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

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

blinked after hearing Raon's weak

his left hand with

It was slightly shaking.

shaking because he was about to go crazy

wasn’t the only

Billos’s

Han’s

was shaking in disgust while the other was shaking in

started to

was at that

“Sob.”

heard someone's suppressed

Han and Billos

the group at that

a soundproof barrier

the knights in the passage

Did you just

so many people dying that we think we hear moaning all the time

to speak once

bastards that

flinched and turned his head as his body started to

could not see the

could clearly imagine

still had no choice but

sound was coming from somewhere

“Soooob, sob.”

could hear someone

not

was someone who couldn’t help but cry after trying to hold himself back so much that

He was the

managed to

after seeing

‘Whose bones are those?

my

Bang, bang!

bleed after being scratched by the rough floor, but Rex did not

“Soooob, ugh!”

and tears started

into the ground without

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

I'm going

and blood dripped from his forehead with every step he

only blankly stare at the falling

enemies located at the entrance

was not much light in

any attention to the falling

they probably could

didn’t know what to say about the sight

He could feel despair.

Rex's sorrows and despair made Choi Han

heard Cale’s voice at

“I’ll go with you.”

walk when he heard Cale's response. He

started

underground to the lowest

skeletons piled up into

dead for

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

Cat and run

brother, you can

his noona

Rex started to speak.

to kill

to kill

didn't know who, when, or how he would do

himself to not say

Imperial Prince… The Tower

to list the

tears had dried up at some

“No.”

him. No,

which

bluntly, and honestly explained to

Imperial Prince

to his senses after hearing the blunt and cold voice that was different from the warm hand

heard someone else’s voice coming from behind

“Cale-nim.”

out to Cale who

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

as Rex's eyes were full

down next to Sir Rex.

Rex, look at

‘The highest point?’

had only been focused on the skeletons slowly headed

seemed to go up

almost unbelievable that such an area was

he also thought that they managed to not get caught because it was so

“…Huh?”

at a certain spot as

highest spot

right beneath the

an area there that was sticking

terrace surrounded

if the location was built just to look down

voice the moment his eyes landed on that

scary voice that was

“…Found you.”

people

armed knights and mages,

weaker than I

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

at that

“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.”

glass was

a person drinking that and leisurely

“…The Imperial Prince.”

pupils started to

Imperial Prince Adin.

was shirtless and sitting on a wheelchair, making the injury Choi Han left by his heart visible to

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

appeared

“Human!”