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.

toward the Mercenary

“So let’s hurry on.”

take care of the tasks at

“…Is this really necessary?”

the one who asked

terrible frown on his face as he

a

tiny tunnel that an average adult male could barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s meticulously combed hair

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

Beacrox sighing and grumbling like

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

free city located in the central

the Mercenaries Guild was built in the past, and it was

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

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

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

crawling in front of Beacrox, made a

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown even

neither Choi Han nor Beacrox could

of you should

they heard the

crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

at the front of the group was

He started to speak.

will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses magic in

circles throughout the

advanced magic circles did not match the

that only the Mercenaries Guild’s top leaders knew about. They made sure that no unauthorized person could use magic

“Enough, just keep moving.”

voice made Bud flinch before he started to quickly crawl once again. He said just one more thing to

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

It was the truth.

about bringing Cale here quickly but stealthily made the Mercenary King forget about the unique nature

Ron's voice at that moment. It

is located at the end of

Bud felt that that voice was

almost sounded like a

that Bud was

Bud quickly shouted back.

end of this tunnel,

King’s mage friend was currently stealthily entering the

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

have been crawling for

was the current

had been crawling

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

“We can rest again!”

one sweating so

sweat became even worse after

and leisurely flying around while On and

nine-years-old who were tiny were just amazed by

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

the only thing Bud

hurry up and

seeing Cale make a comment instead

back a chuckle at

His arms were shaking.

twice while crawling for

he had had

ignored the excessive concerns of

was quickly moving. He was thinking about what Bud

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

in the forest

in that

magic circles created by the

only passage to the location

asked in

is the

had

first Mercenaries Guild’s

not have a path down to the

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

that area will explode if someone tries to infiltrate it using any

group was

“F, finally!”

the Mercenary King’s excited

see some shining stones

are the entrance! They are on

first time in an hour. He

warm

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

felt as if the hair on his back was

warm voice,

let’s quickly head

and finally arrived at the end of

touched the shining stones

the light on the stones disappearing as the Mercenary King

he touched the final

Boooooooom-

tunnel started to

to speak in

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came to a

Boom!

new entrance appeared with

“Please follow me.”

watched as the Mercenary King crawled into the entrance before he

going to turn the

a click and slowly

Flash. Flash. Flash.

started to turn on

crawled through a small tunnel in order to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”