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.

Mercenary King

“So let’s hurry on.”

the tasks at

“…Is this really necessary?”

one who asked that

frown on his face as

a

could barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s

buildings because you said we were going

to see Beacrox sighing and

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

in the central region of the Eastern

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

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

inside Resting City about two hundred years ago and built a new central

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

in front of

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to frown

Choi Han nor Beacrox could

you should

they heard the ancient Dragon’s low

crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

at the front of the group was

He started to speak.

I'm sorry. The HQ will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses magic in

magic circles throughout the

magic circles did

leaders knew about. They made sure that no unauthorized

“Enough, just keep moving.”

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

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

It was the truth.

Cale here quickly but stealthily made the Mercenary King forget about the unique nature of

that moment. It was a decently

the

felt that that

sounded

as if Ron was saying that Bud was

Bud quickly shouted back.

is at the end of this

was currently stealthily entering the central

alone, couldn’t help

have been crawling for

was the current

had been

tiring? Should I give you another apple pie? Human, we have already rested twice, but we

“We can rest again!”

the only one

even worse after hearing

his wings and leisurely flying around while On and Hong were easily walking in

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

will be alerted if an

the only thing Bud could

up and

started to crawl faster after seeing Cale make a comment instead

a

His arms were shaking.

they had rested twice while crawling for an hour.

muscles he had had gone down,

concerns of

quickly moving. He was thinking about what Bud Illis had

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

house built in the forest outside Resting

tunnel was in that

thoroughly hidden by magic circles

the only passage to the location of the

asked in

is

Mercenary King had smiled

first Mercenaries Guild’s

wooden building did not have a path down to the

basement had a secret area that stored the Directory, which could be considered the

explode if someone tries to infiltrate

the reason Cale's group was currently crawling through the

“F, finally!”

hear the Mercenary King’s

see some shining stones past

are the entrance!

first time in an hour. He then heard

warm and

to get here. Mercenary King

on his back was

voice, but

quickly head

Mercenary King quickly continued to crawl and finally arrived at the

touched the shining

stones disappearing as the Mercenary King touched

once he touched

Boooooooom-

started to

speak in an excited

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came to

Boom!

new entrance appeared with a

“Please follow me.”

into the entrance before he

going to turn

and slowly started

Flash. Flash. Flash.

to turn on one by

small tunnel in order to get to this large

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”