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.

their hand on Raon's

“Raon, cancel the spell.”

“…Fine. Human.”

the spell. The crackling noise disappeared and Raon appeared in front of them while pouting. Cale noticed that Raon’s

because of the mana

about Raon’s condition and Choi Han

at my

hand

decent amount of mana after reaching this stage. Cale-nim, you and the civilians who don’t use mana or aura might not notice

Squeeze.

unclenched his fists. The shaking

the point that the shaking of the

gaze headed toward

terrible for Raon

not feel mana. Cale looked toward Raon as well while Raon stretched

paws do not shake because of

one thing if he wasn't stuttering, but this young Dragon was not good at lying to Cale. He turned his

is getting especially bad starting

I believe the mana would be even more chaotic once we

Han looked at each other before they both looked toward Raon at the same time. Raon urgently shouted as soon

am great and mighty! I’m going to do

and timidly added on after seeing Choi Han

Miru will be waiting outside. I alone

about this, but they could not enter into the city with Raon who could

feels like

was able to estimate the pain

‘…Anyway, this is bad.’

Raon would make things quite difficult for Cale’s group. They would not be able to avoid the enemies’ gazes by being invisible nor

we can

voice reached the still mumbling Raon's ears as Choi Han’s mind started to get

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

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

dye magic

I am great and mighty! I can maintain at least one type of

“Is that so?”

are you laughing

did not answer Raon's question

We have a lot of things to

the lowered ivory hood looked around in a

“Cale-nim.”

“Quiet.”

Han before recording everything outside with a

Lord’s Castle is over

of the ordinary during their trip to this alley from the city walls. Everything was the same as the Dubori territory he visited

Castle. But we did not

but had

“What do you think?”

think the Lord’s Castle is the center of the mana

hiding in the shadows of the alley as they focused their gazes

cruel that the residents would rather escape to the desert

way here, but at the Lord’s

“I know.”

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 Dubori territory's

be? The

Star’s subordinates are

“That’s right.”

the desert entrance started to head toward the street in front of where Cale and

“They're coming.”

Tap.

Cale, whose physical strength was significantly lacking compared to Choi Han and those soldiers, hid in the

‘Damn it!’

to hide in such an embarrassing fashion every time the soldiers passed by since he didn’t have Raon to cast invisibility. Choi Han had his hand on his scabbard and lowered

were slowly

“Hmm?”

them

“What the…?”

“Huh?”

toward one spot. Their gazes moved toward

the

Caw, caw.

Caw, caw.

crows suddenly come

I was shocked because I saw

few crows who suddenly appeared in the clear sky circled the soldiers’ heads. One or two landed on the stone wall at the edge of the

of the crows on the wall clean itself snorted before

guess there’s some rotten food

probably a dead animal or something. Last

crows better than

“That is true.”

“Ahem, hem! Everybody, focus!”

soldiers shut up and stood up straight after hearing

today for the esteemed guests of the Lord-nim! It’ll be chaotic until night time, so everybody needs to

“Yes, sir!”

“Yes, captain!”

ten soldiers quickly headed toward the Lord’s

Caw. Caw.

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

The crow

“Cale-nim.”

mouth. Cale started to smile and his

“I met with Raon-nim.”

been