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.

toward the Mercenary King

“So let’s hurry on.”

of the

“…Is this really necessary?”

was the one who asked that

frown on his face as he crawled on

a completely

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

marble buildings because you said we were going toward

rare to see Beacrox sighing

and continued to

in the

branch of the Mercenaries Guild was built in the past, and it was where

three-story wooden building in the

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

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

who was crawling in front of Beacrox,

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown even

nor

you

they heard the ancient Dragon’s low

crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

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

He started to speak.

I'm sorry. The HQ will be alerted if

magic circles throughout

did

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

“Enough, just keep moving.”

quickly crawl once again. He said just one

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

It was the truth.

here quickly but stealthily made the Mercenary King

moment. It was a

at the

that

almost sounded like

Bud was dead if the Directory was

Bud quickly shouted back.

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

Mercenary King’s mage friend was

alone,

why we have been crawling for

the current

had been

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

“We can rest again!”

only one sweating so

became even worse after

was fluttering his wings and leisurely flying around while On and Hong were

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

central headquarters will be alerted if an unauthorized

was the only thing

up

faster after seeing Cale make a

back a chuckle at

His arms were shaking.

had rested twice while crawling

he had had gone down, he had not become a complete

the excessive concerns

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

first Mercenary King. It was created when the Mercenaries Guild was

in the forest outside

tunnel was in that house’s

magic circles created

passage to

had asked

is the

Mercenary King had smiled

the first Mercenaries Guild’s

have

had a secret area that stored the Directory, which could be considered the Mercenaries Guild’s most important

that area will explode if someone tries to infiltrate it

the reason Cale's group was currently crawling

“F, finally!”

hear the

some

are the entrance! They

first time in an

warm and

here. Mercenary King

on his back was starting to stand

voice, but it felt very

quickly head over

King quickly continued to crawl and finally

shining stones here and

light on the stones disappearing as the Mercenary

he touched the final

Boooooooom-

tunnel started to

to speak in an excited

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came

Boom!

appeared with

“Please follow me.”

King crawled into

turn the

click and slowly started to

Flash. Flash. Flash.

to turn on one

tunnel in order to get to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”