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

with dead mana was painful and

was why Mary had chosen that

kept

hurt yourself to

in Cale's reddish-brown eyes and his weak hand that had grabbed onto

all things that she had faced after making up her

Boom! Boom! Boom!

inside of her. She was shaking

Boom! Boom!

amount of

Boom! Boom!

would probably

emotions were mixed together

Mary knew that it was impossible for only

Ooooooo-

lifted his head

trunks started to shake, no, they

lowered his

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

sight was shocking, however, the people around Cale could not focus

Ooooooo-

Oooooo-

Ooooooo-

the

cries that started only around Mary were stretching throughout Section

“…What is going on?”

“What the…?”

people around Section 7 all stopped what they

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

Shhhhh.

black tree trunk was

Dark Elves asked

the way

He looked around.

the northern

was stepping on, as well as the small

what is Mary trying to

He turned his head.

around the palace where

at that

Ooooooo-

suddenly stopped

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

started to rustle from the spring

Mary

looking at the tree trunk

changing colors as

It was turning white.

of

The Indestructible Shield.

black tree had changed when Cale had

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 of

Shhhhhhh-

the moment the spring breeze stopped and the

chills

‘It's changing.’

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

“…Ah!”

let out

only

leaves started to grow on the

then started

“…What the?”

Plop.

Jungle people dropped

tree trunks that were the remains of the past battle were turning completely

It was beautiful.

restoring things to normal raised

black threads covering the sky had disappeared, changing them

changing speed continued

North, South, East, West.

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

watching this started

“It's too fast!”

from the Dark Elf Tasha.

this large

quickly looked

absorbing dead mana

was absorbing too large of

was dangerous for

were bound to be levels in growth, so greed was not

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

could then clearly see Mary who was surrounded in black

was on the tree trunk

that resembled spiderwebs looked ready

entire body

that was covered by the hood. Mary

‘She's overdoing it.’

reached out toward Mary and

not let Mary get hurt. Mary had gone in and out of death quite often ever since she was young. She did

her hand stopped before it

“…I… c-”

could be heard through the black

can

was not her mechanical

was a voice that was extremely shaky, but full of

took her hand

different

what I

It was Cale's voice.

eyes after hearing Cale's

yourself to

remembered what

feel the dead mana flowing

up inside the trees were

faced

‘…I'm at my limit.’

that were feeling as if they

body was

could hear a voice

Keep running without looking

her

mother had told her to run as she was dying from being

not remember anything before she

her to run and the soft sand being

like she could understand the reason for

it was in the

the sand had turned

Everything had been black.

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

bit down on

had thought that she could not enjoy the beautiful sky because

it was

will show you the night sky!