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

“So let’s hurry on.”

needed to take care of the

“…Is this really necessary?”

was the one who asked that

on his face as

a

an average adult male could barely crawl through,

buildings because

was rare to see Beacrox sighing and

on his body and continued to frown. His white gloves were already extremely

free city located in the central region of

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

an old three-story

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

was a building built with marble that was

was crawling in front of Beacrox, made

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown even

Han nor Beacrox

you should shut

was because they heard the

was crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

who was crawling at the

He started to speak.

if an unauthorized person uses magic in this

magic circles throughout the

circles did not match the

sure that no unauthorized person could use magic in the tunnel and the area at the end of the

“Enough, just keep moving.”

before he started to quickly crawl once again.

in advance, but I didn't remember it

It was the truth.

here quickly but stealthily made the Mercenary King forget about

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

at the end of this

that that voice was

almost sounded like

as if Ron was saying that Bud was dead if the

Bud quickly shouted back.

end of this tunnel, patriarch-nim! That is why I am leading the

mage friend was currently stealthily entering

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

have been crawling for

was the

had been crawling for

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

“We can rest again!”

one sweating so

even worse after

leisurely flying around while On and Hong were easily walking in

averaging nine-years-old who were tiny were just

be alerted if an unauthorized

only

hurry up and

after seeing Cale make a

held back a chuckle at Bud's

His arms were shaking.

had rested twice while crawling

amount of muscles he had had gone down, he had

excessive concerns of the children

He was thinking about what Bud Illis had said

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

small house built in the forest outside Resting

tunnel was in that house’s

by magic circles created by

only passage to

asked

exactly is the

had smiled before responding

first

did not have a path down to the

Directory, which could be

area will explode if someone tries to infiltrate

group

“F, finally!”

hear the Mercenary

could faintly see some

stones are the entrance! They are

first time in an hour. He then heard Ron’s

warm and gentle

get here. Mercenary King Bud, can you make some

as if the hair on his back

was a warm voice,

quickly

Mercenary King quickly continued to crawl and finally

the shining

see the light on the stones disappearing as the Mercenary

touched

Boooooooom-

tunnel started

to speak

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came

Boom!

entrance appeared with a

“Please follow me.”

Mercenary King crawled into the entrance before he

going to turn the

then heard a click and slowly started to see a large

Flash. Flash. Flash.

lights started to turn on one by

in order to get to this

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”