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

mana was

was why Mary had

voice kept

hurt yourself to

hand that had grabbed onto her,

all things that she had faced after making up her mind to go see the

Boom! Boom! Boom!

heart beating wildly inside of her.

Boom! Boom!

large amount of dead mana inside

Boom! Boom!

pain that would

were mixed together inside

Mary knew that it was impossible for only good things to

Ooooooo-

his head

trunks started to shake, no,

lowered his head

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

however, the people

Ooooooo-

Oooooo-

Ooooooo-

of the trees started

around Mary

“…What is going on?”

“What the…?”

7 all stopped what they were

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

Shhhhh.

tree

Dark Elves asked

the way here

He looked around.

northern

he was stepping on, as well as

is Mary trying

He turned his head.

the palace where Cale

at that

Ooooooo-

suddenly

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

rustle from

Mary through that

looking at the tree trunk that

as she absorbed the dead mana from

It was turning white.

the size of Mary’s palm

The Indestructible Shield.

tree had 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.

was waiting for Mary to show him

the end

Shhhhhhh-

moment the spring breeze stopped and

felt chills throughout his

‘It's changing.’

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

“…Ah!”

out a

Cale was only

leaves started to grow on the white tree

started

“…What the?”

Plop.

people dropped

black tree trunks that were the remains of the past battle were turning completely white and

It was beautiful.

were restoring things to

changing them

changing speed continued to

North, South, East, West.

for whether they were by the palace, the

watching this

“It's too fast!”

was coming from the Dark Elf

this large amount!

quickly looked around

absorbing dead mana

was absorbing too large of

was dangerous

to be levels in growth, so

seeing Obante’s serious expression. She looked toward Mary and walked

Mary who was surrounded

on the tree trunk

veins that resembled spiderwebs looked ready to

body

that sweat was falling from Mary’s face that was

‘She's overdoing it.’

reached out toward Mary and started to

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

hand stopped before

“…I… c-”

heard through the black

I can

not

voice that was

her hand

heard a different voice at

what I

It was Cale's voice.

eyes after hearing Cale's

hurt yourself to do

remembered what he had

dead mana flowing toward her

the trees

souls of the people who had faced unjust deaths even though

‘…I'm at my limit.’

felt her veins that were feeling as if they would burst from the

entire body was

could hear a voice once

running! Keep

her

she was dying from being

did not remember anything before she

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

could understand the

because it was in the

when the sand had turned black. She had also seen the black dead

Everything had been black.

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

bit down

times that she had thought that she could not enjoy the beautiful sky because of these black

it was

you the night sky! The human will go with