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 and

“So let’s hurry on.”

take care of the tasks at hand

“…Is this really necessary?”

was the one who asked that

terrible frown on his

in a completely dark

barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s meticulously combed hair

thought we were heading toward the marble buildings because

Beacrox

at the dust on his body and continued to frown. His white gloves

located in the central region

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

was an old three-story wooden building in the outskirts of Resting

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

marble that

who was crawling in

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to

Han nor

of you

was because they heard the ancient Dragon’s

was crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

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

He started to speak.

sorry. The HQ will be alerted if

magic circles throughout

magic circles did

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

“Enough, just keep moving.”

made Bud flinch before he started to quickly crawl once again. He said just one more thing

said something in advance, but I didn't remember it until we got here. Ha. Ha,

It was the truth.

about bringing Cale here quickly but stealthily made the Mercenary King forget about the

moment. It was

at the end of

felt that that

almost sounded like a

that Bud was dead if the Directory was

Bud quickly shouted back.

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

mage friend was

alone, couldn’t help but

That is why we have

was the

group had been crawling for

Is it 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

his wings and leisurely flying around while On and

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

alerted if

the only thing Bud

hurry up

seeing Cale make a

held back a chuckle at Bud's

His arms were shaking.

they had rested twice while crawling for an hour.

had had gone down, he had not become a complete

the excessive concerns

thinking about what Bud Illis had said before they

was created when the Mercenaries Guild was small and weak.

built in the forest outside Resting City’s

was in that

magic circles created by the

tunnel is the only passage to the location of

had asked

exactly is the Directory

Mercenary King had smiled before

the first Mercenaries

have a path down

that stored the Directory, which

if someone tries to infiltrate it using any type

Cale's group was currently

“F, finally!”

hear the

see some

are the entrance! They are on

first time in an

was a warm and

to get here. Mercenary King Bud, can

oddly felt as if the hair on his back was starting to

warm voice, but it

let’s quickly head over

crawl and finally

shining stones

see the light on the stones disappearing

touched

Boooooooom-

tunnel started

speak in

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came to a

Boom!

appeared

“Please follow me.”

the Mercenary King crawled into the entrance before he followed behind

to turn the lights

heard a click and slowly started

Flash. Flash. Flash.

to turn on

crawled through a small tunnel in

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”