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 added

“So let’s hurry on.”

to take care of the tasks at hand as quickly

“…Is this really necessary?”

the one

was a terrible frown on his face as he crawled on

were in a

that an average adult male could barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s meticulously combed

toward the marble buildings because you

Beacrox sighing and grumbling like

body and continued to frown. His white gloves were already

a free city located in

was built in the past, and it was where the building that was now being used as

an old three-story wooden building in the outskirts

Mercenaries Guild purchased land inside Resting City about two hundred years ago and built a new central headquarters that was quite

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

crawling in front of Beacrox, made a

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to frown

Han nor

of you should shut

heard the

crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

was crawling at the front of the group was starting to cold

He started to speak.

be alerted if an unauthorized person uses magic

magic circles throughout

magic circles did not match

that no unauthorized person could use

“Enough, just keep moving.”

to quickly crawl once again. He

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

It was the truth.

quickly but stealthily made the Mercenary King forget about the unique

Ron's voice at that moment. It was a decently warm

Directory is located at the

that

sounded like

saying that Bud was dead if the Directory was

Bud quickly shouted back.

end of this tunnel, patriarch-nim!

friend was currently stealthily entering

alone,

why we have been crawling for the

the current

group had been crawling for one

give you another apple pie?

“We can rest again!”

the only one

became even worse after hearing the

and leisurely flying around while On and Hong were

were tiny were just amazed by

headquarters will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses ancient

was the only thing

hurry up and

faster after seeing Cale

held back a chuckle at Bud's

His arms were shaking.

twice while crawling

amount of muscles he had had gone

just ignored the excessive concerns

thinking about what Bud Illis

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

house built in the forest outside Resting

tunnel was in that

thoroughly hidden by magic circles created by the

tunnel is the only passage to the

had asked

is

King had

the first Mercenaries

have a path down to the

the Directory, which could be considered

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

reason Cale's group was currently crawling through

“F, finally!”

hear the Mercenary

some shining stones

are the entrance! They are on the door!

for the first time in an hour. He then heard

a warm

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

as if the hair on his back was starting to

was a warm voice, but it felt very

quickly head over

continued to crawl and finally arrived at the

shining

could see the light on the stones disappearing as the Mercenary King

once he touched the final

Boooooooom-

started

started to speak

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came

Boom!

appeared

“Please follow me.”

as the Mercenary King crawled into the entrance before he followed

to turn the lights

then heard a click and slowly started to see a

Flash. Flash. Flash.

started to turn on one by

in order to get to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”