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, cancel the spell.”

“…Fine. Human.”

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 still

because of

asked about Raon’s condition and Choi Han

look at my

Han’s hand was

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

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

gaze headed

sure it is terrible for Raon

territory, and Cale were fine because they could not feel mana. Cale looked toward Raon as well while

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

this young Dragon was not good at lying

especially bad starting from about

mana would be even more chaotic once we enter past the

each other before they both looked toward Raon at the same time. Raon urgently

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

and timidly added on

Raon Miru will be waiting outside. I alone will be here unable

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

probably feels like he's

able to estimate the pain Raon was feeling while using magic

‘…Anyway, this is bad.’

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

it's not like we can

ears as

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 I,

mean you

jerked toward Cale. Cale stood in front of the no longer invisible Raon and looked at his hair and Choi Han's hair.

magic

am great and mighty! I can

“Is that so?”

are you laughing like that

Raon's question and nudged

climb over the wall. We have a

person with the lowered ivory hood looked around

“Cale-nim.”

“Quiet.”

before recording everything

Lord’s Castle is over

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

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

some Dubori soldiers but had not seen any of

“What do you think?”

Lord’s Castle is the center of the

the alley as they focused their

the residents would rather escape to the desert was probably the reason the Lord’s Castle was quite large and decorated

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

“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 Dubori territory's

be? The answer

like the White Star’s subordinates are

“That’s right.”

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

“They're coming.”

Tap.

whose physical strength was significantly lacking compared to Choi Han and

‘Damn it!’

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

ten soldiers were slowly

“Hmm?”

of them stopped

“What the…?”

“Huh?”

toward one spot. Their gazes moved toward an

of the soldiers

Caw, caw.

Caw, caw.

did these crows

shocked because I saw

the soldiers’ heads. One or two landed on the stone wall at

the crows on the wall clean itself

guess there’s some rotten food in that

something. Last time

aren't crows better

“That is true.”

“Ahem, hem! Everybody, focus!”

soldiers shut up and stood up straight

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

“Yes, sir!”

“Yes, captain!”

soldiers quickly headed

Caw. Caw.

as it watched them before one of the crows

the alley… The crow landed

“Cale-nim.”

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

“I met with Raon-nim.”

been