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 hand

“…Is this really necessary?”

the one who

his face as

in a

barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s meticulously combed hair was being

the marble buildings because you said

to see Beacrox sighing

on his body and continued to frown. His white gloves

located in the central region

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

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

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

built with marble that was

who was crawling in front of

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to frown even

nor Beacrox

of you

because they heard the

crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

at the front of the group

He started to speak.

if an unauthorized person uses

magic circles

magic circles did not

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

“Enough, just keep moving.”

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

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

It was the truth.

stealthily made the Mercenary King forget about the unique nature

that moment.

is located at the

felt that that voice was

almost sounded like a

was saying that Bud

Bud quickly shouted back.

at the end of this

Mercenary King’s mage friend was currently stealthily entering the

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

That is why we have been crawling for

the current

been crawling for

rest again? Your arms are shaking! Is it tiring? Should I give you

“We can rest again!”

one sweating

sweat became even worse after hearing

around while On and Hong were easily walking in the tunnel

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

central headquarters will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses ancient

was the only

up

crawl faster after seeing Cale

held back a chuckle at

His arms were shaking.

they had rested twice while crawling for an hour. Cale was

of muscles he had had gone down, he

the excessive concerns of the

mind was quickly moving. He was thinking about what Bud Illis had

first Mercenary King. It was created when the Mercenaries Guild was small and weak. That

in the forest

in that

thoroughly hidden by magic circles created by the Mercenaries

tunnel is the only passage to the location

asked

is the Directory

King had smiled before

first Mercenaries

wooden building did not have a path down

area that stored the Directory, which could be considered the Mercenaries

will explode if someone tries to infiltrate

reason Cale's group was

“F, finally!”

the Mercenary

faintly see some shining stones past

the entrance!

time in an hour.

warm and gentle

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

the hair on his back was

a warm voice, but it felt very

quickly head

King quickly continued to crawl and finally arrived

the shining stones

light on the stones disappearing as the

he touched

Boooooooom-

started to

to speak

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came to

Boom!

new entrance appeared with

“Please follow me.”

Mercenary King crawled into the entrance before

to turn

a click and slowly started to see a large

Flash. Flash. Flash.

started to turn

through a small tunnel in order to get to this

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”