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.

looked back toward the Mercenary King and quietly

“So let’s hurry on.”

of the tasks at hand as

“…Is this really necessary?”

one

was a terrible frown on his face as he crawled

a completely dark

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

buildings

rare to see Beacrox sighing and grumbling

looked at the dust on his body and continued to frown. His

a free city located in the central region of the

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

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

purchased land inside Resting City about two hundred years ago

new central headquarters was a building built with marble that

who was crawling in front

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to frown

nor

of you should shut

was because they heard

crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

Bud Illis who was crawling at the front of the group was starting to

He started to speak.

alerted if an

were magic circles throughout

circles did not match the

top leaders knew about. They made sure that no unauthorized person could use magic in the tunnel and the area at the end of

“Enough, just keep moving.”

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

in advance, but I didn't remember it

It was the truth.

bringing Cale here quickly but stealthily made the

voice at that moment. It was

at the

felt that that voice was

almost sounded like a

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

Bud quickly shouted back.

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

mage friend was currently stealthily entering

was left with Cale's group alone, couldn’t help

have been

was the

group had been crawling

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

“We can rest again!”

only one

cold sweat became even worse after hearing the children averaging

wings and leisurely flying around while On and Hong were easily

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

if an unauthorized person uses ancient

the only thing Bud could

hurry up

faster after seeing Cale make a

held back a chuckle at Bud's

His arms were shaking.

twice while crawling for an hour. Cale was

muscles he had had gone down,

concerns of the children

He was thinking about what Bud

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

house built in the forest outside

tunnel was in that house’s

magic circles created by the

the only passage to the

asked in

exactly is

Mercenary King had smiled

the first Mercenaries

not have a path down to the

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

if someone tries to infiltrate it using

Cale's group

“F, finally!”

the

some shining

stones are the entrance! They are on

the first time in an

a warm

a long time to get here. Mercenary

on

a warm voice, but it felt

let’s quickly head

and finally arrived at the end of

shining stones here and

the stones disappearing as the Mercenary King

touched the final

Boooooooom-

started

to speak

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came

Boom!

entrance appeared with a

“Please follow me.”

into the entrance before he followed behind

turn

slowly started to

Flash. Flash. Flash.

started to turn

through a small tunnel in order to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”