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 painful and

why Mary had

voice kept

hurt yourself

remembered the seriousness in Cale's reddish-brown eyes and his weak hand that had grabbed onto her, as well as the silver shield of the small Dragon who was

making up her mind to go

Boom! Boom! Boom!

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

Boom! Boom!

the large amount of

Boom! Boom!

was afraid of the necromancer's life of pain that would probably

emotions were mixed together

Mary knew that it was impossible for

Ooooooo-

lifted his head

tree trunks started to shake, no, they started

lowered his

around Mary. The smoke surrounded

people around Cale

Ooooooo-

Oooooo-

Ooooooo-

of the trees started to get

around Mary were stretching throughout

“…What is going on?”

“What the…?”

7 all stopped what

Dark Elves who had been telling people to move away from the black

Shhhhh.

black tree trunk

of the Dark Elves

the way here

He looked around.

was at the northern end

well as the

Mary trying to

He turned his head.

the palace where Cale and

at

Ooooooo-

suddenly

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

leaves started to rustle from

looked toward Mary

he was looking at the tree trunk that she

black trunk was changing colors as

It was turning white.

the size of Mary’s

The Indestructible Shield.

tree had changed 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.

for Mary

the end of that

Shhhhhhh-

moment the spring breeze stopped

felt chills throughout

‘It's changing.’

were turning white, starting from where

“…Ah!”

let out

was only looking

leaves started to grow on the white tree trunks

then started

“…What the?”

Plop.

of the Jungle people dropped the

were the remains of the past battle were turning completely

It was beautiful.

were restoring things to normal raised their heads

had disappeared, changing them into white threads that were even brighter

changing speed

North, South, East, West.

without caring for whether they

watching this started to

“It's too fast!”

was coming from the Dark

large amount!

quickly looked around

was absorbing dead mana too

she was absorbing too

dangerous

bound to be levels in growth, so greed

Obante’s serious expression.

see Mary who was surrounded

hand that was on the

that resembled spiderwebs looked ready to

entire body

was falling from Mary’s face that was covered

‘She's overdoing it.’

out toward

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

her hand stopped before it

“…I… c-”

heard through the

I can do

not

was a voice that was extremely shaky, but

took her hand

a different voice at

what

It was Cale's voice.

closed her eyes after hearing Cale's

yourself to

what he had

feel the dead mana

things that were tied up inside the

feel the souls of the people who had faced unjust deaths even though it

‘…I'm at my limit.’

that were feeling as if they would burst from

body

hear a voice once she closed her

Keep running without looking

was her

mother had told her to run as she

remember anything before she was ten

had was of her mother’s voice telling her

could

because it was

at night when the sand had turned black. She had

Everything had been black.

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

bit down on

thought that she could not enjoy the

was

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