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 King

“So let’s hurry on.”

of the tasks at hand

“…Is this really necessary?”

the one who asked

his face as he crawled on the

were in a

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

buildings because you said we

was rare to see Beacrox sighing and grumbling like

dust on his body and continued

a free city located in the

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

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

purchased land inside Resting City about two hundred years ago and built a new central headquarters that

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

who was crawling in front of Beacrox, made

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown even

nor Beacrox

of you

they heard the ancient

crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

the front of the group

He started to speak.

HQ will be alerted if an unauthorized

magic circles throughout

circles did not match the

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

“Enough, just keep moving.”

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

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

It was the truth.

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

at that moment. It was a decently warm

Directory is located at the end

felt that that voice was

sounded like a

was saying that Bud was dead if the Directory was

Bud quickly shouted back.

sir! The room with the Directory is at the end of

Mercenary King’s mage friend was currently stealthily entering the

alone, couldn’t help but shake after hearing

is why we have been crawling for

was the current

been crawling for one

we rest again? Your arms are shaking! Is it tiring? Should I give you another apple

“We can rest again!”

the only one sweating

sweat became even worse after hearing

while On and Hong

who were tiny were just amazed by

central headquarters will be alerted if an unauthorized

only thing

hurry up

to crawl faster after seeing

a chuckle at Bud's

His arms were shaking.

twice while crawling

muscles he had had gone down,

ignored the excessive concerns of the

thinking about what Bud Illis had said before

Mercenaries Guild

in the forest outside

in

by magic circles created by

only passage

had asked

is the

King had smiled before responding

the first Mercenaries Guild’s

did not have a path down to

Directory, which could be considered the Mercenaries Guild’s most important pieces of

someone tries to infiltrate it using any

reason Cale's group was currently

“F, finally!”

the

some shining

the entrance! They are

in an hour. He then heard

warm

Mercenary King Bud,

oddly felt as if the hair on his back was

was a warm voice, but it

let’s quickly head

to crawl and finally arrived

shining

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

touched

Boooooooom-

started to

speak

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came to a

Boom!

new entrance appeared with a loud

“Please follow me.”

Mercenary King crawled into the entrance before

going to turn the lights

then heard a click and slowly

Flash. Flash. Flash.

turn on

a small tunnel in order to

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”