Trash of the Count's Family

Cale put down the gulping Cat Knight Sir Rex from his arms and started to walk.

Tap.

Cale walked down the dark entrance into the underground with only the sound of his steps being heard around him.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

This dark path had torches at equidistant intervals. There were some water drops falling from the ceiling that looked as rough as a cave.

Only the sound of the water drops filled this area.

There was a long straight path as soon as they arrived at the bottom of the stairs. It was wide enough for a carriage to travel through.

‘It really was a secret passage.’

Choi Han was in the front of the group looking around.

He started to frown.

He could smell the scent of death.

Corpses.

It was a terrible smell that he wished he did not know. It was the smell that he had smelled too many times in the Forest of Darkness and in Harris Village.

His gaze started to turn cold. …Human, this smell-

Raon stopped before telling Cale what it was. He tightly clenched his chubby front paws while his round face started to frown.

The front paws of the Cat that was walking down the passage were shaking.

He was used to this smell.

The same thing he smelled a long time ago when he had left his siblings without even saying goodbye in fear that he might be caught overwhelmed him now fifteen years later.

He was barely able to walk. Human! There are people up front!

Cale stopped walking after hearing Raon's warning.

Two knights and one alchemist.

There were two knights standing guard on either side of the wide passage. The alchemist was next to one of the knights reading a document.

Tap.

Cale tapped on Choi Han's shoulder.

Choi Han started to walk without responding back.

‘It’s fine if we catch the hunters, however, we will be quickly be found if we touch anybody within the Alchemists’ Bell Tower.

‘That is why we will not touch anybody and instead quietly go in and come back out.

‘That is the only way to successfully save the footage and give us time to spread it to the citizens of the Empire.’

Choi Han started to think as he recalled what Cale had said to him.

‘He chooses to take such a difficult path.’

Someone would eventually realize that they had infiltrated the tower, but wouldn’t they work faster and more efficiently if they just knocked everyone unconscious?

However, Choi Han could only move seriously as he was not making that decision.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

A strand of breeze blew by.

“Wow, the outside air really is warmer now that it is springtime.”

The knight holding the spear commented while the alchemist reading the document started to grumble.

“I'm just thankful its Spring. Do you know how hard it was in the Winter? All that cold air coming in from the outside, sigh.”

Cale walked past the knights and the alchemists quite leisurely while making sure to remember their faces. Human! I will remember these bastards’ faces! I will not let them survive! I won’t forgive anyone in the Alchemists’ Bell Tower! I promised Mary that we would destroy it together!

The six-year-old was constantly being loud, however, Cale looked around without any emotions visible on his face.

They soon came to the end of the passage.

A wide area appeared in front of them.

He suddenly heard the voice of the alchemist behind him.

“There will be no ventilation and this rotten smell will fill the area if we close the entrance. That's even worse than the Winter cold.”

‘…You son of a bitch.’

Cale started to frown.

It was an extremely wide and large underground hall.

There was also a path coming into it from the east, west, and south, in addition to the northern passage they had come through.

Cale closed his eyes. Human, I don't think I can look at this.

Cale could feel the round front paws that grabbed onto his back.

Raon was holding Cale's back.

Choi Han's hand was shaking with a sword in his hand.

They saw a staircase heading down as soon as they entered the hall.

He could not help but look down the stairs.

There were skeletons.

“Oo-!”

‘Ugh!’

Billos covered his mouth.

He was looking a few meters underneath the ledge they arrived at after entering this hall.

There was a mountain of skeletons.

He could see that these bones were wearing clothes that had not rotted away.

‘…These damn crazy bastards!’

Choi Han’s body started to shake.

‘How could people, how could people do such things?’

It was a large pile of corpses.

There were cylindrical containers located at many spots within that pile of corpses.

were full of a

Human, this must be where they

hearing Raon's weak

hand with

It was slightly shaking.

shaking because he was about to go crazy

wasn’t the only

of Billos’s

Han’s

disgust while the

minds started

was at that

“Sob.”

heard someone's suppressed

Han and Billos

covered the group

a soundproof barrier around

knights in

Did you

have heard wrong. We've heard so many people dying that we

to speak once even Billos

bastards that deserve

his head

not see

he could clearly

Billos still had no choice but

was coming from somewhere lower than

“Soooob, sob.”

could hear someone

not very

after trying to hold himself back so much that

He was the one

to survive,

was shaking after seeing this

‘Whose bones are those?

of my siblings? My neighbors?

Bang, bang!

the ground. His forehead started to bleed after being scratched by the rough floor,

“Soooob, ugh!”

tears started to mix

into the ground without

stand up. He slowly started to walk as he started to

going

and blood dripped from his forehead with

could only blankly stare at the

magic prevented the enemies located at the

was not much light

the enemies paid any attention to

could not even see

know what to say about the

He could feel despair.

Rex's sorrows and despair made Choi Han

heard Cale’s voice at

“I’ll go with you.”

Han also started to walk when he heard Cale's response. He slowly followed behind

Cat, Rex, started to descend

arrived underground to the lowest spot in the

could see the skeletons piled

to have been dead for a

his forehead had reached his eyes,

into a Cat and run

you can

heard his noona and hyung's

Rex started to speak.

to

going to kill

do

himself to not say anything

Imperial Prince… The Tower

to list the people he

dried up at

“No.”

he then heard coming from behind him. No, he flinched at the feeling

the floating blob of blood, which was where he presumed Rex’s forehead was located,

bluntly, and honestly explained to

Imperial Prince

his senses after hearing the blunt and cold voice that was different from the warm hand that was touching his

heard someone else’s

“Cale-nim.”

to

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

as Rex's eyes were full

to Sir Rex. He then whispered

at the

‘The highest point?’

had only been focused on the skeletons slowly headed

underground hall seemed

such an area was located underneath the

they managed to not

“…Huh?”

at a certain spot as they

was at the highest spot in this underground

eyes stopped right beneath the

that was sticking out like a terrace

was a terrace surrounded

if the location was built just to

voice the moment his eyes

a scary voice that was a mix

“…Found you.”

see the people

armed knights and mages,

weaker than

center of the group as the ancient Dragon,

at

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

person at the center a wine glass. Eruhaben

“It’s dead mana.”

glass was full

was a person drinking that and leisurely looking

“…The Imperial Prince.”

started

Imperial Prince Adin.

and sitting on a wheelchair, making the injury Choi Han left by his heart

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

thick smile appeared on Cale's

“Human!”