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

mana. Human, this must be where they

hearing Raon's weak

hand with

It was slightly shaking.

shaking because he was

wasn’t the

of Billos’s hands were

of Choi Han’s hands

the other was

minds started to

was at

“Sob.”

heard someone's

and Billos

group

soundproof barrier around

before the knights in the passage looked

you

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

once even

that

and turned his head as his body

not

could clearly imagine an

no choice but

sound was coming from somewhere

“Soooob, sob.”

hear

not very

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

Cat, Rex. He was

managed to survive,

his whole world was shaking after seeing this underground area that he had

‘Whose bones are those?

my siblings? My

Bang, bang!

head on the ground. His forehead started to bleed after being

“Soooob, ugh!”

started to mix

seeped into the ground

pushed off of his shaking legs to stand up. He

going to

voice was shaking and blood dripped from his forehead

Han could only blankly stare at the falling blood

located at the entrance of the

not much light in this

any attention

probably could not even

know what to say about the sight in front

He could feel despair.

Rex's sorrows and despair made Choi

Cale’s

“I’ll go with you.”

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

Cat, Rex, started to descend the

finally arrived underground to the lowest spot in the

see the skeletons piled

for a while, as only the

it in with his eyes. The blood from his forehead had

a Cat and

you can

still heard his noona and hyung's

Rex started to speak.

to

going to kill

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

control himself to not say anything right

Imperial Prince… The Tower

to list the people he

tears had dried up at some

“No.”

he then heard coming from behind him. No,

was pressing down on the floating blob of blood, which was where he presumed Rex’s forehead was located, with his

then bluntly, and

Imperial Prince is

cold voice that was different from the warm hand

heard someone else’s voice coming from

“Cale-nim.”

Han called out to Cale

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

Rex's eyes

to Sir Rex.

look at

‘The highest point?’

only been focused on the skeletons

seemed to go

an area was located underneath

not get caught because it was so

“…Huh?”

stopped at a certain spot as they went

the highest spot in

stopped right beneath the

an area there that was sticking out like a terrace

a terrace

built just to look down at

Rex heard Cale's voice the moment his

that was a mix

“…Found you.”

see the people visible

knights and mages, as

weaker than

looked at the person at the center of the group as the ancient Dragon, Eruhaben, calmly deducted the strength of

shouted at

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

was handing the person at the center a wine glass. Eruhaben looked

“It’s dead mana.”

was full

that and

“…The Imperial Prince.”

started to

Imperial Prince Adin.

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

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

appeared on Cale's

“Human!”