Trash of the Count's Family

“…The Directory?”

“Yes.”

Bud smiled brightly at Cale's short answer.

“Then let’s sneak over to the Mercenaries Guild!”

Cale observed the smiling Bud and pointed out his choice of words.

“Sneak?”

‘He doesn’t want to openly go there?’

“Yes. Sneak. We need to go to the city with the Mercenaries Guild’s central headquarters.”

The Mercenaries Guild's central headquarters.

That was enough for Cale to understand what the Mercenary King was thinking about.

“…Arm’s people might be watching the Mercenaries Guild.”

“Correct.”

Bud pointed toward Cale.

“And in my opinion, now anyone above the middle-grade rank in Arm probably knows what you look like.”

Cale had fought with the White Star already and had a high chance of fighting again in the future.

Maybe Arm’s lowest ranking members might not know about him, but the middle-grade and higher members were most likely informed of Cale's appearance for strategic reasons.

“And I'm pretty certain that there are middle-grade ranking members around the central headquarters since they are desperately trying to find me as well.”

Bud did not need to explain any further.

Cale nodded his head in agreement.

The White Star was currently trying to use Arm to gobble up the Mercenaries Guild and kill the Mercenary King.

That was why the Mercenary King was moving around in the name of investigating.

Cale started to speak.

“The last information they have about you is that you arrived at our inn, so it would cause quite the stir if you suddenly appeared in the central headquarters. That’s bad for you and for our inn.”

“Correct. That is why I am saying we should quietly go there.”

Cale nodded his head. He then looked somewhere else.

“Gramps! Are you better now?”

Raon was flying around Eruhaben and inspecting. Eruhaben snorted at Raon before starting to speak with an arrogant expression.

“Little kid, why are you saying something so obvious?”

Eruhaben looked fine on the outside. Actually, he looked very healthy.

The children averaging nine-years-old finally started to smile.

“I'm relieved.”

Ron Molan commented to Eruhaben in a gentle tone. Beacrox bowed once he made eye contact with Eruhaben, while Choi Han smiled back.

This made Eruhaben feel very odd.

He had never had anybody worry about his lifespan or his health during his life.

He couldn’t understand why such a thing was happening in his final year and he was unintentionally getting a lot of concern from those around him.

He didn’t know how to feel in such a situation.

“Goldie gramps! I will build you a house later! Just wait! I'm going to visit you every day! I've gathered a lot of money!”

“Me too!”

Raon and Hong were walking in circles around Eruhaben with excitement. On was slowly roaming around Eruhaben as well.

Eruhaben observed the children for a bit before turning his head. He ended up making eye contact with Cale.

Cale’s gaze looked the same as it always did, however, the ancient Dragon found it difficult to keep looking at him for some reason.

However, he started to smile as he knew that one could not avoid something forever. Cale then started to frown and turned away.

Cale ended up making eye contact with the Mercenary King again as a result.

“What? What is it?”

Cale bluntly asked the Mercenary King who was observing him. Bud approached Cale and asked in a quiet voice that others would not be able to hear.

“The ancient Dragon-nim did use the ancient artifact, right?”

Cale looked at Bud's pupils behind the glasses. Bud started to smile in response and tried to explain himself.

“No, I was just wondering why my friend might have suddenly wanted to enter the training ground alone. That was why I asked one of the many potential situations I had considered.”

Bud's green eyes behind the glasses started to curl up as he smiled.

A similarly smiling Cale was visible through the reflection on Bud’s glasses.

Cale whispered quietly as well. However, his voice was not very quiet.

Other than the children averaging nine-years-old who were still happily chatting away by Eruhaben’s side, the others had moved over toward Cale, who was a bit away from them.

Cale spoke in a quiet tone that was loud enough for experts like Choi Han, Ron, and Beacrox to hear.

“There is no longer an ancient artifact for anyone but Eruhaben-nim to use anymore.”

This was technically the truth.

Although the ancient artifact was in Cale’s possession, he was saving it for Eruhaben.

Cale could see Choi Han who was looking at him after hearing what he just said.

He could see Ron and Beacrox nodding their heads as well.

Cale had suddenly entered the training ground alone. Everyone was curious about what Cale and Eruhaben had done inside there.

They probably had their own hypothesis about what happened.

back toward the Mercenary King

“So let’s hurry on.”

needed to take care of the

“…Is this really necessary?”

one who

terrible frown on his face as

were in a

a tiny tunnel that an average adult male could barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s meticulously combed hair was being covered in

thought we were heading toward the marble buildings because you said we were going

Beacrox sighing and grumbling like

the dust on his body and continued to frown.

free city located in the central region of the Eastern

of the Mercenaries Guild was built in the past, and it was where the building that was now being used as

Mercenaries Guild base was an old three-story wooden building in the outskirts of

inside Resting City about two hundred years ago and built

was a building built with marble that

was crawling in front of

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown

Han nor Beacrox

of you should

they heard the

crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

was crawling at the front of the group was

He started to speak.

if an unauthorized person uses magic

were magic circles throughout the

did

sure that no unauthorized person could use magic in the tunnel and the

“Enough, just keep moving.”

before he started to quickly crawl once

in advance, but I didn't

It was the truth.

but stealthily made the Mercenary King forget about the

moment. It was a decently

located at the end of this tunnel,

that

almost sounded like a

Bud was dead

Bud quickly shouted back.

Directory is at the end of this tunnel, patriarch-nim!

friend was currently stealthily entering

was left with Cale's group alone, couldn’t help but shake after hearing

why we have been crawling for the

the

been crawling

I give you another apple pie? Human, we have already rested twice,

“We can rest again!”

one

cold sweat became even worse after

and Hong were easily walking in the tunnel in their

averaging nine-years-old who were tiny were just

be alerted if

only thing

hurry up and

to crawl faster after seeing Cale make a comment

held back a chuckle at Bud's

His arms were shaking.

they had rested twice while crawling for an

if the amount of muscles he had had gone

the excessive concerns

He was thinking about what Bud Illis had said before they came into this

Mercenary King. It was created when the Mercenaries Guild was small and weak. That was

small house built in the forest

was in that house’s

thoroughly hidden by magic circles created

tunnel is the only passage

asked

exactly is the Directory

King had smiled before responding

the first Mercenaries Guild’s

not have a path down to the

the Directory, which could be considered the Mercenaries Guild’s

will explode if someone tries to infiltrate it using any type

group was currently

“F, finally!”

hear the Mercenary

could faintly see some shining stones past

entrance! They are on the door!

for the first time in

was a warm

my, it sure took a long time to get here. Mercenary King

hair on his back

voice, but it felt

let’s quickly head over

to crawl and finally arrived at the end

touched the shining stones here

could see the light on the stones

he touched

Boooooooom-

tunnel started

started to speak in an excited

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came

Boom!

new entrance appeared with

“Please follow me.”

crawled into the entrance before he followed

turn

heard a click and slowly started to see a

Flash. Flash. Flash.

to turn on

had crawled through a small tunnel in order to get

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”