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.

back toward the Mercenary King and

“So let’s hurry on.”

care of the tasks at

“…Is this really necessary?”

one who

frown on his

were in a completely dark

that an average adult male could barely crawl

toward the marble buildings

rare to see Beacrox

the dust on his body and continued to

a free city located in the

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

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

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

marble that was famous for its beautiful

in

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown even

nor

of you should shut

because they heard the ancient

was crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

King Bud Illis who was crawling at the front of the group was starting to

He started to speak.

be alerted if an unauthorized

circles

circles did not match the

Guild’s top leaders knew about. They made sure that no unauthorized person could use magic in the tunnel and

“Enough, just keep moving.”

crawl once again.

in advance, but I didn't remember it until

It was the truth.

here quickly but stealthily made the Mercenary King forget about the unique

Ron's voice at that moment. It was a decently

is located at the end of

Bud felt that that

almost sounded like a

Bud was dead if the Directory was not

Bud quickly shouted back.

Directory is at the end of this tunnel, patriarch-nim! That is why I

King’s mage friend was currently stealthily entering the central

alone, couldn’t help but

have

was the

group had been crawling

you another apple pie? Human, we have already rested twice, but we can rest again if

“We can rest again!”

the only one

worse after hearing the children averaging

while On and Hong were easily

were tiny

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

was the only thing Bud

up

crawl faster after seeing

back a chuckle at

His arms were shaking.

had rested twice while crawling for an hour. Cale was

had gone down, he had not become a complete

just ignored the excessive concerns

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

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

in the forest outside Resting City’s

was in that

house was thoroughly hidden by magic circles created by the Mercenaries

tunnel is the only passage

asked

is the Directory

Mercenary King had smiled before responding

first Mercenaries

did not have a path down to the

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

area will explode if someone tries to infiltrate it using any

Cale's group was currently

“F, finally!”

hear the

see some shining stones

the entrance! They are on

laughed for the first time in an hour.

was a warm

time to get here. Mercenary King Bud, can you make some time to chat

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

voice, but it felt very

let’s quickly head

and finally arrived at the end of the

shining stones

the light on the stones disappearing as the Mercenary King touched

touched the

Boooooooom-

tunnel started

to speak

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came to a

Boom!

appeared with a loud

“Please follow me.”

the Mercenary King crawled into the entrance before he

going to turn the lights

slowly started

Flash. Flash. Flash.

lights started to turn on one by

small tunnel in order to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”