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 get

dead mana

Mary

kept echoing in

hurt yourself

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

had faced after making

Boom! Boom! Boom!

could feel her heart beating wildly inside of her. She

Boom! Boom!

large amount of dead mana inside

Boom! Boom!

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

emotions were mixed together inside

it was impossible for

Ooooooo-

his

tree trunks started to shake, no, they

his head

The smoke surrounded Mary as if it

however, the people around Cale could not focus

Ooooooo-

Oooooo-

Ooooooo-

of the trees

started only around Mary were stretching throughout Section

“…What is going on?”

“What the…?”

people around Section 7 all stopped what they

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

Shhhhh.

black tree trunk was

the Dark Elves asked

way here

He looked around.

northern

stepping on, as well as the small

what is Mary trying

He turned his head.

the area around the palace where Cale and

at

Ooooooo-

trees suddenly

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

started to rustle from

looked toward Mary through that

was looking at the tree trunk

black trunk was changing colors as she absorbed

It was turning white.

the size of Mary’s

The Indestructible Shield.

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.

was waiting for Mary to show

the end of that

Shhhhhhh-

moment the spring breeze stopped and the leaves stopped

felt chills

‘It's changing.’

trunks were turning white, starting

“…Ah!”

let out

was only

leaves started to grow on the white tree trunks that she

then started to

“…What the?”

Plop.

dropped the shovel in his

the remains of the past battle were turning

It was beautiful.

and the warriors who were restoring things to normal raised their heads with

black threads covering the sky had disappeared, changing them into white threads that

speed

North, South, East, West.

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

the people watching this

“It's too fast!”

coming from the Dark

this large amount! It’s

looked

dead mana

too large of

dangerous for

levels in growth,

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

see Mary who

was on the

veins that resembled spiderwebs looked ready to

entire body

face that was covered by the hood. Mary was sweating

‘She's overdoing it.’

toward Mary and

out of death quite often ever since she was young. She did

stopped before it reached

“…I… c-”

voice could be heard through the

I can do

was not her mechanical

was a voice that was

her

heard a different voice

what

It was Cale's voice.

closed her eyes after hearing

hurt yourself

remembered what he had

could feel the dead mana flowing toward her like

that were tied up inside the trees were full

people who had faced unjust

‘…I'm at my limit.’

her veins that were feeling as if they would burst

entire body

could hear a voice

running! Keep

her

her to run as she

remember anything before she was ten years

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

felt like she could understand

it was in the

when the sand had turned black. She had also seen the black

Everything had been black.

and the feeling of the sand even when she tried her best to remember her past. That was

bit down on

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

it was different

Mary! I will show you the night sky! The human will