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.

wanted to get

with dead mana was

was why Mary had chosen that

a voice kept echoing in her

hurt yourself

and his weak hand that had grabbed onto her, as well as

had faced after making up her mind to

Boom! Boom! Boom!

inside of her. She was shaking in joy and

Boom! Boom!

toward the large amount of dead

Boom! Boom!

of pain that would probably still

were mixed together inside

that it was impossible for only good things

Ooooooo-

his head

black tree trunks started to shake, no, they started to

his head back

around Mary. The smoke surrounded Mary as if it

however, the people

Ooooooo-

Oooooo-

Ooooooo-

of the trees

only around Mary were stretching throughout Section

“…What is going on?”

“What the…?”

7 all

move away from the black

Shhhhh.

black tree trunk

the Dark Elves

way here

He looked around.

the northern end of

tree trunk he was stepping on, as well as the small branches

what is Mary

He turned his head.

the area around the palace where

was at

Ooooooo-

trees suddenly stopped

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

rustle from the spring

toward Mary through that

looking at the tree trunk that

black trunk was changing colors as she absorbed the dead mana from

It was turning white.

size of Mary’s palm had turned

The Indestructible Shield.

changed when

It had turned white.

It had turned green.

It had turned beautiful.

The appearance had changed.

Cale was waiting.

waiting for Mary to

the end of that

Shhhhhhh-

was the moment the spring breeze

chills

‘It's changing.’

starting from where

“…Ah!”

out a

Cale was only looking

to grow on the white tree trunks that she

then started to

“…What the?”

Plop.

the Jungle people dropped the

that were the remains of the past battle were turning

It was beautiful.

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

threads covering the sky had disappeared, changing them

speed continued

North, South, East, West.

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

watching this

“It's too fast!”

was coming from the

large amount! It’s

quickly looked around

absorbing dead mana

too

dangerous for

were bound to be levels in growth, so

could tell the current situation after seeing Obante’s serious expression. She looked

then clearly see Mary

hand that was on the tree trunk was

black veins that resembled spiderwebs

body

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

‘She's overdoing it.’

quickly reached out toward Mary and

not let Mary get hurt. Mary had gone in and out of death quite often ever

before it

“…I… c-”

be heard through the black

I can

not her mechanical

a voice that was

took her hand

a different

remember what

It was Cale's voice.

eyes after

hurt yourself to

what he had

dead mana

tied up inside the trees were full of despair

feel the souls of the people who had faced

‘…I'm at my limit.’

feeling as if they would burst from the dead

body was shaking

hear a voice once she

Keep running without looking

her mother’s

she was dying

did not remember anything before she was ten years

mother’s voice telling her to run and the soft sand being pushed by her

finally felt like she could understand the reason

because it was in

sand had turned black. She had also seen the black

Everything had been black.

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

down

that she could not enjoy

it was

night sky! The human will go with us