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 tasks at

“…Is this really necessary?”

was the one

a terrible frown on his face as

in a completely

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

the marble buildings because you said we were going toward Resting

to see Beacrox sighing

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

located in the central region of the

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

an old three-story wooden building in the

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

marble

who was crawling in

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to frown even

Han nor Beacrox could say

of you should shut

they heard the ancient Dragon’s low

was crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

at the front of the group was starting to

He started to speak.

sorry. The HQ will be alerted if an

were magic circles

circles did not

knew about. They made sure that no unauthorized

“Enough, just keep moving.”

to quickly crawl once again.

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

It was the truth.

stealthily made the Mercenary King forget about

voice at that moment. It was a

at the end

felt that

sounded

Ron was saying that Bud was dead if

Bud quickly shouted back.

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

Mercenary King’s mage friend was currently stealthily

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

see. That is why we have been crawling

the current

group had been

Your arms are shaking! Is it tiring? Should I give you another apple pie? Human, we have already rested twice,

“We can rest again!”

the only one

worse after hearing the children

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

averaging nine-years-old who were tiny were just

central headquarters will be alerted if an

only thing Bud

up and

seeing Cale make a comment instead of

back a chuckle at Bud's

His arms were shaking.

they had rested twice while crawling

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

ignored the excessive concerns of

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

tunnel was created by the first Mercenary King. It was created when the Mercenaries Guild was small

the

tunnel was in that

thoroughly hidden by magic circles created by the Mercenaries

the only passage to the location of

asked

exactly is the

had smiled before

the first Mercenaries Guild’s

not have a path down

had a secret area that stored the Directory, which could be considered

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

the reason Cale's group was currently crawling through the

“F, finally!”

could hear the Mercenary King’s

faintly see some

entrance! They are

time in an hour. He then

warm

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

felt as if the hair on his back was

was a warm voice, but

let’s quickly head

Mercenary King quickly continued to crawl and finally arrived

touched the shining

see the light on the stones disappearing as the Mercenary King

once he touched

Boooooooom-

started to

to speak in

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came to

Boom!

entrance appeared

“Please follow me.”

King crawled into the entrance before

turn the lights

then heard a click and slowly started

Flash. Flash. Flash.

lights started to turn

small tunnel in order to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”