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.

toward the Mercenary King

“So let’s hurry on.”

the tasks at hand as

“…Is this really necessary?”

was the one

a terrible frown on his

in a completely

was a tiny tunnel that an average adult male could barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s meticulously combed hair was

marble buildings because you said we were going

rare to see Beacrox sighing and grumbling like

on his body and continued to frown.

located in the central region of the Eastern

and it was where the

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

the Mercenaries Guild purchased land inside Resting City about two hundred years ago

new central headquarters was a building built with marble that was famous for its beautiful

crawling in front of Beacrox,

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown

Han nor Beacrox could say anything

you should shut

they heard the

was crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

who was crawling at the front of the

He started to speak.

will be alerted if an unauthorized

magic circles throughout the

magic circles did

made sure that no unauthorized person

“Enough, just keep moving.”

crawl once again. He said

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

It was the truth.

the

moment. It was a

Directory is located at the end of this

that that

almost sounded like a

as if Ron was saying that Bud was dead

Bud quickly shouted back.

The room with the Directory is at the end of this tunnel,

King’s mage friend was currently stealthily entering

with Cale's group alone, couldn’t

is why we have been crawling for the past

was the

been crawling for one

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

“We can rest again!”

the only one

sweat became even worse after hearing

flying around while On and Hong were easily walking in

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

alerted if an unauthorized person uses ancient powers

the only thing Bud could

up

seeing Cale make a comment instead

back a chuckle

His arms were shaking.

rested twice while crawling for an hour. Cale

he had had gone down, he had

concerns of the

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

by the first Mercenary King. It was created when the Mercenaries Guild was small and weak. That was when

built in the forest outside Resting

in that

thoroughly hidden by magic circles created by the

tunnel is the only passage to the location of the

had asked in

exactly is

had smiled

first Mercenaries

did not have a path down

area that stored the Directory, which could be considered the Mercenaries Guild’s

will explode if someone tries to infiltrate it using any

reason Cale's group

“F, finally!”

hear the Mercenary King’s

could faintly see some

are the entrance! They are

for the first time in an hour. He then heard

warm

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

hair on his back was

was a warm voice, but it felt very

let’s quickly head

and finally arrived at

shining

could see the light on the stones disappearing as the Mercenary King

touched the

Boooooooom-

started to

to speak in

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came to a

Boom!

appeared with a

“Please follow me.”

into the entrance

to turn the

slowly

Flash. Flash. Flash.

turn

through a small tunnel in order to get to this large

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”