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.

looked back toward the Mercenary King

“So let’s hurry on.”

take care of the tasks at hand as quickly

“…Is this really necessary?”

one who

terrible frown on his

were in a completely

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

toward the marble buildings because you said we were going toward Resting

to see Beacrox sighing and grumbling

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

in the central

in the past, and it was where the building that was now being used

was an old three-story wooden building in

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

headquarters was a building built with marble

was crawling in front of Beacrox, made

“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 ancient Dragon’s low

was crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

was crawling at the front of the group was starting

He started to speak.

will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses

circles throughout the

did not match

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 and the area at the end

“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. Ha,

It was the truth.

made the Mercenary King

voice at that moment. It was a

at the end of this tunnel,

Bud felt that that voice was

almost sounded like a

Ron was saying that Bud was dead if the Directory

Bud quickly shouted back.

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

was currently stealthily entering

alone, couldn’t

we have

was the current

group had been crawling for

Should we rest again? Your arms are shaking! Is it tiring? Should I give you another

“We can rest again!”

the only one sweating so

sweat became even worse after hearing the children

and Hong

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

if an unauthorized person uses ancient powers as

was the only

up

to crawl faster after seeing Cale make a comment

held back a chuckle at Bud's

His arms were shaking.

while crawling for an hour. Cale was

had gone down, he

just ignored the excessive concerns of the children

moving. He was thinking about what Bud

Guild was

the forest

was in

was thoroughly hidden by magic circles created by the

only passage to the location of the

had asked

exactly is the Directory

Mercenary King had smiled before

first Mercenaries

not have a path down

basement had a secret area that stored the Directory, which

tries to infiltrate it using any

group

“F, finally!”

could hear the Mercenary

could faintly see some shining

shining stones are the entrance! They

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

was a warm and

get here. Mercenary King Bud, can you make some time to chat with me

felt as if the hair on his

voice, but

let’s quickly head

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

the shining stones

see the light on the stones disappearing

once he touched the final

Boooooooom-

started

started to speak in

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came

Boom!

new entrance appeared with a loud

“Please follow me.”

crawled into the entrance before

to turn

heard a click and slowly started to

Flash. Flash. Flash.

lights started to turn on one

tunnel in order to get to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”