.

“Yes. Nice to meet you, little Elf.”

Raon's bright greeting to the priestess made all of the other Elves start to smile.

All of their gazes were focused on Raon as they continued to nod their heads. They looked toward Cale who had come to deliver Eruhaben's message every so often, but it was rare.

That was why they would not be able to understand anything Cale needed to say. It wasn't that they were ignoring Cale on purpose. They just could not help but look at Raon.

Of course, there was something Cale did not know.

There was a reason that the Elves were nodding their heads and looking at him every so often.

It was because of the conversation that the beings that Cale could not see were having.

‘The World Tree called the priestess over to say something because of this red-haired human! I think it has been over a hundred years since the World Tree has talked about a human!’

‘This human has a strong aura of nature on him. He is probably the human with the most natural elements.’

‘No wonder he is with two Dragon-nims. This human smells really good.’

The Elementals were talking about Cale.

The Elves couldn’t help but peek over at him after hearing what the Elementals had to say.

“Hmm?”

Cale realized that the Elves were starting to look at him more and more often. Most importantly, the young priestess started to scrunch her freckled nose as she stood there with her hands clasped together.

‘… This is weird.’

Cale flinched after he started to realize something was weird.

Shaaaaaaaaaaaa-

It felt like there was a breeze. However, there was no actual breeze.

“…What is this?”

Cale became anxious.

One, two.

He could see many colorful and half-transparent Elemental.

That wasn’t weird. This was the case at the Elf Village in the Ten Finger Mountains as well.

There were a lot of Elementals.

That wasn’t weird either. The Elementals were born by the World Tree. This was their hometown.

The issue was elsewhere.

Where were all of these numerous Elementals gathered?

“Wow!”

Hong shouted in admiration.

“There’s so many of them!”

On was shocked as well.

All of the Elementals were by Cale's side.

Cale could see the Elementals flying around next to him. It sounded like they were saying something, but Cale could not understand any of it.

‘I smell a strong scent of wind! It is covert, but noticeable!’

‘This one is wood. Yes, the wood is small compared to the earth, wind, and other elements, but it is firm. I can feel that firmness! How wonderful!’

‘Mm, I also smell the fragrance of very sweet water. I feel like it will draw me in.’

The young priestess paid close attention to all of these comments. At that moment, something the Elementals said caught her attention.

‘There is an aura of fire as well. Yes, fire is greedy. That is why it is pure and beautiful. He has a very natural aura of fire.’

A sea of fire.

That phrase echoed in the young priestess’s mind. The priestess clasped her hands together and started to speak.

“Are you the one who has come to deliver Eruhaben-nim’s message?”

Cale was getting annoyed by the Elementals around him, but still did his best to smile and respond. However, Raon was faster than Cale.

good person! His name is Cale Henituse! His

Elementals started to fly around Cale with even more

Raon, who was stuck to his

to meet you. My name is Cale

off the unique presence

older Elves looked toward Cale with

middle-aged Elf that had originally come to greet Cale stepped

name is Dickle, and I am the Chief’s

“Nice to meet you.”

a respectful greeting with

with a blank expression. He heard a shaking voice

“…What the…”

after seeing one of the most constant things

Cale meant when he said that the Elves might

still could not believe

Cale being surrounded by the Elementals shocked him

‘Is he really human?’

even though he knew that Cale was

a

control of these lands due to their numbers, there were many Beast people and other races

a human getting along with so

Han and

“As expected of Cale-nim.”

you say, ‘as expected of Cale-nim,’

“Am I wrong?”

master Cale is

sounded very casual, making it sound like they were used to calling Cale unique. Archie continued to look toward

opened wide before she realized what must be

master Cale gets along with

“Yes.”

Archie immediately answered.

obvious after thinking about everything young master Cale has done so far around

who had been listening to Rosalyn,

had done until

Rosalyn continued to speak.

master Cale has done all of that but never asked for a title or anything of influence. Although he has received some monetary rewards, I do not think that they are worth more

was more strategic than brilliant. However, there was

He was not greedy.

He likes money?

were worse than

with money? And why do kings

greed that were worse than

greed toward these things. In fact,

the money

knew that the upgrades to the Henituse territory and all of their other actions had

times that Cale did

himself or to

the type of person who should

Cale, who knew when to use money for the greater good while being satisfied with eating simple

okay for Cale to make more money,

‘…Magic Tower.’

had brought up. Rosalyn had not declined when

mind, Cale’s past actions made her feel like she could understand why Cale wanted to invest in the

need to create a Magic Tower that helps to make the world a better

completely different Magic Tower than the

Tower and become the Tower Master. Cale turned around at that moment and

she realized that the Elves were

Rosalyn and the rest. He then introduced each of them

smart Rosalyn. Over

smiled brightly every time

the Elves who reached their hands out first. It was the same

Whale-nims. It is my first time meeting one

Killer Whale Archie just responded back with a smile and shook Dickle's hand

he was starting to

group was getting along with the Elves before calling out to the young

“Priestess-nim.”

see that the young girl had tears in her eyes and was looking at him as if he was a ticking time bomb. Cale became even more curious after seeing such an

have any desire for material

of coins and the gold in his arms. The priestess

long time ago. Although we should not get

smiled before informing Cale of the World Tree’s

World Tree wishes to

said to bring him over only if he accepted the coins and

I want to meet World Tree-nim as well. Let us head

priestess took the lead after hearing

“Just follow me.”

and Cale following behind her as she listened to

perfect and strongly

became interested in Elementalists. However, these Elementals were currently showing interest in

faster. Cale quickened his pace to keep up

on

so …

Leaf tree that you could find on

the World

pointed to the commonly seen tree in

shocked

was still similar to the trees found in the Forest of Darkness. In fact,

look more like they

as if they were protecting it were

shocked by how

priestess started to speak as if

the Elves had been shocked at the World

for a bit before saying

like how there may be precious things in things we only glance at, the truth may be hidden in an

“…As I expected.”

priestess who had calmed herself down on the way to the

area where only he, Raon, the

was at that

Shhhhhhh-

to shake even though

“Cale-nim!”