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

with dead mana

why Mary had chosen

voice kept echoing in

yourself to

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

after making up her mind to go see the

Boom! Boom! Boom!

heart beating wildly inside of her. She was shaking

Boom! Boom!

toward the large amount of dead mana inside

Boom! Boom!

life of pain that would probably still continue even

emotions were mixed together

was impossible for only good things to happen

Ooooooo-

his

started to shake,

lowered his

appear around Mary. The smoke surrounded Mary as if it was

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

Ooooooo-

Oooooo-

Ooooooo-

of the trees started to

that started only around Mary were

“…What is going on?”

“What the…?”

7 all stopped what

move away from the black trees stopped

Shhhhh.

tree trunk

of the Dark Elves asked

way here

He looked around.

the northern end of Section

on, as well as

what is Mary trying to

He turned his head.

looked toward the area around the palace where Cale and Mary

was at that

Ooooooo-

trees suddenly

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

to rustle

toward Mary through

specific, he was looking at the tree trunk

was changing colors as she

It was turning white.

small area the size of Mary’s

The Indestructible Shield.

when Cale had received the ancient

It had turned white.

It had turned green.

It had turned beautiful.

The appearance had changed.

Cale was waiting.

Mary to show him some

the end of that

Shhhhhhh-

moment the spring breeze stopped and the

felt chills throughout

‘It's changing.’

turning white, starting from where Mary's

“…Ah!”

out a

was only looking at

started to grow on the white tree trunks that she

then started to

“…What the?”

Plop.

of the Jungle people dropped the shovel

of the past battle were turning

It was beautiful.

who were restoring things to normal raised their heads

them into white threads that were even brighter than

changing speed continued to

North, South, East, West.

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

people watching

“It's too fast!”

was coming from the Dark Elf Tasha. Obante shouted after

large amount! It’s

quickly looked around

dead

absorbing too

dangerous

bound to be levels in growth, so

situation after seeing Obante’s serious expression. She looked

then clearly see Mary

was on the

veins that resembled spiderwebs

entire body was

that sweat was falling from Mary’s face that

‘She's overdoing it.’

toward Mary and

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

stopped before

“…I… c-”

voice could be heard through

can

not her mechanical

was a voice that was extremely shaky, but full

took her hand

heard a different voice at that

what

It was Cale's voice.

closed her eyes after hearing

yourself

remembered what

could feel the dead mana flowing

tied up inside the trees were full of

had faced unjust deaths

‘…I'm at my limit.’

as if

body was

voice once she closed

running! Keep running without

was her

run as she was

did not remember anything before she was ten

telling her to run and the soft sand being pushed by

could understand

was because it was in the

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

Everything had been black.

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

bit down on

could not enjoy the beautiful sky because of these black tree

was

the night sky!