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.

back toward the Mercenary King and quietly

“So let’s hurry on.”

needed to take care of the tasks at hand

“…Is this really necessary?”

the one

on his face as he crawled on the

were in a

an average adult male could barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s meticulously combed hair was being

buildings because you said we were

to see Beacrox

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

City, a free city located in the central

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

old three-story wooden

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

central headquarters was a building built with marble that was

in front of Beacrox, made

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown even

Han nor Beacrox could say anything

of you should

because they heard the

crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

King Bud Illis who was crawling at the front of

He started to speak.

if an

magic circles throughout the

did not match

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

“Enough, just keep moving.”

flinch before he started to quickly crawl once

have said something in advance, but I

It was the truth.

stealthily made the Mercenary King forget about

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

Directory is located at the end of this tunnel,

felt that that voice was

almost sounded like

Bud

Bud quickly shouted back.

with the Directory is at the end of this tunnel,

mage friend was currently stealthily entering the

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

see. That is why we have been

was the

had been

I give you

“We can rest again!”

one sweating

became even worse after hearing the children

wings and leisurely flying around while On and

nine-years-old who were tiny

central headquarters will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses

was the only thing Bud could

hurry up and

crawl faster after seeing Cale make a comment

held back a chuckle at Bud's

His arms were shaking.

rested twice while crawling for

amount of muscles he had had gone down,

concerns of the children averaging

mind was quickly moving. He was thinking about what Bud Illis had said before they came into this

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

the forest outside

was in that house’s

was thoroughly hidden by magic

the only passage to the location of

asked in

exactly is

Mercenary King had smiled before responding

first Mercenaries

did not have a path down to

basement had a secret area that stored the Directory, which could be considered the Mercenaries Guild’s

area will explode if someone tries

Cale's group was currently crawling

“F, finally!”

hear the Mercenary King’s

faintly see some shining

stones are the entrance! They are

for the first time in an hour. He then heard Ron’s

was a warm and gentle

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

hair on his back was starting

warm voice, but it felt very

let’s quickly head over

quickly continued to crawl and finally arrived at the end of the

shining

light on the stones disappearing as the Mercenary King

touched

Boooooooom-

tunnel started to

to speak in

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came

Boom!

appeared with a

“Please follow me.”

crawled into the entrance before he followed behind

turn the lights

a click and slowly started to see a

Flash. Flash. Flash.

lights started to turn on one

in order to get to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”