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.

toward the Mercenary King

“So let’s hurry on.”

to take care of the tasks at hand as

“…Is this really necessary?”

was the one who

his

in a completely dark

barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s

thought we were heading toward the marble buildings because you said

see Beacrox sighing and grumbling like

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

city located in the central region of the

Mercenaries Guild was built in the past, and it was where the building

three-story wooden building in the outskirts of

past, however, the Mercenaries Guild purchased land inside Resting City about two hundred years ago and built a new central headquarters that was quite spectacular

built with marble that was famous

who was crawling in front

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to

nor Beacrox could

of you should shut

because they heard the ancient Dragon’s low

was crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

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

He started to speak.

HQ will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses magic in this

circles

magic circles did not

that no unauthorized person could use magic in

“Enough, just keep moving.”

crawl once again. He said just

advance, but I didn't remember it until

It was the truth.

the Mercenary King forget about the unique nature

at that moment. It was

Directory is located at the end of

that that voice was

sounded like

sounded as if Ron was saying that Bud was dead if the

Bud quickly shouted back.

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

was currently stealthily

group alone, couldn’t help but shake after hearing

That is why we have been crawling for the past

was the current

group had been crawling

arms are shaking! Is it tiring? Should I give you another

“We can rest again!”

only one

sweat became even worse

leisurely flying around while On and Hong

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

alerted if an unauthorized person uses ancient

the only thing

hurry up and

faster after seeing Cale make a comment instead

held back a chuckle at Bud's

His arms were shaking.

rested twice while crawling for an hour. Cale

had

just ignored the excessive concerns of the children

about what Bud

when the Mercenaries Guild was small and weak. That

in the forest outside Resting

tunnel was in that house’s

house was thoroughly hidden by magic

only passage to the location of

asked in

is the Directory

Mercenary King had smiled before

the first

did not have a path

area that stored the Directory, which could be considered the

area will explode if someone tries to

was the reason Cale's group was currently crawling through

“F, finally!”

could hear the Mercenary King’s excited

could faintly see some shining stones past

are the entrance! They are

laughed for the first time in

a warm and

get here. Mercenary King Bud, can you make some time to chat

if the hair on

was a warm voice, but it

quickly

continued to crawl and finally arrived at

touched the shining stones

the light on the stones disappearing as the Mercenary King touched

once he touched

Boooooooom-

started

started to speak in an excited

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came

Boom!

new entrance appeared with a loud

“Please follow me.”

into the

going to turn the

click and slowly started to

Flash. Flash. Flash.

to turn on one by

in

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”