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

was dead mana. Human, this must be

hearing Raon's weak

hand

It was slightly shaking.

because he was about to

the only

Billos’s hands

Han’s

the other was shaking in

minds started to

at that

“Sob.”

someone's

Han and

the group

put a soundproof

group before the knights in

you just

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

once even Billos started to

bastards that deserve

flinched and turned his head as his body

not

could clearly

no choice but to lower

was coming from somewhere lower than

“Soooob, sob.”

could hear someone

not very

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

Rex. He was the one who was

to survive,

world was shaking after seeing this underground area that

‘Whose bones are those?

my siblings? My neighbors?

Bang, bang!

His forehead started to bleed after being scratched

“Soooob, ugh!”

tears started

seeped into

legs to stand up. He slowly started

I'm going

dripped from his forehead with every

stare at the falling blood

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

not much light

enemies paid any attention to the falling drops

they probably could not

what to say

He could feel despair.

made Choi Han

heard Cale’s

“I’ll go with you.”

Cale's response.

Rex, started to descend the

to the

could see the skeletons

for a while,

his forehead had reached his eyes, making him look like

a Cat and run

you

still heard his noona

Rex started to speak.

going to kill

going to kill them

when, or how he would do it. He could

to not say

Imperial Prince…

the people he needed

tears had dried up

“No.”

voice he then heard coming from behind him. No, he

which was where he presumed Rex’s forehead

then bluntly, and

Imperial Prince

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

someone else’s voice coming

“Cale-nim.”

to Cale who slowly responded

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

Rex's eyes were full of

to Sir Rex. He then

look at the highest

‘The highest point?’

only been focused on

underground hall seemed to go up

such an area was located

they managed to not get caught because it

“…Huh?”

at a certain spot

was at the highest spot in this underground

stopped right beneath

was an area there that was sticking out like

terrace

as if the location was built just

the moment his eyes landed on that

was a scary voice that was a mix

“…Found you.”

see the people visible

and mages, as

than I

the group as the ancient

at

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

Imperial doctor that Billos pointed out was handing the person at the center a wine glass. Eruhaben looked at this and added

“It’s dead mana.”

glass was full of

and leisurely looking down

“…The Imperial Prince.”

started to

Imperial Prince Adin.

wheelchair, making the injury Choi Han left by his heart visible

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

appeared

“Human!”