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

“So let’s hurry on.”

care of the

“…Is this really necessary?”

the one who asked that

was a terrible frown on his face as he crawled on the

in a completely

that an average adult male could barely crawl through, so

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

rare to see Beacrox

his body and continued to frown. His white

in the central region of

it was where

three-story

to be the central headquarters in the past, however, the Mercenaries Guild purchased land inside Resting City about two hundred years

new central headquarters was a building built with marble that

crawling in

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown

Choi Han nor Beacrox could say

of you should shut

heard the ancient Dragon’s low

crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

Bud Illis who was crawling at the front of

He started to speak.

sorry. The HQ will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses magic

were magic circles throughout the

did not match the

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

“Enough, just keep moving.”

flinch before he started to quickly crawl once again. He said just one more thing

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

It was the truth.

quickly but stealthily made the Mercenary King forget about the unique nature of

heard Ron's voice at that moment.

Directory is located at the

felt that that

almost sounded like a

that Bud was dead if the Directory

Bud quickly shouted back.

of this tunnel,

King’s mage friend was currently stealthily entering

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

why we have been crawling for the

the

been

it tiring? Should I give you another apple pie? Human, we have already rested twice, but

“We can rest again!”

only one sweating

sweat became even worse after hearing the children averaging

leisurely flying around while On and Hong were easily walking

were tiny were just amazed by

will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses

was the only thing Bud

hurry up

started to crawl faster after seeing Cale make a comment instead of

held back a

His arms were shaking.

crawling for an hour. Cale was

had had gone

excessive concerns

about what Bud

created by the first Mercenary King. It was created when the Mercenaries Guild was small and weak. That was when everybody just considered mercenaries to be

in the

in that

thoroughly hidden by magic

the only passage to the

asked

is

King had smiled

the first

three-story wooden building did not have a path down

a secret area that stored the Directory, which

that area will explode if someone tries to infiltrate it using any

group was currently crawling through the

“F, finally!”

the Mercenary King’s excited

could faintly see some shining stones past

are the entrance! They are

time in an hour. He then heard Ron’s

warm and gentle

took a long time to get here. Mercenary King Bud,

oddly felt as if the hair on his back was starting

warm voice, but it felt

quickly head

Mercenary King quickly continued to crawl and

shining

on the stones disappearing as the

he touched the final

Boooooooom-

started

started to speak

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came to

Boom!

new entrance appeared with a loud

“Please follow me.”

Mercenary King crawled into the entrance before he

to turn the

heard a click and slowly started to

Flash. Flash. Flash.

turn

had crawled through a small tunnel in

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”