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

“So let’s hurry on.”

of the tasks

“…Is this really necessary?”

one who asked

terrible frown on his face

in a completely

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

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

Beacrox sighing

looked at the dust on his body and continued to frown.

City, a free city located in

was built in the past, and it was where the building that was now

three-story wooden

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

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

was crawling in

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to frown even

Choi Han nor Beacrox

of you should shut

because they heard the ancient Dragon’s low

crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

at the front of

He started to speak.

if an unauthorized person uses magic in

circles throughout the

magic circles did not match

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

“Enough, just keep moving.”

voice made Bud flinch before he started to quickly crawl once again. He

something in advance, but I didn't remember it until we got

It was the truth.

the Mercenary King forget about the unique nature

at that moment. It was a

is located at the end of

that

almost sounded

as if Ron was saying that Bud was dead if

Bud quickly shouted back.

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

Mercenary King’s mage friend was currently stealthily

group alone, couldn’t help but

have been crawling for the past

the

group had been crawling for one

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

“We can rest again!”

only one sweating so

even worse after hearing the children

On and Hong were easily walking in

who were tiny were

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

was the only thing Bud

up and

to crawl faster after seeing Cale make a comment instead of

held back a chuckle at

His arms were shaking.

crawling for an

he had had

the excessive concerns of the

his mind was quickly moving. He was thinking about what

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

house built in the forest

was in that

was thoroughly hidden by magic circles created by

passage to

had asked in

is the Directory

King had smiled

first

three-story wooden building did not have a

that stored the Directory, which could be considered the

explode if someone tries to infiltrate it using any

Cale's group was currently crawling through the

“F, finally!”

hear the

could faintly see some shining

are the entrance! They

laughed for the first time in

was a warm and gentle

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

if the hair on his back was

a warm voice, but it

let’s quickly

continued to crawl and finally arrived at the end of the

the shining stones

see the light on the stones

touched the

Boooooooom-

tunnel started to

speak

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came

Boom!

appeared

“Please follow me.”

the Mercenary King crawled into the entrance before he

to turn

a click and slowly started to see

Flash. Flash. Flash.

turn on one

a small tunnel in order to get to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”