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.

wanted to get

dead mana was

why Mary had chosen that

kept echoing in her

yourself

Cale's reddish-brown eyes and his weak hand that had grabbed onto her, as well as the silver shield of the

all 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.

Boom! Boom!

amount of dead mana inside the tree

Boom! Boom!

afraid of the necromancer's life of pain that would probably still continue even after she absorbed all of

were mixed together

it was impossible for only good

Ooooooo-

his head

to shake, no, they started to

his

to appear around Mary. The smoke surrounded Mary as

was shocking, however, the people around Cale could not focus on

Ooooooo-

Oooooo-

Ooooooo-

the trees started to

around Mary

“…What is going on?”

“What the…?”

all stopped what they

had been telling people to move away from the black

Shhhhh.

black tree trunk

of the Dark

the way here

He looked around.

the northern end of

trunk he was stepping on, as well as the

is Mary trying to

He turned his head.

looked toward the area around the palace

at that

Ooooooo-

suddenly stopped

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

started to rustle from

toward Mary through

was looking at

changing colors as

It was turning white.

size of Mary’s palm

The Indestructible Shield.

when

It had turned white.

It had turned green.

It had turned beautiful.

The appearance had changed.

Cale was waiting.

waiting for Mary to show him some

end of

Shhhhhhh-

breeze stopped and the leaves stopped

chills throughout his

‘It's changing.’

turning white, starting from where Mary's hand was

“…Ah!”

out a

was only looking

grow on the white tree trunks

then started to

“…What the?”

Plop.

dropped

remains of the past battle were

It was beautiful.

and the warriors who were restoring things to normal raised their heads with

changing them

changing speed continued

North, South, East, West.

were quickly turning white without caring for whether they were by the palace,

watching this started to

“It's too fast!”

of concern was coming from the Dark Elf Tasha.

large amount!

looked

dead

too large

was dangerous for

were bound to be levels in growth, so greed was not

Obante’s serious expression. She

clearly see Mary who was surrounded

that was on the tree trunk was

that resembled spiderwebs looked

entire body was

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

‘She's overdoing it.’

out toward

in and out of death quite often ever since she was

stopped before it reached

“…I… c-”

could be heard

I can do

not her

was a voice that was extremely shaky,

her

different voice at that

remember what

It was Cale's voice.

her eyes after hearing Cale's

yourself to do

what he

feel the dead mana

up inside the trees were full

who had faced unjust deaths even though it was not

‘…I'm at my limit.’

veins that were feeling as if they would burst from

body was shaking

voice

running! Keep running

was her

she

remember anything before

her to run and the soft sand being pushed

could understand the

was because it was in

the desert at night when the sand had turned black. She had also

Everything had been black.

sand even when she tried her best to remember her past. That was all there

down on her

she had thought that she could not enjoy the beautiful sky

was

Mary! I will show you the night sky! The human will go