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

mana was painful and

Mary had chosen that

a voice kept echoing in

yourself to do

had grabbed onto her, as well as the silver shield of

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

Boom! Boom! Boom!

her heart beating wildly inside of her. She

Boom! Boom!

was cheering toward the large amount of

Boom! Boom!

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

were mixed

it was impossible for

Ooooooo-

lifted his head

started to shake, no, they started

his

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

however, the people around Cale could not focus

Ooooooo-

Oooooo-

Ooooooo-

of the trees started

that started only around Mary were stretching throughout

“…What is going on?”

“What the…?”

people around Section 7 all stopped what they

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

Shhhhh.

tree trunk was

of the Dark Elves asked

way

He looked around.

at the northern end

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

what is Mary trying

He turned his head.

the palace where Cale

at

Ooooooo-

suddenly

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

leaves started to rustle from the

Mary through

looking at the tree trunk

black trunk was changing colors as

It was turning white.

small area the size of Mary’s palm

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.

for Mary to show

end of that

Shhhhhhh-

the spring breeze

felt chills

‘It's changing.’

white, starting from where Mary's hand

“…Ah!”

out a

was only looking

leaves started to grow on the white tree trunks that she was

started

“…What the?”

Plop.

the Jungle people dropped the shovel in

black tree trunks that were the remains of the past battle were

It was beautiful.

and the warriors who were restoring things

threads covering the sky had disappeared, changing them

changing speed continued to

North, South, East, West.

for whether they were by the palace, the business district,

of the people watching this

“It's too fast!”

coming from the Dark Elf Tasha. Obante shouted after

large

quickly looked around

was absorbing dead mana too

was absorbing too large of an

was dangerous for

to be levels in growth,

serious expression.

then clearly see Mary who was surrounded

hand that was on the tree trunk was

resembled spiderwebs looked ready to

entire body

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

‘She's overdoing it.’

out toward Mary

and out of death quite often ever since she was young. She did not want to see Mary get

before

“…I… c-”

could be heard through the

I can

not her

a voice that was

her hand

different voice at that

remember what I said,

It was Cale's voice.

eyes after hearing Cale's

yourself

what he had

the dead mana flowing

tied up inside the trees were full of

of the people who had faced unjust deaths even though it was not the

‘…I'm at my limit.’

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

entire body was

hear a voice once she

running! Keep running without

her mother’s

had told her to run as she

before she was

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

could understand the reason for

was because it

had turned

Everything had been black.

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

down on her

that she could not enjoy the beautiful sky

was

night sky! The