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.

looked back toward the Mercenary King and quietly added

“So let’s hurry on.”

of the tasks

“…Is this really necessary?”

the one who

on his face as he crawled on the

were in a completely dark

was a tiny tunnel that an average adult male could barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s meticulously combed

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

was rare to see Beacrox

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

city located in

in the past, and it was where the building that was now being used

an old three-story

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

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

was crawling in front of Beacrox, made

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to

nor Beacrox could say

you should shut

they heard the ancient

crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

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

He started to speak.

alerted if an unauthorized person uses

were magic circles throughout

circles did not

top leaders knew about. They made sure that no unauthorized person could use

“Enough, just keep moving.”

quickly crawl once again. He said just one more

something in advance, but I didn't

It was the truth.

bringing Cale here quickly but stealthily made the Mercenary King forget

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

Directory is located at the

that that voice

sounded

Ron was saying that Bud

Bud quickly shouted back.

of this tunnel, patriarch-nim! That is why I am leading the

mage friend was currently

with Cale's group alone, couldn’t

we have been crawling

the

group had been crawling for

human! Should we rest again? Your arms are shaking! Is it tiring? Should I give you another apple pie? Human, we have already rested

“We can rest again!”

the only one sweating so

sweat became even worse after hearing the children averaging

On and Hong were easily walking in the tunnel in their kitten

tiny were just amazed by this

will be alerted if an unauthorized person

the only thing

hurry up

started to crawl faster after seeing Cale make a

a chuckle at

His arms were shaking.

crawling for an

he had had gone down, he had

excessive concerns

thinking about what Bud Illis had said before they came into this

King. It was created when the Mercenaries Guild

the forest outside Resting

tunnel was in

hidden by magic circles created

passage to

had asked in

is the

had smiled before

first Mercenaries Guild’s

did not have a

the Directory, which could be considered the Mercenaries Guild’s most important

that area will explode if someone tries to infiltrate it using any

Cale's group was

“F, finally!”

the Mercenary

faintly see some shining stones

stones are the entrance! They are

in an hour. He then heard

warm and gentle

to get here. Mercenary King Bud, can

felt as if the hair on his

was a warm voice,

quickly head over

to crawl and finally arrived at the end

touched the shining stones here

on the stones disappearing as the Mercenary

once he touched the

Boooooooom-

started

speak

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came

Boom!

entrance appeared with a

“Please follow me.”

the Mercenary King crawled into the entrance

going to turn the lights

slowly started to see a

Flash. Flash. Flash.

lights started to turn on

had crawled through a small tunnel in order

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”