Trash of the Count's Family

Cale's gaze that had been on the black book turned toward Mary and Obante.

Mary started to speak.

“…I am hungry, no, I wish to get stronger.”

There was only one response Cale could give to that.

“Get started.”

It was time to go purify things.

However, there was a voice that stopped him at that moment. One day.

Cale turned around.

It was the video communication device in the ancient Dragon Eruhaben’s hand. The crown prince said one last thing before ending the call. Head to the Empire one day later.

Cale, who was planning to immediately head there after Mary was done, thought for a moment before nodding his head.

“I will do that.”

The call ended with his response.

Cale looked around him.

There were tree trunks woven together like black spiderwebs underneath the bright sun.

In front of Cale’s tent. Obante, the Dark Elf mayor, caressed a black tree trunk.

‘They’re huge.’

The black trunks seemed to be endless. He could feel the dead mana inside of them trying to escape.

There was so much that he could not tell how much dead mana was inside all of these black tree trunks.

‘Mary will become significantly stronger if she absorbs all of this.’

Of course, it was impossible for her to absorb all of it because of the sheer amount.

Obante was disappointed, but there was nothing he could do about it.

Strength was not something that you could gain as much as you wanted just because you wanted it.

It was similar to how there were tiers in sword art and magic.

A beginner swordsman would be useless even with aura.

Everything was only in balance when you had just enough strength to match where you were at.

You were bound to get sick if you ate too much at once.

That was why he was both satisfied and worried about the hesitating Mary.

Cale had told Mary to have all of this dead mana.

That was why Mary was hesitating.

‘She’s probably concerned about taking all of the dead mana by herself when the Dark Elves worked with her last night.’

Obante thought that it was very much like Mary as he approached her.

“Mary.”

She looked toward him once he called her.

“We are fine, so take as much as you want, no, as much as you need to become full.”

Mary could see Tasha and the Dark Elves nodding their heads behind Obante. They had all gathered outside Cale's tent at some point.

“Yes, we have Elementals too!”

“We already absorbed a large amount of dead mana while purifying the black despair last night.”

All of them nodded their heads as they chimed in.

“Mary, you can have it all! You've suffered quite a bit in all those battles up until now.”

“That’s right.”

“You are the most famous of the people from our city and the one who worked the hardest! You deserve something like this as a reward!”

“That’s right!”

The Dark Elves all played off of each other while urging Mary to quickly absorb all of the dead mana.

The Dark Elf warriors were all at least 100 years old. The struggling 27-year-old Mary was like their youngest sister or niece to them.

Mary's gaze moved past the Dark Elves and toward Cale.

He just nodded his head for her to do whatever she wanted.

Mary slowly started to walk after seeing that stoic expression.

Tasha started to shout once Mary started to move.

“All warriors disperse!”

“Yes, ma'am!”

“Yes, ma’am!”

The Dark Elves quickly started to climb the black tree trunks. Tasha continued to give them orders.

“Go around Section 7 and tell people to move away from the vicinity of the black tree trunks!”

She then added on.

“Let them know that the purification is starting!”

Rustle-

The Dark Elves started to move, leaving behind the rustling of leaves in place of a response.

Their voices could be heard coming from all around them.

“The purification is about to start!”

“Please move away from the black trees!”

The voices became quieter as they moved away from the tent, however, that showed that they were reaching all parts of Section 7.

Mary took a deep breath while hearing their voices.

“Huuuuuu.”

Cale pointed to a spot as she did that.

“Your mark is still visible over there.”

Her mark. Mary started to walk toward the mark that she had made.

It was the spot she had accidentally absorbed the dead mana from earlier. She raised her head once she got there.

Large tree trunks were covering the sky.

The spring sky was beautiful, however, she could not enjoy it because it was covered up by the woven tree trunks.

She was touching that tree trunk right now.

Mary put her hand back on the side of the tree that had been purified about the size of her palm.

She then closed her eyes.

She was hungry.

to

mana was

Mary had

kept

hurt yourself to

grabbed onto her, as well as

things that she had faced after making up her mind to go see the outside

Boom! Boom! Boom!

feel her heart beating wildly inside of her. She was shaking in

Boom! Boom!

was cheering toward the large amount

Boom! Boom!

pain that would

emotions were mixed together

knew that it was impossible for only good

Ooooooo-

lifted his

to shake, no, they started to

lowered his head

Mary. The smoke surrounded Mary as

people around Cale could not focus on

Ooooooo-

Oooooo-

Ooooooo-

the trees started to get

started only around Mary

“…What is going on?”

“What the…?”

Section 7 all stopped what they

the black trees stopped walking

Shhhhh.

tree trunk was

the Dark Elves

the way

He looked around.

at the northern

he was stepping on, as well

what is Mary trying

He turned his head.

the area around the

at

Ooooooo-

suddenly

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

to rustle from

looked toward Mary

he was looking at the tree trunk that she was

was changing colors as she absorbed the dead mana from

It was turning white.

the size of Mary’s

The Indestructible Shield.

changed when Cale had received

It had turned white.

It had turned green.

It had turned beautiful.

The appearance had changed.

Cale was waiting.

was waiting for Mary to show him

the end of

Shhhhhhh-

was the moment the spring breeze

chills

‘It's changing.’

black tree trunks were turning white, starting from where Mary's hand was touching

“…Ah!”

let out

Cale was only looking

the white tree trunks that she was

then started

“…What the?”

Plop.

of the Jungle people dropped the shovel in

past battle were turning completely

It was beautiful.

Jungle citizen and the warriors who were restoring

sky had disappeared, changing them into

speed continued

North, South, East, West.

white without caring for whether they

people watching this started

“It's too fast!”

was coming from the

large amount!

quickly looked around

dead

absorbing too

was dangerous

bound to be levels in growth, so greed was not

serious expression. She looked toward Mary and walked a

clearly see Mary who was surrounded in

was on the tree

veins that resembled

entire body was

that sweat was falling from Mary’s face that was covered by the hood. Mary was sweating a

‘She's overdoing it.’

reached out toward Mary and started

and out of death quite

stopped before it

“…I… c-”

could be heard through

I can do

not her mechanical

a voice that was

her

different voice at

remember what

It was Cale's voice.

eyes

hurt yourself to

what he

the dead mana flowing toward her

the trees were full

faced

‘…I'm at my limit.’

felt her veins that were feeling as if they would burst from the dead

body was shaking

a voice once she closed

Keep

her

her to run as she was dying from being poisoned by

before she

voice telling her to run and

finally felt like she could understand the

because it

night when the sand had turned black. She had also seen the black dead

Everything had been black.

feeling of the sand even when she tried

bit down on

that she had thought that she could not enjoy the beautiful

it was

will show you the night sky!