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.”

needed to take care of the tasks

“…Is this really necessary?”

the one who

was a terrible frown on his face as

were in a completely dark

could barely

marble buildings because you said we

rare to see Beacrox sighing and grumbling

body and continued to frown. His white gloves were

free city located in the central region of the Eastern

and it was where the building that was now being used as the central headquarters was located as

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

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

a building built with marble that was famous for

who was crawling in front of

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to

neither Choi Han nor Beacrox could say

you should

heard

was crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

the

He started to speak.

The HQ will be alerted if an unauthorized person

circles

magic circles did

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 at

“Enough, just keep moving.”

before he started to quickly crawl once again.

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

It was the truth.

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

moment. It was a

the end of this tunnel,

felt that that voice was

almost sounded like a

as if Ron was saying that Bud was

Bud quickly shouted back.

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

Mercenary King’s mage friend was currently stealthily entering the central

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

we have been crawling for

the

had been crawling for one

Your arms are shaking! Is it tiring? Should I give you another

“We can rest again!”

only one sweating so

worse after hearing the children

and leisurely flying around while On and Hong were easily walking in the tunnel

were tiny were just

headquarters will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses

only thing Bud

hurry up and

after seeing

a

His arms were shaking.

while crawling for an

if the amount of muscles he had had gone down, he had not become a complete

excessive concerns of the children

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

the Mercenaries Guild was small and weak. That was when everybody just considered mercenaries to

house built in the forest outside Resting

in that

magic circles created

passage to the location of the

had asked

is

King had smiled before responding

the first Mercenaries

not have a

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

someone tries to infiltrate it using

reason Cale's group was

“F, finally!”

the Mercenary King’s

some shining

entrance! They

laughed for the first time in an hour.

was a warm and gentle

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

oddly felt as if the hair on his back was

warm voice,

let’s quickly head

and finally arrived at the end

touched the shining stones here and

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

touched

Boooooooom-

tunnel started to

started to speak in

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came to a

Boom!

entrance appeared with a loud

“Please follow me.”

Mercenary King crawled into the entrance

turn

slowly started

Flash. Flash. Flash.

lights started to turn on

small tunnel in order to get

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”