Trash of the Count's Family

Ron turned his head.

He could see the rest of the group laying down on the ground.

Beacrox, Choi Han, and the children averaging nine-years-old looked especially tired.

Only Eruhaben was still by Cale’s side and looking through a book.

It was at that moment.

Someone entered through the library door.

“…It’s almost been a week.”

It was Bud Illis.

One week.

That was how long Cale had been in this area.

Cale had been reading through the books here while saving the smallest amounts of time for necessities.

“How about you take a break?”

Bud could see that Cale was reading even as he was talking. It would be exactly one week in about two or three hours.

Bud had no choice but to be brutally honest.

“You couldn’t find the first in the end.”

The first incarnation.

Everyone started to frown.

Even the ancient Dragon stopped reading the book.

The White Star was said to have reincarnated for about 1,000 years.

That was how he was able to create the Dragon half-blood who had lived for 900 years.

‘That means that the first incarnation should have appeared on the Eastern continent about 1,000 years ago.’

Eruhaben had already heard from Cale that the Dragon Slayer village was supposedly located in the Eastern continent's Castle of Light.

In that case, there was an extremely high chance that the first White Star would have been recorded in the Eastern continent's strong individuals directory.

‘We also looked two hundred years after that, just in case.’

However, there was nobody they suspected of being the first incarnation.

Of course, they looked at records of people who used ancient powers or earned them, but there was nobody in possession of any ancient powers with enough destructive powers like the White Star.

“Cale, think about it.”

Bud approached Cale.

“The White Star must have hidden his powers. He survived for 1,000 years by pretending to be weak. That is how he avoided the Directory.”

That was what Bud had proposed three days after they arrived here.

“Don't you agree? We only just learned about how he is a reincarnator or even his appearance for the first time in 1,000 years. I don't think looking through the Directory would help us learn about his past.”

However, what Bud heard back was not Cale's voice.

Shhhh. Shhh.

All he heard was the sound of pages turning.

The Mercenary King could also see Cale's red face and the sweat on Cale's forehead and back.

“…Crazy bastard.”

He ended up sharing his honest sentiments.

It could not be helped.

The Mercenary King had rubbed his arms that were covered in goosebumps quite often these past few days.

He could see the path that the quiet bastard had walked as he read.

He could see the large number of bookshelves behind Cale.

All of the books on these bookshelves had been read by Cale.

One week.

Cale had read 10,000 books while the others had managed to read two or three at max.

In fact, it looked more like turning the page was the thing taking the most toll on Cale.

‘Is he human?’

This was not a human's level of memory.

Nobody could have expected that Cale Henituse had such an ability.

However, Bud could not understand why Cale was using such an ability for such a useless task.

It was at that moment.

“Human-”

He could see others slowly approaching Cale.

It was On, Hong, and Raon.

“Human, isn’t it tiring? Should I give you an apple pie?”

“He’s sweating so much.”

“He can’t faint again.”

The children averaging nine-years-old roamed around Cale with concerned expressions. However, they could not get right up next to Cale.

They could not easily approach Cale, who was reading even as he sweated so much.

“Huh?! Human!”

However, Raon suddenly charged toward Cale.

as he reached

body started

about to faint as his entire body was burning

“Human, human!”

“Young master-nim.”

see Cale stumble for the first time since they arrived here. Bud did the

could see Cale looking at him as he stood

gaze made him

was a chilling

extremely cold gaze that was contrary to Cale’s

looked at Bud as

of the past Mercenary Kings

his head and

are strong individuals as

could see Cale start to smile

is nobody here that is suspected of being the White

already told

up and continued

get some rest now. You need to think about the future! Why would a smart person like

“Mercenary King.”

Cale cut Bud off.

King? What about

Bud asked back.

the

“It's not there.”

“Huh?”

wider as he looked

out

majority of strong individuals on

person who should have been on this Directory the most

“The first Mercenary King.”

been the easiest for the Mercenaries Guild to record when they created the Directory, but was not

of

turned grim after hearing

felt as if he had been

he had thought about

“…Perhaps?”

of Bud and the other

Cale quickly responded back.

first Mercenary King. Who was he? What powers did

Cale’s smile became bright.

Star. Why is my intuition telling me

White Star would have come out into the world after destroying his village and killing his family and

bastard was, he would

would have needed

have needed a job that he could easily start in

Being a mercenary.

a job

strong individual to build a

there was no need to bring up his past or for it

Directory had no record whatsoever of the

The White Star.

that bastard tried to hide

the records of the first

focused on the current Mercenary King

“…It is not here.”

not

there. It’s

started to shake as he

his name are here, but that’s the only

finally realized

had not even thought much about it resurfaced in

had looked for this information

odd. The first Mercenary King was the only one whose powers and details of

brushed back his hair after feeling

why… That is why I! I contacted the city's library and libraries around the Eastern continent and asked

calm unlike the frazzled Bud, asked

“You asked, and…?”

“Ha!”

out

know what

he was a sword master and the Mercenary King, Bud had always liked books since he was young and enjoyed searching for and thinking about

was the information such a person had found about

Mercenary King who created the large faction that managed to survive on the Eastern continent while many kingdoms rose and fell for 1,000 years. He was the role model for

as he

“That’s all I found.”

was all of the information on the first Mercenary

records of the beginning of the

this because he was a hero of

looked at Cale who was smiling with a tired expression and

it on

“Who knows?”

a short

don't know. I don't know whether the first Mercenary King is the White Star or not.

in at that

The first Mercenary King is someone who suddenly

face. Bud had

Pat. Pat.

Han on the

just suddenly appears in the world. Something like that can

toward Cale. However, Cale was looking at Bud and the others as he

on that person's history from

could see Cale turn his head to look

what Cale had told him

the Henituse territory battle

‘It’s your turn.’

was something for me to

all of

history

Cale’s response to his question.

history that

slowly started to

naturally moved

“In addition.”

because of the story about the White Star and the first Mercenary

to say something else. That is why

have spent all week to figure this out about the first Mercenary

before continuing

is something you could have figured out within 100 years worth of records, but you spent all week reading thousands of the record books.