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

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

after hearing Raon's weak

his left hand with his right

It was slightly shaking.

because he was about to

wasn’t the only

of Billos’s hands

Han’s hands were

while the

minds started to

at that

“Sob.”

someone's suppressed

and

the group at that

soundproof

before the knights in

you just hear

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

started to speak once even

that

turned his head

not

clearly imagine

had no choice

from somewhere lower than

“Soooob, sob.”

hear someone

was not very

someone who couldn’t help but cry after trying to

Cat, Rex. He was the one who

managed to

was shaking after seeing this underground area that he had

‘Whose bones are those?

skeletons of my

Bang, bang!

started to bleed after being

“Soooob, ugh!”

and tears started to

red fluid seeped into the ground

shaking legs to stand up. He slowly started to

going to go

was shaking and blood dripped from his forehead with

Han could only blankly stare at the falling

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

much light in this

any attention to the falling drops

they probably could not

know what to say about the sight in

He could feel despair.

made Choi Han think of his

Cale’s voice at that

“I’ll go with you.”

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

Rex, started to descend

underground to the lowest spot in

skeletons piled up into

have been dead for a while, as only

it in with his eyes. The blood from his forehead had reached his eyes, making him look like

into a Cat and

Youngest brother, you can

still heard his noona and

Rex started to speak.

to

going to kill

didn't know who, when, or how he would do it. He could not think about

himself to not say anything

Prince… The Tower

started to list the

had dried

“No.”

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

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

and honestly explained

Prince

to his senses after hearing the blunt and cold voice that

then heard someone else’s voice coming from behind

“Cale-nim.”

to Cale who

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

as Rex's eyes

to Sir Rex. He

Rex, look at

‘The highest point?’

only been focused on

seemed to go up

that such an area was located underneath the

managed to not get caught because it was so

“…Huh?”

a certain

highest

right

was sticking

was a terrace

just to look down at this pile

voice the moment his eyes landed

a scary voice that was a mix of both joy

“…Found you.”

could see the people visible

were heavily armed knights and mages,

than I

looked at the person at the center of the group as the ancient Dragon,

at

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

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

“It’s dead mana.”

glass was full of

and

“…The Imperial Prince.”

pupils started to

Imperial Prince Adin.

on a wheelchair, making the injury Choi Han

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

smile appeared on Cale's

“Human!”