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

mana. Human, this must be where they made the dead

blinked after hearing Raon's

left hand

It was slightly shaking.

he was

the

of Billos’s

Choi Han’s

shaking in disgust while the other was

minds started

at

“Sob.”

someone's

and

group

soundproof barrier around

group before the knights in the passage looked

the…? Did you just hear

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

once

bastards that deserve to

head

could not see the

could clearly imagine an

choice

coming from somewhere lower

“Soooob, sob.”

could hear

not very

after trying to hold himself back so much that he

was

managed to

like his whole world was shaking after seeing this

‘Whose bones are those?

of my

Bang, bang!

started to bleed after being scratched by the rough floor, but

“Soooob, ugh!”

and tears started to mix

red fluid seeped into

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

I'm going to

shaking and blood dripped from his forehead with

stare at

located at the entrance

not much light

any attention to

probably could not

what to say about the sight in front of

He could feel despair.

made Choi Han think

Han heard Cale’s voice at

“I’ll go with you.”

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

Rex, started to descend the

finally arrived underground to the

see the skeletons

have been dead for

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

into a Cat and run

brother, you can

heard his noona

Rex started to speak.

to kill

to kill

do it. He could not think about

himself to not

Imperial Prince… The Tower

to list the people he

had dried

“No.”

behind him. No, he flinched at the feeling of a soft cloth covering

blood, which was where he presumed

then bluntly, and honestly

Prince

blunt and cold voice that was different

then heard someone else’s voice

“Cale-nim.”

to Cale who slowly

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

was as Rex's eyes were full

Sir Rex.

Rex, look at the highest

‘The highest point?’

eyes that had only been focused on the

hall seemed to go up

unbelievable that such an area

not get caught because it was so

“…Huh?”

eyes stopped at a certain spot

at the highest spot in this underground

stopped right beneath the

an area there that was sticking out

terrace surrounded

was built just to look down at this pile

moment

was a mix

“…Found you.”

the people

were heavily armed knights and

weaker than I

of the group as the ancient Dragon, Eruhaben,

shouted at that

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

handing the person at the center a

“It’s dead mana.”

was full of black

that and leisurely looking down at the underground

“…The Imperial Prince.”

pupils started

Imperial Prince Adin.

shirtless and sitting on a wheelchair, making the injury Choi Han

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

appeared

“Human!”