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's

“Raon, cancel the spell.”

“…Fine. Human.”

disappeared and Raon appeared in front of them

it because of the mana

about Raon’s condition

at

hand

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

Squeeze.

unclenched his fists. The shaking instantly

It is to the point that the shaking of the mana can be felt by a

headed

it is terrible for Raon and

not feel mana. Cale looked toward Raon as well

Raon Miru’s front paws

young Dragon was not good at lying to Cale. He turned his gaze

especially bad starting from about 500 meters away from

mana would be even more chaotic once we enter past

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

you! I am great and mighty! I’m going to

then shrugged his shoulders and timidly added on after seeing Choi Han and Cale’s

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

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

probably feels like he's

to estimate the pain Raon was feeling while using magic

‘…Anyway, this is bad.’

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

it's not like we can just not

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

or Rosalyn cannot overcome this level of mana disturbance… This is not possible… This is closer to mana chaos than mana

mean you

at his hair and Choi Han's hair. Raon’s magic was not completely undone. The dye magic

magic is

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

“Is that so?”

Why are you laughing like that

did not answer Raon's question and nudged Choi Han’s

We have a lot

lowered ivory hood looked around in a shaded part of the

“Cale-nim.”

“Quiet.”

recording

Castle is

from the

seem to be the Lord’s Castle. But we did not see any knights or mages

soldiers but had not seen any of

“What do you think?”

is the center of

hiding in the shadows of the alley as they focused

to the desert was probably the reason the Lord’s Castle was quite large

way here, but at the Lord’s Castle

“I know.”

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 Dubori territory's

could these soldiers be? The

White Star’s subordinates

“That’s right.”

at the desert entrance started to head toward the street in front of where Cale and Choi Han were

“They're coming.”

Tap.

to Choi Han and those soldiers, hid in

‘Damn it!’

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

soldiers were

“Hmm?”

of them stopped

“What the…?”

“Huh?”

Their gazes moved toward an alley they

of the soldiers tightened their

Caw, caw.

Caw, caw.

crows suddenly

shocked because I saw something

suddenly appeared in the clear sky circled the soldiers’ heads. One or two landed on the stone wall

wall clean itself snorted before releasing his grip

some rotten

or something.

crows better

“That is true.”

“Ahem, hem! Everybody, focus!”

chatting soldiers shut up and stood up straight after hearing

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

“Yes, sir!”

“Yes, captain!”

ten soldiers quickly headed

Caw. Caw.

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

The

“Cale-nim.”

mouth. Cale

“I met with Raon-nim.”

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