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

was why Mary

kept

yourself to

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

making up her mind

Boom! Boom! Boom!

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

Boom! Boom!

large amount of dead mana inside the tree

Boom! Boom!

life of pain that would probably still continue even after she absorbed all

mixed together inside

it was impossible for only good things

Ooooooo-

his

to shake, no,

lowered his

to appear around Mary. The smoke surrounded Mary

however, the people around Cale could not focus

Ooooooo-

Oooooo-

Ooooooo-

of the

cries that started only around Mary were

“…What is going on?”

“What the…?”

around Section 7 all stopped what

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

Shhhhh.

tree

of the Dark Elves

way

He looked around.

the northern end

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

Mary trying

He turned his head.

toward the area around the palace where Cale and

was at

Ooooooo-

trees suddenly

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

to rustle

Mary

at the

changing colors as she absorbed the dead

It was turning white.

size of Mary’s palm had turned

The Indestructible Shield.

tree had changed when

It had turned white.

It had turned green.

It had turned beautiful.

The appearance had changed.

Cale was waiting.

for Mary to

the end of

Shhhhhhh-

the spring breeze

felt chills

‘It's changing.’

were turning white, starting from where Mary's hand was touching

“…Ah!”

out

was only

started to grow on the

started to

“…What the?”

Plop.

people dropped the

of the past battle were turning completely

It was beautiful.

and the warriors who were restoring things to normal raised their

them into white threads that were even brighter than

changing speed

North, South, East, West.

white without caring for whether they

watching

“It's too fast!”

voice of concern was coming from the Dark Elf Tasha. Obante

large amount!

quickly looked

dead

was absorbing too large of

dangerous

be levels in

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

Mary who was surrounded in black

hand that was on the tree trunk was

veins that resembled spiderwebs looked ready

entire body

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

‘She's overdoing it.’

quickly reached out toward Mary

and out of death quite often ever since

her hand stopped before it reached Mary’s

“…I… c-”

voice could be heard through

I can

not her mechanical

was a voice that was extremely shaky, but

her

heard a different voice at that

what

It was Cale's voice.

closed her eyes after hearing Cale's

hurt yourself to

what

the dead mana

the trees were full of despair

who had faced

‘…I'm at my limit.’

as if they would burst from the dead

entire body

could hear a voice once she closed her

running! Keep

was her

told her to run as she was dying from being poisoned by dead

did not remember anything before she was ten years

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

finally felt like she could understand the

was because it

desert at night when the sand had turned black. She

Everything had been black.

the sand even when she tried her best to remember her past. That

bit down on her

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

it was different

the night sky! The human will go with us