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 quietly

“So let’s hurry on.”

needed to take care of the

“…Is this really necessary?”

was the one who asked that

on his face as

a

adult male could barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s meticulously combed

the marble buildings because you said

rare to see Beacrox

and continued to frown. His

in the central

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 as

an old three-story wooden building in the

in the past, however, the Mercenaries Guild purchased land inside Resting City

with marble that was famous for its beautiful and

Han, who was crawling in front of Beacrox,

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to

neither Choi Han nor Beacrox could say anything

you should

because they heard the ancient Dragon’s

was crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

was crawling at the front of

He started to speak.

will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses magic

were magic circles throughout

magic circles did not

about. They made sure that no unauthorized person could use

“Enough, just keep moving.”

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

should have said something in advance, but I didn't remember it

It was the truth.

the Mercenary King forget

at that moment. It was a

is located at the end of

Bud felt that that voice was

almost sounded like a

Ron was saying that Bud was dead if

Bud quickly shouted back.

end of this

friend was currently stealthily entering the central

with Cale's group alone, couldn’t

see. That is why we have been crawling for the past

was the current

group had been crawling for

I give you

“We can rest again!”

the only one sweating so

cold sweat became even worse after hearing the children averaging

while On and Hong

nine-years-old who were tiny were just amazed

the central headquarters will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses ancient powers

the only thing Bud

up

started to crawl faster after seeing Cale make a comment instead

a chuckle at

His arms were shaking.

crawling for an hour.

muscles he had had gone down, he had not become

ignored the excessive concerns of

was thinking about what Bud Illis had said before they came into this

It was created when the Mercenaries Guild was small and weak. That was when

small house built in the forest outside

was in that

hidden by magic circles created

tunnel is the only passage to the location

asked in

is the

Mercenary King had smiled before

first

have a path down to

Directory, which could be considered the Mercenaries Guild’s most

explode if someone tries

reason Cale's group was currently

“F, finally!”

could hear the Mercenary

faintly see some shining stones past

are the entrance! They are on the door!

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

was a warm

sure took a long time to get here. Mercenary King Bud, can

hair on his

voice, but it

quickly head over

to crawl and finally arrived at

touched the shining stones

light on the stones disappearing

he touched

Boooooooom-

tunnel started to

to speak in an

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came

Boom!

new entrance appeared with a loud

“Please follow me.”

watched as the Mercenary King crawled into the entrance

turn the lights

and slowly started to see a

Flash. Flash. Flash.

turn on one by

small tunnel in order to get to this

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”