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.

full of a black

Human, this must be where they made the dead

after hearing Raon's

his left hand

It was slightly shaking.

he was about to go crazy in

wasn’t the

of Billos’s hands were

Han’s hands

while the other

minds started

at that

“Sob.”

someone's

Han and Billos

covered the group at

a soundproof barrier

the knights in the passage looked behind

the…? Did you just hear

wrong. We've heard so many people dying that

speak once even Billos started to

that deserve to

flinched and turned his head

could not

he could clearly

still had no choice

was coming from somewhere

“Soooob, sob.”

hear someone

was not very

to hold himself back so much that he

was the one

to survive,

world was shaking after seeing this underground area that he had never clearly

‘Whose bones are those?

of my siblings? My

Bang, bang!

slammed his head on the ground. His forehead started to bleed after being scratched by the rough floor, but Rex

“Soooob, ugh!”

and tears started

fluid seeped into the

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

I'm going

was shaking and blood dripped from his forehead with every

stare

soundproof barrier magic prevented the enemies located at the entrance of the passage from

much light in this

any attention to the

could not even see

didn’t know what to say about

He could feel despair.

despair made Choi Han think

heard Cale’s voice

“I’ll go with you.”

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

started

arrived underground to the lowest spot in

could see the skeletons piled

to have been dead for a while, as only the

all of it in with his eyes. The blood from his forehead had reached his eyes, making him look like he was crying

into a Cat and run

you can do

heard his noona and hyung's

Rex started to speak.

to

going to kill them

do it. He could not think about anything

to not say anything right

Prince… The Tower

the people he needed to

tears had dried

“No.”

flinched at the voice he then heard coming from behind him. No, he flinched at the feeling of a soft

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

then bluntly, and honestly explained to

Prince is

blunt and cold voice that was

then heard someone else’s voice

“Cale-nim.”

to Cale who

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

as Rex's eyes

to Sir Rex. He then whispered in Rex’s

at the

‘The highest point?’

focused on the skeletons

hall seemed

was almost unbelievable that such an area was located

to not

“…Huh?”

eyes stopped at a certain spot as they

highest spot in this underground

right

that was sticking

a terrace surrounded

was built just to look

Cale's voice the moment his eyes landed on that

voice that was a

“…Found you.”

people visible inside

and

weaker than I

the center of the group as the

shouted at that

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

doctor that Billos pointed out was handing the person at the center a wine glass. Eruhaben looked at

“It’s dead mana.”

was full

person drinking that and leisurely looking down at the

“…The Imperial Prince.”

pupils started

Imperial Prince Adin.

a wheelchair, making the injury Choi Han

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

smile appeared on

“Human!”