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.

the Mercenary King and quietly

“So let’s hurry on.”

take care of the tasks at hand as quickly

“…Is this really necessary?”

the one who asked

terrible frown on his face as he crawled

a

male could barely crawl

we were heading toward the marble buildings because you said

was rare to see Beacrox sighing

dust on his body and continued

in

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

three-story wooden building in the outskirts of Resting

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

with marble that was

Han, who was crawling in front of

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown

Choi Han nor Beacrox could say anything

you should

heard

crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

King Bud Illis who was crawling at the

He started to speak.

sorry. The HQ will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses magic

magic circles throughout

magic circles did not

They made sure that

“Enough, just keep moving.”

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

but I didn't remember it until

It was the truth.

quickly but stealthily made the Mercenary King forget about the unique

voice at that moment. It was

at the

Bud felt that that voice was

almost sounded like a

sounded as if Ron was saying that Bud was dead if the Directory was not

Bud quickly shouted back.

room with the Directory is at the end of this tunnel, patriarch-nim! That is why I am

Mercenary King’s mage friend was currently stealthily

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

have been

was the current

been crawling for one

Is it tiring? Should I give you another apple pie? Human, we have

“We can rest again!”

the only one

cold sweat became even worse after hearing

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

tiny were just amazed by

alerted if an unauthorized person uses

the only thing Bud

up

after seeing Cale make

held back a chuckle

His arms were shaking.

they had rested twice while crawling for an hour.

had had gone down, he had not become

excessive concerns of the children

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

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

small house built in the forest

in

house was thoroughly hidden by magic circles created by the

the only passage to the

asked

is the

had smiled before

first

have a path

area that stored the Directory, which could

tries to infiltrate it using any type

the reason Cale's group was currently crawling through the

“F, finally!”

the Mercenary King’s

faintly see some shining

entrance! They are on

the first time in an hour.

a warm and

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

felt as if the hair on

warm voice, but it felt very

let’s quickly head

crawl and finally

touched the shining stones

on the stones disappearing as the Mercenary

once he touched

Boooooooom-

started to

to speak in an excited

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came to

Boom!

new entrance appeared with a loud

“Please follow me.”

crawled into the entrance

going to turn the

heard a click and slowly started to see

Flash. Flash. Flash.

lights started to turn

had crawled through a small tunnel in order to get to this large

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”