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.

placed their hand

“Raon, cancel the spell.”

“…Fine. Human.”

grumble as he canceled the spell. The crackling noise disappeared and Raon appeared in front of them while pouting. Cale noticed that

it because of the

asked about Raon’s condition and Choi Han

look at my

Han’s hand

feel a decent amount of mana after reaching this stage. Cale-nim, you and the civilians who

Squeeze.

unclenched his fists.

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

headed

sure it is terrible for Raon and others who use

could not feel mana.

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

not good at lying to Cale. He turned his

disturbance is getting especially bad starting from about 500 meters away from the city

mana would be even more

toward Raon at the same time. Raon

I am great and

shrugged his shoulders and timidly added on after seeing

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

bad about this, but they could not enter into the city with Raon who could not maintain his invisibility and

probably feels like

estimate the pain Raon was feeling while using

‘…Anyway, this is bad.’

that they could not enter with Raon would make things quite difficult for Cale’s group. They would not be able to avoid the enemies’ gazes by

can just not go in

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

of mana disturbance… This is not possible… This is closer to mana chaos than mana disturbance… For I, the great and might Raon Miru to be unable to do anything… This is

mean

Cale stood in front of the no longer invisible Raon and looked at his hair and Choi Han's hair. Raon’s magic was not completely undone. The dye magic was

magic

course! I am great and mighty! I can maintain at

“Is that so?”

you

did not answer Raon's question and nudged

have a

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

“Cale-nim.”

“Quiet.”

Han before recording everything outside with a

Castle is over

not noticed anything out of the ordinary during their trip to this alley from the city walls. Everything was the same as

we did not see any knights or mages on

had

“What do you think?”

Lord’s Castle is

the alley as they

of the Dubori Lord who was famous for being so cruel that the residents would rather escape to the desert was

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

“I know.”

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

The answer was

Star’s subordinates are disguised

“That’s right.”

with Choi Han’s deduction and raised his head. The group of soldiers who were standing at the desert entrance started to head toward the street in front of where Cale and Choi Han were

“They're coming.”

Tap.

whose physical strength was significantly lacking compared to Choi Han and those soldiers, hid in the shadows as if he was crumpling his body since he

‘Damn it!’

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 he observed the

soldiers were slowly getting

“Hmm?”

of them stopped

“What the…?”

“Huh?”

one spot. Their gazes moved toward

black. One of the soldiers tightened their grip around

Caw, caw.

Caw, caw.

did these crows

I was shocked because I saw

landed on the stone wall at

the crows on the wall clean itself snorted before releasing his grip on

there’s some rotten

There’s probably a dead animal or something. Last

aren't crows better than

“That is true.”

“Ahem, hem! Everybody, focus!”

shut up and stood up

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

“Yes, sir!”

“Yes, captain!”

quickly headed toward the Lord’s

Caw. Caw.

the wall cawed as it watched them before one of

part of the alley… The

“Cale-nim.”

the crow's mouth. Cale started to smile and his gaze headed toward the crow on his

“I met with Raon-nim.”

it's been