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.

containers were full of a

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

after hearing Raon's

hand with his

It was slightly shaking.

was

the

Billos’s

of Choi Han’s

disgust while the other

started

was at that

“Sob.”

heard someone's suppressed

and

group

put a soundproof barrier around

before the knights in the

the…? Did you just hear

so many people dying that

speak once even Billos started to

bastards that deserve

flinched and turned his head as his body started to

could not see

he could clearly imagine an angry

still had no choice but to lower

from somewhere lower

“Soooob, sob.”

could hear someone

not very

cry after trying to hold himself back so much that he was twisting in

Cat, Rex. He was the

to survive,

was shaking after seeing this underground area that he had never

‘Whose bones are those?

skeletons of my siblings? My

Bang, bang!

bleed after being scratched

“Soooob, ugh!”

started to

seeped into the ground without

pushed off of his shaking legs to stand up.

going to go

voice was shaking and blood dripped from

only blankly stare

prevented the enemies located at

not much light

enemies paid any attention to the falling

could not

to say about the

He could feel despair.

and despair made Choi Han

heard Cale’s voice

“I’ll go with you.”

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

started to descend

finally arrived underground to the lowest spot

skeletons piled up

seemed to have been dead for a while, as

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

into a Cat and run

brother, you can

heard his noona

Rex started to speak.

to kill

to

or how he would do it. He

control himself to not

Imperial Prince…

the people he needed

dried up at some

“No.”

coming from behind him. No, he

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

and

Imperial Prince is

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

heard someone else’s voice

“Cale-nim.”

to Cale who

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

Rex's eyes

Rex. He then whispered in Rex’s

Rex, look at the highest

‘The highest point?’

focused on the

underground hall seemed to go

was almost unbelievable that such an area was located

managed to not get caught because it was so deep

“…Huh?”

eyes stopped at a certain spot as they

was at the highest spot in this

right beneath the

there that was sticking out like a terrace to view a

a terrace surrounded by

was as if the location was built just to look down at this pile

Rex heard Cale's voice the moment his eyes landed on

scary voice that was a mix of

“…Found you.”

see the people visible inside the

and mages, as well as some

weaker than I

group as the ancient Dragon, Eruhaben, calmly deducted the strength of

at

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

out was handing the person at the center a wine glass. Eruhaben looked at this and added

“It’s dead mana.”

wine glass was full of

a person drinking that and leisurely looking down at

“…The Imperial Prince.”

started to

Imperial Prince Adin.

making the injury Choi Han left

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

thick smile appeared on Cale's

“Human!”