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

mana was painful

was why Mary

kept

hurt yourself

had grabbed onto her, as well as the silver shield of the small Dragon who was protecting

faced after making

Boom! Boom! Boom!

feel her heart beating wildly inside of her. She

Boom! Boom!

large amount of dead mana

Boom! Boom!

afraid of the necromancer's life of pain that would probably still continue even after she absorbed

were mixed together

it was impossible for only good

Ooooooo-

lifted his

black tree trunks started to shake,

his

The smoke surrounded Mary

shocking, however, the people around Cale could not

Ooooooo-

Oooooo-

Ooooooo-

rumbling cries of the trees started to get

cries that started only around Mary were stretching

“…What is going on?”

“What the…?”

all stopped

been telling people to move away from the black

Shhhhh.

black tree trunk was

of the Dark

the way here

He looked around.

at the northern end

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

is Mary

He turned his head.

toward the area around the palace

at that

Ooooooo-

suddenly

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

rustle from the

Mary

he was looking at

changing colors as she absorbed the

It was turning white.

the size of Mary’s

The Indestructible Shield.

changed when Cale

It had turned white.

It had turned green.

It had turned beautiful.

The appearance had changed.

Cale was waiting.

for Mary

end

Shhhhhhh-

spring breeze

felt chills throughout his

‘It's changing.’

were turning white, starting from where

“…Ah!”

let out

was only

to grow on the white

then started to

“…What the?”

Plop.

people dropped the

the past battle were turning

It was beautiful.

who were restoring things to normal raised their

covering the sky had disappeared, changing them into white threads

changing speed continued to

North, South, East, West.

for whether they

of the people watching this started

“It's too fast!”

was coming from the Dark

this large amount! It’s

looked around

was absorbing dead mana too

she was absorbing too large of

dangerous for

bound to be levels in growth, so

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

then clearly see Mary who

hand that was on the

veins that resembled

entire body was

could see that sweat was falling from Mary’s face that was

‘She's overdoing it.’

toward Mary and started

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

her hand stopped before

“…I… c-”

heard through the black

I can

not her mechanical

a voice that was extremely

took her hand

heard a different voice at

what

It was Cale's voice.

closed her eyes after hearing

yourself to do

what he had

the dead mana flowing

inside the trees were

souls of the people who had faced unjust deaths even though it was not

‘…I'm at my limit.’

if they would burst

body was shaking

a voice once she

keep running! Keep

her mother’s

as she was dying from

remember anything before she

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

she could understand the reason for

was because it was in

at night when the sand had

Everything had been black.

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

down on

could not enjoy the beautiful sky because

it was different

I will show you the night sky!