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.”

care of the tasks at hand

“…Is this really necessary?”

the one

on his face as

in a completely

a tiny tunnel that an average adult male could barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s meticulously

buildings because

see Beacrox sighing and grumbling

the dust on his body and continued

a free city located in the central region of

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

base was an old three-story wooden

Mercenaries Guild purchased land inside Resting City about two hundred years ago and

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

was crawling in

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to frown

Choi Han nor

of you should shut

was because they heard the ancient Dragon’s low

was crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

King Bud Illis who was crawling at the front of the

He started to speak.

The HQ will be alerted if an unauthorized person

were magic circles throughout the

circles did not match the shabby

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

“Enough, just keep moving.”

he started to quickly crawl once

something in advance, but I didn't remember it until we

It was the truth.

bringing Cale here quickly but stealthily made the Mercenary King forget

Ron's voice at that moment. It

located at the end of this

felt that that voice was

sounded

if Ron was saying that Bud was dead if the

Bud quickly shouted back.

of this

friend was currently

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

That is why we have

was the

group had been crawling

it tiring? Should I give you another apple pie? Human, we have already rested twice, but we can rest again

“We can rest again!”

one sweating

sweat became even worse

On and Hong

children averaging nine-years-old who were tiny

alerted if an unauthorized person

only

hurry up

to crawl faster after seeing Cale make

a chuckle

His arms were shaking.

while crawling for an hour.

he had had gone down, he had not become

the excessive concerns

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

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

built in the forest outside Resting

tunnel was in

thoroughly hidden by magic

only passage to

asked

is

King had smiled before responding

first Mercenaries

three-story wooden building did not have a path down

that stored the Directory, which could

if someone tries to

was the reason Cale's group was currently

“F, finally!”

the Mercenary

some shining

entrance!

laughed for the first time in an hour.

was a warm and

to get here. Mercenary King

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

voice, but it

let’s quickly head

to crawl and finally arrived at

the shining stones here

the stones disappearing as

once he touched

Boooooooom-

tunnel started to

to speak in an

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came to a

Boom!

appeared with a

“Please follow me.”

King crawled into the entrance before he followed

turn

and slowly started to

Flash. Flash. Flash.

started to turn on one by

a small tunnel in order to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”