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.

looked back toward the Mercenary King and quietly added

“So let’s hurry on.”

care of the tasks at hand

“…Is this really necessary?”

the one who asked

frown on his face

were in a

could barely crawl through, so

marble buildings because you said we were going

was rare to see Beacrox sighing and grumbling

at the dust on his body and continued to

in the

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

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

to be the central headquarters in the past, however, the Mercenaries Guild purchased land inside Resting

new central headquarters was a building built with marble that was famous for its beautiful and extravagant

in front of Beacrox, made

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to

nor Beacrox

of you should shut

was because they heard the ancient

crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

Illis who was crawling at the front of the group was starting

He started to speak.

be alerted if an unauthorized person uses magic in this

circles throughout the

circles did not match

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

“Enough, just keep moving.”

Bud flinch before he started to quickly crawl once again. He said just

should have said something in advance, but I didn't remember

It was the truth.

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

that moment. It was a decently

the end of

felt that that

almost sounded

saying that Bud was dead if the Directory was not

Bud quickly shouted back.

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

was currently stealthily

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

is why we have been crawling for the

the

had been crawling

arms are shaking! Is it tiring? Should I give you another apple pie? Human, we have already rested

“We can rest again!”

only one sweating so

cold sweat became even worse after hearing

around while On and Hong were easily walking in the

were tiny were just amazed

central headquarters will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses

was the only thing Bud could

hurry up and

started to crawl faster after seeing Cale make a comment

back a chuckle

His arms were shaking.

crawling for an hour. Cale was

of muscles he had had gone down,

ignored the excessive concerns of the children averaging

what Bud

was 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 cannon

the forest outside Resting

was in

house was thoroughly hidden by magic circles

tunnel is the only passage to the location of

had asked in

exactly is the

had smiled before responding

first

did not have a

area that stored the Directory, which could

if someone tries to infiltrate it using

Cale's group was currently

“F, finally!”

could hear the Mercenary

faintly see some shining

shining stones are the entrance! They are on the

first time in an

warm and gentle

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

if the hair on his back was starting to stand

warm voice, but it felt very

quickly

Mercenary King quickly continued to crawl and finally arrived at the end of

shining stones here

the light on the stones disappearing as the Mercenary

once he touched the final

Boooooooom-

started to

started to speak in an excited

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came

Boom!

appeared with a loud

“Please follow me.”

into the entrance before he followed

turn the lights

heard a click and slowly started to see

Flash. Flash. Flash.

started to turn on

a small tunnel in order

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”