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 added

“So let’s hurry on.”

the tasks at hand

“…Is this really necessary?”

the one who

terrible frown on his face

were in a

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

buildings because you said

rare to see Beacrox

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

free city located in

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

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

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

with marble that was famous for its beautiful and

who was crawling in front of Beacrox,

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to frown even

nor Beacrox could say anything

of you should

because they heard the ancient

crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

was crawling at the front of the group was

He started to speak.

if an unauthorized

circles throughout the

advanced magic circles did

sure that no unauthorized

“Enough, just keep moving.”

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

in advance, but I didn't remember it until we got

It was the truth.

quickly but stealthily made the Mercenary King forget about

heard Ron's voice at that moment.

at the end of

Bud felt that that voice was

sounded like a

Bud was dead

Bud quickly shouted back.

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

King’s mage friend was currently stealthily entering the central

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

why we have been crawling for the past

was the

had been crawling

are shaking! Is it tiring? Should I give you another apple pie? Human, we have

“We can rest again!”

the only one sweating so

cold sweat became even worse

his wings and leisurely flying around while On and

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

alerted if an unauthorized person uses

the only thing Bud

up and

to crawl faster after seeing Cale make a

held back a

His arms were shaking.

rested twice while crawling for an hour. Cale was

had

just ignored the excessive concerns of the children

mind was quickly moving. He was thinking about what Bud Illis had said

when the Mercenaries Guild was small

house built in the forest outside

in that

by magic circles created by the

the only passage to the location

asked in

exactly is the

had smiled before responding

the first Mercenaries Guild’s

did not have a path

Directory, which could be considered the Mercenaries

area will explode if someone tries to infiltrate it using any

was the reason Cale's group

“F, finally!”

hear the Mercenary King’s

could faintly see some shining stones past

entrance! They are

first time in an

a warm and

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

hair on his back was starting to stand

warm voice, but

quickly head over

Mercenary King quickly continued to crawl and finally arrived at the end of the

touched the shining stones

light on the stones disappearing as the Mercenary King

once he touched

Boooooooom-

tunnel started

started to speak

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came to

Boom!

appeared with

“Please follow me.”

the Mercenary King crawled into the

going to turn the

and slowly started to see a

Flash. Flash. Flash.

to turn on one

tunnel in order to get

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”