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

“So let’s hurry on.”

care of the tasks at

“…Is this really necessary?”

was the one who

frown on his face as he crawled on

a completely

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

the marble buildings because you said we were going

Beacrox sighing and

body and continued to

free city located in the central region of the Eastern

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

was an old three-story wooden building in the outskirts of

building used to be the central headquarters in the past, however, the Mercenaries Guild purchased land inside Resting City about two hundred years

building built with marble that was famous for its beautiful and

crawling in front of

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown even

Choi Han nor Beacrox could say

you should shut

heard the ancient Dragon’s

was crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

Illis who was crawling at the front of the group

He started to speak.

will be alerted if an unauthorized

magic circles throughout

magic circles did not match the shabby

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

“Enough, just keep moving.”

he started to quickly crawl once again. He said just one more thing to

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

It was the truth.

quickly but stealthily made the Mercenary King forget about the

voice at that moment. It

the end of

that

sounded like a

that Bud was dead if the Directory was

Bud quickly shouted back.

sir! The room with the Directory is at the end of this tunnel, patriarch-nim! That is why I

mage friend was currently stealthily entering

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

is why we have been crawling for the

was the current

group had been crawling

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

“We can rest again!”

only one sweating

sweat became even worse

and leisurely flying around while On and

children averaging nine-years-old who were tiny were just amazed

headquarters will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses ancient powers as

only thing Bud could

hurry up and

seeing Cale make a comment instead

a

His arms were shaking.

twice while crawling for an hour. Cale

muscles he had had gone down,

concerns of the children averaging

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

created when the Mercenaries Guild was small and

small house built in the

in

by magic circles created by the

only passage to the location of

asked in

is

Mercenary King had smiled before

first Mercenaries

not have

that stored the Directory, which could be considered the Mercenaries Guild’s most

explode if someone tries to infiltrate it using any type

group was currently crawling through

“F, finally!”

the

faintly see some shining stones

the entrance! They are on the

in an hour. He then

a warm and gentle

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

if the hair on his back was starting to stand

a warm voice, but

quickly

and finally arrived at the end of

the shining stones here

stones disappearing as the Mercenary

once he touched the

Boooooooom-

tunnel started to

to speak in

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came to a

Boom!

appeared

“Please follow me.”

the Mercenary King crawled into the

to turn the lights

heard a click and slowly

Flash. Flash. Flash.

turn on one

tunnel in order to get to this

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”