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

“So let’s hurry on.”

to take care of the tasks at hand as quickly as

“…Is this really necessary?”

one who asked

frown on his face as

were in a completely

male could barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s

the marble buildings because you said

Beacrox sighing and

dust on his body and continued

in the central

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

old three-story wooden building in the outskirts

Mercenaries Guild purchased land inside Resting City about two hundred years ago and built a

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

in front

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to frown

neither Choi Han nor Beacrox could say anything

you

they heard

was crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

who was crawling at the front of the group was

He started to speak.

HQ will be alerted if

magic circles

circles did not

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 the

“Enough, just keep moving.”

to quickly crawl once again. He said just one more

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

It was the truth.

made the Mercenary King

at that moment. It

at the end

Bud felt that that

sounded like a

that Bud was dead if

Bud quickly shouted back.

sir! The room with the Directory is at the end of this tunnel, patriarch-nim! That

King’s mage friend was currently

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

we have been crawling

was the

group had been crawling

human! Should we rest again? Your arms are shaking! Is it tiring? Should I give you another apple pie? Human, we have already rested twice, but we can rest again if you’re

“We can rest again!”

one sweating

sweat became even worse after hearing

On and Hong were easily walking in the tunnel in their kitten

were tiny were just

be alerted if an unauthorized person uses ancient

the only thing Bud

up and

crawl faster after seeing Cale make a

a chuckle at Bud's

His arms were shaking.

twice while crawling for an hour.

if the amount of muscles he had had gone down, he had

concerns of the children

thinking about what Bud Illis had

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

small house built in the forest outside Resting

tunnel was in that house’s

was thoroughly hidden by magic circles created

only passage to the location of the

had asked

is the Directory

Mercenary King had

first Mercenaries Guild’s

building did not have a path

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

will explode if someone tries to infiltrate it using any type

group was currently crawling through the

“F, finally!”

could hear the Mercenary

faintly see some

stones are the entrance! They are on

in an hour. He

was a warm and gentle

time to get here. Mercenary King Bud, can you

felt as if the hair on his

was a warm voice, but it felt very

let’s quickly head

Mercenary King quickly continued to crawl and finally

shining stones here

the stones disappearing

he touched the

Boooooooom-

tunnel started to

to speak in

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came to

Boom!

entrance appeared with a loud

“Please follow me.”

into the entrance before he followed

going to turn

a click and slowly

Flash. Flash. Flash.

to turn on one

a small tunnel in order to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”