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.

Mercenary King

“So let’s hurry on.”

take care of the

“…Is this really necessary?”

was the one

frown on his

a completely

male could barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s meticulously combed hair was being

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

see Beacrox sighing

the dust on his body and continued to frown. His white gloves

City, a free city located in

was built in the past, and it was where the building

was an old three-story wooden building in the outskirts

building used to be the central headquarters in the past, however, the Mercenaries Guild purchased land inside Resting City about two hundred years ago and built a new

a building built with marble that was famous

who was crawling in front

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown even

Han nor

you should shut

they heard the ancient Dragon’s low

crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

at the front of the

He started to speak.

The HQ will be alerted if an unauthorized

were magic circles throughout the

did not match

was a secret passage that only the Mercenaries Guild’s top leaders knew about. They made sure that no unauthorized person could use magic in the tunnel and the area at the

“Enough, just keep moving.”

Bud flinch before he started to quickly crawl once

advance, but I didn't remember it until we got here. Ha. Ha,

It was the truth.

made the Mercenary King forget about

at that moment. It was a decently warm

is located at the end of

Bud felt that

sounded like a

Ron was saying that Bud

Bud quickly shouted back.

end of this tunnel, patriarch-nim! That is why I am leading the

King’s mage friend was currently stealthily entering the central

with Cale's group alone, couldn’t help but shake

we have

was the

been crawling

Is it tiring? Should I give you another apple pie? Human, we have already rested twice, but we can rest again if you’re

“We can rest again!”

the only one sweating

cold sweat became even worse after hearing the children averaging

wings and leisurely flying around while On and

children averaging nine-years-old who were tiny were just amazed by this

will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses ancient

the only thing

hurry up and

crawl faster after seeing Cale make a

back a chuckle at Bud's

His arms were shaking.

rested twice while crawling for

the amount of muscles he had had

the excessive concerns

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

Mercenaries Guild was small and weak. That was when everybody just considered mercenaries

small house built in the forest outside Resting

in

thoroughly hidden by magic circles created by the

is the only passage to

asked in

exactly is

Mercenary King had smiled

first

building did not have a path down to the

the Directory, which could be considered the Mercenaries Guild’s most important pieces

if someone tries to

reason Cale's group was

“F, finally!”

could hear the Mercenary

see some shining

stones are the entrance!

for the first time in an hour. He

a warm

long time to get here. Mercenary King Bud,

oddly felt as if the hair on his

warm voice, but it

let’s quickly head over

to crawl and

touched the shining

the stones disappearing as

he touched the final

Boooooooom-

tunnel started

speak in an excited

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came

Boom!

new entrance appeared with a loud

“Please follow me.”

King crawled into the entrance before he followed behind

to turn the

click and slowly started to see

Flash. Flash. Flash.

turn on one

had crawled through a small tunnel in order to get

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”