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.

back toward the Mercenary King and quietly

“So let’s hurry on.”

of the tasks at hand as quickly

“…Is this really necessary?”

the one who asked that

terrible frown on his face as he

in a completely

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

were heading toward the marble buildings

was rare to see Beacrox

body and continued to frown. His white gloves were already

free city located in the central region of the Eastern

built in the past, and it was where the building that was now being used as the central headquarters was located

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

to be 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

central headquarters was a building built with marble that was famous

who was crawling in front of Beacrox, made a

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to frown

nor Beacrox could say

of you should

heard the ancient Dragon’s

was crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

the front of the group was starting to

He started to speak.

I'm sorry. The HQ will be alerted if an unauthorized

were magic circles throughout the

did not

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

“Enough, just keep moving.”

started to quickly crawl once

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

It was the truth.

about bringing Cale here quickly but stealthily made the Mercenary King

that moment. It was a

at the end of this tunnel,

that

almost sounded

that Bud was dead if the Directory was

Bud quickly shouted back.

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

mage friend was currently stealthily entering the

group alone, couldn’t help

why we have been crawling

was the current

had been crawling for

it tiring? Should I give you another apple pie? Human, we have already rested twice, but

“We can rest again!”

one sweating

cold sweat became even worse after

On and Hong were

children averaging nine-years-old who were tiny were just amazed by this

headquarters will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses ancient powers

the only thing Bud

hurry up and

seeing Cale

a chuckle at

His arms were shaking.

rested twice while crawling for

of muscles he had had gone down, he had not become a

ignored the excessive concerns

was thinking about what Bud Illis had said before they came

was created when the Mercenaries Guild was small and weak.

built in the forest outside

tunnel was in

house was thoroughly hidden by magic

the only passage

asked in

is the Directory

King had smiled before responding

the first Mercenaries Guild’s

wooden building did not have

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

area will explode if someone tries to infiltrate

Cale's group was

“F, finally!”

could hear the

see some

stones are the entrance! They are on

time in an hour. He then

was a warm and

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

as if the hair on his back

warm voice,

let’s quickly

quickly continued to crawl and finally

the shining stones here and

the light on the stones disappearing

touched the final

Boooooooom-

started

to speak in

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came

Boom!

entrance appeared

“Please follow me.”

watched as the Mercenary King crawled into the entrance before

to turn the

click and slowly

Flash. Flash. Flash.

lights started to turn

in order to get to this

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”