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 get

dead mana was painful

why Mary had chosen that

voice kept

hurt yourself

grabbed onto her, as well as the silver shield of the small Dragon who was

were all things that she had faced after making up her mind to go

Boom! Boom! Boom!

her heart beating wildly inside of her. She was shaking in joy and

Boom! Boom!

amount of dead mana

Boom! Boom!

necromancer's life of pain that would probably still continue even after

emotions were mixed together

impossible for only good

Ooooooo-

his head

tree trunks started to shake, no,

his head back

Mary. The smoke surrounded Mary as if

shocking, however, the people around Cale could not

Ooooooo-

Oooooo-

Ooooooo-

cries of the trees started to get

started only around Mary were stretching throughout

“…What is going on?”

“What the…?”

Section 7 all stopped what they were

who had been telling people to move away from the black trees stopped walking as well. They then looked underneath

Shhhhh.

black tree trunk was

Dark Elves asked

way here

He looked around.

the northern end

on, as well as the small branches around

Mary trying to

He turned his head.

the palace where

was at that

Ooooooo-

trees suddenly

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

started to rustle from the spring

toward Mary through that

was looking at the

colors as she

It was turning white.

size of

The Indestructible Shield.

had changed when Cale had received the

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 that

Shhhhhhh-

spring breeze stopped and

chills throughout his

‘It's changing.’

turning white, starting from

“…Ah!”

out a

only

to grow on the white tree trunks that she was

started

“…What the?”

Plop.

the Jungle people dropped the shovel

the remains of the past battle were

It was beautiful.

the warriors who were restoring things to normal raised

threads covering the sky had disappeared, changing them into white threads

changing speed continued to

North, South, East, West.

tree trunks were quickly turning white without caring for whether they were

of the people watching this started to

“It's too fast!”

voice of concern was coming from the Dark Elf Tasha.

this large amount! It’s

quickly looked around

was absorbing dead mana too

too large

dangerous for

be levels in growth,

current situation after seeing Obante’s serious expression. She looked toward Mary and walked

see Mary who was surrounded in

that was on the tree

black veins that resembled spiderwebs

entire body was

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

‘She's overdoing it.’

reached out toward Mary and started

in and out of death quite often ever since she was young. She did

her hand stopped before

“…I… c-”

could be heard through the black

I can

not

was extremely shaky, but full

her

a different voice

what I

It was Cale's voice.

closed her eyes after hearing Cale's

yourself

what he

mana flowing toward her like

were tied up inside the trees were

feel the souls of the people who had faced unjust

‘…I'm at my limit.’

if they would burst from the

entire body was

voice once

Keep running

her mother’s

had told her to run as she was

remember anything before she was ten years

was of her mother’s voice telling her to

she could understand

it was in

sand had turned

Everything had been black.

when she tried her best to remember her past.

down on her

not enjoy the beautiful

was

the night sky! The human