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.

the Mercenary King and

“So let’s hurry on.”

the tasks at hand as quickly

“…Is this really necessary?”

the one who

on his face as he

a

a tiny tunnel that an average adult male could barely crawl through,

the marble buildings because you said we were

rare to see Beacrox

his body and continued to frown.

city located in

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

three-story wooden building in the outskirts of

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

headquarters 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?”

to

Han nor Beacrox could

of you should

heard the ancient

crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

crawling at the front of the group

He started to speak.

sorry. The HQ will be alerted if an

were magic circles

did

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

“Enough, just keep moving.”

to quickly crawl once again. He said

said something in advance, but I didn't remember it

It was the truth.

stealthily made the Mercenary King forget about

moment. It was

at the end of

Bud felt that

almost sounded

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

Bud quickly shouted back.

of

friend was currently stealthily entering

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

why we have been crawling for the

the current

been crawling for one

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

“We can rest again!”

one

sweat became even worse after

and Hong were easily walking in the tunnel in

who were tiny were

central headquarters will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses

the only thing Bud

hurry up

seeing Cale make a comment

a chuckle at

His arms were shaking.

had rested twice while crawling

muscles he had had gone down, he

just ignored the excessive concerns of the children

mind was quickly moving. He was thinking about what Bud Illis had said before they came

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

built in the forest outside Resting City’s

in that house’s

hidden by magic circles created

only passage to the location of

had asked

is the

had smiled before

first Mercenaries Guild’s

wooden building did not have a path down to

had a secret area that stored the Directory, which could

area will explode if someone tries to infiltrate it using any type of

Cale's group

“F, finally!”

hear the Mercenary King’s excited

could faintly see some

the entrance! They are on the

laughed for the first time in an hour. He

was a warm and

get here. Mercenary King Bud, can you make some time to

felt as if the hair on his back was starting

was a warm voice,

quickly

crawl and finally arrived at the end of

touched the shining stones here

stones disappearing as the Mercenary King

he touched the

Boooooooom-

tunnel started to

speak in

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came to a

Boom!

appeared with a loud

“Please follow me.”

Mercenary King crawled into

going to turn the

click and slowly started to see

Flash. Flash. Flash.

to turn

through a small tunnel in order to get

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”