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 were covered up once

fire with an illusion and made us rush here in shock. He separated Raon and I with the mana disturbance and

Han and his location, as well as Gashan's existence. They were all revealed to the White

Star did not know about.

be back

think it’ll be better to leave this one by your

I stay

past Cale

heard the soldiers earlier,

them made eye

I heard

soldiers had

be a luxurious feast today

are you planning on

voice through

“First.”

Choi Han. Cale started to write on the ground again as Choi Han was about to question

an Illusionist this strong can

starting to write more things. The crow read what

Caw, caw.

of the crows left

Shhhh.

words with dirt in order to get rid of the evidence. Cale then motioned toward a direction with his head

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

as a terrible territory that nobody would visit because it had the Land of Death, one of the Forbidden Regions, next to

never expected a

his armor raised

Clang!

different glass in the air, making a clear

nice to not have to stand guard for the first

He continued to touch this new suit

know where the lord found such talented

with his subordinate and took a sip of the wine. His eyes then peeked toward the center

lord who had no thoughts about taking care of the territory. Today was the day they were celebrating these people

dazzling feast to happen in the

the territory's administrators all got to enjoy! There were beautiful chandeliers, expensive wine, and

such luxuries after guarding the entrance to the Land

These two were people who guarded the

Lord-nim seems extremely giving by calling everyone here

listening to his subordinate knight

‘The lord’s giving?’

the Lord-nim but those new individuals who

knight's eyes were filled with greed as he looked toward the three people standing next to the

had paid for this feast and had brought over the new

Dubori territory? I can’t understand what

Screeeech-

ear

“Ugh.”

“Sir, what’s wrong?”

“No. It's nothing.”

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

are you really

Shouldn't we enjoy ourselves when such a grand welcome feast is

three individuals had disappeared from the laughing knight’s mind. He picked up his

Plop.

“Hmm?”

up. He could see the banquet hall's old ceiling that was covered by

replace the ceiling or something. There are things

you a new

the wine glass and the

‘That scared me.’

the old ceiling curled

small hole in

‘Do it properly.’

curled up Cale was looking at Choi Han with a vicious glare. Choi Han who had made the hole erased his aura from his fingertip with

side to side as he mouthed silently. A small candle was flickering in the

are no rats,

nodded his

there are no rats in the

“Haaaaa.”

a sigh before stretching his legs out and sitting

‘These… rats!’

a mess. He looked completely dirty as he was covered in dust and

hard to

infiltrate the Lord’s Castle while dodging the rats throughout

truly is great and

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?!’

Cale finally felt the difference

Tap. Tap.

ceiling. There were two holes and Cale held back his sigh as he laid

through

‘Ha!’

could see people enjoying themselves. Cale thought about the different rooms in the castle he passed

the military strategy room, and the teleportation

were all empty. Only black mages were walking through the

prince Valentino's calls

mana disturbance, which probably meant that crown prince Valentino gave up on

everybody raise

through the small hole. The Dubori

Dubori and the Dubori territory! Look over here! These are

pointed to

‘Aigoo.’

Cale sighed.

White Star,

were

person

smiling while standing between the Bear King and

‘It’s not here.’