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

dead mana was painful and

why Mary

voice kept echoing in

yourself to do

Cale's reddish-brown eyes and his weak hand that had grabbed onto her, as well as the silver shield

things that she had faced after making

Boom! Boom! Boom!

her heart beating wildly inside of her.

Boom! Boom!

toward the large amount of dead mana inside the

Boom! Boom!

of the necromancer's life of pain that would probably still continue

mixed

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

Ooooooo-

lifted his head

started to shake,

his head

The smoke surrounded

the people around Cale

Ooooooo-

Oooooo-

Ooooooo-

the trees started to

cries that started only around Mary were stretching throughout Section

“…What is going on?”

“What the…?”

people around Section 7 all stopped what they

had been telling people to move away from the black trees stopped walking as well. They then looked

Shhhhh.

black tree

Dark Elves asked

the way

He looked around.

the northern end of

well as

what is Mary trying

He turned his head.

the palace where Cale

was at that

Ooooooo-

trees suddenly stopped

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

rustle from

looked toward Mary

looking at the tree trunk that

changing colors as she absorbed the dead

It was turning white.

small area the size of Mary’s palm

The Indestructible Shield.

black tree had changed when Cale had received the ancient

It had turned white.

It had turned green.

It had turned beautiful.

The appearance had changed.

Cale was waiting.

for Mary

end of that

Shhhhhhh-

the moment the spring breeze stopped and the leaves stopped

chills

‘It's changing.’

white, starting from where Mary's hand was

“…Ah!”

let out

Cale was only looking at

to grow on the white tree trunks

then started

“…What the?”

Plop.

of the Jungle people dropped

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

It was beautiful.

restoring things

changing them into white threads that were

speed continued

North, South, East, West.

quickly turning white without caring for whether they were

the people watching this started

“It's too fast!”

of concern was coming from the

this large amount!

looked

dead mana too

too large

dangerous for

be levels in growth, so

could tell the current situation after seeing Obante’s serious expression. She looked toward Mary and walked

then clearly see Mary

on

that resembled spiderwebs

body was

that was

‘She's overdoing it.’

quickly reached out toward Mary

get hurt. Mary had gone in and out of death quite

her hand stopped before it reached Mary’s

“…I… c-”

voice could be heard through

can do

was not her

was extremely shaky,

her

a different voice at that

what I said,

It was Cale's voice.

eyes after hearing Cale's

yourself to

remembered what

the dead mana flowing toward her like

that were tied up inside the trees were full of despair and

souls of the people who had faced unjust deaths even though

‘…I'm at my limit.’

veins that were feeling as if they would burst from

entire body was

hear a voice once she closed

keep running! Keep

was her

told her to run as she was dying from being poisoned

remember anything before

had was of her mother’s voice telling her to

finally felt like she could understand the

because it

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

Everything had been black.

even when she tried

down on her

not enjoy the beautiful

was different

show you the night sky!