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 quietly

“So let’s hurry on.”

the tasks at hand as quickly as

“…Is this really necessary?”

one

on his face as he crawled on

a

average adult male could barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s meticulously combed hair was

marble buildings because you said

rare to see Beacrox sighing and

at the dust on his body and continued to frown.

a free city located in the central

the past, and it was where the building that was now being used as the central headquarters was located as

old three-story wooden building in

Resting City about two hundred

central headquarters was a building built with marble

crawling in front of Beacrox, made a

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to frown even

Choi Han nor Beacrox could

of you should

heard the

crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

who was crawling at the front

He started to speak.

HQ will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses magic in

circles

magic circles did not match the

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

said something in advance, but I didn't remember

It was the truth.

but stealthily made the Mercenary King forget

that moment. It was

at the end of this tunnel,

that that

almost sounded like

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

Bud quickly shouted back.

the Directory is at the end of

King’s mage friend was currently stealthily entering the central

with Cale's group alone, couldn’t help

is why we have been

was the

been crawling

Your arms are shaking! Is it tiring? Should I give you another apple pie? Human, we have already rested twice, but we can rest again if

“We can rest again!”

only one sweating

even worse after hearing

wings and leisurely flying around while On and Hong were easily

nine-years-old who were tiny were

if an unauthorized person uses ancient powers as

was the only

up and

to crawl faster after seeing Cale make a comment

a chuckle

His arms were shaking.

had rested twice while crawling for an hour. Cale

of muscles he had had gone down, he had

ignored the excessive concerns

quickly moving. He was thinking about what

It was created when the Mercenaries Guild was

built in the forest outside Resting

was in

magic

is the only passage to the

asked

is the Directory

King had smiled before responding

the first Mercenaries Guild’s

not have a

the Directory, which could be considered the Mercenaries Guild’s

will explode if someone tries to infiltrate it using

was the reason Cale's group was currently

“F, finally!”

hear the Mercenary King’s excited

see some shining stones past

entrance! They

first time in an

warm and

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

the hair on his back was

voice, but it felt very

let’s quickly head

to crawl and finally arrived at

touched the shining

stones disappearing

touched

Boooooooom-

started

speak in an excited

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came

Boom!

new entrance appeared

“Please follow me.”

into the entrance before he

going to turn the

and slowly started to see a

Flash. Flash. Flash.

to turn

tunnel in

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”