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.

Mercenary King and

“So let’s hurry on.”

needed to take care of the tasks at hand as quickly as

“…Is this really necessary?”

one

terrible frown on his face as

in a

tiny tunnel that an average adult male could barely crawl

were heading toward the marble buildings because

was rare to see Beacrox

on his body and continued to frown. His white gloves were

City, a free city located in the central

Mercenaries Guild was built in the past, and it was

Mercenaries Guild base was an old three-story wooden building in the

Guild purchased land inside Resting City about two hundred years ago and built a new central headquarters that

building built with marble

crawling in

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown even

neither Choi Han nor Beacrox could

you

because they heard the

crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

was crawling at the front of the

He started to speak.

will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses magic in this

magic circles throughout the

did not match the

was a secret passage that only the Mercenaries Guild’s top leaders knew about. They made sure that no unauthorized person could

“Enough, just keep moving.”

to quickly crawl once again. He said just one more thing

said something in advance, but I didn't remember it until we got here. Ha. Ha,

It was the truth.

the Mercenary

Ron's voice at that moment.

is located at the end

Bud felt that

sounded like

if Ron was saying that Bud was dead if the

Bud quickly shouted back.

end of this tunnel,

friend was currently stealthily entering the central

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

That is why we have been crawling

the current

had been

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

“We can rest again!”

one sweating so

became even worse after hearing the

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

were tiny were just

be alerted if an unauthorized person uses ancient

the only thing

up and

seeing Cale make a comment

held back a chuckle at

His arms were shaking.

they had rested twice while crawling for an hour. Cale was

amount of muscles he had had gone down, he had

ignored the excessive concerns of

moving. He was thinking about what Bud Illis had

created when the Mercenaries Guild was small and weak. That was when everybody just considered mercenaries to be cannon

house built in the forest outside

in

house was thoroughly hidden by magic circles created by

only passage to the location

had asked in

exactly is the

Mercenary King had smiled before

first Mercenaries Guild’s

building did not have a path down to

that stored the Directory, which could be considered the Mercenaries Guild’s

area will explode if someone tries to infiltrate it using

Cale's group was currently crawling through

“F, finally!”

could hear the Mercenary King’s

some shining

the entrance! They are on

laughed for the first time in an hour. He then heard Ron’s

a warm

long time to get here. Mercenary

oddly felt as if the hair on

voice, but it felt very

quickly head

quickly continued to crawl and finally

shining stones here

the light on the stones disappearing as the Mercenary King

he touched the final

Boooooooom-

started to

started to speak in

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came

Boom!

entrance appeared

“Please follow me.”

crawled into the entrance

going to turn the

and slowly started to see a

Flash. Flash. Flash.

to turn on one

a small tunnel in order to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”