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 added

“So let’s hurry on.”

to take care of the tasks at hand

“…Is this really necessary?”

one who asked that

was a terrible frown on his face as he

were in a completely

barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s meticulously combed hair

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

rare to see Beacrox sighing and

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

in the central region of the Eastern

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

original Mercenaries Guild base was an old three-story

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

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

was crawling in front of Beacrox, made

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown even

Choi Han nor Beacrox could say anything

you should

was because they heard the ancient

crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

crawling at the front of the group

He started to speak.

sorry. The HQ will be alerted if an

magic circles throughout

advanced magic circles did not match the shabby

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

“Enough, just keep moving.”

started to quickly crawl once again. He said

should have said something in advance, but I didn't remember it until we

It was the truth.

but stealthily made the Mercenary King forget

voice at that moment. It was a

at the end of

Bud felt that that voice

sounded

Bud was dead if the

Bud quickly shouted back.

end of this tunnel, patriarch-nim! That is why

Mercenary King’s mage friend was currently stealthily

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

is why we have

was the current

been crawling

shaking! Is it tiring? Should I give you another apple pie?

“We can rest again!”

the only one

worse after hearing the children averaging

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

averaging nine-years-old who were tiny

if an

the only thing Bud

hurry up and

crawl faster after seeing

a chuckle at

His arms were shaking.

while crawling for an

had had gone down, he had not become a

excessive concerns of the

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

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

in the forest outside

was in that

magic

only passage to the

asked in

is

King had

first

building did not have a

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

if someone tries to infiltrate it using any

was the reason Cale's group

“F, finally!”

could hear the Mercenary King’s excited

could faintly see some shining stones past

shining stones are the entrance!

for the first time in an hour. He then

warm and

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

oddly felt as if the hair on

a warm voice, but it

let’s quickly head

King quickly continued to crawl and finally arrived at

touched the shining

could see the light on the stones disappearing as the Mercenary King

touched the final

Boooooooom-

started

speak

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came

Boom!

new entrance appeared with a loud

“Please follow me.”

King crawled into the

to turn the

a click and slowly started to see a large

Flash. Flash. Flash.

lights started to turn on one

a small tunnel in order to get to this

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”