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.

they are the ones we saw up

had seen these Lions when they had visited Guardian Knight Clopeh Sekka’s house to steal the crown. Those arrogant Lions had ended up kneeling in front of

their berserk transformation as they had appeared from within

if Choi Han, Cale, and the Flame

“C, commander-nim!”

Kanelle’s expression became

Lions were talented in leadership and

their own mountain, the Lions lived in large groups in order to

Lion tribe even has two potential successors for the Lion King position in this generation! They

Kanelle's eyes

day, then the

the greatest tribe and considered the Dwarves to not even

kind of

Lion tribe was like

the best if they did not have the tendency to be alone, however, the Lions who lived

with the Indomitable Alliance to

scared after seeing the Empire’s might as well

Why?

Kingdom and that sword master!

them can join

be a war without the main characters for victory

was like fighting without

“…Commander-nim.”

did not look

had already chosen to be on Cale's side. He had chosen to join this

will go work with the other Dwarves waiting in the castle to build tools for

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

were probably busy right now building tools for defending the castle

bit down on his lips while thinking about the Dwarves who would be working hard to complete

were useless in

alchemists right now. The Lions, mages,

Chief was afraid. How could they defeat so many enemies with less than five thousand on their side, especially when the Whipper

to survive was to lock up

with that

with the Whipper Kingdom’s forces. That was why Rosalyn shared her thoughts

right. Young master Cale, we need to choose safety

to speak. She thought about Toonka

armors and weapons were terrible compared to the Empire’s knights’ equipment, and as they did not

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

the soldiers and

Flame Dwarves and

numbers. This is the only way to effectively defeat the Empire’s overwhelming numbers when we are fighting

Rosalyn's analysis was blunt.

cold gaze while the Flame Dwarf Chief

was at that

“Pfft.”

Someone started to laugh.

Rosalyn’s eyes opened wide.

“…Commander?”

like a maniac who had a screw

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

Harol was

more person

“…Young master Cale.”

was also 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 for a while, asked Cale in confusion. Human, what is going

‘What is going on?’

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

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

‘Team leader.’

to that tone of yours, you bastard.

be able to fight using

know. Don’t talk about

‘That’s too bad.’

‘What is?’

Soo had thought it

had to fight against large organizations or strong individuals even though they were weak. That was why they never

Rok Soo had never fought against an enemy while possessing overwhelming strength over that

why he had said the following

a

‘You crazy bastard.’

Crazy bastard.

leader’s voice brushed

even when

Empire was in possession of an

“Miss Rosalyn.”

and Harol. He then turned toward Rosalyn and

know what makes the Whipper Kingdom

“Excuse me?”

responded back. He was one of the mages who had escaped

Kingdom is scary because there is

‘There is no defense?

don't ever

Dwarf

warriors have

“Ah!”

that fact while the Flame Dwarf Chief's eyes opened wide

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

the Magic

someone who was at the peak of those

but his magic resistance was even

is fortified

like regular steel to the Whipper Kingdom's

abilities that allowed them to resist magic for a

could

time, the Whipper Kingdom's forces had still fought against

they managed

overwhelming difference in

prepare such a large number of troops in order to conquer

needed at least this much to

contact with Cale

not in

“Kehe, kahahahahahaha!”

laughter shook

could see the

were not stepping up, but the knights and soldiers who were wearing armor fortified with magic, as well as the mages, were prepared

his head and looked toward