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.

the ground were covered up once

He separated Raon and I with the mana disturbance and hid his ears throughout

as Gashan's

Cale had something the White Star did not know about. Cale tightened his grip around the

be

one punk with you. I think it’ll be better to leave this one by

destruction. I stay

breeze brushed past Cale

heard the

of them made eye

Cale-nim, I heard

soldiers had said

luxurious feast today for the esteemed guests of

are you

Gashan’s voice through the

“First.”

write on the ground again as Choi Han was about to

Gashan, an Illusionist this strong can probably bewitch

confirmed the crow nodding its head before starting to write more things. The crow read what Cale was

Caw, caw.

the crows left Cale’s side

Shhhh.

get rid of the evidence. Cale then motioned toward a direction with his

toward the Lord’s Castle where the luxurious feast was to

terrible territory that nobody would visit because it had the Land of Death, one

expected

instead of his armor raised

Clang!

different glass in the air, making a clear

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

subordinate knight was smiling while looking at his suit. He continued to touch this new suit of his. There was a gold-plated badge with the Dubori crest on his

the lord found such talented people to

of the

standing next to the useless and greedy lord who had no thoughts about taking care of the territory. Today was the day they were

for such a dazzling feast

were beautiful chandeliers, expensive wine, and food that was

after guarding the entrance to the Land of Death day after

agreement. These two were people who

seems extremely giving by calling

his subordinate knight let out

‘The lord’s giving?’

those new individuals who are very

filled with greed as he looked toward the

had paid for this feast and had brought over the new soldiers and mages to protect the

to the Dubori territory? I can’t understand what they

Screeeech-

covered his ear

“Ugh.”

“Sir, what’s wrong?”

“No. It's nothing.”

before returning to normal. His eyes clouded over for a moment before returning to

you really

we enjoy ourselves when such a grand welcome feast is taking part

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

Plop.

“Hmm?”

knight frowned and looked up. He could see the banquet hall's old

should replace the ceiling or

you a new

wine glass and the

‘That scared me.’

hiding in the

who had created a small hole in the

‘Do it properly.’

a vicious glare. Choi Han who had made

to side as he mouthed silently. A small candle was

Han, there are no

nodded his

Cale-nim, there are no rats in

“Haaaaa.”

before stretching his

‘These… rats!’

a mess. He looked completely dirty as he was covered

knew it would be this hard to

Lord’s Castle while dodging the rats throughout the

truly is great and

allowed them to fly through the air 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

‘…Why! How?!’

Han was clean. Cale finally felt the difference

Tap. Tap.

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

then looked through

‘Ha!’

Cale thought about the different rooms in the castle he passed by before getting

the magic research room, the military strategy

Only black mages were

receive crown prince Valentino's calls

area was surrounded in mana disturbance, which probably meant that crown prince Valentino gave up on magic and was probably rushing over here

raise your

lord raise his glass through the

over here! These are the people

lord pointed

‘Aigoo.’

Cale sighed.

White Star,

white mask and the feeble-looking Bear King were smiling while wearing fancy

person the

woman with short green hair was smiling while standing between the Bear King and

‘It’s not here.’