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

“So let’s hurry on.”

to take care of the tasks at

“…Is this really necessary?”

one who

was a terrible frown on his face as

in a completely

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

the marble buildings because you said we

Beacrox sighing and grumbling

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

a free city located in the central region of

was where the first branch of the Mercenaries Guild was built in the past, and it was where the building that was now being used as the central headquarters

was an old three-story wooden building in the outskirts of Resting

the past, however, the Mercenaries Guild purchased land inside Resting

with marble that was famous for its beautiful and extravagant

in front

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to frown

Choi Han nor Beacrox could say

of you should

they heard the ancient Dragon’s low

was crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

at the front of the group

He started to speak.

sorry. The HQ will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses

magic circles throughout

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

“Enough, just keep moving.”

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

said something in advance, but I

It was the truth.

made the Mercenary King forget about the unique nature of

that moment. It was a

the

felt that that voice

sounded like

that Bud was

Bud quickly shouted back.

is at the end of

mage friend was currently stealthily entering the

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

we have been crawling for the past

the

group had been crawling for

tiring? Should I give you another apple pie? Human,

“We can rest again!”

the only one sweating so

sweat became even worse after hearing the children

his wings and leisurely flying around while On and

nine-years-old who were tiny were just amazed

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

only thing Bud

hurry up

started to crawl faster after seeing Cale make a comment

held back a chuckle at

His arms were shaking.

crawling for

if the amount of muscles he had had gone down, he had not become a complete

ignored the excessive concerns of

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

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

in the forest outside

in that house’s

hidden by magic circles

the only passage to

had asked in

is the

Mercenary King had

the first

did not have

the Directory, which could be considered the Mercenaries

if someone tries to infiltrate it

was the reason Cale's group

“F, finally!”

hear the Mercenary

faintly see some shining stones past

the entrance! They are

laughed for the first time in an hour. He then heard Ron’s

warm and gentle

my, it sure took a long time to get here. Mercenary King Bud, can you make some time to chat with

oddly felt as if the hair on his back was starting to stand

was a warm voice, but it felt

let’s quickly head over

and finally arrived at the end of the

the shining stones

the light on the stones disappearing

touched

Boooooooom-

started

started to speak in

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came to a

Boom!

appeared

“Please follow me.”

Mercenary King crawled into the entrance before

going to turn the lights

and slowly started to see a

Flash. Flash. Flash.

turn on one by

crawled through a small tunnel in order to get to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”