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 added

“So let’s hurry on.”

to take care of the tasks at hand

“…Is this really necessary?”

the one who asked that

on his face as he crawled on the

were in a completely dark

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

buildings because you said

see Beacrox

on his body and continued to

city located in

was built in the past, and it was where the building that was

was an old three-story wooden building in

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

a building built with marble that

crawling in front of Beacrox, made

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to

nor

you should shut

they heard

crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

the front of the

He started to speak.

alerted if an unauthorized person uses magic in

were magic circles throughout

advanced magic circles did

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

“Enough, just keep moving.”

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

advance, but I didn't remember it until we got

It was the truth.

bringing Cale here quickly but stealthily made the Mercenary

moment. It

is located at the end

that that voice

almost sounded like a

if Ron was saying that Bud was dead if the

Bud quickly shouted back.

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

friend was

alone, couldn’t help but shake

is why we have been crawling for the past

the current

had been

human! 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

“We can rest again!”

the only one

even worse after hearing the

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

who were tiny

the central headquarters will be alerted if

the only thing Bud

up

started to crawl faster after seeing Cale make a

held back a chuckle at Bud's

His arms were shaking.

had rested twice while crawling for

the amount of muscles he had had gone down, he

concerns of the children averaging

moving. He was thinking about what Bud Illis had said before

the Mercenaries Guild was small and weak.

in the forest outside Resting

was in

hidden by magic

the only passage to the location of

had asked in

is

Mercenary King had

first Mercenaries

not have a path

that basement had a secret area that stored the Directory, which could be considered the Mercenaries Guild’s most important pieces of

will explode if someone tries to infiltrate it

was the reason Cale's group

“F, finally!”

hear the Mercenary

could faintly see some shining stones

are the entrance! They

in an hour. He then heard

warm

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

the hair on his

warm voice, but

quickly head

to crawl and finally arrived at the end

touched the shining stones

the light on the stones disappearing as

he touched the final

Boooooooom-

tunnel started to

speak in an excited

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came to

Boom!

entrance appeared with a

“Please follow me.”

King crawled into the entrance

turn

slowly

Flash. Flash. Flash.

started to turn

in order to get to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”