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

Mary

a voice kept echoing

hurt yourself to

eyes and his weak hand that had grabbed onto her, as well as the silver shield of

faced after making up

Boom! Boom! Boom!

feel her heart beating wildly inside of her. She was shaking in

Boom! Boom!

the large amount of dead mana inside

Boom! Boom!

afraid of the necromancer's life of pain that would probably still continue

emotions were mixed together inside her

Mary knew that it was impossible for only good things

Ooooooo-

lifted his

black tree trunks started to shake, no, they

lowered his

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

people around Cale

Ooooooo-

Oooooo-

Ooooooo-

the

only around Mary were stretching throughout

“…What is going on?”

“What the…?”

people around Section 7 all

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

Shhhhh.

tree trunk

Dark Elves asked

way here

He looked around.

was at the northern

was stepping on, as well as the

what is Mary

He turned his head.

looked toward the area around the palace where Cale and

was at that

Ooooooo-

suddenly stopped

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

started to rustle from the spring

looked toward Mary

be specific, he was looking at the tree trunk that

trunk was changing colors as she absorbed the dead

It was turning white.

the size of

The Indestructible Shield.

had changed when Cale had received

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-

the spring breeze stopped and the

chills throughout

‘It's changing.’

trunks were turning white, starting from where Mary's

“…Ah!”

let out a

only

to grow on the white tree trunks

then started to

“…What the?”

Plop.

people dropped

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

It was beautiful.

Jungle citizen and the warriors who were restoring things

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

changing speed continued

North, South, East, West.

without caring for whether they were by the palace, the

watching this started

“It's too fast!”

voice of concern was coming from the Dark Elf Tasha. Obante shouted

large amount!

quickly looked around

absorbing dead

was absorbing too large of an

dangerous for

levels in

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

clearly see Mary who

on

resembled

body

face that was covered by the hood.

‘She's overdoing it.’

reached out toward

Mary had gone in and out of death quite often ever since she was young.

her hand stopped before it reached

“…I… c-”

be heard through

can

was not her mechanical

voice that was extremely shaky,

took her hand

a different voice at that

what I

It was Cale's voice.

closed her eyes

hurt yourself to do

remembered what he

the dead mana flowing toward her

the trees were

people who had faced unjust deaths

‘…I'm at my limit.’

were feeling as if they would burst from the dead

entire body was shaking

could hear a voice once she closed

keep running! Keep running

her

told her to run as she was dying from being poisoned

before she was

she had was of her mother’s voice telling her to

felt like she could understand the reason for

because it was in

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

Everything had been black.

could only remember her mother’s voice and the feeling of the sand even when she tried her best to

bit down

that she could not enjoy the beautiful sky because of

it was different

I will show you the night sky! The