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.”

of the tasks at hand as

“…Is this really necessary?”

one who

frown on his face as he crawled on the

in a completely

barely crawl through, so

toward the marble buildings because

Beacrox sighing and

body and continued

located in the central region of the

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

an old three-story

Guild purchased land inside Resting City about two hundred years

with marble that was

was crawling in front of Beacrox,

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown

neither Choi Han nor Beacrox could say

of you should shut

they heard the

was crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

crawling at the front of the group

He started to speak.

HQ will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses magic

circles throughout

advanced magic circles did

was 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

“Enough, just keep moving.”

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

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

It was the truth.

made the Mercenary King forget about the unique nature

moment. It was a

the end of

that that voice was

almost sounded like a

Bud was dead if the Directory

Bud quickly shouted back.

of this tunnel,

Mercenary King’s mage friend was currently

Cale's group alone, couldn’t help

have been crawling for the

was the current

been crawling for one

Should I give you another apple pie?

“We can rest again!”

the only one sweating so

became even worse after hearing the children

On and Hong were easily

were tiny were just amazed by

the central headquarters will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses ancient powers

was the only thing

up and

after seeing Cale

a chuckle

His arms were shaking.

had rested twice while crawling for an hour. Cale

had gone down, he had not become

just ignored the excessive concerns of the children

quickly moving. He was thinking about what Bud Illis had

when the Mercenaries Guild was small

house built in the forest outside Resting

was in

house was thoroughly hidden by magic circles created

only passage to the

had asked

is

King had smiled

the first

building did not have

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

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

group

“F, finally!”

could hear the

could faintly see some shining

shining stones are the entrance! They are on the

for the first time in

warm and gentle

Mercenary King Bud, can you

the hair on his back was

warm voice, but it

let’s quickly

to crawl and finally arrived at the end

touched the shining stones

the light on the stones disappearing

he touched the final

Boooooooom-

started to

speak in

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came to a

Boom!

appeared with a

“Please follow me.”

as the Mercenary King crawled into the entrance

to turn

a click and slowly started to see a

Flash. Flash. Flash.

turn

in order to get

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”