Trash of the Count's Family

Drip. Drip.

Black liquid continued to drip from the temple's ceiling.

Crackle. Crackle.

On the other hand, thunderbolts were slowly gathering and getting stronger on top of Cale’s hand. …A sea of fire!

He could hear the cheapskate’s excited voice.

He heard the voices of the Wind Elementals at the same time.

‘The dead mana is starting to flow out faster! Soon it will go boom! Boom! It will explode!’

‘We are at our limits! Lasting a whole week was already us giving it our best!’

‘This is bad! This is very bad!’

The dead mana that had been dripping drop by drop was starting to flow faster and was now falling as a small stream.

Cale unintentionally shared his feelings.

“…It is much louder than I expected.”

‘Wow! I think he really can hear us! He said we were loud!’

‘We are kind of loud! Right? Sorry. These guys are always like this.’

‘Kahahaha! Let’s make it even louder for him! It's been a while since a human was able to hear us!’

‘…Voice…can hear it… A friend… A friend…is someone who… Listens to their friends’ voices……’

“Haaaa.”

Cale started to frown.

However, his eyes were quickly looking around at his surroundings.

He looked toward where the altar had stood as well as the path that connected to the exit.

That path was already half-submerged in dead mana.

Crumble. Crumble.

The black marble started to fall apart.

‘It's breaking! Everything is going to be destroyed! Sob, it is so sad! Everybody is going to die, what are we going to do?!’

‘The people on that island that smells like alcohol will all die. So will the fish! And the plants! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! The poor fish! Waaaaaaaaah!’

“…This is driving me nuts.”

Some of the Wind Elementals started to cry.

Their loudness was no joke.

Cale looked at the top's whip in his hand even during this urgent situation.

‘Did I pick up something useless? Forget strong allies, I just feel like I have more baggage now.’

Cale’s expression slowly changed back to his stoic expression.

He heard the thief’s voice at that moment. …Ahem, hem! You won't hear the voices of the Wind Elementals if you let go of the top's whip!

The thief awkwardly added on. Let’s not destroy it.

‘Hooo.’

Cale looked down at the whip in his hand.

He opened his mouth to speak.

"Shall I break it?”

‘Gasp!’

‘Gasp! H, he said he’s going to break it!’

‘Maybe we were too loud!’

‘Children, this is why I told you to be quiet.’

‘D, don't break it! I want to chat with humans!’

‘Hooo.’

The corners of Cale’s lips twisted up.

The Wind Elementals seemed to want to prevent a situation where they could no longer talk to Cale.

However, he didn’t know the reason why. Cale, these Elementals will be reliable allies for you!

‘Allies?’

Cale started to smile. He then put on a warm expression.

“Hey Wind Elementals, you guys were the ones who protected me here for the past week, right? Thank you.”

A bright smile similar to the one Alberu Crossman would have when speaking to the nobles was on Cale's face.

‘……Uh, yeah! It wasn’t hard though! Sure thing, no big deal!’

‘Wow! He said thank you! He said thank you to us!’

‘I'm relieved… It doesn’t look like he’s going to break the whip. Anyway, quiet down a bit!’

It was at that moment.

Crack.

Crack, crack!

A large crack appeared on the temple ceiling.

‘Gasp! There’s a hole in the ceiling!’

He could hear the Elementals screaming.

Cale heard an odd noise at the same time.

Oooooooong- ooooooong-

The temple was shaking. Cale could feel the area shaking more than before. That gave him the confirmation he needed.

‘It's going to break soon.

The black mountain will explode.

This dead mana storage facility will explode.’

The temple shook once again as if to prove that this was indeed the case. The Wind Elementals started to get even more exaggerated.

‘What do we do?! We don’t know how to purify dead mana!’

‘…I'm so sad. Sooooob.’

Some of the Elementals quietly started to look toward a person.

It was the only living person on Wind Island.

Cale Henituse.

He was staring at the hole in the ceiling.

“…Wow.”

The marble had cracked and fallen off of the temple ceiling.

On top of that was transparent glass.

Cale could see inside the glass.

was filled with dead mana. It seemed to be an endless dead mana lake.

are we

Cale asked the Elementals.

the center of

the mana storage facility. It is the lowest and

Cale started to speak.

“How wonderful.”

had said in the past. He

when he

regain its original powers in order for me to

more to a free wind's power than just

when it is with someone else rather than when it is

Wind and fire.

Cale started to speak.

will start purifying

Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-

around Cale. He

wants to go with

was blowing inside

did not find this place to be calm

‘Me, me!’

to do it! I want

you

We no longer have to worry about

Elementals started

‘De! Stroy!’

all of the

Crackle, crackle.

his body

wind for

gently asked the

Wind Elementals protected this place, but they also killed all living beings without remorse with their wind blades

just good and

cruel side to them as they were a part of

“Wind blade.”

made

that to

gently asking them to slash

covered in a wind barrier

Craaaaaack!

and started to slash toward the dead mana on the other side of the glass in his

Clang!

The glass broke apart.

liquid dead mana started

to speak at

“Shoot up.”

Shhhhhhh-

wind sound

as the entire area

up and pierced through that

had been seven days since Cale

and the sun was in

“…Shit.”

them on. He then took out the greatsword from the scabbard

Illis, has something like

Bud flinched at Ron Molan's gaze before

this myself nor in

waiting outside Wind Island for

the deck did not look very good. His gaze was fixated on Wind Island, one of the Eastern continent’s

Tap.

came up to the deck at

It was Choi Han.

wind has become

currently 10

two hours before their set time to

had decreased for

whirlwinds around Wind

this is Wind

close friend mage Glenn, the only survivor of the

“How terrible.”

island became more and more visible

was fitting to be

time to pay

and landed right in front of Mercenary King

‘…A Dragon.’

Bud. His eyes that had already turned to the round eyes of a reptile were staring at

you said that is just land that was poisoned

“…Excuse me?”

started to frown after seeing

“Eruhaben-nim?”

the ancient Dragon.

“Raon!”

A small black dot that was in the sky flew down quickly and started

“I know!”

kicked off the deck

surrounded him as soon as he

who was watching Choi Han heard

Ooooooo-

the sound

surrounding Wind Island had disappeared, leaving

heard

Oooooooong- ooooooong-

toward the black island that

The island was shaking.

“It's crying!”

Ron looked toward Raon.

could see Raon putting

from

Who is crying? Is it

many questions as he heard the ancient Dragon’s low

just poisoned by dead

had not known because it was

been guarded by strong winds

the presence that became more noticeable as the

feel it were Raon, Choi Han,

ancient Dragon’s finger pointed to the

mountain. There is a significant amount of dead mana inside that

Ron's expression changed.

that island, no, that mountain is shaking right now. It is shaking

quietly standing there,

is in a

responded to his

“Shit.”

flight magic on him. He then cast flight magic on himself

even faster than

approaching the black island

were others who

“Raon.”

will

himself with a silver shield while charging toward the black

Ooooooo-

stronger once he got to

ground looked ready to crack and have something shoot out at any moment. Choi

out because he is trying to get rid of the dead mana in

about how Cale had purified the golems and black despair during the Whipper

had the power to purify

had happened to

Han clearly remembered that

had fainted after

because he ran out of

“…He’s a total idiot!”

“So frustrating!”

averaging nine-years-old

each other very well

Oooooooong- ooooooong-

rumbling was too

who had