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

“So let’s hurry on.”

the tasks at hand as quickly

“…Is this really necessary?”

was the one who asked

was a terrible frown on his face as he crawled on the

were in a completely dark

could barely crawl through, so Beacrox’s meticulously combed hair was being

marble buildings because you said we

was rare to see Beacrox sighing and grumbling

dust on his body and continued to

located in the central region of the Eastern

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

old three-story wooden building in the outskirts of

the Mercenaries Guild purchased land inside Resting City about two hundred years ago and built a new central headquarters that was quite

building built with marble that was

who was crawling in front of Beacrox, made

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

started to frown even

Han nor Beacrox could

of you

heard the ancient Dragon’s

crawling

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

who was crawling at the front of the group was starting to cold

He started to speak.

if an unauthorized person uses

circles throughout the

advanced magic circles did not match the shabby

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

“Enough, just keep moving.”

before he started to quickly crawl once again. He said

advance, but I

It was the truth.

the Mercenary King forget about the unique

Ron's voice at that moment. It was a

the end of this

Bud felt that that

sounded like a

as if Ron was saying that Bud was

Bud quickly shouted back.

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

Mercenary King’s mage friend was currently stealthily entering

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

is why we have been crawling for

was the current

been crawling for

you another apple pie? Human, we have already rested twice,

“We can rest again!”

one sweating so

even worse after hearing the children

his wings and leisurely flying around while On and Hong were easily

nine-years-old who were tiny were

headquarters will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses

only thing Bud

up and

crawl faster after seeing

a

His arms were shaking.

rested twice while crawling for an hour.

the amount of muscles he had had gone down,

ignored the excessive concerns of

what Bud Illis

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

the forest outside Resting

in that

hidden by magic circles created

is the only passage to the

had asked

exactly is the Directory

Mercenary King had smiled

the first Mercenaries

wooden building did not have a

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

area will explode if someone tries to infiltrate it using

was the reason Cale's group was currently

“F, finally!”

the Mercenary King’s excited

faintly see some shining

entrance! They

time in an hour. He then heard Ron’s

warm

it sure took a long time to get here. Mercenary King

oddly felt as if the hair on his back was starting

warm voice, but it felt

let’s quickly

crawl and finally arrived at the end of the

touched the shining

could see the light on the stones

he touched

Boooooooom-

started to

speak

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

came to a

Boom!

new entrance appeared with

“Please follow me.”

watched as the Mercenary King crawled into the entrance

going to turn the

heard a click and slowly started to see

Flash. Flash. Flash.

lights started to turn on one by

a small tunnel in order to get to this large

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”