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

“So let’s hurry on.”

to take care of the tasks at hand as

“…Is this really necessary?”

the one who asked that

a terrible frown on his face

were in a completely

barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s meticulously combed hair was

marble buildings because you said we were going

Beacrox sighing and

dust on his body and continued to frown. His white

a free city located in the central region

was where the first branch of the Mercenaries Guild was built in the past, and it was where

three-story wooden building

land inside Resting City about two hundred years ago and built

headquarters was a building built with marble that was famous for its

was crawling in front

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to

Choi Han nor Beacrox could say anything

of you

because they heard the

was crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

was crawling at the front of the group was starting to

He started to speak.

alerted if

were magic circles

advanced magic circles did not

knew about. They made sure that no unauthorized person could use magic in

“Enough, just keep moving.”

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

but I didn't remember it until we got here. Ha.

It was the truth.

the Mercenary King

that moment. It was a

located at the

felt that that voice

sounded like a

Ron was saying that Bud was dead if the Directory was not

Bud quickly shouted back.

the end of this tunnel, patriarch-nim! That is why I am leading the

friend was currently stealthily entering the central

Cale's group alone, couldn’t help

why we have

was the current

group had been crawling for

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

“We can rest again!”

the only one sweating so

sweat became even worse after hearing

and leisurely flying around while On and Hong were easily

nine-years-old who were tiny were

the central headquarters will be alerted if an

only thing

hurry up and

seeing

back a chuckle at Bud's

His arms were shaking.

they had rested twice while crawling

he had had gone down, he had not

the excessive concerns of the children

was thinking about what Bud

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

small house built in the forest outside

in that

by magic

is the only passage to the location of the

had asked in

exactly is the Directory

had

the first

building did not have a path down to

that basement had a secret area that stored the Directory, which could be considered the Mercenaries Guild’s most important

will explode if someone tries to

Cale's group was currently crawling

“F, finally!”

could hear the Mercenary

faintly see some shining stones

stones are the entrance! They are on the door!

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

a warm

here. Mercenary King Bud, can you

oddly felt as if the hair on

warm voice, but it felt

let’s quickly

to crawl and finally arrived at

shining stones

the light on the stones disappearing

once he touched the final

Boooooooom-

started

started to speak in an excited

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came to

Boom!

appeared with

“Please follow me.”

Mercenary King crawled into the

to turn the

then heard a click and slowly

Flash. Flash. Flash.

started to turn on one

crawled through a small tunnel in order to get to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”