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

“So let’s hurry on.”

take care of the tasks at

“…Is this really necessary?”

one who asked

a terrible frown on his face as he

were in a completely dark

could barely crawl through,

marble buildings because you

rare to see Beacrox

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

a free city located in the

was built in the past, and it was where the building that was now being used

old three-story wooden building in the outskirts of

building used to be the central headquarters in the past, however, the Mercenaries Guild purchased land inside Resting City about two hundred years ago and built a new central headquarters

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

was crawling in front of Beacrox,

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to

Han nor Beacrox could say

of you should shut

heard the ancient Dragon’s low

was crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

King Bud Illis who was crawling at the front of the group was

He started to speak.

be alerted if an unauthorized

were magic circles throughout

advanced magic circles did

sure that no unauthorized

“Enough, just keep moving.”

voice made Bud flinch before he started to quickly crawl once again. He said just one more thing to

something in advance, but I didn't remember

It was the truth.

stealthily made the Mercenary King forget about the unique

heard Ron's voice at that moment. It was

the end of this

Bud felt that that

almost sounded like a

that Bud was

Bud quickly shouted back.

of this

Mercenary King’s mage friend was currently stealthily entering

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

That is why we have been crawling for

was the current

had been

Should we rest again? 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!”

the only one sweating

even worse after hearing the children averaging

fluttering his wings and leisurely flying around while On and Hong were easily walking in the tunnel in their

nine-years-old who were tiny

headquarters will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses ancient powers as

was the only thing Bud could

hurry up

faster after seeing Cale make

a chuckle at

His arms were shaking.

while crawling for an hour.

muscles he had had gone down, he had not

just ignored the excessive concerns of the children

thinking about what

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

built in the forest outside

tunnel was in that house’s

was thoroughly hidden by magic

the only passage to the location

asked

exactly is the

Mercenary King had

the first Mercenaries

did not have a path down to the

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

area will explode if someone tries

Cale's group was currently crawling through

“F, finally!”

could hear the

see some shining stones past

are the entrance! They are

first time in an hour. He

warm

sure took a long time to get here. Mercenary

felt as if the hair on his back was starting

was a warm voice,

quickly head

King quickly continued to crawl and finally

the shining

the stones disappearing as

once he touched the

Boooooooom-

tunnel started to

to speak

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came to a

Boom!

appeared with a

“Please follow me.”

the Mercenary King crawled into the entrance before he followed behind

to turn the lights

then heard a click and slowly started to see

Flash. Flash. Flash.

to turn on one by

crawled through a small tunnel in order to get

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”