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.”

needed to take care of the tasks at hand as quickly as

“…Is this really necessary?”

was the one who asked that

terrible frown on his face

a

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

toward the marble buildings because you said we were

Beacrox sighing

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

a free city located in the central

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

Mercenaries Guild base was an old three-story

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

was a building built with marble that was famous for its beautiful and

was crawling in front of Beacrox,

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown even

Choi Han nor Beacrox could

of you should

was because they heard the ancient

crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

the

He started to speak.

The HQ will be alerted if

magic circles throughout the

did not match

was a secret passage that only the Mercenaries Guild’s top leaders knew about. They made sure that no unauthorized person could use magic in the

“Enough, just keep moving.”

voice made Bud flinch before he started to quickly crawl once

but I didn't remember it until we got here. Ha. Ha,

It was the truth.

made the Mercenary King forget about the unique nature of

moment. It was

is located at the end of

Bud felt that that voice

sounded like a

if Ron was saying that Bud was dead if the

Bud quickly shouted back.

is at the end of this tunnel, patriarch-nim! That

King’s mage friend was currently stealthily entering the central

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

have been crawling for the

the current

group had been crawling

Is it tiring? Should I give you another apple pie? Human, we have already rested

“We can rest again!”

only one sweating

became even worse after hearing the children averaging

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

averaging nine-years-old who were tiny

headquarters will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses

was the only thing Bud

hurry up

seeing Cale make a

a

His arms were shaking.

twice while crawling for

had gone down, he had not become a complete

excessive concerns of the children

thinking about what Bud Illis

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

house built in the

tunnel was in

by magic circles created by the Mercenaries

passage to

asked in

exactly is

Mercenary King had smiled before responding

first

did not have a path down

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

area will explode if someone tries to infiltrate it using any type of

the reason Cale's group was currently

“F, finally!”

could hear the

some shining

shining stones are the entrance! They are on the door!

time in an

warm

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

on

warm voice, but

quickly head over

King quickly continued to crawl and finally arrived at

the shining stones here

the light on the stones disappearing as the Mercenary

he touched the final

Boooooooom-

started

speak in an

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came to

Boom!

appeared with

“Please follow me.”

the Mercenary King crawled into the entrance before

going to turn

click and slowly started to see a large

Flash. Flash. Flash.

turn on

crawled through a small tunnel in order

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”