Trash of the Count's Family

Teaser: David vs Goliath.

Boom!

The alchemists and mages created another dirt pillar.

Cale didn't need to see the battlefield to know what was going on.

The alchemists and mages had appeared to support the roof of the palace when Sir Rex and his group had used magic bombs to blow it up.

They had scattered some unknown fluid which responded to the alchemists’ and mages’ mana and had shot up into the sky. Then the alchemists put a black thread of unknown origin around the pillar.

Once the black thread disappeared into the dirt pillar, it had turned into a sturdy black pillar.

Cale was only looking at the Flame Dwarves as he started to speak.

“An alchemist's job is to always come up with something new.”

Boom!

The black pillar continued to become larger until it turned into a tower.

The towers continued to grow in number until there was a total of seven towers.

The mages and alchemists would get to the top of these towers and launch long-range attacks from there.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-

Cale looked toward the Dwarf Chief through the sound of the trumpet.

Alchemy.

The alchemy of this world was similar to alchemy on Earth.

Their goal was to create gold.

However, the methods to do that were different.

The alchemist of the Western continent sought to use natural elements to create gold. That was why these alchemists could not help but become close to mana which had the purest natural element.

‘But according to the Dragon half-blood, the alchemy that the White Star is looking for is not aiming to create gold.’

The ancient Dragon Eruhaben's voice could be heard in Cale’s mind.

‘Do you know why they are researching dead mana?’

Dead mana bombs. That was completely unrelated to alchemy if their goal was to create gold. However, the White Star’s Alchemists’ Bell Tower had partnered with the Empire for around twenty years to research dead mana bombs.

‘I originally thought that they just wanted dead mana bombs to use as weapons, but I realized that I was wrong after hearing what the Dragon half-blood had to say.’

Cale had never seen the ancient Dragon looking so serious.

Eruhaben had a shocked yet fearful expression on his face as he explained.

‘What the Alchemists’ Bell Tower wants is mana, not gold.’

Cale stiffened up after hearing that as well.

The reason they researched dead mana.

‘They want to create mana.’

Water, fire, wind, earth, and wood. Mana exists like each of these five basic elements of nature.

It was one of the foundations for power in the world.

And they were a group that was trying to create mana.

‘After hearing about that from the Dragon half-blood, I learned that the Alchemists’ Bell Tower is a higher-ranking organization than Arm.’

Cale completely understood.

He could not figure out what the crazy White Star wanted, however, that bastard had done all sorts of crazy shit, and creating mana was just one of them.

What would happen if that crazy bastard who would even attempt to create a chimera was able to create mana?

‘It’d become a total mess.’

There would be no chaos like that one.

That was why Cale made up his mind once again.

He was going to completely destroy the Alchemists’ Bell Tower.

This was the first step to getting that done.

Cale looked toward Kanelle, the chief of the Flame Dwarf tribe, and started to speak. He could see the shaking pupils in the chief’s eyes.

‘Yeah, I get it.

I'm sure war is scary.’

Cale tried to be the calm and collected commander and tried to speak with a majestic air as he understood what the Flame Dwarf chief might be thinking.

However, Chief Kanelle’s reaction was strange.

“…Chief Kanelle, what are you looking at?”

Kanelle was not looking at Cale, but behind Cale. Someone urgently rushed toward Cale at that moment.

It was Choi Han.

“Cale-nim!”

He seemed to be in such a shock that he called out Cale’s name. At the same time, Kanelle's mumblings reached Cale's ears. Kanelle was currently scared.

“The king- the king of beasts is-”

‘What?’

Cale quickly turned around. He could see the battlefield as he heard Choi Han’s voice.

“It is the Lions from last time!”

Cale could see a few people flying to the top of the black tower made by the alchemists using flight magic.

Two of their faces were familiar.

are the ones we saw

had seen these Lions when they had visited Guardian Knight Clopeh Sekka’s house to steal the

transformation as they had appeared from within the

Han, Cale, and the Flame Dwarves

“C, commander-nim!”

