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 quietly

“So let’s hurry on.”

take care of the tasks at hand as

“…Is this really necessary?”

one who

was a terrible frown on his face as

in a completely

could barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s meticulously combed hair

heading toward the marble buildings because you

to see Beacrox

his body and continued to frown. His white gloves were already

located in the central

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

an old three-story wooden building in the

the central headquarters in the past, however, the Mercenaries Guild purchased land inside Resting City about

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

was crawling in

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown

nor Beacrox could

you should shut

heard the

crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

at the

He started to speak.

sorry. The HQ will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses magic in this

magic circles throughout

did not

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.”

flinch before he started to quickly crawl once again.

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

It was the truth.

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

at that moment. It was a decently

at the end of

that that voice

almost sounded like a

Bud

Bud quickly shouted back.

with the Directory is at the end of

Mercenary King’s mage friend was currently stealthily entering the

alone, couldn’t help but

have been

was the current

been crawling

arms are shaking! Is it tiring? Should I give you another apple

“We can rest again!”

the only one sweating so

became even worse

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

who were tiny were just amazed by

headquarters will be alerted if

was the only thing Bud could

hurry up and

started to crawl faster after seeing Cale make a comment

back a

His arms were shaking.

had rested twice while crawling for

if the amount of muscles he had had gone down, he had not become a

the excessive concerns of the children averaging

thinking about what Bud

It was created when the Mercenaries Guild was small and weak. That was when everybody just considered mercenaries to

built in the forest outside

was in

hidden by magic circles created by the Mercenaries

passage to

asked in

is the Directory

had

the first Mercenaries

did not have

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

tries to infiltrate it

Cale's group was currently crawling

“F, finally!”

hear the

see some shining stones past

the entrance! They are on

time in an hour.

a warm

long time to get here. Mercenary

felt as if the hair on his back was

warm voice,

quickly head

continued to crawl and finally arrived at

the shining stones

could see the light on the stones

once he touched

Boooooooom-

started to

speak

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came

Boom!

new entrance appeared with a

“Please follow me.”

as the Mercenary King crawled into the entrance

going to turn the lights

and slowly started to see

Flash. Flash. Flash.

turn

tunnel in

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”