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 quietly added

“So let’s hurry on.”

the tasks at hand

“…Is this really necessary?”

the one

on his face

in a completely dark

barely crawl through, so

we were heading toward the marble buildings because you said we were going

was rare to see Beacrox sighing and

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

a free city located in the central region of the

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

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

central headquarters in the past, however, the Mercenaries Guild purchased land inside Resting City about

marble that was famous for

was crawling in front of

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown even

Han nor Beacrox could say

of you should

was because they heard the ancient Dragon’s low

crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

who was crawling at the front of the group was

He started to speak.

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

circles throughout

did not

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

“Enough, just keep moving.”

crawl once again.

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

It was the truth.

stealthily made the Mercenary King forget about the unique nature of

at that moment.

located at the end

Bud felt that

almost sounded like

Bud was dead

Bud quickly shouted back.

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

friend was currently stealthily

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

why we have been crawling for the

the current

had been crawling for

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

“We can rest again!”

only one sweating so

cold sweat became even worse after

was fluttering his wings and leisurely flying around while On and Hong

tiny were just amazed by

alerted if an unauthorized person uses ancient powers

only thing

up and

to crawl faster after seeing Cale make a comment instead of

back a

His arms were shaking.

they had rested twice while crawling for

had gone down, he had not become a

just ignored the excessive concerns of

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

was created when the Mercenaries Guild

built in the forest outside Resting City’s

in

house was thoroughly hidden by magic circles created

passage to the location of

had asked

is the Directory

had

first Mercenaries

three-story wooden building did not have a path down to

a secret area that stored the Directory, which could

someone tries to

reason Cale's group was currently crawling

“F, finally!”

hear the Mercenary

see some shining

entrance! They are on the

the first time in an

was a warm

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

if the hair on his back was starting to

voice, but it

let’s quickly

to crawl and finally arrived

touched the shining

light on the stones disappearing as

he touched the

Boooooooom-

tunnel started

speak

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came

Boom!

entrance appeared with

“Please follow me.”

as the Mercenary King crawled into the entrance

turn

click and slowly started

Flash. Flash. Flash.

to turn

a small tunnel in order

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”