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.”

needed to take care of the tasks at hand

“…Is this really necessary?”

one who

on his

in a completely

adult male could barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s meticulously combed

marble buildings

to see Beacrox

dust on his body and continued to frown.

located in

past, and it was where

base was an old three-story wooden building in the outskirts

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

marble that was famous for

Han, who was crawling in front of Beacrox,

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to

nor Beacrox could say anything

you should shut

heard the ancient Dragon’s

crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

Bud Illis who was crawling at the

He started to speak.

The HQ will be alerted if an unauthorized

were magic circles throughout

did not match

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 end of

“Enough, just keep moving.”

quickly crawl once again. He said just one

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

It was the truth.

the Mercenary King forget about the unique

voice at that moment.

Directory is located at the end of

felt that that voice was

almost sounded like

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 is why

was currently

alone, couldn’t help but shake after hearing Ron's

why we have been crawling for

was the current

had been crawling for

Your arms are shaking! Is it tiring? Should I give you

“We can rest again!”

one sweating so

even worse after hearing the

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

tiny were just amazed by this

alerted if an unauthorized person uses

was the only thing

hurry up

after seeing Cale make

held back a chuckle at

His arms were shaking.

crawling for

muscles he had had gone down, he had not become

excessive concerns of the children

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

when the Mercenaries Guild was small and

house built in the

tunnel was in that house’s

by magic

only passage to

asked

exactly is the Directory

had

the first Mercenaries

wooden building did not have

area that stored the Directory, which could be considered the Mercenaries

tries to

was the reason Cale's group was currently

“F, finally!”

hear the

faintly see some shining stones

entrance! They are on

time in an hour. He

warm

to get here. Mercenary King Bud,

oddly felt as if the hair on his

was a warm voice, but it felt

let’s quickly

King quickly continued to crawl and finally arrived at the end

shining stones here

the light on the stones disappearing

touched the

Boooooooom-

tunnel started to

speak

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came

Boom!

appeared with

“Please follow me.”

King crawled into

to turn the

a click and slowly started to

Flash. Flash. Flash.

lights started to turn on one

in order to get to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”