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.

toward the Mercenary King and quietly

“So let’s hurry on.”

to take care of the tasks

“…Is this really necessary?”

one who

frown on his face as he crawled on

were in a completely dark

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

were heading toward the marble buildings because you said we were going toward

see Beacrox sighing and grumbling like

his body and continued to

City, a free city located in the

was where the first branch of the Mercenaries Guild was built in the past, and it was where the building that was now being used as the central headquarters was

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

the Mercenaries Guild purchased land inside Resting City about two hundred years

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

who was crawling in front

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to frown even

Han nor Beacrox could

you should

was because they heard

crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

King Bud Illis who was crawling at the front of the group

He started to speak.

will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses magic

were magic circles throughout

advanced magic circles did not match the shabby

Guild’s top leaders knew about. They made sure that

“Enough, just keep moving.”

to quickly crawl once again. He said just

advance, but I didn't remember it until we

It was the truth.

stealthily made the

voice at that moment.

the end of

that that voice

sounded like a

Bud was dead if

Bud quickly shouted back.

of this tunnel,

mage friend was currently stealthily entering

alone, couldn’t help

is why we have been

the current

been crawling for

I give you another apple pie? Human, we have already rested twice,

“We can rest again!”

one sweating so

worse after hearing the children averaging

was fluttering his wings and leisurely flying around while On and Hong were easily walking in the tunnel

nine-years-old who were tiny were just amazed

alerted if an unauthorized person uses ancient

the only thing Bud

up

faster after seeing Cale make a comment instead of

held back a chuckle

His arms were shaking.

had rested twice while crawling for an

amount of muscles he had had

the excessive concerns of the children

He was thinking about what

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

the forest

tunnel was in that house’s

was thoroughly hidden by magic circles created by the Mercenaries

only passage to the location

had asked in

is the

King had

the first Mercenaries Guild’s

building did not have a path

that basement had a secret area that stored the Directory, which could

that area will explode if someone tries to infiltrate

was the reason Cale's group

“F, finally!”

the Mercenary

faintly see some shining stones past

shining stones are the entrance! They are on

the first time in an hour. He then heard

warm and

Mercenary King Bud, can you make some time to chat with

felt as if the hair on his back was starting to

warm voice, but

let’s quickly head over

Mercenary King quickly continued to crawl and

touched the shining

the stones disappearing as the

he touched the final

Boooooooom-

tunnel started to

started to speak in an excited

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came

Boom!

new entrance appeared with a

“Please follow me.”

Mercenary King crawled into the entrance before he

going to turn the lights

click and slowly started to see

Flash. Flash. Flash.

to turn

in

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”