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

“So let’s hurry on.”

needed to take care of the

“…Is this really necessary?”

one who

terrible frown on his face as

a

barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s meticulously combed hair

marble buildings because you said we

see Beacrox

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

located in the central

and it was where the building that

base was an old three-story

purchased land inside Resting City about two hundred years ago

a building built with marble that was famous

in

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to

Choi Han nor Beacrox could

you

because they heard

crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

Illis who was crawling at the front of the group

He started to speak.

be alerted if an unauthorized

circles throughout

advanced magic circles did not match the

Guild’s top leaders knew about. They made sure that no unauthorized person could use magic in the tunnel and the area

“Enough, just keep moving.”

quickly crawl once again. He said just one more

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

It was the truth.

Cale here quickly but stealthily made the Mercenary King forget about the unique nature of this

at that moment. It was a

located at the end of

Bud felt that that

sounded

sounded as if Ron was saying that Bud was dead if

Bud quickly shouted back.

the end of

mage friend was currently

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

That is why we have been crawling

was the current

group had been

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

“We can rest again!”

only one

cold sweat became even worse after hearing

On and Hong were easily walking in the tunnel in their kitten

children averaging nine-years-old who were tiny

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

only thing Bud could

up

started to crawl faster after seeing Cale make

held back a

His arms were shaking.

crawling for

muscles he had had gone down,

excessive concerns

moving. He was thinking about what Bud Illis had

Mercenaries Guild was small and weak. That

the

tunnel was in that house’s

hidden by magic circles created by the Mercenaries

tunnel is the only passage

had asked

is the

Mercenary King had smiled

first

building did not have

area that stored the Directory, which could be considered

someone tries to infiltrate it using any type of

group was

“F, finally!”

could hear the Mercenary

could faintly see some shining stones

shining stones are the entrance! They are on the door!

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

a warm

Mercenary King Bud, can you make some

felt as if the hair on his back was starting to

a warm voice, but it

quickly head over

Mercenary King quickly continued to crawl and finally arrived at

the shining stones

the light on the stones disappearing as the Mercenary King touched

once he touched the final

Boooooooom-

tunnel started

speak in an excited

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came to

Boom!

new entrance appeared with a loud

“Please follow me.”

crawled into the entrance

turn the

slowly started to see

Flash. Flash. Flash.

lights started to turn

a small tunnel in order to get to this large

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”