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.”

to take care of the tasks at hand

“…Is this really necessary?”

was the one who asked that

frown on his face

were in a completely

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

the marble buildings

was rare to see Beacrox sighing

on his body and continued to

City, a free city located in the central region of

it was where the building that was now being used as the central headquarters was located as

an old three-story wooden

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

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

Han, who was crawling in front of Beacrox, made a

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to

neither Choi Han nor

of you should shut

was because they heard the ancient Dragon’s

was crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

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

He started to speak.

alerted if an

were magic circles

did not

sure that no unauthorized person could use magic in the tunnel and the area at the end of the

“Enough, just keep moving.”

he started to quickly crawl once again.

I should have said something in advance, but I

It was the truth.

bringing Cale here quickly but stealthily made the Mercenary King

at that moment. It was

at the end

Bud felt that that

almost sounded like a

sounded as if Ron was saying that Bud was dead

Bud quickly shouted back.

of this tunnel, patriarch-nim! That is why

was currently stealthily entering the central

was left with Cale's group alone, couldn’t

we have been

the current

group had been crawling for

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

“We can rest again!”

the only one sweating so

sweat became even worse after hearing the children

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

who were tiny were just amazed

be alerted if an unauthorized person uses ancient powers as

the only thing Bud

up and

after seeing Cale make a comment instead

back a

His arms were shaking.

twice while crawling for

of muscles he had had gone down, he had

the excessive concerns of the

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

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

house built in the forest outside Resting

in

thoroughly hidden by magic circles created by the

is the only passage to

had asked

is

had

the first Mercenaries Guild’s

three-story wooden building did not have a path

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

explode if someone tries

reason Cale's group was currently

“F, finally!”

could hear the Mercenary King’s

faintly see some shining stones

shining stones are the entrance! They are on the

for the first time in an hour. He then heard Ron’s

a warm

it sure took a long time to get here. Mercenary King Bud, can you make some time to

if the hair on his back was starting to

was a warm voice, but it

let’s quickly

continued to crawl and finally arrived at

the shining stones here and

see the light on the stones disappearing

touched the final

Boooooooom-

tunnel started

to speak in an

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came to

Boom!

new entrance appeared with

“Please follow me.”

as the Mercenary King crawled into the entrance before he followed

turn the lights

click and slowly started to see a

Flash. Flash. Flash.

started to turn on one

crawled through a small tunnel in order to get

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”