Trash of the Count's Family

The crow observed the fainted rat in Choi Han’s hand. The crow on Cale’s shoulder approached the rat and thoroughly observed it.

“The Illusionist seems to control rats.”

Choi Han put the fainted rat down and picked his sword up again after hearing the certainty in Gashan's voice.

Slaaaaash, slash!

The ground underneath the entire alley was flipped over. Choi Han frowned every time he stabbed his sword into the ground. Once the sword stabbed a certain length into the ground…

‘…There’s a path!’

He felt a small underground path that small animals such as rats would be able to cross. Choi Han quickly flipped the ground over. He then raised his senses to become as sensitive as possible.

Squeeak, squeak-

He then heard a quiet noise. Choi Han turned his head. Somewhere in the dark alley… A shaded spot in the corner of the wall that even Choi Han who was hiding there had ignored…

Squeeak, squeak, squeak!

Choi Han made eye contact with a rat that started to run away. He looked around at the ground, the alley, on top of the wall, and then across the Dubori territory.

‘…We're on top of the White Star's palm!’

He had no idea where else those small rats might be hiding. He had no way of knowing where they might be hiding and observing them.

‘Since when…since when were we being observed?’

Choi Han got goosebumps on his back.

Had they been observed by those rats as soon as they entered the Dubori territory? Or were they being observed long before they even arrived at the territory?

‘The rumbling we felt in Young-en when we were meeting with crown prince Valentino. Was that rumbling from the West we felt the Illusionist's doing as well?’

Choi Han had known the White Star was strong this whole time, but for some odd reason, he had not been afraid of the White Star. He felt as if the White Star was an enemy they could defeat at any moment.

‘Why did I have such thoughts?’

The White Star and his subordinates were not people they could look down upon.

The White Star had clashed with Choi Han and the others many times, but it had been as if he had been hiding himself every time. The situation in the Mogoru was something he did by making the Empire's people move.

But now, the White Star was revealing himself without hiding at all in the Caro Kingdom’s Dubori territory. It felt as if the White Star’s power, influence, and abilities were coming out of hiding and surrounding Choi Han.

‘…Shit.’

Choi Han finally started to feel a sense of danger.

‘I didn't think I’d only realize I was stuck in a spider web until after I was already stuck.’

Since they entered this small city with the Lord’s Castle, no, since they entered the Dubori territory or even the Caro Kingdom, they had been caught in the White Star’s web and had been moving on top of his palm.

Caw, caw.

Choi Han realized he could not hear anybody speaking through the crow's cawing.

‘Even Cale-nim is quiet.’

He felt the weight of this dangerous situation even more after seeing that both Gashan and more importantly, Cale, were quiet. His gaze headed toward his silent liege.

“…Cale-nim?”

Choi Han could see the silently smiling Cale. His smiling gaze met Choi Han’s eyes. Choi Han then realized why he had not been scared of the White Star until now. Every time he was about to be shocked because of the White Star’s strength, there was someone who was always smiling as if it was nothing.

“Choi Han, there's none left around us now, right?”

Choi Han closed his eyes after hearing Cale’s question. His sensitive swordsman’s senses were activated again and he soon opened his eyes.

“There are no living creatures other than us here.”

The Illusionist's rats were nowhere to be found.

“Is that so?”

Cale then crouched down on the ground. The ground that Choi Han had overturned earlier… Cale put his hand inside the now soft dirt.

Caw, caw.

A few crows surrounded Cale and Choi Han. Choi Han's eyes opened wide as this small area outside the White Star's gaze was created.

The Western continent’s common language was being written on the ground.

< Choi Han, Gashan. They won't be able to see this. >

There were no rats nearby. That meant that they would not be able to read these words.

Shh.

Cale quickly erased the words he had just written. He then started to write something else in the ground.

< Go call your friends over right away. >

‘Friends?’

The crow looked toward Cale in confusion but Cale shook his head. Choi Han also looked confused but Cale kept on writing.

Go call your friends over right away. And then…

< Tell your friends in the desert about our situation. >

Choi Han started to move his hand.

< Cale-nim, who are you talking to? >

Who was Cale giving this order to? Cale looked at him and started to speak.

"The White Star used his head very well.”

Shhhhh.

words on the ground

here in shock. He separated Raon and I

and his location, as well as Gashan's existence. They were all revealed

Cale had something the White Star did not know about. Cale tightened his grip around the golden top's

We’ll be back

I think it’ll be

I stay

past Cale and rose into the

heard the soldiers

them

I heard

soldiers had said

will be a luxurious feast today for the esteemed

are you

voice through

“First.”

Cale started to write on the ground again as Choi Han

Gashan, an Illusionist this strong can

confirmed the crow nodding its head before starting to write more things. The

Caw, caw.

of the crows left Cale’s side

Shhhh.

of the evidence. Cale then motioned

Lord’s Castle where the luxurious

visit because it had the Land of Death, one of the Forbidden Regions, next to

expected a day

a fancy suit instead of his armor raised his wine glass into the

Clang!

glass

It’s nice to not have to stand guard for the first time in

was smiling while looking at his suit. He continued to touch this new suit of his. There was a

lord found such talented people to bring

knight agreed with his subordinate and took a sip of the wine. His eyes then

thoughts about taking care of the territory. Today

a dazzling feast to

were beautiful chandeliers, expensive wine, and food that was

we would get to enjoy such luxuries after guarding the entrance to the Land of Death day

who guarded the city walls heading into the

seems extremely giving by calling everyone

was listening to his subordinate knight let out a

‘The lord’s giving?’

those new individuals

he looked toward the three people standing next to

for this feast and had brought over the new soldiers and mages

territory? I can’t understand what they saw in the lord to want to serve him. Something

Screeeech-

ear after hearing a sharp

“Ugh.”

“Sir, what’s wrong?”

“No. It's nothing.”

badge on his suit glowed red for a moment before returning to normal. His eyes clouded over for a

you really

a grand welcome feast is taking part in

questioning thoughts about the three individuals had disappeared from the laughing knight’s mind. He picked

Plop.

“Hmm?”

inside his wine glass. The knight frowned and looked up. He could

ceiling or

get you

tactfully replaced the wine glass and the atmosphere became

‘That scared me.’

the

other person who had created a small hole in the ceiling to look inside turned his

‘Do it properly.’

glare. Choi Han who had made the hole erased his aura from his fingertip with an

shook his head side to side as he mouthed silently. A small candle was

there are no rats,

nodded

no rats in

“Haaaaa.”

finally let out a sigh before stretching

‘These… rats!’

dirty as he was

be this hard to move around while avoiding

the Lord’s Castle while dodging the

He truly is great and

or walk in freely. Cale frowned as he recalled how he had to roll around in the dirt as the new employee Kim Rok Soo for the first time in a long while. He started to frown even more while

‘…Why! How?!’

the difference between his physical abilities and this

Tap. Tap.

tapped his shoulder and pointed toward the holes in the ceiling. There were two holes and Cale held back his sigh as

looked through one

‘Ha!’

people enjoying themselves. Cale thought about the different

magic research room, the military strategy

Only black mages were walking through the

wonder they can't receive crown prince

while the area was surrounded in mana disturbance, which probably meant that crown prince Valentino gave up on magic and was probably

raise your

through the small hole. The Dubori Lord was

territory! Look over here! These are the people who

pointed

‘Aigoo.’

Cale sighed.

Star, the Bear

white mask and the feeble-looking Bear King were

that person the

with short green hair was smiling while standing between the Bear

‘It’s not here.’