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.

His name

fly around Cale with even more

to smile toward Raon, who was stuck to his side, as well as the

My name is

demeanor gave off the unique presence

slightly older Elves looked toward

Elf that had originally come to

and I

“Nice to meet you.”

a respectful greeting with each

a blank expression. He heard a shaking voice by

“…What the…”

Archie was completely shocked after seeing one of the most constant things in

understood what Cale meant when he said

could not believe

However, Cale being surrounded by the Elementals

‘Is he really human?’

fact even though he knew that

was a

in control of these lands due to their numbers,

odd to see a human getting along with so many

heard Choi Han and

“As expected of Cale-nim.”

‘as expected of Cale-nim,’ way too

“Am I wrong?”

Young master Cale is unique.

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

wide before she realized what must be going through the Whale's mind and started

it amazing how young master Cale gets

“Yes.”

Archie immediately answered.

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

listening to Rosalyn, let

Cale had

Rosalyn continued to speak.

done all of that but never asked for a title or anything of influence. Although he has received some monetary

was one reason she

He was not greedy.

He likes money?

and power were worse than greed for

merchants try to buy titles for themselves once they are overflowing with money? And why do

were many types of greed that were worse than the greed for

Cale did not show any greed toward these

doesn’t use the money for his own

the upgrades to the Henituse territory and all of their other actions had required a

times that Cale did use his

were to feed himself or to provide food and lodging

type of person who should

money for the greater

Cale to make

‘…Magic Tower.’

up. Rosalyn had not declined when Cale offered to invest in the

not understand the human mind, Cale’s past actions made her feel like she could understand why Cale wanted to invest in

create a Magic Tower that

a completely different Magic Tower than the one that used to

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

the Elves were looking in her direction

flew over toward Rosalyn and the rest. He then introduced each of

is the smart Rosalyn. Over here is

brightly every time Raon said

their hands out first. It was

is my first time meeting one in person. You

just responded back with a smile and shook

starting to

the Elves before calling out to the young priestess

“Priestess-nim.”

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

don’t the Elves not have any desire

the bag of coins and the gold in his arms. The priestess Adite

we should not get too obsessed with worldly

informing Cale of

wishes to

him over only if he accepted the coins and the gold, but Adite didn’t

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

lead after

“Just follow me.”

felt Raon and Cale following behind her as

imperfectly perfect and

Elementalists. However, these Elementals were currently showing interest

faster. Cale quickened his pace to keep up with her as they headed

on an

looks so …

an old Needle Leaf tree that you could find

is the World

priestess pointed to the commonly seen tree in front

was shocked at

three times taller than he was, but it was still similar to the trees found in the Forest of Darkness. In fact, the white tree that he had seen after receiving the Indestructible Shield seemed to be

more like they could be

they were protecting it were

shocked by how the

started to speak as if she had expected

at the World Tree’s appearance

for a bit before saying whatever came

precious things in things we only glance at, the truth

“…As I expected.”

who had calmed herself down on the way to the World

he looked around the area where only he, Raon, the young priestess, and the World Tree were currently

at that

Shhhhhhh-

trees started to

“Cale-nim!”