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.”

to take care of the tasks at hand as

“…Is this really necessary?”

one who

on his face as he

a completely

barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s

heading toward the marble buildings because you said we were

rare to see Beacrox sighing and grumbling like

his body and continued to frown. His white gloves

located in

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

Guild base was an old three-story wooden building in the outskirts of

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

marble that was famous for its beautiful and extravagant

was crawling in front

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown

neither Choi Han nor Beacrox could say anything

of you should shut

they heard

crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

was crawling at the front of

He started to speak.

sorry. The HQ will be alerted if an

magic circles

magic circles did

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

“Enough, just keep moving.”

made Bud flinch before he started to quickly crawl once again. He

but I

It was the truth.

but stealthily made the

heard Ron's voice at that moment.

the

that that voice was

sounded like a

that Bud was dead if the Directory was not

Bud quickly shouted back.

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

was currently

with Cale's group alone, couldn’t

see. That is why we have

was the current

group had been

are shaking! Is it tiring? Should I give you another apple pie? Human, we have

“We can rest again!”

only one sweating so

became even worse

and Hong were easily

were tiny were just amazed by

headquarters will be alerted if an unauthorized person

the only

hurry up and

after seeing

held back a chuckle at Bud's

His arms were shaking.

they had rested twice while crawling

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

ignored the excessive concerns of the

quickly moving. He was thinking about what Bud Illis had said before

was created when the Mercenaries Guild was small and weak. That was when everybody just considered

in the forest outside

was in

by magic circles created by the Mercenaries

is the only passage to the location of

asked in

is

Mercenary King had

first

did not have

that stored the Directory, which could be considered

will explode if someone tries to infiltrate it using

reason Cale's group was

“F, finally!”

could hear the Mercenary King’s

faintly see some

the entrance! They are on the door!

time in an hour. He then

a warm

long time to get here. Mercenary King Bud, can you

as if the hair on his back was starting

warm voice, but it felt very

quickly head over

to crawl and finally arrived at the

shining stones here

the stones disappearing

once he touched the final

Boooooooom-

started

to speak in an

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came to

Boom!

entrance appeared with a

“Please follow me.”

Mercenary King crawled into the entrance before

going to turn the

heard a click and slowly started to see a

Flash. Flash. Flash.

turn on

through a small tunnel in

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”