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 quietly added

“So let’s hurry on.”

to take care of the

“…Is this really necessary?”

one who asked that

his face

were in a

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

were heading toward the marble buildings because you

rare to see Beacrox

continued to frown. His white gloves were already extremely

city located in

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 located

three-story wooden building

Mercenaries Guild purchased land inside Resting City about two hundred years ago and built a new central headquarters that was quite spectacular

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

Han, who was crawling in front of

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to frown even

nor Beacrox

of you should shut

heard the ancient Dragon’s

crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

who was crawling at the front of the group was starting to cold

He started to speak.

alerted if an unauthorized person uses magic in this

were magic circles throughout the

advanced magic circles did not match

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

“Enough, just keep moving.”

made Bud flinch before he started to quickly crawl once again. He said just one more thing to

in advance, but I

It was the truth.

made the Mercenary King forget about

moment. It was a decently warm

at the end

felt that that voice was

almost sounded like a

as if Ron was saying that Bud was dead if the Directory

Bud quickly shouted back.

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

mage friend was currently stealthily entering

left with Cale's group alone, couldn’t

see. That is why we have been crawling for the

the

been crawling

Should we rest again? Your arms are shaking! Is it tiring? Should I give you another apple pie? Human, we have already rested twice, but we can rest again if you’re

“We can rest again!”

only one sweating

sweat became even worse after hearing the

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

were tiny were just amazed

headquarters will be alerted if

was the only thing Bud

up

crawl faster after seeing Cale make a comment instead of

back a chuckle at

His arms were shaking.

rested twice while crawling for an hour.

amount of muscles he had had gone down, he

the excessive concerns of

was thinking about what Bud Illis had said before they

by the first Mercenary King. It was created when the Mercenaries Guild was small and weak. That was when everybody

built in the forest outside Resting City’s

tunnel was in that house’s

house was thoroughly hidden by magic circles created by the Mercenaries

tunnel is the only passage to

asked

exactly is

Mercenary King had smiled before

the first

have

stored the Directory, which could be considered the

will explode if someone tries to infiltrate it using

Cale's group was currently crawling through the

“F, finally!”

the

some shining stones past

shining stones are the entrance! They are on

laughed for the first time in

warm and gentle

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

the hair on his back was starting to

voice, but it

let’s quickly

continued to crawl and finally arrived at the end of the

shining stones here and

the light on the stones disappearing as the Mercenary King touched

touched the

Boooooooom-

tunnel started

speak in an excited

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came

Boom!

appeared with a loud

“Please follow me.”

into the

to turn the

a click and slowly started

Flash. Flash. Flash.

to turn

through a small tunnel in order to get to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”