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 a

dead mana. Human, this must be where they made

after hearing Raon's

left hand with his

It was slightly shaking.

shaking because he was about to go crazy in

the

of Billos’s hands

Choi Han’s hands

disgust while the other was shaking in

minds started

at that

“Sob.”

heard someone's suppressed

and Billos

covered the group at

soundproof

the knights in the

you just

many people dying that we think we hear moaning

to speak once

that deserve to

flinched and turned his head as his body

could not see the

he could clearly imagine an

still had no choice but to

from somewhere

“Soooob, sob.”

could hear someone

was not

trying to hold

Cat, Rex. He was the one who

to survive,

like his whole world was shaking after seeing

‘Whose bones are those?

those the skeletons of my

Bang, bang!

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

“Soooob, ugh!”

tears started

red fluid seeped into the

of his shaking legs to stand up. He

I'm going

blood dripped from his forehead with every

blankly stare at the

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

much

of the enemies paid any attention to the falling

they probably could not even

say about

He could feel despair.

and despair made Choi Han think

Cale’s voice

“I’ll go with you.”

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

Cat, Rex, started to descend the

to the

see the skeletons piled up

been dead for a while, as

from his forehead had reached his eyes, making him look like

into a Cat and

Youngest brother, you can do

heard his noona

Rex started to speak.

to kill

to kill them

how he would do it. He could not think about

he couldn’t control himself to not say anything

Prince… The Tower

the

dried up at some

“No.”

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

of blood, which was where he

and honestly

Prince is

returned to his senses after hearing the blunt and cold voice that was different

heard someone else’s voice coming from

“Cale-nim.”

to Cale who

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

Rex's eyes were full of

next to Sir Rex. He

at the

‘The highest point?’

been focused

hall seemed to go up

such an area was located

not get caught because it was so deep

“…Huh?”

certain spot as

was at the highest spot in

eyes stopped right beneath

that was sticking out

terrace surrounded

was as if the location was built just to

moment his

was a mix of

“…Found you.”

the people visible inside the

and mages,

than

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

at that

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

Imperial doctor that Billos pointed out was handing the person at the center a

“It’s dead mana.”

was full of

was a person drinking that and leisurely looking

“…The Imperial Prince.”

started

Imperial Prince Adin.

the injury Choi

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

thick smile appeared on Cale's

“Human!”