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 on

“Raon, cancel the spell.”

“…Fine. Human.”

his stern voice made Raon grumble as he canceled the spell. The crackling noise disappeared and Raon appeared in front of them while pouting. Cale noticed that Raon’s front paws were

it because of

Raon’s condition and Choi Han

look at

Han’s hand was

mainly use aura, but I am able to feel a decent amount of mana after reaching this stage. Cale-nim, you and

Squeeze.

Han clenched and then unclenched his fists.

in the air is extremely chaotic right now. It is to the point that

gaze headed

is terrible for Raon

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

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

this young Dragon was not good at lying to Cale. He

like that mana disturbance is getting especially bad starting from about

even more chaotic once we enter past the city

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

in with you! I am great and mighty! I’m

shrugged his shoulders and timidly added on after seeing Choi Han and

understand. The not great and mighty Raon Miru will be waiting outside. I alone

the city with Raon who could not maintain his invisibility and would continue to

feels like he's

pain

‘…Anyway, this is bad.’

make things quite difficult for Cale’s group. They would not be able to avoid the enemies’ gazes by being

like we can just not

mumbling Raon's ears as Choi Han’s mind

overcome this level of mana disturbance… This is not possible… This is closer to mana

do you mean

Raon and looked at his

dye magic is still

and mighty! I can

“Is that so?”

Why are you laughing like

answer Raon's question and nudged Choi Han’s

over the wall. We have

person with the lowered ivory hood looked around in a shaded part of

“Cale-nim.”

“Quiet.”

before recording everything outside with

Castle is

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

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

had not seen any of the

“What do you think?”

think the Lord’s Castle is the

the alley

the desert was probably the reason the Lord’s Castle was quite large and decorated

weird. We didn’t see anyone on the way here, but at the

“I know.”

toward the west. There were more soldiers than usual at the desert entrance. It was the same for the Lord’s Castle entrance as well. They still

be? The answer

Star’s subordinates are disguised

“That’s right.”

at the desert entrance

“They're coming.”

Tap.

strength was significantly lacking compared to Choi Han and those soldiers, hid in the shadows

‘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 his breathing as

ten soldiers were

“Hmm?”

of them stopped

“What the…?”

“Huh?”

Their gazes

the soldiers tightened

Caw, caw.

Caw, caw.

did these crows suddenly come

because I saw something

who suddenly appeared in the 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 in

soldier who watched one of the crows on the wall clean itself snorted before releasing his grip

rotten food

a dead animal or something. Last time it

crows better

“That is true.”

“Ahem, hem! Everybody, focus!”

soldiers shut up and stood up straight after hearing the veteran start

guests of the Lord-nim! It’ll be chaotic until night

“Yes, sir!”

“Yes, captain!”

ten soldiers quickly headed toward the

Caw. Caw.

the wall cawed as it watched them before one of the crows that flew away

alley… The crow landed on

“Cale-nim.”

a caw came out of the crow's mouth. Cale started to smile and his gaze headed toward the

“I met with Raon-nim.”

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