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

“So let’s hurry on.”

needed to take care of the tasks at hand as

“…Is this really necessary?”

one who

was a terrible frown on his face as he crawled on

a completely

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

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

to see Beacrox

the dust on his body and continued to

City, a free city located in the central

the first branch of the Mercenaries Guild was built in the past, and it was where the

base was an old three-story wooden

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

building built with marble

Han, who was crawling in front

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown even

nor

of you

they heard the

crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

who was crawling at the front of

He started to speak.

The HQ will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses magic in

magic circles

circles did

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.”

crawl once again. He

should have said something in advance, but I didn't

It was the truth.

stealthily made the Mercenary King forget about the

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

located at the end of

felt that that voice was

sounded like

was saying that Bud

Bud quickly shouted back.

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

Mercenary King’s mage friend was currently

who was left with Cale's group alone,

have been crawling

was the

been crawling for

Should I give you another apple pie?

“We can rest again!”

only one

worse after

wings and leisurely flying around while On and Hong were easily walking

nine-years-old who were tiny were just

alerted if an unauthorized person uses

only thing

up and

to crawl faster after seeing Cale

a chuckle at Bud's

His arms were shaking.

had rested twice while crawling for an hour. Cale

had gone down, he had not become

excessive concerns of the

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

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

in the forest outside Resting

in that house’s

magic

tunnel is the only passage to the location of the

asked in

exactly is the

had

the first

building did not have

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

area will explode if someone tries to infiltrate it

Cale's group was currently crawling through

“F, finally!”

could hear the

see some shining stones

stones are the entrance! They

laughed for the first time in an hour. He then heard

warm and

sure took a long time to get here. Mercenary King Bud,

as if the hair on his back

warm voice, but it felt very

let’s quickly head over

quickly continued to crawl and finally arrived at the end

shining stones here and

on the stones disappearing as the Mercenary King

once he touched the final

Boooooooom-

tunnel started to

started to speak in an

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came

Boom!

appeared with a

“Please follow me.”

watched as the Mercenary King crawled into the entrance before he

to turn the

heard a click and slowly started

Flash. Flash. Flash.

turn on one by

crawled through a small tunnel in order to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”