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

with dead mana was

Mary

kept

yourself to do

onto her, as well as the silver shield of

were all things that she had faced after making up her mind to

Boom! Boom! Boom!

her heart beating wildly inside of her. She

Boom! Boom!

amount of

Boom! Boom!

afraid of the necromancer's life of pain that would probably

emotions were mixed together inside

knew that it was impossible for only good

Ooooooo-

his

started to shake, no, they started to

his

smoke surrounded Mary as if it was a

people

Ooooooo-

Oooooo-

Ooooooo-

the trees started to

started only around Mary were stretching throughout

“…What is going on?”

“What the…?”

people around Section 7 all stopped what they

been telling people to move away from the black trees stopped walking as

Shhhhh.

black tree trunk

the Dark Elves asked

the way

He looked around.

northern end of

stepping on, as well as the small

Mary trying

He turned his head.

toward the area around the palace where Cale

at that

Ooooooo-

suddenly

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

to rustle from

looked toward Mary through that

he was looking at

was changing colors as she absorbed the dead mana from

It was turning white.

size of Mary’s

The Indestructible Shield.

when Cale had received the

It had turned white.

It had turned green.

It had turned beautiful.

The appearance had changed.

Cale was waiting.

Mary to show

the end

Shhhhhhh-

the spring breeze stopped and the

felt chills

‘It's changing.’

white, starting from where Mary's hand was

“…Ah!”

let out

Cale was only looking

grow on the white tree trunks that

started to

“…What the?”

Plop.

Jungle people dropped the

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

It was beautiful.

the warriors who were restoring things to normal

covering the sky had disappeared, changing them into white threads that were even brighter than

speed continued to

North, South, East, West.

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

of the people watching this

“It's too fast!”

concern was coming from the Dark Elf

large amount!

looked around

dead mana too

absorbing too

was dangerous

bound to be levels in growth,

expression. She looked toward Mary and

then clearly see Mary who

that was on the tree

black veins that resembled

body was

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

‘She's overdoing it.’

out toward Mary and

quite often ever since she

her hand stopped before

“…I… c-”

voice could be heard through

I can do

was not her

was a voice that was extremely shaky, but full of

her

heard a different voice at that

remember what I said,

It was Cale's voice.

her eyes

yourself to do

remembered what he had

feel the dead mana flowing toward her like

were tied up inside the trees

had faced unjust

‘…I'm at my limit.’

that were feeling as if they

entire body was

could hear a voice once she

Keep running

her

she

not remember anything before she was ten

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

she could understand the reason for

it was in the

desert at night when the sand had turned black. She had also seen the black

Everything had been black.

the feeling of the sand even when she tried her best to

bit down

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

was different

night sky! The human will go with us