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

mana was painful and

was why Mary had chosen

a voice kept

yourself to do

in Cale's reddish-brown eyes and his weak hand that had grabbed onto

making up her mind to go

Boom! Boom! Boom!

beating wildly inside of her. She was shaking

Boom! Boom!

cheering toward the large amount

Boom! Boom!

that would probably still continue even after she absorbed all of

mixed together inside her

for only good things

Ooooooo-

lifted his

to shake, no, they

lowered his

started to appear around Mary. The smoke surrounded Mary as

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

Ooooooo-

Oooooo-

Ooooooo-

the trees

only around Mary were stretching throughout Section

“…What is going on?”

“What the…?”

around Section 7 all stopped what

who had been telling people to move away from the black trees stopped walking

Shhhhh.

black tree trunk

of the Dark Elves

the way here

He looked around.

northern end of Section

as well as the small branches around him, were all

is Mary trying to

He turned his head.

looked toward the area around the palace where Cale

at that

Ooooooo-

trees suddenly

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

to rustle from the spring

looked toward Mary

at the tree

colors as she absorbed the dead mana

It was turning white.

small area the size of Mary’s palm

The Indestructible Shield.

when Cale

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

the end of that

Shhhhhhh-

moment the spring breeze

felt chills throughout his

‘It's changing.’

turning white, starting from where Mary's hand

“…Ah!”

out a

only looking

leaves started to grow on the white tree

started

“…What the?”

Plop.

people dropped the shovel

the remains of the past battle were turning completely white and filling with green

It was beautiful.

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

them into white threads that were even brighter than

speed continued to

North, South, East, West.

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

people watching this started

“It's too fast!”

concern was coming from the Dark Elf Tasha. Obante shouted

this large amount!

looked around

was absorbing dead mana too

she was absorbing too large of an

was dangerous

to be levels in

serious expression. She looked

Mary who

was on

resembled

body

sweat was falling from Mary’s face that was

‘She's overdoing it.’

toward Mary

Mary had gone in and out of death quite often ever since she was young. She did not want to see Mary

hand stopped before it reached Mary’s

“…I… c-”

be heard through the

I can do

was not

voice that was

her hand

a different voice

what I said,

It was Cale's voice.

her eyes after hearing

yourself to do

what

the dead mana flowing toward

were tied up inside the trees were full of

feel the souls of the people who had faced unjust deaths even though it was not the

‘…I'm at my limit.’

feeling as if they would

entire body

a voice once

running! Keep running

was her

to run as she was dying from being

remember anything before she was ten

memory she had was of her mother’s voice telling her to run and the soft sand

she could understand the reason

because it was in the

had turned

Everything had been black.

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

down

she could not enjoy the beautiful sky because

it was different

night sky! The human will go