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.

the Mercenary King and

“So let’s hurry on.”

take care of the tasks at hand as quickly as

“…Is this really necessary?”

one who asked that

terrible frown on his face as he crawled

were in a completely dark

barely crawl through,

marble buildings because you said

Beacrox sighing and grumbling like

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

city located in

and it was where the building that was now being used as the

Mercenaries Guild base was an old three-story wooden building

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

with marble that was

was crawling in front of Beacrox,

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown

Han nor Beacrox could

you

because they heard the ancient

crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

was crawling at the front of the group was

He started to speak.

I'm sorry. The HQ will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses magic

magic circles throughout

magic circles did not

the Mercenaries Guild’s top leaders knew about. They made sure that no unauthorized person could use magic

“Enough, just keep moving.”

crawl once again.

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

It was the truth.

Cale here quickly but stealthily made the Mercenary King forget about the

moment. It was a

at the end of

Bud felt that that voice

sounded like a

Ron was saying that Bud

Bud quickly shouted back.

with the Directory is at the end of

was currently stealthily entering the central

Cale's group alone,

why we have been crawling

was the

been crawling for

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

“We can rest again!”

only one

cold sweat became even worse after hearing the children

and leisurely flying around while On and Hong were easily walking in the tunnel in their kitten

tiny were just amazed by this

alerted if an unauthorized person uses ancient

the only

up

after seeing Cale make a

back a chuckle at Bud's

His arms were shaking.

crawling for an hour. Cale was

amount of muscles he had had gone down, he had not become a

the excessive concerns of

was thinking about what Bud Illis had said

the first Mercenary King. It was created when the Mercenaries Guild was

small house built in the forest outside

tunnel was in that

house was thoroughly hidden by magic circles created by the

tunnel is the only passage to

had asked

is

Mercenary King had smiled before responding

the first Mercenaries

have a path down

area that stored the Directory, which could be considered the Mercenaries Guild’s most important pieces of

if someone tries to infiltrate it using any type

the reason Cale's group was currently crawling through

“F, finally!”

the Mercenary

faintly see some shining stones

stones are the entrance!

the first time in

warm

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

oddly felt as if the hair on his back was starting

a warm voice, but

let’s quickly

Mercenary King quickly continued to crawl and finally

shining stones

see the light on the stones

touched

Boooooooom-

tunnel started to

speak in an excited

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came

Boom!

entrance appeared

“Please follow me.”

as the Mercenary King crawled into the entrance

going to turn

slowly started to

Flash. Flash. Flash.

to turn on one

small tunnel in order

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”