Trash of the Count's Family

Brown hair fluttered in the wind. A country farmhouse on the outskirts of the Dubori territory. It was near the desert, but plants still grew decently here.

Shaaaaaaaaaaa-

However, there were also barren areas that people didn’t touch.

Shaaaaaaaaaaa-

A strand of wind was passing through one of those areas. The owner of the fluttering brown hair reached his hand to lower his ivory-colored hood. It covered his brown hair. Human! The mana disturbance is getting worse the closer we get!

Cale bit down on his lips.

“Cale-nim.”

Choi Han who had light beige-colored hair was running with him.

“We are increasing our speed.”

Swoooooooosh-

The Sound of the Wind coming out of Cale's hand surrounded Cale and Choi Han whose hairs were dyed with magic, as well as the invisible Raon and increased their speed. Human! I see the central small city over there!

Cale looked toward the small city with the Lord’s castle. It was the location with the entrance to the Land of Death. The mana disturbance is getting worse the closer we get to it!

That meant that that was where the White Star or whatever the White Star did was located.

‘That’s also where that illusionist or whatever is as well.’

He was holding onto the golden top's whip, but had not heard anything yet. Cale was rational but slightly rushed as he headed down the mountain and toward the Dubori territory.

Swoooooooosh-

That sense of urgency raised the speed of the wind surrounding the two humans and one Dragon.

‘Now about 600 meters.’

They were about 600 meters away from the wall surrounding the small city. They would soon be able to jump over the wall.

"We will jump over the wall as effectively as possible.”

Cale gave the order to Raon and Choi Han before starting to observe the soldiers on top of the wall.

‘The citizens on our way here, as well as the soldiers over there, they all seem fine.’

They were too relaxed to be acting and the soldiers seemed to be their usual relaxed and lethargic selves who wanted to slack off if possible. There was no sense of urgency nor anxiety coming from them.

‘And surprisingly…’

Cale's gaze headed far to the West.

‘We can't see the fire as soon as we entered the boundaries of the territory.’

The fire surrounding the Land of Death was not visible anymore.

‘Is all of this just an illusion?’

The Illusionist.

He didn't know who the Illusionist was, but if this was all the work of the Illusionist, then that person was extremely strong. Cale was getting a headache because of this new enemy but continued to press forward.

‘Now about 500 meters!’

They would soon arrive at the central location of this incident.

“Ugh!”

It was at that moment. Cale stopped moving.

“…Raon?”

He heard a child’s groan in the air. Cale's eyes urgently moved toward the empty air. He saw a spot that was warping.

Crackle, crackle.

A spot in the air was warping similar to the ripples created by a rock that had landed in a lake and Raon’s body appeared and disappeared back and forth.

“What's wrong?”

Cale became anxious seeing Raon like this while Choi Han reached out and hugged Raon before they quickly moved to a blind spot where the soldiers on the walls would not be able to see them.

Cale was following behind Choi Han when Choi Han reached one hand toward him.

“Hey, why are your hands shaking?”

Choi Han’s hand in front of him was shaking.

“One moment please.”

Choi Han asked Cale for a moment before laying Raon down on a soft patch of grass.

Crackle, crackle.

Raon’s body was still glitching, making Choi Han gently speak to Raon.

“Remove your invisibility magic.”

“I, I don't want to! The great and mighty Raon Miru cannot lose!”

He was stuttering a bit, but Raon sounded better than Cale expected. Raon curled his body and channeled more black mana.

Pat.

hand

“Raon, cancel the spell.”

“…Fine. Human.”

and his stern voice made Raon grumble as he canceled the spell. The crackling noise disappeared and Raon appeared in front of them while pouting.

it because of

Raon’s condition and Choi Han

at my

Han’s hand was still

I am able to feel a decent amount of mana after reaching this stage. Cale-nim, you and the civilians who don’t use mana

Squeeze.

Han clenched and then unclenched his fists.

extremely chaotic right now. It is to the point that the shaking of the mana can be felt by a swordsman

gaze headed

is terrible for Raon

the residents of the territory, and Cale were fine because they could not feel mana. Cale looked toward

The great and mighty Raon Miru’s front paws do not shake because of

stuttering, but this young Dragon was not good at lying to Cale. He turned his gaze

like that mana disturbance is getting especially bad starting from about 500 meters away from the

be even more chaotic once we enter past

looked toward Raon at the same time. Raon urgently shouted as soon as he

you! I am great and mighty!

added on

waiting outside. I alone will be here unable to do anything.

about this, but they could not enter into the city with Raon who could not maintain his invisibility and would continue to struggle because of the

like

the pain Raon was feeling while using magic right

‘…Anyway, this is bad.’

not enter with Raon would make things quite difficult for Cale’s group. They would not be able to avoid the enemies’ gazes by being invisible nor would they be able to teleport away if they ended up in

not like we can just not go

mumbling Raon's ears

to this stupid mana disturbance… I am not great and mighty… Even gramps or Rosalyn cannot overcome this level of mana disturbance… This is not possible… This is closer to mana chaos than mana disturbance… For

do you mean you can't do

toward Cale. Cale stood in front of the no longer invisible Raon and looked at his hair and

dye magic

and mighty! I can maintain at least

“Is that so?”

you laughing

did not answer Raon's question and nudged Choi

over the wall. We have a lot of things to

looked around in a shaded part of the

“Cale-nim.”

“Quiet.”

before recording everything

Castle

ordinary during their trip to this alley from the city walls. Everything was the

seem to be the Lord’s Castle. But we did not

had not seen any

“What do you think?”

Castle is the center of the mana

the

cruel that the residents would rather escape to the desert was probably the reason the

nim, something is weird. We didn’t see anyone on the way here, but at the Lord’s

“I know.”

than usual at the desert entrance. It was the same for the Lord’s Castle entrance as well. They still did not see any knights, but they saw soldiers who seemed to be trained better than the

soldiers be? The

White Star’s subordinates are disguised as

“That’s right.”

group of soldiers who were standing at the desert entrance started to head toward the street in front of where Cale and Choi

“They're coming.”

Tap.

and those soldiers, hid in the shadows as if he was crumpling his body since he had no

‘Damn it!’

have Raon

ten soldiers were slowly getting

“Hmm?”

them

“What the…?”

“Huh?”

soldiers all looked toward one spot. Their gazes moved

something black. One of the soldiers tightened their

Caw, caw.

Caw, caw.

did these crows suddenly come

I was shocked because I saw something

clear sky circled the soldiers’ heads. One or two landed on the stone wall at the edge of the alley while the other few started to fly

one of the crows on the wall clean itself snorted

some rotten food in that

animal or something. Last time it was

crows

“That is true.”

“Ahem, hem! Everybody, focus!”

and stood up straight

luxurious feast today for the esteemed guests of the Lord-nim! It’ll be

“Yes, sir!”

“Yes, captain!”

headed toward

Caw. Caw.

as it watched them before one of the crows that flew away returned and descended

of the alley… The crow landed on the crouching person's

“Cale-nim.”

crow's mouth. Cale started to smile and

“I met with Raon-nim.”

been