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

“So let’s hurry on.”

care of the tasks at hand as

“…Is this really necessary?”

was the one who asked

terrible frown on his face

were in a completely

adult male could barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s meticulously combed hair was being covered

heading toward the marble buildings because you

Beacrox sighing and grumbling

and continued to frown. His

located in the central region

built in the past, and it was where

old three-story wooden building in the outskirts

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 beautiful and

who was crawling in front

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown

Han nor Beacrox could

you

heard the ancient Dragon’s low

crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

at the front of the group

He started to speak.

alerted if an unauthorized person uses

were magic circles

advanced magic circles did

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

“Enough, just keep moving.”

quickly crawl once

have said something in advance, but I didn't

It was the truth.

but stealthily made the Mercenary King forget about

moment. It

is located at the end

felt that that voice

sounded like

that Bud was

Bud quickly shouted back.

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

friend was currently stealthily entering

with Cale's group alone, couldn’t help but

That is why we have

the current

group had been crawling

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

“We can rest again!”

one sweating

worse after hearing the children averaging

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

who were tiny were

be alerted if an unauthorized person

the only thing Bud could

hurry up

to crawl faster after seeing

a chuckle at Bud's

His arms were shaking.

crawling for an

had had gone down,

concerns of the

was thinking about what Bud Illis had said

the first Mercenary King. It was created when the Mercenaries Guild was small and weak. That was when everybody just considered mercenaries

house built in the forest outside

tunnel was in that house’s

was thoroughly hidden by magic

the only passage

asked in

exactly is the Directory

had smiled before

the first

three-story wooden building did not have a path

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

tries to

Cale's group was currently crawling

“F, finally!”

hear the Mercenary King’s

faintly see some shining stones past

shining stones are the entrance! They

in an

was a warm and gentle

a long time to get here. Mercenary King Bud,

if the hair on his back was starting to stand

was a warm voice, but it felt

let’s quickly head

Mercenary King quickly continued to crawl and finally arrived at the

touched the shining stones here and

light on the stones disappearing as the Mercenary King

he touched the final

Boooooooom-

tunnel started to

speak

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came to

Boom!

appeared with

“Please follow me.”

the Mercenary King crawled into the entrance before he

to turn

heard a click and slowly started to see

Flash. Flash. Flash.

turn on one

in order to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”