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

“…Is this really necessary?”

one who

his

a completely dark

an average adult male could barely

marble buildings because you said we were going toward

was rare to see Beacrox sighing

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

a free city located in the central region of the

where the first branch of the Mercenaries Guild was built in the past, and it was where the building that

three-story wooden building in the outskirts

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

was a building built with marble

was crawling in front of Beacrox, made

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown even

neither Choi Han nor

you

they heard

was crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

Illis who was crawling at the front of the group was starting

He started to speak.

HQ will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses

were magic circles

magic circles did not

about. They made sure that no unauthorized person could

“Enough, just keep moving.”

quickly crawl once again.

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

It was the truth.

but stealthily made the Mercenary King forget

voice at that moment. It was

Directory is located at the end of

that that voice was

almost sounded like

Ron was saying that Bud was dead if the Directory was

Bud quickly shouted back.

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

Mercenary King’s mage friend was

alone, couldn’t help but shake after hearing

have been crawling for

was the

group had been crawling

arms are shaking! Is it tiring? Should I give you another apple pie? Human, we have already rested twice, but we can rest

“We can rest again!”

only one sweating

even worse

and leisurely flying around while On and Hong were easily

who were tiny were just amazed by

headquarters will be alerted if

was the only thing Bud could

up

seeing Cale make a comment instead of

a chuckle at Bud's

His arms were shaking.

rested twice while crawling for an hour. Cale was

had had gone down, he had not become a complete

concerns

He was thinking about what

Guild was small and weak. That was when everybody just considered mercenaries

built in the

in that house’s

house was thoroughly hidden by magic

tunnel is the only passage

had asked in

exactly is the Directory

King had smiled before

the first Mercenaries

wooden building did not have a path down to the

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

explode if someone tries to

reason Cale's group was currently

“F, finally!”

hear the Mercenary King’s

see some shining stones past

the entrance!

for the first time in an hour. He then heard

a warm and gentle

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

the hair on

was a warm voice, but it felt very

let’s quickly

continued to crawl and finally arrived at the

touched the shining

see the light on the stones

he touched

Boooooooom-

tunnel started to

speak in an

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came to a

Boom!

appeared with a loud

“Please follow me.”

as the Mercenary King crawled into

going to turn

click and slowly started to see

Flash. Flash. Flash.

turn on

small tunnel in order

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”