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

“So let’s hurry on.”

needed to take care of the tasks at hand as quickly as

“…Is this really necessary?”

one who asked

terrible frown on his face as he crawled on

in a completely dark

could barely crawl

heading toward the marble buildings because you said we were going

was rare to see Beacrox sighing and grumbling like

body and continued to frown.

free city located in the central region

past, and it was where the building that was now being used as

an old three-story wooden building in

Resting City about two hundred years ago

was a building built with marble that was famous

who was crawling in front of Beacrox, made a

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown

nor Beacrox could

you should

because they heard the ancient Dragon’s

was crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

King Bud Illis who was crawling at the front of the group was starting to cold

He started to speak.

sorry. The HQ will be alerted if an

magic circles throughout the

circles did not match

knew about. They made sure that no unauthorized person could use magic

“Enough, just keep moving.”

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

I

It was the truth.

the

heard Ron's voice at that moment. It was a decently warm

at the end of this

that that

almost sounded

sounded as if Ron was saying that Bud was dead if the

Bud quickly shouted back.

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

King’s mage friend was currently

Cale's group alone,

have been crawling for

the current

been crawling for

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

“We can rest again!”

only one sweating so

sweat became even worse after hearing the

and leisurely flying around while On and Hong were easily walking in the tunnel in their

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

headquarters will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses ancient powers

only thing Bud could

hurry up and

crawl faster after seeing Cale make a comment

back a chuckle at Bud's

His arms were shaking.

while crawling for

had had gone down, he had not

just ignored the excessive concerns of the

quickly moving. He was thinking about what Bud Illis had said

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

the forest outside Resting City’s

in that

magic circles created by

the only passage to the location of the

asked in

is the Directory

Mercenary King had smiled before

first

not have a path down to

stored the Directory, which could be considered the

if someone tries to

reason Cale's group

“F, finally!”

the Mercenary King’s

some

the entrance!

in an hour.

warm and

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

oddly felt as if the hair on his

was a warm voice, but

quickly head

to crawl and finally arrived

the shining stones

the stones disappearing as the Mercenary

he touched the

Boooooooom-

started to

speak

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came to a

Boom!

entrance appeared

“Please follow me.”

Mercenary King crawled into the entrance before he followed

turn

and slowly started to see a large

Flash. Flash. Flash.

started to turn on

through a small tunnel in order to get to this large

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”