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

“So let’s hurry on.”

the tasks at hand as

“…Is this really necessary?”

was the one who

his face as

in a completely dark

adult male could barely crawl through, so

were heading toward the marble buildings because you said we

rare to see Beacrox

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

located in the central region of

and it was where the building that

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

Resting City about two hundred years ago and built a new central headquarters that was quite spectacular and

new central headquarters was a building built with marble that

who was crawling in front of Beacrox, made

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to frown

Han nor Beacrox could say anything

of you

was because they heard

crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

was crawling at the front of the group was

He started to speak.

sorry. The HQ will be alerted if an unauthorized person

were magic circles throughout

advanced magic circles did not match

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

“Enough, just keep moving.”

quickly crawl once again. He

I didn't remember it until we

It was the truth.

about bringing Cale here quickly but stealthily made the

heard Ron's voice at that moment. It was a decently

at the

felt that

almost sounded like

if Ron was saying that Bud was dead if the Directory

Bud quickly shouted back.

sir! The room with the Directory is at the end of this tunnel, patriarch-nim! That is why I am leading the way!

was currently

who was left with Cale's group alone, couldn’t help but shake after hearing

have been crawling for the past

the

had been crawling for one

tiring? Should I give you another apple pie? Human, we have already rested twice, but

“We can rest again!”

the only one

became even worse

flying around while On and Hong

averaging nine-years-old who were tiny were

alerted if an unauthorized

was the only thing

hurry up

after seeing Cale

held back a

His arms were shaking.

crawling for an hour. Cale was

muscles he had had gone down, he had not become

just ignored the excessive concerns of the

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

was created when the Mercenaries Guild was small and

house built in the forest outside Resting City’s

was in

was thoroughly hidden by magic circles created by the

tunnel is the only passage to the

asked

exactly is

Mercenary King had smiled

first Mercenaries Guild’s

not have a path down to the

had a secret area that stored the Directory, which could be considered the

that area will explode if someone tries to infiltrate it using any type

group was currently

“F, finally!”

the

see some shining

shining stones are the entrance! They

in

a warm and

Mercenary King Bud,

as if the hair on his back was starting to stand

warm voice, but it

quickly head

crawl and finally arrived at the end of the

the shining stones here and

the light on the stones disappearing as

touched the

Boooooooom-

started

to speak

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came to a

Boom!

new entrance appeared

“Please follow me.”

crawled into the entrance

going to turn

a click and slowly

Flash. Flash. Flash.

started to turn on

in order to get to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”