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

“So let’s hurry on.”

the tasks

“…Is this really necessary?”

one

a terrible frown on his face as he

a completely dark

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

marble buildings

Beacrox sighing and

his body and continued

city located in the central

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

was an old three-story

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 that

with marble that

crawling in

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to

nor Beacrox could say

you should

was because they heard the ancient

was crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

the front of the group

He started to speak.

The HQ will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses

circles throughout

did not match the

top leaders knew about. They made sure that no unauthorized person could use magic

“Enough, just keep moving.”

Bud flinch before he started to quickly crawl once again. He

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

It was the truth.

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

heard Ron's voice at that moment.

at the

that that voice

sounded

Bud was dead if the Directory

Bud quickly shouted back.

with the Directory is at the end of

Mercenary King’s mage friend was currently stealthily entering the

Cale's group alone, couldn’t help but shake after hearing Ron's

have been crawling

the

been

rest again? Your arms are shaking! Is it tiring? Should I give you another apple pie? Human, we

“We can rest again!”

only one

became even worse after hearing

and Hong were easily

children averaging nine-years-old who were tiny

headquarters will be alerted if an unauthorized person

the only thing Bud

up and

seeing

a

His arms were shaking.

they had rested twice while crawling for an hour. Cale was

had gone

concerns of the

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

created when the Mercenaries Guild was small and weak. That was when everybody just

built in the forest outside

in that

by magic circles created by the Mercenaries

tunnel is the only passage to the location

had asked

is the Directory

King had smiled

the first Mercenaries

have a path down to the

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

tries

the reason Cale's group was currently crawling through

“F, finally!”

the Mercenary King’s excited

faintly see some shining stones

shining stones are the entrance! They

laughed for the first time in an hour. He then heard

was a warm

took a long time to get here. Mercenary King Bud, can you make some time to chat with

if the hair on his

a warm voice, but it

quickly head over

crawl and finally arrived

the shining stones here and

stones disappearing as

once he touched

Boooooooom-

tunnel started

speak in

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came to

Boom!

appeared with

“Please follow me.”

Mercenary King crawled into the entrance

going to turn the lights

click and slowly started to

Flash. Flash. Flash.

started to turn

through a small tunnel in order to get to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”