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

dead mana was

Mary had chosen that

voice kept

yourself to do

onto her, as well as the silver shield of the small Dragon

she had faced after making up her

Boom! Boom! Boom!

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

Boom! Boom!

large amount of dead mana inside

Boom! Boom!

life of pain that would probably still

emotions were mixed

knew that it was impossible for only good things to happen in

Ooooooo-

lifted his

to shake, no,

lowered his

smoke started to appear around Mary. The smoke surrounded Mary

was shocking, however, the people around

Ooooooo-

Oooooo-

Ooooooo-

of the

only around Mary were stretching throughout Section

“…What is going on?”

“What the…?”

around Section 7 all stopped

away from the black trees stopped walking as well. They then looked

Shhhhh.

black tree

of the Dark Elves asked

the way

He looked around.

northern end of

well as

what is Mary trying to

He turned his head.

area around the palace where Cale and Mary should

at that

Ooooooo-

trees suddenly stopped

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

to rustle from the spring

looked toward Mary through that

at

as she absorbed the dead mana

It was turning white.

the size of Mary’s palm had turned

The Indestructible Shield.

changed when Cale had received the

It had turned white.

It had turned green.

It had turned beautiful.

The appearance had changed.

Cale was waiting.

Mary to show

the end

Shhhhhhh-

was the moment the spring breeze stopped

chills throughout his

‘It's changing.’

black tree trunks were turning white, starting from where Mary's hand

“…Ah!”

out

was only

the

started

“…What the?”

Plop.

Jungle people dropped the

remains of the past battle were turning completely white

It was beautiful.

restoring things

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

speed continued

North, South, East, West.

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

of the people watching

“It's too fast!”

of concern was coming from the Dark Elf Tasha.

this large amount!

looked around

was absorbing dead mana too

was absorbing too large

was dangerous for

bound to be levels in

Obante’s serious expression.

Mary who was surrounded in

on

veins that resembled spiderwebs

entire body

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

‘She's overdoing it.’

reached out toward Mary and

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

stopped before it reached

“…I… c-”

voice could be heard

can do

was not her mechanical

voice that was extremely shaky, but full of

her hand

a different

what I said,

It was Cale's voice.

eyes after hearing

yourself to do

remembered what

dead mana flowing toward her

inside the trees were full of despair and

people who had faced unjust deaths

‘…I'm at my limit.’

as if they would burst from the dead mana

body was

a voice once

running! Keep running without

her mother’s

to run as she was dying from being poisoned by dead

remember anything before she was ten

voice telling her

like she could understand

was because it was

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

Everything had been black.

why she could only remember her mother’s voice and the feeling of the sand even when she tried her best to remember her past. That was all there was to remember about that

bit down on

that she had thought that she could not enjoy

was different

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