Kanelle’s expression became

in leadership and adept at large group

mountain, the Lions lived in large groups in

has two potential successors for the

Chief Kanelle's eyes

the Flame Dwarf tribe in Arm every day, then the Lion tribe was the ones that treated the Flame Dwarves as if

themselves the greatest tribe and considered the Dwarves to not

kind

was like

the tendency to be alone, however, the Lions who lived in a pride were considered to be the

didn’t expect the Lions who didn't appear with

Flame Dwarves became extremely scared after seeing the Empire’s might as

Why?

Roan Kingdom and that sword

of them can join this

without the main

fighting without any

“…Commander-nim.”

Dwarf’s expression did not look

He had chosen to join this side in order to survive. In that

will go work with the other Dwarves waiting in the castle to

some Flame Dwarves, and some mages to the tower, however, there were still plenty of Flame Dwarves

defending the castle like putting together more

about the Dwarves who would be working hard to complete these

useless in

take care of just the alchemists right now. The Lions, mages, and knights that are fortified

How could they defeat so many enemies with less than five thousand on their side,

was to lock up the castle

with

openly fight along with the Whipper Kingdom’s forces. That

master Cale, we need to choose safety

looked toward Toonka and continued to speak. She thought about Toonka as well as the native warriors on their

compared to the Empire’s knights’ equipment, and as they did not have any magic fortification, it was as if they

with me, Commander Toonka and Chief Harol, we need to preserve the number of warriors

needed to defend first and lower the enemy numbers before sending the soldiers and

and Mary’s strengths during that

is the only way to effectively defeat the Empire’s overwhelming numbers when we

Rosalyn's analysis was blunt.

blunt and cold gaze while the Flame Dwarf

at that

“Pfft.”

Someone started to laugh.

Rosalyn’s eyes opened wide.

“…Commander?”

laughing like a maniac who had

Chief Kanelle did not get angry at Toonka’s actions. It was because

was

one more person who

“…Young master Cale.”

smiling with them. He could not help but smile at this feeling that he had not felt in a while. Raon, who had been quietly invisible

‘What is going on?’

making him think about the past. Long before Kim Rok Soo was a team leader, the newly employed Kim Rok Soo had gone out to take care of some business with his team leader when they were

Kim Rok Soo had spoken to his former team leader when they were both still

‘Team leader.’

tone of yours, you

will be able to fight using overwhelming strength? Do you

don't know. Don’t talk about the

‘That’s too bad.’

‘What is?’

Soo had thought it

strong individuals even though they were weak. That was why they never had

never fought against an enemy while possessing overwhelming

was why he had said the following to his former

cause a

‘You crazy bastard.’

Crazy bastard.

former team leader’s voice brushed

and that disappointment continued even when he followed in the footsteps of his team leader and became

in possession of an overwhelming

“Miss Rosalyn.”

toward Toonka and Harol. He then turned

what makes the Whipper

“Excuse me?”

with her responded back. He was one of the mages who had escaped from the Whipper Kingdom. He

Whipper Kingdom is scary

‘There is no defense?

that mean…they don't ever defend their

while the Flame Dwarf Chief and Rosalyn stood there

Whipper warriors have magic

“Ah!”

Dwarf Chief's eyes opened

Whipper Kingdom's natives were born with magic resistance. That number

after the Magic Tower conducted

who was at the peak

but his magic resistance was even

that is fortified

like regular steel to the Whipper Kingdom's

them to

was why they could charge forward without any

Kingdom's forces had still

they managed to

overwhelming difference

did the Empire need to prepare such a large

knew they needed at least this much to be

eye contact with Cale started

not in the

“Kehe, kahahahahahaha!”

laughter shook the

could see the

tribe and alchemists were not stepping up, but the knights and soldiers who were wearing

Toonka turned his head and looked