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.”

care of the tasks at hand

“…Is this really necessary?”

was the one who asked that

his face as he crawled on

were in a completely

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

toward the marble buildings because you

Beacrox sighing and grumbling

body and continued to

free city located in the central

where the first branch of the Mercenaries Guild was built in the past, and it was where the building that was

was an old three-story wooden

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

headquarters was a building built with marble that was

who was crawling in front of

“You're being so annoying.”

“…What did you say?”

to frown

neither Choi Han nor

of you should shut

they heard

crawling as

“Huff, huff, huff, huhuff-”

was crawling at the front

He started to speak.

sorry. The HQ will be alerted if

were magic circles throughout

did not

Guild’s top leaders knew about. They made sure that no unauthorized person

“Enough, just keep moving.”

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

said something in advance, but I

It was the truth.

bringing Cale here quickly but stealthily made the Mercenary King forget about the unique nature

Ron's voice at that moment. It was

the end

felt that

almost sounded

was saying that Bud was

Bud quickly shouted back.

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

mage friend was currently stealthily

left with Cale's group alone,

we have been crawling for the

was the current

been crawling for

Is it tiring? Should I give you

“We can rest again!”

one sweating

became even worse after hearing

while On and Hong were easily walking in the tunnel in their

tiny

will be alerted if an unauthorized person uses ancient

was the only thing Bud could

up and

started to crawl faster after seeing Cale

held back a chuckle at Bud's

His arms were shaking.

crawling for an

had had

concerns of

moving. He was thinking about what Bud Illis had said

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

the forest outside Resting City’s

was in

thoroughly hidden by magic circles created

only passage to the location of

had asked in

is the

had smiled

first

building did not have a path down to the

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

if someone tries to infiltrate it using any type of

group was currently crawling through the

“F, finally!”

could hear the Mercenary

could faintly see some shining stones

the entrance! They are on

laughed for the first time in an hour. He then

a warm and gentle

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

the hair on his back was

a warm voice, but

quickly head over

quickly continued to crawl and finally arrived at the end

shining

see the light on the stones

he touched the

Boooooooom-

started to

started to speak in an

“Here it is!”

Ooooooooong.

rumbling came to a

Boom!

entrance appeared

“Please follow me.”

King crawled into the entrance before he followed behind

to turn the

a click and slowly

Flash. Flash. Flash.

turn on

small tunnel in order to get to this large

Cale stood up.

He then looked around.

“…A library.”