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 a black

Human, this must be where they made the dead

after hearing Raon's

left hand

It was slightly shaking.

shaking because he was about to go

wasn’t the only

Billos’s

Choi Han’s

while the other was shaking

started to

was at

“Sob.”

someone's

and Billos

group at

put a soundproof

knights in the passage

the…? Did you just

heard wrong. We've heard so many people dying that we think we hear moaning all the

speak once even Billos started

that deserve to

flinched and turned his head as his body started

not see the

clearly

Billos still had no choice but

from somewhere

“Soooob, sob.”

could hear someone

was not very

help but cry after trying to

Rex. He was the

to survive,

felt like his whole world was shaking after seeing this underground

‘Whose bones are those?

skeletons of my siblings? My

Bang, bang!

bleed after being scratched by the

“Soooob, ugh!”

and tears started to

seeped into the ground

stand up. He slowly

going to go

shaking and blood dripped from his forehead

Han could only blankly stare at the

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

not much light

any attention

they probably could not even

what to say

He could feel despair.

despair made Choi

Cale’s voice at that

“I’ll go with you.”

to walk when he heard Cale's

started to

underground to the lowest spot in

skeletons piled up into

to have been dead for a while, as only the skeletons

took all of it in with his eyes. The blood from his

Cat and run

you can do

heard his

Rex started to speak.

to

to

he would do it. He could not think

couldn’t control himself to not say anything right

Prince…

list the people he needed

dried

“No.”

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

of blood, which was where he presumed Rex’s forehead was located,

and honestly explained to

Imperial Prince is

voice that

heard someone else’s voice coming from behind

“Cale-nim.”

called out to Cale who slowly responded

“I know.”

‘What does he know?’

was as Rex's eyes were

next to Sir Rex. He

Rex, look at the highest

‘The highest point?’

been focused on the

seemed to

unbelievable that such an

managed to not

“…Huh?”

at a certain spot as they went

at the highest

stopped right beneath the

an area there that was sticking out like a terrace

a terrace surrounded by

just to look down at this pile of

moment his

a scary voice that was a

“…Found you.”

people visible

were heavily armed knights and

weaker than I

looked at the person at the center of the group as the

shouted at that

“It's the Imperial doctor!”

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

“It’s dead mana.”

glass was full of

that and leisurely looking down at the underground

“…The Imperial Prince.”

started

Imperial Prince Adin.

sitting on a wheelchair, making the injury Choi

‘He’s drinking dead mana?’

thick smile appeared

“Human!”