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.

the Mercenary

“So let’s hurry on.”

of the tasks

“…Is this really necessary?”

one who asked

frown on his face as he crawled on

a completely dark

male could barely crawl through,

marble buildings because you said we were going

was rare to see Beacrox sighing and grumbling like

dust on his body and continued to frown. His white gloves were already

located in the

of the Mercenaries Guild was built in the past, and it was where the building that

three-story wooden building in the

Mercenaries Guild purchased land inside Resting City about two hundred years ago and built a new central

a building built with marble that

who was crawling in front of

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown

nor Beacrox could say anything

of you should shut

because they heard the ancient

was crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

at the front of the group was starting to cold

He started to speak.

be alerted if an unauthorized person uses magic in

magic circles throughout the

did not

a secret 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 the end

“Enough, just keep moving.”

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

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

It was the truth.

the Mercenary King forget

at that moment. It was a

Directory is located at the

Bud felt that that voice

sounded like

Bud was dead if the

Bud quickly shouted back.

of

Mercenary King’s mage friend was currently stealthily entering

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

see. That is why we have been crawling for the past

the current

had been crawling for one

it tiring? Should I give you

“We can rest again!”

only one sweating so

even worse after hearing

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

were tiny were

alerted if an unauthorized person uses ancient

only

hurry up

started to crawl faster after seeing Cale make a comment instead of

back a

His arms were shaking.

had rested twice while crawling

had gone down, he had

ignored the excessive concerns of the children averaging

about what Bud Illis had said before they came

Mercenaries Guild was small and

the

in that house’s

hidden by magic circles created by

the only passage to the location of

had asked

exactly is

King had smiled

first

three-story wooden building did not have a path down

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

explode if someone tries to infiltrate

was the reason Cale's group was currently crawling

“F, finally!”

the Mercenary

see some shining stones

stones are the entrance! They are on the door!

the first time in an hour. He

warm

here. Mercenary

hair on his back was

warm voice, but it felt

let’s quickly

to crawl and finally arrived at

shining stones

see the light on the stones disappearing

once he touched the

Boooooooom-

started

to speak in an

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came

Boom!

entrance appeared with

“Please follow me.”

King crawled into the entrance before he followed behind

going to turn

slowly started to see

Flash. Flash. Flash.

lights started to turn on

small tunnel in order

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”